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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 from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.

Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC

Season 8 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Barney Miller" season 8 is "Paternity", rated 7.9/10 from 121 user votes. It was directed by Danny Arnold and written by Nat Mauldin. "Paternity" aired on 10/29/1981 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Advancement".

  • Paternity
    7.9/10 121 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

  • Advancement
    8.0/10 96 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

  • The Car
    8.3/10 98 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

  • Possession
    8.3/10 116 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

  • Stress Analyzer
    8.0/10 108 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

  • Games
    7.8/10 104 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

  • Homeless
    8.3/10 109 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

  • The Tontine
    8.1/10 104 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

  • Examination Day
    8.1/10 103 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

  • The Clown
    8.0/10 106 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

  • Chinatown (1)
    8.0/10 109 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

  • Chinatown (2)
    7.8/10 102 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

  • Hunger Strike
    8.1/10 103 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

  • Arrival
    7.5/10 96 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

  • Obituary
    7.8/10 95 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

  • Inquiry
    7.9/10 88 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

  • Old Love
    8.1/10 105 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

  • Altercation
    8.2/10 92 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

  • Bones
    7.7/10 104 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

  • Landmark (1)
    8.1/10 109 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

  • Landmark (2)
    8.2/10 107 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

  • Landmark (3)
    9.0/10 187 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