Q 01/05

In the Barney Miller episode "Hash", which home-baked treat does Wojo bring in to share with the squad?

A) Fudge

B) Cookies

C) Brownies

D) Banana bread

Answer · why

C) Brownies

Brownies baked by Wojo's new girlfriend turn out to be laced with hashish, and the detectives who eat them end up stoned on duty.

Q 02/05

Barney Miller's detectives worked out of which fictional NYPD precinct?

A) The 15th

B) The 27th

C) The 12th

D) The 9th

Answer · why

C) The 12th

The 12th Precinct met its end in the 1982 finale: its station house is declared a landmark and sold off, and the detectives are reassigned to other pr...

Q 03/05

In Barney Miller's three-part finale, an antique gun found in the station house is traced to which former president?

A) Ulysses S. Grant

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) Grover Cleveland

D) Chester A. Arthur

Answer · why

B) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt had been New York's police commissioner, so the find makes the building a landmark, and the city sells it, scattering the squad.

Q 04/05

Which Manhattan neighborhood was home to Barney Miller's station house?

A) Harlem

B) Greenwich Village

C) The Upper West Side

D) Chinatown

Answer · why

B) Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village was only the setting: the series was taped across the country in a Hollywood television studio.

Q 05/05

Which actor played the big-hearted Detective "Wojo" Wojciehowicz in all eight seasons of Barney Miller?

A) Steve Landesberg

B) Ron Glass

C) Abe Vigoda

D) Max Gail

Answer · why

D) Max Gail

Max Gail's Wojo cared too much to sit still: on learning New York had no citywide evacuation plan for an emergency, he panicked on the whole city's be...