The BEST episodes of Baretta
Every episode of Baretta ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Baretta!
Baretta is an undercover cop in the Serpico mode. Like your standard TV-issue rule-bending loner cop, he butts heads with his excitable superior (veteran character actor Dana Elcar of MacGuyver and Baa Baa Black Sheep fame). He lives in the run-down King Edwards Motel with his scene-stealing pet cockatoo. With its ersatz funky score, Baretta is time-capsule '70s television. And, as Baretta was fond of saying, you can take that to the bank.
#1 - Can't Win for Losing
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1976
Baretta is investigating the takeover of a new drug dealer in town who is knocking off the existing dealers. One of Baretta's friends, Joey Rich, decides to take matters into his own hands after Joey's own son becomes a heroin addict.
#3 - Guns and Brothers
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/6/1977
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.
#4 - The Reunion
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1977
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.
#5 - Look Back in Terror
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1976
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.
#6 - Don't Kill the Sparrows
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1977
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.
#8 - Runway Cowboy
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1976
A photographer has taken photos which can clear a judge of any wrongdoing, and Baretta is on the trail to find him.
#10 - The Runaways
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1977
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.
#15 - The Ninja
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1976
Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.
#16 - Soldier in the Jungle
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1976
Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.
#20 - The Mansion
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/1975
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.
#22 - Think Mink
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/9/1977
$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.
#23 - Everybody Pays the Fare
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1977
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.
#25 - Not on Our Block
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1977
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.