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) 10th for the Caroline Islands. A submarine contact on 12 January enlivened the voyage, and a submarine alert soon after "Baretta" entered Ulithi lagoon sent everyone to general quarters before she had moored. Later that day, "Baretta" sailed for Eniwetok. On the 16th, her crew put out an engine room fire in little more than an hour; but it left her engines inoperable. As a result, "Cliffrose" (AN 42) towed her sister ship for the remainder of the voyage. Arriving on 21 January, "Baretta" spent five days under temporary repair alongside "Oahu" (ARG 5). She got underway under her own