Hit Squad

SIX YEARS BEFORE Leslie Nielsen’s Frank Drebin — or Sgt Frank Drebin, to give him his full name — hit the big screen (and the Queen) in , the character made his debut in the little-seen TV show, . Created by the ZAZ team of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker off the back of their breakout success with , it transported the trio’s penchant for spot-on spoofery, inspired wordplay and background visual gags to the small, ran for just six eps, guaranteeing it a perennial place on lists of shows that were cancelled too soon. With it soon to surface on DVD and Blu-ray, ZAZ broke down several of the show’s finest jokes for us…