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Baretta: Tony Baretta
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Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) was, like Toma, an unconventional cop. He was streetwise, single, with a decidedly funky lifestyle: he holed up in a run-down old hotel when he wasn't on the job, which was seldom. He was usually seen in T-shirt and jeans, with his trademark cap pulled down over his forehead. The orphaned son of poor Italian immigrants, Tony knew the city inside out. He was a master of disguise, and because of his rough appearance was able to infiltrate such groups as motorcycle gangs and even "the Mob." Needless to say, he refused to have a partner and always worked alone.
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Tony Baretta was an unorthodox New York cop in the city's 53rd precinct. Often seen in jeans and a T-shirt, Baretta always worked alone and in a very unconventional style. He holed up in a old hotel when he was off the job and was a master of disguise. He never had a partner and always worked alone. Because of his rough appearance, Baretta has often able to infiltrate groups such as motorcycle gangs and even The Mob.
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On the effective but highly ironic pilot episode, detective Tony Baretta must cope with the killing of his new wife outside of an Italian restaurant. But then, all the TV detectives got their start by having someone die in their arms, didn't they? It was the only way to elicit audience sympathy for a character who's basically running wild in the streets with a loaded gun, shooting at whomever he pleases in the course of running his "private detective" business.
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After Blake's role as Tony Baretta, he appeared in a short lived drama entitled HELL TOWN/NBC/1985 in which he played Father Noah "Hardstep" Rivers, a priest in a tough, impoverished East Los Angeles neighborhood. Reruns of BARETTA have been aired on the TV LAND cable channel.
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Baretta is a American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a recasting and reshaping of a successful 1973–74 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.
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Anthony Vincenzo "Tony” Baretta is a single, unorthodox plainclothes cop with the 53rd precinct [badge #609]. He reports to an officious, by-the-book police supervisor named Inspector Karl Shiller [later Lt. Hal Brubaker].
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