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.
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)".
A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
Director: Danny Arnold
Writer: Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege
Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
Director: Danny Arnold
Writer: Reinhold Weege
Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
Director: David Swift
Writer: Tony Sheehan
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
Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
Director: Danny Arnold
Writer: N/A
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
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
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
The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
Director: David Swift
Writer: Reinhold Weege
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Reinhold Weege