The essential episodes of Baretta
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Baretta — each pick states its reason.
- 01
He'll Never See Daylight Again
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
- 02
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.
- 03
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
- 07
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
- 08
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.
- 09
Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his retarded friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.
- 10
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.
- 11
The Good-Bye Orphan Annie Blues
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 is killing his customers.
- 12
Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.
- 13
Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.
- 14
A mobster orders a ""hit"" on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.
- 15
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.
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He's smart, he's good looking, and he's got a great sense of humor.
