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Leslie Nielsen was asked why the movie was a hit, but the tv series failed. He was very candid that it was a different medium. When you go in a theatre you pay attention, but not tv. You wander around and might pay attention, or play with the kids, dog, or wifey. So kudos to those involved for truly believing in what they had created. Lucky us.
Great reaction Dawn. The 'In Color' reference is a throwback to a time when the majority of TV networks and people only had black and white TV equipment. Colour was mentioned to let people know that their favorite shows were in colour and maybe they would wish to upgrade to an expensive colour TV set. I remember as a child my parents renting, yes renting, a colour TV (very few people could afford to buy a colour TV) to watch Princess Anne's wedding in 1973. Damn I feel old now!
Except the joke was this: by this time, no shows said “in color”, as by the 80s most people had color. It was ridiculous to market it that way, hence the joke.
@@creech54Well, she said, "We're gonna watch 3 episodes. There's only 6. Why's there only 6?" Also, a lot of classic British shows, like Fawlty Towers, were only 28-31 minutes, so not too much longer. It's just ironic because I have the same reaction as her when I check out a lot of British shows.
Hi Dawn Marie, this has probably been mentioned before, but in case it hasn't, one of the reasons it was so funny to see Leslie Nielsen do these comedies is because he - and the other older male characters in Airplane! - had only ever been cast in serious roles, as "heavies". Airplane cast them completely against their type, and while the writing was great and made things very funny, the fact that they were acting SO differently than their prior acting history made it twice as funny. Leslie Nielsen, of course, built a whole second career doing this "straight-man comedy" routine, which was great, but you really should watch him in something prior to his comedy roles. And as such, I'm recommending that you watch Forbidden Planet (1956), which was Leslie Nielsen's first leading role. This was a 50s Sci-Fi movie, but it has an amazing story (based on concepts from Shakespeare's The Tempest) and surprisingly good special effects for its time. It's family-friendly - no gore or blood - and Disney animators actually worked on parts of the movie, which will be obvious when you see it. There's even a love story. I'm sure you'll like it, and you'll be shocked and pleased to see a young Leslie Nielsen as the captain of the space ship.
As if I couldn't love your channel as much as I do.... you reacted to 'Police Squad!', easily one of My favorite shows when I was a young teen. The show's brief run was like shooting star - if you saw it, it was zany goodness and if you missed it, you felt left out when your friends talked about the episode (and I did make friends who missed it feel like they missed out on greatness lolol). Having seen 'Airplane' and 'Kentucky Fried Movie' already, I was expecting the same from the show and it didn't disappoint. Your laughter and enjoyment reminded Me of Me watching each show for the first time. Thank you so much for watching this short but amazing series!
Great series that was ahead of her time. Too bad they did not continue it. Another great 80's spoof series you should see is Sledge Hammer which is a 80 spoof tv show on dirty Harry movies (Which you should see before at least the first movie. The Naked gun even spoof Dirty Harry in the first movie)
Awesome!! The "In Color" during the show beginning title is a reference to the TV shows of the 1960s & 1970s when television was transitioning from BLACK & WHITE programs to COLOR. When those shows started to become colorized, they had the same thing on their title screens as well, such as: "The Rat Patrol, In Color". About the mid-1970s or so was when television stopped adding the "In Color" to show title screens.
The misleading title gag may have been based on old tv series. I remember one from Barnaby Jones, the episode was something like Cauldron of Blood, and nothing at all similar occurred. These came out before the movie, so some of the best gags are in both.
I so love the sound of your laughter. Thank you for that. And by the way, there are actually 12 things you can do with a carrot, but the last two have been illegal since the 1960s. Now your seriously have to end one of your reactions the same way Police Squad does.
What a lovely surprise to see you watch these 😊 It's like the Monty Python TV series, they're hugely famous but it's so rare for someone to react to them, so this is delightful! I loved this little world so much when they were on BBC2, even more so then the movies. Plus their unique uses of the TV format like the freeze frame, ep titles etc. Thanks for doing them! Little bit of trivia, there was a British ad (for Red Rock beer?) that was on TV in the late nineties I think, starring Nielsen, using a bunch of famous jokes from the show you'll recognize. Should be easy to find 😊 The wavy hair is super super cute, btw ❤❤❤
@@myview5840 didn't know I started a thing. Orange juice and vodka is really popular in the US. We call it screwdriver. And it is iconic like apple pie.
The "in color" line was another joke. This series was a satire of a famous cop drama from the early-mid 60's called "Dragnet". The first couple seasons were in black and white like all other TV series. Then they switched to color. And the mid 60's TV show intros would always include the words "in color" because color tv was a novelty back then
Dawn Marie It is reported that Liam Neeson is doing either a reboot or sequels to Naked Gun movies in which Leslie Neilsen aka Frank Drebin based on this TV's series. He is scheduled to portray Frank Jr., son of Neilsen's character.
You have to watch these more than once just to get every joke. If it's not verbal, it's visual, and then it's background comedy. There are laughs in every frame.
Pure gold. I think this type of comedy works best in half-hour bursts, so I prefer the series to the movies. Have you ever seen _Forbidden_ _Planet,_ from back when Leslie Nielsen was young and serious? It's quite the contrast!
16:25 Dogs are very special. Getting close to people isn't my forte, but I can form bonds with dogs. The only problem with dogs is that they die way too soon.
I just grilled an hour ago. Brats and burgers. Frist time this year. There is just something about grilling over charcoal. I make my own charcoal. Just delicious.
Only 6 episodes? All this time, I thought it was half a dozen. Oh well. That Japanese garden is so impressive. Do you have any idea how long those take to grow?
You will have to watch these at least twice... because you miss stuff first time.. and well worth watching again.. enjoy D... Peace N love.. Davey P.. UK
It's not going to happen, but it would have been great if the last episode revealed the shoe shine guy to be the criminal mastermind behind everything the whole time, hence how he always knows what's going on!
Dawn may I say if you wan't to see a very, very, funny series from the 60s I would love you to react to "the beverly hillbillies. Basically it's a story of rags to riches.❤
This TV series was on screen for free every week. Nobody liked it so it was canceled. Then they made movies of the same stupid silly stuff and folks were happy to pay money to watch it. Strange world. And yes, it's the best.
Apparently the people in charge of this show ended it because they thought the writers couldn't keep up the level of comedy they did for these episodes. Never heard of a show being too funny to keeo going before.
The story goes that the TV network cancelled the show after only six episodes were produced because they didn't like the fact that audiences had to pay attention when they were watching in order to catch all the jokes. I believe the ratings were actually pretty good.
It plays like a limited mini-series, given that Frank and his partner recap a list of the past villains now at Stateville Prison at the end of every episode.
Paying attention is HARD! I'd didn't buy a ticket so I didn't know I couldn't sit on the couch, walk around, call friends, go shopping and return 20 minutes later and not get The Whole Thing spoon-fed to me! argh!!!
I love how the guest star is killed off in the opening sequence. Classic! Back in the later 1960's TV shows were mostly in black and white and a few were in color. The "In Color" line was to draw attention to that fact with the hope of people buying more color television sets. Also, the voice-over "In color" guy was the same guy who said the line way back when and came out of retirement to do the line one more time.
In the 60s and 70s, I think the main reason was for TV listings: people with colour sets would read the show was in colour so more inclined to watch it (to watch that channel) and get the most out of their sets. I don't think channels and produces would generally care too much about TV sales but people shifting to colour sets when their channel has colour TV cameras and editing... that's a shift that benefits the channel over less advanced competitors so it makes sense for them to also want and encourage more colour TV sets. I dare say we've seen a similar thing with HD. It was just a little joke in Police Squad. That nobody was doing that anymore and hadn't for years. Every show was in colour by the 80s and almost everyone had colour sets.
It sounds like the guy who did the voice overs for "The Fugitive," and on some shows would say, " A Quinn Martin production," but it's been almost 60 years since I heard him. Anyone else remember?
I think you're right. I don't know his name, but he had one of those voices perfect for voice over work. Also, to change the subject a bit, the guy who did the voiceover of the beginning of The Fugitive was William Conrad. He would also introduce the beginning of each episode. He did TONS of voiceover work and radio shows. He eventually got his own TV show called Cannon and later got another show, Jake and the Fatman. @@vorlon1
I was 10 years old when this show came out and my parents had just divorced. Me and my sister went to my dads apartment every Friday and we would watch this show. It as hilarious and I have fond memories of my da$ because of it. Thanks for the review.
You came here, to a reaction channel, to watch the person who reacts, react….. Whta kind of waste of time comment is this? Why the fuck else would you be here???
@@LordNelsonkm "Airplane!" movie spoofed serious movie "Airport!" with George Kennedy as primary air traffic controller who misdirected planes, crashing into an airport, so he started it all before Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen.
@@Billy-zv6gvSorry, Airplane! is based on Zero Hour (1957). ua-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/v-deo.html However, Airport (1970) came from the same writer that did Zero Hour, Arthur Hailey.
The show was cancelled because "The powers that be" said you had to watch the show! No joking there! What they were wanting was some comedy show that you could have on in the background, or start watching partway through and not feel as though you'd lost something.
The cynic in me also wonders if they didn't want to set a standard they couldn't maintain. They didn't want audiences getting actually funny comedy or they'd come to expect other comedies to be funny. Cheers, MASH, Mork and Mindy... they were funny. Certainly popular but I always felt very formulaic and predictable. Zuckers and Abrahams' style is a complete departure from that and I can easily believe the average US couch potato might not get it when they're used to the other stuff.
8:19 The line he said was “I am not an animal, I am a human being.” It was a reference to the movie The Elephant Man(1980); it starred Sir Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt.
Oh, Dawn dearest, I'm so happy!! I've seen lots of reactors watch the Naked Gun movies and have suggested they need to go back to the roots with Police Squad, and you're the first I've seen that has!!! I'm so glad you love it!! Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
The reason why it says, "In Color" was because in the '60s, most TVs were black and white, and most programs were shot in black and white. So if you had a color TV set, you wanted your programs in color (and TV manufacturers wanted to sell color TV sets). When Police Squad came out, all TV programs were in color, so it wasn't a selling point anymore and nobody said it, but most people still remembered programs with that "in Color" in the opening credits. By the way, the narrator saying who the stars and guest stars are was a tribute to (parody of) shows by a particular producer, Quinn Martin who had most of the series he produced with opening credits done that way. Also the boxer who starts a poem only to end it with, "I'm gonna break your face," is a parody of the famous boxing champ, Muhammad Ali, who would make up poems for self-promotion like, "Float like a butterfly; Sting like a bee; My first name's Muhammed; And the last is Ali."
I love how you are just being you in your videos Dawn. There is no acting for the camera or viewer. You're so real and down to earth and that's what makes you so loveable along with your smile and laugh. No matter what you are watching you can turn it into a humourous situation and that says what a wonderful person you are. I hope you never stop doing videos because you bring so much joy and laughter to so many people. Thank you!! Btw... love what you done to your hair!!
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Get Smart was a tv series by Mel Brooks, very funny too.
Damn it Dawn. You used to be cool. Now your all Hollywood.
If you need something to watch, i would recommend HBO's True Detective Season 1. Many consider this to be the greatest season of tv ever made.
Have you seen The Americans, A.G.E.N.T.S. of Shield, Burn Notice, Killing Eve, Lost, Heroes? If not, they are must see with tons of crazy twists and turns for exciting reviews.
The Japanese Garden bit is my all time favorite sight gag in any TV show. 🤣
I’ve discovered that just listening to Dawn watch comedies is entertainment enough. Her laugh is joyful and infectious.
That full on belly-laugh during the first episode, made my night.
Leslie Nielsen was asked why the movie was a hit, but the tv series failed. He was very candid that it was a different medium. When you go in a theatre you pay attention, but not tv. You wander around and might pay attention, or play with the kids, dog, or wifey. So kudos to those involved for truly believing in what they had created. Lucky us.
Great reaction Dawn. The 'In Color' reference is a throwback to a time when the majority of TV networks and people only had black and white TV equipment. Colour was mentioned to let people know that their favorite shows were in colour and maybe they would wish to upgrade to an expensive colour TV set.
I remember as a child my parents renting, yes renting, a colour TV (very few people could afford to buy a colour TV) to watch Princess Anne's wedding in 1973. Damn I feel old now!
Except the joke was this: by this time, no shows said “in color”, as by the 80s most people had color. It was ridiculous to market it that way, hence the joke.
This, I know you’re going to love. Going to hear that infectious laughter for sure.
The irony of someone in the UK asking why an American show is so short at only 6 episodes.😆
I think she meant running time. Without commercials they are only about 22 minutes ea.
@@creech54Well, she said, "We're gonna watch 3 episodes. There's only 6. Why's there only 6?" Also, a lot of classic British shows, like Fawlty Towers, were only 28-31 minutes, so not too much longer. It's just ironic because I have the same reaction as her when I check out a lot of British shows.
@@Osprey850 I rewatched it. You're right. 🙂
My favorite comedies of 1980-1981 were POLICE SQUAD!, SOAP, FRIDAYS
OMG- Baby Jesus... how can you not make someone smile and laugh along with you🤣
Hi Dawn Marie, this has probably been mentioned before, but in case it hasn't, one of the reasons it was so funny to see Leslie Nielsen do these comedies is because he - and the other older male characters in Airplane! - had only ever been cast in serious roles, as "heavies". Airplane cast them completely against their type, and while the writing was great and made things very funny, the fact that they were acting SO differently than their prior acting history made it twice as funny. Leslie Nielsen, of course, built a whole second career doing this "straight-man comedy" routine, which was great, but you really should watch him in something prior to his comedy roles. And as such, I'm recommending that you watch Forbidden Planet (1956), which was Leslie Nielsen's first leading role. This was a 50s Sci-Fi movie, but it has an amazing story (based on concepts from Shakespeare's The Tempest) and surprisingly good special effects for its time. It's family-friendly - no gore or blood - and Disney animators actually worked on parts of the movie, which will be obvious when you see it. There's even a love story. I'm sure you'll like it, and you'll be shocked and pleased to see a young Leslie Nielsen as the captain of the space ship.
I had taped all these when they originally ran. Used to watch them all the time as a kid.
As if I couldn't love your channel as much as I do.... you reacted to 'Police Squad!', easily one of My favorite shows when I was a young teen. The show's brief run was like shooting star - if you saw it, it was zany goodness and if you missed it, you felt left out when your friends talked about the episode (and I did make friends who missed it feel like they missed out on greatness lolol). Having seen 'Airplane' and 'Kentucky Fried Movie' already, I was expecting the same from the show and it didn't disappoint. Your laughter and enjoyment reminded Me of Me watching each show for the first time. Thank you so much for watching this short but amazing series!
17:04 - that boxer was a spoof of the great Muhammed Ali, boxing's original trash talker. He used to degrade his opponents with rhyming insults
Cannot believe there were only 6 episodes of this. Thanks for uploading, Dawn. 😂
Great series that was ahead of her time. Too bad they did not continue it. Another great 80's spoof series you should see is Sledge Hammer which is a 80 spoof tv show on dirty Harry movies (Which you should see before at least the first movie. The Naked gun even spoof Dirty Harry in the first movie)
It'd be good to see Sledge Hammer again. He knew what he was doing.
Awesome!! The "In Color" during the show beginning title is a reference to the TV shows of the 1960s & 1970s when television was transitioning from BLACK & WHITE programs to COLOR. When those shows started to become colorized, they had the same thing on their title screens as well, such as: "The Rat Patrol, In Color". About the mid-1970s or so was when television stopped adding the "In Color" to show title screens.
I remember when this came out when I was a kid. It was funny as hell and now I see why it was cancelled so fast.
Paying attention to detail can certainly be a challenge for some as they age.
Coffee?
Yes, it is.
Dawn Marie! I'm so glad you're watching these episodes from the files of Police Squad!
The misleading title gag may have been based on old tv series. I remember one from Barnaby Jones, the episode was something like Cauldron of Blood, and nothing at all similar occurred.
These came out before the movie, so some of the best gags are in both.
"Do the thing!" hahahaha LOVED your reaction to this funny (if short lived) show
I so love the sound of your laughter. Thank you for that. And by the way, there are actually 12 things you can do with a carrot, but the last two have been illegal since the 1960s. Now your seriously have to end one of your reactions the same way Police Squad does.
What a lovely surprise to see you watch these 😊 It's like the Monty Python TV series, they're hugely famous but it's so rare for someone to react to them, so this is delightful! I loved this little world so much when they were on BBC2, even more so then the movies. Plus their unique uses of the TV format like the freeze frame, ep titles etc. Thanks for doing them!
Little bit of trivia, there was a British ad (for Red Rock beer?) that was on TV in the late nineties I think, starring Nielsen, using a bunch of famous jokes from the show you'll recognize. Should be easy to find 😊
The wavy hair is super super cute, btw ❤❤❤
"In color" is a joke from the early days of color tv in the late 60s and early 70s when you would get thinks like "NBC in color" at the beginning.
Screwdriver is vodka and orange juice. More American than apple pie.
Apple Pie is from Germany.
KMA kraut!@@tempsitch5632
Vodka is polish
@@myview5840 didn't know I started a thing. Orange juice and vodka is really popular in the US. We call it screwdriver. And it is iconic like apple pie.
The "in color" line was another joke. This series was a satire of a famous cop drama from the early-mid 60's called "Dragnet". The first couple seasons were in black and white like all other TV series. Then they switched to color. And the mid 60's TV show intros would always include the words "in color" because color tv was a novelty back then
That shoe shiner was basically the 1982 version of Google
Your laugh was exactly what I needed today Dawn. Great reaction.
Want young Leslie Nelsen? "Forbidden Planet". Warning:1950s Sci-Fi and Serous
Love Police Squad which became the Naked Gun films. Great reaction
Dawn Marie
It is reported that Liam Neeson is doing either a reboot or sequels to Naked Gun movies in which Leslie Neilsen aka Frank Drebin based on this TV's series. He is scheduled to portray Frank Jr., son of Neilsen's character.
From Seth Macfarlane!
House keys, car keys, Florida keys, Francis Scott Keys, monkeys, turkeys, pot roast.
You have to watch these more than once just to get every joke. If it's not verbal, it's visual, and then it's background comedy. There are laughs in every frame.
"In color" is what TV shows in the 60s would announce because a lot of people had black and white sets
Pure gold. I think this type of comedy works best in half-hour bursts, so I prefer the series to the movies. Have you ever seen _Forbidden_ _Planet,_ from back when Leslie Nielsen was young and serious? It's quite the contrast!
16:25 Dogs are very special. Getting close to people isn't my forte, but I can form bonds with dogs. The only problem with dogs is that they die way too soon.
14:49 the guy owns a piece of every boxer in town.
If you saw the movies, most of the jokes will be familiar as they reused a good amt of them from the show.
finally a good reactor reacts to police squad! in color! :D
42 years on and the Z-A-Z humo(u)r is still fresh!
I forget that Peter Lupus was the original Nordberg.
It sucks that there are so few episodes, the nearest thing to it is comedy cop show Angie Tribeca. Very funny too.
Hilarious! Great review!😂😂😂
I'll watch this if it's 'In Color!'. 👍
The "In Color" voice-over guy had retired, but came out of retirement to do the voice.
I just grilled an hour ago. Brats and burgers. Frist time this year. There is just something about grilling over charcoal. I make my own charcoal. Just delicious.
Of course, I gave my hound a brat in a bun, with just a bit of ketchup.
A good TV show for you to react to would be "The Carol Burnett Show",especially any skit that has Tim Conway in it.
The special guest stars die in the opening credits
This was so good your laugh is such a antidepressant, great to see... you should watch Spy Hard and Wrongfully Accused such good spoofs
wait a sec.. there was a series prior to the naked gun movies?
Only 6 episodes? All this time, I thought it was half a dozen. Oh well.
That Japanese garden is so impressive. Do you have any idea how long those take to grow?
Love Police Squad! I wish they had made more. As good as Monty Python. Best TV show ever!
That dog should be called : CUJO
Hi Dawn hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
The start of it all....
You will have to watch these at least twice... because you miss stuff first time.. and well worth watching again.. enjoy D... Peace N love.. Davey P.. UK
It's not going to happen, but it would have been great if the last episode revealed the shoe shine guy to be the criminal mastermind behind everything the whole time, hence how he always knows what's going on!
22:46 #movie Any Which Way You Can.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Holy smokes honey you take me way back. Thank you! Smoking dope and drinking beer and watching this as a teen. Dont make em like this anymore.
Thanks!
Ello gorgeous, I hope you are having a wonderful day!
You need to react to the movie Top Secret, and the Hot Shots movies...😊
You need to look at the door in the Police Squad office
yeah ,, police is backwards .. squad is correct .. but she still gets most of it ..
Dawn may I say if you wan't to see a very, very, funny series from the 60s I would love you to react to "the beverly hillbillies. Basically it's a story of rags to riches.❤
Love your laugh.
Watch SLEDGEHAMMER!
0:24 I'll be back in 30 min.
This TV series was on screen for free every week. Nobody liked it so it was canceled. Then they made movies of the same stupid silly stuff and folks were happy to pay money to watch it. Strange world. And yes, it's the best.
Disappointed that you didn't do "the thing" at the end of your video!
😂
The show bombed but people were willing to pay to see it in the theaters. Weird.
I have to recommend Sledgehammer show as well if you liked this
There are only 6 episodes because ABC didn't get it, and didn't have confidence in the series. It was decades ahead of its time.
Apparently the people in charge of this show ended it because they thought the writers couldn't keep up the level of comedy they did for these episodes. Never heard of a show being too funny to keeo going before.
@5:14
Actually, have you watched Law and Order, yet? It isn’t comedy, but if you haven’t tried it, I bet you will love it!
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The story goes that the TV network cancelled the show after only six episodes were produced because they didn't like the fact that audiences had to pay attention when they were watching in order to catch all the jokes. I believe the ratings were actually pretty good.
The Suits didn't understand it either...
It plays like a limited mini-series, given that Frank and his partner recap a list of the past villains now at Stateville Prison at the end of every episode.
I watched every episode as they aired, but it got cancelled after five shows.
@@yournamehere6002 I was thinking it was 4, but they reran all 6 later.
Paying attention is HARD! I'd didn't buy a ticket so I didn't know I couldn't sit on the couch, walk around, call friends, go shopping and return 20 minutes later and not get The Whole Thing spoon-fed to me! argh!!!
"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
😂🤣
Without a doubt, my favourite line in the whole series.
@bujin1977 For me it's a tie between that and...
"Who are you and how'd you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith."
The locksmith line is my favorite but both are well crafted jokes!
And Dawn really seemed to enjoy that joke the most. She has a great Scottish laugh. ❤
The locksmith has to be the greatest, but the come earlier joke is probably funnier.
Hey Dawn Marie! I would have watched this sooner, but it wasn't posted yet. 🤪
I love how the guest star is killed off in the opening sequence. Classic!
Back in the later 1960's TV shows were mostly in black and white and a few were in color. The "In Color" line was to draw attention to that fact with the hope of people buying more color television sets. Also, the voice-over "In color" guy was the same guy who said the line way back when and came out of retirement to do the line one more time.
In the 60s and 70s, I think the main reason was for TV listings: people with colour sets would read the show was in colour so more inclined to watch it (to watch that channel) and get the most out of their sets.
I don't think channels and produces would generally care too much about TV sales but people shifting to colour sets when their channel has colour TV cameras and editing... that's a shift that benefits the channel over less advanced competitors so it makes sense for them to also want and encourage more colour TV sets. I dare say we've seen a similar thing with HD.
It was just a little joke in Police Squad. That nobody was doing that anymore and hadn't for years. Every show was in colour by the 80s and almost everyone had colour sets.
so many of us came here to explain "In Color" bit!
It sounds like the guy who did the voice overs for "The Fugitive," and on some shows would say, " A Quinn Martin production," but it's been almost 60 years since I heard him. Anyone else remember?
I think you're right. I don't know his name, but he had one of those voices perfect for voice over work.
Also, to change the subject a bit, the guy who did the voiceover of the beginning of The Fugitive was William Conrad. He would also introduce the beginning of each episode. He did TONS of voiceover work and radio shows. He eventually got his own TV show called Cannon and later got another show, Jake and the Fatman. @@vorlon1
@@THOMMGB That's right, William Conrad, I forgot about that. I used to watch Cannon and later Jake and the Fatman all the time.
"We would've come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then" is one of the greatest lines ever.
I love Rex Hamilton’s performance as Abraham Lincoln.
Should of won an Emmy
This show was ahead of its time, still makes me laugh
I had a clock that was ahead of its time. I kept having to reset it.
I was 10 years old when this show came out and my parents had just divorced. Me and my sister went to my dads apartment every Friday and we would watch this show. It as hilarious and I have fond memories of my da$ because of it.
Thanks for the review.
Your shock at the Japanese Garden reveal was my favorite part!
I came here to watch Dawn Marie's reaction to this great show. My boss was already on the scene.
You came here, to a reaction channel, to watch the person who reacts, react….. Whta kind of waste of time comment is this? Why the fuck else would you be here???
You would have come earlier, but she hadn't watched them then
Used to love this series. The network's excuse for canceling it was that it required to much thinking lol
I still love it
“Sorry, but your comedy is just too funny.”
Joker: _You wouldn't get it._
16:33 "It's so stupid... but it's so funny."
Dawn definitely gets this show.
Another running gag is that at the end of each episode they list all the perpetrators from the earlier episodes
The original TV show that became the Naked Gun movie trilogy! Finally! 🎉
And Airplane! was the start of those. Had the same producers and Leslie.
@@LordNelsonkm "Airplane!" movie spoofed serious movie "Airport!" with George Kennedy as primary air traffic controller who misdirected planes, crashing into an airport, so he started it all before Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen.
@@Billy-zv6gvSorry, Airplane! is based on Zero Hour (1957). ua-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/v-deo.html
However, Airport (1970) came from the same writer that did Zero Hour, Arthur Hailey.
The show was cancelled because "The powers that be" said you had to watch the show! No joking there! What they were wanting was some comedy show that you could have on in the background, or start watching partway through and not feel as though you'd lost something.
I was about to say the same thing.
The cynic in me also wonders if they didn't want to set a standard they couldn't maintain. They didn't want audiences getting actually funny comedy or they'd come to expect other comedies to be funny.
Cheers, MASH, Mork and Mindy... they were funny. Certainly popular but I always felt very formulaic and predictable. Zuckers and Abrahams' style is a complete departure from that and I can easily believe the average US couch potato might not get it when they're used to the other stuff.
8:19 The line he said was “I am not an animal, I am a human being.” It was a reference to the movie The Elephant Man(1980); it starred Sir Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt.
That in turn reminded me of #6 in The Prisoner.
_I am not a number, I AM A FREE MAN!_
Episode 3 Johnny: Tommy Lasorda, the legendary manager of The LA Dodgers baseball team.
Oh, Dawn dearest, I'm so happy!! I've seen lots of reactors watch the Naked Gun movies and have suggested they need to go back to the roots with Police Squad, and you're the first I've seen that has!!! I'm so glad you love it!!
Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
Such a great series of 6 classic episodes. Every time you rewatch you find something you missed 😅
I love how the celebrity gueststar dies in the opening...😂
You might also like "Get Smart", agent 86, and his partner {later girlfriend/wife} 99.
!!! The actress who played Sally in episode one was Maggie Evans and Josette DuPres in the iconic TV series Dark Shadows. !!!
The reason why it says, "In Color" was because in the '60s, most TVs were black and white, and most programs were shot in black and white. So if you had a color TV set, you wanted your programs in color (and TV manufacturers wanted to sell color TV sets). When Police Squad came out, all TV programs were in color, so it wasn't a selling point anymore and nobody said it, but most people still remembered programs with that "in Color" in the opening credits.
By the way, the narrator saying who the stars and guest stars are was a tribute to (parody of) shows by a particular producer, Quinn Martin who had most of the series he produced with opening credits done that way.
Also the boxer who starts a poem only to end it with, "I'm gonna break your face," is a parody of the famous boxing champ, Muhammad Ali, who would make up poems for self-promotion like, "Float like a butterfly; Sting like a bee; My first name's Muhammed; And the last is Ali."
I love how you are just being you in your videos Dawn. There is no acting for the camera or viewer. You're so real and down to earth and that's what makes you so loveable along with your smile and laugh. No matter what you are watching you can turn it into a humourous situation and that says what a wonderful person you are. I hope you never stop doing videos because you bring so much joy and laughter to so many people. Thank you!! Btw... love what you done to your hair!!