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 ...

After all, Barney Miller was a sitcom that found a home as part of a red-hot ABC lineup in the 1970s. Ratings-wise, in four of its eight seasons, the show was among television’s top 20 on the air.

Linden was already dabbling in other forms of entertainment while working on "Barney Miller," spending his free time as the ...