The BEST episodes written by Danny Arnold

The Mole
star
8.04
79 votes

#1 - The Mole

Barney Miller - 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.

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Happy New Year
star
7.98
88 votes

#2 - Happy New Year

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 15

On New Year's Eve, Fish tries to stop a jumper, and Wojo delivers a baby.

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Ramon
star
7.98
163 votes

#3 - Ramon

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 1

Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.

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A Purple Heart for Gruber
star
7.93
46 votes

#4 - A Purple Heart for Gruber

McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 2

Lester Gruber has been given the job of laundering Captain Binghamton's uniforms. When a Japanese sub fires on the PT 73, the uniforms are destroyed, and Lester's finger is scratched, prompting him to put in for a Purple Heart.

The Kid
star
7.91
80 votes

#5 - The Kid

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 21

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.

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Nippon Nancy Calling
star
7.89
36 votes

#6 - Nippon Nancy Calling

McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 23

When a Japanese radio announcer broadcasts details about Captain Binghamton that only someone close to him would know, Binghamton immediately suspects McHale and The 73 Crew, and enlists Parker's aid in nailing the traitor.

You Dirty Rat
star
7.86
88 votes

#7 - You Dirty Rat

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 9

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.

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Grand Hotel
star
7.85
86 votes

#8 - Grand Hotel

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 7

Wojo and Wentworth pose as marrieds in order to bust a burglary ring set in a posh hotel.

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Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
star
7.76
55 votes

#9 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

Barney Miller - Season 4 - Episode 1

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

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Corporation
star
7.71
55 votes

#10 - Corporation

Barney Miller - Season 4 - Episode 4

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

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Chase
star
7.66
58 votes

#11 - Chase

Barney Miller - Season 4 - Episode 8

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.

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Asylum
star
7.64
50 votes

#12 - Asylum

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 19

Marty is picked up for parole violation with a half ounce of marijuana; Wojo prematurely grants a Russian defector asylum.

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The Stakeout
star
7.64
80 votes

#13 - The Stakeout

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 6

Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.

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The Hero
star
7.63
68 votes

#14 - The Hero

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 13

Chano is guilt-stricken when he shoots a holdup man; Liz makes a citizen's arrest, after being robbed at "stickpoint" by a twelve-year-old.

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The Escape Artist
star
7.62
60 votes

#15 - The Escape Artist

Barney Miller - 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.

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The Psychiatrist
star
7.60
81 votes

#16 - The Psychiatrist

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 20

A department psychiatrist advises the department to confiscate Wojo's gun.

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Discovery
star
7.60
91 votes

#17 - Discovery

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 8

Marty claims that a member of the 12th is harassing the gay community; the precinct computers think Fish is dead.

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Recluse
star
7.59
54 votes

#18 - Recluse

Barney Miller - 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."

Ms. Cop
star
7.59
76 votes

#19 - Ms. Cop

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 8

An overzealous lady cop ruffles the feathers of the testosterone-run 12th; Chano nabs an obscene phone caller. Linda Lavin ("Alice") debuts as Detective Janice Wentworth.

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The Vigilante
star
7.57
67 votes

#20 - The Vigilante

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 9

Barney is visited by Inspector Luger, who complains that his men aren't disliked enough by the public; a neighborhood vigilante is well into his twilight years; Wojo collars a cross-dressing teamster.

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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
star
7.56
285 votes

#21 - It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 3

Samantha gives a dinner party to impress one of Darrin's clients, who makes a pass at Samantha in the garden while drunk. Samantha responds by changing him into a dog.

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Werewolf
star
7.55
60 votes

#22 - Werewolf

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 6

A disturbance in the park turns out to be a man who claims to be a werewolf.

The Bureaucrat
star
7.55
75 votes

#23 - The Bureaucrat

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 7

Guests to the 12th include a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment; Wojo closes the precinct's favorite delicatessen for minor health-code infractions.

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Ambush
star
7.53
68 votes

#24 - Ambush

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 4

Yemana is shot in full view of disinterested bystanders, and Barney is offered a job in Florida.

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Social Worker
star
7.51
70 votes

#25 - Social Worker

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 2

Weary of housework, Liz tries her hand at social work, to Barney's dismay; a master forger fascinates Harris.

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The Courtesans
star
7.50
78 votes

#26 - The Courtesans

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 5

A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.

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Power Failure
star
7.50
58 votes

#27 - Power Failure

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 9

A power failure darkens spirits at the 12th, where they play host to a man with a split personality.

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...And Something Makes Three
star
7.49
191 votes

#28 - ...And Something Makes Three

Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 12

When Darrin thinks Samantha is pregnant, he has visions of a family of little witches. But it's actually Louise Tate who's expecting.

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Strike (2)
star
7.49
47 votes

#29 - Strike (2)

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 22

Barney and Inspector Luger man the fort alone when the detectives go out on strike.

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The Guest
star
7.48
66 votes

#30 - The Guest

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 10

The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set up a narcotics buy.

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The Layoff
star
7.48
67 votes

#31 - The Layoff

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 3

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.

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Group Home
star
7.47
49 votes

#32 - Group Home

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 20

Yemana assists a bigoted Army officer when a bomber threatens a recruiting facility; it's Fish's turn for mugging detail as Victor and Jilly resurface with Bernice in tow.

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Middle Age
star
7.46
54 votes

#33 - Middle Age

Barney Miller - Season 5 - Episode 18

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.

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Kidnapping (1)
star
7.45
53 votes

#34 - Kidnapping (1)

Barney Miller - Season 5 - Episode 1

A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.

Heat Wave
star
7.44
68 votes

#35 - Heat Wave

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 5

A wife claims spousal abuse; Wojo and Wentworth are bait for a park rapist.

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Snow Job
star
7.44
98 votes

#36 - Snow Job

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 3

The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.

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The Sniper
star
7.42
57 votes

#37 - The Sniper

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 16

A con man is selling charter flights to Saturn; Wojo and Luger are sniper targets.

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Wojo's Girl (1)
star
7.40
52 votes

#38 - Wojo's Girl (1)

Barney Miller - Season 5 - Episode 16

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.

The Mailman Cometh
star
7.40
5 votes

#39 - The Mailman Cometh

That Girl - Season 2 - Episode 12

While modeling at restaurant, Ann meets an agent who hires her for a publicity stunt.

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Doomsday
star
7.37
78 votes

#40 - Doomsday

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 1

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.

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Help, Help, Don't Save Me
star
7.37
306 votes

#41 - Help, Help, Don't Save Me

Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 5

Samantha gives Darrin spectacular ideas for a soup account, but Darrin suspects witchcraft is in play.

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Graft
star
7.34
87 votes

#42 - Graft

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 4

An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Chano is after an obscene phone caller.

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Quarantine (2)
star
7.29
58 votes

#43 - Quarantine (2)

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 3

The quarantined 12th Precinct tries to make it through the night: Lugar has a 'talk' with Marty and Daryl Driscoll; and Harris has a loud rant in his sleep.

The Drunkard
star
7.29
7 votes

#44 - The Drunkard

That Girl - Season 2 - Episode 29

After a drunken comedian is taken in by Ann to sober up, he thinks that they had an affair.

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Bus Stop
star
7.25
56 votes

#45 - Bus Stop

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 4

Quarters are tight at the 12th when a holdup man is confined with his busload of victims.

Hair
star
7.25
61 votes

#46 - Hair

Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 12

A scruffy "Serpico"-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fish spent the afternoon in a massage parlor.

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Fish
star
7.13
82 votes

#47 - Fish

Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 12

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.

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Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?
star
7.00
6 votes

#48 - Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?

That Girl - Season 3 - Episode 26

At the Newsview office, Lou slips on some water. Donald is told that Lou has to sign a waiver of responsibility. Donald goes to Mr. Prentice's office and quits, only to be talked back into his job by his managing editor.

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If You Were Almost the Only Man in the World
star
6.80
5 votes

#49 - If You Were Almost the Only Man in the World

That Girl - Season 2 - Episode 26

When Ann is knocked unconscious, the doctor who treats her looks exactly like Donald.

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Evacuation
star
6.72
58 votes

#50 - Evacuation

Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 1

Wojo is dismayed to discover that the city doesn't have up-to-date evacuation procedures in the event of an emergency; Fish meets Jilly Pappalardo, a young thief who he will eventually care for in the "Barney" spin-off "Fish."