The WORST episodes of Baretta
Every episode of Baretta ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Buddy
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1977
Baretta puts his career at risk by sheltering a retarded teenager who he thinks has been falsely accused of killing his mother.
#8 - Por Nada
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/1977
An attack on the leader of a street gang, and the murder of his girlfriend, threatens to ignite a war in the barrio.
#9 - Who Can Make the Sun Shine?
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1977
His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overdose deaths.
#10 - All That Shatters
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1977
War veterans are being blamed for a series of bombings that are actually the work of a wheelchair-bound bomber who is attacking buildings and transportation systems without handicap access.
#11 - It Goes with the Job
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1977
Baretta does a lot of soul-searching after wounding a boy while trying to stop a holdup. Then he himself is targeted for revenge by one of the robbers who escaped.
#12 - Hot Horse
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1978
Two elderly neighbors of Baretta's steal a million-dollar racehorse back from the thief who originally took it, then hide it in their apartment until they can claim the reward.
#13 - Why Me?
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1978
A woman who was attacked is so traumatized that she clings to Baretta and hampers his investigation of the robbery and murder she witnessed.
#14 - It's a Boy
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1978
When a former girlfriend shows up with a baby named after him, Baretta plans to marry her until it turns out that she is a pawn in a power struggle between two mobs, with an assassin on her trail.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Marker
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1978
Family loyalty compels a friend of Baretta's to agree to kill the man who assaulted an aging mobster's daughter.
#17 - The Stone Conspiracy
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1978
On temporary duty with the vice squad, Baretta learns that his partner is taking bribes, and is ordered by his boss to investigate the other officers on the squad as well.
#18 - The Appointment
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1978
Baretta tries to find out why a laundry owner, who happens to be engaged to his cousin, refuses to identify the two men who held up his store and killed a cop.
#19 - Woman Trouble
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/23/1978
Baretta tries to help a 12-year-old girl who has run away from the orphanage find her recently paroled father before he takes part in a jewel robbery.
#20 - The Gadjo
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/1978
Baretta's young partner is ostracised by his Gypsy family for refusing to perform an atonement ceremony after accidentally killing his younger brother during a robbery.
#21 - Barney
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/6/1978
Baretta goes undercover as a trucker to help the daughter of a murdered newspaperman pursue the hijackers who killed her father when he got too close.
#22 - The Dream
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1978
Faced with a difficult kidnapping case, Baretta accepts help from a girl who appears to have psychic knowledge of the crime.
#23 - 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.
#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 - I'll Take You to Lunch
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1978
When his friend Billy is one of the hostages taken by robbers trapped at a roadside tavern, Baretta tries to negotiate a deal between them and a sheriff who is unwilling to concede anything because of his political situation.