10 GREAT TV Shows You Can't Watch Anymore

10. Police Squad

Just because a TV show didn't last very long doesn't mean it isn't worth preserving. Case in point, the criminally overlooked Police Squad. 

This laugh-out-loud spoof of cop dramas, despite being nominated for an Emmy within its first few episodes, was subsequently cancelled in that same period. Executives ostensibly took issue with how much attention the viewer had to pay to get half of the jokes. Having been decreed to be far too intelligent for the average ABC viewer, the show was taken off the air after only six episodes. 

The creators of the show then went on to turn the same idea that birthed Police Squad into the critically acclaimed Naked Gun movies. Masterful gambit there, ABC.

Anyway, because it only had six episodes, and the Naked Gun films took the idea and ran with it farther than the show could, there hasn't been much of an effort to bring it to streaming. There are both DVD and Blu-ray box sets available online, though, which any discerning Frank Drebin fans should probably jump on when they get the chance.