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One of the Funniest Police Shows Ever!
Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
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Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
Cast, crew and production details
Hal LindenBarney Miller
Max GailStan Wojciehowicz
Barbara BarrieElizabeth Miller
Ron GlassRon Harris
Gregory SierraMiguel Amenguale
Steve LandesbergDet. Sgt. Arthur Dietrich
Jack SooNick Yemana
Ron CareyCarl Levitt
ABCUnited States
Sony Pictures TelevisionUnited StatesWatch options above are for the show and may vary by season or episode.
Episode 1
A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
Directed by Danny ArnoldWritten by Danny Arnold, Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Stanley Brock, Jack Somack, Arny Freeman, Gregory V. Karliss
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Episode 2
Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
Directed by Danny ArnoldWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Abe Vigoda, Florence Stanley, Larry Gelman, Timothy Jerome
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Episode 3
Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
Directed by David SwiftWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Paula Shaw, Mari Gorman, Robert Costanzo, Sammy Smith, Lavelle Roby
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Episode 4
A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
Directed by Hal LindenWritten by Danny Arnold, Tony SheehanGuest stars David Dukes, Fran Ryan, Vernon Weddle
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Episode 5
Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
Directed by Danny ArnoldGuest stars Jack Kruschen, Sy Kramer, Abe Vigoda
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Episode 6
Yemana scours the TV Guide to try to second-guess the felon who's aping the prime-time lineup crime shows; a drunk forgets the most important element in a hold-up - a weapon.
Directed by Jeremiah MorrisWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Don Calfa, John Dullaghan, Don Sherman, Norman Bartold
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Episode 7
A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guest—a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure that the weather is indicative of a new ice age.
Directed by Danny ArnoldWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Alex Henteloff, Lou Cutell, Tom Henschel, Lewis Charles, Louis Quinn, John David McCall, Al Berry, Trent Dolan
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Episode 8
A taxi company is irate when Wojo totals a borrowed cab while pursuing a robbery suspect; Lieutenant Scanlon tries to ferret out 12th Precinct corruption with a drug pusher.
Directed by Jeremiah MorrisWritten by Danny Arnold, Reinhold WeegeGuest stars George Murdock, Luis Ávalos, George Loros, Joey Aresco, Mews Small
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Episode 9
The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
Directed by David SwiftWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Ian Wolfe, George Skaff, Anita Dangler, Tom Lacy, Susan Davis, Ted Schwartz, Charles Lucia, Kip King
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Episode 10
Wojo is buried alive after a tunnel collapses on a burglar burrowing towards the diamond exchange; a homeless Harris is combing Manhattan for a new apartment.
Directed by David SwiftWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Jay Gerber, J.J. Barry, Leonard Stone
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Episode 11
Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.
Directed by Noam PitlikWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Phil Leeds, Stephen Pearlman, Karl Bruck, John Getz, Helen Verbit, Al Ruscio, Will Seltzer, Rod Colbin
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Episode 12
A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.
Directed by Noam PitlikWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Sandy Sprung, Peter Jurasik, Jodie Mann, John LaMotta
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Episode 13
The detectives are unimpressed with a man who claims he's being visited by a poltergeist - that is, until they lock the man up and strange events begin occurring about the squad room.
Written by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Nehemiah Persoff, Titos Vandis, Kenneth Tigar, Caroline McWilliams
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Episode 14
Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.
Directed by Noam PitlikWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Jack Bernardi, Michael Durrell, Jade McCall, Nick Klar, Jerry D'Emilio
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Episode 15
The city legalizes off-track gambling, to the delight of Yemana; a woman wants her husband arrested on a rape charge; a master of disguise perpetuates a crime spree.
Directed by Noam PitlikGuest stars Michael Pataki, Joyce Jameson, William Bogert, Dick Balduzzi, Linda Dano, Harvey Gold
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Episode 16
Barney puts his career on the line by refusing to forcibly evict the tenants of a condemned hotel, while Lugar tries to figure out what to do with his vacation time.
Directed by Noam PitlikWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Rosanna DeSoto, Dave Madden, Felipe Turich, Donna Baccala
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Episode 17
The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""
Directed by Noam PitlikWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Rosanna DeSoto, Dave Madden, Felipe Turich, Bruce Kirby, Donna Baccala, John Clavin
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Episode 18
Wojo comes to Barney with a problem his superior would rather not know about; the 12th's new female detective has a very jealous husband, suspicious of her all-male co-workers; somehow a shoplifter escapes - in a wheelchair.
Directed by Max GailWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Stanley Brock, Ray Girardin, Henry Slate, Mari Gorman
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Episode 19
Barney uncovers, if you will, the real reason behind a woman's vehement insistence that a nude-painting exhibit at a local art gallery be shut down; the Millers may be heading for divorce.
Directed by Alex MarchWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Barbara Barrie, John Dullaghan, Ivy Bethune, John O'Leary
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Episode 20
Harris finally finds an apartment in the Village; a ventriloquist insists he's not responsible for his dummy's insensitive remarks; a prisoner holds the boys at gunpoint.
Directed by Hal LindenWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Mari Gorman, Oliver Clark, Don Calfa, Alix Elias, Earle Towne
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Episode 21
The members of the squad nervously await Barney filling out their evaluation forms. Meanwhile, Harris arrests a numerologist who will only give his name as ""1223,"" and a porno shop reporting vandalism turns out to be a mom and pop operation being hassled by their kids.
Directed by Noam PitlikWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Mari Gorman, Kay Medford, Richard Libertini, Eugene Elman, Garn Stephens, Larry Block
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Episode 22
A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
Directed by Alex MarchWritten by Tony SheehanGuest stars Doris Roberts, Peter Hobbs, Jack Bannon
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Episode 23
Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.
Directed by Alex MarchWritten by Reinhold WeegeGuest stars Philip Sterling, Basil Hoffman, Florence Halop, Dino Natali, Ed Koch
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