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) and released more chain, enabling the landing craft to free herself. During the night, the wind velocity increased until, at 0100 on the 18th, "Baretta" clocked it at between 81 and 89 knots. Yard and landing craft in her vicinity continually dragged anchors, but "Baretta's" bow anchor held. By 0730, the wind quieted to 30 knots, and "Baretta" headed for the lee of Awajii Island to avoid heavy swells coming from the northeast. The storm abated that afternoon, and "Baretta" returned to Wakanoura Wan and surveyed the devastation: three "LST's" and a "YMS" lay stranded on the northern beaches of