8.2/10130 votes#1 - Kidnapping (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1978
A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Danny Arnold, Tony Sheehan, Reinhold Weege
- 8.3/10113 votes
#2 - Kidnapping (2)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1978
Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo and the victim's nebbish son.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10128 votes#3 - The Search
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1978
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.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.0/10117 votes#4 - Dog Days
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1978
The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separation.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Reinhold Weege
7.9/10116 votes#5 - The Baby Broker
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1978
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.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.2/10102 votes#6 - Accusation
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1978
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.
Director: Max Gail
Writer: N/A
7.9/10120 votes#7 - The Prisoner
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1978
A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate the family business.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.2/10113 votes#8 - Loan Shark
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1978
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
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.5/10134 votes#9 - 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
8.5/10137 votes#10 - 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
7.8/10127 votes#11 - The Radical
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1978
Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.0/10114 votes#12 - Toys
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1978
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.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.4/10119 votes#13 - 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
8.6/10117 votes#14 - 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
8.0/10101 votes#15 - The Spy
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1979
A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
7.5/10118 votes#16 - Wojo's Girl (1)
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1979
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.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Danny Arnold, Tony Sheehan
- 6.1/10116 votes
#17 - Wojo's Girl (2)
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1979
Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10100 votes#18 - Middle Age
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1979
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.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege
8.2/10102 votes#19 - The Counterfeiter
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1979
Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.
Director: Max Gail
Writer: Reinhold Weege, Jeff Stein, Frank Dungan
8.2/10110 votes#20 - Open House
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1979
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.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
7.8/10103 votes#21 - Identity
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1979
Harris quickly regrets the fact that Dietrich has saved his life; the 12th is asked to assist a thief who has been granted entry into a witness-relocation program.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: N/A
7.7/10109 votes#22 - Computer Crime
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1979
A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under the influence of a voodoo curse.
Director: Max Gail
Writer: N/A
7.8/10105 votes#23 - Graveyard Shift
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/1979
Barney and his crew face the late shift with a man who believes that he is being frequented by a succubus and an irate tourist.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Tony Sheehan
9.5/10237 votes#24 - 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
The Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 5
Every episode of Barney Miller Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 5!
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
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Kidnapping (1)" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller" season 5. It scored 8.2/10 based on 130 votes. Directed by Noam Pitlik and written by Danny Arnold, Tony Sheehan, Reinhold Weege, it aired on 9/14/1978. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Kidnapping (2)".