Barney Miller: Chinatown: Part 1
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm, Wednesday, October 29 on WPIX Antenna TV (11.2)
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Chinatown: Part 1
Season 8, Episode 11
A Chinese waiter withholds information about a gang killing; Scanlon falls for a rich mugging victim. Part 1 of two. Scanlon: George Murdock. Walker: Fred Sadoff. Fitzjames: Joanna Barnes.
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1982
English
Comedy
Sitcom
Drama
Cast & Crew
George Murdock
(Actor)
.. Lt. Scanlon
Fred Sadoff
(Actor)
.. Walker
Joanna Barnes
(Actor)
.. Fitzjames
Chao-Li Chi
(Actor)
.. Mr. Ling
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Did You Know..
George Murdock
(Actor)
.. Lt. Scanlon
Born:
June 25, 1930
Died: April 30, 2012
Died: April 30, 2012
Trivia:
American actor George Murdock's uneven facial features enabled him to play many an offbeat part in his early professional years, none more offbeat than the ventriloquist's dummy come to life in the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "The Dummy." Murdock went on to play obnoxious and intrusive authority figures. He made Sammy Jackson's life hell as Captain Krupnick in the 1964 sitcom version of No Time for Sergeants, and fifteen years later did same for Hal Linden as an internal-affairs snoop on Barney Miller. In his later years, Murdock landed one of his best-known parts, as God in the disastrous Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Fred Sadoff
(Actor)
.. Walker
Born:
October 21, 1926
Died: May 06, 1994
Died: May 06, 1994
Trivia:
Over his 50-year-long career, Fred Sadoff worked steadily on stage, television, and in feature films as a supporting actor, director, and occasional producer. In addition, Sadoff co-founded the prestigious Actors Studio. Sadoff learned his craft in summer stock and first trod the Broadway boards in the original production of South Pacific in 1942. After remaining busy in New York, Sadoff had a stint assistant directing at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater in Stratford-on-Avon in 1958 (Sadoff was the first American to work there in that capacity) through the early '70s when he moved to the West Coast to get into television and film. Sadoff had already made his film debut with a small part in The Quiet American (1959), but did not become active in films until he settled into Southern California. Sadoff's subsequent film credits include Cinderella Liberty, Papillion (both 1973), and The Starmaker (1981). Sardoff's television work included guest appearances on episodes of Kung Fu, The Magician, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
Joanna Barnes
(Actor)
.. Fitzjames
Born:
January 01, 1934
Trivia:
American actress Joanna Barnes went from Southern-belle complacency to a contract with Warner Bros. studios. Joanna was generally cast as steely-eyed, truculent blondes in such films as Home Before Dark (1958) and (freelancing for director Stanley Kubrick) Spartacus (1960). She also held the dubious distinction of being the latest in a long line of "Janes" in the 1959 cheapie Tarzan of the Apes. Barnes worked a great deal on television in the 1950s and 1960s: she was detective Dennis Morgan's girl Friday on 1959's 21 Beacon Street; the ex-wife of pennyante attorney Peter Falk in the 1965 weekly drama The Trials of O'Brien; and the hostess of the 5-minute ABC gossipfest Dateline Hollywood. In 1973, Joanna gave up acting to pursue a career as a novelist, and to that end took a room in a Los Angeles office building leased exclusively to professional writers. While Joanna Barnes might not be remembered for her writings, she made an indelible impression as Vassar-educated socialite Gloria Upson, who spoke as though she had novacaine in her upper lip (the playwrights' description of the character) in the 1958 film comedy Auntie Mame.
Chao-Li Chi
(Actor)
.. Mr. Ling
Born:
April 05, 1927
