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Barney Miller (1975)

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Genre
sitcom
Country
United States
Length
8 seasons, 170 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 60 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police captain in New York runs a squad room full of quirky detectives. His officers deal with eccentric criminals and the daily absurdities of station life.

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What happens

Barney Miller is an American sitcom television series set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th Street in Greenwich Village (Lower Manhattan). The series was broadcast on ABC from January 23, 1975, to May 20, 1982. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Former character actor Noam Pitlik directed 102 of the 170 episodes. It spawned a spin-off series, Fish, that ran from February 5, 1977, to May 18, 1978, focusing on the character Philip K. Fish. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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