Barney Miller!

[avram]

Hey, TVLAND (Channel 18 on Brooklyn Cablevision) shows old Barney Miller reruns at 2:30 AM! Excellent! I’d been wondering for a while why it seemed that nobody was showing it. One of the best sitcoms of all time.

I discovered it while trying out Watson, a way spiffy program for MacOS X. It’s a customized web services interface with a bunch of preset channels for things like Google searches, TV listings, weather forecasts, dictionary and encyclopedia lookups, etc.

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

And the hash brownies episode has been restored! For a while, during the worst of the War on Drugs hysteria it was yanked from syndication, but one of my housemates saw it a couple of days ago.

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

Ha! I had just come here to wonder whether they would dare restore the classic hash brownie episode!

"You dip 'em in the coffee and they get all mushy. Mushy, mushy, mushy..."

[tavella.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it in years, so I was sad I missed it. I adored Barney Miller, I truly did.

Chris asks does it still hold up?

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen it in about ten years, and it held up remarkably well then.

To non-New Yorkers: this is as close to the real heart of NYC as anyone has gotten outside the classic film "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three," one of the few films that gets the anger of this place right. But NYC is really a comedy at its core.

Ron Glass Fever

[(Anonymous)]

On the quasi-related Barney Miller / Joss Whedon tip -- anyone else enjoying Ron Glass's performances as a regular on Whedon' Firefly? What a terrific actor!

~ joe