Baretta
Season 1
12 listed hours · 1975–1978 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Baretta (1975–1978) on ABC as the first listed season of 4 — 12 listed hours, 1975-01-17–1975-04-30 from “He'll Never See Daylight” (S01E01) to “This Ain't My Bag” (S01E12). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 He'll Never See Daylight
He'll Never See Daylight opens Spelling/Thomas street toughness. Blake's undercover cop already keeps a cockatoo named Fred; disguises and informants loading, later legal saga extra-textual.
- S01E06 Ragtime Billy Peaches
Ragtime Billy Peaches is a disguise-title hour. Intensity on camera first: the series still a catchphrase about doing the time, the cockatoo still the strangest co-star in cop television.
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S01E01 He'll Never See Daylight
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.
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S01E02 The 5½ Pound Junkie
After 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.
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S01E03 Woman in the Harbor
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.
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S01E04 If You Can't Pay The Price...
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24 hour/day surveillance.
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S01E05 The Half-Million Dollar Baby
Baretta's career and reputation are almost ruined by a beautiful photographer who tricks him into helping her steal a half million dollars of mob money.
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S01E06 Ragtime Billy Peaches
Going 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.
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S01E07 The Coppelli Oath
The brother of a young dope dealer Baretta killed in a back alley shootout vows vengeance.
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S01E08 Walk Like You Talk
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
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S01E09 The Mansion
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.
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S01E10 Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow
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.
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S01E11 The Secret of Terry Lake
Baretta seeks to learn why a mobster's girlfriend will not confirm her lover's alibi for a murder.
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S01E12 This Ain't My Bag
A wealthy District Attorney calls his childhood friend Baretta to investigate his brother's missing wife. But the brother/husband doesn't seem very concerned.
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