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Playin' Police

Episode Number: 58    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Wednesday May 4, 1977    Prod Code: 45265
Two shakedown artists posing as plainclothes cops are making a bundle ripping off other crooks - victims who aren't likely to go to the police.

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Writer: Ray Hutcherson
Director: Don Medford
Star: Tom Ewell (Billy Truman),  Edward Grover (Lt. Hal Brubaker [ 2-4 ]),  Robert Blake (Det. Tony Baretta)
Recurring Role: Angelo Rossitto (Little Moe),  John Ward (Foley),  June Smaney (Rosie),  Michael D. Roberts (Rooster),  Chino Williams (Fats)
Guest Star: Bruce M. Fischer (Desk Clerk),  Chris Mulkey (Dealer),  Chris DeRose (First Officer),  Nicholas Worth (Gallman),  Jim Gosa (Patient),  Cal Haynes (Second Officer),  Charles Wagenheim (Eddie),  Scoey Mitchell (Mike, Police Sergeant imposter),  Alex Rocco (Vince, Lt. Malone, imposter),  Janus Blythe (Sara)

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Baretta: If you want to go long in this world you got to admit when you're wrong. Listen you're sufferin' alot, your old you got alot of hurts, should I put you away, no pal as long as you got somebody to love ya in this world, you got to keep on livin', that's what it's all about and it don't make no difference if you're a dog or the master, you got a right to live, everybody's got a right to live. I just want to say that I learned that Eddie and I'm sorry.
Eddie: You're a real friend Tony. Ain't ya got somethin' around the house for me to drink Tony? (edit)
Baretta: My old man always said, 'If you want to catch a pig, you got jump in the garbage.
Billy: Yeah but you could eat first.
Baretta: Amen to that.
Billy: Have some pickles. (edit)
Brubaker: Did you guys go back ten years?
Officer: Yes sir.
Brubaker: Now you go out there and look at them mug books, cuz they learned that routine somewhere. And listen you guys, that walkie talkie, that's on you.
Officers: Yes sir.
Brubaker: What are you laughing at? Them dummies gave the walkie talkie to them people.
Baretta: I ain't laughin' Boss, well I mean I'm laughin', but listen don't get tense relax them bones, them guys are in a tough place and one way or the other they'll fall. Just a tend to your geraniums.
Brubaker: Thanks alot! (edit)
Rooster: I don't know, last thing they wanna do is see the police.
Baretta: I know, you tell them I'm tryin' to stop things, before both sides get anymore tense and we start tradin' stiffs, you understand.
Rooster: Yeah well, it's gonna take some leverage man, it would help the machinery if you would grease it with a little bit of that greenery.
Baretta: Thirty, forty clams does that tell you I'm interested in nailin' them suckers now.
Rooster: I guess you are, it's the first time I hit on you and it wasn't like pulling teeth.
Baretta: Yeah well, you know your friend Foley, he already got shot in the bananas. I wanna stop things before we wind up with a stiff.
Rooster: Yeah, I know what you mean man and one hates to see ones own kind go bad. (edit)
Baretta: You cats been hearin' fairy tales, cuz that's all she wrote. (edit)

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