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- A famous guest host stars in parodies and sketches created by the cast of this witty show.
- A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
- A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.
- Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.
- Death, who takes the form of a young man killed in an accident, asks a media mogul to act as his guide to teach him about life on Earth and, in the process, he falls in love with the mogul's daughter.
- A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
- A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
- After a 10 year stint, former bootlegger and notorious criminal Al Capone starts to show signs of dementia, forcing him to face the demons of his violent past.
- Larry Gigli is assigned by a crime boss to kidnap the brother of a prominent district attorney. A beautiful woman known only as Ricki is sent to stay with him to make sure he doesn't mess up the job.
- Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
- Three friends living on the dole decide to rob a bank.
- After their parent's divorce, 12-year-old Josh and 7-year-old Sam decide to go on an underage road trip. Sick of being ferried between their distant mother and remarried father, Josh and his brother steal a car and set out for Canada.
- Martin Brest's AFI student film about a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.
- Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940 known as "Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of cinematographic art for their contribution to creation of movies.
- A retrospective look at the making of Beverly Hills Cop.
- Martin Brest's NYU student film about a photographer who plans to blow up the Statue of Liberty in order to take a picture and thus get famous.
- "Speeding?" is a short film for film study as well as driver's educational classes on speeding and is still widely used. A film by Block and Alec Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld is the cameraman and Block populates the film with actors from television and Hollywood films (Lucille Benson, Anne Dusenberry, Jeffery Kramer, Dick Miller, Vincent Schiavelli, Ray Sharkey and Gigi Vorgan) and gives directors Martin Brest and Stephen Verona rare on screen appearances. The Corona, California traffic unit and the California Highway Patrol provide the film with the reality of working traffic officers. A student at UCLA remarked after a screening, "How did you happen to film all of those movie stars after they got a ticket?" After making "No Lies", a serious work, Block wanted to do something with some comedy that would also continue to explore reality and fiction in a film that would mix actors and real people. What could be better than police in uniforms and speeders? Speeding? was done as a UCLA Project 3 while Block was in the UCLA doctoral program. The film received a production grant from the American Film Institute.
- Margery Simkin discusses her casting of Beverly Hills Cop.
- An in-depth look at the Grammy-winning score of Beverly Hills Cop.
- 1975– 1h 30mTV-146.1 (91)TV EpisodeThe host for the episode is Jamie Lee Curtis, and the musical guests are James Brown and Ellen Shipley. The skits for this episode are as follows: The Mean Majority explain how things are going to change now that their man has won the presidency. For her opening monologue, Jamie Lee Curtis obliges the audience by screaming in terror. Over the course of the show, Brooke Shields gives three vacuous endorsements for Clovin Hind jeans. Jersey Guy Paulie Herman encounters a three-card monte dealer on the street. Two poetesses make their work famous by the only means available to them: committing suicide on live television. A public service announcement warns viewers of the dangers of playing poker while high on pot. Members of the Badgers Club get together to celebrate berating random people and insulting their waitress. An aspiring photographer plots to blow up the Statue of Liberty so he can take an award-winning photo. James Brown performs "Rapp Payback", plus a medley of his older hits, and Ellen Shipley performs "Fotogenic".