Through the 1970s and 1980s there were many police shows on television. Most were action shows full of car chases and shootouts, or shows dealing with the serious dramas of contemporary society. Barney Miller was different. From 1975 to 1982, this...

Barney Miller was a Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning comedy television series set in a New York City police station that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold (who also worked on Gilligan's Island and The...

On the new comedy "Head Case," Dr. Elizabeth Goode has a thriving practice as therapist-to-the-stars. She's also pushy, neurotic, oblivious and overwhelmed by problems of her own.Even so, her days are filled with celebrity clients who, within the not-so-safe safe haven of the therapist's office,...

On the new comedy "Head Case," Dr. Elizabeth Goode has a thriving practice as therapist-to-the-stars. She's also pushy, neurotic, oblivious and overwhelmed by problems of her own.Even so, her days are filled with celebrity clients who, within the not-so-safe safe haven of the therapist's office,...

World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a POW during the 1945 allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany, into his 1969...

In the following essay, Konstan focuses on such workplace situation comedies as Barney Miller and Archie Bunker's Place in a discussion of the function of place in classical Greek New Comedy and the television comedy series.