Word: baretta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ratings, if not on the hearts and minds of television critics and the other amateur moral philosophers who keep outraged eyes on the tube. Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, its vulgarly nostalgic sitcoms, so far this season rank first and second among regularly scheduled programs, while Baretta, the ethnic undercover cop, and The Bionic Woman are right up there near Charlie's Angels among the leading action-adventure shows...
...offices of Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, producers who specialize in action-adventure shows (The Rookies, S.W.A.T., Starsky and Hutch) for ABC. "Our motivation," says Goldberg, "was the fact that action-adventure shows were dominated by inner-city realism starring such gruff types as Colombo and Baretta. We just thought, 'Why not inject some really stunning beauty into the genre and see what happens...
...routine for O'Neil, 28, who also blithely falls off buildings, gets roughed up in fight scenes and tumbles from speeding cars on Quincy, Gemini Man and Baretta, among other television shows. Doubling for a villain on the Bionic Woman, she speeds neck and neck with Lindsay Wagner in a dune-buggy chase before losing spectacularly in a sandy somersault. In Airport 77, a recycled crash caper, she torpedoes through the high waters of a flooding aircraft cabin to rescue a small...
...music itself has become diffuse. Pop is not just rock: it is also disco, soul, reggae, country and ballads. The hottest trend in Top 40 music seems to be themes from successful TV shows. Last week's charts had no fewer than four, including the title songs from Baretta and Laverne and Shirley. When a smart, articulate song like Paul Simon's smash 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover gets to the top, it seems like a happy accident...
...with a background in research and advertising sales. Pierce, an unflappable backroom boy who had succeeded in every department, started scheduling for the fall with the courage of a man with little to lose. ABC'S strongest shows were tough cops-and-robbers epics (Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, S.W.A.T.). They could only be aired after the "family hour," from 8 to 9 p.m., when the networks schedule their hottest shows, usually comedies, hoping to capture an audience for the entire evening. Gambling that ABC could build an audience later in the evening, Pierce stripped in his proven dramatic...