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Trivial Tony suggested I post some clips from Police Squad to celebrate the memory of Leslie Nielsen. That's a great idea.
Police Squad was an amazingly funny show that seemed doomed from the start with weak network support, the death of John Belushi coinciding with his guest appearance as a corpse... the eighties were messy. As I recall this was one of only three or four TV series I watched during that entire decade and they were all around the same year as Police Squad, 1982. I think I'll Netflix that series and watch it again.
Here's the first part of one of my favorites, 'Terror in the Neighborhood' where Frank and his partner go undercover by opening a key shop - In Color!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 9:21am
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1950's CHRISTMAS EPISODE
When I was a wee lad there were a few shows I remember coming on erratically on the weekends, I would always search the newspaper TV listings on the weekends to see if they would pop up. These were shows that had basically run their course in syndication and were now relegated to TV's remainder bin.
Highway Patrol, Whirlybirds, Ripcord, Robin Hood, and Sea Hunt come to mind as examples. Not that these shows were anything extra special, standard 1950's TV fare, but they were often the only thing on other than fishing shows and bowling.
In that spirit here's the Christmas episode of Highway Patrol starring Broderick Crawford. If you're wondering why Broderick Crawford was chosen to be a host for Saturday Night Live so early in the series' run it's because of the indelible mark he made on our generation because of endless reruns of Highway Patrol on local stations.
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 8:00am
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