
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 whose name was changed after he testified against the mob is falsely arrested for attempted robbery.

A black doctor claims to be cursed by voodoo; Dietrich and Levitt haul in a brokerage firm employee suspected of embezzlement.

Liz makes a citizen's arrest of her assailant -- an eight-year-old boy; A shootout and its aftermath disturb Chano.

An environmentalist threatens to set off a bomb in the precinct; Wojo arrests a fake priest; The squad room plumbing is on the fritz.