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Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.

Ramon

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

Experience

The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.

Snow Job

An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Chano is after an obscene phone caller.

Graft

A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.

The Courtesans

Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.

Stakeout

Guests to the 12th include a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment; Wojo closes the precinct's favorite delicatessen for minor health-code infractions.

Bureaucrat

An overzealous lady cop ruffles the feathers of the testosterone-run 12th; Chano nabs an obscene phone caller. Linda Lavin (""Alice"") debuts as Detective Janice Wentworth.

Ms. Cop

Barney is visited by Inspector Luger, who complains that his men aren't disliked enough by the public; a neighborhood vigilante is well into his twilight years; Wojo collars a cross-dressing teamster.

Vigilante

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

The Guest

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.

Escape Artist

A scruffy ""Serpico""-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fish spent the afternoon in a massage parlor.

Hair

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.

The Hero

A disgruntled man with a belt of dynamite threatens to blow himself and the squad room sky high unless President Nixon agrees to speak with him; the plumbing goes kaput; Wojo arrests a phony man-of-the-cloth.

Doomsday

Weary of housework, Liz tries her hand at social work, to Barney's dismay; a master forger fascinates Harris.

The Social Worker

Barney, Fish and Yemana feel the crunch when a labor layoff forces them to do without Chano, Harris and Wojo; a manicurist goes deeper than the nail; a morose stockbroker takes to petty theft.

The Layoff

Yemana is shot in full view of disinterested bystanders, and Barney is offered a job in Florida.

Ambush

A wife claims spousal abuse; Wojo and Wentworth are bait for a park rapist.

Heat Wave

The precinct is on the lookout for an arsonist; Chano brings in a man who used a deadly weapon on a vending machine.

The Arsonist

Wojo and Wentworth pose as marrieds in order to bust a burglary ring set in a posh hotel.

Hotel

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

Discovery

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 storeâ€”apparently one of many.

You Dirty Rat

A hansom cab owner reports his horse missing. A man assaulted in his hotel room insists he was alone.

Horse Thief

During a very rainy day, the squad must endure both the precinct roof threatening to collapse, and VERY bad Bicentennial jokes from a nightclub comedian-the stationhouse roof literally groaning in response!!

Rain

A glimpse at Detective Fish's home life ensues when the detective decides to go on restricted duty. Steve Landesberg bows as Arthur Dietrich; Doris Belack fills in for Florence Stanley as Bernice Fish.

Fish

A man is convinced that a photo of Jean Harlow is his missing wife; a pair of lady cops makes an overzealous drug bust.

Hot Dogs

The citizenry is in a panic amidst the rumors that the 12th Precinct is being shut down; a repentent hood can't prove that he committed a crime.

Protection

On New Year's Eve, Fish tries to stop a jumper, and Wojo delivers a baby.

Happy New Year

A con man is selling charter flights to Saturn; Wojo and Luger are sniper targets.

Sniper

Wojo must escort a bigamist to Cleveland, even though he is (guess!) afraid of flying. Meanwhile,the bigamist's New York wife shows up. Also, a man turns in an unmarked envelope containing $3500 in cash.

Fear of Flying

Wentworth is furious when Chano gets the credit for her bust of an assassin at a block party.

Block Party

Wentworth busts a dime-store cowboy in a massage parlor, and the detectives bust an octogenarian mugger.

Massage Parlor

A department psychiatrist advises the department to confiscate Wojo's gun

The Psychiatrist

Fish is attracted to the mother of a young mugger; a man is a bit premature to obtain the unclaimed windfall he found on the street.

The Kid

Fish considers an operation; a burglar known as ""The Mole"" leads Harris and Wojo on a merry chase through the city sewer system. Ron Carey plays the Mole, and returns as Levitt in the next season.

The Mole

Wojo is dismayed to discover that the city doesn't have up-to-date evacuation procedures in the event of an emergency; Fish meets Jilly Pappalardo, a young thief who he will eventually care for in the ""Barney"" spin-off ""Fish.""

Evacuation

Wojo brings in a sick perp who collapses on the floor...resulting in the 12th being put under quarantine,with the following personnel present:A lady of the evening [who gets friendly with Fish!], Marty and Mr Driscoll, and of course, Inspector Lugar....

Quarantine (1)

The quarantined 12th Precinct tries to make it through the night: Lugar has a 'talk' with Marty and Daryl Driscoll; and Harris has a loud rant in his sleep.

Quarantine (2)

Quarters are tight at the 12th when a holdup man is confined with his busload of victims.

Bus Stop

Election Day at the One-Two includes: A woman, being held from voting by her husband, throws a toilet seat into the street to get attention; a shoplifter gets escorted to vote by Wojo, who promptly 'loses' him; and Inspector Lugar comes electioneering for a old time political hack.

The Election

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

Werewolf

A latter-day prophet claims the end is near - 5:30, to be precise; a man who hasn't left his apartment since World War II is brought in for refusing to serve jury duty. John Cassisi appears as Victor Kreutzer, a role he would continue to play on ""Fish.""

The Recluse

Barney doesn't see a crime, but Wojo's brought in a man for refusing to aid a mugging victim.

Noninvolvement

A power failure darkens spirits at the 12th, where they play host to a man with a split personality.

Power Failure

Wojo wants to tell Yemana that his Christmas Eve date is a call girl; Fish dons a red suit to catch a mugger who's targeting Kris Kringles; Luger fishes for an invitation from Barney for Christmas Day.

Christmas Story

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.

Hash

All eyes are on Fish as the city undergoes a first-stage smog alert; an unlikely connection is made between a potential suicide victim and an obscene graffiti artist.

Smog Alert

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

Community Relations

Rather than return one week per month to uniformed patrol, Wojo quits the force.

The Rand Report

The 12th may go up in smoke, to the delight of a suicidal couple.

Fire '77

Barney has his hands full with a couple who want his assistance with their cult-influenced daughter, and Nick's bookie who's arrested for his efforts.

Abduction

Weary of waiting for promotion, Levitt announces that he's quitting the force; Barney investigates a sex clinic that borders on brothel status; Harris investigates a rash of crimes ostensibly committed by a juvenile.

Sex Surrogate

Barney discovers that Harris has been moonlighting; Dietrich arrests a priest who's fencing stolen goods; a racketeer is using a retarded boy as an assistant.

Moonlighting

Marty is picked up for parole violation with a half ounce of marijuana; Wojo prematurely grants a Russian defector asylum.

Asylum

Yemana assists a bigoted Army officer when a bomber threatens a recruiting facility; it's Fish's turn for mugging detail as Victor and Jilly resurface with Bernice in tow.

Group Home

An impending strike is on everyone's mind, except the woman who was robbed by her computer date. (Part 1 of 2)

Strike (1)

Barney and Inspector Luger man the fort alone when the detectives go out on strike.

Strike (2)

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

Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

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

Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

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

Bugs

A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.

Corporation

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

Burial

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.

Copy Cat

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

Blizzard

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.

Chase

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

Thanksgiving Story

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.

Tunnel

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

Atomic Bomb

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

The Bank

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.

The Ghost

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

Appendicitis

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.

Rape

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.

Eviction (1)

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

Eviction (2)

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.

Wojo's Problem

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.

'Quo Vadis?'

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.

Hostage

The members of the squad nervously await Barney filling out their evaluation forms. Meanwhile, Harris arrests a numerologist who will only give his name as ""1223,"" and a porno shop reporting vandalism turns out to be a mom and pop operation being hassled by their kids.

Evaluation

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

The Sighting

Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.

Inauguration

A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.

Kidnapping (1)

Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo and the victim's nebbish son.

Kidnapping (2)

Off goes the moustache, as it's Harris' turn for cross-dressing mugging detail; the host of a kids' science show goes off the deep end; Barney's men reopen a twenty-eight year old missing persons case.

The Search

The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separation.

Dog Days

A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Levitt turns to stimulants to aid in his self-imposed thirty-six hour shift.

The Baby Broker

An accusation of an indiscretion on the part of Dietrich leads to a visit from the gleeful Lieutenant Scanlon of Internal Affairs; Yemana books a rabbi who is running a gambling casino in his synagogue.

Accusation

A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate the family business.

The Prisoner

Barney notes some uncharacteristic behavior from Yemana; a client can't get a tattoo artist to remove his work; Harris books a youthful loan shark

Loan Shark

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.

The Vandal

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

The Harris Incident

Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.

The Radical

Feuding toy makers create a disturbance; Barney faces his first holiday as a separated man; a claustrophobic prisoner has an understandable problem with the cage.

Toys

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.

The Indian

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

Voice Analyzer

A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.

The Spy

Wojo decides to move in with his girlfriend; Mr. Brauer tells his wife that he's leaving to become a mercenary. This was a pilot for a potential spin-off series, each week focusing on one of the cops' off-duty lives.

Wojo's Girl (1)

Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.

Wojo's Girl (2)

Barney feels the onrush of Father Time; Dietrich books an Olympic hopeful who practices his javelin toss in Central Park; a Hassidic Jew is the target of a diamond thief.

Middle Age

Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.

The Counterfeiter

The 12th Precinct hosts an open house, attracting only vagrants; Barney's joy at moving back home is cut short by the hotel manager that refuses to refund him his upcoming month's rent; Wojo and Harris try to get a lead on an arsonist.

The Best Seasons of Barney Miller

The Best Seasons of Barney Miller

Season 7

Season 6

Season 8

Season 5

Season 4

Season 3

Season 1

Season 2