Talk:Police Squad!

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• A quick note: Lincoln firing back at John Wilkes Booth is fiction. Whether this has any basis in fact would best be discussed at the article on Lincoln. (See also Talk: Pewterschmidt family.)

• ok thanks man Rubber cat 08:33, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

You know, in a South Park episode, the rampaging statue of Lincoln is shot by a concrete John Wilkes Booth. Do you think I should put a warning on that episode? Optimus Sledge 04:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone have a source for the reason for cancellation? I'd like to research it a bit... Kimpire 22:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

What is the name of the opening narrator? He is the same one that did all of the other Quinn Martin shows (Cannon, The FBI, etc). 18:52, 08 May 2007 (UTC)

For the record the article on Police Squad! here at wikipedia states in part:

"A sequence was filmed with John Belushi (chained to concrete blocks underwater) but the actor died shortly before the episode was due to air, and the producers decided not to use the scene. According to the user-edited Internet Movie Database the producers wanted to include the Belushi scene when Police Squad was rebroadcast in the 1990s, but the footage could not be located and was presumed lost. It is now on the DVD release."

Unfortunately this is in error as the missing footage was never found. On the DVD in said special features, the director team tells the viewer the sad info

At http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083466/trivia one can read this

"After the success of the "Naked Gun!" movies, both Comedy Central and CBS-TV, and not ABC-TV, re-aired all six episodes of this series in the summer of 1991. 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 Belushi's death in 1982. The footage could not be located, and is now presumed to have been lost or destroyed." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.60.77.43 (talk) 02:51:54, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

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