Barney Miller (1978) Season 5
Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
01 A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.
9/14/1978
02 Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo and the victim's nebbish son.
9/14/1978
03 Off goes the moustache, as it's Harris' turn for cross-dressing mugging detail; the host of a kids' science show goes off the deep end; Barney's men reopen a twenty-eight year old missing persons case.
9/21/1978
04 The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separation.
9/28/1978
05 A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Levitt turns to stimulants to aid in his self-imposed thirty-six hour shift.
10/5/1978
06 An accusation of an indiscretion on the part of Dietrich leads to a visit from the gleeful Lieutenant Scanlon of Internal Affairs; Yemana books a rabbi who is running a gambling casino in his synagogue.
10/12/1978
07 A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate the family business.
10/19/1978
08 Barney notes some uncharacteristic behavior from Yemana; a client can't get a tattoo artist to remove his work; Harris books a youthful loan shark
11/2/1978
09 Barney has the uneasy feeling that it may have been Levitt that vandalized the precinct squad room; a TV programming executive is assaulted in a coffee shop.
11/9/1978
10 A stockbroker leaves Wall Street to become a beggar; a rookie cop, assuming Harris to be a felon, shoots at him.
11/30/1978
11 Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.
12/7/1978
12 Feuding toy makers create a disturbance; Barney faces his first holiday as a separated man; a claustrophobic prisoner has an understandable problem with the cage.
12/14/1978
13 A woman has her shoes stolen - from her feet; Wojo is forced to arrest an aging Indian who only wants to die in the park.
1/4/1979
14 Lieutenant Scanlon returns, this time attempting to ferret out corruption with a lie detector; Barney is suspicious of a furrier's robbery report.
1/11/1979
15 A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.
1/18/1979
16 Wojo decides to move in with his girlfriend; Mr. Brauer tells his wife that he's leaving to become a mercenary. This was a pilot for a potential spin-off series, each week focusing on one of the cops' off-duty lives.
1/25/1979
17 Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.
1/25/1979
18 Barney feels the onrush of Father Time; Dietrich books an Olympic hopeful who practices his javelin toss in Central Park; a Hassidic Jew is the target of a diamond thief.
2/1/1979
19 Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.
2/8/1979
20 The 12th Precinct hosts an open house, attracting only vagrants; Barney's joy at moving back home is cut short by the hotel manager that refuses to refund him his upcoming month's rent; Wojo and Harris try to get a lead on an arsonist.
2/15/1979
21 Harris quickly regrets the fact that Dietrich has saved his life; the 12th is asked to assist a thief who has been granted entry into a witness-relocation program.
3/1/1979
22 A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under the influence of a voodoo curse.
3/15/1979
23 Barney and his crew face the late shift with a man who believes that he is being frequented by a succubus and an irate tourist.
5/10/1979
Jack Soo, a Retrospective 24 The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth season.
5/17/1979
