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.
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Ep 1He'll Never See Daylight Again
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
Ep 2The 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.
Ep 3Woman in the Harbor
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
Ep 4If You Can't Pay the Price
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
Ep 5Half a Million Dollar Baby
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.
Ep 6Ragtime Billy Peaches
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.
ABC
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