Aired: 10/29/1981
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
Aired: 11/5/1981
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.
Aired: 11/12/1981
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.
Aired: 11/19/1981
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.
Aired: 11/26/1981
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
Aired: 12/10/1981
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
Aired: 12/17/1981
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.
Aired: 1/7/1982
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Aired: 1/14/1982
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.
Aired: 1/21/1982
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
Aired: 2/4/1982
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.
Aired: 2/11/1982
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
Aired: 2/18/1982
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.
Aired: 2/25/1982
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
Aired: 3/11/1982
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
Aired: 3/26/1982
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.
Aired: 4/2/1982
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
Aired: 4/9/1982
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
Aired: 4/29/1982
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
Aired: 5/6/1982
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
Aired: 5/13/1982
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
Aired: 5/20/1982
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.