![]() If more people were too cheap for cable, they would find that the Golden age of 70s sitcoms is well represented on terrestrial superstations."Īh, Mark, speakng as someone who is not "too cheap for cable," I can assure you that Time-Warner Cable brings Annteanae TV and ME TV into my home every day, and allows me to DVR them, so I don't have to get up at 4AM to watch Reeder, the hash brownies episode is the one Barney Miller episode I always record when I see that it's airing, absolutely my favorite episode of that series (Which I believe I've seen every episode of.) One can make me laugh like crazy if one says "Mooshie, mooshie, mooshie" just right. Only an NBC programmer would think to schedule Munster, Go Home with Agnes of God. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the superstations that come from the small regional player Weigel (METV, ThisTV, and, in partnership with Fox, MOVIES!) are some of the best you will ever see in any medium while the terrestrial superstation from NBC (COZITV) is perhaps the worst. Not surprisingly both Carl Reiner and Ed Asner are fans. METV in particular has built its brand around MTM and MTM adjacent shows like Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Rhoda, MASH, Taxi and Dick Van Dyke. If more people were too cheap for cable, they would find that the Golden age of 70s sitcoms is well represented on terrestrial superstations. They used to drive themselves to Cedar-Sinai hospital.īARNEY MILLER is back, on some retro cable channels, DVD's, and I believe Hulu. Of a lot, got paid a fortune, and Danny gave them Rolls Royces… which Guys who did take the job worked a million hours a week, learned a hell Head writers of MASH he called and asked if we wanted to be his Never did a BARNEY MILLER assignment but a few years later when we were But he paid us for a second outline.Įlements of those outlines appeared in future shows but what the hell? He did pay us. It just didn’t “jump off the page” for him. Two days later we delivered the new outline. We were told to dash off a revised outline and then we’d go Over our outline again and decided it was terrific. You want a doughnut? How was your weekend?” He had read Office tomorrow at 8:30? Swell, I thought, he wants to chew us outīut we go and it’s the happy ingratiating Danny. Weeks later I get a call from Danny’s assistant. Well, we figured, so much for BARNEY MILLER. Had us inįor notes and was very complimentary. That if nothing else we weren’t intimidated by him… although we sure as We went home and decided to develop it anyway. If you want to develop it more you can.” Not exactly a sale. After he had rejected all of them we started outĪnd just before getting to the door he said, almost as an afterthought, YOU KIDDING?” “JESUS, HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED OUR SHOW?” Needless to We started pitching and every idea was met with, “NO!!” “FUCK! ARE I noticed a bit of change right at the start. Invited us to come back with some story ideas and very much lookedįorward to working with us. ![]() Prettiest girl in school let you eat at her lunch table. Most ebullient cigar-chomping uncle you’ve ever met. We walked into his office and there was the nicest, Our agent called with the good news that Danny had read our We had sold a couple of things and were making the freelance It was one of the show we really wanted to writeįor. When David and I were starting out BARNEY MILLER was just Shooting nights (which lasted routinely until 5 in the morning because Installed on the BARNEY set so he could keep going during demanding The man had a heart attack on the treadmill in hisĭoctor’s office getting his heart checked. Brilliant, unpredictable (a nice term for bi-polar),ĭemanding, and kind, Danny was an A-list show runner and a type-A+ It was created by Danny Arnold who was a trueĬharacter. ![]() ![]() Set in a detectives’ squad room in an NYPD precinct,īARNEY MILLER was a quirky character comedy revolving around theĭetectives and the nutcases that walked through their door (most in I guessīecause they were taped and now look like crap you rarely see them pop MILLER is one of those forgotten gem sitcoms from the 70s. ![]()
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