
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.



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.
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.
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.
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24 hour/day surveillance.
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.
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.
The brother of a young dope dealer Baretta killed in a back alley shootout vows vengeance.
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
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.
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.
Baretta seeks to learn why a mobster's girlfriend will not confirm her lover's alibi for a murder.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To find an arsonist, Baretta seeks the help of a former investigator who retired after suffering both physical and psychological damage in a fire.
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.
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.
To infiltrate a gang of jewel robbers, Baretta seeks the help of a former expert safecracker he once sent to prison.
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.
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.
Baretta aids a watchmaker who refuses to pay protection money to a mobster.
Baretta must find a nurse's nine year old sister, witness to the murder of a blind hot dog vendor, before the killers do.
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.
When a plea bargain falls through, Baretta must infiltrate a murderous motorcycle gang to save his informant.
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.
After a crime lord is arrested, Baretta must jeopardize an undercover policewoman to stop an escalating war of succession between gangland factions.
Believing that Baretta pocketed $500,000 in stolen bonds after stopping a robbery, a mobster takes Billy hostage until the money is turned over.
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.
Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed.
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.
A mentally challenged deli waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime.
When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies.
Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.
Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.
Baretta is ready to bring an extortionist to justice but finds out that the presiding judge is the man's next victim.
A persistent female reporter continually interferes with Baretta's investigation into the aborted robbery of a half-million dollars in syndicate money.
A vengeful master thief follows Baretta when he boards a cross country bus to catch a female jewel heist suspect.
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.
A gang of escaped juvenile convicts is holed up in an abandoned plant, surrounded by state police and a S.W.A.T. team.
A story told mostly in flashbacks concerns the suicide of a policewoman whose officer husband was killed in a liquor store holdup.
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.
Baretta becomes involved with a young thief, who steals from some pretty dangerous characters to help support his family.
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.
A convict whom Baretta sent to prison escapes and discovers his girlfriend is dating the detective.
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.
Baretta is after drug kingpin El Greco; too many kids are ending up dead, and the dealers are selling to younger and younger kids.
A doctor turned bounty hunter vies with Baretta to find the pusher responsible for the death of a banker's addicted daughter.
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.
Baretta faces personal danger when he sets out to expose the local "Godfather" of a close knit Italian neighborhood.
Baretta helps a trio of unpredictable runaway children.
Baretta seeks revenge on the mobster who put the hit out on his father.
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.
Baretta falls in love and runs away with the young and beautiful wife of a gangster.
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.
After giving the Locker brothers a second chance, Baretta is frustrated to find that one of them has become a psychopathic criminal.
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.
A mobster orders a hit on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.