Barney Miller
Barney Miller: Season 8

Air Date

October 29, 1981

Episodes

22 episodes

Barney Miller

Season 8

Episodes

Paternity

1. Paternity

October 29, 1981
30 min

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

Advancement

2. Advancement

November 5, 1981
30 min

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.

The Car

3. The Car

November 12, 1981
30 min

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.

Possession

4. Possession

November 19, 1981
30 min

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.

Stress Analyzer

5. Stress Analyzer

9.0
November 26, 1981
30 min

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

Games

6. Games

December 10, 1981

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

Homeless

7. Homeless

December 17, 1981
30 min

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.

The Tontine

8. The Tontine

January 7, 1982

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

Examination Day

9. Examination Day

January 14, 1982

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.

The Clown

10. The Clown

January 21, 1982
30 min

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

Chinatown (1)

11. Chinatown (1)

February 4, 1982

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.

Chinatown (2)

12. Chinatown (2)

February 11, 1982

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

Hunger Strike

13. Hunger Strike

February 18, 1982

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.

Arrival

14. Arrival

February 25, 1982

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

Obituary

15. Obituary

March 11, 1982
30 min

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

Inquiry

16. Inquiry

March 26, 1982
30 min

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.

Old Love

17. Old Love

April 2, 1982
30 min

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

Altercation

18. Altercation

April 9, 1982
30 min

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

Bones

19. Bones

April 29, 1982
30 min

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

Landmark (1)

20. Landmark (1)

9.0
May 6, 1982

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

Landmark (2)

21. Landmark (2)

9.0
May 13, 1982

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

Landmark (3)

22. Landmark (3)

10.0
May 20, 1982

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.