Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name "rings a bell" we hear bells go off every time someone mentions it) non sequiturs occur (a mime tries to spell out a ransom note and Officer Nordberg guesses "Theme From a Summer Place") and sight gags abound (while looking for a corpse someone wants to know the time and the dead man's hand drops out of a tree).