
Season 8
Episodes

1. Paternity
1981-10-29
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.

2. Advancement
1981-11-05
Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.

3. The Car
1981-11-12
A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.

4. Possession
1981-11-19
A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.

5. Stress Analyzer
1981-11-26
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.

6. Games
1981-12-10
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.

7. Homeless
1981-12-17
The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.

8. The Tontine
1982-01-07
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.

9. Examination Day
1982-01-14
The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.

10. The Clown
1982-01-21
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.

11. Chinatown (1)
1982-02-04
A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.

12. Chinatown (2)
1982-02-11
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.

13. Hunger Strike
1982-02-18
Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.

14. Arrival
1982-02-25
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.

15. Obituary
1982-03-11
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.

16. Inquiry
1982-03-26
Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry parent takes action when his child is declined admission into an exclusive kindergarten.

17. Old Love
1982-04-02
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.

18. Altercation
1982-04-09
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.

19. Bones
1982-04-29
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.

20. Landmark (1)
1982-05-06
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.

21. Landmark (2)
1982-05-13
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.

22. Landmark (3)
1982-05-20
Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave for new assignments; Harris contemplates his resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows; Barney recalls friends departed before he turns out the squad room lights for the last time.