Me too.
cant find it anywhere?
I don't understand what you mean. It's right there, in the quote above.
Sorry I meant a video clip,
Barney Miller's Steve "Deitrich" Landesburg dies
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Sorry I meant a video clip,
There don't seem to be many, actually. I looked for that cockroach scene and couldn't find it either.
Yeah, same here.
Barney Miller is on Hulu. I'm guessing as a result the copyright owners have attempted to purge almost everything from YouTube.
It would really be a great show to own. It's the epitome of character-based writing.
It is definitely one of the best sitcoms.
Interestingly enough, a while ago TV Guide did an anniversary issue on the best shows of all, organized by catagory and decade. So, for instance, there was a catagory "Best Police Show" with winners for the 50s through 80s or 90s (I don't remember how recent the issue was).
Dragnet was the winner for the 1950s and Hill Street was the winner for the 80s. The winner for the 1970s? Barney Miller.
Interestingly enough, a while ago TV Guide did an anniversary issue on the best shows of all, organized by catagory and decade. So, for instance, there was a catagory "Best Police Show" with winners for the 50s through 80s or 90s (I don't remember how recent the issue was).
Dragnet was the winner for the 1950s and Hill Street was the winner for the 80s. The winner for the 1970s? Barney Miller.
NYPD cops always cite "Barney Miller" as the most true to life representation of police work - not procedurally, but in the interaction with the off kilter members of society and the frustrations implicit in municipal police work, which the show nailed to a "T". Landesburg's Deitrich was awesome and a fount of intellectual dead pan humor that was right on. I often compared him to Spock from TOS in that regard - the guy with all the answers who could also make you laugh. RIP.
Not surprising. In fact, the whole reason Hill Street Blues came about was that the president of NBC specifically wanted a show that was like an hour-long version of Barney Miller, mostly dramatic but occasionally funny instead of the other way round.
The '70s had some of the strongest ensemble comedies ever: The Bob Newhart Show, Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi and of course Barney Miller. I like all seasons of Barney Miller, but I always felt like it didn't hit its classic lineup until Dietrich became a regular. Mr. Landesberg could make even car commercials hilarious. RIP.
--Justin
I always saw him as the "Frasier" of the show before there was a Frasier.
The Harris scene I remember is the one where he has a teen aged drug dealer flashing his cash and Harris proudly states he has one thing the kid can't get...credit. He could sign his name and have his name be the bond.
I wonder if NYPD slang back then was being "in the bag", the new uniform does look better I must admit.
I just saw that as being a Black in the 70's.
Shaft, Superfly,Dolamite, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones......
They all had that mentality.
(Soild!)
One of my favorite scenes is the one where they are having a bitch session in the sqaud room, each of them pointing out what irks them about the others. Wojo says he is tired of "one of us always showing off and bragging about his better education, and knowledge, and fancy clothes". (He is of course talking about Harris). Deitrich deadpans "Gee, I thought he was talking about me. Till the clothes part". Still cracks me up.
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