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The Best Episodes of Barney Miller

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Every episode of Barney Miller ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Barney Miller!

The Best Episodes of Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast...

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  1. Background image for Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

    S4:E1

    A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.

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  2. Background image for Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

    S4:E2

    Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.

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  3. Background image for Burial
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Burial

    S4:E5

    Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Copy Cat
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Copy Cat

    S4:E6

    Yemana scours the TV Guide to try to second-guess the felon who's aping the prime-time lineup crime shows; a drunk forgets the most important element in a hold-up - a weapon.

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  5. Background image for Blizzard
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Blizzard

    S4:E7

    A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guest—a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure that the weather is indicative of a new ice age.

    Director:Danny Arnold
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  6. Background image for Chase
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Chase

    S4:E8

    A taxi company is irate when Wojo totals a borrowed cab while pursuing a robbery suspect; Lieutenant Scanlon tries to ferret out 12th Precinct corruption with a drug pusher.

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Tunnel

    S4:E10

    Wojo is buried alive after a tunnel collapses on a burglar burrowing towards the diamond exchange; a homeless Harris is combing Manhattan for a new apartment.

    Director:David Swift
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  9. Background image for Atomic Bomb
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Atomic Bomb

    S4:E11

    Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.

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  10. Background image for The Bank
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Bank

    S4:E12

    A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
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  11. Background image for The Ghost
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Ghost

    S4:E13

    The detectives are unimpressed with a man who claims he's being visited by a poltergeist - that is, until they lock the man up and strange events begin occurring about the squad room.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Appendicitis
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Appendicitis

    S4:E14

    Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
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  13. Background image for Eviction (1)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Eviction (1)

    S4:E16

    Barney puts his career on the line by refusing to forcibly evict the tenants of a condemned hotel, while Lugar tries to figure out what to do with his vacation time.

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  14. Background image for Eviction (2)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Eviction (2)

    S4:E17

    The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""

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  15. Background image for Wojo's Problem
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Wojo's Problem

    S4:E18

    Wojo comes to Barney with a problem his superior would rather not know about; the 12th's new female detective has a very jealous husband, suspicious of her all-male co-workers; somehow a shoplifter escapes - in a wheelchair.

    Director:Max Gail
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  16. Background image for 'Quo Vadis?'
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 'Quo Vadis?'

    S4:E19

    Barney uncovers, if you will, the real reason behind a woman's vehement insistence that a nude-painting exhibit at a local art gallery be shut down; the Millers may be heading for divorce.

    Director:Alex March
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  17. Background image for Hostage
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Hostage

    S4:E20

    Harris finally finds an apartment in the Village; a ventriloquist insists he's not responsible for his dummy's insensitive remarks; a prisoner holds the boys at gunpoint.

    Director:Hal Linden
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  18. Background image for The Sighting
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Sighting

    S4:E22

    A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.

    Director:Alex March
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  19. Background image for Jack Soo, a Retrospective
    9.5/10(263 votes)

    #18 - Jack Soo, a Retrospective

    S5:E24

    The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth season.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Experience
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Experience

    S1:E2

    A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.

    Director:Danny Arnold
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  21. Background image for Hash
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Hash

    S3:E11

    Wojo brings hashish-laced brownies his new girlfriend made to the 12th Precinct, getting the detective squad stoned; while an actor and critic (""natural enemies"" says Harris) square off with dueling swords.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Bugs
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Bugs

    S4:E3

    Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!

    Director:David Swift
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  23. Background image for Thanksgiving Story
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Thanksgiving Story

    S4:E9

    The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.

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  24. Background image for Rape
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Rape

    S4:E15

    The city legalizes off-track gambling, to the delight of Yemana; a woman wants her husband arrested on a rape charge; a master of disguise perpetuates a crime spree.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Landmark (3)
    9.0/10(213 votes)

    #24 - Landmark (3)

    S8:E22

    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.

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  26. Background image for The Vandal
    8.5/10(144 votes)

    #25 - The Vandal

    S5:E9

    Barney has the uneasy feeling that it may have been Levitt that vandalized the precinct squad room; a TV programming executive is assaulted in a coffee shop.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
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Best Episodes Summary

"Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Danny Arnold and written by Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege, it aired on 9/15/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)".