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Barney Miller Television Series Overview
 Barney Miller is a
comedy television series set in a New York City police
station in Greenwich Village that ran on ABC from January 23, 1975
to May 20, 1982. Captain Barney
Miller (Hal Linden) tries to remain sane while leading the
12th Precinct's detectives: crochety, nearing-retirement
Jewish-American Philip K. Fish (Abe Vigoda); naive but
goodhearted Polish-American Det. Stanley "Wojo" Wojciehowicz
(Max Gail); ambitious, arrogant African-American Detective Ronald
"Ron" Nathan Harris (Ron Glass); philosophical, wisecracking
Japanese-American Nick Yemana (Jack Soo); and dauntless
Puerto Rican Chano Amanguale (Gregory Sierra). He also has
to deal with his unapologetically old-school superior, Chief
Inspector Frank Luger (James Gregory), and diminutive (and
obsequious) Officer Carl Levitt (Ron Carey), who
passive-aggressively badgers Miller constantly about being
promoted to detective. Amanguale was replaced by
intellectual Arthur P. Dietrich (Steve Landesberg) from the
third season on.
The Barney Miller show's focus was split between the detectives'
interactions with each other and with the suspects and
witnesses they detained, processed, and interviewed. Some
typical conflicts and long running plotlines included
Miller's frustration with red tape and paperwork, his
constant efforts to maintain peace, order, and discipline,
and his numerous failed attempts to get a promotion;
Harris's preoccupation with outside interests, mainly his
novel, and his inability to remain focused on his police
work; Fish's incontinence and reluctance to retire; Wojciehowicz's impulsive behavior and love life; Luger's
nostalgia for the old days with partners Foster, Kleiner and
Brown; Levitt's (eventually successful) quest to become a
detective; the rivalry between the precinct's resident
intellectuals, Harris and Dietrich and continually - but
reliably - bad coffee.
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Barney Miller
Television Series on DVD |
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Barney Miller Television
Series - The First
Season on DVD
Barney
Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to meet. He
somehow manages to maintain order over a group of
inner-city detectives who gamble for a hobby, get
hit on by anything in skirts, go to renaissance
philosophy conventions for fun, and would really
prefer to be writing. Stars Hal Linden, Abe Vigoda
and more! The two-disc set includes all 13
episodes from the first season of Barney Miller. |
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Barney
Miller Television Show: The Complete Second Season on DVD
The
three-disc DVD set includes all 22 episodes from the
second season, with guest stars Linda Lavin (TV’s
Alice), David Doyle (TV’s General Hospital), and
Adam Arkin (Hitch). Barney Miller is the kind of cop
we'd all like to meet. He somehow manages to
maintain order at New York City’s 12th Precinct in
Greenwich Village and remains level-headed while
dealing with a group of off-the-wall inner-city
detectives. Among them is a gambler, another who
attends renaissance philosophy conventions for fun,
and a third who spends most of his time daydreaming
about being an author. This season, the precinct
deals with potential layoffs, a man who threatens to
blow up the station unless he can speak with
President Nixon, marijuana evidence that
suspiciously disappears, and a job offer from
Florida for Barney. |
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Barney Miller TV Show: The Complete
Third Season
on DVD
The men of
the 12th Precinct are back for another season of big
laughs and bad coffee! Fires, blackouts, smog ?
elections. The third season gives a wild look at New
York City during one of its most dynamic times, the
late '70s, an era before the term "politically
correct" existed. Join Hal Linden as wise police
Captain Barney Miller along with Officers Fish (Abe
Vigoda), Wojo (Max Gail), Harris (Ron Glass), Yemana
(Jack Soo) and guest stars Dietrich (Steve
Landesberg), Officer Levitt (Ron Carey) and
Inspector Luger (James Gregory) in this hilarious
Emmy®-winning comedy. With a station of wacky
misfits and wild New Yorkers, the third season is
full of guest stars including Billy Barty (UHF),
James Cromwell (TV's 24), Doris Roberts (TV's
Everybody Loves Raymond), Brett Somers (TV's Match
Game), and Michael Tucci (Grease). So funny it's
criminal, Barney Miller: The Complete Third Season
is a must-have for any DVD collection! |
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