Barney Miller made a shabby police station and a terrible pot of coffee into some of the funniest television of the 70s. But the people making it saw a side of Danny Arnold viewers never did. And some of their stories make you wonder how they kept coming back.

Old Hollywood loved a feud, especially when two famous names could sell extra tickets. But those icy stares seldom told the whole story. Some stars genuinely clashed; others were friends, and plenty understood that rivalry made excellent publicity. Behind the gossip were studio politics, career anxiety, and complicated relationships.

Before they became famous Hollywood faces, these actors and actresses lent their voices to hit records, often without audiences realizing who was singing.

Rock music was never just a boys' club. Throughout the 1970s, a remarkable group of female performers challenged expectations, reinvented familiar sounds, and influenced entire generations of musicians, often without receiving the recognition their contributions deserved.

Some of classic rock's biggest songs began with musicians fooling around, mocking the music industry, or trying something so ridiculous that nobody expected it to work. Others weren't exactly jokes, but their bizarre origins make their success almost as surprising. From a deliberately terrible love song to a rock anthem invented on a tour bus, these stories reveal just how unpredictable hit-making can be. And in one particularly hilarious case, a band tried to embarrass its record label, only to end up with another smash hit.

Some television moms seemed to have everything figured out. But behind those familiar faces, the actresses playing America's favorite mothers were often surprisingly young, and a few were barely older than the actors playing their children.