Episode
Barney Miller: Advancement
Overview
Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.
Details
- Series
- Barney Miller
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1981-11-05
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Advancement is Episode 2 in Season 8 of Barney Miller. It aired on 1981-11-05. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 1: Paternity
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
Episode 3: The Car
A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Possession
A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.
Episode 5: Stress Analyzer
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
Episode 6: Games
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
Episode 7: Homeless
The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.
Episode 8: The Tontine
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Episode 9: Examination Day
The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.
Episode 10: The Clown
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
Episode 11: Chinatown (1)
A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.
Episode 12: Chinatown (2)
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
Episode 13: Hunger Strike
Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.