9.5/10239 votesLoading...#1 - Jack Soo, a Retrospective
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1979
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
9.3/10378 votesLoading...#2 - Hash
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1976
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
9.0/10192 votesLoading...#3 - Landmark (3)
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1982
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
8.7/10218 votesLoading...#4 - Escape Artist
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/10/1975
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
8.7/10205 votesLoading...#5 - Werewolf
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1976
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
8.6/10147 votesLoading...#6 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1977
Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
Director: Danny Arnold
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.5/10200 votesLoading...#7 - The Hero
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/1/1975
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
8.5/10135 votesLoading...#8 - The Vandal
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1978
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
8.5/10138 votesLoading...#9 - The Harris Incident
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1978
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
8.5/10118 votesLoading...#10 - Voice Analyzer
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1979
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
8.5/10114 votesLoading...#11 - Vanished (2)
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1980
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
8.5/10117 votesLoading...#12 - Fog
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1980
Barney is down in the dumps when he is passed over again for deputy inspector
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Jeff Stein, Frank Dungan
8.4/10115 votesLoading...#13 - Community Relations
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1977
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
8.4/10125 votesLoading...#14 - Chase
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1977
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
8.4/10118 votesLoading...#15 - Eviction (1)
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1978
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
8.4/10113 votesLoading...#16 - Eviction (2)
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1978
The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.4/10121 votesLoading...#17 - Hostage
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/23/1978
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
8.4/10119 votesLoading...#18 - The Indian
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1979
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
8.4/10126 votesLoading...#19 - The Child Stealers
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1980
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
8.4/10104 votesLoading...#20 - The Psychic
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1981
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
8.4/10125 votesLoading...#21 - The Librarian
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/19/1981
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
8.4/10110 votesLoading...#22 - Lady and the Bomb
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 4/9/1981
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
8.3/10178 votesLoading...#23 - The Guest
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/1975
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
8.3/10162 votesLoading...#24 - Discovery
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1975
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
8.3/10152 votesLoading...#25 - You Dirty Rat
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1975
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
The Best Episodes of Barney Miller
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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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"Jack Soo, a Retrospective" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller". It scored 9.5/10 based on 239 votes. Directed by Noam Pitlik and written by N/A, it aired on 5/17/1979. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hash".