Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.

A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.

The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in th...

An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Cha...

A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own ap...

Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.

Guests to the 12th include a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment; Wo...

An overzealous lady cop ruffles the feathers of the testosterone-run 12th; Chano nabs an obscene pho...

Barney is visited by Inspector Luger, who complains that his men aren't disliked enough by the publi...

The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set...

A self-avowed ""bird-man"" drops in; Barney holds a resourceful escaped prisoner for the FBI; Harris...

A scruffy ""Serpico""-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fi...

Chano is guilt-stricken when he shoots a holdup man; Liz makes a citizen's arrest, after being robbe...

A disgruntled man with a belt of dynamite threatens to blow himself and the squad room sky high unle...

Weary of housework, Liz tries her hand at social work, to Barney's dismay; a master forger fascinate...

Barney, Fish and Yemana feel the crunch when a labor layoff forces them to do without Chano, Harris...

Yemana is shot in full view of disinterested bystanders, and Barney is offered a job in Florida.

A wife claims spousal abuse; Wojo and Wentworth are bait for a park rapist.

The precinct is on the lookout for an arsonist; Chano brings in a man who used a deadly weapon on a...

Wojo and Wentworth pose as marrieds in order to bust a burglary ring set in a posh hotel.

Marty claims that a member of the 12th is harassing the gay community; the precinct computers think...

Barney smells a rat when two pounds of confiscated marijuana disappears from the evidence locker, an...

A hansom cab owner reports his horse missing. A man assaulted in his hotel room insists he was alone...

During a very rainy day, the squad must endure both the precinct roof threatening to collapse, and V...

A glimpse at Detective Fish's home life ensues when the detective decides to go on restricted duty....

A man is convinced that a photo of Jean Harlow is his missing wife; a pair of lady cops makes an ove...

The citizenry is in a panic amidst the rumors that the 12th Precinct is being shut down; a repentent...

On New Year's Eve, Fish tries to stop a jumper, and Wojo delivers a baby.

A con man is selling charter flights to Saturn; Wojo and Luger are sniper targets.

Wojo must escort a bigamist to Cleveland, even though he is (guess!) afraid of flying. Meanwhile,the...

Wentworth is furious when Chano gets the credit for her bust of an assassin at a block party.

Wentworth busts a dime-store cowboy in a massage parlor, and the detectives bust an octogenarian mug...

A department psychiatrist advises the department to confiscate Wojo's gun

Fish is attracted to the mother of a young mugger; a man is a bit premature to obtain the unclaimed...

Fish considers an operation; a burglar known as ""The Mole"" leads Harris and Wojo on a merry chase...

Wojo is dismayed to discover that the city doesn't have up-to-date evacuation procedures in the even...

Wojo brings in a sick perp who collapses on the floor...resulting in the 12th being put under quaran...

The quarantined 12th Precinct tries to make it through the night: Lugar has a 'talk' with Marty and...

Quarters are tight at the 12th when a holdup man is confined with his busload of victims.

Election Day at the One-Two includes: A woman, being held from voting by her husband, throws a toile...

A disturbance in the park turns out to be a man who claims to be a werewolf.

A latter-day prophet claims the end is near - 5:30, to be precise; a man who hasn't left his apartme...

Barney doesn't see a crime, but Wojo's brought in a man for refusing to aid a mugging victim.

A power failure darkens spirits at the 12th, where they play host to a man with a split personality.

Wojo wants to tell Yemana that his Christmas Eve date is a call girl; Fish dons a red suit to catch...

Wojo brings hashish-laced brownies his new girlfriend made to the 12th Precinct, getting the detecti...

All eyes are on Fish as the city undergoes a first-stage smog alert; an unlikely connection is made...

An evicted tenant greets a landlord with a musket; Barney's charged with harassment when he books a...

Rather than return one week per month to uniformed patrol, Wojo quits the force.

The 12th may go up in smoke, to the delight of a suicidal couple.

Barney has his hands full with a couple who want his assistance with their cult-influenced daughter,...

Weary of waiting for promotion, Levitt announces that he's quitting the force; Barney investigates a...

Barney discovers that Harris has been moonlighting; Dietrich arrests a priest who's fencing stolen g...

Marty is picked up for parole violation with a half ounce of marijuana; Wojo prematurely grants a Ru...

Yemana assists a bigoted Army officer when a bomber threatens a recruiting facility; it's Fish's tur...

An impending strike is on everyone's mind, except the woman who was robbed by her computer date. (Pa...

Barney and Inspector Luger man the fort alone when the detectives go out on strike.

A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.

Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.

Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon ad...

A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assau...

Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.

Yemana scours the TV Guide to try to second-guess the felon who's aping the prime-time lineup crime...

A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guest—a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure t...

A taxi company is irate when Wojo totals a borrowed cab while pursuing a robbery suspect; Lieutenant...

The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.

Wojo is buried alive after a tunnel collapses on a burglar burrowing towards the diamond exchange; a...

Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functi...

A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.

The detectives are unimpressed with a man who claims he's being visited by a poltergeist - that is,...

Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an...

The city legalizes off-track gambling, to the delight of Yemana; a woman wants her husband arrested...

Barney puts his career on the line by refusing to forcibly evict the tenants of a condemned hotel, w...

The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""gi...

Wojo comes to Barney with a problem his superior would rather not know about; the 12th's new female...

Barney uncovers, if you will, the real reason behind a woman's vehement insistence that a nude-paint...

Harris finally finds an apartment in the Village; a ventriloquist insists he's not responsible for h...

The members of the squad nervously await Barney filling out their evaluation forms. Meanwhile, Harri...

A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO ov...

Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.

A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan...

Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo...

Off goes the moustache, as it's Harris' turn for cross-dressing mugging detail; the host of a kids'...

The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separatio...

A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Lev...

An accusation of an indiscretion on the part of Dietrich leads to a visit from the gleeful Lieutenan...

A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate t...

Barney notes some uncharacteristic behavior from Yemana; a client can't get a tattoo artist to remov...

Barney has the uneasy feeling that it may have been Levitt that vandalized the precinct squad room;...

A stockbroker leaves Wall Street to become a beggar; a rookie cop, assuming Harris to be a felon, sh...

Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.

Feuding toy makers create a disturbance; Barney faces his first holiday as a separated man; a claust...

A woman has her shoes stolen - from her feet; Wojo is forced to arrest an aging Indian who only want...

Lieutenant Scanlon returns, this time attempting to ferret out corruption with a lie detector; Barne...

A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.

Wojo decides to move in with his girlfriend; Mr. Brauer tells his wife that he's leaving to become a...

Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.

Barney feels the onrush of Father Time; Dietrich books an Olympic hopeful who practices his javelin...

Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's w...

The 12th Precinct hosts an open house, attracting only vagrants; Barney's joy at moving back home is...

Harris quickly regrets the fact that Dietrich has saved his life; the 12th is asked to assist a thie...

A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under...

Barney and his crew face the late shift with a man who believes that he is being frequented by a suc...

The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth seas...

When an anonymous letter identifies a member of the 12th Precinct as a homosexual, it buys the boys...

A tranquil prisoner claims to be Jesus Christ, which is timely for the drug dealer caught with an im...

A string of false alarms suggests that a sniper may be after a cop, but the detectives are preoccupi...

A visiting monk opts for a quick dalliance with a lady of the streets; Barney discovers to his horro...

Harris bristles when he learns that the Burmese chauffeur being booked for a traffic accident is act...

A bookstore owner is infuriated when a strip club opens near his place of business; and man is convi...

Harris' book publication hits a snag when Dietrich refuses to sign a release; a suicide hot line ope...

A former master criminal becomes a walking zombie following his lobotomy; a man is unable to use the...

A judge provides an attorney with the ultimate over-ruling—a gavel on the noggin; the crimes repor...

The detectives search for a missing viral strain stolen from a lab; a woman is convinced that her hu...

One man's hands are a musical instrument to himself and a nuisance to others; a detective goes under...

Weary of an uncooperative populace, a census taker goes to drastic measures to make a head count; be...

Vagrant Ray returns to report his fellow bums' disappearances; a woman wishes to have a child with a...

Harris disappears while undercover as a vagrant; Luger elects to be demoted rather than to retire.

A self-proclaimed time traveler tells Harris to fine tune his stock portfolio; Marty's divrorced gen...

Wojo fears that a despondent Luger is planning to do himself in; a man seeking to reclaim his televi...

The cops observe the annual department-mandated ritual of wearing their uniforms - except for Harris...

A lottery winner dispenses of the prize money by tossing it out a window; Sgt. Dietrich is arrested...

Harris gets the unenviable task of booking his colleague Dietrich, whose arrest prompts a visit from...

A disgruntled architect decides to improve on his building—by blowing it up.

The squad tries hypnosis to uncover the name of a felon that Wojo has forgotten; an inventor steals...

Barney is down in the dumps when he is passed over again for deputy inspector

When the NYPD restructures its precincts as specialty squads, Luger pulls some strings and gets the...

Harris woos the precinct's crime photographer, while Dietrich tracks down the hit man's intended tar...

A drunk and disorderly turns out to be a delegate from the 1976 Democratic convention; Barney discov...

The new detective is convinced that his compatriots are on the take and asks to be dealt out.

Another domestic dispute at the Brauer household occurs when their apartment building becomes ""clot...

Dorsey takes a protective stance to a young prostitute; Harris is getting stock tips from another on...

Dietrich, stricken with guilt when he shoots a felon, tenders his resignation; a playwright assaults...

Someone is sending specific information on transgressions of the men to Internal Affairs; Harris set...

Harris is assigned to direct a pornographic movie; an old-time radio newsman assaults a vacuous tele...

A blind mugging victim and an overzealous charity collector are among the disparate audience members...

An accused mugger claims that he was answering a psychic vision; a language professor takes vandalis...

A deaf woman is arrested for prostitution; Barney anxiously awaits news of Wojo, who dived into the...

A serious tone pervades this episode about a gypsy and his harassment of the owner of a novelty stor...

Ripner is suing Harris over the lawyer's portrayal in the detective's novel; Wojo asks Barney's daug...

A restaurant may have refused a man service because of his appearance; Barney won't name an informan...

When Barney spends the night in jail, the squad room is left in the natty hands of Sergeant Harris.

An expensive doll is abducted for ransom; a man claims he was swindled in exchange for a ticket on t...

The verdict is in on the Harris/Ripner libel suit, and a woman threatens to blow up the squad room w...

Luger takes a small disturbance with the Hassidic community and turns it into a full-scale riot; the...

The detectives are reluctant to wear their new bulletproof vests; Luger interviews them in case of t...

The officers arrest a rainmaker, only discover that he was hired by the drought-ridden city; Wojo, H...

Harris is forced to liquidate his possessions to pay off his lawsuit.

Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theate...

Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the...

A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child fr...

A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads t...

A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department str...

A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on...

The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod...

The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.

The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with t...

Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the midd...

A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in se...

Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanw...

Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activ...

Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.

A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day...

Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry par...

Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.

Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barne...

A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a sco...

Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.

The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on h...

Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave...