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Ramon

Episode number: 1

Overview: Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.

Experience

Episode number: 2

Overview: A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.

Snow Job

Episode number: 3

Overview: The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.

Graft

Episode number: 4

Overview: An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Chano is after an obscene phone caller.

The Courtesans

Episode number: 5

Overview: A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.

Stakeout

Episode number: 6

Overview: Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.

Bureaucrat

Episode number: 7

Overview: Guests to the 12th include a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment; Wojo closes the precinct's favorite delicatessen for minor health-code infractions.

Ms. Cop

Episode number: 8

Overview: An overzealous lady cop ruffles the feathers of the testosterone-run 12th; Chano nabs an obscene phone caller. Linda Lavin (""Alice"") debuts as Detective Janice Wentworth.

Vigilante

Episode number: 9

Overview: Barney is visited by Inspector Luger, who complains that his men aren't disliked enough by the public; a neighborhood vigilante is well into his twilight years; Wojo collars a cross-dressing teamster.

The Guest

Episode number: 10

Overview: The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set up a narcotics buy.

Escape Artist

Episode number: 11

Overview: A self-avowed ""bird-man"" drops in; Barney holds a resourceful escaped prisoner for the FBI; Harris decides to write a novel, setting up one of the series' most durable storylines.

Hair

Episode number: 12

Overview: A scruffy ""Serpico""-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fish spent the afternoon in a massage parlor.

The Hero

Episode number: 13

Overview: Chano is guilt-stricken when he shoots a holdup man; Liz makes a citizen's arrest, after being robbed at ""stickpoint"" by a twelve-year-old.