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.

Christina Applegate had spent years telling people what it was like to live with multiple sclerosis. Then a doctor told her she didn’t have it. People around her were happy. Applegate wasn’t.

Columbo and Murder, She Wrote couldn’t have been more different—one smelled like rain-soaked asphalt and coffee; the other like tea and typewriter ink. Yet both solved murders that left entire generations glued to the couch. Now, let’s settle it once and for all: trench coat vs. typewriter....

She’s best remembered for her role as Morticia Addams, the macabre matriarch of the 1964 version of The Addams Family, but Carolyn Jones didn’t always have it easy. Throughout her yo-yoing career, she battled through health issues, typecasting, multiple marriages, and at times, even poverty. Still, the dedicated actress valued her profession as much as life itself—or, possibly, even more. From ingénue to icon, this is the story of the indomitable Carolyn Jones.

Proving that less can be more, these characters have become part of cinematic history without barely ever saying a word.

Grace Kelly, Hollywood royal turned real-life royal, died on September 14, 1982, after a tragic car accident that set forth plenty of theories and speculation, and led the world to reflect on Princess Grace’s two very different lives.