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The Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 5

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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...

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    #1 - Kidnapping (1)

    S5:E1

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

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    #2 - Kidnapping (2)

    S5:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - The Search

    S5:E3

    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.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #4 - Dog Days

    S5:E4

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

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    #5 - The Baby Broker

    S5:E5

    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.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #6 - Accusation

    S5:E6

    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.

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    Director:Max Gail
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - The Prisoner

    S5:E7

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

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    #8 - Loan Shark

    S5:E8

    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

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #9 - The Vandal

    S5:E9

    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.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #10 - The Harris Incident

    S5:E10

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

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    #11 - The Radical

    S5:E11

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

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #12 - Toys

    S5:E12

    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.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #13 - The Indian

    S5:E13

    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.

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    #14 - Voice Analyzer

    S5:E14

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

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    #15 - The Spy

    S5:E15

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

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #16 - Wojo's Girl (1)

    S5:E16

    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.

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    #17 - Wojo's Girl (2)

    S5:E17

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - Middle Age

    S5:E18

    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.

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    #19 - The Counterfeiter

    S5:E19

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

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    #20 - Open House

    S5:E20

    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.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #21 - Identity

    S5:E21

    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.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - Computer Crime

    S5:E22

    A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under the influence of a voodoo curse.

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    Director:Max Gail
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Graveyard Shift

    S5:E23

    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.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
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    #24 - Jack Soo, a Retrospective

    S5:E24

    The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth season.

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    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Kidnapping (1)" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller" season 5. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Noam Pitlik and written by Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege, Tony Sheehan, it aired on 9/14/1978. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Kidnapping (2)".