Barney Miller : Season 4

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

Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

Sep 22, 1977

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

Bugs

Sep 29, 1977

4.5/5

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

Corporation

Oct 6, 1977

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

Burial

Oct 20, 1977

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

Copy Cat

Oct 27, 1977

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.

Blizzard

Nov 3, 1977

A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guestâ€”a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure that the weather is indicative of a new ice age.

Chase

Nov 17, 1977

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.

Thanksgiving Story

Nov 24, 1977

4.5/5

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

Tunnel

Dec 1, 1977

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.

Atomic Bomb

Dec 15, 1977

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

The Bank

Jan 5, 1978

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

The Ghost

Jan 12, 1978

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.

Appendicitis

Jan 19, 1978

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

Rape

Jan 26, 1978

4.5/5

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.

Eviction (1)

Feb 2, 1978

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.

Eviction (2)

Feb 9, 1978

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

Wojo's Problem

Feb 23, 1978

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.

'Quo Vadis?'

Mar 2, 1978

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.

Hostage

Mar 23, 1978

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.

Evaluation

May 4, 1978

1.5/5

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.

The Sighting

May 11, 1978

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

Inauguration

May 18, 1978

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