Retired Detective Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a kidnapped corpse.Retired Detective Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a kidnapped corpse.Retired Detective Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a kidnapped corpse.
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Ron Carey
- Officer Carl Levitt
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James Gregory
- Inspector Frank Luger
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Abe Vigoda
- Det. Phil Fish
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFish makes one more visit in Lady and the Bomb (1981).
- GoofsWhen Fish is describing the map which was drawn to show where a corpse was buried in Central Park, he states "There's the 76th Street entrance to the Park." However, W76th Street does not have an entrance into Central Park, but W77th Street does enter the Park where the burial place was described (near "The Lake" and across from the American Museum of Natural History). Fish should have said W77th Street to be geographically correct.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Barney Miller: Lady and the Bomb (1981)
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Welcome back Mr. Fish
"Burial" marked a one shot reappearance for Abe Vigoda's Fish (here unbilled), assisting on a case where a corpse was stolen from a mortuary (Wojo: "why would anybody want a dead body?" Fish: "they don't...sometimes it just happens!"). Nelson Hubbard (Sy Kramer) dislikes the jokes about his profession, reporting that Julius Wittenour (Jack Kruschen, first of three) argued with him about his rates, knocked him out, and made off with the stiff. Wojo begs off checking other mortuaries, telling Barney about a horrible childhood incident where his parents told him his dead grandmother was just sleeping ("I tried to wake her up!"). Julius Wittenour admits only to burying his late friend in a safe place where no one will find him, while the understanding Fish uses his experience to find out exactly where. Hubbard tires of being the bad guy, refusing to press charges and apologizing for his bad temper ("it's those damn Boris Karloff movies!"). Of course, Abe Vigoda was a 'dead ringer' (pun intended) for Boris, who was previously referenced in "Discovery" (Fish made one final appearance in 1981's "Lady and the Bomb").
- kevinolzak
- Apr 22, 2014
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