The BEST episodes written by Danny Arnold
#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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#2 - 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.
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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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.
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#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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#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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#10 - The Stakeout
Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 6
Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.
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#11 - 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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#12 - 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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#13 - The Psychiatrist
Barney Miller - Season 2 - Episode 20
A department psychiatrist advises the department to confiscate Wojo's gun.
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#14 - 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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#15 - 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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#16 - 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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#17 - 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."
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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#21 - 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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#22 - 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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#23 - Werewolf
Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 6
A disturbance in the park turns out to be a man who claims to be a werewolf.
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#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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#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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#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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#27 - 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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#29 - 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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#30 - 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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#31 - 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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#32 - 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.
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#33 - 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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#34 - 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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#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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#36 - 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.
#37 - 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.
#39 - 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.
#40 - 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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#41 - 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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#44 - 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.
#45 - 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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#46 - 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.
#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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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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That Girl - Season 2 - Episode 26
When Ann is knocked unconscious, the doctor who treats her looks exactly like Donald.
#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."