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** [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/9225/barney-miller-rape The rape episode.]] Although the female DA treats the case seriously and laments that there ''will'' be other opportunities to test it in court, it's presented as a comedy storyline and the man is treated not so much as abusive (although he willingly admits that he forced his wife) but as someone who needs to learn how to approach it more romantically, have a candlelit dinner et al, and his wife as someone who should probably put out more.

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** [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/9225/barney-miller-rape The rape episode.]] "Rape". Although the female DA treats the case seriously and laments that there ''will'' be other opportunities to test it in court, it's presented as a comedy storyline and the man is treated not so much as abusive (although he willingly admits that he forced his wife) but as someone who needs to learn how to approach it more romantically, have a candlelit dinner et al, and his wife as someone who should probably put out more.
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* MeaningfulReleaseDate: “Voice Analyzer” (Season 5, Episode 14) aired on January 11, 1979, the exact same day Jack Soo died.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: In "Homeless", Bruno Binder's wife talks about making turkey stuffed with sauerkraut for Christmas. This sounds like a gag, but it's real, and traditional in Maryland.
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** The second storyline in "[[TheDollEpisode The Doll]]" (1981) concerns an optician who wants to be one of the first [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle passengers]]. A NASA official tells him that his occupation qualifies him to be considered as a mission specialist. In a buoyant mood, he prepares to leave, only to have Dietrich tell him not to worry about the heat shielding tiles falling off and causing a possible re-entry disaster. (The optician's name is Eugene Corbett, a possible ShoutOut to ''Tom Corbett, SpaceCadet.'')

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** The second storyline in "[[TheDollEpisode The Doll]]" "The Doll" (1981) concerns an optician who wants to be one of the first [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle passengers]]. A NASA official tells him that his occupation qualifies him to be considered as a mission specialist. In a buoyant mood, he prepares to leave, only to have Dietrich tell him not to worry about the heat shielding tiles falling off and causing a possible re-entry disaster. (The optician's name is Eugene Corbett, a possible ShoutOut to ''Tom Corbett, SpaceCadet.'')
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* FairForItsDay: Among the recurring characters were a local gay couple, Marty and Darryl. While Marty (introduced first) was portrayed with the usual CampGay stereotypes of the era, Darryl's level of camp was dialed down after his initial appearance. Though the straight male characters sometimes reacted with the homophobic assumption that [[DepravedHomosexual all gay men are moments away from assaulting a straight man]], Barney always treated them with dignity and occasionally made a point of calling Wojo out on his homophobia. Uniformed officer Zatelli wasn't camp at all, and was only revealed to be a closeted homosexual after he'd already been a recurring character for some time; later episodes dealt with his fear of the effect being outed would have on his career, and [[spoiler:his later coming out himself in support of other gays on the force]].

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* FairForItsDay: Among the recurring characters were a local gay couple, Marty and Darryl. While Marty (introduced first) was portrayed with the usual CampGay stereotypes of the era, Darryl's level of camp was dialed down after his initial appearance. Though the straight male characters sometimes reacted with the homophobic assumption that [[DepravedHomosexual all gay men are moments away from assaulting a straight man]], Barney always treated them with dignity and occasionally made a point of calling Wojo out on his homophobia. Uniformed officer Zatelli wasn't camp at all, and was only revealed to be a closeted homosexual after he'd already been a recurring character for some time; later episodes dealt with his fear of the effect being outed would have on his career, and [[spoiler:his later coming out himself in support of other gays on the force]]. (The show did also hire a consultant from the gay community for episodes where gay characters were featured, which can be seen in the credits.)
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* TheScrappy: Levitt. Ron Carey was a good comedy actor, but Levitt's syncophantic comments and shamelessly passive-aggressive behavior towards Barney, and acting like ItsAllAboutMe while there was an obvious situation (even crisis) that Barney ''had'' to interrupt him for, made him very grating on some viewers. It made it hard to understand why Barney would bend over backwards dissuading him from a request to transfer rather than instantly accepting it.

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* TheScrappy: Levitt. Ron Carey was a good comedy actor, but Levitt's syncophantic comments and shamelessly passive-aggressive behavior towards Barney, and acting like ItsAllAboutMe while there was an obvious situation (even crisis) that Barney ''had'' to interrupt him for, for -- to the point that when he was about to tell Barney something related to the crisis, Barney ''assumed'' he was going to ask for extra duty -- made him very grating on some viewers. It made it hard to understand why Barney would bend over backwards dissuading him from a request to transfer rather than instantly accepting it.



** [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/9225/barney-miller-rape The rape episode.]] Although the female DA treats the case seriously and laments that there ''will'' be other opportunities to test it in court, it's presented as a comedy storyline and the man is treated not so much as abusive (although he willingly admits that he forced his wife) but as someone who needs to learn how to have a candlelit dinner, and his wife as someone who should probably put out more.

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** [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/9225/barney-miller-rape The rape episode.]] Although the female DA treats the case seriously and laments that there ''will'' be other opportunities to test it in court, it's presented as a comedy storyline and the man is treated not so much as abusive (although he willingly admits that he forced his wife) but as someone who needs to learn how to approach it more romantically, have a candlelit dinner, dinner et al, and his wife as someone who should probably put out more.



** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. The detectives are totally blase and utterly lacking in compassion for an obvious victim except for the lone female detective, Wentworth, who is aghast and extremely supportive. (However this is played more as the seen-it-all detectives typically under-reacting to events vs. the extremely excitable Wentworth ''over''-reacting.) Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.

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** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. The detectives are totally blase and utterly lacking in compassion for an obvious victim except for the lone female detective, Wentworth, who is aghast and extremely supportive. (However this is played more as the seen-it-all detectives typically under-reacting to events vs. the extremely excitable Wentworth ''over''-reacting.) Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.it (which today would be a definite SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome).
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* TheScrappy: Levitt. Ron Carey was a good comedy actor, but Levitt's sycophantic comments and shamelessly passive-aggressive behavior towards Barney, and acting like ItsAllAboutMe while there was an obvious situation (even crisis) that Barney ''had'' to interrupt him for, made him very grating on some viewers. It made it hard to understand why Barney would bend over backwards dissuading him from a request to transfer rather than instantly accepting it.

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* TheScrappy: Levitt. Ron Carey was a good comedy actor, but Levitt's sycophantic syncophantic comments and shamelessly passive-aggressive behavior towards Barney, and acting like ItsAllAboutMe while there was an obvious situation (even crisis) that Barney ''had'' to interrupt him for, made him very grating on some viewers. It made it hard to understand why Barney would bend over backwards dissuading him from a request to transfer rather than instantly accepting it.
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* Possible with Ron Glass, better known to ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fans as BadassPreacher Shepherd Book.

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* ** Possible with Ron Glass, better known to ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fans as BadassPreacher Shepherd Book.
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* Possible with Ron Glass, better known to ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fans as BadassPreacher Shepherd Book.
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* MorePopularReplacement: The series had as one of the detectives for the first two years Chano Amenguale, an excitable Puerto Rican who didn't really make as much of an impression as other characters like Yemana or Harris or Fish. When actor Gregory Sierra left the cast after two seasons, he was replaced by Steve Landesberg as detective Arthur Dietrich, TheComicallySerious DeadpanSnarker who became a fan favorite and stuck around for the rest of the show's run.

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* MorePopularReplacement: The series had as one of the detectives for the first two years Chano Amenguale, an excitable Puerto Rican who didn't really make as much of an impression as other characters like Yemana or Harris or Fish. When actor Gregory Sierra left the cast after two seasons, he was replaced by Steve Landesberg Creator/SteveLandesberg as detective Arthur Dietrich, TheComicallySerious DeadpanSnarker who became a fan favorite and stuck around for the rest of the show's run.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Hal Linden confided in an interview for the Archive of American Television that he and Gregory Sierra (Chano) didn't get along.
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** In "Blizzard" a man is brought in warning that the blizzard is a sign of a coming new ice age (in the 70s those concerned about climate change talked more of the world cooling rather than warming). If remade today it seems unlikely he would have been treated as much as a nut as he is here[[note]]Interestingly, even though climate change is driven by ''rising'' temperatures, results like higher numbers of blizzards and/or snowfall is actually predicted by the models (somewhat oversimplifying, slightly warmer air not only causes more water vapor, warmer air can ''hold'' more water, which means more energy for storms, and more potential water to fall as snow)[[/note]].

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* ValuesResonance: "The Harris Incident." Black detective Harris is shot at by white cops while he's trying to make an arrest. This still happens today, often with tragic results.

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"The Harris Incident." Black detective Harris is shot at by white cops while he's trying to make an arrest. This still happens today, often with tragic results.results.
** "The Hero", where Chano shoots and kills two bank robbers. Even though it's a totally justified shooting, Chano doesn't notch his gun and go around for high-fives, he thinks MyGodWhatHaveIDone, and experiences PTSD, an unusually realistic thing to portray happening even today, much less in the 70's.
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* EarWorm: Once the first bass notes hit, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l7mJ0ByqQM theme song]] will get stuck in your head.
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** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. The detectives are totally blase and utterly lacking in compassion for an obvious victim (she has a huge shiner on her face!) except for the lone female detective, Wentworth, who is aghast and extremely supportive. (However this is played more as the seen-it-all detectives typically under-reacting to events vs. the extremely excitable Wentworth ''over''-reacting.) Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.

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** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. The detectives are totally blase and utterly lacking in compassion for an obvious victim (she has a huge shiner on her face!) except for the lone female detective, Wentworth, who is aghast and extremely supportive. (However this is played more as the seen-it-all detectives typically under-reacting to events vs. the extremely excitable Wentworth ''over''-reacting.) Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.
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** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. The detectives are totally blase and utterly lacking in compassion for an obvious victim (she has a huge shiner on her face!) except for the lone female detective, Wentworth, who is aghast. (However this is played more as the seen-it-all detectives typically under-reacting to events vs. the extremely excitable Wentworth ''over''-reacting.) Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.

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** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. The detectives are totally blase and utterly lacking in compassion for an obvious victim (she has a huge shiner on her face!) except for the lone female detective, Wentworth, who is aghast.aghast and extremely supportive. (However this is played more as the seen-it-all detectives typically under-reacting to events vs. the extremely excitable Wentworth ''over''-reacting.) Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.
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** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.

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** The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale almost being raped]] while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her]]. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. The detectives are totally blase and utterly lacking in compassion for an obvious victim (she has a huge shiner on her face!) except for the lone female detective, Wentworth, who is aghast. (However this is played more as the seen-it-all detectives typically under-reacting to events vs. the extremely excitable Wentworth ''over''-reacting.) Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint ("He once made love to me in a field of daisies!") was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Hal Linden confided in an interview for the Archive of American Television that he and Gregory Sierra (Chano) didn't get along.
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Darryl was pretty campy in his first episode


* FairForItsDay: Among the recurring characters were a local gay couple, Marty and Darryl. While Marty (introduced first) was portrayed with the usual CampGay stereotypes of the era, when Darryl was later added the Camp was barely present. Barney always treated them with dignity and occasionally made a point of calling Wojo out on his homophobia. Uniformed officer Zatelli wasn't camp at all, and was only revealed to be a closeted homosexual after he'd already been a recurring character for some time; later episodes dealt with his fear of the effect being outed would have on his career, and [[spoiler:his later coming out himself in support of other gays on the force]].

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* FairForItsDay: Among the recurring characters were a local gay couple, Marty and Darryl. While Marty (introduced first) was portrayed with the usual CampGay stereotypes of the era, when Darryl Darryl's level of camp was later added dialed down after his initial appearance. Though the Camp was barely present. straight male characters sometimes reacted with the homophobic assumption that [[DepravedHomosexual all gay men are moments away from assaulting a straight man]], Barney always treated them with dignity and occasionally made a point of calling Wojo out on his homophobia. Uniformed officer Zatelli wasn't camp at all, and was only revealed to be a closeted homosexual after he'd already been a recurring character for some time; later episodes dealt with his fear of the effect being outed would have on his career, and [[spoiler:his later coming out himself in support of other gays on the force]].
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* EarWorm: Once the first bass notes hit, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l7mJ0ByqQM theme song]] will get stuck in your head.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The second season's opening features a view of the New York skyline with the World Trade Center prominently featured. The first episode of that season is entitled "Doomsday" and centers around a suicide bomber attempting to destroy the 12th Pencinct. Not harsh enough? The aforementioned episode aired on ''September 11'', 1975.
** The second storyline in "[[TheDollEpisode The Doll]]" (1981) concerns an optician who wants to be one of the first [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle passengers]]. A NASA official tells him that his occupation qualifies him to be considered as a mission specialist. In a buoyant mood, he prepares to leave, only to have Dietrich tell him not to worry about the heat shielding tiles falling off and causing a possible re-entry disaster.
*** The optician's name is Eugene Corbett, a possible ShoutOut to ''Tom Corbett, SpaceCadet.''

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The second season's opening features a view of the New York skyline with the World Trade Center prominently featured. The first episode of that season is entitled "Doomsday" and centers around a suicide bomber attempting to destroy the 12th Pencinct. Not harsh enough? The aforementioned episode aired on ''September 11'', 1975.
** The second storyline in "[[TheDollEpisode The Doll]]" (1981) concerns an optician who wants to be one of the first [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle passengers]]. A NASA official tells him that his occupation qualifies him to be considered as a mission specialist. In a buoyant mood, he prepares to leave, only to have Dietrich tell him not to worry about the heat shielding tiles falling off and causing a possible re-entry disaster.
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disaster. (The optician's name is Eugene Corbett, a possible ShoutOut to ''Tom Corbett, SpaceCadet.'''')
** The fourth-season episode "Appendicitis," where Nick has to get an emergency appendectomy, became this after Jack Soo was diagnosed with esophageal cancer during the next season.
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** An overweight burglar tells Harris that he's going to end up fat one day too, because "I can always tell who's going to end up like this." When Ron Glass was cast as the preacher Shepherd Book in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', the costume designer restarted all the "flowing robe" designs she'd done for the character when she saw how buff Ron Harris still was thirty years later.
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** [[Series/HillStreetBlues Officer Renko]] was the Wojo type character in the ''Life and Times of Captain Barney Miller'' pilot.
** [[Series/{{Alice 1976}} Linda Lavin]] appeared in early episodes as Det. Janice Wentworth.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxQ4yXRtZY Christopher Lloyd was hauled in on one episode.]]
** Ron Glass (Harris) also played the repairman's assistant in TheRashomon episode of ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', an African American [[Theatre/TheOddCouple Felix Unger]], and eventually [[Series/{{Firefly}} Shepherd Book]].
** James Gregory (Inspector Luger) was Senator Iselin in ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'', the Gorilla General in ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'', the creepy sanitarium doctor in "Dagger of the Mind" from ''Series/{{Star Trek|TheOriginalSeries}}'', and [[WTHCastingAgency Smrgol the dragon]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons''.
** Jack Soo was a lot of people. A character actor with a long string of credits, you're most likely to remember him in various roles on ''Series/{{MASH}}''. He also played Sammy Fong in ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong''.
** Abe Vigoda's best-known role before this was as Sal Tessio in ''Film/TheGodfather''.
** "Stakeout" from Series 1 features a landlady played by Brett Somers, at the time most known for playing Oscar's ex-wife Blanche on ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', but perhaps more well-known now for her long stint as a regular on ''Series/MatchGame''. Her husband was [[Series/{{Alice 1976}} Mel Sharpels]].
** [[Series/BestOfTheWest Parker Tillman]] and [[Series/{{Soap}} Sanders]] share the cell in one episode.
** [[Series/LaverneAndShirley Squiggy]] gets picked up for narcotics on campus.
** [[Series/NightCourt Bailiff Flo]] plays various visitors to the 12th Precinct, including a female mugger who calls Chano "Bull", a bus robbery victim afraid to give details for fear of retribution, an eccentric sending threatening letters written in crayon, a dying cat burglar's estranged wife, a suspicious wife seeing adultery where there is none, and a would-be credit card fraudster.
** [[Series/ElleryQueen Inspector Richard Queen]] is a drunken government official.
** In the episode "Grand Hotel", Hotel Detective [[Series/{{Soap}} Chester Tate]] brings in [[Series/NorthernExposure Adam]].
** [[Series/{{Banacek}} Jay Drury]] moonlights as another rich man's driver in "Kidnapping".
** Meanwhile, [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Azetbur]] was several SpicyLatina prostitutes over the years.
** Lt Scanlon worked his way up to Admiral in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Starfleet]] and sent Captain Picard off to engage the Borg.
** Creator/JamesCromwell showed up in "Stress Analyzer" as the doctor operating the title device.



** Chris Heyward wrote 33 episodes as well as served as producer. Heyward previously co-created ''Series/TheMunsters''.
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* MorePopularReplacement: The series had as one of the detectives for the first two years Chano Amenguale, an excitable Puerto Rican who didn't really make as much of an impression as other characters like Yemana or Harris or Fish. When actor Gregory Sierra left the cast after two seasons, he was replaced by Steve Landesberg as detective Arthur Dietrich, TheComicallySerious DeadpanSnarker who became a fan favorite and stuck around for the rest of the show's run.

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