Season 4 (1977)

Episodes: 23

Star Cast: Hal Linden , Max Gail , Ron Glass , Ron Carey ,

Episodes List

Ep.1 Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

Air Date: 1977-09-15

A neighborhood vigilante group runs amok, and Fish is AWOL on the day of his retirement.

Ep.2 Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

Air Date: 1977-09-22

Fish finally shows up for work, but refuses to acknowledge his mandatory retirement.

Ep.3 Bugs

Air Date: 1977-09-29

Listening devices discovered in the squad room may have come from Internal Affairs - or the Nixon administration!

Ep.4 Corporation

Air Date: 1977-10-06

A quixotic environmentalist faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been assaulting.

Ep.5 Burial

Air Date: 1977-10-20

Retired Sergeant Fish returns to assist Barney in locating a pilfered corpse.

Ep.6 Copy Cat

Air Date: 1977-10-27

Yemana scours the TV Guide to try to second-guess the felon who's aping the prime-time lineup crime shows; a drunk forgets the most important element in a hold-up - a weapon.

Ep.7 Blizzard

Air Date: 1977-11-03

A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guestâ€”a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure that the weather is indicative of a new ice age.

Ep.8 Chase

Air Date: 1977-11-17

A taxi company is irate when Wojo totals a borrowed cab while pursuing a robbery suspect; Lieutenant Scanlon tries to ferret out 12th Precinct corruption with a drug pusher.

Ep.9 Thanksgiving Story

Air Date: 1977-11-24

The detectives clean up after three mental patients sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.

Ep.10 Tunnel

Air Date: 1977-12-01

Wojo is buried alive after a tunnel collapses on a burglar burrowing towards the diamond exchange; a homeless Harris is combing Manhattan for a new apartment.

Ep.11 Atomic Bomb

Air Date: 1977-12-15

Neither the bomb squad nor the government recognizes a college student's physics project as a functional atomic bomb - but Detective Dietrich does.

Ep.12 The Bank

Air Date: 1978-01-05

A man charges a sperm bank with murder after the lab unwittingly destroys the man's last sample.

Ep.13 The Ghost

Air Date: 1978-01-12

The detectives are unimpressed with a man who claims he's being visited by a poltergeist - that is, until they lock the man up and strange events begin occurring about the squad room.

Ep.14 Appendicitis

Air Date: 1978-01-19

Yemana is hospitalized with appendicitis; the cage is a stopping-off place for a sugar addict and an aging bounty hunter.

Ep.15 Rape

Air Date: 1978-01-26

The city legalizes off-track gambling, to the delight of Yemana; a woman wants her husband arrested on a rape charge; a master of disguise perpetuates a crime spree.

Ep.16 Eviction (1)

Air Date: 1978-02-02

Barney puts his career on the line by refusing to forcibly evict the tenants of a condemned hotel, while Lugar tries to figure out what to do with his vacation time.

Ep.17 Eviction (2)

Air Date: 1978-02-09

The hotel situation now involves a SWAT team, while Dietrich learns the identity of his amnesic ""girlfriend.""

Ep.18 Wojo's Problem

Air Date: 1978-02-23

Wojo comes to Barney with a problem his superior would rather not know about; the 12th's new female detective has a very jealous husband, suspicious of her all-male co-workers; somehow a shoplifter escapes - in a wheelchair.

Ep.19 'Quo Vadis?'

Air Date: 1978-03-02

Barney uncovers, if you will, the real reason behind a woman's vehement insistence that a nude-painting exhibit at a local art gallery be shut down; the Millers may be heading for divorce.

Ep.20 Hostage

Air Date: 1978-03-23

Harris finally finds an apartment in the Village; a ventriloquist insists he's not responsible for his dummy's insensitive remarks; a prisoner holds the boys at gunpoint.

Ep.21 Evaluation

Air Date: 1978-05-04

The members of the squad nervously await Barney filling out their evaluation forms. Meanwhile, Harris arrests a numerologist who will only give his name as ""1223,"" and a porno shop reporting vandalism turns out to be a mom and pop operation being hassled by their kids.