The BEST episodes of Barney Miller season 2
Every episode of Barney Miller season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Barney Miller season 2!
Hal Linden stars in the title role as a NYPD captain in charge of a squad of oddball detectives and even stranger criminals.
#1 - The Mole
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/18/1976
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.
#2 - Happy New Year
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1976
On New Year's Eve, Fish tries to stop a jumper, and Wojo delivers a baby.
#3 - The Kid
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/1976
Fish is attracted to the mother of a young mugger; a man is a bit premature to obtain the unclaimed windfall he found on the street.
#4 - You Dirty Rat
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1975
Barney smells a rat when two pounds of confiscated marijuana disappears from the evidence locker, and a homeless man spends the night in a department store apparently one of many.
#6 - Fear of Flying
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1976
Wojo must escort a bigamist to Cleveland, even though he is (guess!) afraid of flying. Meanwhile,the bigamist's New York wife shows up. Also, a man turns in an unmarked envelope containing $3500 in cash.
#7 - Massage Parlor
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/19/1976
Wentworth busts a dime-store cowboy in a massage parlor, and the detectives bust an octogenarian mugger.
#8 - The Psychiatrist
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1976
A department psychiatrist advises the department to confiscate Wojo's gun.
#9 - Discovery
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1975
Marty claims that a member of the 12th is harassing the gay community; the precinct computers think Fish is dead.
#10 - Ambush
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1975
Yemana is shot in full view of disinterested bystanders, and Barney is offered a job in Florida.
#11 - Block Party
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/12/1976
Wentworth is furious when Chano gets the credit for her bust of an assassin at a block party.
#12 - Social Worker
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1975
Weary of housework, Liz tries her hand at social work, to Barney's dismay; a master forger fascinates Harris.
#13 - Protection
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1975
The citizenry is in a panic amidst the rumors that the 12th Precinct is being shut down; a repentent hood can't prove that he committed a crime.
#14 - The Layoff
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1975
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.
#15 - Heat Wave
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1975
A wife claims spousal abuse; Wojo and Wentworth are bait for a park rapist.
#16 - The Sniper
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1976
A con man is selling charter flights to Saturn; Wojo and Luger are sniper targets.
#17 - Doomsday
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1975
A disgruntled man with a belt of dynamite threatens to blow himself and the squad room ky high unless President Nixon agrees to speak with him; the plumbing goes kaput; Wojo arrests a phony man-of-the-cloth.
#18 - The Horse Thief
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1975
A hansom cab owner reports his horse missing. A man assaulted in his hotel room insists he was alone.
#19 - Hot Dogs
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1975
A man is convinced that a photo of Jean Harlow is his missing wife; a pair of lady cops makes an overzealous drug bust.
#20 - Arsonist
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1975
The precinct is on the lookout for an arsonist; Chano brings in a man who used a deadly weapon on a vending machine.
#21 - Rain
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1975
During a very rainy day, the squad must endure both the precinct roof threatening to collapse, and VERY bad Bicentennial jokes from a nightclub comedian-the stationhouse roof literally groaning in response!!
#22 - Fish
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1975
A glimpse at Detective Fish's home life ensues when the detective decides to go on restricted duty. Steve Landesberg bows as Arthur Dietrich; Doris Belack fills in for Florence Stanley as Bernice Fish.