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Podcast: Critically Acclaimed Network
Episode: Canceled Too Soon #53 - The Last Precinct (1986)
Description: Take every wacky comic relief stereotype, give them each a badge and a gun, and put them to work at the some police station and you get THE LAST PRECINCT, a quirky POLICE ACADEMY knockoff starring Adam West (BATMAN), Ernie Hudson (GHOSTBUSTERS) and James Cromwell (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL), as well as Randi Brooks as Mel, who - as near as we can tell - might potentially have been the first transgender character with a leading role on a network television series. THE LAST PRECINCT was simultaneously of its time, ahead of its time and behind the times... bu...