TV series
If you can't do the time don't do the crime
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.
Availability
Checked Sep 2, 2026
Baretta premiered January 17, 1975. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
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.
Choose an episode, then use the watch options above for the show.
Episode 1
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Stephen J. CannellGuest stars Joseph Mascolo, Madlyn Rhue, Andrew Prine
Episode 2
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.
Directed by Don MedfordWritten by Peter S. FischerGuest stars Gerrit Graham, Victor Argo, Sarah Cunningham, Harry Caesar, Ayn Ruymen
Episode 3
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Roy HugginsGuest stars Severn Darden, Bill McKinney, Ed Lauter, Brock Peters, Ann Coleman
Episode 4
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Roy HugginsGuest stars Val Bisoglio, John Marley, Roy Jenson, Jan Merlin, Tom Ewell, Danny Goldman, Kathleen O'Malley
Episode 5
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.
Directed by Michael SchultzWritten by Roy HugginsGuest stars Richard Ward, Marc Alaimo, Ann Prentiss
Episode 6
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.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Don Carlos DunawayGuest stars Eddie Barth, Richard Dysart, Meg Foster, Belinda Balaski
Episode 7
After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
Directed by Don MedfordWritten by Roy Huggins, Michael ButlerGuest stars Kathleen Beller, George DiCenzo, Richard Cox, John Friedrich
Episode 8
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
Directed by Charles S. DubinWritten by L.H. WhittemoreGuest stars Carl Gottlieb, Clifford David, Anitra Ford, Conrad Janis, Fred Sadoff, Michael Parks
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Philip DeGuere Jr.Guest stars John Sylvester White, Allyn Ann McLerie, Art Metrano
Episode 10
Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his retarded friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.
Directed by Don MedfordWritten by Paul A. MagistrettiGuest stars Burt Young
Episode 11
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.
Directed by Russ MayberryWritten by Roy HugginsGuest stars Nicholas Colasanto, M. Emmet Walsh, Joe Santos
Episode 12
Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of a heiress who has gone missing.
Directed by Jerry LondonWritten by Paul A. Magistretti, Gloryette ClarkGuest stars Michael Murphy, Keene Curtis, Granville Van Dusen
Episode information updated Sep 16, 2026
Available now in United States
These shows are available now and closely match Baretta.
Robert BlakeDet. Tony Baretta
Dana ElcarInspector Shiller
Burt YoungWilly
Michael D. Roberts
Val Avery
Joshua Shelley
Timothy Carey
ABCUnited States
