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A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.
Barney Miller: Season 1 - 13 Episode s
1x1 - Ramon
January 23, 1975
Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.
1x2 - Experience
January 30, 1975
A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.
1x3 - Snow Job
February 6, 1975
The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.
1x4 - Graft
February 13, 1975
An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Chano is after an obscene phone caller.
1x5 - The Courtesans
February 20, 1975
A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.
1x6 - Stakeout
February 27, 1975
Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.
1x7 - Bureaucrat
March 6, 1975
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.
1x8 - Ms. Cop
March 13, 1975
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.
1x9 - Vigilante
March 20, 1975
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.
1x10 - The Guest
March 27, 1975
The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set up a narcotics buy.
1x11 - Escape Artist
April 10, 1975
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.
1x12 - Hair
April 17, 1975
A scruffy ""Serpico""-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fish spent the afternoon in a massage parlor.
1x13 - The Hero
May 1, 1975
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.