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The Best Episodes of Barney Miller

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 1 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
    10.0/10(165 votes)

    #1 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

    S4:E1

    A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writers:Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege

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  2. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 2 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
    10.0/10(179 votes)

    #2 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

    S4:E2

    Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  3. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 5 - Burial
    10.0/10(144 votes)

    #3 - Burial

    S4:E5

    Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 6 - Copy Cat
    10.0/10(148 votes)

    #4 - Copy Cat

    S4:E6

    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.

    Director:Jeremiah Morris
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  5. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 7 - Blizzard
    10.0/10(146 votes)

    #5 - Blizzard

    S4:E7

    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.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  6. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 8 - Chase
    10.0/10(155 votes)

    #6 - Chase

    S4:E8

    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.

    Director:Jeremiah Morris
    Writers:Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege

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  7. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 10 - Tunnel
    10.0/10(137 votes)

    #7 - Tunnel

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:David Swift
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  8. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 11 - Atomic Bomb
    10.0/10(171 votes)

    #8 - Atomic Bomb

    S4:E11

    Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  9. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 12 - The Bank
    10.0/10(134 votes)

    #9 - The Bank

    S4:E12

    A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  10. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 13 - The Ghost
    10.0/10(161 votes)

    #10 - The Ghost

    S4:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  11. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 14 - Appendicitis
    10.0/10(136 votes)

    #11 - Appendicitis

    S4:E14

    Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  12. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 16 - Eviction (1)
    10.0/10(145 votes)

    #12 - Eviction (1)

    S4:E16

    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.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  13. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 17 - Eviction (2)
    10.0/10(138 votes)

    #13 - Eviction (2)

    S4:E17

    The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  14. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 18 - Wojo's Problem
    10.0/10(151 votes)

    #14 - Wojo's Problem

    S4:E18

    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 shoplifter escapes - in a wheelchair.

    Director:Max Gail
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  15. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 19 - 'Quo Vadis?'
    10.0/10(161 votes)

    #15 - 'Quo Vadis?'

    S4:E19

    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.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  16. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 20 - Hostage
    10.0/10(146 votes)

    #16 - Hostage

    S4:E20

    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.

    Director:Hal Linden
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  17. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 22 - The Sighting
    10.0/10(150 votes)

    #17 - The Sighting

    S4:E22

    A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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  18. Barney Miller Season 6 Episode 16 - Guns
    10.0/10(134 votes)

    #18 - Guns

    S6:E16

    Wojo fears that a despondent Luger is planning to do himself in; a man seeking to reclaim his television set robs the police vault; a rash of bizarre robberies leads to an eccentric gun collector.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writers:Tony Sheehan, Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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  19. Barney Miller Season 6 Episode 17 - Uniform Days
    10.0/10(145 votes)

    #19 - Uniform Days

    S6:E17

    The cops observe the annual department-mandated ritual of wearing their uniforms - except for Harris who shows up in his usual natty street clothes.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Barney Miller Season 6 Episode 18 - Dietrich's Arrest (1)
    10.0/10(136 votes)

    #20 - Dietrich's Arrest (1)

    S6:E18

    A lottery winner dispenses of the prize money by tossing it out a window; Sgt. Dietrich is arrested for his off-duty participation at an anti-nuclear rally; Barney discovers he can't afford his condo-converted apartment.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writers:Tony Sheehan, Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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  21. Barney Miller Season 6 Episode 19 - Dietrich's Arrest (2)
    10.0/10(136 votes)

    #21 - Dietrich's Arrest (2)

    S6:E19

    Harris gets the unenviable task of booking his colleague Dietrich, whose arrest prompts a visit from Internal Affairs; meanwhile, a nuclear engineer is brought in for dousing the participants with atomic water.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writers:Tony Sheehan, Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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  22. Barney Miller Season 8 Episode 22 - Landmark (3)
    10.0/10(235 votes)

    #22 - Landmark (3)

    S8:E22

    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.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writers:Tony Sheehan, Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein

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  23. Barney Miller Season 1 Episode 2 - Experience
    9.0/10(295 votes)

    #23 - Experience

    S1:E2

    A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writer:Steve Gordon

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  24. Barney Miller Season 3 Episode 11 - Hash
    9.0/10(439 votes)

    #24 - Hash

    S3:E11

    Wojo brings hashish-laced brownies his new girlfriend made to the 12th Precinct, getting the detective squad stoned; while an actor and critic (""natural enemies"" says Harris) square off with dueling swords.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 3 - Bugs
    9.0/10(171 votes)

    #25 - Bugs

    S4:E3

    Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!

    Director:David Swift
    Writer:Tony Sheehan

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Best Episodes Summary

"Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller". It scored 10/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by Danny Arnold and written by Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege, it aired on 9/15/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)".