Barney Miller
Barney Miller is an American television series, created by the in 1975 to 1982 in eight seasons a total of 170 episodes of 24 minutes.
Action
Scene of the series is the 12th district of the New York City Police Department in Greenwich Village under the direction of chummy but respected captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden ). To his team are the pessimistic Fish ( Abe Vigoda ), which causes problems for the age, the Polish -born daredevil Wojciehowicz ( Max Gail ), the vain African Americans Harris ( Ron Glass ) and Nick Yemana ( Jack Soo ) from Omaha, Nebraska, of every day an inedible coffee boils. The Puerto Rican Chano Amenguale ( Gregory Sierra ) leaves the area again after the second season, his place taken over by the seemingly omniscient Dietrich (Steve Landesberg ). At the beginning of the fourth season Fish is sent into retirement and the role of the messenger Levitt (Ron Carey ) is introduced, which creates it by untiring Anbiederungsversuche to be an integral part of the team.
Barney Miller is always busy trying to keep both his colleagues in check, as well as the old Inspector Frank Luger ( James Gregory ), who frequently appears on the station out of boredom and the police issued unrealistic advice.
In the series appear in addition to the wives Liz Miller (Barbara Barrie ) and Bernice Fish ( Florence Stanley ) a plurality of recurring characters on, including the obsessed Lieutenant Scanlon ( George Murdock ) of the authority, the unscrupulous lawyer Arnold Ripner (Alex Henteloff ) Detective Wentworth (Linda Lavin ), the blind Leon Roth ( Ralph Manza ) and spirit merchant Cotterman ( Jack Somack ). Regular guest in the cell of 12 coalfield the gay couple Marty ( Jack DeLeon ) and Darryl are ( Ray Stewart), Ray Brewer ( John Dullaghan ) and the businessman Bruno Binder ( Stanley Brock ).
Up to 13 exceptions, all episodes play at the station, so in the main room with cell and Barneys neighboring office. The plot of every episode alternates between the treatment of suspects and witnesses and the dialogues of the policemen. Typical conflicts that sometimes run through the entire series are, for example Barneys frustration with the enormous bureaucracy and the fact that he is always passed over for promotion; Harris ' literary activity ( blood on the badge) that keeps him from his work; Fish's reluctance to retire; Wojciehowicz ' problems in love affairs; Lugers nostalgia for the old times with his former partners Foster, Kleiner and Brown; the rivalry between the intellectuals, Harris and Dietrich.
Occupation
Broadcast
On January 11, 1979 Jack Soo died. In Yemanas strongest pieces, the last episode of the fourth season, his fellow actors remember their time together.
In Germany in 1982 twelve episodes of the series were broadcast on the eve We ARD program under the title of 12 area. In 1990/ 91 73 episodes on Pro 7 ran under the original title Barney Miller, including the twelve already shown by the ARD, which were re-synchronized. The remaining episodes followed the mid- 90s on tv.münchen and DF1.
Reception
Barney Miller won three out of ten Emmy Awards and two of six Golden Globe Awards.
At present, the first showing was Barney Miller under real police officers in the United States as the most authentic cop show.