The gritty streets of 1970s television were vividly brought to life with Baretta, a police drama that aired on ABC from 1975 to 1978. This wasn’t your typical cop procedural; it had a unique style and a certain raw edge, largely due to the performance of its lead, Robert Blake. Blake played Detective Tony Baretta, an unconventional undercover cop with ...
Before Baretta, there was a program called Toma. It starred Tony Musante as Detective David Toma, a real-life police officer known for his undercover work. Toma aired on ABC in 1973 and 1974, it had a very similar concept to the later Baretta, it was based on the work of the real-life cop of that name and it was also ...