Picks and Pans Review: Police Squad!

UPDATED 03/08/1982 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 03/08/1982 at 01:00 AM EST

ABC (8-8:30 p.m. ET)

The creators of 1980's movie smash Airplane!'get a limited-run TV tryout with this irreverent cop show spoof. Leslie Nielsen (memorable as Airplanel's doctor with the Pinocchio nose) stars as a detective who remains oblivious while sight gags ricochet around him—some aimlessly, some dead-on. (Premiere)

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