THE "POLICE SQUAD" PILOT (IN COLOR)

Leslie Nielsen will always be remembered for his comic turns in "Airplane!" and as Lt. Frank Drebin in the quickly cancelled 'Police Squad' TV series and the more successful "Naked Gun" movies, the film franchise following that TV show. That combination veered his career into comedy immortality.

To see how whacked this man could be, who was better known a solid succession of somewhat dull supporting roles before 1980, here's the first episode of 'Police Squad'.......

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

Tele-trivia tidbit: the episode's guest star, Lorne Greene, was Canadian like Nielsen and in fact was Nielsen's acting coach back in the Great White North.....

BCnU!