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) in Kerama Retto for transfer to Buckner Bay. Before proceeding to that place, "Baretta" assisted LCT-466 that had lost her ramp and taken a 10 degree list to starboard. "Baretta" built a wooden jury ramp, repaired the tank landing craft's leaking starboard ballast tank and shifted the cargo load to port. The next afternoon, "Baretta" moved to the anchorage at Unten Ko, off northeastern Okinawa where she was protected from a raging typhoon. By the 21st, the storm had abated and finally "Baretta" moved to Buckner Bay. Upkeep and logistics occupied her for about a week. Then she joined "Stagbush"