Season 1
13 episodes · premiered Jan 23, 1975
The first season of Barney Miller aired on ABC from January 23 to May 1, 1975.
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E1 Ramon
Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.
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E2 Experience
A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.
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E3 Snow Job
The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.
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E4 Graft
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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E5 The Courtesans
A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.
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E6 Stakeout
Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.
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E7 Bureaucrat
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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E8 Ms. Cop
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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E9 Vigilante
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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E10 The Guest
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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E11 Escape Artist
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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E12 Hair
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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E13 The Hero
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.