Episode
Barney Miller: The Prisoner
Overview
A released prisoner can't adjust to civilian life; the widow of a cat burglar elects to perpetuate the family business.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1978-10-19
Episode context
The Prisoner is Episode 7 in Season 5 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1978-10-19.
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Episode 6: Accusation
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.
Episode 8: Loan Shark
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
More episodes from this season
Episode 5: The Baby Broker
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.
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 4: Dog Days
The German Shepherd that bit Wojo may be rabid; Barney and Liz prepare for their impending separation.
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 3: The Search
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.
Episode 11: The Radical
Luger faces off against a 60s radical, and Harris arrests a portly second story man.
Episode 2: Kidnapping (2)
Wojo delivers the ransom money for the department store owner, while the prostitute charms both Wojo and the victim's nebbish son.
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 1: Kidnapping (1)
A political activist abducts a department store magnate; Wojo arrests a prostitute and her Arkansan business manager.
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.