The Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 8

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

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

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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

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: N/A

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

A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.

Director: Dick Wesson

Writer: Nat Mauldin

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: N/A

Writer: N/A

Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.

Director: N/A

Writer: Sam Simon

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

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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: N/A

Writer: Tony Sheehan

Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.

Director: Lee Lochhead

Writer: Jordan Moffet

A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.

Director: N/A

Writer: Nat Mauldin

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: N/A

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.

Director: Hal Linden

Writer: N/A

Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.

Director: N/A

Writer: Tony Sheehan

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

Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.

Director: N/A

Writer: Tony Sheehan

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

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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

Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, Tony Sheehan