Seasons & episodes

S4 · E1Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1) 1977-09-15＋

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

S4 · E2Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2) 1977-09-22＋

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

S4 · E3Bugs 1977-09-29＋

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

S4 · E4Corporation 1977-10-06＋

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

S4 · E5Burial 1977-10-20＋

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

S4 · E6Copy Cat 1977-10-27＋

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.

S4 · E7Blizzard 1977-11-03 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E8Chase 1977-11-17＋

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.

S4 · E9Thanksgiving Story 1977-11-24＋

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

S4 · E10Tunnel 1977-12-01 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E11Atomic Bomb 1977-12-15＋

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

S4 · E12The Bank 1978-01-05＋

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

S4 · E13The Ghost 1978-01-12＋

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.

S4 · E14Appendicitis 1978-01-19＋

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

S4 · E15Rape 1978-01-26 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E16Eviction (1) 1978-02-02 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E17Eviction (2) 1978-02-09 · 30 min＋

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

S4 · E18Wojo's Problem 1978-02-23 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E19'Quo Vadis?' 1978-03-02 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E20Hostage 1978-03-23 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E21Evaluation 1978-05-04 · 30 min＋

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.

S4 · E22The Sighting 1978-05-11 · 30 min＋

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

S4 · E23Inauguration 1978-05-18 · 30 min＋

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