Episode
Baretta: Just for Laughs
Overview
Baretta comes to the aid of a has-been comic trying to make a comeback, who has recently suffered several attempts on his life.
Details
- Series
- Baretta
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1978-02-09
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Just for Laughs is Episode 15 in Season 4 of Baretta. It aired on 1978-02-09. The runtime is 60 min.
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When a former girlfriend shows up with a baby named after him, Baretta plans to marry her until it turns out that she is a pawn in a power struggle between two mobs, with an assassin on her trail.
Episode 16: The Marker
Family loyalty compels a friend of Baretta's to agree to kill the man who assaulted an aging mobster's daughter.
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Episode 13: I'll Take You to Lunch
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Episode 17: The Stone Conspiracy
On temporary duty with the vice squad, Baretta learns that his partner is taking bribes, and is ordered by his boss to investigate the other officers on the squad as well.
Episode 12: Why Me?
A woman who was attacked is so traumatized that she clings to Baretta and hampers his investigation of the robbery and murder she witnessed.
Episode 18: The Appointment
Baretta tries to find out why a laundry owner, who happens to be engaged to his cousin, refuses to identify the two men who held up his store and killed a cop.
Episode 11: Hot Horse
Two elderly neighbors of Baretta's steal a million-dollar racehorse back from the thief who originally took it, then hide it in their apartment until they can claim the reward.
Episode 19: Woman Trouble
Baretta tries to help a 12-year-old girl who has run away from the orphanage find her recently paroled father before he takes part in a jewel robbery.
Episode 10: It Goes with the Job
Baretta does a lot of soul-searching after wounding a boy while trying to stop a holdup. Then he himself is targeted for revenge by one of the robbers who escaped.
Episode 20: The Gadjo
Baretta's young partner is ostracised by his Gypsy family for refusing to perform an atonement ceremony after accidentally killing his younger brother during a robbery.
Episode 9: All That Shatters
War veterans are being blamed for a series of bombings that are actually the work of a wheelchair-bound bomber who is attacking buildings and transportation systems without handicap access.
Episode 21: Barney
Baretta goes undercover as a trucker to help the daughter of a murdered newspaperman pursue the hijackers who killed her father when he got too close.