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Normal Episodes: 22
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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Season 8 Guide (1981-1982)

	8x01 Paternity A purse is stolen from a beauty queen. A movie goer vandalizes a theater which runs snuff films, and a women charges Wojo with a paternity suit, only to ...	Oct. 29, 1981
	8x02 Advancement Inspector Luger asks for Barney's assistance in writing a letter to his mail-order bride. A couple are threatened by the winner of the lottery after losing ...	Nov. 05, 1981
	8x03 The Car A litterbug is threatened at gunpoint by a sanitation cop. Levitt performs a heroic act concerning a child. A car thief confesses 25 years after the crime, ...	Nov. 12, 1981
	8x04 Possession A man charged with disorderly conduct believes he is possessed by the devil, in which is exercised by a department chaplain. A man is charged with assault ...	Nov. 19, 1981
	8x05 Stress Analyzer A recruiter for the Peace Corps goes berserk during a job fair. Barney fears Dietrich has been shot when a new stress analyzer sets off a alert.	Nov. 26, 1981
	8x06 Games An Army WAC is supplementing her income as a prostitute in Greenwich Village. A created of video game chips is accused of being a KGB spy.	Dec. 10, 1981
	8x07 Homeless Christmas eve finds a group of homeless people gathering for shelter at the 12th precinct. An upset greeting card designer loses his job. A merchant is ...	Dec. 17, 1981
	8x08 The Tontine One of the two survivors of a tontine plans to commit suicide so his cousin can enjoy the money he would receive.	Jan. 07, 1982
	8x09 Examination Day Inspector Luger roughs up a suspect, and then chastises Barney for being too soft. Meanwhile, the officers are on the streets in uniform while Levitt and ...	Jan. 14, 1982
	8x10 The Clown Street clowns are being single out for a rash of serial muggings. A bureaucrat eases jail overcrowding by releasing the prisoners from Madison Avenue onto ...	Jan. 21, 1982
	8x11 Chinatown (1) A wealthy mugging victim catches Lt. Scanlon's eye. The owner of a restaurant is charged with breaking into his business. Harris and Dietrich are forced ...	Feb. 04, 1982
	8x12 Chinatown (2) Harris and Dietrich are driving each other insane while watching over an uncooperative witness to a homicide. A wealthy robbery victim charges Lt. Scanlon ...	Feb. 11, 1982
	8x13 Hunger Strike An activist holds a hunger strike as a protest to the nuclear arms race. Dietrich assists a man who is either speaking a foreign language, or is truly ...	Feb. 18, 1982
	8x14 Arrival Inspector Luger's mail-order bride finally arrives, and will meet for the first time. A man claims he was mugged by an elderly woman. Petty crimes are ...	Feb. 25, 1982
	8x15 Obituary A citizen is angered when a local newspaper prematurely prints his obituary. A chicken thief models himself as a modern day Robin Hood.	Mar. 11, 1982
	8x16 Inquiry When the administrator for an exclusive school denies a child a place in the kindergarten class, the parents retaliate with violence. Wojo is charged with ...	Mar. 26, 1982
	8x17 Old Love A has-been, former child actor assaults his former agent with a telephone. An old college flame of Dietrich's, spends the day with him.	Apr. 02, 1982
	8x18 Altercation When shyster lawyer, Alan Ripkin threatens Harris with a second law suit, he retaliates with physical harm. A mugging victim confesses she has had a romantic ...	Apr. 09, 1982
	8x19 Bones An Indian is arrested after he steals an ancestral bone from a museum exhibit. A Boy Scout master apprehends a mugger. Meanwhile, the 12th precinct's plumbing ...	Apr. 29, 1982
	8x20 Landmark (1) A buyer is interested in purchasing the 12th precinct after Wojo discovers an ancient weapon hidden away. A South American immigrant requests a return ...	May. 06, 1982
	8x21 Landmark (2) Dietrich shuts down a school for criminals and a pair of its students. Inspector Luger decides he doesn't want to get married to Perlita. The 12th precinct ...	May. 13, 1982
	8x22 Landmark (3) Old faces stop by the 12th precinct to bid farewell to Barney and the squad. Harris decides to resign instead of being reassigned to Flushing Meadow.	May. 20, 1982

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Season 8 Characters

Capt. Barney Miller	played by Hal Linden
Det. Stan 'Wojo' Wojciehowicz	played by Max Gail
Det. Ron Harris	played by Ron Glass
Det. Sgt. Arthur Dietrich	played by Steve Landesberg
Officer Carl Levitt	played by Ron Carey
Perlita Avilar	played by Carina Afable
Inspector Frank Luger	played by James Gregory
Lt. Ben Scanlon	played by George Murdock
Mr. Ling	played by Chao Li Chi
Jack Norrell	played by Al Ruscio
Bruno Bender	played by Stanley Brock
Mrs. Shawcross	played by Alice Backes
Mrs. Kroner	played by Audrey Christie
Mrs. Swallock	played by Ann Morgan Guilbert
Mrs. Fitzjames	played by Joanna Barnes
Mrs. Binder	played by Mari Gorman
Ms. Fitzjames	played by Joanna Barnes
Ms. Mitz	played by Nora Meerbaum
Mercurio	played by Ivor Francis
Minch	played by Ben Piazza
Miriam Buckman	played by Anna Berger
Mr. Brotsky	played by Phillip Simms
Mr. Chao	played by Peter Pan

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Season 8 Videos

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Season 8 Trivia

Episode 12 - One of only a few episodes that showed scenes outside of the squad room.
Episode 22 - Last show of the series.
Episode 11 - One of only a few episodes that showed scenes outside of the squad room.
Episode 22 - The final episode had to be taped twice. The cast was so emotional that they often choked up or cried during the first taping so it had to be re-taped.

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