Baretta
The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues
TV Flash files “The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues” as a desk essential hour — Baretta (1975–1978) on ABC, season 2, episode 1, aired 1975-09-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 13 of 82 in the Baretta guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1975-09-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “This Ain't My Bag” (S01E12). Next is “The Glory Game” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues”. The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues is a season-open with a torch-song title. Street-level cop craft in sentimental clothes: informants, wigs, the theme America already hummed in parking lots.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues sit in the Baretta guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 13 of 82 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Baretta S02E01 air?
The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues aired 1975-09-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need Toma first?
No. Baretta replaced Toma as a Cannell vehicle for Blake. This undercover hour stands on its own street.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Robert Blake's undercover cop keeps a cockatoo named Fred and a theme America sang in parking lots. Street-level Spelling/Thomas toughness with disguises, informants, and a catchphrase about doing the time. Intensity on camera first; the later legal saga is extra-textual weather you already know.
The first image is a cockatoo named Fred and a cop who would not play pretty: Robert Blake's Tony Baretta in street-level disguises, informants, and a theme America sang in parking lots. ABC's Baretta (1975–1978), created by Stephen J. Cannell as a vehicle for Blake after Toma, ran four seasons, 82 episodes, in the Spelling/Thomas crime wave. Tom Ewell's Billy Truman and Michael D. Roberts's Rooster filled the orbit. Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow was a charting hit for Sammy Davis Jr. Don't do the crime if you…
Filed against
- Robert Blake as Det. Tony Baretta
Robert Blake's Det. Tony Baretta kept a cockatoo named Fred and a theme America sang in parking lots — street-level Spelling/Thomas toughness, disguises, informants, a catchphrase about doing the time. Intensity on camera first. TV Flash…
- Tom Ewell as Billy Truman
Tom Ewell occupied Baretta’s street-level orbit as Billy Truman — the civilian weather around Robert Blake’s undercover cop, a 1970s Spelling/Thomas hour with a cockatoo named Fred and a theme America sang in parking lots. Intensity…
- Michael D. Roberts as Rooster
Michael D. Roberts’s Rooster walked Baretta’s street-level toughness like an informant who had already heard the theme song — 1970s Spelling/Thomas cop hour, Robert Blake, a cockatoo named Fred, disguises, a catchphrase about doing the…