Episode
Barney Miller: Vanished (1)
Overview
Vagrant Ray returns to report his fellow bums' disappearances; a woman wishes to have a child with a surrogate and is focusing in on Dietrich and Wojo.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1980-01-10
Episode context
Vanished (1) is Episode 13 in Season 6 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1980-01-10.
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Episode 12: People's Court
Weary of an uncooperative populace, a census taker goes to drastic measures to make a head count; beleaguered apartment dwellers band together and capture a burglar.
Episode 14: Vanished (2)
Harris disappears while undercover as a vagrant; Luger elects to be demoted rather than to retire.
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Episode 11: The Dentist
One man's hands are a musical instrument to himself and a nuisance to others; a detective goes undercover to trap a dentist with wandering instruments.
Episode 15: The Child Stealers
A self-proclaimed time traveler tells Harris to fine tune his stock portfolio; Marty's divrorced gentleman friend Mr. Driscoll attempts to reclaim his son by abducting him from the playground.
Episode 10: The DNA Story
The detectives search for a missing viral strain stolen from a lab; a woman is convinced that her husband is actually a clone.
Episode 16: Guns
Wojo fears that a despondent Luger is planning to do himself in; a man seeking to reclaim his television set robs the police vault; a rash of bizarre robberies leads to an eccentric gun collector.
Episode 9: The Judge
A judge provides an attorney with the ultimate over-ruling—a gavel on the noggin; the crimes reported by a lonely woman emanate from daytime television soap operas.
Episode 17: Uniform Days
The cops observe the annual department-mandated ritual of wearing their uniforms - except for Harris who shows up in his usual natty street clothes.
Episode 8: The Desk
A former master criminal becomes a walking zombie following his lobotomy; a man is unable to use the telephone after being mugged because he's Amish. Jeff Corey, who appeared previously as ""The Prisoner,"" was a renowned acting teacher.
Episode 18: Dietrich's Arrest (1)
A lottery winner dispenses of the prize money by tossing it out a window; Sgt. Dietrich is arrested for his off-duty participation at an anti-nuclear rally; Barney discovers he can't afford his condo-converted apartment.
Episode 7: The Bird
Harris' book publication hits a snag when Dietrich refuses to sign a release; a suicide hot line operator becomes suicidal; the clerk that sold Wojo a sick bird changes his strict no-return policy when he learns that the detective is a cop.
Episode 19: Dietrich's Arrest (2)
Harris gets the unenviable task of booking his colleague Dietrich, whose arrest prompts a visit from Internal Affairs; meanwhile, a nuclear engineer is brought in for dousing the participants with atomic water.