RE: You MUST Laugh!
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Didn't Dragnet come from that too and it did a little better didn't it?
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Didn't Dragnet come from that too and it did a little better didn't it?
Dragnet was actually a radio show back in the 40s staring a very young Jack Webb. He revived it in the late 60s for the TV show we all remember. I think the TV show was fairly popular at the time, lasting a few years. The parody movie with Tom Hanks was great! Well... I remember it being great. I haven't watched it since I was a kid. Anyway, some of the tropes Police Squad made fun of were from Dragnet.
Ah okay, I was thinking they were all tied together, but I couldn't remember if that was accurate or not.
I could be wrong, but I think Get Smart might have made fun of Dragnet more directly than Police Squad. They were on the air at or around the same time, so the mocking would have been more easily understood by the audience at the time.
I remember the Get Smart reruns. That was more a homage to James Bond kind of like Austin Powers.
And the Man from UNCLE—which I've never watched, but I know that classic opening that Get Smart ripped off.