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Baretta

TV·1975–1978·4 seasons, 83 episodes·ABC·Crime, Drama, Mystery·1h·Created by Stephen J. Cannell

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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.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Baretta S01E01He'll Never See Daylight AgainS01E01 · 10.0Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
  2. 02Baretta S01E02The Five and a Half Pound JunkieS01E02 · 10.0When 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.
  3. 03Baretta S01E03Woman in the HarborS01E03 · 10.0A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.

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Episodes by season

Season01Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode12Episodes1975Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Baretta S01E01Season's bestHe'll Never See Daylight AgainJanuary 17, 1975 10.0Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
  2. S01E02Baretta S01E02The Five and a Half Pound JunkieJanuary 24, 1975 10.0When his childhood friend is murdered, Baretta tries to protect the pregnant widow and her unborn child from the killers, and from her own d
  3. S01E03Baretta S01E03Woman in the HarborJanuary 31, 1975 10.0A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
  4. S01E04Baretta S01E04If You Can't Pay the PriceFebruary 7, 1975Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
  5. S01E05Baretta S01E05Half a Million Dollar BabyFebruary 14, 1975 10.0Baretta's career and reputation are almost ruined by a beautiful photographer who tricks him into helping her steal a half million dollars o
  6. S01E06Baretta S01E06Ragtime Billy PeachesFebruary 28, 1975 10.0When the dead body of a prominent attorney's wife is found, Baretta becomes interested when he finds that there is no record of her existenc
  7. S01E07Baretta S01E07The Coppelli OathMarch 7, 1975 10.0After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
  8. S01E08Baretta S01E08Walk Like You TalkMarch 14, 1975 10.0A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
  9. S01E09Baretta S01E09The MansionApril 2, 1975 10.0After an undercover policewoman is killed, Baretta poses as a fugitive gangster in order to infiltrate a mansion that the syndicate runs as
  10. S01E10Baretta S01E10Keep Your Eye on the SparrowApril 9, 1975 10.0Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his retarded friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.
  11. S01E11Baretta S01E11The Secret of Terry LakeApril 16, 1975 10.0Baretta 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 al
  12. S01E12Baretta S01E12This Ain't My BagApril 30, 1975Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of a heiress who has gone missing.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0222Episodes1975–76Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S02E01Baretta S02E01The Good-Bye Orphan Annie BluesSeptember 10, 1975 10.0Baretta 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
  2. S02E02Baretta S02E02The Glory GameSeptember 17, 1975Baretta has to go on the run to clear his name after he is framed for the murder of a gun dealer he was investigating, who was selling weapo
  3. S02E03Baretta S02E03On the RoadSeptember 24, 1975Baretta 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 o
  4. S02E04Baretta S02E04Nobody in a Nothing PlaceOctober 1, 1975When 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
  5. S02E05Baretta S02E05The Fire ManOctober 8, 1975To find an arsonist, Baretta seeks the help of a former investigator who retired after suffering both physical and psychological damage in a
  6. S02E06Baretta S02E06Double ImageOctober 15, 1975While Baretta is investigating a series of waterfront killings, his cover becomes in danger of being blown by a waitress who knows him and t
  7. S02E07Baretta S02E07Photography by John DoeOctober 22, 1975Persuaded by his grandson to reopen the case of a retired cop supposedly killed in a fall, Baretta discovers a judge on the take.
  8. S02E08Baretta S02E08Set Up CityOctober 29, 1975To infiltrate a gang of jewel robbers, Baretta seeks the help of a former expert safecracker he once sent to prison.
  9. S02E09Baretta S02E09A Bite of the AppleNovember 5, 1975When a dying hoodlum entrusts his girlfriend with a detailed record of all his underworld activities, she is sought by both the police and h
  10. S02E10Baretta S02E10When Dues Come DownNovember 12, 1975Baretta doggedly follows a truck driver he suspects of killing the cat burglar who injured his wife, waiting for the man to make a mistake t
  11. S02E11Baretta S02E11The Big Hand's on TroubleNovember 19, 1975Baretta is investigating a mob theft of diamonds belonging to Mr. Nicholas and winds up helping a merchant who is threatened by a new group
  12. S02E12Baretta S02E12Count the Days I'm GoneNovember 26, 1975Baretta must find a nurse's 9-year-old sister, witness to the murder of a blind hot-dog vendor, before the killers do.
  13. S02E13Baretta S02E13Sharper Than a Serpent's ToothDecember 15, 1975When 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
  14. S02E14Baretta S02E14The Left Hand of the DevilJanuary 7, 1976When a plea bargain falls through, Baretta must infiltrate a murderous motorcycle gang to save his informant.
  15. S02E15Baretta S02E15Murder for MeJanuary 14, 1976Baretta tracks a distraught father who has killed the doctor he believes responsible for the death of his son, then has gone after the local
  16. S02E16Baretta S02E16Pay or DieJanuary 28, 1976After a crime lord is arrested, Baretta must jeopardize an undercover policewoman to stop an escalating war of succession between gangland f
  17. S02E17Baretta S02E17The Blood BondFebruary 18, 1976Believing that Baretta pocketed $500,000 in stolen bonds after stopping a robbery, a mobster takes Billy hostage until the money is turned o
  18. S02E18Baretta S02E18The DippersFebruary 25, 1976After a young pickpocket is killed, Baretta solicits the help of an expert to infiltrate the gang that operates at an airline terminal.
  19. S02E19Baretta S02E19Dead Man OutMarch 3, 1976Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed.
  20. S02E20Baretta S02E20Death on the RunMarch 17, 1976Pursuing a gunrunner with spinal meningitis, Baretta becomes infected and has 48 hours to find the man and his cohorts before he has to go i
  21. S02E21AggieMarch 24, 1976A retarded waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime.
  22. S02E22And Down Will Come BabyApril 28, 1976When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode25Episodes1976Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S03E01Season's bestThe NinjaSeptember 22, 1976 10.0Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.
  2. S03E02Soldier in the JungleSeptember 29, 1976 10.0Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.
  3. S03E03Runaway CowboyOctober 6, 1976 10.0
  4. S03E04Street EditionOctober 13, 1976 10.0
  5. S03E05They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used ToOctober 20, 1976 10.0
  6. S03E06ShoesOctober 27, 1976 10.0
  7. S03E07Under the CityNovember 3, 1976 10.0
  8. S03E08Dear TonyNovember 10, 1976 10.0
  9. S03E09Crazy AnnieNovember 24, 1976 10.0
  10. S03E10Nothin' for Nothin'December 1, 1976 10.0
  11. S03E11Can't Win for Losin'December 15, 1976 10.0
  12. S03E12Look Back in TerrorDecember 22, 1976 10.0
  13. S03E13The Big Hand's on TroubleDecember 29, 1976
  14. S03E14Don't Kill the SparrowsJanuary 12, 1977 10.0
  15. S03E15That Sister Ain't No CousinJanuary 19, 1977 10.0
  16. S03E16Open SeasonJanuary 26, 1977 10.0
  17. S03E17The ReunionFebruary 2, 1977 10.0
  18. S03E18Not on Our BlockFebruary 9, 1977
  19. S03E19The RunawaysFebruary 16, 1977
  20. S03E20Everybody Pays the FareFebruary 23, 1977 10.0
  21. S03E21Think MinkMarch 9, 1977 10.0
  22. S03E22CarlaMarch 16, 1977 10.0
  23. S03E23Big Bad CharlieMarch 30, 1977
  24. S03E24Guns and BrothersApril 6, 1977 10.0
  25. S03E25Playin' PoliceMay 4, 1976

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season0424Episodes1977–78Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S04E01New Girl in TownSeptember 28, 1977 10.0A mobster orders a ""hit"" on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.
  2. S04E02Somebody Killed Cock RobinOctober 5, 1977Insufficient evidence allows a man to be released from jail and resume his efforts to hurt a nightclub dancer.
  3. S04E03Lyman P. Doffer, FedOctober 19, 1977An FBI computer expert poses as a field agent to join Baretta on a case regarding stolen emeralds that led to murder.
  4. S04E04The Sky Is FallingOctober 26, 1977Baretta tries to save a teen-age male prostitute who is being pursued by a killer after witnessing a friend's murder.
  5. S04E05It's Hard But It's FairNovember 2, 1977Baretta poses as the trainer of a former champion boxer to trap a drug-smuggling murderer.
  6. S04E06BuddyNovember 16, 1977Baretta puts his career at risk by sheltering a retarded teenager who he thinks has been falsely accused of killing his mother.
  7. S04E07Por NadaNovember 23, 1977An attack on the leader of a street gang, and the murder of his girlfriend, threatens to ignite a war in the barrio.
  8. S04E08Who Can Make the Sun Shine?November 30, 1977His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overd
  9. S04E09All That ShattersDecember 7, 1977War veterans are being blamed for a series of bombings that are actually the work of a wheelchair-bound bomber who is attacking buildings an
  10. S04E10It Goes with the JobDecember 21, 1977Baretta 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
  11. S04E11Hot HorseJanuary 4, 1978Two elderly neighbors of Baretta's steal a million-dollar racehorse back from the thief who originally took it, then hide it in their apartm
  12. S04E12Why Me?January 11, 1978A woman who was attacked is so traumatized that she clings to Baretta and hampers his investigation of the robbery and murder she witnessed.
  13. S04E13I'll Take You to LunchJanuary 18, 1978When his friend Billy is one of the hostages taken by robbers trapped at a roadside tavern, Baretta tries to negotiate a deal between them a
  14. S04E14It's a BoyFebruary 2, 1978When 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 s
  15. S04E15Just for LaughsFebruary 9, 1978Baretta comes to the aid of a has-been comic trying to make a comeback, who has recently suffered several attempts on his life.
  16. S04E16The MarkerFebruary 16, 1978Family loyalty compels a friend of Baretta's to agree to kill the man who assaulted an aging mobster's daughter.
  17. S04E17The Stone ConspiracyFebruary 23, 1978On temporary duty with the vice squad, Baretta learns that his partner is taking bribes, and is ordered by his boss to investigate the other
  18. S04E18The AppointmentMarch 9, 1978Baretta 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 stor
  19. S04E19Woman TroubleMarch 23, 1978Baretta 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 jewe
  20. S04E20The GadjoMarch 30, 1978Baretta's young partner is ostracised by his Gypsy family for refusing to perform an atonement ceremony after accidentally killing his young
  21. S04E21BarneyApril 6, 1978Baretta goes undercover as a trucker to help the daughter of a murdered newspaperman pursue the hijackers who killed her father when he got
  22. S04E22The DreamMay 4, 1978Faced with a difficult kidnapping case, Baretta accepts help from a girl who appears to have psychic knowledge of the crime.
  23. S04E23The Snake ChaserMay 11, 1978A mobster who was badly scarred as the result of a shoot-out seeks revenge on Baretta.
  24. S04E24The BundleMay 18, 1978Two 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 mo

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

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