Barney Miller
Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) and his officers fight crime in this humorous classic TV series. Captain Barney Miller is the consummate boss, earning the loyalty of the officers under him. The early shows featured scenes from Barney's home life, but it was soon put on the back burner to emphasize the characters with whom he interacted at the twelfth precinct. Detective Ron Harris (Ron Glass) would rather be an author and even publishes a book about the precinct that isn't exactly flying off the shelves. Nick Yemana (Jack Soo) is a Japanese American cop from Omaha who is so low key he's almost napping. Wojciehowicz (Maxwell Gail), or Wojo, is the innocent of the group who doesn't seem very bright but speaks for everyone with his simple statements of truth. Dietrich (Steve Landesberg) is the intellectual who could be doing anything for a living, but chooses to be a detective. Fish (Abe Vigoda) is the seen-it-all veteran who can't wait for retirement, even though that would mean more time with his wife, Bernice (Florence Stanley). All of them worked together to make one of the funniest sitcoms ever on the air.
Genre: Comedy
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Episode 22
You Dirty Rat
aired: Wed, Dec 10, 2008
Fish must decide between an operation or a lifetime of sitting on a rubber cushion. Meanwhile, Wojehowicz and Harris have to chase a burglar through the sewers of New York. Then, a doctor and an insurance man are brought in for having come to blows in a bar in disagreement over a malpractice situation.
Episode 21
Discovery
aired: Wed, Dec 10, 2008
Fish arrests Claudio, a teenager who tried to pick his pocket on the subway. The situation is complicated when the boy's attractive mother, Mrs. Trujillo, comes to the station house and the detective becomes infatuated with her. But is Fish up to it--and will Bernice, Fish's wife, stand for it?
Episode 20
The Psychiatrist
aired: Wed, Dec 10, 2008
Wojo makes a verbal threat to a prisoner, which results in a psychiatric testing. The doctor decides that Wojo is unfit to carry a gun, then wants to test all of Barney's men. When Yemana sees an elephant wearing a hat in the ink blot test, the whole squad is really in trouble.
Episode 19
Massage Parlor
aired: Wed, Dec 10, 2008
None of the girls who work in a massage parlor will provide Barney's detectives with evidence that there is any immoral conduct in their establishment until Det. Wentworth arrests a cowboy named Lance. The day's docket also includes a complaint lodged by a Mr. Fletcher against an old lady who, he says, mugged him after he helped her cross the street.
Episode 18
Block Party
aired: Wed, Dec 10, 2008
Chano and Detective Janice Wentworth are assigned to cover a party for a union leader. However, Wojehowicz and Janice have been dating, and Wojo is jealous when Chano gets the joint assignment with her. Things get even more complicated when Janice prevents a shooting of the union leader.
Episode 17
Fear Of Flying
aired: Tue, Mar 4, 2008
Wojo, who is afraid of flying, complains to Barney when he has to fly a bigamist back to Ohio to stand trial. Meanwhile, Woolen, a public-spirited citizen who found $3,500 wants to hold it in a bank account until it is claimed.
Episode 16
Sniper
aired: Thu, Jan 22, 1976
Barney and his men search for a man with a high-powered rifle who hates cops, while a Mr. Sobel comes in to complain about his wife who took half their savings for a projected space trip to Saturn. Barney tries to keep his detectives cool about the sniper -- who gets off some shots at Wojo in front of the 12th precinct station house -- while he has Mr. Hackler, the space trip promoter, picked up as a confidence man.
Episode 14
Protection
aired: Tue, Nov 25, 2008
When the rumor spreads that Barney's station is being closed down, a protection racket springs up in the neighborhood.
Episode 13
Hot Dogs
aired: Thu, Dec 11, 1975
Two off-duty policewomen who want to become detectives cause havoc for Barney and his men by making arrests on a college campus. One of the persons arrested is a suspected drug pusher who Chano has been trailing. Inspector Luger gets involved in the case when the school chancellor and the mayor get upset, charging the police with invading the campus.
Episode 12
Fish
aired: Thu, Dec 4, 1975
Fish has a physical examination and the results lead Barney to put him on restricted duty. Detective Arthur Dietrich is assigned to work with and be trained by him. Because of the restricted schedule, Fish goes home for lunch for the third time in thirty years. Dietrich follows him and meets Bernice and Fish's single daughter Beverly.
Episode 11
Rain
aired: Tue, Nov 25, 2008
An endless rainstorm causes the detective to fear the collapse of their precinct roof.
Episode 10
Horse Thief
aired: Thu, Nov 20, 1975
A Bicentennial celebration creates some unusual events: A hansom cabbie from Washington Square borrows a policeman's horse when his is stolen and a tourist claims he got a black eye from a fall -- that also destroyed his hotel room. Also, a "lady" has a hard time explaining to Barney how she can sell Bicentennial buttons for 60 dollars.
Episode 9
You Dirty Rat
aired: Thu, Nov 13, 1975
In "You Dirty Rat," Fish reports to the narcotics squad that the 12th precinct has taken possession of 20 kilos of marijuana, but there are only 18 kilos when a detective comes by to pick it up. Meanwhile, Barney has called an exterminator to get rid of the rat that bit Wojehowicz.
Episode 8
Discovery
aired: Thu, Oct 30, 1975
After Detective Janice Wentworth (Linda Lavin) picks up a market robbery suspect on the way to work, Barney sends her with Wojo to check into a plush hotel. Posing as man and wife, they will try to find out who robbed six of the hotel's guests. Meanwhile, Huntsinger, the hotel detective, arrives at the stationhouse with a guest he has captured for suspected sexual assault.
Episode 7
Grand Hotel
aired: Tue, Oct 14, 2008
After Detective Janice Wentworth (Linda Lavin) picks up a market robbery suspect on the way to work, Barney sends her with Wojo to check into a plush hotel. Posing as man and wife, they will try to find out who robbed six of the hotel's guests. Meanwhile, Huntsinger, the hotel detective, arrives at the stationhouse with a guest he has captured for suspected sexual assault.
Episode 6
Arsonist
aired: Tue, Oct 14, 2008
Chano and Wojehowicz arrest a man for shooting a vending machine in a subway and Harris sees psychological problems as the cause of a recent wave of arson. Harris is convinced that a man who has been setting fires is seriously frustrated and he and Wojo seek him out in a variety of dives. Chano, in checking out a reported subway shooting, finds that the "victim" is a vending machine that didn't yield a candy bar to an enraged man whom he arrests.
Episode 5
Heat Wave
aired: Tue, Oct 14, 2008
Members of Barney's (Hal Linden) squad of detectives don dresses to help women detectives Wentworth (Linda Lavin) and Bailey (Gloria Calomee) catch a rapist. Tempers are short and working in the squad room is unbearable because of the summer heat. And Barney also has another problem -- Wojehowicz (Max Gail) refuses to wear a dress for the stakeout he is going on with Wentworth.
Episode 4
Ambush
aired: Thu, Oct 2, 1975
Yemana has an embarrassing gunshot wound.
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Episode 3
Layoff, The
aired: Tue, Oct 14, 2008
Just as the precinct is having an upsurge in crime, Barney is ordered to suspend three officers as a result of the city's financial crisis.
Episode 2
The Social Worker
aired: Thu, Sep 18, 1975
Elizabeth has Barney worried when she takes a job as a social worker in a tough section of the East Bronx.
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Episode 1
Doomsday
aired: Tue, Feb 19, 2008
In "Doomsday," life at the station house is as chaotic as ever. First, the plumbing breaks-down, causing Detective Fish great distress. Then, Detective Wojehowicz arrests a priest for giving away Bibles without a license. And to cap an already volatile day, a citizen named Weber puts in an appearance to demand that all the city officials and the Governor be arrested. By way of enforcing his request, Weber is wearing a belt bristling with dynamite sticks attached to a detonator with fingertip control.
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