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Okay, so I lied! This set of DVDs is a perfect 5 out of 5, we're talking about Baretta here, the show was a classic!
So this is why I'm getting your attention, every episode is a fantastic walk down memory lane, the only draw back is that every episode begins and ends with the theme music minus the words! Can you imagine? it's like watching Baretta without any of HIS dialogue, but everyone else is all there! Some kind of cheap royalty battle must have gone on to have this classic series go out to the masses without the "eye on the sparrow" music with all the lyrics over the credits! Every time the music comes up, you get a slap in the face!
The only taste of the classic song was slipped into episode 4 "if you can't pay the price". Here we have Tony singing along to his car radio while it is playing Baretta's theme song... lyrics included!
Sure it's a small detail, but when you're expecting to get the actual first season of Baretta, that should include the theme music that accompanied the actual show... shouldn't it?
All I can say is that I truely hope they get this fixed for the second season DVD set.
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Talk about a trip down memory lane... This was my second favorite TV show of the era (the first being Kolchak: The Night Stalker -- please put that collection on DVD, too!!!), mainly because of the true performance of Robert Blake, who was basically playing himself as a cop. There's some really great stuff in this collection, although I would've liked to have seen more of the highly underrated Andrew Prine (Tony's partner Stringbean). Although the show screams 70's, there is an underlying saddness to the character and life of Tony Baretta who, in spite of his sometimes nearly superhuman antics, is just a regular gamoche like the rest of us. He is a prime example of the phrase 'never say die' even when the whole world seems to be on your case. Art imitating life, or the other way around? Highly recommended for fans of this genre, and come on season two!
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Very good quality.
A must for all Baretta Fans.
The more fans that purchase season one the faster season two will be released.
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So far, since purchasing the S1 set, I've watched it a dozen times. Why? Because, back in the day, Baretta was one of my two favorite cop shows (the other being Starsky & Hutch). For a teenager in the 70's, it didn't get any better than these two shows. What's happening with Mr. Blake in present time notwithstanding, I would've purchased this DVD and loved it all the same! Thanks to his performance, this was the hallmark for every loner, tough-cop series that followed. The man held your attention, he got your blood flowing, and you were indignant with righteous anger right alongside Tony Baretta. Tony and his cast of characters (who couldn't love Billy, I ask you) made this show what it was, and it's a testament to how brilliant it was that it stands the test of time nearly 30 years later. There are so many layers to the character of Tony Baretta...a man haunted, perhaps, but willing to do whatever it took to get the bad guys. I love it, during "The 5 1/2 Pound Junkie", when he says to a drug dealer "I'm gonna punch your time. You be looking for me." Classic lines from a terrific actor who knew his business, and IMO, still does. Thank you, Robert Blake, for giving me Tony Baretta. He still 'walks the walk and talks the talk'.
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...season 2 when it hits the shelf. The last time I saw this show was when I was 10. As a kid, I didn't know why I liked it then, only I knew it just had style. Seeing it again all these years later (in fresh off the network digitization), I can now see the substance. Razor sharp dialog, hard action, cool one-liners, fine chicks, and some comical elements (my favorite disguise: his coming in as a black massouse with an afro that screams nineteenseventyfive). Let's not forget perhaps the coolest TV theme song ever written. I hope season 2's has the lyrics so I can have a sing along with the tube. And that's the name of that tune...
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