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) the anchorage and a PBY "Catalina" seaplane had been sunk. On the 19th, the net layer replanted a mid channel radar buoy in Kii Suido which the typhoon had dragged some 500 yards away from its original position. An unusual assignment came next. While entering Kii Suido on 22 September, the battleship "California" (BB 44) had snagged a channel buoy in her streamed paravanes, taking it with her some 25 miles before she anchored. "Baretta" recovered the "kidnapped" buoy and received, in compensation, "thirty cases of beer from the BB..." "Baretta" spent the rest of the year laying and replanting