![Baretta](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FwixjwQv8aPfIwbc7euj0fPPsMjT.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Baretta
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.
Seasons
![He'll Never See Daylight Again](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F4ML0iRmyUIBYnqXk4z8fW74goP5.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
1. He'll Never See Daylight Again
Air Date: 1975-01-17
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
![The Five and a Half Pound Junkie](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Fch79WprXYz0t8vcktWuxei2vkbr.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
2. The Five and a Half Pound Junkie
Air Date: 1975-01-24
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.
![Woman in the Harbor](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F3kcR3uFWzibmPkvxjEfONUJNdQV.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
3. Woman in the Harbor
Air Date: 1975-01-31
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
![If You Can't Pay the Price](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FtJbutnU6NVNvfNkNJrRSXLwOtj0.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
4. If You Can't Pay the Price
Air Date: 1975-02-07
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
![Half a Million Dollar Baby](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FnMOknIYyd4vbooti8JEUzr1sjb7.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
5. Half a Million Dollar Baby
Air Date: 1975-02-14
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.
![Ragtime Billy Peaches](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Fpf3Wvcxdhp1JxGBGsREoG6leuUa.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
6. Ragtime Billy Peaches
Air Date: 1975-02-28
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.
![The Coppelli Oath](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Fo00hZfeCGOTRZR62OrHg7g0ByFG.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
7. The Coppelli Oath
Air Date: 1975-03-07
After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
![Walk Like You Talk](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FhSbSv5sFVE4lZSm9x6q1jYpGOmV.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
8. Walk Like You Talk
Air Date: 1975-03-14
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
![The Mansion](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F3CZbCXjFqIXgEynubA6zZTHmJcI.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
9. The Mansion
Air Date: 1975-04-02
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.
![Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FiyoyoYcbrwfuyfVlHoskrZtmgt9.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
10. Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow
Air Date: 1975-04-09
Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his retarded friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.
![The Secret of Terry Lake](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FlFVTgDnUNwYVSt6qYzic3Iz9h9A.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
11. The Secret of Terry Lake
Air Date: 1975-04-16
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.
![This Ain't My Bag](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FdEdI5YEFh3VVLedVtwM6Ey867UU.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
12. This Ain't My Bag
Air Date: 1975-04-30
Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of a heiress who has gone missing.
![The Good-Bye Orphan Annie Blues](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FpJBfucmmKd0k1TGGTGAsi32ldzc.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
1. The Good-Bye Orphan Annie Blues
Air Date: 1975-09-10
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.
![The Glory Game](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F6BrJAxyDKwc8U3Gn8M0JSUs6VnO.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
2. The Glory Game
Air Date: 1975-09-17
Baretta 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.
![On the Road](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F3FF94jaLg7LJQoSSVR4NjN7GtWB.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
3. On the Road
Air Date: 1975-09-24
Baretta 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.
![Nobody in a Nothing Place](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Ff0lmmpB8sXEqWffH01XP3rcvnPI.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
4. Nobody in a Nothing Place
Air Date: 1975-10-01
When 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.
![The Fire Man](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Fm1KtFaNPrYmTTBxgyXtVAMRp7A5.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
5. The Fire Man
Air Date: 1975-10-08
To find an arsonist, Baretta seeks the help of a former investigator who retired after suffering both physical and psychological damage in a fire.
![Double Image](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Fzg9hmyqZp2PT8FMdgrtL722eu3R.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
6. Double Image
Air Date: 1975-10-15
While 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.
![Photography by John Doe](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FqjM425t49hbOWJOkh5DsCWmQlQZ.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
7. Photography by John Doe
Air Date: 1975-10-22
Persuaded by his grandson to reopen the case of a retired cop supposedly killed in a fall, Baretta discovers a judge on the take.
![Set Up City](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FhFg4WNzIElRa5MBfHsKESQfEiEl.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
8. Set Up City
Air Date: 1975-10-29
To infiltrate a gang of jewel robbers, Baretta seeks the help of a former expert safecracker he once sent to prison.
![A Bite of the Apple](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F3AaVkPXtg9Ywx0vAtWbTrzfnSnG.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
9. A Bite of the Apple
Air Date: 1975-11-05
When 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.
![When Dues Come Down](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FjoPJEWYRuVSM8oWt9bI4OlINxv5.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
10. When Dues Come Down
Air Date: 1975-11-12
Baretta 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.
![The Big Hand's on Trouble](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FhVVhwkF8Asua0jnhadR0lKHplYh.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
11. The Big Hand's on Trouble
Air Date: 1975-11-19
Baretta 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.
![Count the Days I'm Gone](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FkzsQeDvJ8uWl54OdAkcLbEeY3kH.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
12. Count the Days I'm Gone
Air Date: 1975-11-26
Baretta must find a nurse's 9-year-old sister, witness to the murder of a blind hot-dog vendor, before the killers do.
![Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F3gOcceznouk6X88Xe5gMCvXdAVR.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
13. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Air Date: 1975-12-15
When 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.
![The Left Hand of the Devil](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Fux4gq0diGPmClSVeOPr6TFTlKCx.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
14. The Left Hand of the Devil
Air Date: 1976-01-07
When a plea bargain falls through, Baretta must infiltrate a murderous motorcycle gang to save his informant.
![Murder for Me](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F5ajKfZRcBLtQRRs8AQyqOApahl2.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
15. Murder for Me
Air Date: 1976-01-14
Baretta 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.
![Pay or Die](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FeGh645P0EQNvvcEZ5MSwlqTyTsn.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
16. Pay or Die
Air Date: 1976-01-28
After a crime lord is arrested, Baretta must jeopardize an undercover policewoman to stop an escalating war of succession between gangland factions.
![The Blood Bond](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FpF94Ab9aDcVsDCCG4pW8Dli1ikm.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
17. The Blood Bond
Air Date: 1976-02-18
Believing that Baretta pocketed $500,000 in stolen bonds after stopping a robbery, a mobster takes Billy hostage until the money is turned over.
![The Dippers](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2Fs0bvlXruoAterZY99cGP7GCOb9t.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
18. The Dippers
Air Date: 1976-02-25
After a young pickpocket is killed, Baretta solicits the help of an expert to infiltrate the gang that operates at an airline terminal.
![Dead Man Out](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FwZ7wFkQGAeIEU0mUiAQFYUfky2G.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
19. Dead Man Out
Air Date: 1976-03-03
Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed.
![Death on the Run](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2FmnMz0rulpHlRFrgQIa9cwniSg1p.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
20. Death on the Run
Air Date: 1976-03-17
Pursuing 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.
21. Aggie
Air Date: 1976-03-24
A retarded waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime.
22. And Down Will Come Baby
Air Date: 1976-04-28
When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies.
1. The Ninja
Air Date: 1976-09-22
Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.
2. Soldier in the Jungle
Air Date: 1976-09-29
Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.
3. Runaway Cowboy
Air Date: 1976-10-06
4. Street Edition
Air Date: 1976-10-13
5. They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To
Air Date: 1976-10-20
6. Shoes
Air Date: 1976-10-27
7. Under the City
Air Date: 1976-11-03
8. Dear Tony
Air Date: 1976-11-10
9. Crazy Annie
Air Date: 1976-11-24
10. Nothin' for Nothin'
Air Date: 1976-12-01
11. Can't Win for Losin'
Air Date: 1976-12-15
12. Look Back in Terror
Air Date: 1976-12-22
13. The Big Hand's on Trouble
Air Date: 1976-12-29
14. Don't Kill the Sparrows
Air Date: 1977-01-12
15. That Sister Ain't No Cousin
Air Date: 1977-01-19
16. Open Season
Air Date: 1977-01-26
17. The Reunion
Air Date: 1977-02-02
18. Not on Our Block
Air Date: 1977-02-09
19. The Runaways
Air Date: 1977-02-16
20. Everybody Pays the Fare
Air Date: 1977-02-23
21. Think Mink
Air Date: 1977-03-09
22. Carla
Air Date: 1977-03-16
23. Big Bad Charlie
Air Date: 1977-03-30
24. Guns and Brothers
Air Date: 1977-04-06
25. Playin' Police
Air Date: 1976-05-04
1. New Girl in Town
Air Date: 1977-09-28
A mobster orders a ""hit"" on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.
2. Somebody Killed Cock Robin
Air Date: 1977-10-05
Insufficient evidence allows a man to be released from jail and resume his efforts to hurt a nightclub dancer.
3. Lyman P. Doffer, Fed
Air Date: 1977-10-19
An FBI computer expert poses as a field agent to join Baretta on a case regarding stolen emeralds that led to murder.
4. The Sky Is Falling
Air Date: 1977-10-26
Baretta tries to save a teen-age male prostitute who is being pursued by a killer after witnessing a friend's murder.
5. It's Hard But It's Fair
Air Date: 1977-11-02
Baretta poses as the trainer of a former champion boxer to trap a drug-smuggling murderer.
6. Buddy
Air Date: 1977-11-16
Baretta puts his career at risk by sheltering a retarded teenager who he thinks has been falsely accused of killing his mother.
7. Por Nada
Air Date: 1977-11-23
An attack on the leader of a street gang, and the murder of his girlfriend, threatens to ignite a war in the barrio.
8. Who Can Make the Sun Shine?
Air Date: 1977-11-30
His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overdose deaths.
9. All That Shatters
Air Date: 1977-12-07
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.
10. It Goes with the Job
Air Date: 1977-12-21
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.
11. Hot Horse
Air Date: 1978-01-04
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.
12. Why Me?
Air Date: 1978-01-11
A woman who was attacked is so traumatized that she clings to Baretta and hampers his investigation of the robbery and murder she witnessed.
13. I'll Take You to Lunch
Air Date: 1978-01-18
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.
14. It's a Boy
Air Date: 1978-02-02
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.
15. Just for Laughs
Air Date: 1978-02-09
Baretta comes to the aid of a has-been comic trying to make a comeback, who has recently suffered several attempts on his life.
16. The Marker
Air Date: 1978-02-16
Family loyalty compels a friend of Baretta's to agree to kill the man who assaulted an aging mobster's daughter.
17. The Stone Conspiracy
Air Date: 1978-02-23
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.
18. The Appointment
Air Date: 1978-03-09
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.
19. Woman Trouble
Air Date: 1978-03-23
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.
20. The Gadjo
Air Date: 1978-03-30
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.
21. Barney
Air Date: 1978-04-06
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.
22. The Dream
Air Date: 1978-05-04
Faced with a difficult kidnapping case, Baretta accepts help from a girl who appears to have psychic knowledge of the crime.
23. The Snake Chaser
Air Date: 1978-05-11
A mobster who was badly scarred as the result of a shoot-out seeks revenge on Baretta.
24. The Bundle
Air Date: 1978-05-18
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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Rating
6.3/10
Release Date
1975-01-17
Episodes
83 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended