Danny Arnold

Ken Levine shares some memories of Barney Miller creator Danny Arnold, one of the greatest producers television has ever known, and one of the craziest. Tom Reeder (a writer of many episodes of Barney Miller and Night Court) also has a story about pitching a story to Arnold.

Not all drug-related episodes are very special episodes (like Jessie getting hooked on speed). On Barney Miller, showrunner Danny Arnold and writer Tom Reeder came up with perhaps the show’s most famous episode, about the cops eating hash brownies. This version appears to be from syndication, and therefore incomplete, but it’s the best we get until somebody releases the third season on DVD.