Baretta (1976)
The cases of maverick undercover New York detective Tony Baretta.
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Episode 1 - New Girl in Town
Release Date: 28 Sep. 1977Baretta is in a blue funk because of a string of failed relationships with women; in fact, the opening finds him nursing a massive hangover and crawling to the phone after going on a bender after another breakup. So who does he get as a new partner? A real bitch --literally. Kelly, a female dog, is brought in to work with Baretta as both sniff out (him figuratively, her literally) a dangerous psychedelic mushroom. Baretta gradually gains respect for the dog -- but then both of them start ducking rifle bullets from an aging Mob hit man. Fortunately, the hired gun is ...
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Episode 2 - Somebody Killed Cock Robin
Release Date: 5 Oct. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 3 - All That Shatters
Release Date: 19 Oct. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 4 - The Sky Is Falling
Release Date: 26 Oct. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 5 - It's Hard But It's Fair
Release Date: 2 Nov. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 6 - Buddy
Release Date: 16 Nov. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 7 - Por Nada
Release Date: 23 Nov. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 8 - Make the Sun Shine
Release Date: 30 Nov. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 9 - Lyman P. Dokker, Fed
Release Date: 7 Dec. 1977Strother Martin's third and final episode casts him as a nerdy FBI computer expert who desperately wants to get out into the field. When his bosses in Washington pooh-pooh that idea, he creates a "supercop" with the name in the episode's title and casts himself in the role (Robert Blake used the same pseudonym, with a slight change of spelling, for his part as executive producer of "Hell Town" eight years later). "Dokker" then assigns himself to a case where an Algerian smuggler was murdered for the fortune in emeralds he was carrying. The victim told Billy, while ...
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Episode 10 - It Goes with the Job
Release Date: 21 Dec. 1977Add a Plot
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Episode 11 - Hot Horse
Release Date: 4 Jan. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 12 - Why Me?
Release Date: 11 Jan. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 13 - I'll Take You to Lunch
Release Date: 18 Jan. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 14 - It's a Boy
Release Date: 2 Feb. 1978Baretta is entertaining a girlfriend in his apartment when there is a knock on his door. He opens the door to find an old girlfriend and her infant son -- and she claims he is the father. Baretta reluctantly takes on the role. While the two of them are walking near the ocean, a hired gun with a high-powered rifle fires at them. The rifleman then spins around and puts a bullet through the windshield of another car -- but he misses the driver and the car crushes him to death, then backs out and peels rubber away from the scene. A check on the dead man reveals he was a ...
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Episode 15 - Just for Laughs
Release Date: 9 Feb. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 16 - The Marker
Release Date: 16 Feb. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 17 - The Stone Conspiracy
Release Date: 23 Feb. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 18 - The Appointment
Release Date: 9 Mar. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 19 - Woman Trouble
Release Date: 23 Mar. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 20 - The Gadjo
Release Date: 30 Mar. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 21 - Barney
Release Date: 6 Apr. 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 22 - The Dream
Release Date: 4 May 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 23 - The Snake Chaser
Release Date: 11 May 1978Add a Plot
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Episode 24 - The Bundle
Release Date: 18 May 1978Two thugs knock over a manufacturing plant and make off with a $200,000 payroll. They know the money is hot and make arrangements with a man named Trudgeon to launder it, passing it through channels and returning $50,000 in clean cash to them. Meanwhile, back at Baretta's apartment, he and Billy are busy making stew when their pimp buddy Rooster turns up -- in a business suit? The reason comes very quickly with a trilled "Oh Quen-tinnn! Where are youuuuu?" Rooster is posing as a legitimate businessman to impress his cousin and her friend, both of whom have come to Los...