1975 Robert Blake is Baretta S01E04 If You Can't Pay the Price

Baretta TV Series 1975–1978 TV-PG Robert Blake in Baretta (1975)
The cases of maverick undercover New York City detective Tony Baretta.
Creator: Stephen J. Cannell
Stars: Robert Blake, Tom Ewell, Edward Grover
S1.E4 If You Can't Pay the Price... Episode aired Feb 7, 1975 TV-PG
John Marley in Baretta (1975)
Thugs hijack a drug shipment in Mexico, killing a guard and loading it onto trucks en route to Los Angeles. Baretta realizes that the drugs are destined for an old mobster and puts him under constant -- and obvious -- surveillance. It's so obvious that the mobster gets to know Baretta and even to create a semblance of friendship with him. By the end of Act Four, the mobster has served up his nephew (who was the driving force behind the robbery) to Baretta for arrest. Baretta is grateful, but in the tag he and the mobster sit on the mobster's front porch -- jointly waiting as the trucks roar up Interstate 5, getting ever closer to the mobster's imminent doom.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writers: Tony Morgan, Roy Huggins
Stars: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, John Marley