"Baretta" TV show.
Robert Blake was coolness personified in the title role. As the streetwise cop Tony Baretta, he projected a combination of style and grit. This TV show has been relegated to near obscurity and is hard to locate.
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- CreatorStephen J. CannellStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverThe cases of maverick undercover New York City detective Tony Baretta (Robert Blake).
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarAndrew PrineAfter Baretta busts a small time numbers racket his girlfriend is shot and killed. He looks to come up with a plan that will allow him to seek revenge while making sure he stays on the right side of the law.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarAyn RuymenAfter Baretta's childhood friend Eddie is killed, he takes on the obligation of a pregnant widow who is addicted to smack. He "kidnaps" her in an attempt to wean her off drugs to prevent the baby's being born addicted as well. His CI helps Baretta get justice.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarEd LauterBaretta meets a parole officer friend (John Shockley) returning from Mexico. Just after telling Baretta that he had seen a former parolee alive and well (in spite of being declared a suicide by drowning a few months earlier), Shockley is the victim of a deliberate hit-and-run. Baretta encounters official resistance to reopening the case, a befuddled grieving mother and a violent gangland attempt to find the "dead" woman and her accomplice.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarJohn MarleyThugs hijack a drug shipment in Mexico, killing a guard and loading it onto trucks en route to Los Angeles. Baretta realizes that the drugs are destined for an old mobster and puts him under constant -- and obvious -- surveillance. It's so obvious that the mobster gets to know Baretta and even to create a semblance of friendship with him. By the end of Act Four, the mobster has served up his nephew (who was the driving force behind the robbery) to Baretta for arrest. Baretta is grateful, but in the tag he and the mobster sit on the mobster's front porch -- jointly waiting as the trucks roar up Interstate 5, getting ever closer to the mobster's imminent doom.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarAnn PrentissBaretta's current lady is a messed-up photographer. After a bust of counterfeit money being sold for a half million dollars, the real money is nowhere to be found--except by the lady photog. Baretta is suspected of the grab, pursued by the criminals, and hassled by his bosses. When his girl suddenly packs up to go, Baretta finally gets it, but he is almost too late!
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarRichard DysartGoing undercover as a flamboyant hippie named Ragtime Billy Beaches, Baretta flies to Los Angeles to investigate a beautiful woman, married to a rich doctor, who was murdered.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarGeorge DiCenzoThe younger brother of a young hoodlum, who was shot and killed by Baretta, seeks revenge.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarMichael ParksBaretta's partner (Michael Parks) accepts a bribe during a setup by the police commission, and because of interference by a careless cop who yearns to be a novelist, Baretta could go down with his friend.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarAllyn Ann McLerieAfter a cop is murdered at a luxurious but crime-infested mansion, Baretta is assigned as an undercover replacement.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarBurt YoungBaretta's childlike old neighborhood friend Willy "Burt Young" might be behind a string of robberies.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarMargot KidderThe title's "Secret" could involve who killed a mob boss (blamed on a lowly hit man), kept by Terry Lake, a mysterious woman with mob connections played by Margot Kidder, who Baretta goes undercover to investigate.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsRobert BlakeDana ElcarMichael MurphyA wealthy District Attorney (Michael Murphy) calls his childhood friend Baretta to investigate his brother's missing wife. But the brother/husband doesn't seem very concerned.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverBaretta 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's killing his customers.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverTony Baretta is framed for the murder of a gun dealer and becomes a fugitive so he can clear his name.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverBaretta has to go on the run to clear his name after he's framed for the murder of a gun dealer he was investigating, who was selling weapons to teenagers.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverBaretta investigates the murder of a man killed in the alley behind Eddy's Place.
- DirectorTed PostStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverBaretta ask for help from an old friend expert in explosive devices, in order to track down a serial fire bomber whose last hit make toll some victims.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverBaretta works undercover in order to frame an organized gang trying to keep the shipping warehouses racketeer under control.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverA retired private investigator is killed while gathering evidences about the connection of a judge and a criminal gang. His grandson ask help to Baretta shed light on what happened and get justice.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverSet-Up City.
- DirectorRobert DouglasMonte HellmanStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverA mob leader is dying and he has a notebook detailing extensive criminal activities that the police and other gangsters want. He entrusts it to his fiance Holly Dean who comes under Baretta's protection.
- DirectorRobert DouglasStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverEven though he has no evidence Barreta suspects a man named Mazurski of killing a petty criminal. His hunch is based on the man's wife Doris being injured during a burglary committed by the now dead man.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverWhile Baretta suffers a terrible cold during a long stakeout, he meets town's the new watchmaker (Burt Young, who also wrote the story). New to America, he questions the Association he had to pay in order to get "protection." Baretta explains it's "the bad guys protecting you from the badder guys." It turns out, Baretta had been staking out a diamond thief connected to same Association, and soon both stories connect.
- DirectorBruce KesslerStarsRobert BlakeTom EwellEdward GroverCount the Days I'm Gone.