Episode
Barney Miller: The Child Stealers
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1980-01-24
Episode context
The Child Stealers is Episode 15 in Season 6 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1980-01-24.
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Episode 14: Vanished (2)
Harris disappears while undercover as a vagrant; Luger elects to be demoted rather than to retire.
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.
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Episode 17: Uniform Days
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Episode 12: People's Court
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Episode 18: Dietrich's Arrest (1)
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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 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.
Episode 10: The DNA Story
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Episode 20: The Architect
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Episode 9: The Judge
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Episode 21: The Inventor
The squad tries hypnosis to uncover the name of a felon that Wojo has forgotten; an inventor steals the plans for his own creation.