Episode
Barney Miller: Burial
Overview
Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1977-10-20
Episode context
Burial is Episode 5 in Season 4 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1977-10-20.
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Episode 4: Corporation
A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.
Episode 6: Copy Cat
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.
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Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!
Episode 7: Blizzard
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Episode 2: Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)
Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.
Episode 8: Chase
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.
Episode 1: Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)
A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.
Episode 9: Thanksgiving Story
The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.
Episode 10: Tunnel
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.
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.
Episode 12: The Bank
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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.