The BEST Episodes of Barney Miller
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Sep 17, 2019
Network: ABC (US)
Hal Linden stars in the title role as a NYPD captain in charge of a squad of oddball detectives and even stranger criminals.
#1 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1
A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
8.83 
#2 - Vanished (1)
Season 6 - Episode 13
Vagrant Ray returns to report his fellow bums' disappearances; a woman wishes to have a child with a surrogate and is focusing in on Dietrich and Wojo.
8.50 
#3 - Asylum
Season 3 - Episode 19
Marty is picked up for parole violation with a half ounce of marijuana; Wojo prematurely grants a Russian defector asylum.
8.44 
#4 - The Mole
Season 2 - Episode 22
Fish considers an operation; a burglar known as ""The Mole"" leads Harris and Wojo on a merry chase through the city sewer system. Ron Carey plays the Mole, and returns as Levitt in the next season.
8.40 
#5 - Corporation
Season 4 - Episode 4
A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
8.39 
#6 - Eviction (1)
Season 4 - Episode 16
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.
8.38 
#7 - Jack Soo, a Retrospective
Season 5 - Episode 24
The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth season.
8.36 
#8 - Fog
Season 6 - Episode 22
Barney is down in the dumps when he is passed over again for deputy inspector
8.36 
#9 - The Judge
Season 6 - Episode 9
A judge provides an attorney with the ultimate over-ruling—a gavel on the noggin; the crimes reported by a lonely woman emanate from daytime television soap operas.
8.35 
#10 - Altercation
Season 8 - Episode 18
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
8.31 
#11 - Computer Crime
Season 5 - Episode 22
A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under the influence of a voodoo curse.
8.31 
#12 - Vacation
Season 6 - Episode 3
A string of false alarms suggests that a sniper may be after a cop, but the detectives are preoccupied with Barney's posted vacation schedules and the case of a man who won't donate a kidney to his ailing brother.
8.31 
#13 - The Psychic
Season 7 - Episode 11
An accused mugger claims that he was answering a psychic vision; a language professor takes vandalistic umbrage to a grammatically incorrect billboard.
8.31 
#14 - Homicide (2)
Season 7 - Episode 2
Harris woos the precinct's crime photographer, while Dietrich tracks down the hit man's intended target; Barney's frustration boils over when the new homicide-only edict results in the death of an old friend.
8.29 
#15 - The Car
Season 8 - Episode 3
A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.
8.29 
#16 - Strike (1)
Season 3 - Episode 21
An impending strike is on everyone's mind, except the woman who was robbed by her computer date. (Part 1 of 2)
8.29 
#17 - Chinatown (2)
Season 8 - Episode 12
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
8.27 
#18 - The Indian
Season 5 - Episode 13
A woman has her shoes stolen - from her feet; Wojo is forced to arrest an aging Indian who only wants to die in the park.
8.26 
#19 - Strike (2)
Season 3 - Episode 22
Barney and Inspector Luger man the fort alone when the detectives go out on strike.
8.25 
#20 - Hash
Season 3 - Episode 11
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.
8.24 
#21 - The Spy
Season 5 - Episode 15
A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.
8.24 
#22 - Thanksgiving Story
Season 4 - Episode 9
The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
8.22 
#23 - The Recluse
Season 3 - Episode 7
A latter-day prophet claims the end is near - 5:30, to be precise; a man who hasn't left his apartment since World War II is brought in for refusing to serve jury duty. John Cassisi appears as Victor Kreutzer, a role he would continue to play on ""Fish.""
8.20 
#24 - The Search
Season 5 - Episode 3
Off goes the moustache, as it's Harris' turn for cross-dressing mugging detail; the host of a kids' science show goes off the deep end; Barney's men reopen a twenty-eight year old missing persons case.
8.20 
#25 - The Escape Artist
Season 1 - Episode 11
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.
8.17