Police Squad! was a 1982 television show that introduced Leslie Nielsen's character Det. Frank Drebin of the fictional "Police Squad!", a parody of typical cop shows of the 1960s and 1970s. While the show only lasted six episodes, it gained a cult following that would culminate into a trilogy of feature films, beginning with The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The following firearms were used in the television series Police Squad!:
During the opening credits, Abraham Lincoln (Rex Hamilton) fires back at his assailants with what appears to be a blued Smith & Wesson 4th Model. This character was never a character on the actual show but was a staple of the main credits. (If the show had lasted another season, Lincoln firing at the screen would have been replaced with Gandhi firing at the screen with an assault rifle, according to the show's producers).
Sally Decker (Kathryn Leigh Scott) uses two Colt Official Police revolvers when setting up the murder of Jim Johnson (Terry Wills) and Ralph Twice (Russell Shannon) in the opening scene of Episode 1. The crime lab scientist Ted Olsen (Ed Williams) is later seen firing both revolvers into sets of tapes of Barbara Walters interviews in order to prove a point to Drebin.
A hitman named Luca (Irwin Keyes) claims to be a member of the press to get in to see one of Martin's boxers in Episode 2, despite the ammunition, axe, bombs, grenades, and MP40 he is carrying.
When Episode 3's special guest star Robert Goulet is killed by firing squad during the opening credits, one of the men offering him a blindfold has a bolt-action rifle (with a scope) slung over his shoulder.
Willy (Jerry Layne) threatens Drebin and Veronica (Claudette Nevins) in Episode 6 has a Single Action Army before Drebin disarms him in his typical fashion.