Baretta (1975)
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 1 - The Good-Bye Orphan Annie Blues
Release Date: 1975-09-10Baretta 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.
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Episode 2 - The Glory Game
Release Date: 1975-09-17Baretta 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 weapons to teenagers.
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Episode 3 - On the Road
Release Date: 1975-09-24Baretta 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 of holdup men disguised as cops.
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Episode 4 - Nobody in a Nothing Place
Release Date: 1975-10-01When 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 after the man too.
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Episode 5 - The Fire Man
Release Date: 1975-10-08To find an arsonist, Baretta seeks the help of a former investigator who retired after suffering both physical and psychological damage in a fire.
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Episode 6 - Double Image
Release Date: 1975-10-15While Baretta is investigating a series of waterfront killings, his cover becomes in danger of being blown by a waitress who knows him and thinks he is responsible for the death of her boyfriend.
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Episode 7 - Photography by John Doe
Release Date: 1975-10-22Persuaded by his grandson to reopen the case of a retired cop supposedly killed in a fall, Baretta discovers a judge on the take.
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Episode 8 - Set Up City
Release Date: 1975-10-29To infiltrate a gang of jewel robbers, Baretta seeks the help of a former expert safecracker he once sent to prison.
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Episode 9 - A Bite of the Apple
Release Date: 1975-11-05When a dying hoodlum entrusts his girlfriend with a detailed record of all his underworld activities, she is sought by both the police and his former cronies seeking to protect themselves.
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Episode 10 - When Dues Come Down
Release Date: 1975-11-12Baretta doggedly follows a truck driver he suspects of killing the cat burglar who injured his wife, waiting for the man to make a mistake that will reveal his guilt.
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Episode 11 - The Big Hand's on Trouble
Release Date: 1975-11-19Baretta is investigating a mob theft of diamonds belonging to Mr. Nicholas and winds up helping a merchant who is threatened by a new group in the neighborhood called the East Side Benevolent Society, who is forcing all the shop owners to pay money for protection or suffer the consequences.
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Episode 12 - Count the Days I'm Gone
Release Date: 1975-11-26Baretta must find a nurse's 9-year-old sister, witness to the murder of a blind hot-dog vendor, before the killers do.
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Episode 13 - Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Release Date: 1975-12-15When 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 the real murderers are after him too.
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Episode 14 - The Left Hand of the Devil
Release Date: 1976-01-07When a plea bargain falls through, Baretta must infiltrate a murderous motorcycle gang to save his informant.
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Episode 15 - Murder for Me
Release Date: 1976-01-14Baretta tracks a distraught father who has killed the doctor he believes responsible for the death of his son, then has gone after the local drug dealers as well.
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Episode 16 - Pay or Die
Release Date: 1976-01-28After a crime lord is arrested, Baretta must jeopardize an undercover policewoman to stop an escalating war of succession between gangland factions.
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Episode 17 - The Blood Bond
Release Date: 1976-02-18Believing that Baretta pocketed $500,000 in stolen bonds after stopping a robbery, a mobster takes Billy hostage until the money is turned over.
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Episode 18 - The Dippers
Release Date: 1976-02-25After a young pickpocket is killed, Baretta solicits the help of an expert to infiltrate the gang that operates at an airline terminal.
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Episode 19 - Dead Man Out
Release Date: 1976-03-03Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed.
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Episode 20 - Death on the Run
Release Date: 1976-03-17Pursuing a gunrunner with spinal meningitis, Baretta becomes infected and has 48 hours to find the man and his cohorts before he has to go into quarantine.
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Episode 21 - Aggie
Release Date: 1976-03-24A retarded waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime.
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Episode 22 - And Down Will Come Baby
Release Date: 1976-04-28When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies.