Baretta
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| Name: | Baretta |
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| Creator: | Stephen J. Cannell |
| Date(s): | January 17, 1975 – May 18, 1978 |
| Medium: | Television |
| Country of Origin: | USA |
| External Links: | at IMDb at Wikipedia |
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Baretta was an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978.
The show was a revised and milder version of a 1973–1974 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
Canon
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Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta is an unorthodox plainclothes police detective (Badge #609) with the 53rd Precinct in an unnamed, fictional city. He resides in Apartment 2C of the run-down King Edward Hotel with Fred (Frederico) his Triton cockatoo. A master of disguise, Baretta wears many while performing his duties. When not working he usually wears a short-sleeve sweatshirt, casual slacks, a brown suede jacket and a newsboy cap.
Baretta is often seen with an unlit cigarette in his lips or behind his ear. His catchphrases include "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time", "You can take dat to da bank" and "And dat's the name of dat tune." When exasperated, he occasionally speaks in asides to his late father, Louie Baretta. He drives a rusted-out Mist Blue 1966 Chevrolet Impala four-door sport sedan nicknamed "The Blue Ghost" (license plate 532 BEM). He frequents Ross's Billiard Academy and refers to his numerous girlfriends as his "cousins".
Main Characters
- Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta (Robert Blake), a police detective.
- Billy Truman (Tom Ewell), retired cop who used to work with Baretta's father Louie at the 53rd Precinct.
- Rooster (Michael D. Roberts), a streetwise pimp and Baretta's favorite informant.
- Inspector Shiller (Dana Elcar) and Lieutenant Hal Brubaker (Edward Grover), Baretta's supervisors.
- Detective Foley (John Ward), police detective.
- Fats (Chino 'Fats' Williams), a gravelly-voiced, older detective.
- Detective Nopke (Ron Thompson), a rookie detective.
- Little Moe (Angelo Rossitto), a shoeshine man and informant.
- Mr. Nicholas (Titos Vandis], a mob boss.
- Mr. Muncie (Paul Lichtman), the owner of a liquor store at 52nd and Main.
Fandom
Online fandom is scarce, most likely due to the lack of zine content uploaded to the web. However, there were fanworks for the series created the 1970s and 80s, including fanfic (THE JUMPER by Sandra Goodall, published in Rerun #2, 1984), cosplay (as Tony Baretta, mentioned in WARPed MIND v.3 n.24, 1975), fanart (interior art of Baretta and Fred by Sandra Goodall in Pop Stand Express 1, 1985) and even fan clubs for the show, as described in apa zine Tell Me Something I Don't Know! under the title "I Fell in Love With a Striped Tomato" by [T P] (1990):
Tell you how crazy I was over the show [when I was a teenager] — my friends and I formed Baretta & Company and Starsky and Hutch, Inc. We took our nicknames from those and other shows; we had everything from Sweathogs to Baretta's bird, Fred. I was Starsky, and since two people liked Hutch — I was luckier than the real Starsky 'cos I had two partners to look out for me! We dressed like S&H, talked like them, and had more fun than the law allowed.
Fanworks
- THE JUMPER by S. Goodall on Rerun Issue #2, A chilling character study of a man who sometimes tries too hard to be the perfect cop, so Baretta is confronted with one of the most difficult assignments any police officer must face — talking someone out of taking their own life.
- A Drink Of Lethe by Ursula, Baretta belongs to Mulder, Krycek, and other X-Files were originally the torture toys of Chris Carter and Co., Fox TV.
Archives, Communities & Resources
- Baretta tag at Archive of Our Own
References
This page uses content originally from Wikipedia's Baretta page; Wikipedia content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. (view page authors).
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