Barney Miller Before and After they were Cops 

The guest stars were terrific and just as funny as the main cast.

How great would it have been to have a full show w the Detectives going out on a Call to apprehend the criminals they arrest. That was totally missing.

Ooooh. He the big ol grey fox

yeppers 😉

He really is.

Yes 😀

He is not only handsome, he can sing and of course Act

At that time, it was the most expensive TV sitcom which hard to believe that since it only had 2 sets, the main police set and Lieutenants Millers office. Probably because they had to pay the cast on the show.

@@rockvilleraven Once they showed Fish's apartment.

@@peggyarnold4333 And Wojo's apartment.

Because it was so brilliantly written.

@@MissT813 Yup and acted. Best sitcom ever made. Period. Seinfeld may the greatest, all in the family one of the most important, etc and many along on the way but BM is the pinnacle. So many things this show predicted that unfortunately came true because the writers READ the newspapers. That's where the stories came from. It's a brilliant history lesson/time capsule, etc... The stories never get old because they're about people and the human condition and THAT hasn't changed EVER. It's also a good lesson in how we IGNORED real issues on the REAL side on television and LET these bad things come to pass. I watch this show in it's entirety TWICE a year. Always have always will till I die. Barney's compassion is something EVERY leader should have. The charcaters are REAL ( probably the realest EVER portrayed in a sitcom) and Wojo's growth as a human being is the best long arc ever. The prejudice's harris overcomes, the perceived stereotypes yumana has to deal with, luger's old school mentality vs changing ideals....fromt op to bottom this show is quality. Abe vigoda's issue with aging... only Deitrich is a little unbelievable in his versatility in every topic and issue but he's a brilliantly written and acted form of RARE walking and talking exposition. Only that comes close is Night Court's first 3 seasons before they go into the wonderfully absurd. It's a shame we never got a reunion with Barney in the luger role. The ending is also the most tasteful finale and the best 'turning off the lights and walking out the door' ending ever.

ME 2

My dad looked like Alan Alda.

I watched this as a kid when I would stay home from school and go to my grandparents cuz mom and dad had to work... I never understood WHAT the audience was laughing at lol but I watched...loved this show and never knew why until I got older and UNDERSTOOD the humor lol

I loved this show too! My parents and I watched it every Thursday night.

Young people. You have no idea how loose and awesome the 70's were. It had dark stuff, but it was so loose. Felt beautiful.

@@adipsous You’re not referring to me, are you? I’m going to be 66 y.o. this year. I was there for the 1970s.

For sure. My mom loved the show so much she’d be sure to get home in time to catch it no matter what she was doing!

Stay cool 😎. lol. Me too 🥶. Tiny propane heater ain’t doing it . Warming up next week a little bit. I hated those 12 hrs nights.

If you can't afford to heat your whole place, an electric heating pad works wonders. Been there.

And Abe Vigoda was at least ten years younger than he was portrayed.

My favorite Dietrich moment was when he passed the lie detector test by saying he was “born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away!”

@@arthurwright8827 The Gregory Peck one was pretty funny, too.

​@@arthurwright8827I love that episode. Dry sense of humor runs in my family, and watching Detrich with his sense of humor helped solidify mine as a pre-teen and young teenager.

And his wondrous coffee!!

I thot of his run-ins (ethnic wise) when Lt van Buren (black lady cop on a Law & Order show) was told to go back where she came from and replied she was from Brooklyn. Laughed at that, too.

Watch your Mana in a thousand million miracleS.. My mother took me to see when I was like 8 years old,,, An inspirational movie

Same here. This was a favorite of mine.

How old are you now? I remember it too - 63

@@ssnoc Probably 12 years old when I started watching, in my 50’s now.

@@davidp7037 Me too. I’m 55 now. Loved it then, & love it now.

yes we did i honestly feel this was one of the best shows ever

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It was so revered that Hal Linden was actually SALUTED by REAL cops in his life always. This is TRUE detective work. Regular men and woman doing a hard job with what they have. Dealing with the CRAZIES lol and paperwork, paperwork, paperwork. One thing people never thought of was pre xerox, having to do reports in TRIPLICET. It's one of the realest shows ever and probably the best and trues cop show ever - Dennis Farina thought show and this was 2- yrs AFTER in had ended lol. It's sad only 3-4 of the cast are still alive today and 2 of them weren't even series regulars. SO many great character actors on this show too. The cream of the crop in character actors of 70/80's films and tv. Something alot of people also overlook is how many actors are brought back in different roles over the years - that was not just because of their talent but a comment on how the faces all become the same in their job as policemen. Brilliant show.

@@DJRitty And not only did many actors come back in different roles Steve Landesberg who played Dietrich and Ron Carey who played Levitt originally played criminals that were arrested by the detectives later to come back as cops.

Mine too. I love seinfeld but this is the best.

The show was sort of Anti Gun, and when Fish retired, Barney made a big show of taking Fish's Gun saying "you wont need this anymore." Thankfully, it does not work that way.

So well known, his likeness was "borrowed" by a god-like alien residing in the galactic core of the Milky Way during the 23rd century.

I liked Alice from Mel's diner.

@Bobbie Charles Dagger of the Mind was also the title of a Columbo episode, Luger played in an early 70s episode with Robert Culp. Prior to BM. What a character as Luger! The guy we love to hate! Genius

He played the Russian writer who threw elaine's organizer out the Limo window and her tape recorder out the hotel window, Ironically striking the same lady in the head yet again! LoL Ot was cool seeing him pop up so many years latet

Gtg

His deadpan humor was edifying.

I know, right? He just has that kind of voice!

I was born in 76, I would watch reruns of this though the my door after my bedtime. Best show ever!

Me born in the 1980's I still love the show

I Know, Right? Plus I Had A Major Crush On Hal Linden ( Still Do) !!!

Born in 72. I watched this in reruns with my grandmother who adored the whole cast.

@@jayscards8640 It was an awesome family show and I only wish today's shows were that good.

My crush was Wojo and my mom loved barney.

@@sheilagravely5621 My Mom loved Barney! He was gorgeous! Wojo too!! 🤗

I had a big crush on Detrich. I was born in 1973 so only watched in reruns. Detrich still makes my heart flutter 🥰🥰🥰

Yes he was 😊

Agree

Agree

Definitely

This was a bit before my time (born in '72) but after I watched my first episode I was hooked. As a teen some laughed at the fact I watched it, along with Taxi, MASH and a few other great shows from the early seventies. I was around twenty when I realized why I liked them so much. To your point, there was better acting and writing in one scene of those shows than a whole episode of most newer ones even now. This was a show done on one of the smallest sets I have seen but there was so much to it. It wasn't about the set or wardrobe. It was about people and they had a great main cast for it. They were also very smart about the actors that were for one show or even just a scene. It sounds funny but it made the craziness "smoother", more believable. With so many plot characters passing through that was vital. Even with a great main cast like that, it would not have been as good if the main actors did not have solid actors to make the scenes work. I may not always stop on this show or others like it when I'm channel surfing, yet every once in awhile I will do a week of shows like this to detox myself from todays "entertainment". Lastly, I even go back to a few black and white shows. I have seen every episode of The Dick van Dyke Show (situational and slapstick comedy at it's finest) but they still make me laugh when I watch them again. Quality shows have come from every era of television. But it has gotten harder to find through the years.

I think Phil was in the last episode of NC as one of the two aliens that take Bull back with them.

@@mescko When in doubt, IMDB it out

@@mescko You sure it was the last episode?

@@johnny-becker I guess I should have said 'Series Finale'. There was one episode shown after the finale, it was supposed to be aired before it but wasn't.

@@mescko I found it. He did. I have not seen past the third season yet but he played a character named Norm in the series finale according to IMDB

I was a year behind ya, but same experiences

And… the significance to this video is…?

Great word, "laconic."

With *SHOTGUN JOE AT THE WHEEL?!? SURELY YOU JEST....*

Howard Fortyfive Ha ! Asleep at the wheel 😴

9 months ago huh?? Oct 23,2021 here. So much for success with this so called president.

Ahhh, what would the internet be without the whiny trumpers coming in 'off topic' to comment sections with their pissing and moaning about the orange loser, um.......Losing!

I swear Abe Vigoda was born a 75 year old man...🤭💗

He was an athletic man.

Cagney & Lacey was pretty realistic too, before the transition from revolvers to autoloading pistols.

An NYPD Detective Squad where everyone is a sergeant was the most accurate? What was the competition?

Really well written. Engaging.

Very glad that someone mentioned that. Complete acting Pros like Kenneth Tigar and Jack Somack appeared at least twice on the show. Made for a very intriguing talent roster to say the least.😂B.W.

Which is weird because in one of his last episodes he says he just turned 46 years old (in reality Jack Soo was in his 60s at the time), making him like 12 years old during WW2.

I remember he played a newspaper reporter in the show Whiz Kids after BM ended.

Remember the episode where Fish accidentally ate some edibles? He then went out on a call, burglar made the roof jumped to the next building, Fish was on him like a flash.

Exorcised? I didn’t know Vigoda was a priest.

@@phredphlintstone6455 Yeah, right when he found something that made him feel-GOOD...and then they made it illegal...!!! Yep, the ol' "Hashish-Brownies"-episode!! ☺

Yes it's all an act. He would outrun the others and exercised daily. He was in great shape and lived into his late 90's I believe.

@@620john620 BAHAHAHA

Well he was a crooked cop in L.A. Confidential.

And he was the silent farmer in 'Babe'.

That wasn't Selma Diamond, it was Florence Halop.

I saw him on stage in "Arsenic & Old Lace". I loved all the characters so much, I couldn't choose a fave.

I was one of THOSE people.

@@oluhamilton2121We all thought that Abe had passed away from time to time and he'd always pop up somewhere to surprise us and prove us all wrong. And who knows he might be out there and prove us all wrong again -- I'm kidding LOL ! And then again you never can tell....

That made my nite

Godfather

MyUncle was a police detective in Jersey City, NY for over 40 years and loved this show. He said the squad room was as close to life as you could get and no other cop show came close.

Not Richard Gere, but a good facsimile.

21:17 The name on the screen is Paul Lieber. The year is 1980; Richard Gere was likely busy promoting his film, 'American Gigolo' at the time.