Cast of barney miller show series#
Cast of barney miller show tv#

It sure isn't the worst sitcom ever (Heck, it's *a lot better* than 'My Big Fat Greek Life' - but then again, most things are) but it's definitely towards the bottom of the list. As far as I can tell, everybody seemed relatively plausible, but it was just such a bad idea it got deservedly cancelled after one season.

Cast of barney miller show tv#

It was just too far a departure, typical idiot TV Exec thinking - take a popular character, try to mine his popularity but forget completely about why he was popular in the first place. In short, the long-suffering Fish character turned into a knowing father figure.

The plots were the standard 'kids get in trouble but family warmth solves it all in 30 minutes' dreck.

Cast of barney miller show series#

A series regular for the entire network run of 'Barney Miller,' Ron Glass played. Gails best-known feature film role is in D.C. The officers reopen a 28-year-old missing persons case The host of a childrens science show goes berserk Harris takes a turn at cross-dressing mugging detail. Stan 'Wojo' Wojciehowicz in the sitcom Barney Miller (19751982). The worst of the bunch was 'Victor' - his character made me want to punch my TV set. Barney Miller Actors You May Not Know Passed Away Ron Glass was dapper detective Harris. Gail is best known for his television role as Det. They could have named it 'Ethnic Mismatch Comedy #644'. The kicker was that they had a houseful of adopted children - that looked like the Rainbow Coalition. New York's finest make for one of sitcom's finest in this Emmy-winning ensemble show. Fish and his wife Bernice (Florence Stanley - the female equivalent of Vigoda) were quite plausible as a long-married couple. The popularity of the character led some network genius (of which there were many in the 70's) to decide to spin him off into his own series. Beware the Nice Ones: Barney prefers to sort out conflicts with perspective and discussion, but Obstructive Bureaucrats and others have pushed him past the breaking point several times to a verbal explosion. Abe Vigoda is the perfect downtrodden 'Sad Sack'. Alex March 4 Episodes 1978 Hal Linden 3 Episodes 1982 David Swift 3 Episodes 1977 Jeremiah Morris 3 Episodes 1977 Alan Bergmann 2 Episodes 1982 John Rich 1 Episode 1975 Richard Kinon 1 Episode 1975. Actor Allusion: Ironically, Hal Linden was born in New York.Barney Miller sets in New York in the 1970s-80s.

He died on 25 November 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Serenity (2005), Barney Miller (1975) and Firefly (2002). Ron Glass was born on 10 July 1945 in Evansville, Indiana, USA. Barney Miller had it's good points - and Det. Strange Frame: Love & Sax (2012) 10 Videos.