← Barney Miller

Season 4

23 episodes · 1977

  1. 1

    Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

    Sep 15, 197730 min★ 7.9

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

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    Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

    Sep 22, 197730 min★ 8.7

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

  3. 3

    Bugs

    Sep 29, 197730 min★ 8.1

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

  4. 4

    Corporation

    Oct 6, 197730 min★ 7.7

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

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    Burial

    Oct 20, 197730 min★ 7.9

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

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    Copy Cat

    Oct 27, 197730 min★ 8.2

    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.

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    Blizzard

    Nov 3, 197730 min★ 8.0

    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.

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    Chase

    Nov 17, 197730 min★ 8.5

    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.

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    Thanksgiving Story

    Nov 24, 197730 min★ 7.8

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

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    Tunnel

    Dec 1, 197730 min★ 7.8

    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.

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    Atomic Bomb

    Dec 15, 197730 min★ 8.3

    Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.

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    The Bank

    Jan 5, 197830 min★ 8.1

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

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    The Ghost

    Jan 12, 197830 min★ 8.2

    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.

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    Appendicitis

    Jan 19, 197830 min★ 8.0

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

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    Rape

    Jan 26, 197830 min★ 7.4

    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.

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    Eviction (1)

    Feb 2, 197830 min★ 8.4

    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.

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    Eviction (2)

    Feb 9, 197830 min★ 8.3

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

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    Wojo's Problem

    Feb 23, 197830 min★ 7.8

    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.

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    'Quo Vadis?'

    Mar 2, 197830 min★ 8.1

    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.

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    Hostage

    Mar 23, 197830 min★ 8.5

    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.

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    Evaluation

    May 4, 197830 min★ 8.1

    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.

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    The Sighting

    May 11, 197830 min★ 7.9

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

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    Inauguration

    May 18, 197830 min★ 7.8

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