7.9/10158 votes#1 - He'll Never See Daylight Again
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/1975
Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.8/1060 votes#2 - The Five and a Half Pound Junkie
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/1975
When his childhood friend is murdered, Baretta tries to protect the pregnant widow and her unborn child from the killers, and from her own drug habit.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.7/1060 votes#3 - Woman in the Harbor
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/1975
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Roy Huggins
7.8/1063 votes#4 - If You Can't Pay the Price
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/1975
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Roy Huggins
7.8/1059 votes#5 - Half a Million Dollar Baby
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/1975
Baretta's career and reputation are almost ruined by a beautiful photographer who tricks him into helping her steal a half million dollars of mob money.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: Roy Huggins
7.6/1059 votes#6 - Ragtime Billy Peaches
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/28/1975
When the dead body of a prominent attorney's wife is found, Baretta becomes interested when he finds that there is no record of her existence before age 20.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
7.3/1053 votes#7 - The Coppelli Oath
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/7/1975
After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Roy Huggins, Michael Butler
7.7/1057 votes#8 - Walk Like You Talk
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/14/1975
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: L.H. Whittemore
7.8/1056 votes#9 - 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.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.
7.7/1054 votes#10 - Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/9/1975
Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his retarded friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Paul A. Magistretti
7.5/1057 votes#11 - The Secret of Terry Lake
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/16/1975
Baretta comes to believe that a mobster is being framed for the murder of his boss when the man's girlfriend is too scared to confirm his alibi.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Roy Huggins
7.5/1051 votes#12 - This Ain't My Bag
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/1975
Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of a heiress who has gone missing.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: Paul A. Magistretti
The Best Episodes of Baretta Season 1
Every episode of Baretta Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Baretta Season 1!
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"He'll Never See Daylight Again" is the best rated episode of "Baretta" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 158 votes. Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by Stephen J. Cannell, it aired on 1/17/1975. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Five and a Half Pound Junkie".