
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 charming mugger poses as a photographer to lure his victims; Wojo brings in a man who claims to be Jesus Christ.

A monk suspects foul play when one of his novitiates vanishes during a weekend in New York; and it's Dietrich's turn to cross-dress for mugging detail.

The detectives deal with bicentennial fever; A cab owner reports his horse missing; A man alone in his hotel room claims to have been assaulted.

The squad must work through the precinct roof threatening to collapse from the rain and a nightclub comic's Bicentennial jokes.