#1 | 10/29/1981Paternity
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 | 11/05/1981Advancement
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 | 11/12/1981The 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.
#4 | 11/19/1981Possession
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 | 11/26/1981Stress Analyzer4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
#6 | 12/10/1981Games
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
#7 | 12/17/1981Homeless
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 | 01/07/1982The Tontine
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
#9 | 01/14/1982Examination 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.
#10 | 01/21/1982The Clown
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
#11 | 02/04/1982Chinatown (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.
#12 | 02/11/1982Chinatown (2)
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
#13 | 02/18/1982Hunger 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.
#14 | 02/25/1982Arrival
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
#15 | 03/11/1982Obituary
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
#16 | 03/26/1982Inquiry
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 | 04/02/1982Old Love
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
#18 | 04/09/1982Altercation
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
#19 | 04/29/1982Bones
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
#20 | 05/06/1982Landmark (1)4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
#21 | 05/13/1982Landmark (2)4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
#22 | 05/20/1982Landmark (3)5.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.