Baretta Baretta Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975–78. The show was a revised and milder version of a 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. "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow," the show's theme music was composed by Dave Grusin and Morgan Ames and sung by Sammy Davis Jr. Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta is an unorthodox plainclothes police detective (Badge #609) with the
USS Baretta (AN-41) work on moorings but, on 1 October, worsening weather forced her to stop. In the midst of a moderate gale the next morning, "LCT-404" requested help for an "LCM" whose ramp had jammed in the down position. "Baretta" answered the call, towing the craft alongside stern first, and then into the lee of the island off Red Beach. When the "LCM's" ramp had been freed and secured, the landing craft proceeded under her own power to Red Beach. Later that day, Baretta retrieved an unmanned "LCVP" adrift in a seaway. She took the landing craft in tow, but the line