Unlike the later episodes of Barney Miller.
The first episode has a focus on Barney's homelife. Other episodes were wholly set in the police station room.
Phil Fish's incompetence with his own gun means that an arrested drug addict called Ramon holds the others hostage.
Barney's job is to calm Ramon down. Ramon knows he has done something rash.
Barney cannot let him just walk away from the police station. Barney can give Ramon a card for a defence lawyer. The lawyer goes out with his daughter.
For a first episode of the series. There are less laughs and jokes due to the hostage situation. We don't get to know much of the other characters in the precinct.
It might be that Barney Miller might have started out to be a dramedy instead of an ensemble comedy that it became known as.
The first episode has a focus on Barney's homelife. Other episodes were wholly set in the police station room.
Phil Fish's incompetence with his own gun means that an arrested drug addict called Ramon holds the others hostage.
Barney's job is to calm Ramon down. Ramon knows he has done something rash.
Barney cannot let him just walk away from the police station. Barney can give Ramon a card for a defence lawyer. The lawyer goes out with his daughter.
For a first episode of the series. There are less laughs and jokes due to the hostage situation. We don't get to know much of the other characters in the precinct.
It might be that Barney Miller might have started out to be a dramedy instead of an ensemble comedy that it became known as.