We Were Robbed

A character's home or office is robbed. They almost always get their stuff back by the end of the episode.

The Odd Couple

Appearances

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 1, episode 18, "Second Story Story" (1971). Mary's apartment is robbed twice, and everything in it is gone. All her friends pitch in to help by lending her clothes and giving her some essentials like kitchenware and electronics.
• The Odd Couple: Season 2, episode 15, "Security Arms" (1972). Oscar and Felix's apartment gets robbed, prompting Felix to look for a more secure place to live.
• Sanford and Son: Season 3, episode 3, "Fred, the Reluctant Fingerman" (1973). Julio's house is robbed, and his goat, Chico, goes missing. Fred saw who did it, but he refuses to talk to the police.
• The Bob Newhart Show: Season 2, episode 19, "Clink Shrink" (1974). Howard's apartment is robbed, and Bob's new ex-con patient thinks he knows who did it.
• Rhoda: Season 2, episode 1, "Kiss Your Epaulets Goodbye" (1975). Rhoda and Joe's apartment is robbed when Carlton lets in some guys who claim to be from Goodwill.
• Barney Miller: Season 1, episode 7, "Bureaucrat" (1975). Chano's apartment is robbed, and he arrests a 12-year-old boy for the crime.
• What's Happening!!: Season 3, episode 10, "Positive Identification" (1978). Raj and Rerun help a man who claims to be a mover carrying a large sack out of their apartment building, but they quickly discover the man had actually just robbed their apartment. When they can't identify him in a line-up, he feels badly about what he did and returns all their stuff.
• WKRP in Cincinnati: Season 3, episode 20, "Nothing to Fear But..." (1981). While Johnny is working the late shift, burglars rob the station, stealing all the typewriters and cleaning out everyone's desks.
• Too Close for Comfort: Season 3, episode 14, "To Buy or Not to Buy" (1983). While Muriel and Henry are at the pediatrician with Andrew, Sara accidentally lets in burglars posing as furnisher refinishers, and they rob the upstairs apartment.
• Night Court: Season 2, episode 12, "The Birthday Visitor" (1985). On Harry's birthday, Billie invites him back to her apartment, and they walk in an armed burglar in the process of robbing her.
• The Golden Girls: Season 1, episode 8, "The Break-in" (1985). The gang comes home after a night out to find the house a shambles from a robbery.
• Dream On: Season 1, episode 8, "Martin Gets Lucky" (1990). Martin's apartment gets robbed, and in the aftermath, he finds his long lost Sandy Koufax baseball card.
• Seinfeld: Season 1, episode 3, "The Robbery" (1990). While Jerry is away, Elaine stays in his apartment, and Kramer leaves the door open, allowing thieves to go in and rob him.
• Bottom: Season 2, episode 2, "Burglary" (1992). Richie falls from the second floor and lands on top of a burglar who was trying to rob him and Eddie. The lads tie up the burglar with a whole lot of "Sellotape" and plan to pawn his bag of stolen goods and run off to the Bahamas. While they're deciding how to kill the burglar, his partner climbs through the window, knocks them out, ties them up, and robs them.
• Herman's Head: Season 1, episode 23, "Guns 'n' Neurosis" (1992). Herman comes home from working out to find that his apartment was robbed. The robbers even took all of his clothes, so he's stuck wearing his athletic gear to work.
• The Nanny: Season 2, episode 26, "Fran Gets Mugged" (1995). After confronting her mugger, Fran's fears are finally starting to abate, then she and Mr. Sheffield arrive home to find the mansion has been robbed and Niles is tied up and gagged.