Barney Miller
Barney Miller is a sensible police squad show that keeps order as a rotating mix of detectives deals with everyday oddities. Most stories play out in a tightly focused precinct setting where citizens and criminals add to the chaos, blending dry humor with occasional more serious moments.
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Season 8
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E1
Paternity
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
Oct 29, 1981 · 30m -
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E2
Advancement
Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.
Nov 5, 1981 · 30m -
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E3
The Car
A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.
Nov 12, 1981 · 30m -
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E4
Possession
A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.
Nov 19, 1981 · 30m -
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E5
Stress Analyzer
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
Nov 26, 1981 · 30m -
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E6
Games
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
Dec 10, 1981 · 30m -
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E7
Homeless
The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.
Dec 17, 1981 · 30m -
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E8
The Tontine
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Jan 7, 1982 · 30m -
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E9
Examination Day
The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.
Jan 14, 1982 · 30m -
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E10
The Clown
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
Jan 21, 1982 · 30m -
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E11
Chinatown (1)
A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.
Feb 4, 1982 · 30m -
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E12
Chinatown (2)
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
Feb 11, 1982 · 30m -
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E13
Hunger Strike
Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.
Feb 18, 1982 · 30m -
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E14
Arrival
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
Feb 25, 1982 · 30m -
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E15
Obituary
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
Mar 11, 1982 · 30m -
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E16
Inquiry
Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry parent takes action when his child is declined admission into an exclusive kindergarten.
Mar 26, 1982 · 30m -
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E17
Old Love
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
Apr 2, 1982 · 30m -
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E18
Altercation
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
Apr 9, 1982 · 30m -
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E19
Bones
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
Apr 29, 1982 · 30m -
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E20
Landmark (1)
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
May 6, 1982 · 30m -
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E21
Landmark (2)
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
May 13, 1982 · 30m -
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E22
Landmark (3)
Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave for new assignments; Harris contemplates his resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows; Barney recalls friends departed before he turns out the squad room lights for the last time.
May 20, 1982 · 30m