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.
Air date: 1977-09-15
Overview: A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
Air date: 1977-09-22
Overview: Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
Air date: 1977-09-29
Overview: Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
Air date: 1977-10-06
Overview: A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
Air date: 1977-10-20
Overview: Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
Air date: 1977-10-27
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1977-11-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1977-11-17
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1977-11-24
Overview: The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
Air date: 1977-12-01
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1977-12-15
Overview: Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.
Air date: 1978-01-05
Overview: A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.
Air date: 1978-01-12
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1978-01-19
Overview: Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.
Air date: 1978-01-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1978-02-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1978-02-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""
Air date: 1978-02-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1978-03-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1978-03-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1978-05-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1978-05-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
Air date: 1978-05-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.
