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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 156 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".

  • He'll Never See Daylight Again
    7.9/10156 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

  • The Five and a Half Pound Junkie
    7.8/1058 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

  • Woman in the Harbor
    7.6/1058 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

  • If You Can't Pay the Price
    7.8/1061 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

  • Half a Million Dollar Baby
    7.7/1057 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

  • Ragtime Billy Peaches
    7.6/1057 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

  • The Coppelli Oath
    7.3/1051 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

  • Walk Like You Talk
    7.7/1055 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

  • The Mansion
    7.8/1054 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.

  • Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow
    7.7/1052 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

  • The Secret of Terry Lake
    7.4/1055 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

  • This Ain't My Bag
    7.4/1049 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