Baretta

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Baretta
Image:Baretta Title Screen.jpg
Title Screen
Format Police procedural
Starring Robert Blake
Dana Elcar
Tom Ewell
Edward Grover
Michael D. Roberts
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. of episodes 82
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run 17 January 1975 – 18 May 1978
Chronology
Preceded by Toma
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Baretta was a U.S. detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a recasting and reshaping of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.

Detective Tony Baretta was a bachelor cop who lived in a run-down hotel with his pet cockatoo, Fred. Other characters were Baretta's supervisors Inspector Shiller (Dana Elcar) and Lieutenant Hal Brubaker (Edward Grover); Billy Truman (Tom Ewell), an older and sometimes drunk ex-cop who cheerfully ran the hotel where Tony Barreta resided; and Rooster (Michael D. Roberts), a streetwise pimp and Tony's favorite informant.

Tony Baretta's catchphrases included "You can take dat to the bank" and "That's the name of that tune."

The theme song, Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow, was written by Dave Grusin and M. Ames; initially an instrumental, lyrics were added in later seasons that were sung by Sammy Davis Jr.. Every episode of Baretta began with the song, which contained the motto, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

On October 29, 2002, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the first season of Baretta on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. It is unknown if the remaining 3 seasons will be released.

Decades later, Blake was tried for the murder of his wife in a case that eerily parallels some of the details of the opening of the pilot episode of Baretta.

Cover Art DVD Name Ep # Release Date
Season 1 12 October 29, 2002

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