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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 20596
Released: October 29, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 29-OCT-2002
Media Type: DVD
Description of Baretta - Season One:
It is a sordid fact of life that were it not for Robert Blake's newfound infamy as an accused wife murderer, Baretta, which lasted from 1975 to 1978, might have been relegated to late nights in TV land. But as they say in Hollywood, there's no such thing as bad publicity. So here is this three-disc set containing all 12 episodes of the offbeat cop series' first season. Created by Stephen A. Cannell (whose eclectic credits range from The A-Team and The Great American Hero to The Rockford Files and Wiseguy), Baretta was a tailor-made star vehicle for the pugnacious Blake. In light of his later situation, lines such as "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime," "You just pull the trigger and somebody dies," and "Husbands have been known to sometimes kill their wives for money" take on a grimly prophetic resonance. But as these episodes testify, Baretta is more than a newly minted sick joke.
Baretta is an undercover cop in the Serpico mode. Like your standard TV-issue rule-bending loner cop, he butts heads with his excitable superior (veteran character actor Dana Elcar of MacGuyver and Baa Baa Black Sheep fame). He lives in the run-down King Edwards Motel with his scene-stealing pet cockatoo. He adopts a variety of guises (including in one episode, an elderly woman who looks like Tweety's keeper, Granny, and whose voiced was dubbed by Granny herself, June Foray!). But he is much randier than your average Joe Friday. In one episode, he tries to convince his date to go back to his apartment so she can give him his "birthday present." She tells him "that will take until 4 in the morning." With its ersatz funky score, Baretta is time-capsule '70s television. And, as Baretta was fond of saying, you can take that to the bank. --Donald Liebenson
Baretta - Season One Reviews:
Great show but...... 
2009-10-20 - Great show but I gave it one less star due to the song we all know and love "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time" Its not there....the background music is there, but no words?
the characters hold up over the years 
2009-10-13 - Many of the old shows seem dated and out of touch with current sensitivities and modern notions of relationships, but Baretta holds up even after thirty years. After watching season one I found myself searching the internet to buy season two because I want to stay in Tony's world--I could watch the shows over and over, but wish there were more available. I'm wondering if seasons 2, 3, and 4 aren't available because the producers think they won't sell or because Robert Blake has a history. I love a good crime show with great characters and well written dialogue--and Baretta is just that. Please reconsider and make the rest available.
Don't Go To Bed With No Price On Your Head!
2009-06-01 - Oh! Man Happy to get this I just ordered it and can not wait to get it!
Keep your eye on the sparrow!
Surprisingly great
2009-02-25 - I first bought Best of Baretta because I wasn't sure if I would love it as much as I remembered when I was a kid. I watched Best of in one night and bought the First Season the next day. I really hope there's another season since I'm pacing myself on Season one with the hope that I don't run out of episodes. It's a great cop show without the cheesiness of some of the 70's shows (love the cheesiness-but love a gritty cop show even more). Well worth it!!!!
Release the rest on dvd
2008-08-17 - It's always the same, they release so many crap dvds and won't release the rest of this classic series. It's all about money, money, money with these companies.
