Season 8

1. Paternity

1981-10-29 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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 · 30m

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

18. Altercation

1982-04-09 · 30m

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

19. Bones

1982-04-29 · 30m

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.