View Full Version : Baretta star Robert Blake interview on 20/20 Feb 26


Pavan
02-18-2003, 04:06 PM
BARBARA WALTERS’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT BLAKE,
ACTOR ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE, TO AIR ON ABC’S “20/20,” WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Actor Robert Blake speaks exclusively to ABC News’ Barbara Walters from the Los Angeles county jail where he is being held without bail on charges of killing his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. The former “Baretta” star, who has maintained his innocence since his arrest, tells Walters that he did the interview for his three-year-old daughter, Rosie. Blake’s first and only televised interview from jail will air on “20/20,” WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 (10:00–11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
Walters interviewed Blake face-to-face at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, February 17.
Blake was arrested in April 2002 and faces the possibility of life in prison if he is convicted of the May 4, 2001 murder of Bakley.

Additional excerpts from the interview will be featured on the Friday, February 28 edition of “20/20.”

Pitooey
02-18-2003, 10:20 PM
Watch him put his foot in his mouth.......... :p

Pavan
02-19-2003, 05:06 PM
It has been moved to Feb 26 at 10pm now, although additional excerpts from the interview will be featured on the Friday, February 28 edition of “20/20.”

Janice
02-26-2003, 05:01 PM
Wednesday, 26 @10:00 PM
60 min.
ABC

20/20
Jailhouse interview with Robert Blake

An interview with actor Robert Blake, who has been held in jail without bail since his arrest on April 18, 2002, for the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Barbara Walters reports.

Kay Scarpetta
02-26-2003, 05:11 PM
He should be a guest-star on "I'm a celebrity- GET ME OUT OF HERE!"...anyway.

Does everyone think he's guilty? I mean I haven't exactly been following the case, so I don't know if anything has been proven or whatever, but what do you think?

AKA
02-26-2003, 05:29 PM
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030220/i/1045760877.4026638419.jpg

"Hey, Bob, do you want to do lunch after the interview? Oh, right, I forgot..."

TJL
02-26-2003, 06:03 PM
Originally posted by Miss Karly
He should be a guest-star on "I'm a celebrity- GET ME OUT OF HERE!"...anyway.

Very good. :lol:

I really couldn't care less about what he has to say.
I'm sure it will be something along the lines of "I didn't do it," so I'm going to pass on this one.

Sitcomwriter
02-26-2003, 06:42 PM
Karly! I came up with that joke a few nights ago LOL anyway I love that commercial.I love his face in it.It's priceless.

Kay Scarpetta
02-26-2003, 08:36 PM
Originally posted by Sitcomwriter
Karly! I came up with that joke a few nights ago

Well, I certainly...didn't...steal it

Kay Scarpetta
02-26-2003, 08:37 PM
Originally posted by TJL


Very good. :lol:


I'm learning. :D

AnaheimPMWitch
02-26-2003, 11:34 PM
I saw clips of the interview this morning on Good Morning America it looks um well Interesting

Sitcomwriter
02-27-2003, 01:03 AM
Originally posted by Miss Karly


Well, I certainly...didn't...steal it

LOL That's ok.I bet Conan or some other late night talk show host will tell the same joke or similar.

Mysty Eyes
02-27-2003, 12:10 PM
Originally posted by Miss Karly
Does everyone think he's guilty? I mean I haven't exactly been following the case, so I don't know if anything has been proven or whatever, but what do you think? Nothing has been proven at all. Today (2/27) is only the second day of the preliminary hearings. The trial has barely begun.

Janice
02-27-2003, 12:31 PM
I watched the 20/20 interview and this is truly a broken man. I haven't followed the case closely, but from what I saw last night, I'm not convinced of his guilt. Ballistics can't match the gunpowder to him.
A former stuntman on Baretta said Blake approached him to kill his wife, but who really knows the deal there.
As for parking so far away from the restaurant, Blake's 36 year-old daughter was interviewed, and said she's been going to that restaurant with him since she was five. They always parked a few blocks away to walk off the heavy Italian meal. I believe her. She's a professor of sociology.
I had him guilty in my mind, which is wrong. I'll wait to see how the trial shakes out.
Since they waited so long after the murder to arrest him, I have a feeling that they've got a lot of evidence. They want to make sure they get a conviction to avoid another celebrity murderer walking away like O.J. Simpson.
It's interesting that he's been behind bars for almost a year and Phil Spector made bail immediately.

TJL
02-27-2003, 05:45 PM
Originally posted by Janice

It's interesting that he's been behind bars for almost a year and Phil Spector made bail immediately.

They discussed that on Howard Stern this morning.

Apparently, the evidence suggests that the murder was premeditated; Blake made plans to have his wife killed, so he presents more of a risk to the outside world, and a greater flight risk.
The Spector case looks like an accident, so he was allowed bail.

I believe that's the reason.