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Goodbye, Mr. Fish (1)

Episode number: 1

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

Goodbye, Mr. Fish (2)

Episode number: 2

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

Bugs

Episode number: 3

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

Corporation

Episode number: 4

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

Burial

Episode number: 5

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

Copy Cat

Episode number: 6

Overview: 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.

Blizzard

Episode number: 7

Overview: A blizzard holes up the 12th with an unwelcome guest—a corpse; a self-proclaimed prophet is sure that the weather is indicative of a new ice age.

Chase

Episode number: 8

Overview: 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.

Thanksgiving Story

Episode number: 9

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

Tunnel

Episode number: 10

Overview: 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.

Atomic Bomb

Episode number: 11

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

The Bank

Episode number: 12

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

The Ghost

Episode number: 13

Overview: 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.

Appendicitis

Episode number: 14

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

Rape

Episode number: 15

Overview: 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.

Eviction (1)

Episode number: 16

Overview: 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.

Eviction (2)

Episode number: 17

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

Wojo's Problem

Episode number: 18

Overview: 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.

'Quo Vadis?'

Episode number: 19

Overview: 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.

Hostage

Episode number: 20

Overview: 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.

Evaluation

Episode number: 21

Overview: 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.

The Sighting

Episode number: 22

Overview: A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.

Inauguration

Episode number: 23

Overview: Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.