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
Elite Squad Elite Squad Elite Squad (, ) is a 2007 Brazilian crime film directed by José Padilha. The film is a semi-fictional account of the "Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais" (BOPE), the Special Police Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police, analogous to the American SWAT teams. It is the second feature film and first fiction film of Padilha, who had previously directed the documentary "Bus 174". The script was written by Bráulio Mantovani ("City of God") and Padilha, based on the book "Elite da Tropa" by sociologist Luiz Eduardo Soares and two former BOPE captains, André Batista and