Baretta - Season 3 (1976)

Street Edition.

Baretta sticks to a beautiful woman (Laura Hippe) on a long-distance bus, connected to a group of thieves that had been initially led by a veteran criminal (Keenan Wynn), who's now seeking revenge on the young crooks (Richard Lynch, Wings Hauser) who betrayed him after the score.

With the help of a nun and a deaf mute nicknamed Shoes, Baretta tries to find a serial rapist who initially poses to his female victims as a plainclothes detective.

Under the City.

Dear Tony.

Crazy Annie.

Nothin' for Nothin'.

Joey Rich, a half-employed middle-aged ghetto black man, has a serious problem: his son is addicted to heroin. Rich confronts the dealer and gets a contemptuous horselaugh. Rich starts stalking the dealer, but isn't sure what he will do when he finds him. Then a solution unexpectedly presents itself. The dealer had made two enemies -- a rival dealer and his hired gunman. They ambush the dealer and gun him down. Rich saw the whole thing. Seizing the opportunity, he picks up the hit gun and stands over the corpse with it until the cops arrive. Suddenly Rich becomes a ...

Look Back in Terror.

Don't Kill the Sparrows.

Hiding out from a dangerous heroin dealer (Timothy Carey), a pretty nun (Edith Diaz) stays at Baretta's apartment. And drives him crazy.

A rich banker, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, wants the dealer dead. Baretta points out that there's no proof against the dealer, but the father has his mind made up.

After a beloved and celebrated philanthropist is killed by a car bomb in a parking lot in front of Baretta, he investigates who could have possibly killed this man who supposedly had no enemies.

The mob controls the neighborhood. As a new, young, collector makes his rounds, as he accidentally runs into an old lady, crossing the street. The old lady just happens to be special to the local mob boss (who is posing as the head of the local Italian American Association). Baretta wants to use the accident as a way to get The young collector to give up the mob boss. The young collector resists Barletta but knowing he has a problem with Giove he goes to see Mr. Montovani (Ross Martin). Along with his sister (Katy Juardo) they own an Italian restaurant. He volunteers ...

Baretta helps a trio of unpredictable runaway children.

Baretta seeks revenge on the mobster who put the hit out on his father.

Baretta and his buddy, an old man named Eddie, witness a fur heist. Eddie (with another naive old man), having recognized one of the thieves, goes being Baretta's back to retrieve the furs: so he can collect the insurance company's reward.

Baretta protects a beautiful woman named Carla who is reluctantly attached, even through family, to the mafia.

Baretta sets up his kindhearted and inexperienced friend Charlie (Slim Pickens) with a waitress (Sheree North) with a past. Before this, Charlie fought with an Asian mafia gang, and with his size and strength, he won. But as Baretta investigates the gang, and Charlie continues his romance with the waitress, danger may befall all three of them.

Three juvenile delinquents, tired of stealing cars for scrap money, find a load of M-16 rifles and fill them in a truck. Baretta, who knows them from previous arrests (and their naive mother who owns the local pastry shop), winds up trying to convince the boys (especially Brad Davis as the most vulnerable) that they're in over their heads. Especially one in particular (John Friedrich), who has the potential to be really dangerous.

Scoey Mitchlll and Alex Rocco play two thugs posing as police detectives to extort money from various people on the margins of society. Some sources say this was the second episode filmed. Fans of Rooster will enjoy his larger-than-usual part.