I've been watching the seasons in a row. This is the first episode I recall ever having Robert Blake being a narrator. He's talking to his dad who died in a mob hit years earlier. Unlike another review, upon the beginning he is summoned to the hospital bed of a dying mobster and hit man who confesses how his father died, and who put the contract out on him. This is now Baretta's motivation, and the topic for the rest of the show. This is a nice change to this season seeing an episode where Baretta is more of an investigator and less of a social worker. Lots of bad guys to interact with. I wish I could get my hands on Season 4.
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Bring the man down
searchanddestroy-128 March 2016
At the beginning of the episode, Baretta's daddy dies on a hospital bed. But before he passes away, he confesses his cop son that he had bad acquaintances, people whom he was involved with and who somewhere killed him. And our lead suddenly stops here to be a social worker cop to at last become a real hunter. I highly loved the Mel Ferrer's presence as a high level bad guy and also the Betty Hutton character, unfortunately too small. Poor Betty Hutton who was not so lucky in her career. I would have never guessed to find her in such a seventies series. This seems to be her last performance on a camera, big screen or TV. A good episode, far better than the third season previous ones, where Blake was unbearable as the ever social worker cop. And such kind of non sense characters must, one day or another, have an end, for God's sake.
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