The BEST episodes of Barney Miller season 8
Every episode of Barney Miller season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Barney Miller season 8!
Hal Linden stars in the title role as a NYPD captain in charge of a squad of oddball detectives and even stranger criminals.
#1 - Landmark (3)
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1982
Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave for new assignments; Harris contemplates his resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows; Barney recalls friends departed before he turns out the squad room lights for the last time.
#2 - Chinatown (2)
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/1982
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
#3 - Chinatown (1)
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/4/1982
A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.
#4 - The Car
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/1981
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.
#5 - Altercation
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/9/1982
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
#6 - Stress Analyzer
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1981
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
#7 - Inquiry
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/26/1982
Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry parent takes action when his child is declined admission into an exclusive kindergarten.
#8 - Examination Day
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/1982
The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.
#9 - Hunger Strike
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/1982
Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.
#10 - Advancement
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1981
Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.
#11 - Obituary
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/1982
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
#12 - Homeless
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/17/1981
The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.
#13 - Old Love
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/2/1982
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
#14 - The Clown
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/1982
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
#15 - The Tontine
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/1982
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
#16 - Paternity
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/29/1981
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
#17 - Arrival
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/25/1982
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
#18 - Landmark (1)
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1982
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
#19 - Landmark (2)
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1982
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
#20 - Games
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/1981
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
#21 - Possession
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1981
A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.
#22 - Bones
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/1982
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.