Airplane! parodies the air disaster movies of the 1970s and catapulted Leslie Nielsen to stardom. Nielsen went on to star in numerous other parodies, including the Naked Gun series, Police Squad ...

The series also launched the “Naked Gun” movies. The first film, released in 1988, saw Nielsen reprise his role as an LAPD detective and play opposite Priscilla Presley and O.J. Simpson.