Episode
Barney Miller: The Spy
Overview
A paranoid spy holds the precinct house at bay; the men bring in a disorderly mime.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1979-01-18
Episode context
The Spy is Episode 15 in Season 5 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1979-01-18.
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Episode 14: Voice Analyzer
Lieutenant Scanlon returns, this time attempting to ferret out corruption with a lie detector; Barney is suspicious of a furrier's robbery report.
Episode 16: Wojo's Girl (1)
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 13: The Indian
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.
Episode 17: Wojo's Girl (2)
Wojo struggles to co-habitate with his ex-prostitute girlfriend.
Episode 12: Toys
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.
Episode 18: Middle Age
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.
Episode 11: The Radical
Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.
Episode 19: The Counterfeiter
Harris milks a wily counterfeiter for his life story; a man takes exception to a plastic surgeon's work on his wife.
Episode 10: The Harris Incident
A stockbroker leaves Wall Street to become a beggar; a rookie cop, assuming Harris to be a felon, shoots at him.
Episode 20: Open House
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.
Episode 9: The Vandal
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.
Episode 21: Identity
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.