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The Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 4

Every episode of Barney Miller Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Barney Miller Season 4!

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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
    Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 2 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
    8.7/10(189 votes)

    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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  2. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 8 - Chase
    8.5/10(165 votes)

    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:Reinhold Weege, Danny Arnold

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  3. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 20 - Hostage
    8.5/10(155 votes)

    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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  4. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 16 - Eviction (1)
    8.4/10(153 votes)

    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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  5. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 11 - Atomic Bomb
    8.3/10(180 votes)

    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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  6. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 17 - Eviction (2)
    8.3/10(147 votes)

    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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  7. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 6 - Copy Cat
    8.2/10(157 votes)

    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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  8. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 13 - The Ghost
    8.2/10(168 votes)

    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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  9. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 3 - Bugs
    8.1/10(180 votes)

    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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  10. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 12 - The Bank
    8.1/10(142 votes)

    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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  11. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 19 - 'Quo Vadis?'
    8.1/10(169 votes)

    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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  12. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 21 - Evaluation
    8.1/10(148 votes)

    S4:E21

    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 reporting vandalism turns out to be a mom and pop operation being hassled by their kids.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  13. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 7 - Blizzard
    8.0/10(157 votes)

    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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  14. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 14 - Appendicitis
    8.0/10(143 votes)

    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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  15. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 1 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
    7.9/10(174 votes)

    S4:E1

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

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writers:Reinhold Weege, Danny Arnold

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  16. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 5 - Burial
    7.9/10(156 votes)

    S4:E5

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

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 22 - The Sighting
    7.9/10(158 votes)

    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 4 Episode 9 - Thanksgiving Story
    7.8/10(153 votes)

    S4:E9

    The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.

    Director:David Swift
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  19. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 10 - Tunnel
    7.8/10(146 votes)

    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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  20. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 18 - Wojo's Problem
    7.8/10(158 votes)

    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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  21. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 23 - Inauguration
    7.8/10(139 votes)

    S4:E23

    Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Reinhold Weege

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  22. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 4 - Corporation
    7.7/10(153 votes)

    S4:E4

    A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.

    Director:Hal Linden
    Writers:Tony Sheehan, Danny Arnold

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  23. Barney Miller Season 4 Episode 15 - Rape
    7.4/10(169 votes)

    S4:E15

    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.

    Director:Noam Pitlik
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)" is the best rated episode of "Barney Miller" season 4. It scored 8.7/10 based on 189 votes. Directed by Danny Arnold and written by Reinhold Weege, it aired on 9/22/1977. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Chase".