7.8/10134 votes#1 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1977
A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
Director: Danny Arnold
Writer: Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege
8.6/10147 votes#2 - 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
8.1/10144 votes#3 - Bugs
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1977
Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
Director: David Swift
Writer: Tony Sheehan
7.9/10118 votes#4 - Corporation
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1977
A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
Director: Hal Linden
Writer: Danny Arnold, Tony Sheehan
7.9/10118 votes#5 - Burial
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1977
Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
Director: Danny Arnold
Writer: N/A
8.2/10118 votes#6 - Copy Cat
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1977
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.
Director: Jeremiah Morris
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.0/10116 votes#7 - Blizzard
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1977
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
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.4/10125 votes#8 - 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
7.7/10120 votes#9 - Thanksgiving Story
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1977
The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
Director: David Swift
Writer: Reinhold Weege
7.8/10109 votes#10 - Tunnel
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1977
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
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.2/10141 votes#11 - Atomic Bomb
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1977
Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.1/10112 votes#12 - The Bank
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1978
A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.1/10126 votes#13 - The Ghost
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1978
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: N/A
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.1/10111 votes#14 - Appendicitis
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1978
Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
7.1/10131 votes#15 - Rape
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1978
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: N/A
8.4/10118 votes#16 - 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 votes#17 - 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
7.7/10124 votes#18 - Wojo's Problem
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1978
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
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.0/10131 votes#19 - 'Quo Vadis?'
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/2/1978
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
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.4/10121 votes#20 - 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
8.1/10114 votes#21 - Evaluation
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1978
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.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Reinhold Weege
7.8/10120 votes#22 - The Sighting
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1978
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
Writer: Tony Sheehan
7.9/10106 votes#23 - Inauguration
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/1978
Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Reinhold Weege
The Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 4
Every episode of Barney Miller Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 4!
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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Network:ABC
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 134 votes. Directed by Danny Arnold and written by Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege, it aired on 9/15/1977. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)".