Barney Miller (Seasons 1–8)

"Barney Miller" (1975) is an American police sitcom on ABC — watch all seasons online on iFILM. Eight seasons, one room: the squad room of New York's 12th Precinct, where Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) tries to keep the whole operation from sliding into entropy.

His detectives are a deliberately mismatched crew. One would rather be writing a novel. Another attends Renaissance philosophy conventions on weekends. Abe Vigoda's Det. Fish operates at a pace entirely his own. The people brought in off Greenwich Village streets are usually as complicated as the officers booking them. The show figured out early that it didn't need plot machinery if its characters had actual inner lives — and held to that for eight years without the quality dipping.

Multiple Emmy Awards during its run, and it still appears near the top of any honest ranking of American TV comedy. Stream every episode of "Barney Miller" online on iFILM.