Sledge Hammer! (1986)

David Rasche plays Inspector Sledge Hammer, a gun-loving parody of every Dirty Harry cop, whose catchphrase is "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" just before he proves he does not. Alan Spencer created it, and the satire of 1980s macho cop shows is broad, quick and still very funny. It has the strangest continuity on this list. With ABC planning to cancel it, the first season ended with Hammer blowing up the city with a nuclear warhead; ABC renewed it anyway, so season two simply announced it was set five years earlier. That second season, 41 episodes in all by early 1988, was its last. Pair it with Police Squad! for a double bill of cop-show demolition.