List of Baretta episodes
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This is a list of episodes for the American television series Baretta.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 12 | January 17, 1975 | April 30, 1975 | |
| 2 | 22 | September 10, 1975 | April 28, 1976 | |
| 3 | 24 | September 22, 1976 | May 4, 1977 | |
| 4 | 24 | September 28, 1977 | May 18, 1978 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (1975)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "He'll Never See Daylight" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Stephen J. Cannell | January 17, 1975 | |
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After 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. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Five and a Half Pound Junkie" | Don Medford | Peter S. Fischer | January 24, 1975 | |
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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 | 3 | "Woman in the Harbor" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Story by : John Thomas James Teleplay by : Robert I. Holt & Don Balluck | January 31, 1975 | |
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Baretta's best friend, a parole officer, is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedly killed herself months earlier is alive and well in Mexico. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "If You Can't Pay the Price" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Story by : Tony Morgan Teleplay by : Tony Morgan & John Thomas James | February 7, 1975 | |
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Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Half a Million Dollar Baby" | Michael Schultz | Story by : John Thomas James Teleplay by : Philip DeGuere | February 14, 1975 | |
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Baretta's career and reputation are almost ruined by a beautiful photographer (Ann Prentiss) who tricks him into helping her steal a half-million dollars of mob money. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Ragtime Billy Peaches" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Story by : John Thomas James Teleplay by : Don Carlos Dunaway | February 28, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Coppelli Oath" | Don Medford | Story by : John Thomas James & Michael Butler Teleplay by : Michael Butler | March 7, 1975 | |
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After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Walk Like You Talk" | Charles S. Dubin | Michael Butler & L.H. Whittemore | March 14, 1975 | |
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A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Mansion" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Philip DeGuere | April 2, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow" | Don Medford | Paul A. Magistretti | April 9, 1975 | |
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Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his mentally challenged friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "The Secret of Terry Lake" | Russ Mayberry | Story by : John Thomas James Teleplay by : Philip DeGuere | April 16, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "This Ain't My Bag" | Jerry London | Story by : Gloryette Clark & Paul A. Magistretti Teleplay by : Paul A. Magistretti | April 30, 1975 | |
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Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of an heiress who has gone missing. | ||||||
Season 2 (1975–76)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 13 | 1 | "The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Paul A. Magistretti & Paul Williams | September 10, 1975 | |
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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's killing his customers. | ||||||
| 14 | 2 | "The Glory Game" | Jeannot Szwarc | Michael Butler | September 17, 1975 | |
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Baretta 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. | ||||||
| 15 | 3 | "On the Road" | Jeannot Szwarc | Michael Butler | September 24, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 16 | 4 | "Nobody in a Nothing Place" | Arnold Laven | Jack Turley & Robert van Scoyk | October 1, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 17 | 5 | "The Fire Man" | Ted Post | Gregory Teifer | October 8, 1975 | |
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To find an arsonist, Baretta seeks the help of a former investigator who retired after suffering both physical and psychological damage in a fire. | ||||||
| 18 | 6 | "Double Image" | Jeannot Szwarc | Michael Simpson, Jeff Spielman & Gregory Teifer | October 15, 1975 | |
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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's responsible for the death of her boyfriend. | ||||||
| 19 | 7 | "Photography by John Doe" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Michael Simpson & Jeff Spielman | October 22, 1975 | |
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Persuaded by the grandson of a retired cop who had supposedly been killed in a fall to reopen the case, Baretta discovers a judge on the take. | ||||||
| 20 | 8 | "Set Up City" | Curtis Harrington | Michael Butler | October 29, 1975 | |
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To infiltrate a gang of jewel robbers, Baretta seeks the help of a former expert safecracker he once sent to prison. | ||||||
| 21 | 9 | "A Bite of the Apple" | Robert Douglas | Robert Janes & Paul A. Magistretti | November 5, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 22 | 10 | "When Dues Come Down" | Robert Douglas | Paul A. Magistretti | November 12, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 23 | 11 | "The Big Hand's on Trouble" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Paul A. Magistretti & Burt Young | November 19, 1975 | |
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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, which is forcing all the shop owners to pay money for protection or suffer the consequences. | ||||||
| 24 | 12 | "Count the Days I'm Gone" | Bruce Kessler | Michael Butler & Robert E. Swanson | November 26, 1975 | |
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Baretta must find a prostitute's nine-year-old sister — a witness to the murder of Blind Bennie the hot-dog vendor — before the killers do. | ||||||
| 25 | 13 | "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" | Charles R. Rondeau | Frank Dandridge, John Thomas James & Robert Janes | December 17, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 26 | 14 | "The Left Hand of the Devil" | Robert Douglas | Edward J. Lakso | January 7, 1976 | |
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When a plea bargain falls through, Baretta must infiltrate a murderous motorcycle gang to save his informant. | ||||||
| 27 | 15 | "Murder for Me" | Curtis Harrington | Robert Lewin | January 14, 1976 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 28 | 16 | "Pay or Die" | Robert Douglas | Donald R. Boyle & Michael Grais | January 28, 1976 | |
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After a crime lord is arrested, Baretta must jeopardize an undercover policewoman to stop an escalating war of succession between gangland factions. | ||||||
| 29 | 17 | "The Blood Bond" | Vincent Sherman | Gustave Field | February 18, 1976 | |
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Believing that Baretta pocketed $500,000 in stolen bonds after stopping a robbery, a mobster takes Billy hostage until the money is turned over. | ||||||
| 30 | 18 | "The Dippers" | Douglas Heyes | T. S. Cook | February 25, 1976 | |
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After a young pickpocket named Jonesy is killed, Baretta solicits the help of an expert to infiltrate a gang that operates at an airline terminal... not realizing that the reason for the death is related to the lifting of a passport from a hired assassin. | ||||||
| 31 | 19 | "Dead Man Out" | Robert Douglas | Robert Lewin, Mann Rubin & Earl W. Wallace | March 3, 1976 | |
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Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed. | ||||||
| 32 | 20 | "Death on the Run" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Paul Casey | March 17, 1976 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 33 | 21 | "Aggie" | Vincent Sherman | Adrian Spies | March 24, 1976 | |
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A mentally challenged deli waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime. | ||||||
| 34 | 22 | "And Down Will Come Baby" | Bruce Kessler | Robert I. Holt | April 28, 1976 | |
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When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies. | ||||||
Season 3 (1976–77)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 35 | 1 | "The Ninja" | Don Weis | Larry Alexander & Alan B. Cotler | September 22, 1976 | |
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Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter. | ||||||
| 36 | 2 | "Soldier in the Jungle" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Norman Lessing & Gene Thompson | September 29, 1976 | |
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Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends. | ||||||
| 37 | 3 | "Runway Cowboy" | Robert Douglas | Milt Rosen | October 6, 1976 | |
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A photographer has taken photos which can clear a judge of any wrongdoing, and Baretta is on the trail to find him. | ||||||
| 38 | 4 | "Street Edition" | Vincent Sherman | Robert Hamner & Robert I. Holt | October 13, 1976 | |
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A persistent female reporter continually interferes with Baretta's investigation into the aborted robbery of a half-million dollars in syndicate money. | ||||||
| 39 | 5 | "They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To" | Sutton Roley | Edward J. Lakso & S.S. Schweitzer | October 20, 1976 | |
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A heist goes wrong when Doc, an ex-con, is double-crossed by his hired hands during a jewelry robbery. | ||||||
| 40 | 6 | "Shoes" | Chris Robinson | Lewis Davidson & Tony Kayden | October 27, 1976 | |
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A rapist is on the loose and Baretta's only lead is "Shoes," a deaf-mute shoeshine boy who can identify the killer by his shoes. | ||||||
| 41 | 7 | "Under the City" | Cliff Bole | S.S. Schweitzer | November 3, 1976 | |
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Baretta finds trouble when he realizes that a prison bus has been hijacked by the prisoners and that hostages have been taken. | ||||||
| 42 | 8 | "Dear Tony" | Robert Douglas | Larry Alexander & Norman Hudis | November 10, 1976 | |
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A story told mostly in flashbacks concerns the suicide of a policewoman whose officer husband was killed in a liquor-store hold-up. | ||||||
| 43 | 9 | "Crazy Annie" | Reza Badiyi | Jeff Freilich & S.S. Schweitzer | November 24, 1976 | |
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There's a slasher loose in Tony's neighborhood who is killing all the winos. Baretta is held captive by Crazy Annie, a.k.a. Mumsy, who thinks Tony is her son Arthur, which hinders his investigation. | ||||||
| 44 | 10 | "Nothin' for Nothin'" | Paul Stanley | Dennis Landa, S.S. Schweitzer & Daniel B. Ullman | December 1, 1976 | |
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Baretta is working on a numbers case when $12,000 is stolen from Jewel, the rackets king. Baretta tries to help out a kid who was only trying to do good for his family. | ||||||
| 45 | 11 | "Can't Win for Losin'" | Robert Douglas | Cornelius Ballard & Irv Pearlberg | December 15, 1976 | |
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Baretta is investigating the takeover of a new drug dealer in town who is knocking off the existing dealers. One Baretta's friends, Joey Rich, decides to take matters into his own hands after Joey's own son becomes a heroin addict. | ||||||
| 46 | 12 | "Look Back in Terror" | Vincent Sherman | Margaret Beddow Hatch | December 22, 1976 | |
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Baretta takes a three-day leave with his new girlfriend; problem is, her ex-boyfriend Bishop breaks out of prison and hunts her down for the security bonds she's holding. | ||||||
| 47 | 13 | "Don't Kill the Sparrows" | Don Medford | Alan Godfrey & Fenton Hobart Jr. | January 12, 1977 | |
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Baretta goes after a corrupt Federal narcotics agent who not only peddles drugs on the side, but murders the buyer who discovers he's a cop. | ||||||
| 48 | 14 | "That Sister Ain't No Cousin" | Bruce Kessler | Cornelius Ballard & Marc Stirdivant | January 19, 1977 | |
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Baretta is after drug kingpin El Greco; too many kids are ending up dead, and the dealers are selling to younger and younger kids. | ||||||
| 49 | 15 | "Open Season" | Reza Badiyi | Dallas L. Barnes | January 26, 1977 | |
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A doctor turned bounty hunter vies with Baretta to find the pusher responsible for the death of a banker's addicted daughter. | ||||||
| 50 | 16 | "The Reunion" | Don Medford | Christopher Crowe, Don Medford & Steve Meixell | February 2, 1977 | |
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After philanthropist James Simpson is blown up in front of the Genios restaurant, an old friend of Baretta's — a recovered alcoholic — returns to his old haunts to help solve the murder case. | ||||||
| 51 | 17 | "Not on Our Block" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Sean Baine | February 9, 1977 | |
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Elderly Teresa Montevanni is hit by a car from the "Association" protection collector. Baretta tries reasoning with the people of the neighborhood to rid themselves of their so-called protector Giove. | ||||||
| 52 | 18 | "The Runaways" | Don Medford | Richard M. Bluel & Pat Fielder | February 16, 1977 | |
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When Baretta rescues three runaways, one of them is a pregnant 15-year-old. Tony takes measures to nail her stepfather for raping her, abusing her, passing her around to his friends. | ||||||
| 53 | 19 | "Everybody Pays the Fare" | John Ward | Sidney Ellis & Leonard B. Kaufman | February 23, 1977 | |
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Baretta receives a deathbed statement from Canadeo about his father, Louis Baretta. Upon hearing that a hit had been put out on Louis, Baretta finds those responsible for his dad's death. | ||||||
| 54 | 20 | "Think Mink" | Don Medford | Richard M. Bluel, Pat Fielder & Paul Tuckahoe | March 9, 1977 | |
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$200,000 in mink is stolen and the only witness is an old racetrack codger, who decides to get the reward money for him and his pal to go and score the big one at the track. | ||||||
| 55 | 21 | "Carla" | Alex March | Margaret Armen, Richard M. Bluel, Muriel Davison & Pat Fielder | March 16, 1977 | |
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Baretta rescues Carla from her mob family; the Feds want her to roll over on her family and put her into the witness protection program, while Tony just wants her for himself. | ||||||
| 56 | 22 | "Big Bad Charlie" | Don Medford | Christopher Crowe & Bernard L. Kowalski | March 30, 1977 | |
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Baretta is working undercover searching for the Lu Chan gang from Hong Kong, who are responsible for a series of bank depository holdups. When newsstand operator Big Charlie helps, Baretta winds up killing one of the gang, making him a target. | ||||||
| 57 | 23 | "Guns and Brothers" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Christopher Crowe, Don Medford & Ferde Rombola | April 6, 1977 | |
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Baretta, investigating a stolen vehicle report, believes that two brothers are responsible. When another vehicle is stolen, this one filled with M-16s, the boys have more to worry about than just Baretta. | ||||||
| 58 | 24 | "Playin' Police" | Don Medford | Ray Hutcherson | May 4, 1977 | |
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Two shakedown artists posing as plainclothes cops are making a bundle ripping off other crooks — victims who aren't likely to go to the police. | ||||||
Season 4 (1977–78)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 59 | 1 | "New Girl in Town" | Paul Stanley | E. Nick Alexander | September 28, 1977 | |
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A mobster orders a hit on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog. | ||||||
| 60 | 2 | "Somebody Killed Cock Robin" | Reza Badiyi | Rick Kelbaugh | October 5, 1977 | |
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Insufficient evidence allows a man to be released from jail and resume his efforts to hurt a nightclub dancer. | ||||||
| 61 | 3 | "All That Shatters" | Don Medford | Sidney Ellis, Rift Fournier & Ed Waters | October 19, 1977 | |
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War veterans are blamed for a disabled man's bombing spree. | ||||||
| 62 | 4 | "The Sky Is Falling" | Don Medford | Richard M. Bluel & Pat Fielder | October 26, 1977 | |
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Baretta tries to save a teenage male prostitute who is being pursued by a killer after witnessing a friend's murder. | ||||||
| 63 | 5 | "It's Hard But It's Fair" | Jeannot Szwarc | Les Carter | November 2, 1977 | |
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Baretta poses as the trainer of former champion boxer Rudy Carmona to nail heroin kingpin Nicky Moss. | ||||||
| 64 | 6 | "Buddy" | Paul Stanley | Richard M. Bluel & Pat Fielder | November 16, 1977 | |
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Baretta puts his career at risk by sheltering an intellectually disabled teenager who he thinks has been falsely accused of killing his mother. | ||||||
| 65 | 7 | "Por Nada" | Reza Badiyi | Chris Lucky & Miguel Piñero | November 23, 1977 | |
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An attack on the leader of a street gang and the murder of his girlfriend threaten to ignite a war in the barrio. | ||||||
| 66 | 8 | "Make the Sun Shine" | Don Medford | Robert Crais | November 30, 1977 | |
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His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overdose deaths. | ||||||
| 67 | 9 | "Lyman P. Dokker, Fed" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Alan J. Levitt | December 7, 1977 | |
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An FBI computer expert impersonates a field agent and joins Baretta on a case regarding stolen emeralds that belong to a sheik, and they wind up solving the murder of a prince who was involved with a deceiving belly dancer. | ||||||
| 68 | 10 | "It Goes with the Job" | Reza Badiyi | Robert Crais | December 21, 1977 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 69 | 11 | "Hot Horse" | Don Medford | Arnold Horwitt & Joshua Shelley | January 4, 1978 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 70 | 12 | "Why Me?" | Robert Douglas | Sidney Ellis, Alan Godfrey & Ed Waters | January 11, 1978 | |
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A woman who was attacked is so traumatized that she clings to Baretta and hampers his investigation of the robbery and murder she witnessed. | ||||||
| 71 | 13 | "I'll Take You to Lunch" | Don Medford | E. Nick Alexander | January 18, 1978 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 72 | 14 | "It's a Boy" | Paul Stanley | Les Carter & Warren J. Worthen | February 2, 1978 | |
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When a former girlfriend shows up with a baby named after him, Baretta plans to marry her until it turns out that she's a pawn in a power struggle between two mobs, with an assassin on her trail. | ||||||
| 73 | 15 | "Just for Laughs" | Reza Badiyi | Sian Barbara Allen | February 9, 1978 | |
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Baretta comes to the aid of a has-been comic trying to make a comeback, who has recently suffered several attempts on his life. | ||||||
| 74 | 16 | "The Marker" | Don Medford | E. Nick Alexander | February 16, 1978 | |
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Family loyalty compels a friend of Baretta's to agree to kill the man who assaulted an aging mobster's daughter. | ||||||
| 75 | 17 | "The Stone Conspiracy" | Don Medford | Adrian Leeds | February 23, 1978 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 76 | 18 | "The Appointment" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Sidney Ellis, Arthur Bernard Lewis & Ed Waters | March 9, 1978 | |
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A couple of small-time crooks known as Mutt and Jeff rip off a dry cleaner's owned by Tony's cousin Ellen, shooting and killing Officer Matthews. Tony is suspicious of Ellen's new boyfriend, concerned that he isn't who he says he is and is a part of the officer's death. | ||||||
| 77 | 19 | "Woman Trouble" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Robert Crais | March 23, 1978 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 78 | 20 | "The Gadjo" | Don Medford | Ray Hutcherson & Miguel Piñero | March 30, 1978 | |
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Baretta's young partner is ostracized by his Gypsy family for refusing to perform an atonement ceremony after accidentally killing his younger brother during a robbery. | ||||||
| 79 | 21 | "Barney" | Don Medford | Richard M. Bluel & Pat Fielder | April 6, 1978 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 80 | 22 | "The Dream" | Reza Badiyi | E. Nick Alexander | May 4, 1978 | |
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Faced with a difficult kidnapping case, Baretta accepts help from a girl who appears to have psychic knowledge of the crime. | ||||||
| 81 | 23 | "The Snake Chaser" | Reza Badiyi | Rick Kelbaugh | May 11, 1978 | |
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A mobster who was badly scarred as the result of a shootout seeks revenge on Baretta. | ||||||
| 82 | 24 | "The Bundle" | Don Medford | Les Carter, Leonard Stadd & Toni Van Horne | May 18, 1978 | |
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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. | ||||||