However, that would have been the highlight of the 1977-78 TV season, and "Fish" moved to Saturdays @ 8PM ET, followed by the new series "Operation: Petticoat", a third season for "Starsky & Hutch", followed by another new series "The Love Boat". However, "The Love Boat" sank CBS's Saturday Night Comedy Line Up, by moving the series from 10PM to 9PM, followed by the new midseason replacement series "Fantasy Island". "Starsky & Hutch" moved from Saturday to Wednesday.
I will never forget one Saturday night on New York’s Hot 97, Funkmaster Flex played a entire hour of tv classics and when he threw this on, he cut up the breakbeat!
@@chuckers40 Most people don't know that the lady who wrote and sang the theme song to The Jeffersons is the same lady who played Willona on Good Times, Ja’Net DuBois.
This was a short lived "Barney Miller" spin-off series. Abe Vigoda reprises his role in which he and his wife are in charge of 5 juveniles that are on probation.
Fun fact, two of the people listed in the end credits, executive story consultants Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday, would later be famous on their own accord as creators of the CBS crime drama "Cagney & Lacey."
Dan is pretty sure it's Steve Schaefer on drums and Chuck Rainey on bass...and, may be Tom Scott on soprano sax...Mike Lang (keyboards) couldn't remember.
That's an impressive lineup. Thanks for responding. And I didn't know there was an extended version of the Barney Miller theme. I'm looking forward to hearing that.
Comments like yours are why I live for retro RU-vid. You go tell your bro he's tight as hell. He built a lot of people's childhood with this theme right here. Nothing goes unnoticed.
It seems most 70s early 80s American sitcoms the composer, got the most badass jazz/funk musicians and when asked what do we play? He said “ just let it fucking rip”
I recall the episode where Todd bridges character thought he was a priest and he says to fish "God loves you" and fish retorts with "if he loved me, I wouldn't be here!!"
Great theme. And I loved Abe Vigoda and Florence Stanley (Todd Bridges was also a very talented little actor as a child). I wish the producers had come up with a better show for them.
I was lucky enough to Meet Ms.Stanley and Mr.Vigoda in NYC..before they left us..Unlike the characters that they played on"Barney Miller and Fish"..they were really gentle and sweet people..in Fact? When I met Mr.Vigoda..he was wearing a jogging outfit.."Believe It Or Else?".
Abe didn’t start acting until he was 50. His first role was a gangster by the name of Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather. He was a walk on at an open call.
Apparently it wasn’t cancelled. Abe Vigoda got a touch too greedy for his own good and started asking for more money, but ABC wasn’t having it, so they sent him packing. Pity, it was really good...
You can tell by the music they were going for the Barney Miller feel. Danny Arnold didn't want to write this show. He predicted it wouldn't be happily greeted by the viewership.
FYI, both Barry Gordon and Denise Miller would co-star some four years later on "Archie Bunker's Place as Jewish lawyer/business manager Gary Rabinowitz and Billie Bunker, Archie's niece, respectively.
Damn... I never knew? There was a actual spin off to to the sitcom Barney Miller called Fish starring the late Abe Vigoda? After he left the show around that same year. Whoever uploaded this? Thanks. The theme and the ending credits sounds similar to Barney Miller. The 70's had produced some great sitcoms in it's day. So did the 80's and the 90's as well.
Fish only lasted just 35 shows over 2 Seasons. It certainly couldn’t be a hit like Barney Miller. I would call this ABC show a “Should’ve Been a Bigger Hit Show” in 1977.
Denise Miller looked exactly like Kristy McNichol. Kristy was still on Family, so she was not able to accept this role. Toss up as to who the actual better actress was. Denise did great work on Archie Bunker's Place. She could have gone much further with her career. Sadly, neither actress lived up to her potential. For those of you who are unaware, Denise played Billie Bundy (Archie's niece). Stephanie was not actually Archie's niece, but she was treated like a 2nd daughter. Archie grew as the show progressed. Archie, deep down, was a great person. Then again, Mike was a Meathead. Archie was the real hero of All In The Family. Mike was a real meathead.
I actually saw this show BEFORE seeing Barney Miller. Looking back, the character of Fish seemed like the LAST person on earth that would want to take in foster kids.
Hello, Bella Bella!😃. I like your name; it's beautiful, twice. Sarah Natoli was cute, too. I wonder whatever became of them? I could always nose around and find out(lol).
I heard at the time that the reason it was canceled is because someone advised Abe Vigoda not to get involved in his own series, and unfortunately he listened to them. (he later regretted it)
I'd never seen the show in my life, but I absolutely loved the theme song. It was on a CD of themes I remember owning when I was a teenager. Seriously funky. Did it ever air on TV in recent years?
This show was only on for a season, it probably hasn't been on air in a long while. You might be able to find episodes on RU-vid of it but probably not the whole series.
