Barney Miller
Season 1
13 listed hours · 1975–1982 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Hal Linden runs the 12th Precinct like a therapist with a badge while the squad room does all the traveling. Danny Arnold's cop comedy barely leaves the station: talk, character, civic absurdity, Abe Vigoda deadpan. Workplace sitcom architecture without car-chase fetish.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Barney Miller (1975–1982) on ABC as the first listed season of 8 — 13 listed hours, 1975-01-23–1975-05-01 from “Ramon” (S01E01) to “The Hero” (S01E13). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Ramon
Ramon opens Danny Arnold's cop comedy as a station-house conversation. Linden already runs the 12th like a therapist with a badge; no car-chase fetish in sight.
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S01E01 Ramon
Captain Miller runs headlong into a gun-toting teenage addict trying to break out of the police station.
- S01E02
The Experience
Barney has to talk Fish out of early retirement while searching out a bomber who is blowing up public buildings.
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S01E03 Snow Job
An exhibitionist in a snowstorm, an armored car drivers' strike and no heat create chaos for Barney at the police station.
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S01E04 Graft
Barney's men are accused of being on the take after a former detective from his squad becomes a member of Internal Affairs, the department's self-policing unit.
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S01E05 The Courtesans
Wojciehowicz goes to Barney for advice when he becomes attracted to one of the girls he arrested at Rose's "VillageAGoGo".
- S01E06
The Stakeout
Barney and his squad stake out a drug drop from an apartment house, but he fears their cover will be blown by visiting tenants.
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S01E07 The Bureaucrat
A hard-drinking Washington bureaucrat who gets drunk in Barney's precinct becomes an overnight guest in the squad room cell.
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S01E08 Ms. Cop
The new woman cop assigned to Barney's precinct does all the typing while all the other detectives are out capturing bank robbers.
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S01E09 The Vigilante
Chano has to arrest an irate citizen who has been defending the neighborhood from muggers.
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S01E10 The Guest
Barney's squad has the job of protecting a government witness from the vengeance of a crime syndicate.
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S01E11 The Escape Artist
A prison escape artist who is apprehended by Barney's squad, must then be held until he's returned to jail.
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S01E12 Hair
The new member of Barney's squad is an unconventional loner with a beard who is cool about becoming a 12th precinct Detective.
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S01E13 The Hero
Chano becomes depressed after shooting two bank robbers; Barney's wife, Elizabeth, makes a citizen's arrest of an eight-year-old boy.
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