Barney Miller (1981) Season 8
Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
01 Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
10/29/1981
02 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.
11/5/1981
03 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.
11/12/1981
04 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.
11/19/1981
05 A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
11/26/1981
06 A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
12/10/1981
07 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.
12/17/1981
08 The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
1/7/1982
09 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.
1/14/1982
10 Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
1/21/1982
11 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.
2/4/1982
12 Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
2/11/1982
13 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.
2/18/1982
14 Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
2/25/1982
15 A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
3/11/1982
16 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.
3/26/1982
17 Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
4/2/1982
18 Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
4/9/1982
19 A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
4/29/1982
20 Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
5/6/1982
21 The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
5/13/1982
22 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.
5/20/1982
