The BEST episodes written by Nat Mauldin

#1 - The Car

Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 3

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.

#2 - Bull Gets a Kid

Night Court - Season 2 - Episode 6

Bull finally is allowed a foster son by a volunteer-fathers organization, but he winds up with a bit of a surprise.

#3 - Stress Analyzer

Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 5

A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.

#4 - Paternity

Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 1

Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.

#5 - Stormy Weather

Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 12

A deaf woman is arrested for prostitution; Barney anxiously awaits news of Wojo, who dived into the Hudson River in pursuit of a looter.

#6 - Obituary

Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 15

A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.

#7 - The Tontine

Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 8

The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.

#8 - The Vests

Barney Miller - Season 7 - Episode 20

The detectives are reluctant to wear their new bulletproof vests; Luger interviews them in case of the need for a quick obituary.

#9 - A Day in the Life

Night Court - Season 4 - Episode 15

NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff posts bail for a Neilsen family as the gang rushes to adjudicate 200 cases in one session.

#10 - Harry and Leon

Night Court - Season 3 - Episode 14

Harry takes pity on the building shoeshine boy, who seeks refuge from a social worker trying to place him in another foster home.

#11 - Flo's Retirement

Night Court - Season 3 - Episode 20

The staff tries everything they can think of to postpone Flo's mandatory retirement.

#12 - Wheels of Justice (2)

Night Court - Season 3 - Episode 10

#13 - The Night Off

Night Court - Season 3 - Episode 13

A crazy judge brought in to substitute for Harry imprisons Dan and Mac for contempt and appoints Florence and Phil the wino as the defense and prosecuting attorneys.

#14 - Bones

Barney Miller - Season 8 - Episode 19

A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.

#15 - World War III

Night Court - Season 2 - Episode 21

Harry searches for Yakov's brother, a Russian circus defector. Meanwhile, Soviet and American agents negotiate an arms agreement.

#16 - The Girl From Manhattan

Newhart - Season 2 - Episode 5

Joanna convinces Dick to use a play he'd written years before in a local production. Friction develops when Dick casts her, not in the role of 'Joanna', but rather 'Joanna's Mother'.

#17 - An Old Flame

Night Court - Season 2 - Episode 15

Selma's old beau wants to rekindle their romance and a substitute judge makes a mockery of the judicial system.

#18 - Monkey Business

Night Court - Season 3 - Episode 19

Bull tries to save a baby orangutan from animal-research experiments.