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
The Deeds of the Disturber The Deeds of the Disturber Deeds of the Disturber is the fifth in a series of historical mystery novels, written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody. This is the only book in the series which takes place entirely in England. The title of the book comes from the ancient Egyptian "Hymn to Osiris" from the Eighteenth Dynasty: ""His sister was his protector / She who drives off the foe / Who foils the deeds of the disturber / By the power of her utterance."" Immediately after their adventure in "Lion in the Valley", the Emersons