ZONK-SPLAININ - NURSE WALTON

'BARNEY MILLER
"ARRIVAL"

Wojo took a call from a woman who wanted to report a missing family but he told her there was nothing that they could do. 

Turns out she was reporting 'The Waltons' as missing. 

Harris threw in a sarcastic comment that the mother was a nurse now. 

'The Waltons' was an historical tv series about that family in the Depression, so it is acceptable that there was a TV show about them. 

As for Michael Learned, who played Olivia, she actually was a nurse... on TV. In 1981 she starred as a widowed nurse who got back into the routine of work. And the show used her job description as its generic title. 

But 'Nurse' wasn't named in Harris' comment, so it doesn't have to be the show he was talking about. Maybe the televersion of Michael Learned was playing a nurse in some fictional show within a show.

Maybe it was in "Endless Tomorrows", the fictional soap opera which was part of a subplot in an earlier episode of 'Barney Miller'.

BCnU!