7.9/10124 votes#1 - Paternity
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/29/1981
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
7.9/10100 votes#2 - Advancement
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1981
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
Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.3/10101 votes#3 - The Car
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/1981
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
8.3/10119 votes#4 - Possession
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1981
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: N/A
8.1/10114 votes#5 - Stress Analyzer
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1981
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
7.8/10106 votes#6 - Games
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/1981
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10113 votes#7 - Homeless
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 12/17/1981
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
Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.1/10106 votes#8 - The Tontine
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/1982
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Director: Dick Wesson
Writer: Nat Mauldin
8.1/10107 votes#9 - Examination Day
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/1982
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10110 votes#10 - The Clown
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/1982
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sam Simon
8.0/10113 votes#11 - Chinatown (1)
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 2/4/1982
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
Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
7.8/10106 votes#12 - Chinatown (2)
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/1982
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
Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.1/10108 votes#13 - Hunger Strike
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/1982
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: N/A
Writer: Tony Sheehan
7.5/10100 votes#14 - Arrival
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2/25/1982
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
Director: Lee Lochhead
Writer: Jordan Moffet
7.8/1099 votes#15 - Obituary
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/1982
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
7.9/1091 votes#16 - Inquiry
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/26/1982
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: N/A
Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
8.1/10109 votes#17 - Old Love
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 4/2/1982
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
Director: Hal Linden
Writer: N/A
8.2/1094 votes#18 - Altercation
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 4/9/1982
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
7.7/10107 votes#19 - Bones
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/1982
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
8.1/10112 votes#20 - Landmark (1)
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1982
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tony Sheehan
8.2/10109 votes#21 - Landmark (2)
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1982
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
Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
9.0/10192 votes#22 - Landmark (3)
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1982
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
Writer: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, Tony Sheehan
The Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 8
Every episode of Barney Miller Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 8!
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 8 Ratings Summary
"Paternity" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller" season 8. It scored 7.9/10 based on 124 votes. Directed by Danny Arnold and written by Nat Mauldin, it aired on 10/29/1981. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Advancement".