Barney Miller
The Captain of the NYPD 12th Precinct and his staff handle the various local troubles and characters that come into the squad room.
Cast:Hal Linden , Abe Vigoda , Max Gail , Steve Landesberg , Ron Glass , Ron Carey , Jack Soo , James Gregory , Barbara Barrie , Gregory Sierra , George Murdock , John Dullaghan , Stanley Brock , Jack DeLeon , Alex Henteloff , J.J. Barry , Don Calfa , Phil Leeds
S8.E1 ∙ Paternity
Wojo is proved innocent in a paternity suit, but at a price. An angry patron vandalizes a theater. A beauty queen is robbed.
S8.E2 ∙ Advancement
Harris signs a contract for a new book. A lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning ticket. Luger manipulates Barney into writing a letter to his mail-order bride.
S8.E3 ∙ The Car
A car thief's conscience haunts him twenty-five years after the fact. An overzealous sanitation officer goes haywire. Levitt saves a child from certain danger.
S8.E4 ∙ Possession
A disorderly conduct report leads to a man who insists he's possessed by an evil spirit. A husband is arrested for forcing his wife into designer jeans.
S8.E5 ∙ Stress Analyzer
A Peace Corps recruiter goes overboard at a job fair. Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
S8.E6 ∙ Games
A computer game processor manufacturer is accused of espionage. An U. S. Army Specialist supplements her income as a prostitute.
S8.E7 ∙ Homeless
The precinct is overrun with vagrants on Christmas. A merchant uses a cattle prod as his weapon of choice. A greeting card writer snaps.
S8.E8 ∙ The Tontine
The survivor of a tontine attempts suicide so he can leave the money to his cousin.
S8.E9 ∙ Examination Day
The detectives work in uniform while Levitt and the others take their sergeant's exams. While working with the squad, Luger is overly rough with a perpetrator, and later with Barney.
S8.E10 ∙ The Clown
Street clowns are being attacked by a serial mugger. A hundred inmates are secretly evacuated from holding in the middle of the night.
S8.E11 ∙ Chinatown: Part 1
Harris and Dietrich are forced to share a hotel room in seclusion with an unco-operative murder witness until he talks. Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.
S8.E12 ∙ Chinatown: Part 2
Harris and Dietrich drive each other ever crazier as they continue to be confined to their hotel room with their unco-operative witness. Lieutenant Scanlon's wealthy target of affection files harassment charges against him.
S8.E13 ∙ Hunger Strike
A nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to protest the nuclear arms race. Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language. Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.
S8.E15 ∙ Obituary
A newspaper obituary creates a commotion when the subject is discovered to be alive. The detectives arrest a modern-day chicken thief.
S8.E16 ∙ Inquiry
Internal Affairs is called in when an arrest target levels a charge of excessive force against Wojo. An angry parent takes action when an exclusive kindergarten denies admission to his child.
S8.E17 ∙ Old Love
Dietrich's old flame pays him a visit. A former child actor hits his agent with a telephone.
S8.E18 ∙ Altercation
The Harris-Ripner conflict reaches a boiling point. A mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five- year-old crush on Barney.
S8.E19 ∙ Bones
A museum presses charges when an Indian lifts his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit. A scoutmaster catches a mugger.
S8.E20 ∙ Landmark: Part 1
Wojo's discovery of an ancient weapon results in a buyer expressing interest in the precinct building.
S8.E21 ∙ Landmark: Part 2
The interested buyer purchases the precinct building. Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school. Luger tries to bail out on his mail-order bride.
S8.E22 ∙ Landmark: Part 3
Everyone drops by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare for new assignments. Harris contemplates resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows. Barney recalls departed friends before he turns out the lights for the final time.
