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"Barney Miller" was one of my favorite sitcoms of the '70's, along with "Sanford and Son" and "Taxi". I used to watch this hilarious show with my mom and dad and we would laugh our heads off at he antics and jokes perpetrated by Barney (Hal Linden), Fish (Abe Vigoda), Wojo (Max Gail), Chano (Gregory Sierra, late of "Sanford & Son"), Harris (Ron Glass), and Yemana (Jack Soo, my dad's personal favorite of the crew). This diverse crowd of Greenwich Village detectives never failed to tickle the funny bone, dealing with crooks and wierdos of all types, along with the bad coffee usually made by Nick Yemana (Barney: "Maroon coffee?" Nick: "It's the color spectrum-brown coffee and yellow water makes maroon!"). Shoplifters, muggers, flashers, hookers, and various and sundry kooks, such as a guy who thinks he's a werewolf (season 3) are just a few of the situations they faced, all in a day's work. If you like belly laughs without all the smutty, politically-correct nonsense contained in most modern day so-called comedies, "Barney Miller" will push all the right buttons for you. A great cast, with many fine and familiar actors in guest roles, created a Golden Globe-winning sitcom the whole family can enjoy. Love it!Read full review
this television series is one of the best police comedys of the 70's well worth your time. I grew up watching barney and the gang like a lot of my generation and am very happy to see it now on dvd and can share it with my children and pass on the joy and laughs i felt as a kid watching barney with my dad. it is set in new york city in the 12th precinct in the 1970's a melting pot of idiots,purse snatchers and hookers with a few other odd balls the officers of the 12th led by ( captain) barney miller show us how good police work and comedy can catch the criminal they use current events of the time to help the comedy it was the 70's (budget cuts,power outages,strikes) you will want to see the entire series thank you jc in Ohio
This show still cracks me up, the humor is as fresh as it was 30 years ago, to the credit of both the writers and the actors. Top notch writing aided by top notch actors (and the occasional actress) What's interesting, and eye-opening, is how much our culture has changed in 30 years. In 1975, while spending a lot of effort on showing racial and ethnic tolerance, and women in non-traditional roles, left leaning liberals had no problem with writing comedy about arresting men for dressing in women's clothing. The gay characters that crop up are pretty much universally offensive stereotypes. But I guess everyone needs someone to make fun of, right?
I had no idea when, as a teenager, that "Barney Miller" was so brilliant. Much of the 70's television was far more ground breaking than anything on Network TV today. BArney Miller is one of the finest works of art to be produced for television in the 20th century. Underrated or not. It offers a hisatoric look at our culture for the late 70's: the gay low toolerance for gays. Smog and pollution in New York. Sexism. (Way to go Sgt Wentworth!)We can see that both NEw York and times have changed a lot. We're not perfect yet, but it's better now than it was. The 12th precinct was in lower Manhattan, an area now beautiful with Washington Park and NYU students, old men playing chess and the occasional drug deal. The porn shops and hookers are either goned or far more classy. This is a show that amangeds to make you laugh and manages to make you tear up as well; Hal Linden, Abe Vigoda, Ro Glass, Mas Gail, Linda Lavin, Jack Soo- these are all people who got their start in classic theatre and you can tell by their work on this show. Many pof them went on to become world class actors (Linda Lavin, Tony Winner tsice pover)And we see Abe Vigoda oin "Wings" in a completely different character but with the same brilliant comic timing he had. Barbara Barrfie joined this show right after her sweeping fame of the gfround breaking Broadway Musical "Company"- a show that changed America, defined New York, relationships and musiocal theatre. The cast is zpectacular. the writing is top noitch and there';s a small hand of Rheinhold Wedge in there- the man who would leave this show to created "Night Court" I own three seasons of it and havwe watched it non stop for days now asI recouperate here in bed. It is brilliant. pick it up somewhere here on eBay. I got the three seasons from the same company for less than ten bucks a year. Shipping was only three bucks. So very worth it.Read full review
A great classic police comedy/drama TV show from 1975-82. Capt. Barney Miller & his 12th Precinct Detectives from New York City help keep the crooks off the streets in one of the funniest yet most realistic police series at the time. If you like the old sitcoms from the 1970's & early 80's like All in the Family, Taxi, Alice, Sanford & Son, Three's Company & others, you will enjoy Barney Miller. Season 1 DVD has all 13 episodes. Stars Hal Linden as Capt.Barney, Abe Vigoda as Det.Fish, Max Gail as Det.Wojo, Jack Soo as Det.Yamana, Greg Sierra as Det.Chano & Ron Glass as Det.Harris with Linda Lavin as Det.Wentworth stopping in at the station every now and then. Barney & his motley crue of Detectives prove that crime doesn't pay - but it can be funny.
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