Season 8
Episodes
S8 · E1 · 29 Oct 1981 · 30 min
Paternity
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
S8 · E2 · 5 Nov 1981 · 30 min
Advancement
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.
S8 · E3 · 12 Nov 1981 · 30 min
The Car
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.
S8 · E4 · 19 Nov 1981 · 30 min
Possession
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.
S8 · E5 · 26 Nov 1981 · 30 min
Stress Analyzer
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
S8 · E6 · 10 Dec 1981
Games
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
S8 · E7 · 17 Dec 1981 · 30 min
Homeless
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.
S8 · E8 · 7 Jan 1982
The Tontine
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
S8 · E9 · 14 Jan 1982
Examination Day
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.
S8 · E10 · 21 Jan 1982 · 30 min
The Clown
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
S8 · E11 · 4 Feb 1982
Chinatown (1)
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.
S8 · E12 · 11 Feb 1982
Chinatown (2)
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
S8 · E13 · 18 Feb 1982
Hunger Strike
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.
S8 · E14 · 25 Feb 1982
Arrival
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
S8 · E15 · 11 Mar 1982 · 30 min
Obituary
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
S8 · E16 · 26 Mar 1982 · 30 min
Inquiry
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.
S8 · E17 · 2 Apr 1982 · 30 min
Old Love
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
S8 · E18 · 9 Apr 1982 · 30 min
Altercation
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
S8 · E19 · 29 Apr 1982 · 30 min
Bones
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
S8 · E20 · 6 May 1982
Landmark (1)
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
S8 · E21 · 13 May 1982
Landmark (2)
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
S8 · E22 · 20 May 1982
Landmark (3)
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.
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