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Barney Miller: Hal Linden Looks Back at the Popular Sitcom

by Jessica Pena, December 29, 2016

Barney Miller TV show on ABC: canceled or renewed?

Barney Miller is back. Recently, star Hal Linden spoke to the AV Club about the popular ABC sitcom.

Created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker, the series followed the detectives of New York’s fictional 12th precinct. Linden played the lead, Captain Barney Miller, alongside Abe Vigoda, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Jack Soo, Gregory Sierra, and James Gregory. The show ran on ABC for eight seasons before ending in 1982.

In the interview, Linden said the role was always meant for him:

But at the time, I had a musical in one hand and a TV series in the other hand, and I very cavalierly said, “Well, we’ve done Broadway. Let’s try television.” A cavalier decision, but look how it impacted my life. Can you imagine if I’d made the other decision? The show folded in three weeks!”

He later added that he sometimes grew tired of always being the straight man:

Well, in the beginning, you didn’t know. It was just a script. It was about you, you executed it, and you didn’t know what was next. Or I didn’t know, anyway. But then we got to the hash brownies episode, which is probably the quintessential Barney Miller episode. And if you notice in that, everybody’s got an aria. Everybody’s got a moment to react stoned. Jack Soo sings. Abe Vigoda leaped from building to building. Max [Gail] started to cry. Ron Glass giggled. Everybody had their own little reaction to it… except me. Because I said, “I’m putting on too much weight. I don’t want any brownies.” And at some point, either while we were shooting it or afterwards, I said to Danny, “Everybody gets an aria but me.” And he said—and this is the wisdom, so think about it—“I have to have somebody to compare them to.”

Linden said he thinks the show still holds up because of the quality of the acting:

So all of the stuff in Barney Miller by all of the actors was approached not as a piece of comedic material but as a piece of acting that had to be accomplished. And quite honestly, I think that’s why the piece stands up today. You can sit down and watch Barney Miller episodes today, and they’re still hysterical. People have seen them a dozen times. Because the construction of the piece was never jokes. There are very few jokes in the show. There’s a lot of situation humor that had to do with character, situation, action… All the stuff of acting, not “straight line, punch line.”

What do you think? Are you a fan of Barney Miller? What are you favorite moments from the show?

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Gwendolyn Miller

I love the show. I still watch it on FETV, The episodes are so funny. I especially liked the episode when Nick, Stan, Fish and Ron ate the Brownies.

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September 8, 2020 10:16 pm
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I still watch Barney Miller. All the topics are still relevant:politics, old school policing, homelessness, attitudes towards gay people, mental illness, NYC budgets, etc. Barney displayed wisdom and compassion The only changes would be the telephone system & no computers at the time. I am still looking tor the episode where Fish tells Bernice he has to hang up because his sock just fell dow.

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I still watch Barney Miller on Antenna TV. The only other series that compares as far as acting and writing is The Dick Van Dyke Show.

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March 13, 2019 9:58 pm
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From the article, “And he [Danny Arnold] said—and this is the wisdom, so think about it—“I have to have somebody to compare them to.” I thought that Brooklyn Nine-Nine was like Barney Miller at first (but for the new age) but when the Captain became a part of the zany crew, it lost me. I liked it better when he was trying to hold the crew together despite their insanity which I think Barney did. You need one sane person in a group of zanies. I know the captain in Brooklyn had his own foibles and back story, just like… Read more »

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February 7, 2018 6:34 pm
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Robert Anderson

Wonderful show, good writing, good characterizations, great cast. This was a show to look forward to each week, in the seventies and early eighties.

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George Williams

Barney Miller is one of the finest programs television has ever produced. A rich combination of humor and character that has stood the test of time. There isn’t much out there at this level.

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January 5, 2017 4:29 pm
Michael Norman
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I agree with Mr Linden. Barney Miller holds up extremely well. Thanks to all involved, for one of my favorite shows ever!

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December 29, 2016 6:13 pm
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