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.

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 ...

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