S1.E1 ∙ 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.

S1.E2 ∙ 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.

S1.E3 ∙ Woman in the Harbor

Baretta meets a parole officer friend (John Shockley) returning from Mexico. Just after telling Baretta that he had seen a former parolee alive and well (in spite of being declared a suicide by drowning a few months earlier), Shockley is the victim of a deliberate hit-and-run. Baretta encounters official resistance to reopening the case, a befuddled grieving mother and a violent gangland attempt to find the "dead" woman and her accomplice.

S1.E4 ∙ If You Can't Pay the Price...

Thugs hijack a drug shipment in Mexico, killing a guard and loading it onto trucks en route to Los Angeles. Baretta realizes that the drugs are destined for an old mobster and puts him under constant -- and obvious -- surveillance. It's so obvious that the mobster gets to know Baretta and even to create a semblance of friendship with him. By the end of Act Four, the mobster has served up his nephew (who was the driving force behind the robbery) to Baretta for arrest. Baretta is grateful, but in the tag he and the mobster sit on the mobster's front porch -- jointly waiting as the trucks roar up Interstate 5, getting ever closer to the mobster's imminent doom.

S1.E5 ∙ The Half-Million Dollar Baby

Baretta's current lady is a messed-up photographer. After a bust of counterfeit money being sold for a half million dollars, the real money is nowhere to be found--except by the lady photog. Baretta is suspected of the grab, pursued by the criminals, and hassled by his bosses. When his girl suddenly packs up to go, Baretta finally gets it, but he is almost too late!

S1.E6 ∙ 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.

S1.E7 ∙ The Coppelli Oath

The younger brother of a young hoodlum, who was shot and killed by Baretta, seeks revenge.

S1.E8 ∙ Walk Like You Talk

Baretta's partner (Michael Parks) accepts a bribe during a setup by the police commission, and because of interference by a careless cop who yearns to be a novelist, Baretta could go down with his friend.

S1.E9 ∙ The Mansion

After a cop is murdered at a luxurious but crime-infested mansion, Baretta is assigned as an undercover replacement.

S1.E10 ∙ Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow

Baretta's childlike old neighborhood friend Willy "Burt Young" might be behind a string of robberies.

S1.E11 ∙ The Secret of Terry Lake

The title's "Secret" could involve who killed a mob boss (blamed on a lowly hit man), kept by Terry Lake, a mysterious woman with mob connections played by Margot Kidder, who Baretta goes undercover to investigate.

S1.E12 ∙ This Ain't My Bag

A wealthy District Attorney (Michael Murphy) calls his childhood friend Baretta to investigate his brother's missing wife. But the brother/husband doesn't seem very concerned.

S2.E1 ∙ The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues

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.

S2.E2 ∙ The Glory Game

Tony Baretta is framed for the murder of a gun dealer and becomes a fugitive so he can clear his name.

S2.E3 ∙ On the Road

Baretta has to go on the run to clear his name after he's framed for the murder of a gun dealer he was investigating, who was selling weapons to teenagers.

S2.E4 ∙ Nobody in a Nothing Place

Baretta investigates the murder of a man killed in the alley behind Eddy's Place.

S2.E5 ∙ The Fire Man

Baretta ask for help from an old friend expert in explosive devices, in order to track down a serial fire bomber whose last hit make toll some victims.

S2.E6 ∙ Double Image

Baretta works undercover in order to frame an organized gang trying to keep the shipping warehouses racketeer under control.

S2.E7 ∙ Photography by John Doe

A retired private investigator is killed while gathering evidences about the connection of a judge and a criminal gang. His grandson ask help to Baretta shed light on what happened and get justice.

S2.E8 ∙ Set-Up City

Set-Up City.

S2.E9 ∙ A Bite of the Apple

A mob leader is dying and he has a notebook detailing extensive criminal activities that the police and other gangsters want. He entrusts it to his fiance Holly Dean who comes under Baretta's protection.

S2.E10 ∙ When Dues Come Down

Even though he has no evidence Barreta suspects a man named Mazurski of killing a petty criminal. His hunch is based on the man's wife Doris being injured during a burglary committed by the now dead man.

S2.E11 ∙ The Big Hand's on Trouble

While Baretta suffers a terrible cold during a long stakeout, he meets town's the new watchmaker (Burt Young, who also wrote the story). New to America, he questions the Association he had to pay in order to get "protection." Baretta explains it's "the bad guys protecting you from the badder guys." It turns out, Baretta had been staking out a diamond thief connected to same Association, and soon both stories connect.

S2.E12 ∙ Count the Days I'm Gone

Count the Days I'm Gone.

S2.E13 ∙ Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

Baretta faces a difficult task in protecting a murder suspect from mobsters. The man can clear one of Baretta's fellow officers of a bogus claim of homicide.

S2.E14 ∙ The Left Hand of the Devil

Tony Barreta goes undercover to infiltrate a motorcycle gang. An informant tells the police that the cyclists perform low level hits to earn cash. But when the gang suspect something Tony must risk his life to save the young man.

S2.E15 ∙ Murder for Me

A father who is overwhelmed with grief, murders the physician he believes is responsible for his son's demise. Baretta must track the man down before he carries out further vengeance.

S2.E16 ∙ Pay or Die

When the body of a prostitute is found dead in the harbor, Baretta and Detective Nopke set out to take down El Dorado, a notorious pimp, with the help of a beautiful undercover cop played by Joan Collins.

S2.E17 ∙ The Blood Bond

The Blood Bond.

S2.E18 ∙ The Dippers

The Dippers.

S2.E19 ∙ Dead Man Out

Dead Man Out.

S2.E20 ∙ Death on the Run

S2.E21 ∙ Aggie

Aggie.

S2.E22 ∙ And Down Will Come Baby

And Down Will Come Baby.

S3.E1 ∙ The Ninja

The Ninja.

S3.E2 ∙ Soldier in the Jungle

Soldier in the Jungle.

S3.E3 ∙ Runway Cowboy

Baretta is ready to bring an extortionist to justice but finds out that the presiding judge is the man's next victim.

S3.E4 ∙ Street Edition

Street Edition.

S3.E5 ∙ They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To

Baretta sticks to a beautiful woman (Laura Hippe) on a long-distance bus, connected to a group of thieves that had been initially led by a veteran criminal (Keenan Wynn), who's now seeking revenge on the young crooks (Richard Lynch, Wings Hauser) who betrayed him after the score.

S3.E6 ∙ Shoes

With the help of a nun and a deaf mute nicknamed Shoes, Baretta tries to find a serial rapist who initially poses to his female victims as a plainclothes detective.

S3.E7 ∙ Under the City

Under the City.

S3.E8 ∙ Dear Tony

Dear Tony.

S3.E9 ∙ Crazy Annie

Crazy Annie.

S3.E10 ∙ Nothin' for Nothin'

Nothin' for Nothin'.

S3.E11 ∙ Can't Win for Losin'

Joey Rich, a half-employed middle-aged ghetto black man, has a serious problem: his son is addicted to heroin. Rich confronts the dealer and gets a contemptuous horselaugh. Rich starts stalking the dealer, but isn't sure what he will do when he finds him. Then a solution unexpectedly presents itself. The dealer had made two enemies -- a rival dealer and his hired gunman. They ambush the dealer and gun him down. Rich saw the whole thing. Seizing the opportunity, he picks up the hit gun and stands over the corpse with it until the cops arrive. Suddenly Rich becomes a neighborhood hero. Baretta is rightly suspicious, and it doesn't help that the killers saw him as well. Figuring he will crack sooner or later when his celebrity wears off and he faces a murder rap, the gunmen bail him out of jail and try to waste him in a drive-by shooting. That fails, but the killers are sure to try again. Now Rich must confront his own passive lifestyle and try to do something about the murderers before they get him.

S3.E12 ∙ Look Back in Terror

Look Back in Terror.

S3.E13 ∙ Don't Kill the Sparrows

Don't Kill the Sparrows.

S3.E14 ∙ That Sister Ain't No Cousin

Hiding out from a dangerous heroin dealer (Timothy Carey), a pretty nun (Edith Diaz) stays at Baretta's apartment. And drives him crazy.

S3.E15 ∙ Open Season

A rich banker, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, wants the dealer dead. Baretta points out that there's no proof against the dealer, but the father has his mind made up.

S3.E16 ∙ The Reunion

After a beloved and celebrated philanthropist is killed by a car bomb in a parking lot in front of Baretta, he investigates who could have possibly killed this man who supposedly had no enemies.

S3.E17 ∙ Not on Our Block

The mob controls the neighborhood. As a new, young, collector makes his rounds, as he accidentally runs into an old lady, crossing the street. The old lady just happens to be special to the local mob boss (who is posing as the head of the local Italian American Association). Baretta wants to use the accident as a way to get The young collector to give up the mob boss. The young collector resists Barletta but knowing he has a problem with Giove he goes to see Mr. Montovani (Ross Martin). Along with his sister (Katy Juardo) they own an Italian restaurant. He volunteers to act as a mediator, agreeing to speak with Giove (Michael Gazzo). Later, Rosa Montovani witnesses Giove's henchman Ducas murder the young collector. She is afraid to tell anyone, preferring to just keep silent. That is until her brother gets murdered by Ducas after he tried to speak with Giove about the young collector and Giove threatens Rosa with the health and safety of her own daughter. She realizes Glove is ruining the neighborhood and only by speaking up will anything change. She tells Baretta, in front of Giove and the rest of the neighborhood, that she has a lot to say. After a fight in the restaurant, Barletta takes Ducas and Giove off to jail in handcuffs.

S3.E18 ∙ The Runaways

Baretta helps a trio of unpredictable runaway children.

S3.E19 ∙ Everybody Pays the Fare

Baretta seeks revenge on the mobster who put the hit out on his father.

S3.E20 ∙ Think Mink

Baretta and his buddy, an old man named Eddie, witness a fur heist. Eddie (with another naive old man), having recognized one of the thieves, goes being Baretta's back to retrieve the furs: so he can collect the insurance company's reward.

S3.E21 ∙ Carla

Baretta protects a beautiful woman named Carla who is reluctantly attached, even through family, to the mafia.

S3.E22 ∙ Big Bad Charlie

Baretta sets up his kindhearted and inexperienced friend Charlie (Slim Pickens) with a waitress (Sheree North) with a past. Before this, Charlie fought with an Asian mafia gang, and with his size and strength, he won. But as Baretta investigates the gang, and Charlie continues his romance with the waitress, danger may befall all three of them.

S3.E23 ∙ Guns and Brothers

Three juvenile delinquents, tired of stealing cars for scrap money, find a load of M-16 rifles and fill them in a truck. Baretta, who knows them from previous arrests (and their naive mother who owns the local pastry shop), winds up trying to convince the boys (especially Brad Davis as the most vulnerable) that they're in over their heads. Especially one in particular (John Friedrich), who has the potential to be really dangerous.

S3.E24 ∙ Playin' Police

Scoey Mitchell and Alex Rocco play two thugs posing as police detectives to extort money from various people on the margins of society. Some sources say this was the second episode filmed. Fans of Rooster will enjoy his larger-than-usual part.

S4.E1 ∙ New Girl in Town

Baretta is in a blue funk because of a string of failed relationships with women; in fact, the opening finds him nursing a massive hangover and crawling to the phone after going on a bender after another breakup. So who does he get as a new partner? A real bitch --literally. Kelly, a female dog, is brought in to work with Baretta as both sniff out (him figuratively, her literally) a dangerous psychedelic mushroom. Baretta gradually gains respect for the dog -- but then both of them start ducking rifle bullets from an aging Mob hit man. Fortunately, the hired gun is getting so old he can't shoot straight, but it just makes him more and more determined to kill. Finally Rooster (who's carrying drugs on him and is sniffed out) tells Baretta there is a murder contract on the dog rather than on Baretta. The young-Turk mob capo tries to fire the hit man, but when Baretta and Kelly invade the warehouse, the hit man picks up his rifle again and vows to kill the entire group if they interfere with the hit.

S4.E2 ∙ Somebody Killed Cock Robin

Somebody Killed Cock Robin.

S4.E3 ∙ All That Shatters

All That Shatters.

S4.E4 ∙ The Sky Is Falling

The Sky Is Falling.

S4.E5 ∙ It's Hard But It's Fair

It's Hard But It's Fair.

S4.E6 ∙ Buddy

Buddy.

S4.E7 ∙ Por Nada

Por Nada.

S4.E8 ∙ Make the Sun Shine

Make the Sun Shine.

S4.E9 ∙ Lyman P. Dokker, Fed

Strother Martin's third and final episode casts him as a nerdy FBI computer expert who desperately wants to get out into the field. When his bosses in Washington pooh-pooh that idea, he creates a "supercop" with the name in the episode's title and casts himself in the role (Robert Blake used the same pseudonym, with a slight change of spelling, for his part as executive producer of "Hell Town" eight years later). "Dokker" then assigns himself to a case where an Algerian smuggler was murdered for the fortune in emeralds he was carrying. The victim told Billy, while checking into his hotel, that he was going to meet someone, which makes it clear that he knew his killer. But which of several possible suspects could it be? The phony G-man proves surprisingly resourceful as he bumbles through sifting out the clues.

S4.E10 ∙ It Goes with the Job

S4.E11 ∙ Hot Horse

S4.E12 ∙ Why Me?

S4.E13 ∙ I'll Take You to Lunch

S4.E14 ∙ It's a Boy

Baretta is entertaining a girlfriend in his apartment when there is a knock on his door. He opens the door to find an old girlfriend and her infant son -- and she claims he is the father. Baretta reluctantly takes on the role. While the two of them are walking near the ocean, a hired gun with a high-powered rifle fires at them. The rifleman then spins around and puts a bullet through the windshield of another car -- but he misses the driver and the car crushes him to death, then backs out and peels rubber away from the scene. A check on the dead man reveals he was a hit man for a mobster. Baretta hunts for the huge man who drove the second car. It turns out he's a capo for the Mob himself, sent to watch over the woman and to thwart the assassination attempt.

S4.E15 ∙ Just for Laughs

S4.E16 ∙ The Marker

S4.E17 ∙ The Stone Conspiracy

S4.E18 ∙ The Appointment

S4.E19 ∙ Woman Trouble

S4.E20 ∙ The Gadjo

S4.E21 ∙ Barney

S4.E22 ∙ The Dream

S4.E23 ∙ The Snake Chaser

S4.E24 ∙ The Bundle

Two thugs knock over a manufacturing plant and make off with a $200,000 payroll. They know the money is hot and make arrangements with a man named Trudgeon to launder it, passing it through channels and returning $50,000 in clean cash to them. Meanwhile, back at Baretta's apartment, he and Billy are busy making stew when their pimp buddy Rooster turns up -- in a business suit? The reason comes very quickly with a trilled "Oh Quen-tinnn! Where are youuuuu?" Rooster is posing as a legitimate businessman to impress his cousin and her friend, both of whom have come to Los Angeles to work as dance instructors. But the man they work for is Trudgeon the money launderer. Trudgeon now has the $50,000 in legit money, but he's feeling the heat. So he gives the money, wrapped in a bundle, to Rooster's cousin for safekeeping -- and she smuggles it out and keeps it. In the ensuing fight with the thugs, Trudgeon is gunned down and the thugs start hunting for "their" money. Eventually they kidnap one of the girls, leading Rooster to don drag and pose as his own cousin.