Lieutenant Frank Drebin

Frank "You Might End Up Dead" Drebin, is the fictional, main character from the 1982 television 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.

Background
It's not exactly clear when Frank started to work for the Police Squad, but it was before 1970. When Frank married Jane 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.

Relationships
''I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or being able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact, I bought her a harp for Christmas. She asked me what it was.''

His first relationship was a case of "Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day". The second didn't go much better; she left him for a... TBA.

In "A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)", the first episode, it is suggested that Frank might have had a homosexual relationship as a younger man. After the grieving widow of Ralph Twice asked him if he knew "what it’s like to be married to a wonderful man for fourteen years", Frank comments,

"No, I can’t say that I do. I did live with a guy once, though that was just for a couple of years. Usual slurs, rumors, innuendos; people didn’t understand. Ran him out of town like a common pygmy. Sure, he was a physical education major, but he had a mind, he could think. He wasn’t all muscle, all BODY, all sinewy limbs. He got married ya know later, had three kids. I never cared for her. Sent a nice gift, never got a note. I told him she was wrong. And that younger boy, just like his father: Football hero. Lived with him for a year, it wasn’t the same. Can’t go back."'