Seasons & episodes
S0 · E1Inside the 12th Precinct Air date unannounced
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S0 · E2Salute to the Old One Two Air date unannounced
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S0 · E3Inside the Writers Room Air date unannounced
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S0 · E4'The Life and Times of Captain Barney Miller' Original Pilot Air date unannounced
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S0 · E5Season 1 Episode 1 'Ramon' (uncut) Air date unannounced
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S0 · E6'You Don't Know Jack' Excerpt From The Jack Soo Documentary Air date unannounced
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S1 · E1Ramon 1975-01-23
Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.
S1 · E2Experience 1975-01-30
A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.
S1 · E3Snow Job 1975-02-06
The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.
S1 · E4Graft 1975-02-13 · 30 min
An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Chano is after an obscene phone caller.
S1 · E5The Courtesans 1975-02-20
A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.
S1 · E6Stakeout 1975-02-27
Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.
S1 · E7Bureaucrat 1975-03-06
Guests to the 12th include a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment; Wojo closes the precinct's favorite delicatessen for minor health-code infractions.
S1 · E8Ms. Cop 1975-03-13
An overzealous lady cop ruffles the feathers of the testosterone-run 12th; Chano nabs an obscene phone caller. Linda Lavin (""Alice"") debuts as Detective Janice Wentworth.
S1 · E9Vigilante 1975-03-20
Barney is visited by Inspector Luger, who complains that his men aren't disliked enough by the public; a neighborhood vigilante is well into his twilight years; Wojo collars a cross-dressing teamster.
S1 · E10The Guest 1975-03-27
The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set up a narcotics buy.
S1 · E11Escape Artist 1975-04-10
A self-avowed ""bird-man"" drops in; Barney holds a resourceful escaped prisoner for the FBI; Harris decides to write a novel, setting up one of the series' most durable storylines.
S1 · E12Hair 1975-04-17
A scruffy ""Serpico""-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fish spent the afternoon in a massage parlor.
S1 · E13The Hero 1975-05-01
Chano is guilt-stricken when he shoots a holdup man; Liz makes a citizen's arrest, after being robbed at ""stickpoint"" by a twelve-year-old.
S2 · E1Doomsday 1975-09-11
A disgruntled man with a belt of dynamite threatens to blow himself and the squad room sky high unless President Nixon agrees to speak with him; the plumbing goes kaput; Wojo arrests a phony man-of-the-cloth.
S2 · E2The Social Worker 1975-09-18 · 24 min
Weary of housework, Liz tries her hand at social work, to Barney's dismay; a master forger fascinates Harris.
S2 · E3The Layoff 1975-09-25 · 25 min
Barney, Fish and Yemana feel the crunch when a labor layoff forces them to do without Chano, Harris and Wojo; a manicurist goes deeper than the nail; a morose stockbroker takes to petty theft.
S2 · E4Ambush 1975-10-02 · 25 min
Yemana is shot in full view of disinterested bystanders, and Barney is offered a job in Florida.
S2 · E5Heat Wave 1975-10-09 · 25 min
A wife claims spousal abuse; Wojo and Wentworth are bait for a park rapist.