Season 3

1976–1977

Sep 22, 1976 · 60m

Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.

E2. Soldier in the Jungle

Sep 29, 1976 · 60m

Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.

E3. Runaway Cowboy

Oct 6, 1976 · 60m

A photographer has taken photos which can clear a judge of any wrongdoing, and Baretta is on the trail to find him.

E4. Street Edition

Oct 13, 1976 · 60m

A persistent female reporter continually interferes with Baretta's investigation into the aborted robbery of a half-million dollars in syndicate money.

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

Oct 20, 1976 · 60m

A heist goes wrong when Doc, an ex-con, is double-crossed by his hired hands during a jewelry robbery.

E6. Shoes

Oct 27, 1976 · 60m

A rapist is on the loose and Baretta's only lead is "Shoes," a deaf-mute shoeshine boy who can identify the killer by his shoes.

E7. Under the City

Nov 3, 1976 · 60m

Baretta finds trouble when he realizes that a prison bus has been hijacked by the prisoners and that hostages have been taken.

E8. Dear Tony

Nov 10, 1976 · 60m

A story told mostly in flashbacks concerns the suicide of a policewoman whose officer husband was killed in a liquor-store hold-up.

E9. Crazy Annie

Nov 24, 1976 · 60m

There's a slasher loose in Tony's neighborhood who is killing all the winos. Baretta is held captive by Crazy Annie, a.k.a. Mumsy, who thinks Tony is her son Arthur, which hinders his investigation.

E10. Nothin' for Nothin'

Dec 1, 1976 · 60m

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.

E11. Can't Win for Losin'

Dec 15, 1976 · 60m

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.

E12. Look Back in Terror

Dec 22, 1976 · 60m

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.

E13. The Big Hand's on Trouble

Dec 29, 1976 · 60m

Baretta is investigating a mob theft of diamonds belonging to Mr. Nicholas and winds up helping a merchant who is threatened by a new group in the neighborhood called the East Side Benevolent Society, who is forcing all the shop owners to pay money for protection or suffer the consequences.

E14. Don't Kill the Sparrows

Jan 12, 1977 · 60m

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.

E15. That Sister Ain't No Cousin

Jan 19, 1977 · 60m

Baretta is after drug kingpin El Greco; too many kids are ending up dead, and the dealers are selling to younger and younger kids.

E16. Open Season

Jan 26, 1977 · 60m

A doctor turned bounty hunter vies with Baretta to find the pusher responsible for the death of a banker's addicted daughter.

E17. The Reunion

Feb 2, 1977 · 60m

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.

E18. Not on Our Block

Feb 9, 1977 · 60m

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.

E19. The Runaways

Feb 16, 1977 · 60m

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.

E20. Everybody Pays the Fare

Feb 23, 1977 · 60m

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.

E21. Think Mink

Mar 9, 1977 · 60m

$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.

E22. Carla

Mar 16, 1977 · 60m

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

E23. Big Bad Charlie

Mar 30, 1977 · 60m

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.

E24. Guns and Brothers

Apr 6, 1977 · 60m

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.

E25. Playin' Police

May 4, 1976 · 60m

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.