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Baretta

Fri, Jan 17, 1975
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Synopsis

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.

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  • Robert Blake
    Robert Blake
    as Det. Tony Baretta
  • Dana Elcar
    Dana Elcar
    as Inspector Shiller
  • S
    Sharon Cintron
    as —
  • Burt Young
    Burt Young
    as —
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Episodes

4 seasons · 82 episodes

Ended · 82 aired
Season 1
12 episodes · 12 aired
▾
  • E1
    He'll Never See Daylight
    Aired · Sat, Jan 18, 1975 · 60m

    After Baretta busts a small time numbers racket his girlfriend is shot and killed. He looks to come up with a plan that will allow him to seek revenge while making sure he stays on the right side of the law.

  • E2
    The 5½ Pound Junkie
    Aired · Sat, Jan 25, 1975 · 60m

    After Baretta's childhood friend Eddie is killed, he takes on the obligation of a pregnant widow who is addicted to smack. He "kidnaps" her in an attempt to wean her off drugs to prevent the baby's being born addicted as well. His CI helps Baretta get justice.

  • E3
    Woman in the Harbor
    Aired · Sat, Feb 1, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta's best friend, a parole officer, is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedly killed herself months earlier is alive and well in Mexico.

  • E4
    If You Can't Pay The Price...
    Aired · Sat, Feb 8, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24 hour/day surveillance.

  • E5
    The Half-Million Dollar Baby
    Aired · Sat, Feb 15, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E6
    Ragtime Billy Peaches
    Aired · Sat, Mar 1, 1975 · 60m

    Going undercover as a flamboyant hippie named Ragtime Billy Beaches, Baretta flies to Los Angeles to investigate a beautiful woman, married to a rich doctor, who was murdered.

  • E7
    The Coppelli Oath
    Aired · Sat, Mar 8, 1975 · 60m

    The brother of a young dope dealer Baretta killed in a back alley shootout vows vengeance.

  • E8
    Walk Like You Talk
    Aired · Sat, Mar 15, 1975 · 60m

    A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.

  • E9
    The Mansion
    Aired · Thu, Apr 3, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E10
    Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow
    Aired · Thu, Apr 10, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his mentally challenged friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.

  • E11
    The Secret of Terry Lake
    Aired · Thu, Apr 17, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta seeks to learn why a mobster's girlfriend will not confirm her lover's alibi for a murder.

  • E12
    This Ain't My Bag
    Aired · Thu, May 1, 1975 · 60m

    A wealthy District Attorney calls his childhood friend Baretta to investigate his brother's missing wife. But the brother/husband doesn't seem very concerned.

Season 2
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues
    Aired · Thu, Sep 11, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta comes to suspect that his close friend, a music store owner, may not only be a drug dealer but may be unknowingly selling heroin so pure that it's killing his customers.

  • E2
    The Glory Game
    Aired · Thu, Sep 18, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta has to go on the run to clear his name after he's framed for the murder of a gun dealer he was investigating, who was selling weapons to teenagers.

  • E3
    On The Road
    Aired · Thu, Sep 25, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta must use his wits to survive after he and a runaway girl he apprehended unwittingly get into a police car being driven by a couple of holdup men disguised as cops.

  • E4
    Nobody in a Nothing Place
    Aired · Thu, Oct 2, 1975 · 60m

    When a conventioneer is murdered, Baretta finds that the only witness is a busboy who doesn't want to get involved, but the real murderer is after the man too.

  • E5
    The Fire Man
    Aired · Thu, Oct 9, 1975 · 60m

    To find an arsonist, Baretta seeks the help of a former investigator who retired after suffering both physical and psychological damage in a fire.

  • E6
    Double Image
    Aired · Thu, Oct 16, 1975 · 60m

    While Baretta is investigating a series of waterfront killings, his cover becomes in danger of being blown by a waitress who knows him and thinks he's responsible for the death of her boyfriend.

  • E7
    Photography by John Doe
    Aired · Thu, Oct 23, 1975 · 60m

    Persuaded by the grandson of a retired cop who had supposedly been killed in a fall to reopen the case, Baretta discovers a judge on the take.

  • E8
    Set-Up City
    Aired · Thu, Oct 30, 1975 · 60m

    To infiltrate a gang of jewel robbers, Baretta seeks the help of a former expert safecracker he once sent to prison.

  • E9
    A Bite of the Apple
    Aired · Thu, Nov 6, 1975 · 60m

    When a dying hoodlum entrusts his girlfriend with a detailed record of all his underworld activities, she is sought by both the police and his former cronies seeking to protect themselves.

  • E10
    When Dues Come Down
    Aired · Thu, Nov 13, 1975 · 60m

    Even though he has no evidence, Baretta suspects a man named Mazurski of killing a petty criminal. His hunch is based on the man's wife Doris being injured during a burglary committed by the now dead man.

  • E11
    The Big Hand's on Trouble
    Aired · Thu, Nov 20, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta aids a watchmaker who refuses to pay protection money to a mobster.

  • E12
    Count the Days I'm Gone
    Aired · Thu, Nov 27, 1975 · 60m

    Baretta must find a nurse's nine year old sister, witness to the murder of a blind hot dog vendor, before the killers do.

  • E13
    Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
    Aired · Tue, Dec 16, 1975 · 60m

    When his partner is charged with shooting a suspect in the back, Baretta tries to locate the only witness who can save the man's career, but the real murderers are after him too.

  • E14
    The Left Hand of the Devil
    Aired · Thu, Jan 8, 1976 · 60m

    When a plea bargain falls through, Baretta must infiltrate a murderous motorcycle gang to save his informant.

  • E15
    Murder for Me
    Aired · Thu, Jan 15, 1976 · 60m

    Baretta tracks a distraught father who has killed the doctor he believes responsible for the death of his son, then has gone after the local drug dealers as well.

  • E16
    Pay or Die
    Aired · Thu, Jan 29, 1976 · 60m

    After a crime lord is arrested, Baretta must jeopardize an undercover policewoman to stop an escalating war of succession between gangland factions.

  • E17
    The Blood Bond
    Aired · Thu, Feb 19, 1976 · 60m

    Believing that Baretta pocketed $500,000 in stolen bonds after stopping a robbery, a mobster takes Billy hostage until the money is turned over.

  • E18
    The Dippers
    Aired · Thu, Feb 26, 1976 · 60m

    After a young pickpocket named Jonesy is killed, Baretta solicits the help of an expert to infiltrate a gang that operates at an airline terminal... not realizing that the reason for the death is related to the lifting of a passport from a hired assassin.

  • E19
    Dead Man Out
    Aired · Thu, Mar 4, 1976 · 60m

    Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed.

  • E20
    Death on the Run
    Aired · Thu, Mar 18, 1976 · 60m

    Pursuing a gunrunner with spinal meningitis, Baretta becomes infected and has 48 hours to find the man and his cohorts before he has to go into quarantine.

  • E21
    Aggie
    Aired · Thu, Mar 25, 1976 · 60m

    A mentally challenged deli waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime.

  • E22
    And Down Will Come Baby
    Aired · Thu, Apr 29, 1976 · 60m

    When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies.

Season 3
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Ninja
    Aired · Thu, Sep 23, 1976 · 60m

    Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.

  • E2
    Soldier in the Jungle
    Aired · Thu, Sep 30, 1976 · 60m

    Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.

  • E3
    Runway Cowboy
    Aired · Thu, Oct 7, 1976 · 60m

    Baretta is ready to bring an extortionist to justice but finds out that the presiding judge is the man's next victim.

  • E4
    Street Edition
    Aired · Thu, Oct 14, 1976 · 60m

    A persistent female reporter continually interferes with Baretta's investigation into the aborted robbery of a half-million dollars in syndicate money.

  • E5
    They Don't Make 'Em Like They Use To
    Aired · Thu, Oct 21, 1976 · 60m

    A vengeful master thief follows Baretta when he boards a cross country bus to catch a female jewel heist suspect.

  • E6
    Shoes
    Aired · Thu, Oct 28, 1976 · 60m

    With the help of a nun and a deaf mute nicknamed Shoes, Baretta tries to find a serial rapist who initially poses to his female victims as a plainclothes detective.

  • E7
    Under the City
    Aired · Thu, Nov 4, 1976 · 60m

    A gang of escaped juvenile convicts is holed up in an abandoned plant, surrounded by state police and a S.W.A.T. team.

  • E8
    Dear Tony
    Aired · Thu, Nov 11, 1976 · 60m

    A story told mostly in flashbacks concerns the suicide of a policewoman whose officer husband was killed in a liquor store holdup.

  • E9
    Crazy Annie
    Aired · Thu, Nov 25, 1976 · 60m

    Posing as a wino, Baretta is trying to nail a skid row killer when he is abducted and held captive by a tough old woman who believes he is her wayward son.

  • E10
    Nothin' for Nothin'
    Aired · Thu, Dec 2, 1976 · 60m

    Baretta becomes involved with a young thief, who steals from some pretty dangerous characters to help support his family.

  • E11
    Can't Win for Losing
    Aired · Thu, Dec 16, 1976 · 60m

    Baretta is investigating the takeover of a new drug dealer in town who is knocking off the existing dealers. One of Baretta's friends, Joey Rich, decides to take matters into his own hands after Joey's own son becomes a heroin addict.

  • E12
    Look Back in Terror
    Aired · Thu, Dec 23, 1976 · 60m

    A convict whom Baretta sent to prison escapes and discovers his girlfriend is dating the detective.

  • E13
    Don't Kill the Sparrows
    Aired · Thu, Jan 13, 1977 · 60m

    Baretta goes after a corrupt Federal narcotics agent who not only peddles drugs on the side, but murders the buyer who discovers he's a cop.

  • E14
    That Sister Ain't No Cousin
    Aired · Thu, Jan 20, 1977 · 60m

    Baretta is after drug kingpin El Greco; too many kids are ending up dead, and the dealers are selling to younger and younger kids.

  • E15
    Open Season
    Aired · Thu, Jan 27, 1977 · 60m

    A doctor turned bounty hunter vies with Baretta to find the pusher responsible for the death of a banker's addicted daughter.

  • E16
    The Reunion
    Aired · Thu, Feb 3, 1977 · 60m

    After philanthropist James Simpson is blown up in front of the Genios restaurant, an old friend of Baretta's — a recovered alcoholic — returns to his old haunts to help solve the murder case.

  • E17
    Not on Our Block
    Aired · Thu, Feb 10, 1977 · 60m

    Baretta faces personal danger when he sets out to expose the local "Godfather" of a close knit Italian neighborhood.

  • E18
    The Runaways
    Aired · Thu, Feb 17, 1977 · 60m

    Baretta helps a trio of unpredictable runaway children.

  • E19
    Everybody Pays the Fare
    Aired · Thu, Feb 24, 1977 · 60m

    Baretta seeks revenge on the mobster who put the hit out on his father.

  • E20
    Think Mink
    Aired · Thu, Mar 10, 1977 · 60m

    After two neighbors of Baretta get involved in a mink coat heist, Tony must not only protect the old men from gangsters but try to shield them from prosecution as well.

  • E21
    Carla
    Aired · Thu, Mar 17, 1977 · 60m

    Baretta falls in love and runs away with the young and beautiful wife of a gangster.

  • E22
    Big Bad Charlie
    Aired · Thu, Mar 31, 1977 · 60m

    Baretta sets up his kindhearted and inexperienced friend Charlie with a waitress with a past. Before this, Charlie fought with an Asian mafia gang, and with his size and strength, he won. But as Baretta investigates the gang, and Charlie continues his romance with the waitress, danger may befall all three of them.

  • E23
    Guns and Brothers
    Aired · Thu, Apr 7, 1977 · 60m

    After giving the Locker brothers a second chance, Baretta is frustrated to find that one of them has become a psychopathic criminal.

  • E24
    Playin' Police
    Aired · Wed, May 5, 1976 · 60m

    Two shakedown artists posing as plainclothes cops are making a bundle ripping off other crooks — victims who aren't likely to go to the police.

Season 4
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    New Girl in Town
    Aired · Thu, Sep 29, 1977 · 60m

    A mobster orders a hit on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.

  • E2
    Somebody Killed Cock Robin
    Aired · Thu, Oct 6, 1977 · 60m
  • E3
    Lyman P. Doffer, Fed
    Aired · Thu, Oct 20, 1977 · 60m
  • E4
    The Sky is Falling
    Aired · Thu, Oct 27, 1977 · 60m
  • E5
    It's Hard But It's Fair
    Aired · Thu, Nov 3, 1977 · 60m
  • E6
    Buddy
    Aired · Thu, Nov 17, 1977 · 60m
  • E7
    Por Nada
    Aired · Thu, Nov 24, 1977 · 60m
  • E8
    Who Can Make the Sun Shine?
    Aired · Thu, Dec 1, 1977 · 60m
  • E9
    All That Shatters
    Aired · Thu, Dec 8, 1977 · 60m
  • E10
    It Goes with the Job
    Aired · Thu, Dec 22, 1977 · 60m
  • E11
    Hot Horse
    Aired · Thu, Jan 5, 1978 · 60m
  • E12
    Why Me?
    Aired · Thu, Jan 12, 1978 · 60m
  • E13
    I'll Take You to Lunch
    Aired · Thu, Jan 19, 1978 · 60m
  • E14
    It's a Boy
    Aired · Fri, Feb 3, 1978 · 60m
  • E15
    Just for Laughs
    Aired · Fri, Feb 10, 1978 · 60m
  • E16
    The Marker
    Aired · Fri, Feb 17, 1978 · 60m
  • E17
    The Stone Conspiracy
    Aired · Fri, Feb 24, 1978 · 60m
  • E18
    The Appointment
    Aired · Fri, Mar 10, 1978 · 60m
  • E19
    Woman Trouble
    Aired · Fri, Mar 24, 1978 · 60m
  • E20
    The Gadjo
    Aired · Fri, Mar 31, 1978 · 60m
  • E21
    Barney
    Aired · Fri, Apr 7, 1978 · 60m
  • E22
    The Dream
    Aired · Fri, May 5, 1978 · 60m
  • E23
    The Snake Chaser
    Aired · Fri, May 12, 1978 · 60m
  • E24
    The Bundle
    Aired · Fri, May 19, 1978 · 60m