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) (AN-69) and "Winterberry" (AN-56), and together they laid the fleet telephone moorings in Buckner Bay on 27 and 28 July. On 1 August 1945, another typhoon forced her to seek shelter again. Underway at 0700, "Baretta" raced up the east coast of Okinawa, battered by a strong wind from the northeast. She rolled 30 degrees to each side before reaching the relatively tranquil waters of Katena Ko, a typhoon anchorage two miles south of Unten Ko. "Baretta" rode out the blow "anchored bow and stern with two auxiliary minesweepers tied alongside." After the storm passed, she proceeded with "Catclaw" (AN