Police Squad! Wiki:Today's featured article/April 20, 2008



Lieutenant Frank "You Might End Up Dead" Drebin, is the fictional, main character from the 1982 tv series Police Squad! and the three following films. He's a member of Police Squad, a special department of the police force together with Officer Norberg, Captain Ed Hocken, Al and Ted Olsen. It's not exactly clear when he started to work for Police Squad, but it was before 1970. Ever since he married Jane he got retired from the force. He's created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and portrayed by Leslie Nielsen in the series and the films. He was originally based on M Squad 's main character Frank Ballinger but has already spoofed many more characters. Drebin is known for being a bumbling fool, who takes things very literally. Drebin is one of the rare characters that has been portrayed by the same actor in both the films and the series. (more...)

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