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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 MacGyver 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.
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