Talk:Baretta

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Hi, I'm a little young to remember this show, but could someone familiar with it answer a few things about these paragraphs?

Baretta used to refer to his handcuffs as klinks. In one episode, he went to handcuff a bad guy, and his boss Lt. Brubaker was there. As Baretta went to cuff the guy, he realized he didn't have any handcuffs with him, so he said to Lt. Brubaker, "Boss, I ain't got any klinks."

In several episodes, Baretta would tell Billy Truman to call the PD for help. He would say to Billy, "Call out the troops", or "Call out the federalis"

Are these trivia pieces actually worthy of note?

Baretta drove an old piece of crap Chevy that he called The Old Gray Ghost. Obviously, I don't know what car Baretta drove, what he called it, or if it was an old piece of crap.

'Baretta's Mist Blue 1966 Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan was normally referred to as the "Blue Ghost" not the "Old Gray Ghost" - rpj' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.5.240.189 (talk) 04:59, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

I'm kinda tempted to blank the whole chunk, but I'm new, so though I'd ask first. Optimus Sledge 19:20, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

This information is completely unnecessary and serves no purpose other than tossing out nuggets of useless information about the series. I highly reccommend it is deleted to conform to proper article standards.

theme song

It's true that every episode began with the song, i.e. the tune was always heard in the opening titles, but as I remember it the song was not always sung, or maybe sometimes only one line ("And keep your eye on the sparrow") was sung. Did this change between seasons, or perhaps in syndication? —Tamfang 02:34, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

A More Plausible Fictitious City for the Location of Baretta

In the main article, it states that Baretta lived "in an unnamed Eastern city (presumably Newark, New Jersey)." I would just like to point out that there are scenes in some episodes where one can see the license plates on the cars in the street, and they are blue with yellow lettering. California plates in the '70s shared this color scheme with Pennsylvania, while New Jersey plates at that time were cream-colored with black lettering. For continuity's sake, I think it is more plausible that the "unnamed Eastern city" was meant to be Philadelphia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.231.214.227 (talk) 22:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps "presumably" because the real David Toma lived and worked in Newark. —Tamfang (talk) 04:48, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Not t-shirts

The article mentions that when Baretta wasn't in disguise he wore t-shirts. Robert Blake was rarely seen in a t-shirt in the series. What he normally wore was a short sleeve sweatshirt, very popular in the 70s. - rpj — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.5.240.189 (talk) 04:56, 9 November 2014 (UTC)