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