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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 from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.

Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC

Season 4 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Barney Miller" season 4 is "Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)", rated 7.8/10 from 135 user votes. It was directed by Danny Arnold and written by Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege. "Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)" aired on 9/15/1977 and is rated 0.8 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)".

  • Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
    7.8/10 135 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

  • Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
    8.6/10 145 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

  • Bugs
    8.1/10 143 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

  • Corporation
    7.9/10 117 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

  • Burial
    8.0/10 116 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

  • Copy Cat
    8.2/10 118 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

  • Blizzard
    8.0/10 116 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

  • Chase
    8.4/10 124 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

  • Thanksgiving Story
    7.9/10 118 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

  • Tunnel
    7.8/10 109 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

  • Atomic Bomb
    8.2/10 139 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

  • The Bank
    8.1/10 112 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

  • The Ghost
    8.2/10 125 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

  • Appendicitis
    8.1/10 110 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

  • Rape
    7.0/10 132 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

  • Eviction (1)
    8.5/10 117 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

  • Eviction (2)
    8.4/10 111 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

  • Wojo's Problem
    7.7/10 122 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

  • 'Quo Vadis?'
    8.0/10 128 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

  • Hostage
    8.5/10 119 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

  • Evaluation
    8.1/10 112 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

  • The Sighting
    8.1/10 117 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

  • Inauguration
    7.8/10 105 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