Addendum: The animated “Police Academy” series (1988)
Odd that an R-rated film should spawn a Saturday morning animated series. I think the only other time that happened was with RoboCop.
I watched two hard-to-find episodes of this series as a capper to my movie marathon. I’m not sure if I have much to say about the show. None of the cast played their roles, and even the premise was changed. Evidently the show takes place at Police Academy Precinct (I guess the “academy” part of it has long since been forgotten), and our heroes Mahoney, Tackleberry, Hooks, Hightower, Callahan, Zed, and Sweetchuck get into wacky misadventures. There is also, inexplicably, a mad scientist character who invents fantastical weapons for the cops. Um… … … K.
The stories of the two episodes I saw were more complex than any of the movies. One involved Hooks, underappreciated, becoming the sheriff of a small Western town. The other had a criminal lady wrestler who seduces Sweetchuck. This is standardly substandard SatAM animation garbage. You don’t need to bother tracking down this show.
As for the 1997 “Police Academy” live-action series, I haven’t seen any of them, although, from what I understand, it ran a full 26 episodes, which is a lot for a largely forgotten sitcom. I also understand that Winslow bothered to be in the show.
