Season 8

1981 · 22 episodes · 6h 0m in all · 9.3/10

1. Paternity
29 Oct 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.
2. Advancement
5 Nov 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.
3. The Car
12 Nov 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.
4. Possession
19 Nov 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.
5. Stress Analyzer
26 Nov 1981 · 30 min · 9.0/10
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
6. Games
10 Dec 1981
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
7. Homeless
17 Dec 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.
8. The Tontine
7 Jan 1982
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
9. Examination Day
14 Jan 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.
10. The Clown
21 Jan 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.
11. Chinatown (1)
4 Feb 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.
12. Chinatown (2)
11 Feb 1982
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
13. Hunger Strike
18 Feb 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.
14. Arrival
25 Feb 1982
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
15. Obituary
11 Mar 1982 · 30 min
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
16. Inquiry
26 Mar 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.
17. Old Love
2 Apr 1982 · 30 min
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
18. Altercation
9 Apr 1982 · 30 min
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
19. Bones
29 Apr 1982 · 30 min
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
20. Landmark (1)
6 May 1982 · 9.0/10
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
21. Landmark (2)
13 May 1982 · 9.0/10
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
22. Landmark (3)
20 May 1982 · 10.0/10
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.