10.30 Barney Miller
Barney Miller. Episode 4. "Graft" I like Barbara Barrie. I've always liked her and I've seen her in a thousand guest shots. She's great. But even she can't make the role of Barney's wife work. This is the first episode since the pilot to show Barney's home life. And, as soon as the show shifts back there, it sucks. Plain and simple.
Dick O'Neill (another of my favourite guest stars from a thousand shows) appears as an Internal Affairs cop who drops hints that someone at the 12th is corrupt in some way. The episode that follows is pretty good, as each of the regulars wonders if his own small transgressions are responsible for the allegations. There are some good gags and lots of well-written character work. The episode only really stops being good when Barney goes home in the middle and the final scene (where all the plots are tied up) is laugh-out-loud hilarious.
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