Barney Miller

Season 4

1977 · 23 episodes · 5h 30m in all · 9.5/10

Episodes

1. 

   1. Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

   15 Sept 1977 · 10.0/10

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

2. 

   2. Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

   22 Sept 1977 · 10.0/10

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

3. 

   3. Bugs

   29 Sept 1977 · 9.0/10

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

4. 

   4. Corporation

   6 Oct 1977

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

5. 

   5. Burial

   20 Oct 1977 · 10.0/10

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

6. 

   6. Copy Cat

   27 Oct 1977 · 10.0/10

   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.

7. 

   7. Blizzard

   3 Nov 1977 · 30 min · 10.0/10

   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.

8. 

   8. Chase

   17 Nov 1977 · 10.0/10

   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.

9. 

   9. Thanksgiving Story

   24 Nov 1977 · 9.0/10

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

10. 

    10. Tunnel

    1 Dec 1977 · 30 min · 10.0/10

    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.

11. 

    11. Atomic Bomb

    15 Dec 1977 · 10.0/10

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

12. 

    12. The Bank

    5 Jan 1978 · 10.0/10

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

13. 

    13. The Ghost

    12 Jan 1978 · 10.0/10

    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.

14. 

    14. Appendicitis

    19 Jan 1978 · 10.0/10

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

15. 

    15. Rape

    26 Jan 1978 · 30 min · 9.0/10

    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.

16. 

    16. Eviction (1)

    2 Feb 1978 · 30 min · 10.0/10

    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.

17. 

    17. Eviction (2)

    9 Feb 1978 · 30 min · 10.0/10

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

18. 

    18. Wojo's Problem

    23 Feb 1978 · 30 min · 10.0/10

    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.

19. 

    19. 'Quo Vadis?'

    2 Mar 1978 · 30 min · 10.0/10

    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.

20. 

    20. Hostage

    23 Mar 1978 · 30 min · 10.0/10

    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.

21. 

    21. Evaluation

    4 May 1978 · 30 min · 3.0/10

    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.

22. 

    22. The Sighting

    11 May 1978 · 30 min · 10.0/10

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

23. 

    23. Inauguration

    18 May 1978 · 30 min

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