Episode 1
New Girl in Town
1h10.0 / 10
A mobster orders a ""hit"" on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.
Episode credits
Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars Neville Brand, Vito Scotti
TV series
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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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
Somebody Killed Cock Robin
1h
Insufficient evidence allows a man to be released from jail and resume his efforts to hurt a nightclub dancer.
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Directed by Reza BadiyiGuest stars Gwen Welles, Candice Azzara, Ben Frank
Episode 3
Lyman P. Doffer, Fed
1h
An FBI computer expert poses as a field agent to join Baretta on a case regarding stolen emeralds that led to murder.
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Directed by Burt BrinckerhoffGuest stars H.B. Haggerty, John Harkins, Martine Beswick, Dick Sargent, Terrence E. McNally, Stanley Ralph Ross
Episode 4
The Sky Is Falling
1h
Baretta tries to save a teen-age male prostitute who is being pursued by a killer after witnessing a friend's murder.
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Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Barry Miller, William Bogert, Dennis Quaid, Art Metrano
Episode 5
It's Hard But It's Fair
1h
Baretta poses as the trainer of a former champion boxer to trap a drug-smuggling murderer.
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Directed by Jeannot SzwarcGuest stars Val Avery, Pepe Serna, Michael C. Gwynne, R.G. Armstrong
Episode 6
Buddy
1h
Baretta puts his career at risk by sheltering a retarded teenager who he thinks has been falsely accused of killing his mother.
Where to watch BarettaEpisode 7
Por Nada
1h
An attack on the leader of a street gang, and the murder of his girlfriend, threatens to ignite a war in the barrio.
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Directed by Reza BadiyiWritten by Miguel PiñeroGuest stars Miguel Piñero, Abel Franco, Judd Omen
Episode 8
Who Can Make the Sun Shine?
1h
His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overdose deaths.
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Directed by Don MedfordWritten by Robert CraisGuest stars Sydney Lassick, Scott Brady, David Yanez
Episode 9
All That Shatters
1h
War veterans are being blamed for a series of bombings that are actually the work of a wheelchair-bound bomber who is attacking buildings and transportation systems without handicap access.
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Directed by Don MedfordWritten by Rift Fournier, Sidney EllisGuest stars Rick Hurst, John Harkins, Martine Beswick, Dick Sargent, Strother Martin, Terrence E. McNally
Episode 10
It Goes with the Job
1h
Baretta does a lot of soul-searching after wounding a boy while trying to stop a holdup. Then he himself is targeted for revenge by one of the robbers who escaped.
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Directed by Reza BadiyiWritten by Robert CraisGuest stars Cassie Yates, Tom Atkins
Episode 11
Hot Horse
1h
Two elderly neighbors of Baretta's steal a million-dollar racehorse back from the thief who originally took it, then hide it in their apartment until they can claim the reward.
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Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Joshua Shelley, James Booth, John Orchard, Wayne Northrop, Ned Glass
Episode 12
Why Me?
1h
A woman who was attacked is so traumatized that she clings to Baretta and hampers his investigation of the robbery and murder she witnessed.
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Directed by Robert DouglasGuest stars Anne Schedeen, Eddie Quillan
Episode 13
I'll Take You to Lunch
1h
When his friend Billy is one of the hostages taken by robbers trapped at a roadside tavern, Baretta tries to negotiate a deal between them and a sheriff who is unwilling to concede anything because of his political situation.
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Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Tara Buckman, Alan Vint, Lloyd Gough, Gregory Walcott, Bill Sorrells
Episode 14
It's a Boy
1h
When a former girlfriend shows up with a baby named after him, Baretta plans to marry her until it turns out that she is a pawn in a power struggle between two mobs, with an assassin on her trail.
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Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars Michael D. Roberts, Tom Ewell, Dennis Burkley, Tracy Brooks Swope
Episode 15
Just for Laughs
1h
Baretta comes to the aid of a has-been comic trying to make a comeback, who has recently suffered several attempts on his life.
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Directed by Reza BadiyiGuest stars Ray Bolger, Sharon Cintron, John Zenda, Allan Rich, Robert Karnes, Dave Shelley, Scott Edmund Lane
Episode 16
The Marker
1h
Family loyalty compels a friend of Baretta's to agree to kill the man who assaulted an aging mobster's daughter.
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Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Timothy Carey, Kathryn Grayson, Madeleine Stowe, Anthony Caruso, Frank De Kova
Episode 17
The Stone Conspiracy
1h
On temporary duty with the vice squad, Baretta learns that his partner is taking bribes, and is ordered by his boss to investigate the other officers on the squad as well.
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Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Lara Parker
Episode 18
The Appointment
1h
Baretta tries to find out why a laundry owner, who happens to be engaged to his cousin, refuses to identify the two men who held up his store and killed a cop.
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Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Sidney EllisGuest stars Tom Skerritt, Sian Barbara Allen, Jerry Hardin, Robert Towers, Bryan O'Byrne
Episode 19
Woman Trouble
1h
Baretta tries to help a 12-year-old girl who has run away from the orphanage find her recently paroled father before he takes part in a jewel robbery.
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Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Robert CraisGuest stars Woodrow Parfrey, Sharon Cintron, Robert Costanzo, Timothy Scott
Episode 20
The Gadjo
1h
Baretta's young partner is ostracised by his Gypsy family for refusing to perform an atonement ceremony after accidentally killing his younger brother during a robbery.
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Directed by Don MedfordWritten by Miguel PiñeroGuest stars René Enríquez, Rudy Bond
Episode 21
Barney
1h
Baretta goes undercover as a trucker to help the daughter of a murdered newspaperman pursue the hijackers who killed her father when he got too close.
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Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars John Quade, Robert Symonds, Arthur Space, Sheila Larken
Episode 22
The Dream
1h
Faced with a difficult kidnapping case, Baretta accepts help from a girl who appears to have psychic knowledge of the crime.
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Directed by Reza BadiyiGuest stars Kathryn Leigh Scott, Quinn Cummings, Nicolas Coster
Episode 23
The Snake Chaser
1h
A mobster who was badly scarred as the result of a shoot-out seeks revenge on Baretta.
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Directed by Reza BadiyiGuest stars Frank Ronzio
Episode 24
The Bundle
1hfinale
Two actresses, one of whom is Rooster's cousin, are in fear for their lives after a murder allows them to make off with $50,000 in stolen money.
Episode credits
Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Michael D. Roberts, Tom Ewell, Roz Kelly, Scoey Mitchell, Lee Delano
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More about Baretta
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