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 Flying Squad (1940 film) but it manages to entertain and hold the attention, even if some of the dialogue feels very unreal – I’m sure police and criminals of that time didn’t speak as posh as they do here!" The Flying Squad (1940 film) The Flying Squad is a 1940 British crime film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks and Jack Hawkins. It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace in which the officers of the Flying Squad attempt to tackle a drug-smuggling organisation. In the past, the novel had been filmed in 1929 and 1932. TV Guide wrote,