Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy), Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast), and Mike White (The Projection Booth) look at the short-lived show that some consider "too funny for TV", Police Squad! It's a police procedural starring Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin and Alan North as Cpt. Ed Hocken.
We look at the evolution of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style of comedy from Airplane! to Naked Gun 33 1/3 in this special podcast series.
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Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy), Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast), and Mike White (The Projection Booth) look at the short-lived show that some consider "too funny for TV", Police Squad! It's a police procedural starring Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin and Alan North as Cpt. Ed Hocken.
We look at the evolution of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style of comedy from Airplane! to Naked Gun 33 1/3 in this special podcast series.
Chris, Mike, and Mark discuss the second episode of Police Squad!, "A Dangerous Assignment," aka, "Ring of Fear." Directed by Joe Dante, with "Special Guest Star" Georg Stanford Brown (who would direct a later episode) this episode is a parody with pugilistic panache, puns-a-plenty, and that Dante cartoon humor.
From the Files of Police Squad!
Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy), Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast), and Mike White (The Projection Booth) look at the short-lived show that some consider "too funny for TV", Police Squad! It's a police procedural starring Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin and Alan North as Cpt. Ed Hocken.
We look at the evolution of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style of comedy from Airplane! to Naked Gun 33 1/3 in this special podcast series.
