Episode guide
Barney Miller: Season 4
23 episodes · premiered Sep 15, 1977
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- Episode 1: Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1) Sep 15, 1977 A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
- Episode 2: Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2) Sep 22, 1977 Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
- Episode 3: Bugs Sep 29, 1977 Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
- Episode 4: Corporation Oct 6, 1977 A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
- Episode 5: Burial Oct 20, 1977 Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
- Episode 6: Copy Cat Oct 27, 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.
- Episode 7: Blizzard Nov 3, 1977 · 30m 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.
- Episode 8: Chase Nov 17, 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.
- Episode 9: Thanksgiving Story Nov 24, 1977 The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
- Episode 10: Tunnel Dec 1, 1977 · 30m 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.
- Episode 11: Atomic Bomb Dec 15, 1977 Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.
- Episode 12: The Bank Jan 5, 1978 A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.
- Episode 13: The Ghost Jan 12, 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.
- Episode 14: Appendicitis Jan 19, 1978 Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.
- Episode 15: Rape Jan 26, 1978 · 30m 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.
- Episode 16: Eviction (1) Feb 2, 1978 · 30m 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.
- Episode 17: Eviction (2) Feb 9, 1978 · 30m The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""
- Episode 18: Wojo's Problem Feb 23, 1978 · 30m 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…
- Episode 19: 'Quo Vadis?' Mar 2, 1978 · 30m 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.
- Episode 20: Hostage Mar 23, 1978 · 30m 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.
- Episode 21: Evaluation May 4, 1978 · 30m 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…
- Episode 22: The Sighting May 11, 1978 · 30m A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
- Episode 23: Inauguration May 18, 1978 · 30m Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.