Police Squad! and Wiliams were the only ones who returned and portrayed their original characters in "The Naked Gun" film series. Captain Ed Hocken was portrayed by George Kennedy in the film series, while O. J. Simpson played Officer Nordberg (slightly renamed from 'Norberg'). The show's opening sequence was a satire on traditional opening sequences of crime dramas at that time, and of the 1960s, particularly "M Squad" and various Quinn Martin shows such as "The Fugitive" and particularly "The New Breed" (which also starred Nielsen). Hank Simms, who had worked as an announcer for some of Quinn Martin's programs, announced the
Patlabor: The New Files Patlabor: The New Files Four episodes of "The New Files" series are set in the Griffin arc of the television series and serve as the finale. The rest of the series mainly consists of side stories that take place during or after the TV show. The episodes were released as OVAs alongside the TV series on Laserdisc and VHS from Bandai Visual from November 22, 1990 to June 6, 1992. They were later released on DVD on August 25, 2000, and on Blu-ray on September 24, 2010. Central Park Media licensed the "New Files" series and released them on subtitled