• Air date: 23 Jan '75 13 episodes
      The first season of Barney Miller aired on ABC from January 23 to May 1, 1975.
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Ramon

      23 Jan '75
      Captain Barney Miller talks down a junkie who is holding the 12th Precinct hostage.
    • 2. Experience

      30 Jan '75
      A bomber targets the 12th Precinct, as Det. Fish contemplates retirement.
    • 3. Snow Job

      06 Feb '75
      The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.
    • 4. Graft

      13 Feb '75
      An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Chano is after an obscene phone caller.
    • 5. The Courtesans

      20 Feb '75
      A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.
    • 6. Stakeout

      27 Feb '75
      Well-meaning nosy neighbors overrun a covert stakeout operation.
    • 7. Bureaucrat

      06 Mar '75
      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.
    • 8. Ms. Cop

      13 Mar '75
      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.
    • 9. Vigilante

      20 Mar '75
      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.
    • 10. The Guest

      27 Mar '75
      The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set up a narcotics buy.
    • 11. Escape Artist

      10 Apr '75
      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.
    • 12. Hair

      17 Apr '75
      A scruffy ""Serpico""-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fish spent the afternoon in a massage parlor.
    • 13. The Hero

      01 May '75
      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.