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Episodes 24

Snow Job

70%
February 6, 1975
1x3

The squad grapples with guarding a department store payroll and a flasher who attempts suicide in the bathroom.

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Graft

60%
February 13, 197530m
1x4

An old friend of Barney's is assigned to investigate allegations of corruption in the squadroom; Chano is after an obscene phone caller.

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The Courtesans

60%
February 20, 1975
1x5

A prostitute threatens to file harassment charges against Wojo; Rachel wants to move into her own apartment.

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Bureaucrat

70%
March 6, 1975
1x7

Guests to the 12th include a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment; Wojo closes the precinct's favorite delicatessen for minor health-code infractions.

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Ms. Cop

70%
March 13, 1975
1x8

An overzealous lady cop ruffles the feathers of the testosterone-run 12th; Chano nabs an obscene phone caller. Linda Lavin (""Alice"") debuts as Detective Janice Wentworth.

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Vigilante

70%
March 20, 1975
1x9

Barney is visited by Inspector Luger, who complains that his men aren't disliked enough by the public; a neighborhood vigilante is well into his twilight years; Wojo collars a cross-dressing teamster.

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The Guest

0%
March 27, 1975
1x10

The 12th Precinct reluctantly guards a mob witness; Chano uses his co-workers' own cash stash to set up a narcotics buy.

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Escape Artist

0%
April 10, 1975
1x11

A self-avowed ""bird-man"" drops in; Barney holds a resourceful escaped prisoner for the FBI; Harris decides to write a novel, setting up one of the series' most durable storylines.

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Hair

0%
April 17, 1975
1x12

A scruffy ""Serpico""-type cop has good reason to hide behind unruly hair; Bernice discovers that Fish spent the afternoon in a massage parlor.

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The Hero

0%
Season Finale
May 1, 1975
1x13

Chano is guilt-stricken when he shoots a holdup man; Liz makes a citizen's arrest, after being robbed at ""stickpoint"" by a twelve-year-old.

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Doomsday

10%
September 11, 1975
2x1

A disgruntled man with a belt of dynamite threatens to blow himself and the squad room sky high unless President Nixon agrees to speak with him; the plumbing goes kaput; Wojo arrests a phony man-of-the-cloth.

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The Social Worker

0%
September 18, 197524m
2x2

Weary of housework, Liz tries her hand at social work, to Barney's dismay; a master forger fascinates Harris.

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The Layoff

0%
September 25, 197525m
2x3

Barney, Fish and Yemana feel the crunch when a labor layoff forces them to do without Chano, Harris and Wojo; a manicurist goes deeper than the nail; a morose stockbroker takes to petty theft.

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Ambush

0%
October 2, 197525m
2x4

Yemana is shot in full view of disinterested bystanders, and Barney is offered a job in Florida.

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Heat Wave

0%
October 9, 197525m
2x5

A wife claims spousal abuse; Wojo and Wentworth are bait for a park rapist.

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Hotel

0%
October 23, 1975
2x7

Wojo and Wentworth pose as marrieds in order to bust a burglary ring set in a posh hotel.

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Discovery

0%
October 30, 1975
2x8

Marty claims that a member of the 12th is harassing the gay community; the precinct computers think Fish is dead.

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You Dirty Rat

0%
November 13, 1975
2x9

Barney smells a rat when two pounds of confiscated marijuana disappears from the evidence locker, and a homeless man spends the night in a department store—apparently one of many.

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Fish

0%
December 4, 1975
2x12

A glimpse at Detective Fish's home life ensues when the detective decides to go on restricted duty. Steve Landesberg bows as Arthur Dietrich; Doris Belack fills in for Florence Stanley as Bernice Fish.

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Happy New Year

0%
January 8, 1976
2x15

On New Year's Eve, Fish tries to stop a jumper, and Wojo delivers a baby.

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Sniper

0%
January 22, 197630m
2x16

A con man is selling charter flights to Saturn; Wojo and Luger are sniper targets.

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The Psychiatrist

0%
February 26, 1976
2x20

A department psychiatrist advises the department to confiscate Wojo's gun

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The Kid

0%
March 6, 1976
2x21

Fish is attracted to the mother of a young mugger; a man is a bit premature to obtain the unclaimed windfall he found on the street.

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The Mole

0%
Season Finale
March 18, 1976
2x22

Fish considers an operation; a burglar known as ""The Mole"" leads Harris and Wojo on a merry chase through the city sewer system. Ron Carey plays the Mole, and returns as Levitt in the next season.

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