Season 8

Season 8

1981-10-29
22 Episodes

Episodes

Paternity

1. Paternity

1981-10-29

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

Advancement

2. Advancement

1981-11-05

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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.

The Car

3. The Car

1981-11-12

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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.

Possession

4. Possession

1981-11-19

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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.

Stress Analyzer

5. Stress Analyzer

1981-11-26

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A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.

Games

6. Games

1981-12-10

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A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.

Homeless

7. Homeless

1981-12-17

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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.

The Tontine

8. The Tontine

1982-01-07

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The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.

Examination Day

9. Examination Day

1982-01-14

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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.

The Clown

10. The Clown

1982-01-21

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Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.

Chinatown (1)

11. Chinatown (1)

1982-02-04

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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.

Chinatown (2)

12. Chinatown (2)

1982-02-11

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Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.

Hunger Strike

13. Hunger Strike

1982-02-18

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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.

Arrival

14. Arrival

1982-02-25

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Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.

Obituary

15. Obituary

1982-03-11

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

Inquiry

16. Inquiry

1982-03-26

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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.

Old Love

17. Old Love

1982-04-02

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Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.

Altercation

18. Altercation

1982-04-09

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

Bones

19. Bones

1982-04-29

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A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.

Landmark (1)

20. Landmark (1)

1982-05-06

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Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.

Landmark (2)

21. Landmark (2)

1982-05-13

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The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.

Landmark (3)

22. Landmark (3)

1982-05-20

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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.