Police Squad! (1982)

The Airplane! team pointed their sight gags at the police procedural, and every inch of the format gets mocked, from the opening titles onward. Each episode's announced title never matches the one on screen, and each week's special guest star is introduced and promptly killed. Leslie Nielsen's deadpan Frank Drebin plays every idiocy as hard-boiled routine. ABC canceled it after six episodes, which makes it a perfect single evening, and it later led to the Naked Gun films.