The BEST episodes written by Frank Dungan
#1 - Landmark (3)
Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 22
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.
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#2 - Chinatown (2)
Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 12
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
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#3 - The Slave
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 5
Harris bristles when he learns that the Burmese chauffeur being booked for a traffic accident is actually an indentured servant.
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#4 - The Inventor
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 21
The squad tries hypnosis to uncover the name of a felon that Wojo has forgotten; an inventor steals the plans for his own creation.
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#5 - The Judge
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 9
A judge provides an attorney with the ultimate over-ruling; a gavel on the noggin; the crimes reported by a lonely woman emanate from daytime television soap operas.
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#6 - Vanished (1)
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 13
Vagrant Ray returns to report his fellow bums' disappearances; a woman wishes to have a child with a surrogate and is focusing in on Dietrich and Wojo.
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#7 - The Desk
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 8
A former master criminal becomes a walking zombie following his lobotomy; a man is unable to use the telephone after being mugged because he's Amish. Jeff Corey, who appeared previously as "The Prisoner," was a renowned acting teacher.
#8 - The Bird
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 7
Harris' book publication hits a snag when Dietrich refuses to sign a release; a suicide hot line operator becomes suicidal; the clerk that sold Wojo a sick bird changes his strict no-return policy when he learns that the detective is a cop.
#9 - The Child Stealers
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 15
A self-proclaimed time traveler tells Harris to fine tune his stock portfolio; Marty's divrorced gentleman friend Mr. Driscoll attempts to reclaim his son by abducting him from the playground.
#10 - Guns
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 16
Wojo fears that a despondent Luger is planning to do himself in; a man seeking to reclaim his television set robs the police vault; a rash of bizarre robberies leads to an eccentric gun collector.
#11 - Chinatown (1)
Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 11
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.
#12 - Riot
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 19
Luger takes a small disturbance with the Hassidic community and turns it into a full-scale riot; the squad discovers a survivalist couple setting up housekeeping in the sewers.
#13 - Fog
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 22
Barney is down in the dumps when he is passed over again for deputy inspector
#14 - The Psychic
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 11
An accused mugger claims that he was answering a psychic vision; a language professor takes vandalistic umbrage to a grammatically incorrect billboard.
#15 - Dietrich's Arrest (1)
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 18
A lottery winner dispenses of the prize money by tossing it out a window; Sgt. Dietrich is arrested for his off-duty participation at an anti-nuclear rally; Barney discovers he can't afford his condo-converted apartment.
#16 - Homicide (2)
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 2
Harris woos the precinct's crime photographer, while Dietrich tracks down the hit man's intended target; Barney's frustration boils over when the new homicide-only edict results in the death of an old friend.
#17 - Rachel
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 14
Ripner is suing Harris over the lawyer's portrayal in the detective's novel; Wojo asks Barney's daughter out on a date; a sporting-goods storeowner takes the law in his own hands.
#18 - Strip Joint
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 6
A bookstore owner is infuriated when a strip club opens near his place of business; and man is convinced that he is on the verge of spontaneous combustion.
#19 - People's Court
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 12
Weary of an uncooperative populace, a census taker goes to drastic measures to make a head count; beleaguered apartment dwellers band together and capture a burglar.
#20 - The Counterfeiter
Barney Miller - Season 5 - Episode 19
Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.
#22 - Liquidation
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 22
Harris is forced to liquidate his possessions to pay off his lawsuit.
#23 - Vanished (2)
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 14
Harris disappears while undercover as a vagrant; Luger elects to be demoted rather than to retire.
#24 - Vacation
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 3
A string of false alarms suggests that a sniper may be after a cop, but the detectives are preoccupied with Barney's posted vacation schedules and the case of a man who won't donate a kidney to his ailing brother.
#25 - Inquiry
Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 16
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.
#26 - Movie (2)
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 10
A blind mugging victim and an overzealous charity collector are among the disparate audience members at the screening of Harris' overbudget film.
#27 - Dietrich's Arrest (2)
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 19
Harris gets the unenviable task of booking his colleague Dietrich, whose arrest prompts a visit from Internal Affairs; meanwhile, a nuclear engineer is brought in for dousing the participants with atomic water.
#28 - Homeless
Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 7
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.
#29 - Resignation
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 7
Dietrich, stricken with guilt when he shoots a felon, tenders his resignation; a playwright assaults an incompetent actor.
#30 - Movie (1)
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 9
Harris is assigned to direct a pornographic movie; an old-time radio newsman assaults a vacuous television anchor.
#31 - Landmark (2)
Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 21
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
#32 - Advancement
Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 2
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.
#33 - The Architect
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 20
A disgruntled architect decides to improve on his building--by blowing it up.
#34 - The Rainmaker
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 21
The officers arrest a rainmaker, only discover that he was hired by the drought-ridden city; Wojo, Harris and Dietrich each consider a job opening in vice.
#35 - Call Girl
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 6
Dorsey takes a protective stance to a young prostitute; Harris is getting stock tips from another one; and Dietrich is tempted by all of them as he experiments with celibacy.
#36 - Homicide (1)
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 1
When the NYPD restructures its precincts as specialty squads, Luger pulls some strings and gets the 12th assigned as a homicide squad. Business is good; a man murders his barber, and a woman hires a hit man to kill her husband, and then changes her mind.
#37 - The Librarian
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 13
A serious tone pervades this episode about a gypsy and his harassment of the owner of a novelty store; on the lighter side, a librarian takes extreme measures to ensure quiet amongst the stacks.
#38 - Contempt (1)
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 15
A restaurant may have refused a man service because of his appearance; Barney won't name an informant so he's charged with contempt of court.
#39 - Contempt (2)
Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 16
When Barney spends the night in jail, the squad room is left in the natty hands of Sergeant Harris.
#40 - The Dentist
Barney Miller - Season 6 - Episode 11
One man's hands are a musical instrument to himself and a nuisance to others; a detective goes undercover to trap a dentist with wandering instruments.
#42 - Rules of Engagement
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 12
When some seniors advise the girls to look into college entrance information early, Chloe and Riley discover that they're interested in different schools and decide to try a ""trial separation"" to see how it would be like living apart from one another. Larry winds up being the go between for the girls, helping them to decide what to wear after they come to school in the same outfit; unfortunately, he loses it after a long cram session that requires him to keep running back and forth from Jake's trailer and Macy's house to study with both girls. Macy and Jake, growing tired of finding other people to date, decide to start over and have ""first dates"" as if they never met before as a method of rekindling the sparks.
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Smart Guy - Season 3 - Episode 13
Yvette has a recurring dream in which she marries Mo. Meanwhile, Marcus dreams up a scheme to make money to buy a new sound system.
#44 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 5
When Riley, gets approached by a Gothic Girl for her notes, because if she doesn't pass this history test, her mother would ground her and she can't go to the party. The girl promises Riley and Chloe to have them over for a party, here at school. Chloe has an outburst, saying that Riley can tutor her, too. Riley and Chloe doesn't know how to handle is situation, so when the girl comes over they dress Gothic. They tutor her, and she pass with a B+. She tells them that the party will be at Midnight. Riley and Chloe are pretty nervous about how to attend the party, so they have a plan to leave late, because that what cool kids do. But the truth is that they are scared, and doesn't want to go. So they fall asleep on the bed. Thinking that they are at the party, Larry wants to take them both out. He tries to sneak in but they kick him out. He then sneaks in as Britney Spears, and asks the girl where was Chloe and Riley. He then says that they never showed up. Larry then gets hit on a guy, thinking that he is a girl. In the morning, Chloe and Riley blames each other for not going to the party. They are then greeted by Larry in the whole Britney Spears costume, and he tells them to hide him.
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#45 - You've Got Mail
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 6
Macy wants to meet an old high school flame when Jake decides to read her private e-mail. Meanwhile, Chloe, Riley, and Larry have to perform community services.
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#46 - Manuelo in the Middle (1)
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 7
Riley and Chloe manage to get Teddie and Manuelo for Career Day at school instead of their parents, who would have ruined it for them. Meanwhile, Macy plans for a new family portrait, and unknowingly doesn't include Manuelo in it. This prompts Manuelo to become extremely upset and eventually quit, since he believes, in their eyes, he's just a simple employee.
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#47 - Manuelo in the Middle (2)
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 8
The Carlsons' continue searching for Manuelo throughout Malibu. Meanwhile, while working at Neptune's Net, Larry finds Manuelo to be the new chef there. However, he is blackmailed into maintaining his secret.
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#48 - The Breakfast Club
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 14
When Travis gets detention at school, Chloe decides to also get detention to spend some time with him. So she tries to get in trouble with something major to impress him, but she soon learns getting detention is harder than it looks, and ends up getting everyone else except herself in detention. Meanwhile, Riley attempts to give Larry a chance at getting to know him better, and discovers he is even worse than she thought he'd be.
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#49 - Riley's New Guy
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 17
Riley must deal with unsavory rumors being spread about her by a previous date and a young musician she is absolutely smitten over. Chloe tries every trick in the book to land Lennon as a boyfriend and fails, until she throws the book away.
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#50 - Larrypalooza
So Little Time - Season 1 - Episode 23
Riley and Chloe decide to create their own rock band and enter a ""battle of the bands"" contest at school. However, the only musicians they are able to recruit are Larry and Randy, the school nerd.
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