
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.

Frightened Wojo faces rabies injections after trying to break up a dog fighting ring; Barney has the blues about his impending separation.

Wojo uncovers an illegal adoption ring and Harris arrests a research professor on an obscenity charge.

Barney worries when his wife, a social worker, is assigned a case in the violent South Bronx; Harris is interested in a Master forger.

A city-wide labor layoff forces Barney, Fish, and Yemana to do without the services of Chano, Harris and Wojo. A morose stockbroker resorts to petty theft.