The BEST episodes of Barney Miller season 5
Every episode of Barney Miller season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Barney Miller season 5!
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 Harris Incident
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1978
A stockbroker leaves Wall Street to become a beggar; a rookie cop, assuming Harris to be a felon, shoots at him.
#2 - The Search
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1978
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.
#3 - Voice Analyzer
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1979
Lieutenant Scanlon returns, this time attempting to ferret out corruption with a lie detector; Barney is suspicious of a furrier's robbery report.
#4 - The Spy
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1979
A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.
#5 - The Indian
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1979
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.
#6 - Identity
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1979
Harris quickly regrets the fact that Dietrich has saved his life; the 12th is asked to assist a thief who has been granted entry into a witness-relocation program.
#7 - Toys
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1978
Feuding toy makers create a disturbance; Barney faces his first holiday as a separated man; a claustrophobic prisoner has an understandable problem with the cage.
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#8 - Jack Soo: A Retrospective
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1979
The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth season.
#9 - Dog Days
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1978
The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separation.
#10 - Open House
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1979
The 12th Precinct hosts an open house, attracting only vagrants; Barney's joy at moving back home is cut short by the hotel manager that refuses to refund him his upcoming month's rent; Wojo and Harris try to get a lead on an arsonist.
#11 - The Prisoner
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1978
A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate the family business.
#12 - The Baby Broker
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1978
A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Levitt turns to stimulants to aid in his self-imposed thirty-six hour shift.
#13 - Loan Shark
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1978
Barney notes some uncharacteristic behavior from Yemana; a client can't get a tattoo artist to remove his work; Harris books a youthful loan shark
#14 - Computer Crime
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1979
A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under the influence of a voodoo curse.
#15 - The Radical
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1978
Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.
#16 - Middle Age
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1979
Barney feels the onrush of Father Time; Dietrich books an Olympic hopeful who practices his javelin toss in Central Park; a Hassidic Jew is the target of a diamond thief.
#17 - Kidnapping (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1978
A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.
#18 - The Vandal
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1978
Barney has the uneasy feeling that it may have been Levitt that vandalized the precinct squad room; a TV programming executive is assaulted in a coffee shop.
#19 - Graveyard Shift
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/1979
Barney and his crew face the late shift with a man who believes that he is being frequented by a succubus and an irate tourist.
#20 - The Counterfeiter
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1979
Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.
#21 - Kidnapping (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1978
Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo and the victim's nebbish son.
#22 - Wojo's Girl (1)
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1979
Wojo decides to move in with his girlfriend; Mr. Brauer tells his wife that he's leaving to become a mercenary. This was a pilot for a potential spin-off series, each week focusing on one of the cops' off-duty lives.
#23 - Wojo's Girl (2)
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1979
Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.
#24 - Accusation
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1978
An accusation of an indiscretion on the part of Dietrich leads to a visit from the gleeful Lieutenant Scanlon of Internal Affairs; Yemana books a rabbi who is running a gambling casino in his synagogue.