Episode 29: Accusation / The Prisoner / Loan Shark

What. Welcome to the Life and Times of Captain Barney Miller podcast. I'm your host, Mike Woy joining me, of course, is the rookie mister Chris dash You. Now, let me tell you something. I normally, I'm normally the one doing the bulk of the conversing here in that way all my life.

All right, Yes, that's what Dietrich says. I feel harassed right now. I'm also only wearing a robe. Yeah what and gravity, Ladies and gentlemen, that's tried Jesus. On this episode, we're talking about three episodes of the original Barney Miller Show.

We're talking about episode six, seven, and eight from the fifth season accusation The Prisoner and Loan Shark accusation, coming out October twelfth, nineteen seventy eight. Another Max Gale directing job here in which d Trick is accused of lewd conduct of a kind of mousey redheaded lady. I think mousey redheaded ladies must have been like Danny Arnold's thing, because they seem to be all over this show and always getting into frisky trouble, especially with I mean Steve Landisburg. What a catch, huh. Yeah, Those dulcet tones really do it for the mousey, redheaded ladies.

So I don't know why I wasn't paying attention in the last episode, But yeah, Luger's out of the opening credits. Ladies and gentlemen, we only have now Dtrick and Levitt, and Levitt doesn't even show up in this episode. It's almost like we're going to need a Levitt watch. Yeah. Well, and I was gonna say Luger he might not be in the credits, but boy, he's in two of these three episodes.

Very happy about that. But this one we've got George Murdoch back as Scanlan. Fuck that guy. He's just the most shit heel of shit heel cops, right Like he is the stereotype by which I assume the shit heel cops of the time all really hued close to like, hey, how you doing. I'm a cop and I'm a no nonsense cop.

It's like, okay, asshole, I get I get it. I mean, I love George Murdock as an actor, and he can play a heel a villain like nobody's business, and he's just playing the shit I'm of Scanling. You just hate him when he shows up. Yeah, because he's always so unbelievably antagonistic towards everybody. He sets everybody else off the moment he comes in.

He's antagonizing Harris, he's antagonizing Yamana. He's just an asshole of the highest order and like and it's almost one note. But at the same time, because it is one note and he's used so sparingly, it works. Because if he was in every episode, you'd be like, oh, sick and tired of this guy on ready, But the fact that it's used so sparingly, I think kind of works for his character. Yeah, if he was an every week or even an every month thing, forget it.

I mean, it just would not work. But having this occasional antagonism against Bernie and the boys of the one too, I think, yeah, that's okay. You know, he's always trying to like prove a point. In this one, he's the one. He's the bear of bad news coming in with this Doris Whittaker character played by Miriam bird Nethery, and she is this frisky redhead that we're talking about that was all about Dietrich.

My goodness, she's what. There were some youths and they were writing bad things. And so was that line, that amazing line that Dietrich has. She's looking at the mug books and she's like, oh, they're all so young. He's like, that's a common trait amongst juveniles.

The thing about Dietrich with this season is we've kind of mentioned it before, and I think it's worth mentioning again. He is really being given the bulk of the show. It feels like, at least the bulk of the jokes and not unappreciated. But this is the first time where I was like, what is the point of this story? Like this, I don't know it.

There's no way Dietrich would do what they're claiming. And frankly, the fact and the fact that everybody is like yeah, right almost immediately kind of undercuts any of the tension of the episode because again we know that nothing happened, right yeah, And he's given a chance to explain himself very quickly, so it's not like, yeah, he comes back to the precinct. The news arrives before he does, but he shows up pretty quickly thereafter, and then it's like, oh, well, let's go into Barney's office. He explains what happened and it's all pretty much good. It's not one of these like why, I don't know.

Maybe Dietrich secretly is a heel, maybe he's really this bad guy because you're just like, no, no, he's no Dietrich. You don't know this other character. And then when you have seen her, it's like, well, she's very infatuated with him. Maybe she's infatuated with any man that she can lure back to her apartment. I mean, it's a kind of a bad message in twenty twenty two where it's like, you know, believe all women type of thing, and in this it is like, now, clearly she was in the wrong, and yeah, Dietrich was Dietrich did nothing bad.

Yeah, And honestly it's I wouldn't say it's a problematic storyline, but it hasn't aged. Well. No, and again I don't want to be the wokester of the group. Send me on to Martha's vineyard, right, aren't you? But I don't want to be the wokester of the group and say well that as an age, well, or that's problematic, but it ain't great.

I mean it's not it's not great. It was you know, making a false accusation, about someone sexually harassing. You just downplays all the people that are being sexually harassed that need to be believed, it should be believed. So it's not funny. But at the same time, all things considered, it's handled better than say, the rape episode handles it's titular issue, yeah, or the beating of your wife or any of those kind of things.

Yeah, it plays out a lot better than that. And especially just because you have seen this character, this redhead character, and you know Detrich, so it's just like it's so it's laughable and which works for a comedy show. So it's like, all right, that's great. Yeah, We've got a couple more storylines going on here. We have the return of Michael Tucci.

He's coming back. He's going to show up at least I think two more times throughout this show. He was in the he was in the hash episode. He played a character named Fred as opposed to his character here Ruben, and I'd love how you know, I don't think he's supposed to be playing a teenager, thank goodness. But whenever I see him, I just always think of him as Sonny and Grease, which I think came out this same year and this is like, oh my god, how old is this guy?

Grease comes out in nineteen seventy eight, He's born in nineteen forty six. Hey, I'm always a teenager. No, you're not forty six fifty six, sixty six, seventy six. You're thirty two years old. Dude.

Oh that's it's it's like Adam Baldwin a chocolate war like, you're a fucking adult Palace. You're an adult, sir. He's ten years older than Baldwin. It's like, dude, you're but you know what, like Michael Tucci does enough are you're not given much to do, given less to do now than he was before. Frankly, he's I mean, frankly, I think he's pretty darn good actor.

And he makes me want to see him in more things like I haven't seen the Paper Chase and Forever where I forgot that he was in that. I always light the Gary Shandling's show. I remember him being good. Mat he's fun, he's a lot of fun. And yeah, I like this, and I like that they play him off of this Rabbi character, and that we've got the rabbi character Joseph Greenblatt, who is running a casino.

He got permission to run this casino one night, one night casino four months ago. Yeah, and then of course having to send Yamana on the call was pretty good. He's just like, you got any money I can borrow? No? Good?

Well, then he comes back with a slot machine that he puts on his desk. Yes, and he's just sitting there at one point playing, which again, I feel like you and I are pride in keeping our eyes on Yamana more than before, given where we know where the season is going and the real life implications of where the show is headed, and you know what they're giving him in these three episodes. They've given him a lot more to do than they have in a long time. It's kind of refreshing, I like, and Yamana is I mean, he's playing into the character tropes that we already know he has, but in a way that we haven't seen. Like they're bringing the gambling into the precinct in a way that we've never seen.

It's normally him talking on the phone to a bookie, and all of a sudden there's a literal slot machine on his actual desk. Which slot machines now man like knowing what slot machines look like. Now, oh yeah, a little box just sitting on his desk. Priceless, It's great. It's again this show.

When this show is operating at full power, it really you can't beat it. It's just so funny. And even when you have something like Jack Sue just standing at his desk playing a slot machine again, knowing the character what his foibles are, it's just it's hilarious. This episode was written by writing pair Wally Dalton and Shelley Zelman, and this is their first episode that they write, but they are going to write gosh, I think like eight more over the years. So they do this one.

They also do the Prisoner. They'll be doing one called the Harris Incident, which color me intrigued. Toys Middle a jump in house, the brother. So they just work over a period of like two years and then they're out of here. But I'm I'm pretty pleased with what they're doing.

It's just unusual because we were talking about how you get the same names over and over and over again. But with this, yeah, we've got some new new blood going in the writer's room. Yeah, and you know, Wally Dalton is an actor as well, so he's an actor and a screenwriter. Kind of interesting. Yeah, the there's a different sensibility to this episode that the show hasn't had, which is that I don't know.

I don't know if it's it feels mate, I don't know. It's weird that whole thing with the character of Doors Whittakers. It feels like it's not this show in a lot of ways, Like the Precinct hasn't had to deal with something like that yet outside of the rape episode, and so it's a weird plot line to be going on, but it kind of works, I think. Yeah. But again, like it's unbelievable that anyone in the Precinct would get accused of sexual harassment.

That's kind of what I'm getting at. It's like, it's an interesting storyline because it's not played the way I was expecting, almost because it has to be played the way they're doing it because we know that no character is actually going to do this in the Precinct. Even like even if it were Scanlin, I'm not even sure I would believe it, you know what I mean. I could see Luger doing it, but just being like not realizing that he is like grabbing a woman's ass type thing, right, yeah, we used to do that all that time at the pool hall. Come on, yeah right right, yeah exactly, Like I could see.

That doesn't make it okay, but like that's the level of which I expect the show to operate on those kind of topics. So it's weird that it's it's Landisburg and it's a woman just saying like he like sexually assaulted me. Like yeah, okay, Like weird plot line to be going down, but any kind to nail it? Yeah? Yeah, And I do like the payoff at the end when she wants another ride home and everybody just immediately turns to their typewriters, not me, I'll take a cab.

It's like, yeah, good one, Yeah you will. The second episode also written by Wally Dalton and Shelley Zellman. This time we've got Ryan Holdwigi in there, and we've got our good from Gnome Pitlick is back behind the director's chair. The prisoner. And this is funny because I was just watching a documentary on Stephen King and they were talking a ton about Shawshank Redemption.

So when Jeff Corey comes in here as this prisoner, that's been away for thirty years. He gets caught with a gun and he knows that that's breaking his parole, and I'm just like, man, you are so much like Brooks. You know you can't face the outside world. He just wants to go back to prison. And I'm like, okay, yeah, I totally get it, man, but really, what's that play here.

We've got relationship problems, We've got this whole thing of Barney is no longer living with Liz, and then compare that to Luger who's getting engaged to somebody he doesn't want to get engaged to this whole like weird thing about agons. I'm like, all right, man, I don't understand why you're so not happy about this. I think I understand why Luger's not too happy about Oh are we going back to the Lugar is gay thing? Let me put it this way. If this episode doesn't put another drop in the bucket of it, I don't know what would.

Because he's awfully upset about being married to a woman, or this woman, maybe not women in general, but this woman. Maybe we use the transitive property and go one step further. I don't know everything about Luger has been weird the way he's written. Because my feelings on the Lugar character are this. He was introduced in the first season of the show.

He has changed with the show and become obviously a part of the show. At least last season he was billed as a main character in the show. Not so much now, but I feel like his character like, maybe he's not maybe they're not giving any continuity in between his times on screen, but it feels like they're laying the groundwork for him to be just a generally weird character. And you couldn't write a gig character like this in nineteen seventy eight. That's true.

We got gig characters on this show. You saw how they were handled. Oh boy, yeah or mishandled, depending on your viewpoint. This is such a star studded episode. Every guest star that's in here is somebody, I mean, all the way from Peggy Pope who's playing Francis Newbound, the widow of a cat burglar who has now taken up the family business.

Jeff Corey I mentioned as Ralph Timmins. This prisoner, his parole officer played by none other than Bruce Glover. I was so happy to see that and then we have a priest coming in, a Catholic priest. The definitely fucked up with that one. A Catholic priest coming in to offer some solace and some kind words to Barney, played by the one and only Henry Jones.

I mean, everybody is somebody in this episode. And don't forget Peggy. Peggy Pope has been on the show already twice. She'll be on the show three more times. Oh yeah, it's you know, like you've mentioned, this is Honestly, this might be the most packed episode of the show that we've seen from just from Jeff Corey and Bruce Glover alone, just those Normally it's one or the other, it's not both.

And you know, obviously their Chinatown connection notwithstanding, but Jeff Corey and Bruce Glover together in this episode makes it kind of like a big deal. But then, yeah, Henry Jones and Peggy Pope just puts it over the top. And then oh, by the way, James Gregory is also front and center in this episode, so it just it helps. I think is a good episode. I enjoyed this episode a lot.

Yeah, me too. It looks like James Greggory has lost a little weight to me, he looked a little gaunt in his face. Yeah, he it's it's been a while. I don't know why it's been a while, but Otto Bruno's book The Files from the Old One Too might have an answer for that, which you can pick up now on Bear Bear Manner Media. I don't know.

He I don't want to prognostic get too much given that we know where one of the other co stars is going unfortunately. Yeah, but yeah, he looked a little different, and it's fair that he's getting married, Like what where did that? Where's that coming from? And man, can we just talk about Barney's whole marital thing like whoa, Okay, she's gone, so like, gives a shit now, we'll just do whatever we want with the storyline, like she's never coming back. I mean, that's it.

So yeah, I mean, don't we get one more parents from Liz at some point? Sure, but I mean at this point one is about as good as none, right exactly, She's she's not a constant in the show anymore and should never have been. And now, frankly, this should have been the way they handled the character. Is just like offscreen Barney talks about her. It kind of it enters his work life as much as he lets it, but it's not overwhelming his work life and getting in the way of it.

That's how it should have been. She never should have been showing up at the precinct and paddling around and oh hey Mike and blah blah blahda like none of that. Like, it's just because now where we are, like the show is operating at full capacity with the best version of the show. I think we've seen up until this point, and there's no place for characters that aren't in the Precinct. And I do like that we have Harris pretty much full mustache in this Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that.

He looks great. Yeah, though I have to say, I think in the next episode he has less mustache than he does in this one. Yeah. I think we could tell which episode was shot first. Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, because all of a sudden he goes from full mustache to a very not weak mustache, but a thinner mustache to say the least. Yeah, this one. You know, in the last episode, we dealt a lot, obviously with Dietrich. We had just a very little bit of woe Joe and Harris. I mean, it was really very much like the Dietrich and Barney Show in the last one, this one, I think all of our guests are four grounded so much that we do get a little bit of the guys, but I think so much of this is about these guest stars in this one, and that's absolutely fine by me, because we've got, like I said, some real power players.

If you look at if you look at the show, there's five six people, five in the precinct. Six if you count Levett. There are four guests this episode. There are almost as many guests as there are main stars of our show. So yeah, it's a crowded episode, but in a good way.

And we've honestly never seen an episode like this one where the guys in the precinct are given are put in the backseat to everything else, and everything else is interesting. It's not like the Baby Broker or Strike where it's like, Okay, some of this is not nailing, is not operating on full cylinders. Bruce Glover and Jeff Corey are great. Peggy Pope is great, but obviously she's already been in the show before. And Henry Jones is also fantastic, and James Gregory's great, so every it's it's almost like everybody else could have taken a week off, like we'll just let We'll let them do the show, guys, let them handle it, and somehow it actually works because normally the way I look at this show is it's all about the cast, the main cast, and the guests are playing kind of the fill in parts.

This is kind of the other way around, and I kind of works. The last episode we're going to talk about is Loan Shark, which premiered November two, nineteen seventy eight. A lot of writers on this one. I was super surprised. So it's story by judithan Nielsen, Richard William Bevan, I suppose it's pronounced Mario Rocuzzo, and Bob Coleery, and then teleplayed by Arl Paltony Sheen.

We got known Pitt back, like I said, this whole season other than just a very rare thing where we had Max Scale direct, I think he directs two more this season. Plus he just did that one. I mean, this is the non pit like season. He is all over the place with this. Yeah.

This I think had things played out differently, this might have been the best episode for Jack Sue to go out on because he is fucking fantastic. This is a Yamana episode if ever there was one, and I'm glad that there was one, because up until this point there hasn't been one. No, it's that look, Jack Sue, I think, for me, is always going to be the character that I wonder why they didn't do more with him on the show, because he has always felt like, in a lot of ways, you could say, it's always felt like he's the character that almost should never have been main cast showing up all the time, because he almost last season he was like never there. Obviously we know why, but even in the first three seasons, he was always if Max Gale and Hollanden are a and Ron Glass and you know, let's say a Vogoda where be Jack Sue might be c or d.

Even the way that they treat his character in this show, which is unfortunate because Jack Sue's timing is fucking perfect. Oh yeah, we've got every single thing that we know the character of Yamana being represented in here. We've got filing, we've got coffee, we've got a little bit of talk of gambling. But it's it's amazing like we hit all of those things. It starts off with Nick going through these old pictures talking about his graduation from the police academy.

He's been a detective or has been a policeman for twenty years, and no one paid attention to his anniversary. So he is really carrying a grudge in this, and I respect him for it. I really like how pissed off he gets for being taken advantage of and no one paying it attention to good old Nick. You know, he's there to do the filing, he's there to clean up the bulletin board, he's there to make the coffee. He's actually a detective that no one is allowing him to detect.

And I really like the attitude that he's throwing at Barney, especially when he goes into Barney's office. He's just like, Yo, well you always got Harris and Bojo in here. I never get to sit on the couch. I'm like, nice, way to go, Nick. And just just think when he left he went to tim O'Leary's bar.

Yes, that's all I was thinking. It was like, I'm going on to tim o'learies and they're gonna close that down, Like I bet they are Nick. That's what it reminded me of that, like I'm going and I'm sick of this shit. Like, but in that episode of twilight Zone was a Twilight Zone? Was that night gallery?

Gallery? Yet? What was that? What was that nightmare that we watched? It felt that same, like, you know, a wistful shit.

But in this show, it's earned because he has been given nothing to do this entire show. It's almost, in a way, kind of a condemnation of the show as a whole. It is. Yeah, I loved that. It was like, you know, you haven't given the only Asian American actor on the show anything to do.

We haven't, Yeah, you haven't. Yeah yeah, And he's not going to be here much longer. And this should have been how he went out on the show. Yeah, I'm like, I'm with you, Like, if he hadn't come back, I would have been like, you know what, you nailed it. Not only did you nail it, you nailed it in a way that I didn't expect you to nail it.

Most people probably wouldn't have expected because at the time that would not have been the way to do it. I mean, when he says, you know, I'm going out and I'm betting on this horse and I might not even be back. I was like, I kind of hope that his horse comes in and he just never comes back, you know. But of course he the horse doesn't pay off. He has to come back.

We've got the coffee gag at the end and everything, and he'll be back for one more episode. We'll talk about that next month. But yeah, I kind of wish that he had just been like, Okay, piece out and that was it last time. Yeah, holy shit, yeah, drop him, just like Mike Landisburg is like, he's like, whoa that was? You could have just said, you know, fuck you, and he's like a paro.

Harris is like pretty sure it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think he just used too. Yeah, that was really nice. Yeah. I love some of the other stories we haven't here.

We've got the the African American nerd from Revenge of the Nerds, but here he's much younger as this loan shark, the titular loan shark Lamar, the very gay character for Revenge Yes, Magenta and Arne. Yeah, and I do like the pawnbroker at the beginning when he says to Harris, we get a lot of you people at my pawn shop, you know cops. Yeah, the uh, I don't know every everything. Like the b plot also really works. Larry B.

Scott's great Mario Ricuzo plays a perfect I don't know that guy kind of character. I don't know what you would call that character, just like a nebbish little shit like, oh he is great in this yeah, yeah, yeah, And I like as I saw him, I was just like, I've seen this guy so many times before. Where have I seen him? And man, he's got a huge filmography, and it was just like, Okay, we're gonna go have to go through all of these and try to figure out where I've seen this guy before, because yeah, he's got a great look to him. You're gonna be seeing him five more times on this show.

Guns, Resignation, Advancement, the Arrival, and Old Loves all the way until nineteen eighty two, so all the way essentially to the end of the run of his show. That's sight, but he had been acting since nineteen sixty So yeah, it's again like that's the thing about this show that I think, obviously you love it, I love a lot is just seeing all these character actors, these great character actors, and a lot of them, like a lot of them work past this show. A lot of them work on several episodes of this show, but they're always coming in and doing something interesting or being given something interesting to do. And yeah, I mean that's the biggest success of this show. I think is really just highlighting character actors from the sixties and seventies and in the fifties frankly, sometimes if we're even going that far back.

Ironically, one of the last roles that he worked on was a show called Luck, a Televison's television series centered around characters who are tied to the same horse racing track that Dustin Hoffman show that ran from one season. Yeah, yeah, is that a Showtime show? I think? Was that HBO? I can't remember what a cast though, Nick Nolty, Dennis Farina is in here, Richard Kind.

I mean, it's it's a great, great cast. Man, I fucking Ted Levine is in this. It's like, holy was she a great big frat horse. Yeah. Show ran from twenty eleven to twenty twelve, and it had ten episodes.

Huh yeah, yeah, and it was so funny. I can't remember which episode of the projection booth I had. I was talking with Maitland McDonough and she was talking about when she got a tattoo in the seventies and she's like, oh, yeah, I couldn't go to a tattoo parlor in New York because it was illegal. And I was just like, really, tattoos were illegal, And to hear, I mean, here we are in twenty twenty two, leagues and gentlemen and tattooing, like I'm a freak because I have no tattoos. And here's an episode way back in seventy eight where it's just like, oh my god, you have a tattoo.

Oh my god, Barnie, you have a tattoo. That's wild, and he was, and like that whole scene is as I mean, I have a tattoo that you can't see when I'm normal and dressed, but like Barney, if I were undressed, you could clearly see my tattoo. And it's it's so weird. It's just strange. Yeah, to see all these characters that I consider to be rather progressive, all of a sudden just like shutting the fuck down, what and fucking whoa Joe?

Just like all these guys and the Marines were getting all these tattoos, and I'm just like, yeah, that's kind of what you did, and you dufus or as or as Landisburg so aptly put it. These two bozos, Yeah yeah, and I love Rocouzzo George Willis that he has a tattoo now that just says moth because he couldn't handle getting the whole thing. I mean, I think again. Unsurprisingly, the best interaction in this episode is Larry B. Scott turning to Steve Landisburg and saying, what do you want honky, to which Landisburg just explains to him what honky means, and then he just Larry B.

Scot's characters goes, I don't want none of this. I don't want to know whatever you're selling. I don't want none of it, and like that is the appropriate reaction to the human alien, and that is Steve Landisberg. Yes, these are some really solid episodes. Yeah, oh yeah, it's again when this show is operating at full capacity with everybody on the same page.

There's a reason why Otto wrote the book about this show. There's a reason why people still love this show, and there's a reason why I would wager if you're a police officer. Maybe not someone my age, but a police officer, say your age or older or older than even people like in their seventies like that have been in police They would say that this is their favorite cop show. And I would understand why, because it doesn't. It's not a cop show the way you expect.

It's almost the anti cop cop show. And I mean these episodes are a good reason why, because almost nothing in these episodes has to do with this. These guys being cops, they just happen to be cops, and because they're cops, that means they're being tasked with dealing with this bullshit. Otherwise they you know what I mean, Like otherwise they would be doing literally anything else. But this just they're treating the police in this show like it's just another job.

And I kind of appreciate the show for that in a lot of ways, because where we are now with cops is obviously a far cry from where we were in seventy eight. But I do think it's important to see shows like this because we can remember at time in a place where we didn't have the feelings that we had towards coops. Not I'm saying it's not justified. It in a lot of ways, it really is, but in a lot of ways it isn't justified. And a lot of people have feelings towortscops and maybe they don't deserve necessarily because again, they are still doing a job quote unquote, And I think that that's an important thing that this show does show, is these are good guys doing a job.

If anything, they could have been firefighters, even like this show might have worked better if they were firefighters in a way because they do spend a lot of time sitting on their asses. So that's why I love this show. The show works still because it's not about them being cops. That just happens to be where the show is set. Yeah.

As far as the age, I mean, I guess anybody that was old enough to get a tattoo on V Day? Did you get one for VJ Day? Me? Ei there? Yes, it was so good.

God, I assume he got it for v E Day because my head cannon is that Barney Miller was in the East in the European Theater. No he said he was fifteen, Okay, okay, okay, Yeah, Like I just like to believe. I always like to believe that Barney Miller is older than he looks, right, Because how Lindon's a timeless man. I just saw an article today. What was it like?

One He's like, why should I retire? I'm like, wow, okay, hey, hell, why haven't you done our show? Babe? Yeah? Come on, babe, come on, how give us a little love?

We are giving you plenty of love. We're spending our hard earned time talking about your show that I think again, I think it's the cop show that any cops show should be compared against, unless we're talking like a serious cop drama. This is the cop show that I think is the only one really still worth watching, even though we've had plenty of cops shows since. But there is something timeless about this show, Like there really is. I'm kind of surprised at how timeless this show does feel in a lot of ways.

Some stuff not so much. But the show can't be faulted for occurring in seventy eight, when society hadn't necessarily caught up with some of the more hard to swallow things for people in seventy eight, rape and gay characters. But hey, it's a progressive police precinct. They have an African American character and an Asian American character and an alien American character. You can't convince me he's not an alien.

I mean they essentially set it out right, Yeah, And I'm just so curious to see where all these characters go. I mean, I am just here for them, and I so enjoy the interactions. I mean, when you get your good co host coming in, your good storylines, it just works. And these three episodes really just fired on all cylinders. I agree.

And like you've mentioned, the characters are going on a journey together, but it feels like some of them are being given the opportunity more than others, especially this season Landisburg and Ron Kerry, who's been absent for three episodes now. Surprisingly it's just it's it's interesting because they have changed, but in a lot of ways they've kind of stayed the same. So we'll see Max Gale's character is like Woejoe has not given much to do recently. No, No, it's very strange. I have a feeling that he might come back strong.

Obviously, when we talk next month, there is the Harris incident, so we're going to be seeing that there's one that is really going to focus around Luger, and there's one that is really going to focus around Levitt. So we're going to talk about the vandal, the Harris incident, and the radical So very excited to talk about those with the Chris. Until then, where can people find you and what you're up to? So as for the stuff I work on, specifically, CSTASU dot com, cstacchiw dot com. That's my link tree, go there for all the projects that I am on.

But you and I started a podcast network, weirding Way Media, where we have all kinds of shows, not just movies, not just TV, all kinds of stuff. You can find that at weirdingwaymedia dot com and you should. What about you, Mike. You can find everything that I do with Chris and with other people and by myself. I believe it's pronounced manage etis.

You can find that over at weirdingwaymedia dot com. So lots of good stuff. Definitely check it out. Thank you everybody for downloading this episode and listening to us talk about Barney Miller. Nothing like us talking about something that is what seventy eight, eighty eight, ninety eight, two thousand and eight, twenty eighteen forty two years old.

Yeah, that's that's older. Two years young, baby, that's a lot. That's older than a lot of people in our audience here. But man, if you love Barney Miller, this is the place for you. Thank you so much.

I want to thank John Walker for doing our theme song. I want to thank who does our ogie. I want to thank Maggie Diad for doing our beautiful cover photo. We can see Chris and I in the Barney Miller board game. Thank you.

Yeah. I have nothing else to add to that. I should wrap it up with something. And until next month, make sure you stay safe. Please do for all of us.

And until next month, don't do any crimes about