Barney Miller — Season 4

Aired 15 September 1977

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

Aired 22 September 1977

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

Aired 29 September 1977

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

Aired 6 October 1977

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

Aired 20 October 1977

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

Aired 27 October 1977

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.

Aired 3 November 1977 • 30 min

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.

Aired 17 November 1977

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.

Aired 24 November 1977

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

Aired 1 December 1977 • 30 min

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.

Aired 15 December 1977

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

Aired 5 January 1978

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

Aired 12 January 1978

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.

Aired 19 January 1978

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

Aired 26 January 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 2 February 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 9 February 1978 • 30 min

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

Aired 23 February 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 2 March 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 23 March 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 4 May 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 11 May 1978 • 30 min

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

Aired 18 May 1978 • 30 min

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