← Barney Miller

Season 8

22 episodes · 1981

  1. 1

    Paternity

    Oct 29, 198130 min★ 8.1

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

  2. 2

    Advancement

    Nov 5, 198130 min★ 7.9

    Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.

  3. 3

    The Car

    Nov 12, 198130 min★ 8.2

    A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.

  4. 4

    Possession

    Nov 19, 198130 min★ 8.3

    A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.

  5. 5

    Stress Analyzer

    Nov 26, 198130 min★ 8.0

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

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    Games

    Dec 10, 198130 min★ 7.8

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

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    Homeless

    Dec 17, 198130 min★ 8.1

    The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.

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    The Tontine

    Jan 7, 198230 min★ 8.0

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

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    Examination Day

    Jan 14, 198230 min★ 8.2

    The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.

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    The Clown

    Jan 21, 198230 min★ 7.9

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

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    Chinatown (1)

    Feb 4, 198230 min★ 7.9

    A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.

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    Chinatown (2)

    Feb 11, 198230 min★ 7.9

    Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.

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    Hunger Strike

    Feb 18, 198230 min★ 8.0

    Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.

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    Arrival

    Feb 25, 198230 min★ 7.7

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

  15. 15

    Obituary

    Mar 11, 198230 min★ 7.9

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

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    Inquiry

    Mar 26, 198230 min★ 8.1

    Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry parent takes action when his child is declined admission into an exclusive kindergarten.

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    Old Love

    Apr 2, 198230 min★ 8.1

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

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    Altercation

    Apr 9, 198230 min★ 8.4

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

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    Bones

    Apr 29, 198230 min★ 7.7

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

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    Landmark (1)

    May 6, 198230 min★ 8.0

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

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    Landmark (2)

    May 13, 198230 min★ 8.1

    The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.

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    Landmark (3)

    May 20, 198230 min★ 9.2

    Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave for new assignments; Harris contemplates his resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows; Barney recalls friends departed before he turns out the squad room lights for the last time.