Ah, Christmas episodes ...

[amedia]

There are so many reasons to love the Barney Miller Christmas episodes - we have two of them on tape and always re-watch them this time of year. "Christmas Story" is so heartwarming; Fish's "heh, heh" when he imagines people beating up Santa is a masterpiece of comic timing, and the whole plot with Yemana dating the prostitute is really sweet. (Hey, I didn't say it was *wholesome*!)

And then there's "Toys," which has such a splendidly slashy moment (and it's NOT between Harris and Dietrich, although they get some adorable bickering in). Barney and his estranged wife Liz are going over cancelled checks:

"What's this one?" Liz asks. "Mariani's for $36?"
"It's that nice Italian cafe on 23rd street," Barney says. "Dinner for two."
"Oh," says Liz, significantly.
"Inspector Luger," Barney confides. "He's had his eye on me for years."

Hee hee!

There's another Christmas episode that I've seen, "Homeless," but I don't have it on tape, and it's not on YouTube. Alas!

Comments

[maubast.livejournal.com]

*loves Barney Miller*

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Me too!!!! :-)

[settiai]

*cough*

I might, possibly, have the entire series on my computer as .avi files. If, you know, you were interested in getting your hands on some episodes.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Oh, MY!

I don't want to be greedy, but ...

Would you be able to upload the "Homeless" episode?

Do you have the episode that was a tribute to Jack Soo with the tribute part left in? (The Columbia House tape only has the excerpts from the shows - apparently they couldn't get the rights to the introductions and commentary in-between.)

Next year sometime, could I give you a list of about a dozen episodes? I would LOVE to recreate my Harris/Dietrich pimping tape in digital form. I don't want to abuse your kindness, however. (The reason it would be next year is that we're leaving Monday and driving from Texas to Delaware to see metherion for Christmas.)

[settiai]

I'll see what I can do. :)

I'm having off-and-on internet trouble right now, so it might be a few days before I can upload things again.