Police Squad! Did It (A Bird in the Hand)". The advertisements were shown in British cinemas as well as on television. After the show's cancellation (and well before production on the "Naked Gun" movies), the producers considered turning the show into a movie by linking several episodes together with new scenes. A few of these scenes were actually filmed (including an elaborate "freeze frame" gag involving a burning courtroom) before the project was abandoned. This footage can be viewed on the DVD release. The "Police Squad!" characters were resurrected during the WWE's Summerslam 1994 PPV. In this guise, they were looking for
The Death Squad (film) The Death Squad (film) The Death Squad is a 1974 American crime drama television film originally aired on ABC. The film starred Robert Forster, Melvyn Douglas, Michelle Phillips, Claude Akins, and George Murdock. A cop goes after a group of police who have turned vigilante. The "Los Angeles Times" says the subject matter was explored "sincerely but not well" and was hampered by "a vastly overpopulated and needlessly complicated plot." However it said it had a "sturdy, driving thriller structure and excellent telling dialogue" and "Harry Falk has directed with plenty of punch" and Forster gives "perhaps his best performance