Season 8

1. 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.

1981-10-29 • 30 min

2. 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.

1981-11-05 • 30 min

3. 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.

1981-11-12 • 30 min

4. 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.

1981-11-19 • 30 min

5. Stress Analyzer

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

1981-11-26 • 30 min

6. Games

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

1981-12-10 • ? min

7. 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.

1981-12-17 • 30 min

8. The Tontine

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

1982-01-07 • ? min

9. 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.

1982-01-14 • ? min

10. The Clown

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

1982-01-21 • 30 min

11. 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.

1982-02-04 • ? min

12. Chinatown (2)

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

1982-02-11 • ? min

13. 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.

1982-02-18 • ? min

14. Arrival

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

1982-02-25 • ? min

15. Obituary

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

1982-03-11 • 30 min

16. 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.

1982-03-26 • 30 min

17. Old Love

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

1982-04-02 • 30 min

18. Altercation

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

1982-04-09 • 30 min

19. Bones

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

1982-04-29 • 30 min

20. Landmark (1)

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

1982-05-06 • ? min

21. 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.

1982-05-13 • ? min

22. 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.

1982-05-20 • ? min