![]() ![]() That old guy really 'loves' his work don't he? The guy came out just as we got there and 'ol Fish just chased him down the street, jumped on him a got his face down to the sidewalk. Harold Sanders, Barney, he robbed a liquor store on 14th street. It was going' good until these guys showed up. I'm not a wise guy, I guess I'm just scared. ![]() Who cares whose case it is? Just get the door open! Nobody's answering the phone! I've got to cover the rest of the building!Īren't those the keys on the desk? If you ever catch the lunatic who did this tell him to call me. Wilson, get out of here! There's a bomb in the building! A bonus feature of the set is the complete first season of Fish, making it the first time that Fish has ever seen a DVD release.Hey, where is everybody? Shout! Factory released the entire Barney Miller series in a 25-disc DVD set on October 25, 2011. Fish also stated, resignedly, that Cassisi's character (Victor) had gotten arrested for assault and battery, and Miller's character (Jilly) had gotten pregnant and married the baby's father. However, during a guest appearance on Barney Miller nearly three years after the cancellation of Fish, the Fish character stated that money for the group home had been cut off, so the city took back the kids. The series had no episode written as a finale. According to Bridges, just 12 during the show's second season, Fish was cancelled after Vigoda demanded more money for a third season than the producers were willing to pay. The second-season episode of Barney Miller, "Fish", effectively was the pilot for that concept, with much of the episode taking place in Fish's home and featuring Fish's wife and daughter, along with the daughter's romantic drama.įish was directed by Jeremiah Morris and aired from February 1977 through June 1978 on ABC. The intention was to have a pilot air as an episode of Barney Miller in early 1976 with a series debut that fall. The initial premise was to show Fish's home life with "his wife, his daughter, and his daughter's suitor" with only occasional visits to the 12th Precinct. ĪBC was publicly contemplating a Fish spin-off as early as October 1975. Who was I to deprive an actor of this once-in-a-lifetime break? Finally I said, 'Okay, just stay through the third year of Barney Miller, and we'll go with your show, too," recalled Arnold. Abe would walk around the set like a man in shock. "I found myself with a very unhappy actor on my hands. However, Vigoda insisted on quitting Barney Miller and staying on just Fish, wanting to be the star of his own series. ![]() Originally, Arnold agreed to the spin-off on the condition that Vigoda continued to play his Fish character on the show in half of the episodes of the third season, as well as future seasons. Detective Fish retired from the NYPD in Season 4, Episode 2 of Barney Miller.Ĭreator Danny Arnold was originally against the idea of giving the character of Fish his own spin-off, believing that Fish was a character that was better suited to the precinct. Vigoda's character of Phil Fish continued to appear sporadically in the second half of Season 3 of Barney Miller while also leading the cast of Fish. Miller and Cassisi both had appeared previously as the same characters on season three of Barney Miller, usually getting in trouble with the law and Fish having to supervise them. Barry Gordon played Charlie, a college student majoring in child psychology, assisting Fish and Bernice in supervising the kids. The kids were played by Todd Bridges, Denise Miller, Len Bari, John Cassisi, and Sarah Natoli. The series focused on the domestic side of Fish's life: he and Bernice became foster parents to a racially-mixed group of five children known as "Persons in Need of Supervision" or PINS. The series starred Abe Vigoda as New York City Police Department Detective Phil Fish and Florence Stanley as his wife Bernice. Cast of TV's Fish (1977), from top: Sarah Natoli, Todd Bridges, John Cassisi, Denise Miller, Lenny Bari, Barry Gordon, Florence Stanley, Abe Vigodaįish is an American sitcom and a spin-off of Barney Miller that aired on ABC from Februto May 18, 1978.
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