Word: baretta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly become sensitive to the way television can distort reality. "All big-city cops are not as glamorous as Kojak," says Lori Kaufman, 14, of Lucas, Kans...
Rockford is a lot cooler than his late night competition. Johnny Carsoin isn't really cool and half the time he has some hopeless boring cripple like Rich Little filling in for him. Baretta is sexy but not very cool, although his bird is cool. Barnaby Jones was cool when he worked for President McKinley. Mannix's theme song is cool, but he gets slugged in the medulla too often to be cool. Starsky and Hutch are the antithesis of cool, with their bullshit Trans Am and all. Banacek could never be cool with that haircut...
...there is a kindred spirit who mirror's Crews' fear and passion, it is another actor, Robert Blake. In "Television's Junkyard Dog," Blake confesses a Freudian nightmare that might serve as an episode on his TV series, Baretta. "I have a dream, and I bet I have it once a week," he tells the author. "Wherever I am, what ever I'm doing, I'm naked. And I can't get no clothes on. Sometimes I'm at the airport and sometimes I'm at school in a hall...
...which Silverman helped push to the top, will still bear his stamp. Only three of its shows are being canceled -Fish, Baretta and The Six Million Dollar Man-and all but one of its five new series were well under way before Freddie jumped ship for NBC. For science-fiction fans there will be an hour-long show called Battle Star: Galactica, with John Dykstra, who won an Academy Award for the special effects of Star Wars, working the same magic every Sunday at 8 p.m. Vega$ will follow the adventures of a handsome young private eye "in that sizzling...
...then fired up to put the game out of reach for the Western College Hockey Association champs. Leading scorer Fidler drilled a low slapper past Baretta on a power play at 6:15 of the third period, and Silk chipped one past the netminder from right on the goal line a mere 35 seconds later...