Oct. 29, 1981, midnight 0.0
S8E1 - Paternity
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
Nov. 5, 1981, midnight 0.0
S8E2 - Advancement
Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.
Nov. 12, 1981, midnight 0.0
S8E3 - The Car
A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.
Nov. 19, 1981, midnight 0.0
S8E4 - Possession
A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.
Nov. 26, 1981, midnight 9.0
S8E5 - Stress Analyzer
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
Dec. 10, 1981, midnight 0.0
S8E6 - Games
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
Dec. 17, 1981, midnight 0.0
S8E7 - Homeless
The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.
Jan. 7, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E8 - The Tontine
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Jan. 14, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E9 - Examination Day
The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.
Jan. 21, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E10 - The Clown
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
Feb. 4, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E11 - Chinatown (1)
A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.
Feb. 11, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E12 - Chinatown (2)
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
Feb. 18, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E13 - Hunger Strike
Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.
Feb. 25, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E14 - Arrival
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
March 11, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E15 - Obituary
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
March 26, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E16 - Inquiry
Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry parent takes action when his child is declined admission into an exclusive kindergarten.
April 2, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E17 - Old Love
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
April 9, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E18 - Altercation
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
April 29, 1982, midnight 0.0
S8E19 - Bones
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
May 6, 1982, midnight 9.0
S8E20 - Landmark (1)
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
May 13, 1982, midnight 9.0
S8E21 - Landmark (2)
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
May 20, 1982, midnight 10.0
S8E22 - Landmark (3)
Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave for new assignments; Harris contemplates his resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows; Barney recalls friends departed before he turns out the squad room lights for the last time.
