Each episode has two titles: the voiceover narration inevitably fails to match the on-screen title.


Each week featured a "Special Guest Star" who is killed off in the opening credits. Lorne Greene and William Conrad are knifed and tossed out of cars; Georg Stanford Brown has a safe dropped on him; Florence Henderson is shot during a musical number; Robert Goulet is exexcuted by a firing squad; and William Shatner avoids a burst of machine gun only to drink a glass of poisoned wine.


Each episode, Drebin runs over a number of garbage cans equal to the episode number.


The final episode was to have featured an opening death scene by John Belushi, but he died in reality shortly after filming the segment, and it was never aired.


Starting with the 2nd episode, Drebin would reel off a list of the criminals apprehended in all the previous episodes.


Each week Frank's snitch, Johnny the Shoeshine boy who knew everything, would meet with someone else that Johnny could give useful if esoteric information to. In the last three episodes he met with real-life people Dick Clark, Dr. Joyce Brothers, and Tommy Lasorda (even providing Clark with a special bottle of anti-aging face cream).


John Belushi filmed a cameo "guest star" appearance for the "Testimony of Evil" episode, showing him underwater wearing a pair of cement shoes. He died before the episode aired, so a new sequence was filmed with William Conrad.


After the success of the "Naked Gun!" movies, ABC-TV re-aired all six episodes of this series in the early-1990s. Producers wanted to include the John Belushi "guest star" appearance in the rerun of the "Testimony of Evil", which had been cut from the episode due to John Belushi's death in 1982. The footage could not be located, and is now presumed to have been lost or destroyed.


According to Pat Proft, had a second season been commissioned, the spot in the opening credits where Abraham Lincoln is shot at and retaliates with a pistol would have been replaced by a similar one, featuring Mahatma Gandhi and a machine gun.


Many of the gags from the TV series were reused in the Naked Gun films.


The episodes end with a mock freeze frame. However, instead of an actual freeze frame, the characters in the frame simply stand as still as possible. In one episode, the frame "freezes" with one character pouring the other a cup of coffee. As they stand still, the cup can be seen overflowing.


ABC wanted the show to have a laugh track, but Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker wouldn't give in.


The theme song, the opening credits and the character of Lt. Frank Drebin were spoofs of "M Squad" (1957). Lee Marvin starred on that show as Lt. Frank Ballinger.

Loved Police Squad! When Nick @ Nite was still proper, they used to run marathons of this program every summer. Big Al was one of my favorite characters, and Robert Goulet made several memorable special appearances. Good stupid fun.

Why the hell is this not out on DVD yet?! It's 6 episodes. That's one disc. They could probably throw in a second DVD of outtakes or whatever. It would be cheap for buyers, and it'd probably be pure profit for the studio. I mean, we're getting season 6 of Three's Company tomorrow, but this still lingers in someone's back closet, with many people wishing for its release on DVD. You can't tell me friggin' S6 of Three's Company is going to sell more than this would.

Edited to add: News! Looks like June 2006, perhaps!