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‘Barney Miller’ had an immortal theme song and much more

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By Chris Vognar 
| The Boston Globe
This week in Autopilot, a Globe series on great first television episodes: “Barney Miller” Episode: “Ramon” Pilot air date: Jan. 23, 1975, ABC Stream it on: Prime Video; Tubi It all started with the smoothest bassline in TV history, a jazzy little number that announces something cool. “Barney Miller” might just boast the ne plus ultra of television theme songs, composed by Jack Elliott and Allyn Ferguson and blessed by crack studio musician Chuck Berghofer’s plucking fingers.
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Hulu’s barbed romcom ‘Alice and Steve’ is just the latest U.K. import to hit domestic streamers

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By Chris Vognar 
| The Boston Globe
Looking to class up your streamer a little? Make it stand out from the common domestic offerings? Just bring in a U.K. import. Hulu is the latest to take this approach, with the premiere this week of the skewed (and very funny) romcom “Alice and Steve,” but they’re hardly the only outlet indulging in the British invasion. (Some imports are produced expressly for U.S. distribution; others premiere in the U.K. before American outlets snap them up to show here).
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Rebecca Hall hears a hum and joins a cult in the unnerving ‘The Listeners’

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By Chris Vognar 
| The Boston Globe
TV loves cults. You can scarcely fire up your favorite viewing device without finding a scary, charismatic “leader” and his or her tragically loyal followers, usually in a foreboding docuseries. The best cult tales — and some are quite good — go beyond the sordid surface and ask meaningful questions about the need for meaning itself, and the reasons why we come to believe what we believe.
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