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Hostage
Barney Miller - S4 - E20
Harris finally finds an apartment in the Village; a ventriloquist insists he's not responsible for his dummy's insensitive remarks; a prisoner holds the boys at gunpoint.
Barney Miller: Season 4 - 23 Episode s
4x1 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
September 15, 1977
A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
4x2 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
September 22, 1977
Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
4x3 - Bugs
September 29, 1977
Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
4x4 - Corporation
October 6, 1977
A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
4x5 - Burial
October 20, 1977
Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
4x6 - Copy Cat
October 27, 1977
Yemana scours the TV Guide to try to second-guess the felon who's aping the prime-time lineup crime shows; a drunk forgets the most important element in a hold-up - a weapon.
4x7 - Blizzard
November 3, 1977
A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guest—a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure that the weather is indicative of a new ice age.
4x8 - Chase
November 17, 1977
A taxi company is irate when Wojo totals a borrowed cab while pursuing a robbery suspect; Lieutenant Scanlon tries to ferret out 12th Precinct corruption with a drug pusher.
4x9 - Thanksgiving Story
November 24, 1977
The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
4x10 - Tunnel
December 1, 1977
Wojo is buried alive after a tunnel collapses on a burglar burrowing towards the diamond exchange; a homeless Harris is combing Manhattan for a new apartment.
4x11 - Atomic Bomb
December 15, 1977
Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.
4x12 - The Bank
January 5, 1978
A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.
4x13 - The Ghost
January 12, 1978
The detectives are unimpressed with a man who claims he's being visited by a poltergeist - that is, until they lock the man up and strange events begin occurring about the squad room.
4x14 - Appendicitis
January 19, 1978
Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.
4x15 - Rape
January 26, 1978
The city legalizes off-track gambling, to the delight of Yemana; a woman wants her husband arrested on a rape charge; a master of disguise perpetuates a crime spree.
4x16 - Eviction (1)
February 2, 1978
Barney puts his career on the line by refusing to forcibly evict the tenants of a condemned hotel, while Lugar tries to figure out what to do with his vacation time.
4x17 - Eviction (2)
February 9, 1978
The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""
4x18 - Wojo's Problem
February 23, 1978
Wojo comes to Barney with a problem his superior would rather not know about; the 12th's new female detective has a very jealous husband, suspicious of her all-male co-workers; somehow a shoplifter escapes - in a wheelchair.
4x19 - 'Quo Vadis?'
March 2, 1978
Barney uncovers, if you will, the real reason behind a woman's vehement insistence that a nude-painting exhibit at a local art gallery be shut down; the Millers may be heading for divorce.
4x20 - Hostage
March 23, 1978
Harris finally finds an apartment in the Village; a ventriloquist insists he's not responsible for his dummy's insensitive remarks; a prisoner holds the boys at gunpoint.
4x21 - Evaluation
May 4, 1978
The members of the squad nervously await Barney filling out their evaluation forms. Meanwhile, Harris arrests a numerologist who will only give his name as ""1223,"" and a porno shop reporting vandalism turns out to be a mom and pop operation being hassled by their kids.
4x22 - The Sighting
May 11, 1978
A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
4x23 - Inauguration
May 18, 1978
Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.