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Pete

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On This Day January 26 1986 - The Last Precinct Premiered on NBC.

On this day January 26 1986, The Last Precinct premiered on NBC, introducing a short lived police sitcom that blended slapstick humor with crime themed parody. The series took a deliberately exaggerated approach to law enforcement storytelling, favoring absurd situations and broad characters over realism.

The Last Precinct reflected a mid 1980s trend where networks experimented by mixing established genres...

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