Baretta vows revenge on the hoodlum whose thugs murdered his girlfriend.
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.
A parole officer is murdered after telling Baretta that a model who supposedy killed herself months earlier is alive in Mexico.
Baretta tries to nail a seemingly untouchable crime czar by placing the aging man under painfully overt 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
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.
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.
After Baretta kills a drug pusher in a shootout, the man's teenage brother vows revenge.
A committee on police corruption investigates Baretta after his partner takes a bribe in order to support his girlfriend's expensive tastes.
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.
Baretta begins to suspect that a rash of petty burglaries is actually the result of his retarded friend's efforts to emulate Robin Hood.
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.
Baretta feels out of his element as he investigates the affluent friends of a heiress who has gone missing.
Baretta comes to suspect that his close friend, a music store owner, may not only be a drug dealer, but may be unknowingly selling heroin so pure that it is killing his customers.
Baretta has to go on the run to clear his name after he is framed for the murder of a gun dealer he was investigating, who was selling weapons to teenagers.
Baretta must use his wits to survive after he and a runaway girl he apprehended unwittingly get into a police car being driven by a couple of holdup men disguised as cops.
When a conventioneer is murdered, Baretta finds that the only witness is a busboy who doesn't want to get involved, but the real murderer is after the man too.
To find an arsonist, Baretta seeks the help of a former investigator who retired after suffering both physical and psychological damage in a fire.
While Baretta is investigating a series of waterfront killings, his cover becomes in danger of being blown by a waitress who knows him and thinks he is responsible for the death of her boyfriend.
Persuaded by his grandson to reopen the case of a retired cop supposedly killed in a fall, Baretta discovers a judge on the take.
To infiltrate a gang of jewel robbers, Baretta seeks the help of a former expert safecracker he once sent to prison.
When a dying hoodlum entrusts his girlfriend with a detailed record of all his underworld activities, she is sought by both the police and his former cronies seeking to protect themselves.
Baretta doggedly follows a truck driver he suspects of killing the cat burglar who injured his wife, waiting for the man to make a mistake that will reveal his guilt.
Baretta is investigating a mob theft of diamonds belonging to Mr. Nicholas and winds up helping a merchant who is threatened by a new group in the neighborhood called the East Side Benevolent Society, who is forcing all the shop owners to pay money for protection or suffer the consequences.
Baretta must find a nurse's 9-year-old sister, witness to the murder of a blind hot-dog vendor, before the killers do.
When his partner is charged with shooting a suspect in the back, Baretta tries to locate the only witness who can save the man's career, but the real murderers are after him too.
When a plea bargain falls through, Baretta must infiltrate a murderous motorcycle gang to save his informant.
Baretta tracks a distraught father who has killed the doctor he believes responsible for the death of his son, then has gone after the local drug dealers as well.
After a crime lord is arrested, Baretta must jeopardize an undercover policewoman to stop an escalating war of succession between gangland factions.
Believing that Baretta pocketed $500,000 in stolen bonds after stopping a robbery, a mobster takes Billy hostage until the money is turned over.
After a young pickpocket is killed, Baretta solicits the help of an expert to infiltrate the gang that operates at an airline terminal.
Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed.
Pursuing a gunrunner with spinal meningitis, Baretta becomes infected and has 48 hours to find the man and his cohorts before he has to go into quarantine.
A retarded waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime.
When a mother has second thoughts after selling her baby, she helps Baretta infiltrate a group trafficking in black market babies.
Baretta tries to stop a Japanese martial arts expert from taking personal revenge on the mobsters who murdered his daughter.
Baretta finds out that that hit man he is trying to stop from killing a local mobster may be one of his childhood friends.
A photographer has taken photos which can clear a judge of any wrongdoing, and Baretta is on the trail to find him.
A persistent female reporter continually interferes with Baretta's investigation into the aborted robbery of a half-million dollars in syndicate money.
A heist goes wrong when Doc, an ex-con, is double-crossed by his hired hands during a jewelry robbery.
A rapist is on the loose and Baretta's only lead is "Shoes," a deaf-mute shoeshine boy who can identify the killer by his shoes.
Baretta finds trouble when he realizes that a prison bus has been hijacked by the prisoners and that hostages have been taken.
A story told mostly in flashbacks concerns the suicide of a policewoman whose officer husband was killed in a liquor-store hold-up.
There's a slasher loose in Tony's neighborhood who is killing all the winos. Baretta is held captive by Crazy Annie, a.k.a. Mumsy, who thinks Tony is her son Arthur, which hinders his investigation.
Baretta is working on a numbers case when $12,000 is stolen from Jewel, the rackets king. Baretta tries to help out a kid who was only trying to do good for his family.
Baretta is investigating the takeover of a new drug dealer in town who is knocking off the existing dealers. One of Baretta's friends, Joey Rich, decides to take matters into his own hands after Joey's own son becomes a heroin addict.
Baretta takes a three-day leave with his new girlfriend; problem is, her ex-boyfriend Bishop breaks out of prison and hunts her down for the security bonds she's holding.
Baretta goes after a corrupt Federal narcotics agent who not only peddles drugs on the side, but murders the buyer who discovers he's a cop.
Baretta is after drug kingpin El Greco; too many kids are ending up dead, and the dealers are selling to younger and younger kids.
A doctor turned bounty hunter vies with Baretta to find the pusher responsible for the death of a banker's addicted daughter.
After philanthropist James Simpson is blown up in front of the Genios restaurant, an old friend of Baretta's — a recovered alcoholic — returns to his old haunts to help solve the murder case.
Elderly Teresa Montevanni is hit by a car from the "Association" protection collector. Baretta tries reasoning with the people of the neighborhood to rid themselves of their so-called protector Giove.
When Baretta rescues three runaways, one of them is a pregnant 15-year-old. Tony takes measures to nail her stepfather for raping her, abusing her, passing her around to his friends.
Baretta receives a deathbed statement from Canadeo about his father, Louis Baretta. Upon hearing that a hit had been put out on Louis, Baretta finds those responsible for his dad's death.
$200,000 in mink is stolen and the only witness is an old racetrack codger, who decides to get the reward money for him and his pal to go and score the big one at the track.
Baretta protects a beautiful woman named Carla who is reluctantly attached, even through family, to the mafia.
Baretta is working undercover searching for the Lu Chan gang from Hong Kong, who are responsible for a series of bank depository holdups. When newsstand operator Big Charlie helps, Baretta winds up killing one of the gang, making him a target.
Baretta, investigating a stolen vehicle report, believes that two brothers are responsible. When another vehicle is stolen, this one filled with M-16s, the boys have more to worry about than just Baretta.
Two shakedown artists posing as plainclothes cops are making a bundle ripping off other crooks — victims who aren't likely to go to the police.
A mobster orders a ""hit"" on Baretta's new partner, a drug-sniffing police dog.
Insufficient evidence allows a man to be released from jail and resume his efforts to hurt a nightclub dancer.
An FBI computer expert poses as a field agent to join Baretta on a case regarding stolen emeralds that led to murder.
Baretta tries to save a teen-age male prostitute who is being pursued by a killer after witnessing a friend's murder.
Baretta poses as the trainer of a former champion boxer to trap a drug-smuggling murderer.
Baretta puts his career at risk by sheltering a retarded teenager who he thinks has been falsely accused of killing his mother.
An attack on the leader of a street gang, and the murder of his girlfriend, threatens to ignite a war in the barrio.
His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overdose deaths.
War veterans are being blamed for a series of bombings that are actually the work of a wheelchair-bound bomber who is attacking buildings and transportation systems without handicap access.
Baretta does a lot of soul-searching after wounding a boy while trying to stop a holdup. Then he himself is targeted for revenge by one of the robbers who escaped.
Two elderly neighbors of Baretta's steal a million-dollar racehorse back from the thief who originally took it, then hide it in their apartment until they can claim the reward.
A woman who was attacked is so traumatized that she clings to Baretta and hampers his investigation of the robbery and murder she witnessed.
When his friend Billy is one of the hostages taken by robbers trapped at a roadside tavern, Baretta tries to negotiate a deal between them and a sheriff who is unwilling to concede anything because of his political situation.
When a former girlfriend shows up with a baby named after him, Baretta plans to marry her until it turns out that she is a pawn in a power struggle between two mobs, with an assassin on her trail.
Baretta comes to the aid of a has-been comic trying to make a comeback, who has recently suffered several attempts on his life.
Family loyalty compels a friend of Baretta's to agree to kill the man who assaulted an aging mobster's daughter.
On temporary duty with the vice squad, Baretta learns that his partner is taking bribes, and is ordered by his boss to investigate the other officers on the squad as well.
Baretta tries to find out why a laundry owner, who happens to be engaged to his cousin, refuses to identify the two men who held up his store and killed a cop.
Baretta tries to help a 12-year-old girl who has run away from the orphanage find her recently paroled father before he takes part in a jewel robbery.
Baretta's young partner is ostracised by his Gypsy family for refusing to perform an atonement ceremony after accidentally killing his younger brother during a robbery.
Baretta goes undercover as a trucker to help the daughter of a murdered newspaperman pursue the hijackers who killed her father when he got too close.
Faced with a difficult kidnapping case, Baretta accepts help from a girl who appears to have psychic knowledge of the crime.
A mobster who was badly scarred as the result of a shoot-out seeks revenge on Baretta.
Two actresses, one of whom is Rooster's cousin, are in fear for their lives after a murder allows them to make off with $50,000 in stolen money.