Weird old title sequences: Police Squad! (1982)

Before The Naked Gun came Police Squad!, a short-lived TV spoof of other cop shows. Reams could be written about it, but if you’ve watched The Naked Gun, you know as much as you need to know.

But I will talk about the title sequence, which changed every week: it’s motif was that the supposed guest star would die in the title sequence and never appear in the show itself and that the wrong episode title would be read out each time.

The end titles were also very Naked Gun.

You just don’t get that level of attention to detail these days.

Oh, incidentally, and I used to work somewhere once where they all thought I was Johnny the shoe-shine guy, because I was the source of all knowledge and not because I cleaned shoes:

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Question of the week: who’s your favourite TV or film composer?

Music’s an often-overlooked aspect of film and TV production. It can create a mood or it can destroy it – indeed sometimes one composer can do both (cf Murray Gold). So today’s quick question is: 

Who’s your favourite TV or film composer?

Mine is Clint Mansell, who composed the music from Requiem for a Dream (aka "the music from the Lord of the Rings trailers"), Black Swan and Moon amongst other things. In fact, I don’t know of any time he’s ever produced anything that was less than excellent. But how about you?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog

Wednesday’s “Who in two” news

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