I wasn't around at the time that series was made or aired, but was introduced to it via Paramount Comedy 1 after I had seen all three of the Naked Gun films (which follow on from the series) on the core TV channels. It is truly a shame that bad ratings caused this show to be axed as it is so funny and the parodies police shows of the time and the general stupidity of people very well. Leslie Nielsen is fantastic as deadbeat cop Frank Drebin - Detective Lieutenant Police Squad who is always getting into silly situations it beggars belief. The other actors are also very good in this series - it must have been hard not to crack a smile during production as the jokes are simple, but very clever and very effective - much more so than the toilet humour and the silly or sexual orientated humour we get now-a-days. This is truly where the entire classic spoofs (Naked Gun, Airplane! Hot Shots! etc) came from and apparently it slightly inspired Matt Groening when he was creating The Simpsons,… more »

I wasn't around at the time that series was made or aired, but was introduced to it via Paramount Comedy 1 after I had seen all three of the Naked Gun films (which follow on from the series) on the core TV channels. It is truly a shame that bad ratings caused this show to be axed as it is so funny and the parodies police shows of the time and the general stupidity of people very well. Leslie Nielsen is fantastic as deadbeat cop Frank Drebin - Detective Lieutenant Police Squad who is always getting into silly situations it beggars belief. The other actors are also very good in this series - it must have been hard not to crack a smile during production as the jokes are simple, but very clever and very effective - much more so than the toilet humour and the silly or sexual orientated humour we get now-a-days. This is truly where the entire classic spoofs (Naked Gun, Airplane! Hot Shots! etc) came from and apparently it slightly inspired Matt Groening when he was creating The Simpsons, and to be fair that is what this show appears to be like - but better - Frank Drebin is certainly the Homer Simpson of this series. It is just a shame that it didn't at least get a second series or have more episodes within this one - 6 is not enough!! That said the films that followed (The Naked Gun 1-3) were just as funny and clever and all of them are worth a buy, but be sure that once you have bought it and play it that you don't look away as it is likely that if you do then you will miss a joke.