
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 man turns in an envelope with $3500; Wojo must face his fear of flying by escorting a bigamist prisoner on a flight to Cleveland.

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.