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 - He'll Never See Daylight
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/1975
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
#2 - The Sky Is Falling
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1977
Baretta tries to save a teen-age male prostitute who is being pursued by a killer after witnessing a friend's murder.
#3 - It's Hard But It's Fair
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1977
Baretta poses as the trainer of a former champion boxer to trap a drug-smuggling murderer.
#4 - Lyman P. Doffer, Fed
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1977
An FBI computer expert poses as a field agent to join Baretta on a case regarding stolen emeralds that led to murder.
#5 - Somebody Killed Cock Robin
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1977
Insufficient evidence allows a man to be released from jail and resume his efforts to hurt a nightclub dancer.
#6 - New Girl in Town
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1977
A mobster orders a ""hit"" on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.
#7 - Playin' Police
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/4/1976
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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Big Bad Charlie
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1977
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.
#10 - Carla
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/1977
Baretta protects a beautiful woman named Carla who is reluctantly attached, even through family, to the mafia.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Open Season
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1977
A doctor turned bounty hunter vies with Baretta to find the pusher responsible for the death of a banker's addicted daughter.
#17 - That Sister Ain't No Cousin
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1977
Baretta is after drug kingpin El Greco; too many kids are ending up dead, and the dealers are selling to younger and younger kids.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Nothin' for Nothin'
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1976
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.
#22 - Just for Laughs
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1978
Baretta comes to the aid of a has-been comic trying to make a comeback, who has recently suffered several attempts on his life.
#23 - And Down Will Come Baby
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/1976
When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies.
#24 - The Bundle
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/1978
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.
#25 - The Snake Chaser
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1978
A mobster who was badly scarred as the result of a shoot-out seeks revenge on Baretta.