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Barney Miller
1975 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 8 seasons
Created by Theodore J. Flicker, Danny Arnold
Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
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Are you talking about 'soap' the tv series? That fucker took me years to understand, but when i finally did get it, Barney Miller suddenly made a lot more sense. Especially that one-eyed green guy.
There is a bit of it on Youtube. Have you looked much there?
Even things like 'Der Fahnder' a German TV cop show. Some episodes of The Rockford Files are there. Some Barney Miller.
Written German and spoken German are somewhat different, just like written and spoken English are. You might find conversational German more legible.
There was an episode of Barney Miller where one of the cops was translating for a German woman. At some point she says "Das ist mein bebe." Bebe is pronounced very similar to baby and means the same thing.
I can't find a video of just the scene. It is Season 5, Episode 5 The Baby Broker.
The Daily Motion has the episode, but it keeps glitching on me. I haven't been able to get to the scene in question.
I also used to have German language resources that built on words that were readily understood by English speakers.
Or Barney Miller: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519144/
"Many police officers maintain that the most realistic police show in the history of television was the sitcom 'Barney Miller,' far more so than that father of reality TV, 'Cops.' The action was mostly off screen, the squad room the only set, and the guys were a motley bunch of character actors who were in no danger of being picked for the N.Y.P.D. pin-up calendar. But they worked hard, made jokes, got hurt and answered to their straight-man commander."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/opinion/watching-the-detectives.html
The Barney Miller show had an episode in season 8 where the plot revolves around two surviving members of a Tontine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519144/