Police Squad! how the show was still funny more than 20 years after its cancellation. The DVD set was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best DVD Release of a TV Show, though it lost to the DVD set of the eighth season of Fox's "The Simpsons". While the Police Squad VHS and Beta videocassette releases had audio only playable in mono sound, the 2006 CBS/Paramount DVD release had its audio remastered and all 6 episodes are available in Dolby Digital 5.1. Six years after the cancellation of "Police Squad!", the first "Naked Gun" film was released called "". It performed well
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