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Baretta
"If you can't do the time don't do the crime"
Overview
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
Status
Ended
Created By
Stephen J. Cannell
Network
ABC
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes
He'll Never See Daylight Again
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
The Five and a Half Pound Junkie
When his childhood friend is murdered, Baretta tries to protect the pregnant widow and her unborn child from the killers, and from her own drug habit.
Woman in the Harbor
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
If You Can't Pay the Price
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
Half a Million Dollar Baby
Baretta's career and reputation are almost ruined by a beautiful photographer who tricks him into helping her steal a half million dollars of mob money.
Ragtime Billy Peaches
When the dead body of a prominent attorney's wife is found, Baretta becomes interested when he finds that there is no record of her existence before age 20.
The Coppelli Oath
After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
Walk Like You Talk
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
The Mansion
After an undercover policewoman is killed, Baretta poses as a fugitive gangster in order to infiltrate a mansion that the syndicate runs as a house of illicit pleasures.
Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow
Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his retarded friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.
The Secret of Terry Lake
Baretta comes to believe that a mobster is being framed for the murder of his boss when the man's girlfriend is too scared to confirm his alibi.
This Ain't My Bag
Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of a heiress who has gone missing.
Top Cast
Robert Blake
Det. Tony Baretta
Dana Elcar
Inspector Shiller
Sharon Cintron
