Barney Miller — Season 8

Aired 29 October 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.

Aired 5 November 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.

Aired 12 November 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.

Aired 19 November 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.

Aired 26 November 1981 • 30 min

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

Aired 10 December 1981

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

Aired 17 December 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.

Aired 7 January 1982

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

Aired 14 January 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.

Aired 21 January 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.

Aired 4 February 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.

Aired 11 February 1982

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

Aired 18 February 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.

Aired 25 February 1982

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

Aired 11 March 1982 • 30 min

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

Aired 26 March 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.

Aired 2 April 1982 • 30 min

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

Aired 9 April 1982 • 30 min

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

Aired 29 April 1982 • 30 min

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

Aired 6 May 1982

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

Aired 13 May 1982

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

Aired 20 May 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.