Baretta
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.
Overview
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.
Leigh Vance
Creator / EP
Howie Horwitz
Producer
Episodes
1. He'll Never See Daylight Again
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
2. 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.
3. Woman in the Harbor
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
Cast & Crew
Robert Blake
Det. Tony Baretta
Dana Elcar
Inspector Shiller
Sharon Cintron
Burt Young
