Before there was Barney the dinosaur, there was Barney Miller. (Of course, before that came the undisputed Barney champion of all time, Barney Fife.) Being the second or third best of anything is not ...

Here’s your “do you feel old yet?” moment for today: It was a half-century ago today that ABC-TV debuted “Barney Miller,” about an eclectic squad of police detectives working out of a run-down ...

When an anonymous letter identifies a member of the 12th Precinct as a homosexual, it buys the boys a visit from Lieutenant Scanlon, who proceeds to make a witch hunt out of his search for the author.