First Aired: 1982-05-20 Old faces stop by the 12th precinct to bid farewell to Barney and the squad. Harris decides to resign instead of being reassigned to Flushing Meadow.
First Aired: 1982-05-13 Dietrich shuts down a school for criminals and a pair of its students. Inspector Luger decides he doesn't want to get married to Perlita. The 12th precinct is sold to a real estate developer.
First Aired: 1982-05-06 A buyer is interested in purchasing the 12th precinct after Wojo discovers an ancient weapon hidden away. A South American immigrant requests a return home after being released as a political hostage. An unemployed man is robbed while at an ATM machine.
First Aired: 1982-04-29 An Indian is arrested after he steals an ancestral bone from a museum exhibit. A Boy Scout master apprehends a mugger. Meanwhile, the 12th precinct's plumbing has once again shut down.
First Aired: 1982-04-09 When shyster lawyer, Alan Ripkin threatens Harris with a second law suit, he retaliates with physical harm. A mugging victim confesses she has had a romantic spark for Barney the past 25 years.
First Aired: 1982-04-02 A has-been, former child actor assaults his former agent with a telephone. An old college flame of Dietrich's, spends the day with him.
First Aired: 1982-03-26 When the administrator for an exclusive school denies a child a place in the kindergarten class, the parents retaliate with violence. Wojo is charged with unnecessary violence during an arrest, causing an investigation with Internal Affairs.
First Aired: 1982-03-11 A citizen is angered when a local newspaper prematurely prints his obituary. A chicken thief models himself as a modern day Robin Hood.
First Aired: 1982-02-25 Inspector Luger's mail-order bride finally arrives, and will meet for the first time. A man claims he was mugged by an elderly woman. Petty crimes are being committed by a man with a genius IQ.
First Aired: 1982-02-18 An activist holds a hunger strike as a protest to the nuclear arms race. Dietrich assists a man who is either speaking a foreign language, or is truly psychotic. Barney decides not to accept a nomination for promotion.
First Aired: 1982-02-11 Harris and Dietrich are driving each other insane while watching over an uncooperative witness to a homicide. A wealthy robbery victim charges Lt. Scanlon with harassment.
First Aired: 1982-02-04 A wealthy mugging victim catches Lt. Scanlon's eye. The owner of a restaurant is charged with breaking into his business. Harris and Dietrich are forced to share a hotel room with the only witness to a murder.
First Aired: 1982-01-21 Street clowns are being single out for a rash of serial muggings. A bureaucrat eases jail overcrowding by releasing the prisoners from Madison Avenue onto the streets during the dark of night.
First Aired: 1982-01-14 Inspector Luger roughs up a suspect, and then chastises Barney for being too soft. Meanwhile, the officers are on the streets in uniform while Levitt and others take a sergeants examination.
First Aired: 1981-12-17 Christmas eve finds a group of homeless people gathering for shelter at the 12th precinct. An upset greeting card designer loses his job. A merchant is arrested for using a cattle prod on a vagrant.
First Aired: 1981-12-10 An Army WAC is supplementing her income as a prostitute in Greenwich Village. A created of video game chips is accused of being a KGB spy.
First Aired: 1981-11-26 A recruiter for the Peace Corps goes berserk during a job fair. Barney fears Dietrich has been shot when a new stress analyzer sets off a alert.
First Aired: 1981-11-19 A man charged with disorderly conduct believes he is possessed by the devil, in which is exercised by a department chaplain. A man is charged with assault after forcing his full figured wife into a pair of designer jeans.
First Aired: 1981-11-12 A litterbug is threatened at gunpoint by a sanitation cop. Levitt performs a heroic act concerning a child. A car thief confesses 25 years after the crime, and still has the evidence in mint condition.
First Aired: 1981-11-05 Inspector Luger asks for Barney's assistance in writing a letter to his mail-order bride. A couple are threatened by the winner of the lottery after losing his winning ticket. Harris signs a deal to pen another novel.
First Aired: 1981-10-29 A purse is stolen from a beauty queen. A movie goer vandalizes a theater which runs snuff films, and a women charges Wojo with a paternity suit, only to make a upsetting discovery.
First Aired: 1981-05-14 An old man is apprehended during a ceremony in Washington Park, who was hired by the city officials as a rain maker to end a city-wide drought.
First Aired: 1981-05-07 The officers are against wearing the new bullet proof vests issued by the department. Inspector Luger writes down the squads personal information for the purpose of writing their obituaries.
First Aired: 1981-04-30 When Inspector Luger takes charge of a small disturbance of Hasidic Jews against the police department it turns into a full blown riot. A city steam tunnel is the home of a pair of urban survivalists.
First Aired: 1981-04-09 Sgt. Fish pays a visit to the 12th precinct. Harris loses his libel lawsuit with shyster lawyer Arnold Ripner. A quiet woman reveals that she has a homemade bomb in her purse and wants to blow up the 12th precinct.
First Aired: 1981-03-26 A priceless antique doll is held for a ransom. An naive optician claims he bought a ticket to ride on the space shuttle. Inspector Luger wants to add Barney as a beneficiary of his will.
First Aired: 1981-03-12 Refusing to reveal the name of an informant has Barney charged with contempt of court. A man contends that he was refused service in a restaurant because he was deemed too ugly.
First Aired: 1981-02-26 A sporting goods store operator concocts an elaborate and dangerous anti-theft system. Shyster lawyer Arnold Ripner returns with a lawsuit against Harris for using him in his novel, without consent. Wojo wants to ask Barney's daughter Rachel out for a date.
First Aired: 1981-02-12 Wojo's pursuit of a looter ends with both men jumping into the Hudson River. Meanwhile, a deaf woman is arrested as a prostitute.
First Aired: 1981-02-05 A linguist defaces an advertising billboard as a protest over their use of horrid grammar. Meanwhile, a psychic stops a purse snatching before is happens.
First Aired: 1981-01-29 Harris proudly displays his wildly over-budgeted, spectacular porno flick to the men of the 12th precinct and their guests, a blind mugging victim and an overly enthusiastic charity collector.
First Aired: 1981-01-22 A veteran radio newsman is charged with assaulting an inept TV anchorman. The department asks Harris to create a short pornographic movie.
First Aired: 1981-01-15 Internal Affairs receives incriminating evidence from inside the 12th precinct. A burglar celebrates his fiftieth anniversary of robbing homes, while Harris helps him reunite with his wife who had reported him missing many years earlier.
First Aired: 1981-01-08 After shooting a robbery suspect, Dietrich is consumed with guilt. A playwright assaults an actor he believes is ruining his work.
First Aired: 1980-12-18 Dorsey plays the protector of a young prostitute. A hooker gives Harris financial stock advice. Dietrich is thinking about becoming celibate.
First Aired: 1980-12-11 When an apartment complex goes clothing optional, one woman puts up a protest. A Vietnam vet claims his problems all stem from being exposed to Agent Orange.
First Aired: 1980-11-27 The men of the 12th precinct try to convince a new detective that they are not on the take. A man from an anti-smoking clinic complains that their methods are actually harmful to people's health.
First Aired: 1980-11-13 A newly assigned officer is discovered to be an impostor. A disorderly vagrant seems to be left over from the 1976 Democratic Convention.
First Aired: 1980-10-30 A man confesses to murdering his barber after receiving a horrible hair cut. Meanwhile, a woman decides to cancel the contract she had with a hit man to kill her husband.
First Aired: 1980-05-08 A foggy day is the backdrop to this day as a street musician is accused of assaulting a string quartet who moved in on his corner. Meanwhile, Barney is apparently hiding his feelings after being passed over for promotion to deputy inspector.
First Aired: 1980-05-01 Wojo is put under hypnosis in order to remember key information to a case. Meanwhile, an inventor is accused of stealing the blueprints to his own creation.
First Aired: 1980-03-06 Harris is forced to book a defiant Dietrich after his arrest at an anti-nuclear rally, and that attracts the unwholesome attention of Lieutenant Scanlon. Meanwhile, a nuclear engineer sprays the protesters with what is believed to be radioactive waste water.
First Aired: 1980-02-28 An anti-nuclear protest lands a defiant Dietrich in a cell. Meanwhile, a man causes a disturbance after throwing his lottery winnings from a window. Barney finds himself priced out of his apartment when the owners convert it to a condominium.
First Aired: 1980-02-07 It's time for the annual department mandated uniform day, but Harris refuses to participate, arriving instead in his usual dapper duds.
First Aired: 1980-01-31 Wojo fears that Luger is planning suicide after accepting a demotion. A gun collector robs a liquor store using a classic dueling pistol. A citizen robs the vault after arriving to claim his stolen TV set.
First Aired: 1980-01-24 A young boy is kidnapped by his own father, Darryl Driscoll, a friend of Marty. A man claiming to be from the future arrives at the 12th precinct.
First Aired: 1980-01-10 Harris disappears while posing as a vagrant to investigate a rash of missing homeless men. A woman settles for Wojo or Dietrich to be a father of her baby.
First Aired: 1980-01-03 A census taker takes matters into his own hands when he breaks into the apartments of uncooperative citizens. A group of vigilantes hold a thief prisoner in a basement cell.
First Aired: 1979-12-27 A woman accuses her dentist of taking advantage of her while under she was under anesthesia. Wojo arrests a man who annoys people by making disgusting sounds with his hands.
First Aired: 1979-12-13 A research laboratory is missing a dangerous disease culture slide. Meanwhile, a woman claims her husband must have been replaced by an identical clone.
First Aired: 1979-12-06 An attorney files charges against a judge who has assaulted him with his gavel. A confused woman believes she has witnessed a crime, which is discovered to be the plot of a daytime TV soap opera.
First Aired: 1979-11-22 A once brilliant thief is now a mere shell of his former self after undergoing a partial lobotomy. An Amish man was unable to ask for help after a mugging since he didn't know how to use a telephone.
First Aired: 1979-11-08 Harris' publisher demands a signed release before he will publish the detective's new novel, but Harris has a problem getting all the detectives to sign. A suicide hotline operator decides to kill himself. A store owner sells Wojo a sick parrot. When the bird dies, Wojo learns the man has a strict no-returns policy.
First Aired: 1979-11-01 A man believes he is due to spontaneously combust. A new strip club irritates the owner of a book store, who claims it will ruin his sales.
First Aired: 1979-10-04 A monk is worried about foul play after one of his fellow brothers disappears in New York City. Dietrich must take his turn in drag with mugging detail.
First Aired: 1979-09-27 The new vacation schedule causes a ruckus in the squad room. When a man refuses to donate a kidney to his brother, a dispute erupts. Meanwhile, a number of false reports has the officers believing a sniper is planning an attack.
First Aired: 1979-09-20 A self-proclaimed Jesus Christ chastises the pimps on 8th Avenue for using woman as harlots. An elderly mugger poses as a charming photographer.
First Aired: 1979-09-13 An angry customer destroys a store's Muzak machine; the ever-odious Lieutenant Scanlon, acting on an anonymous tip, hunts the precinct for a gay officer.
First Aired: 1979-05-17 A look back at actor Jack Soo (Nick Yemana), who passed away in 1979. The remaining cast gather to tell their favorite stories and pay the last respects to their fellow cast mate. Clips are shown containing the best of Yemana.
First Aired: 1979-05-10 An angry tourist learns about the NYPD from the inside; Harris starts a new police novel; a man believes that if he falls asleep he will be possessed by a succubus.
First Aired: 1979-03-15 Dietrich catches an embezzler in the computer room of his employer, but they may have difficulty recovering the money. Harris is shocked when he meets an educated young doctor who believes himself under a voodoo curse.
First Aired: 1979-03-01 The detectives nab a thief, and then the Justice Department comes calling. It seems the man is in the Witness Protection Program, and Justice wants the NYPD to make the theft charge go away. Dietrich saves Harris' life, and that burden bears down on Harris.
First Aired: 1979-02-15 The precinct hosts an open house that attracts only vagrants; Wojo and Harris try to identify an arsonist but their efforts are thwarted when the man's psychiatrist refuses to reveal his patient's name; Barney prepares to move back home, but the hotel manager where he's staying refuses him a refund.
First Aired: 1979-02-08 The detectives catch an old counterfeiter, and Harris sees a goldmine of story ideas, prompting him to pump the man for his life's history. The husband of a plastic surgery client, unsatisfied with the work, attacks the surgeon.
First Aired: 1979-02-01 Dietrich arrests an aging decathlon hopeful for practicing the javelin toss in Central Park. A thief robs a Hassidic diamond trader of a fortune in stones. Barney begins to feel his own approaching middle age - and his men don't help the transition when they start to express concern for his physical and mental well-being.
First Aired: 1979-01-25 Conclusion. The detectives investigate a mercenary group while Wojo struggles to decide whether to move in with a reformed prostitute.
First Aired: 1979-01-25 A man tells his wife he is leaving to become a mercenary, leading to the discovery of an organization that recruits such "soldiers of fortune." Wojo tries to decide if he should move in with his latest lady, a reformed prostitute.
First Aired: 1979-01-18 A spy holds the detectives and some civilians hostage. Is he the victim of a government conspiracy, or is he simply paranoid? Other detectives bring in a disorderly mime.
First Aired: 1979-01-11 A furrier files a robbery report that Barney comes to suspect may not be genuine. The never welcome Lieutenant Scanlon visits; he's after police corruption with his latest tool, a lie detector. All of the detectives pass their lie detector examinations, save one...
First Aired: 1979-01-04 Detectives investigate a strange sort of thief: he steals the shoes right off a woman's feet. An old Indian wishes to die in Central Park; Wojo must arrest him and take him to Bellevue but refuses to do so, instead waiting with the old man until he dies as he wished to.
First Aired: 1978-12-14 Investigation of a toy store burglary reveals the problem might just be overzealous competition. A claustrophobic prisoner claims he cannot withstand the holding cell. Barney faces his first holiday since separation from his wife Elizabeth.
First Aired: 1978-12-07 The squad arrests a man who turns out to be a famous radical who disappeared in the 1960s. He's disappointed that his arrest has not generated more controversy. Inspector Lugar argues himself into a possible heart attack debating the man. Harris collars a rotund burglar.
First Aired: 1978-11-30 Harris seethes, suspecting racism, after a rookie officer assumes he's a felon and shoots at him. Wojo arrests a beggar who has a wife, children and a nice house! He's a former stockbroker who left that business to become a beggar on purpose...
First Aired: 1978-11-09 Someone vandalizes the squadroom, and Barney comes to believe Levitt is the culprit! An unhappy television viewer takes out his ire on a network executive he meets in a coffee shop.
First Aired: 1978-11-02 Harris arrests a fourteen year old loan shark, and then tries to offer him advice. After twenty years on the force, Yemana begins to feel taken for granted. A tattoo artist refused to remove his work from a client having second thoughts.
First Aired: 1978-10-19 A paroled convict has trouble adjusting to life on the outside and decides he liked it better behind bars. A cat burglar's widow decides she wants to continue the "family business." Barney receives embarrassing from the chaplain.
First Aired: 1978-10-12 Yemana must arrest a rabbi who has set up an illegal casino in his synagogue, despite the cleric's claim that the profits go to charity. A lonely woman accuses Dietrich of "improper conduct:" prompting an unpleasant visit from the rat squad's Lieutenant Ben Scanlon.
First Aired: 1978-10-05 Sometimes the process of adoption fails certain people for one reason or another, and they turn to other approaches. Such is the case in this episode, when a childless couple arranges through a lawyer to adopt the child a young German girl carries. Their problem is that she no longer wishes to surrender her baby, and instead plans to flee the country, so they try to stop her and the 12th squad winds up in the middle. Other matters include a man writing a book on obscenity, and Officer Levitt, who is flying on pep pills so that he can complete a thirty-six hour shift, another in his many schemes for reaching the rank of detective.
First Aired: 1978-09-28 Wojo busts an illegal dog fighting ring and a German Shepherd bites him. It may be rabid, so Wojo must overcome his fear of needles so he can receive the vaccinations. Barney's impending separation has him down in the dumps.
First Aired: 1978-09-21 The squad tries to help a woman find her father - who has been missing for 28 years. Harris must part with his beloved mustache so that he can cross-dress to help trap a mugger preying on women. Detectives must arrest popular children's show host Mr. Science.
First Aired: 1978-09-14 Conclusion. Barney must defuse the kidnapping of a department store executive by a crazed activist who wants him to give away his merchandise.
First Aired: 1978-09-14 A political extremist kidnaps the owner of a department store. His demand? That the man give his merchandise to the public. Meanwhile, Wojo arrests a prostitute and her customer - a visitor for Arkansas.
First Aired: 1978-05-18 The mayoral inauguration creates mayhem at the 12th. The detectives investigate a possible suicide, study hate mail directed at the mayor, and learn Harris will leave the squad to join the new mayor's staff.
First Aired: 1978-05-11 A woman reports her husband because she objects to his turning all their assets into gold. Wojo arrives to work late. His excuse? He was tracking a UFO that he saw over Staten Island.
First Aired: 1978-05-04 Harris arrests an assailant who will not provide his name, only a number. Vandals strike a "mon and pop" pornography shop - and their identity surprises mom and pop. Meanwhile, the detectives sweat as Barney prepares evaluations of their performance.
First Aired: 1978-03-23 A gunman imprisons the detectives in their own holding cell, which they must share with a ventriloquist who claims he is not responsible for the utterances of his foul-mouthed mannequin. Harris finally finds and apartment that he likes in the Village.
First Aired: 1978-03-02 An irate woman regards an exhibit of art that contains nudes as pornography and demands the prestigious museum hosting it remove it. Barney and his wife Elizabeth face a marital crisis over her concern for the hazards of his job.
First Aired: 1978-02-23 Wojo has a problem that strikes many men at one time or another in the era before a little blue pill could fix it... and he brings it to Barney, who would have rather never known about it! Detective Roslyn Licori joins the squad and the detectives must deal with her very jealous husband. A shoplifter escapes - in his wheelchair!
First Aired: 1978-02-09 After the poor tenants refuse to leave their condemned home, and Barney refuses to force them out, the department relieves him of command and brings in a SWAT team. But Barney is the only man the tenants will talk to; if the city wants a non-violent solution, Barney will have to provide it.
First Aired: 1978-02-02 Barney refuses to enforce a court ordered eviction; the residents of the condemned hotel are poor and have few options. Inspector Luger ponders how best to spend his vacation.
First Aired: 1978-01-26 A woman brings a charge of rape against her husband. Faced with an uncertain prosecution, Barney seeks out a female district attorney and persuades her to handle the case. Meanwhile, a master of disguise embarks on a crime spree, and Yemana takes advantage of New York's newly legal off-track betting parlors.
First Aired: 1978-01-19 A bounty hunter past his prime and a self-proclaimed sugar addict plague the squadroom. Yemana doubles over with stomach pain from appendicitis; the detectives rush him to the hospital.