Police Squad! Police Squad! Police Squad! is an American television comedy series broadcast on the ABC network in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, "M Squad" (especially the opening credits) and the late 1960s series "Felony Squad". Although cancelled after six episodes, the show spawned "The Naked Gun" film series. In 2013,
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995 film) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995 film) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a 1995 American made-for-television comedy-drama film based on E.L. Konigsburg's novel of the same name. The story is about a girl and her brother who run away from home to live in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and discover what they think is a lost treasure. The children, Claudia and Jamie, are transfixed with the treasure and won't leave without knowing what its secret is. Lauren Bacall stars in the title role. The book was previously adapted