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  1. MatthewA

    International Police Squad: The Complete Series

    That's easier to do today because of larger, higher-resolution TVs and DVRs that allow you to rewind stuff you missed. What has changed is people's ability to take a joke.
  2. MatthewA

    International Police Squad: The Complete Series

    It didn't help that they put it on Thursday night at 8 PM, the former home of the ailing Mork and Mindy. CBS was dominant there with Magnum P.I. while NBC launched Fame, which was very popular in the UK, around the same time. I was a small child in the 1980s, so I was not allowed to stay up to...
  3. MatthewA

    International Police Squad: The Complete Series

    I think I actually have this show on laserdisc but never bought the DVDs. This Blu-ray will definitely be mine. That's why I kept the DVDs of the last two films. I also own the complete CD soundtrack of the entire trilogy. That would fit right in with David Zucker having directed or...
  4. MatthewA

    International Police Squad: The Complete Series

    Some shows are just too good to last. Of course, this is post-Fred Silverman pre-Disney ABC we are talking about. They really cleaned house with sitcoms in 1982, the year Barney Miller ended and Taxi got pawned off on NBC. Lots of others didn't make the cut for next year, the first in a long...
  5. MatthewA

    International Police Squad: The Complete Series

    George Kennedy was also a recast.
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