Q 01/05

On which network did Barney Miller air for its entire run?

A) NBC

B) CBS

C) ABC

D) PBS

Answer · why

C) ABC

It ran on ABC from January 1975 to May 1982, and the network was reluctant to let it go when its creator decided to end it.

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 station house was placed on East 6th Street, and the squad room set barely changed in eight seasons.

Q 03/05

Which actor played Captain Barney Miller?

A) Judd Hirsch

B) Ed Asner

C) Hal Linden

D) Alan Alda

Answer · why

C) Hal Linden

He was a Tony-winning Broadway musical star before the role, and later said leaving Broadway for the show was his most irrational act and one of his b...

Q 04/05

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

A) Harlem

B) Greenwich Village

C) The Upper West Side

D) Chinatown

Answer · why

B) Greenwich Village

The station was placed on East 6th Street, in what the article calls Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan.

Q 05/05

Which sad-faced detective was famous on the show for his hemorrhoids and his ever-phoning wife Bernice?

A) Harris

B) Yemana

C) Fish

D) Dietrich

Answer · why

C) Fish

The actor got the part after showing up to the audition exhausted from a five-mile jog and being told he looked like he had hemorrhoids.