Episode
Barney Miller: Toys
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1978-12-14
Episode context
Toys is Episode 12 in Season 5 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1978-12-14.
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