When an anonymous letter identifies a member of the 12th Precinct as a homosexual, it buys the boys a visit from Lieutenant Scanlon, who proceeds to make a witch hunt out of his search for the author.

Here’s your “do you feel old yet?” moment for today: It was a half-century ago today that ABC-TV debuted “Barney Miller,” about an eclectic squad of police detectives working out of a run-down ...