Episode
Barney Miller: Hostage
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1978-03-23
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Hostage is Episode 20 in Season 4 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1978-03-23. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 19: 'Quo Vadis?'
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.
Episode 21: Evaluation
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.
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Episode 18: Wojo's Problem
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.
Episode 22: The Sighting
A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
Episode 17: Eviction (2)
The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""
Episode 23: Inauguration
Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.
Episode 16: Eviction (1)
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.
Episode 15: Rape
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.
Episode 14: Appendicitis
Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.
Episode 13: The Ghost
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.
Episode 12: The Bank
A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.
Episode 11: Atomic Bomb
Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.