
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.

The detectives are shocked to discover that a chauffeur involved in a minor traffic accident is actually a slave indentured to a Burmese diplomat.

Barney hesitates signing a release for Harris' new book; Wojo's new parrot dies; and a suicide hot-line operator decides to end it all.

A glimpse at Ailing Fish's home life ensues when the detective is forced to go on restrictive duty; fish decides to quit the force.

While off duty, two female detectives go undercover to solve a campus drug case; A man is convinced that a photo of Jean Harlow is of his missing wife.