Police Squad!: Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)

Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood) is the fifth episode broadcast (but actually the third episode produced) of the short-lived TV series Police Squad!. The episode was directed by Reza Badiyi and written by Nancy Steen and Neil Thompson. As usual, the episode was produced by Robert K. Weiss. The episode refers to Mommie Dearest (released by Paramount Pictures, whose television division produced Police Squad!), a Joan Crawford lookalike pays off the mob at the "Mommie Dearest Day Care Center". Dutch Genderson is a clear spoof on the James Bond character Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He is introduced sitting in a chair stroking a cat, and his face is not initially revealed. Even his bending low upon his announcement, "When I'm through with him, he'll be dead!" is meant as a (more subtle) joke, since up to You Only Live Twice Blofeld's face is never seen in the movies.