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.
Writer: Danny Arnold
Air date: 1978-09-14
Overview: A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.
Air date: 1978-09-14
Overview: Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo and the victim's nebbish son.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1978-09-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Off goes the moustache, as it's Harris' turn for cross-dressing mugging detail; the host of a kids' science show goes off the deep end; Barney's men reopen a twenty-eight year old missing persons case.
Writer: Reinhold Weege
Air date: 1978-09-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separation.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1978-10-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Levitt turns to stimulants to aid in his self-imposed thirty-six hour shift.
Air date: 1978-10-12
Overview: An accusation of an indiscretion on the part of Dietrich leads to a visit from the gleeful Lieutenant Scanlon of Internal Affairs; Yemana books a rabbi who is running a gambling casino in his synagogue.
Writer: Reinhold Weege
Air date: 1978-10-19
Overview: A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate the family business.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1978-11-02
Overview: Barney notes some uncharacteristic behavior from Yemana; a client can't get a tattoo artist to remove his work; Harris books a youthful loan shark
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1978-11-09
Overview: Barney has the uneasy feeling that it may have been Levitt that vandalized the precinct squad room; a TV programming executive is assaulted in a coffee shop.
Writer: Reinhold Weege
Air date: 1978-11-30
Overview: A stockbroker leaves Wall Street to become a beggar; a rookie cop, assuming Harris to be a felon, shoots at him.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1978-12-07
Overview: Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1978-12-14
Overview: Feuding toy makers create a disturbance; Barney faces his first holiday as a separated man; a claustrophobic prisoner has an understandable problem with the cage.
Writer: Reinhold Weege
Air date: 1979-01-04
Overview: A woman has her shoes stolen - from her feet; Wojo is forced to arrest an aging Indian who only wants to die in the park.
Writer: Reinhold Weege
Air date: 1979-01-11
Overview: Lieutenant Scanlon returns, this time attempting to ferret out corruption with a lie detector; Barney is suspicious of a furrier's robbery report.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1979-01-18
Overview: A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.
Writer: Danny Arnold
Air date: 1979-01-25
Overview: Wojo decides to move in with his girlfriend; Mr. Brauer tells his wife that he's leaving to become a mercenary. This was a pilot for a potential spin-off series, each week focusing on one of the cops' off-duty lives.
Air date: 1979-01-25
Overview: Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.
Writer: Danny Arnold
Air date: 1979-02-01
Overview: Barney feels the onrush of Father Time; Dietrich books an Olympic hopeful who practices his javelin toss in Central Park; a Hassidic Jew is the target of a diamond thief.
Writer: Reinhold Weege
Air date: 1979-02-08
Overview: Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1979-02-15
Overview: The 12th Precinct hosts an open house, attracting only vagrants; Barney's joy at moving back home is cut short by the hotel manager that refuses to refund him his upcoming month's rent; Wojo and Harris try to get a lead on an arsonist.
Air date: 1979-03-01
Overview: Harris quickly regrets the fact that Dietrich has saved his life; the 12th is asked to assist a thief who has been granted entry into a witness-relocation program.
Air date: 1979-03-15
Overview: A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under the influence of a voodoo curse.
Writer: Tony Sheehan
Air date: 1979-05-10
Overview: Barney and his crew face the late shift with a man who believes that he is being frequented by a succubus and an irate tourist.
Air date: 1979-05-17
Overview: The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth season.
