Season 8
198122 episodes
9.3
November 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.
Episode 3
The Car
November 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.
Episode 4
Possession
November 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.
Episode 5
Stress Analyzer
November 26, 1981
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
Episode 6
Games
December 10, 1981
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
Episode 7
Homeless
December 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.
Episode 8
The Tontine
January 7, 1982
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Episode 9
Examination Day
January 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.
Episode 10
The Clown
January 21, 1982
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
Episode 11
Chinatown (1)
February 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.
Episode 12
Chinatown (2)
February 11, 1982
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
Episode 13
Hunger Strike
February 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.
Episode 14
Arrival
February 25, 1982
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
Episode 15
Obituary
March 11, 1982
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
Episode 16
Inquiry
March 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.
Episode 17
Old Love
April 2, 1982
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
Episode 18
Altercation
April 9, 1982
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
Episode 19
Bones
April 29, 1982
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
Episode 20
Landmark (1)
May 6, 1982
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
Episode 21
Landmark (2)
May 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.
Episode 22
Landmark (3)
May 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.
