
The series focuses on life in Greenwich Village's 12th Precinct station house. Initially, it looks at Capt. Barney Miller and his work and home life, but it gradually becomes about the officers of the precinct, including always-on-the-verge-of-retirement Detective Fish.

A battle of the sexes erupts when Manhattan South takes the credit after Wentworth subdues a would-be assassin.

The massage parlors lining Second Avenue rub the merchants the wrong way; The detectives arrest a mugger who's in her eighties.

A bookstore owner is infuriated when a strip club opens near his place of business; A man threatens to burst into flames; Two topless dancers arrested.

Wojo books a man accused of disturbing the peace by making noises with his hands; A dentist is accused of molesting female patients.