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Who can forget that classic bass line intro! Barney Miller is finally on DVD in a two DVD state featuring the first 13 episodes of season 1 totally uncut and commercial free for the first time! Barney Miller ran from Jan. 1975 to May 1982 (8 seasons, 170 episodes) . The sitcom was a modern notion, concerning a group of Police Detectives and their Captain and the goings-on in a NY precinct squadroom. The cast, which would get minute changes over the years, had to be one of the most diverse in TV history. In season one, the cast includes Barney (Hal Linden), Wojciehowicz (Max Gail), Harris (Ron Glass), Fish (Abe Vigoda), Yemana (Jack Soo) and Chano (Gregory Sierra) . Season 1 is also the only time Barney’s whole family were shown. In Season 2, only his wife Elizabeth (Barbara Barrie) had appearances and by Season 3, even she was written out of the explain. Barney Miller is a rare sitcom from the 70s that is famous and makes a welcome addition to other classics like All in the family, Sanford & Son, and the Jeffersons. Season one includes these episodes:
Disc One:
01. Ramon
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02. The experience
03. Snow job
04. Graft
05. Courtesans
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06. Stakeout
07. The Bureaucrat
08. Ms. Cop
09. The vigilante
Disc Two:
10. The guest
11. Flee artist
12. Hair
13. Hero
Trivia:
*The characters of Barney, Wojo, & Harris would be the only detectives to remain throughout the entire series as regular cast members. Fish left after 3 seasons, Chano after 2, and Yemana after 4 (Jack Soo passed away in January 1979) . In season 3, Detrich (Steve Landesberg) & Levitt (Ron Carey) would join the cast as regulars until the series ended.
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*Look for Linda Lavin (TV’s Alice) in episode 8 debuting as Det. Janice Wentworth. She would accomplish appearances in the second season as well.
*Before Barney Miller, Gregory Sierra (Chano) was approved for his role as Fred and Lamont’s neighbor, Julio, who had a pet goat named Chico, on Sanford & Son. He made appearances on everything from All in the Family (where he had no accent) to Miami Vice. After Barney Miller, Sierra joined the cast of Soap.
*One of the main series writers, Reinhold Weege, previously wrote on M*A*S*H* and went on to build one of the funniest sitcoms ever, Night Court! (by the diagram, where’s season one?!!)
Jack Soo (1916-1979)
James Gregory (Insp. Frank Luger) (1911-2002)
Florence Stanley (Bernice Fish) (1924-2003)
Also Highly recommended on DVD:
All in the family
Sanford & Son
The Jeffersons
Good Times
What’s Happening
Three’s Company
Okay, I know there was a lot of dreck aid then too, (Remember “The Nancy Walker Reveal”? Count yourself lucky if you don’t.) but it does seem that the 70s were the golden age of the TV sitcom, with such ground-breakers as “All In The Family,” “M*A*S*H” and “Mary Tyler Moore” leading the procedure. Those beautiful shows always got their due in terms of well-known applause, but nestled among them was a level-headed miniature gem of wit and insight that to my mind was never fully appreciated, then or now.
That reveal is “Barney Miller,” and finally, at long last, it comes to DVD. That alone is reason to rejoice. The demonstrate has been exquisite great gone from syndication for years, for some unique reason. The Internet Movie Data Nasty has almost nothing on it. Virtually the only evidence it ever existed is Barney’s badge, which is on prove in the Smithsonian Institution.
The first season is a bit different than the rest of the series, however. The writers and producers were smooth finding their voices, or rather the show’s insist. Things are a bit more “hysterical,” and the comic wit that later became the show’s signature is reveal here only in cramped amounts. (Tellingly, those jokes net the biggest laughs.) The first season sought to balance Barney’s home life with his work, but gradually the home, including the wife and kids, were phased out. (”Honest Shoot Me” followed the same trajectory, albeit worthy more rapidly. With “JSM,” however, I liked it the new map.) Even in the pilot episode, the home sequences are stagy, dumb and a one-joke affair. (Wife wants hubby to cease the force; hubby loves his job too grand.) The expose only displays its legal potential when we’re in the stationhouse. And Ron Glass, not a permanent member in the first year, is not explain in all the episodes. In the second prove there is another dim detective, named Wilson, who is frankly not very valid or droll. They were honest to go with Glass permanently, though his Harris is not yet quite the flashy, irreverent wiseguy he later became.
Much as I’d like to give this residence five stars, the truth is the packaging is somewhat shoddy. Report and sound are decent (image is a small flat), but they could have given us some extras (steady extras) . A brief interview with the cast members today, most of whom are mild alive, would have been nice, or maybe some commentaries from cast members about their approved episodes. Even commentary in a booklet would have been welcome. As it is, I obtain the impression Sony objective slammed this together as snappy as possible.
I hope it makes money for them, however, so that they release the rest of the seasons. This was a radiant series, and the best episodes are yet to advance.