Episode 1
He'll Never See Daylight Again
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
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Baretta
1975TV-PG4 seasons6.5 / 10
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.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
Baretta premiered January 17, 1975. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
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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Episode 2
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.
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Episode 3
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.
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Episode 4
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.
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Episode 5
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.
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Episode 6
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.
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Episode 7
The Coppelli Oath
After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
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Episode 8
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.
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Episode 9
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.
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Episode 10
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.
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Episode 11
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.
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Episode 12
This Ain't My Bag
Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of a heiress who has gone missing.
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Cast
Robert BlakeDet. Tony Baretta
Dana ElcarInspector ShillerSharon Cintron
Burt Young
Michael D. Roberts
Val Avery
Joshua Shelley
Timothy CareyCredits
- Created by
- Stephen J. Cannell
- Written by
- Roy Huggins, Paul A. Magistretti, Robert Crais, Christopher Crowe, Robert Lewin, Sidney Ellis
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 83
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
ABCUnited States
Themes
amusedcynicalpolice detectivesuspenseful