January 23, 1975 –

Barney Miller, a TV series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village, premiered on ABC-TV on this date.
When Harris (Ron Glass) was asked to produce a porn film for an undercover sting, he uses the name Starry Night Productions as his cover. Years later, show writer Reinhold Weege used the name for his own production company, which produced Night Court.
