The Best Episodes of Barney Miller

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: N/A

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: N/A

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.

Director: Danny Arnold

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, Tony Sheehan

A self-avowed ""bird-man"" drops in; Barney holds a resourceful escaped prisoner for the FBI; Harris decides to write a novel, setting up one of the series' most durable storylines.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward

A disturbance in the park turns out to be a man who claims to be a werewolf.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege

Chano is guilt-stricken when he shoots a holdup man; Liz makes a citizen's arrest, after being robbed at ""stickpoint"" by a twelve-year-old.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward

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

Director: Danny Arnold

Writer: Reinhold Weege

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

Writer: Tony Sheehan

A stockbroker leaves Wall Street to become a beggar; a rookie cop, assuming Harris to be a felon, shoots at him.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Reinhold Weege

Harris disappears while undercover as a vagrant; Luger elects to be demoted rather than to retire.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Tony Sheehan, Jeff Stein, Frank Dungan

Barney is down in the dumps when he is passed over again for deputy inspector

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Jeff Stein, Frank Dungan

A serious tone pervades this episode about a gypsy and his harassment of the owner of a novelty store; on the lighter side, a librarian takes extreme measures to ensure quiet amongst the stacks.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, Tony Sheehan

Marty claims that a member of the 12th is harassing the gay community; the precinct computers think Fish is dead.

Director: N/A

Writer: Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward

An evicted tenant greets a landlord with a musket; Barney's charged with harassment when he books a blind shoplifter.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Tony Sheehan

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.

Director: Jeremiah Morris

Writer: Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege

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.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Reinhold Weege

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

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Reinhold Weege

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

Writer: Reinhold Weege

A woman has her shoes stolen - from her feet; Wojo is forced to arrest an aging Indian who only wants to die in the park.

Director: Noam Pitlik, Reinhold Weege

Writer: Reinhold Weege

Lieutenant Scanlon returns, this time attempting to ferret out corruption with a lie detector; Barney is suspicious of a furrier's robbery report.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Reinhold Weege

A self-proclaimed time traveler tells Harris to fine tune his stock portfolio; Marty's divrorced gentleman friend Mr. Driscoll attempts to reclaim his son by abducting him from the playground.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Jeff Stein, Frank Dungan

An accused mugger claims that he was answering a psychic vision; a language professor takes vandalistic umbrage to a grammatically incorrect billboard.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, Tony Sheehan

The verdict is in on the Harris/Ripner libel suit, and a woman threatens to blow up the squad room with a homemade bomb. What better time for Detective Fish to drop by for a visit?

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: N/A

The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set up a narcotics buy.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward

Barney smells a rat when two pounds of confiscated marijuana disappears from the evidence locker, and a homeless man spends the night in a department store—apparently one of many.

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward