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Barney Miller - Season 5

Barney Miller: Season 5 - 24 Episode s

5x1 - Kidnapping (1)
September 14, 1978
A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.
5x2 - Kidnapping (2)
September 14, 1978
Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo and the victim's nebbish son.
5x3 - The Search
September 21, 1978
Off goes the moustache, as it's Harris' turn for cross-dressing mugging detail; the host of a kids' science show goes off the deep end; Barney's men reopen a twenty-eight year old missing persons case.
5x4 - Dog Days
September 28, 1978
The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separation.
5x5 - The Baby Broker
October 5, 1978
A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Levitt turns to stimulants to aid in his self-imposed thirty-six hour shift.
5x6 - Accusation
October 12, 1978
An accusation of an indiscretion on the part of Dietrich leads to a visit from the gleeful Lieutenant Scanlon of Internal Affairs; Yemana books a rabbi who is running a gambling casino in his synagogue.
5x7 - The Prisoner
October 19, 1978
A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate the family business.
5x8 - Loan Shark
November 2, 1978
Barney notes some uncharacteristic behavior from Yemana; a client can't get a tattoo artist to remove his work; Harris books a youthful loan shark
5x9 - The Vandal
November 9, 1978
Barney has the uneasy feeling that it may have been Levitt that vandalized the precinct squad room; a TV programming executive is assaulted in a coffee shop.
5x10 - The Harris Incident
November 30, 1978
A stockbroker leaves Wall Street to become a beggar; a rookie cop, assuming Harris to be a felon, shoots at him.
5x11 - The Radical
December 7, 1978
Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.
5x12 - Toys
December 14, 1978
Feuding toy makers create a disturbance; Barney faces his first holiday as a separated man; a claustrophobic prisoner has an understandable problem with the cage.
5x13 - The Indian
January 4, 1979
A woman has her shoes stolen - from her feet; Wojo is forced to arrest an aging Indian who only wants to die in the park.
5x14 - Voice Analyzer
January 11, 1979
Lieutenant Scanlon returns, this time attempting to ferret out corruption with a lie detector; Barney is suspicious of a furrier's robbery report.
5x15 - The Spy
January 18, 1979
A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.
5x16 - Wojo's Girl (1)
January 25, 1979
Wojo decides to move in with his girlfriend; Mr. Brauer tells his wife that he's leaving to become a mercenary. This was a pilot for a potential spin-off series, each week focusing on one of the cops' off-duty lives.
5x17 - Wojo's Girl (2)
January 25, 1979
Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.
5x18 - Middle Age
February 1, 1979
Barney feels the onrush of Father Time; Dietrich books an Olympic hopeful who practices his javelin toss in Central Park; a Hassidic Jew is the target of a diamond thief.
5x19 - The Counterfeiter
February 8, 1979
Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.
5x20 - Open House
February 15, 1979
The 12th Precinct hosts an open house, attracting only vagrants; Barney's joy at moving back home is cut short by the hotel manager that refuses to refund him his upcoming month's rent; Wojo and Harris try to get a lead on an arsonist.
5x21 - Identity
March 1, 1979
Harris quickly regrets the fact that Dietrich has saved his life; the 12th is asked to assist a thief who has been granted entry into a witness-relocation program.
5x22 - Computer Crime
March 15, 1979
A computer firm has difficulty retrieving embezzled funds; an educated young man claims to be under the influence of a voodoo curse.
5x23 - Graveyard Shift
May 10, 1979
Barney and his crew face the late shift with a man who believes that he is being frequented by a succubus and an irate tourist.
5x24 - Jack Soo, a Retrospective
May 17, 1979
The cast step out of character to offer a tribute to Jack Soo, who died during the show's fifth season.

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