The Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 8

#1 Fan Favorite
8.1/10(141 votes)
#1 - Paternity
S8:E110/29/1981
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
Director:Danny Arnold
Writer:Nat Mauldin
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Director:Danny Arnold
Writer:Nat Mauldin
8.1/10(119 votes)
#2 - Advancement
S8:E211/5/1981
Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.
Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
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Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.3/10(119 votes)
#3 - The Car
S8:E311/12/1981
A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.
Director:Bruce Bilson
Writer:Nat Mauldin
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Director:Bruce Bilson
Writer:Nat Mauldin
8.3/10(139 votes)
#4 - Possession
S8:E411/19/1981
A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.
Director:Bruce Bilson
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Bruce Bilson
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(132 votes)
#5 - Stress Analyzer
S8:E511/26/1981
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
Director:Bruce Bilson
Writer:Nat Mauldin
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Director:Bruce Bilson
Writer:Nat Mauldin
8.0/10(124 votes)
#6 - Games
S8:E612/10/1981
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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8.1/10(132 votes)
#7 - Homeless
S8:E712/17/1981
The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.
Director:Lee Lochhead
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
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Director:Lee Lochhead
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.2/10(123 votes)
#8 - The Tontine
S8:E81/7/1982
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Director:Dick Wesson
Writer:Nat Mauldin
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Director:Dick Wesson
Writer:Nat Mauldin
8.1/10(125 votes)
#9 - Examination Day
S8:E91/14/1982
The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(128 votes)
#10 - The Clown
S8:E101/21/1982
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Sam Simon
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Sam Simon
8.1/10(127 votes)
#11 - Chinatown (1)
S8:E112/4/1982
A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.
Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
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Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.0/10(121 votes)
#12 - Chinatown (2)
S8:E122/11/1982
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
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Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.2/10(126 votes)
#13 - Hunger Strike
S8:E132/18/1982
Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Tony Sheehan
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Writer:Tony Sheehan
7.7/10(116 votes)
#14 - Arrival
S8:E142/25/1982
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
Director:Lee Lochhead
Writer:Jordan Moffet
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Director:Lee Lochhead
Writer:Jordan Moffet
8.0/10(115 votes)
#15 - Obituary
S8:E153/11/1982
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Nat Mauldin
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Writer:Nat Mauldin
8.1/10(106 votes)
#16 - Inquiry
S8:E163/26/1982
Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry parent takes action when his child is declined admission into an exclusive kindergarten.
Director:Unknown
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
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Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.1/10(128 votes)
#17 - Old Love
S8:E174/2/1982
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
Director:Hal Linden
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Hal Linden
Writer:Unknown
8.3/10(110 votes)
#18 - Altercation
S8:E184/9/1982
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Tony Sheehan
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Writer:Tony Sheehan
7.7/10(121 votes)
#19 - Bones
S8:E194/29/1982
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
Director:Max Gail
Writer:Nat Mauldin
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Director:Max Gail
Writer:Nat Mauldin
8.0/10(130 votes)
#20 - Landmark (1)
S8:E205/6/1982
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Tony Sheehan
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Writer:Tony Sheehan
8.2/10(124 votes)
#21 - Landmark (2)
S8:E215/13/1982
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
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Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
9.1/10(221 votes)
#22 - Landmark (3)
S8:E225/20/1982
Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave for new assignments; Harris contemplates his resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows; Barney recalls friends departed before he turns out the squad room lights for the last time.
Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Tony Sheehan, Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
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Director:Danny Arnold
Writers:Tony Sheehan, Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein