RIP Gregory Sierra

[Jake from State Farm]

Julio from Sanford and Son
Chano from Barney Miller

Gregory Sierra Dead: 'Barney Miller,' 'Sanford and Son' Actor Was 83

 

[matt_garth]

That leaves Barney and Wojo as the only surviving regular squad members.

Barbara Barrie and Linda Lavin also are still alive.

It was a wonderful show and a quintessential time capsule for a dark period in NYC history.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Such a good show. I had the pleasure of meeting Ron Glass a couple of times. He was a genuinely nice man.

The Hash Brownies episode was fabulous.

 

[maumann]

So well-cast and tightly written. Basically one set and three cameras. Just wish they had the foresight to film it, because the videotape quality is so bad.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

My favorite Barney Miller line came when Nick was looking for a suspect that gave clues through TV Guide
Nick starts reading: “I Love Lucy. Lucy gets pregnant.”
Later, Dietrich asks: “Nick. How’s your case going?”
“Lucy got pregnant.”
“Oh, that Charlie Brown’s a devil.”

 

[Jake from State Farm]

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

RIP. Remember him as a member of the Hebrew Defense Association in one episode of All of the Family, but man do I love Barney Miller.

 

[garrow]

I took a class in college called "Integrative Arts." It was basically American popular culture studies.

The professor, during the television sequence of the course, wanted to show how sitcoms of the 1970s were so different than the 1950s ones with heavier subject matters and no tidy resolutions.

To demonstrate this he played us the Barney Miller episode when Chano shoots a bank robber.

 

[Huggy]

Such a good show. I had the pleasure of meeting Ron Glass a couple of times. He was a genuinely nice man.

The Hash Brownies episode was fabulous.

Barney, Barney, your mother from Clarney

 

[Neutral Corner]

Jack Soo losing his **** laughing at everything and everyone, and Fish chasing a burglar across the rooftops.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Barney, Barney, your mother from Clarney

Harris, go home and stay there until you feel better
I’ll stay home Barn, but I’m never gonna feel any better

 

[heyabbott]

El Puerco on Soap. One of the absolute funniest shows, ever.

check his IMDb page, he was in every TV show of the 7o’s and 80’s

Barney Miller was sublime.
Another RIP, it’s bad out there.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

“Beunos Dias, Mr. Sanford!”
“Yeah. Beans and disease to you too!”

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

This thread made me look up some old episodes, and I found that Sierra's last episode with Barney Miller ("The Mole") was one that produced one of the funniest moments I've seen in a sitcom.

Wojo and Harris were chasing a jewelry thief. Receiving an update from dispatch that they were chasing him through the sewers, Fish looks at the bathroom and says "I better wait," waving a newspaper in that direction. "I could be obstructing justice."

I haven't seen that in years but man, did I laugh.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

The writing was so good
One time a prisoner was mouthing off to Barney, who said: “You be quiet or I’ll stuff a towel in your mouth.”
“You don’t scare me copper.”
“Oh yeah? You haven’t seen our towel.”

 

[Webster]

Barney Miller was just a wonderful show. There was a level of intelligence in the writing coupled with sadness just beneath the surface — kind of like the Reiger character on Taxi.

 

[poindexter]

Barney Miller was just a wonderful show. There was a level of intelligence in the writing coupled with sadness just beneath the surface — kind of like the Reiger character on Taxi.

There is an Alex Reiger line that I remember to this day. It applies now and then today.
He is introducing the crew to a new employee.
"Him - he's an actor. Him - he's a boxer. Her - she's in art. Me, I'm the only cab driver here."

 

[garrow]

Sierra also managed to fit into his busy TV schedule an appearance in the granddaddy of 70s disaster flicks, "The Towering Inferno."

 

[da man]

Barney, Barney, your mother from Clarney

Mushy mushy

 

[Neutral Corner]

I could be wrong, but this bothers me. I don't hear "Clarny", I hear "Killarney", which is a town in Ireland.