Barney Miller
Barney Miller is a sensible police squad show that keeps order as a rotating mix of detectives deals with everyday oddities. Most stories play out in a tightly focused precinct setting where citizens and criminals add to the chaos, blending dry humor with occasional more serious moments.
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Season 4
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E1
Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
Sep 15, 1977 · 30m -
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E2
Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
Sep 22, 1977 · 30m -
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E3
Bugs
Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
Sep 29, 1977 · 30m -
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E4
Corporation
A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
Oct 6, 1977 · 30m -
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E5
Burial
Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
Oct 20, 1977 · 30m -
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E6
Copy Cat
Yemana scours the TV Guide to try to second-guess the felon who's aping the prime-time lineup crime shows; a drunk forgets the most important element in a hold-up - a weapon.
Oct 27, 1977 · 30m -
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E7
Blizzard
A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guest—a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure that the weather is indicative of a new ice age.
Nov 3, 1977 · 30m -
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E8
Chase
A taxi company is irate when Wojo totals a borrowed cab while pursuing a robbery suspect; Lieutenant Scanlon tries to ferret out 12th Precinct corruption with a drug pusher.
Nov 17, 1977 · 30m -
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E9
Thanksgiving Story
The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
Nov 24, 1977 · 30m -
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E10
Tunnel
Wojo is buried alive after a tunnel collapses on a burglar burrowing towards the diamond exchange; a homeless Harris is combing Manhattan for a new apartment.
Dec 1, 1977 · 30m -
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E11
Atomic Bomb
Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.
Dec 15, 1977 · 30m -
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E12
The Bank
A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.
Jan 5, 1978 · 30m -
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E13
The Ghost
The detectives are unimpressed with a man who claims he's being visited by a poltergeist - that is, until they lock the man up and strange events begin occurring about the squad room.
Jan 12, 1978 · 30m -
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E14
Appendicitis
Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.
Jan 19, 1978 · 30m -
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E15
Rape
The city legalizes off-track gambling, to the delight of Yemana; a woman wants her husband arrested on a rape charge; a master of disguise perpetuates a crime spree.
Jan 26, 1978 · 30m -
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E16
Eviction (1)
Barney puts his career on the line by refusing to forcibly evict the tenants of a condemned hotel, while Lugar tries to figure out what to do with his vacation time.
Feb 2, 1978 · 30m -
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E17
Eviction (2)
The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""
Feb 9, 1978 · 30m -
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E18
Wojo's Problem
Wojo comes to Barney with a problem his superior would rather not know about; the 12th's new female detective has a very jealous husband, suspicious of her all-male co-workers; somehow a shoplifter escapes - in a wheelchair.
Feb 23, 1978 · 30m -
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E19
'Quo Vadis?'
Barney uncovers, if you will, the real reason behind a woman's vehement insistence that a nude-painting exhibit at a local art gallery be shut down; the Millers may be heading for divorce.
Mar 2, 1978 · 30m -
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E20
Hostage
Harris finally finds an apartment in the Village; a ventriloquist insists he's not responsible for his dummy's insensitive remarks; a prisoner holds the boys at gunpoint.
Mar 23, 1978 · 30m -
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E21
Evaluation
The members of the squad nervously await Barney filling out their evaluation forms. Meanwhile, Harris arrests a numerologist who will only give his name as ""1223,"" and a porno shop reporting vandalism turns out to be a mom and pop operation being hassled by their kids.
May 4, 1978 · 30m -
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E22
The Sighting
A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
May 11, 1978 · 30m -
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E23
Inauguration
Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.
May 18, 1978 · 30m