Starsky & Hutch

All Episodes 1975 - 1980
TV-14

  • Ended
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  • 1975-09-10T04:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 3d 20h (92 episodes)
  • William Blinn
  • United States
  • English, French
  • ABC Network Productions + 1 more, Columbia Pictures Television
  • Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.

99 episodes

An execution-style shooting in which two young lovers are brutally killed indicates that the intended targets were actually Bay City Police Detectives Starsky and Hutchinson, when the victims' car turns out to match Starksy's. All leads point toward a local crime-lord awaiting trial as being behind their (intended) murders. But when he flatly denies the charge, the pair set out to hunt down the real culprits... and motive.

Series Premiere

1975-09-10T04:00:00Z

1x01 Savage Sunday

Series Premiere

1x01 Savage Sunday

  • 1975-09-10T04:00:00Z1h

An elderly couple, desperate to draw attention to the poor living conditions in their old folks home, have rigged the trunk of their car with fifty sticks of dynamite and a timer, planning to set it off outside City Hall. But the car is stolen by two thugs on a spree of armed liquor store robberies, unaware that the car is loaded with explosives, ticking towards detonation in the trunk. Starsky and Hutch initially are on the hunt for the two robbers – when they learn that the car is rigged with dynamite, they have mere hours to track it down before disaster strikes...

1975-09-17T04:00:00Z

1x02 Texas Longhorn

1x02 Texas Longhorn

  • 1975-09-17T04:00:00Z1h

Wealthy used-car dealer Zack Tyler and his wife stop to help two men seemingly having car trouble, only for the two thugs to rob Zack, and rape and murder his wife. Starsky and Hutch work all out using their underground contacts to track down the two murderers, but they don't quite realise that once they have found the culprits, that Zack intends to get even with his wife's killers by taking the law into his own hands...

1975-09-24T04:00:00Z

1x03 Death Ride

1x03 Death Ride

  • 1975-09-24T04:00:00Z1h

On assignment to protect the daughter of a crime czar who's agreed to testify against mob bosses Starsky and Hutch must drive her back home from San Francisco pursued by ruthless killers all along the way

1975-10-01T04:00:00Z

1x04 Snowstorm

1x04 Snowstorm

  • 1975-10-01T04:00:00Z1h

Starsky and Hutch, along with three other Detectives, are involved in a large drugs bust, where pure cocaine with a street value three million dollars is seized. But following the successful raid, the detective duo come under suspicion when $1m worth of the drugs disappear. They have 48 hours to clear their names and the three fellow Detectives, who they assume to be innocent, and nail the drugs lord behind the operation – the same man who was responsible for the murder of Captain Dobey's former partner years before... Throughout the case, Hutch keeps spotting a Dalmatian dog that seems to appear whenever danger lurks nearby...

1975-10-08T04:00:00Z

1x05 The Fix

1x05 The Fix

  • 1975-10-08T04:00:00Z1h

Hutch is dating a girl who was formerly associated with a big-time mobster. But Hutch is abducted by the jealous mobster, who forcibly gets him hooked on heroin, in order to find out where the girl is. Starsky must find his friend and the people who did this to him before it is too late and Hutch ends up dead...

1975-10-15T04:00:00Z

1x06 Death Notice

1x06 Death Notice

  • 1975-10-15T04:00:00Z1h

When a message is left scrawled on a table cloth in a strip club that one of the strippers will be killed, Starsky and Hutch are called in to protect the dancing girls and find the strange man who was sitting at the table. The hunt for the man intensifies as the stripper who was threatened is murdered, and another warned in a message that she is next; but a surprise twist means that the duo may not be looking for the right man...

1975-10-22T04:00:00Z

1x07 Pariah

1x07 Pariah

  • 1975-10-22T04:00:00Z1h

After shooting a homicidal teen during a hold-up Starsky is cleared of any wrongdoing. But, when fellow policemen are being murdered by a killer out to punish Starsky, he feels responsible and takes immediate action.

1975-10-29T05:00:00Z

1x08 Kill Huggy Bear

1x08 Kill Huggy Bear

  • 1975-10-29T05:00:00Z1h

Big pimping confidant Huggy Bear is marked for death after being robbed of a fortune owed to a ruthless racketeer. Starsky and Hutch must locate the stolen loot before their friend winds up murdered by the mob.

1975-11-05T05:00:00Z

1x09 The Bait

1x09 The Bait

  • 1975-11-05T05:00:00Z1h

Dressed as flashy hustlers and using a beautiful blonde as a bait Starsky and Hutch pose as a pair of high rolling heroin dealers, climbing up the underworld ladder to nail the city's top dope distributors

1975-11-12T05:00:00Z

1x10 Lady Blue

1x10 Lady Blue

  • 1975-11-12T05:00:00Z1h

A former girlfriend of Starsky's is found brutally murdered, with the body bizarrely wrapped in radio antenna wire. As the detective duo investigate, it emerges that the girl had been working undercover as a cocktail waitress while tracking down a psychotic killer. But there are several suspects as to the murderer's identity... are Starsky and Hutch on the right track?

When racist industrialist C.J. Woodfield puts out a contract on Captain Dobey and his family after the police chief a civil right's leader's assasination, Starsky and Hutch must infiltrate Woodfield's organisation before it's too late

1975-11-26T05:00:00Z

1x12 Terror on the Docks

1x12 Terror on the Docks

  • 1975-11-26T05:00:00Z1h

Starsky and Hutch set about tracking down a dock-worker suspected of murdering an undercover Policeman who was investigating a series of waterfront heists. But a childhood friend of Hutch's is preparing to get married, and it seems that her groom-to-be might be involved...

1975-12-10T05:00:00Z

1x13 The Deadly Impostor

1x13 The Deadly Impostor

  • 1975-12-10T05:00:00Z1h

John Colby, an old friend of Starsky and Hutch's, returns to town, and asks them to use their connections to help him find his ex-wife Karen. But as they look for the woman, the duo find that there are things that don't quite add up, and, unbeknown to them, the man holds a sinister and deadly secret...

1975-12-17T05:00:00Z

1x14 Shootout

1x14 Shootout

  • 1975-12-17T05:00:00Z1h

After a particularly long and awkward interrogation, Starsky and Hutch decide to unwind for the evening by going for a meal at an Italian restaurant. But the evening out is hardly the relaxing time anticipated when the restaurant is taken over by two syndicate hit-men planning to take out a Mob boss when he arrives at the diner. In the commotion, Starsky is critically wounded by a gun-shot wound, and Hutch must try and keep his partner alive while dealing with the trigger-happy gun-men...

1976-01-07T05:00:00Z

1x15 The Hostages

1x15 The Hostages

  • 1976-01-07T05:00:00Z1h

When Starsky offers for himself and Hutch to check on a waitress's missing friend, they find the man dead, leading them to stumble across a plot to rob an armoured car by a gang that are holding the driver's pregnant wife hostage, forcing the driver to go along with the plan...

1976-01-14T05:00:00Z

1x16 Losing Streak

1x16 Losing Streak

  • 1976-01-14T05:00:00Z1h

Down-on-his-luck jazz pianist Vic Rankin steals some money owed to him from a former boss, unaware that the cash is actually counterfeit. In over his head, Vic finds himself a hunted man and goes on the run, as his former boss, connected to the Mob, sends his heavies out to retrieve the money and wipe out the man who dare steal it. The race is on for Starsky and Hutch to find Vic before the Mob get to him...

1976-01-21T05:00:00Z

1x17 Silence

1x17 Silence

  • 1976-01-21T05:00:00Z1h

The Detective duo meet Larry, a friendly ex-con deaf mute living at a local half-way house, when they book him on a small charge. But when the trail from a series of robberies leads all indications pointing at Larry of being the culprit, the pair are convinced of his innocence and that someone else is using him as the ideal pawn...

1976-01-28T05:00:00Z

1x18 The Omaha Tiger

1x18 The Omaha Tiger

  • 1976-01-28T05:00:00Z1h

The dare-devil Detectives become involved in the wild world of professional wrestling when they visit Mac Johnson, a retired colleague, now a promoter in the sport, who has some information for them about a recent suspicious accident in which a man was killed. But when Johnson too turns up dead, again in highly suspicious circumstances, the pair investigate the growing spate of deaths...

1976-02-18T05:00:00Z

1x19 Jojo

1x19 Jojo

  • 1976-02-18T05:00:00Z1h

Starsky and Hutch blow a Federal stake-out in order to intervene and stop violent rapist Jojo Forentic from committing his latest attack. But after they apprehend the attacker, who sprays his victims with orange paint, the duo find themselves in an up-hill battle trying to get Forentic put away, due to all of his victims being too terrified to testify against him, and a Federal Agent who promises to protect Jojo in return from him leading them to the head of a drug-running ring...

1976-02-25T05:00:00Z

1x20 Running

1x20 Running

  • 1976-02-25T05:00:00Z1h

A washed up, alcoholic former model, who Starsky went to school with, is the only person to get a good look at a murderous thief when she finds him robbing her apartment. But when she refuses assistance from the Police, Starsky risks both his career and his life as he breaks procedure and hides the girl out at his home to safeguard her until the killer is caught, but the killer and his cronies are out to see that the girl isn't around to point the finger...

1976-03-03T05:00:00Z

1x21 A Coffin for Starsky

1x21 A Coffin for Starsky

  • 1976-03-03T05:00:00Z1h

Bent on seeking revenge against Hutch a mad chemist mistakenly injects Starsky with a lethal poison that will kill him in 24 hours unless he finds the antidote in time. Things get worse when Starsky kills the only prime suspect who can identify the poison.

Season Finale

1976-04-21T05:00:00Z

1x22 Bounty Hunter

Season Finale

1x22 Bounty Hunter

  • 1976-04-21T05:00:00Z1h

When a Cop is shot dead, apparently by a bail-jumper, the Detective duo pursue the alleged murderer. But as Starsky and Hutch search for the felon, they find that they are not the only ones after the felon – an extortionist bail-bondsman and her accomplice are also on his trail...

Season Premiere

1976-09-25T04:00:00Z

2x01 The Las Vegas Strangler (1)

Season Premiere

2x01 The Las Vegas Strangler (1)

  • 1976-09-25T04:00:00Z1h

First part of a feature-length / two-part story. Dare-devil Detective duo Starsky and Hutch are loaned to the Las Vegas Police Department to snare a serial killer that has strangled a string of chorus girls. But the pair don't realise that they've been chosen for the case on more than merit alone - the prime suspect is an old high-school friend of Hutch's. While tracking down the killer, Starsky starts seeing an attractive show-girl - who could be the killer's next victim...

Concluding part of this feature-length / two-part story. The duo close in on the serial strangler who is singling out chorus girls, but the investigation holds some unexpected, startling implications about several people linked to the case...

1976-10-02T04:00:00Z

2x03 Murder at Sea (1)

2x03 Murder at Sea (1)

  • 1976-10-02T04:00:00Z1h

First part of a feature-length / two-part story. Investigating a murder, the tough duo go undercover on luxury cruise ship The Amolola, as entertainment directors Hack and Zack, where the case leads to them uncovering drug smuggling...

1976-10-02T04:00:00Z

2x04 Murder at Sea (2)

2x04 Murder at Sea (2)

  • 1976-10-02T04:00:00Z1h

Concluding part of this feature-length / two-part story. The Detective duo, undercover as cruise ship entertainers Hack and Zack, find that they have stumbled onto something much bigger than dope dealers – the ship is to be the meeting place for a group of leading syndicate figures...

1976-10-16T04:00:00Z

2x05 Gillian

2x05 Gillian

  • 1976-10-16T04:00:00Z1h

The Detective duo investigate a killing that is latest in a string of crimes in the red-light district. Off duty, Hutch is getting serious with his new girl-friend, the classy Gillian, but as the intreptid Detectives investigate the killing, Starsky by chance finds that Hutch's new love is a prostitute, who wants out but is being forced to continue by a cunning pimp and his mother. Starsky knows that his unwitting discovery could destroy his partnership with Hutch...

The Detective pair are determined to nail the wealthy Amboy, a crafty narcotics dealer who is supplying young prostitutes, and always avoids Police arrest with legal loop-holes...

1976-10-30T04:00:00Z

2x07 The Vampire

2x07 The Vampire

  • 1976-10-30T04:00:00Z1h

When a dancer is murdered in bizarre circumstances, with marks resembling fang bites on her neck and an unusually large quantity of blood missing from her body, Starsky and Hutch delve into the underworld of occcult worshippers as they investigate what appears to be the work of a vampire...

1976-11-06T05:00:00Z

2x08 The Specialist

2x08 The Specialist

  • 1976-11-06T05:00:00Z1h

Starsky, Hutch, and two other Officers respond to an armed robbery on a jewellers, only for a woman to accidentally get shot dead from the gun-fire from one of the lawmen. The dead woman's husband is a Special Agent, paranoid after being retired from the service, and convinced that the Officers were really hit-men after him, and sets about extracting his revenge on each of the Cops involved in the death of his wife.With the man an expert in specialist weapons, Starsky and Hutch must stop the deranged Agent before he uses his expertise training to wipe them out...

Dedicated Detectives Starsky and Hutch are working undercover at a plush Hollywood dance studio, as a dance teacher and student respectively, to investigate an extortion racket operating from the club that lures members into compromising situations, and then bribes the victims for large amounts of money...

The Detective duo are on the case as criminals and public alike are endangered when Solkin, a Fagin-like felon, uses an imbalanced teenager to commit crimes - including brutal assaults and murder - for his own nefarious purposes. But when Hutch unwittingly aggravates him while investigating, Solkin goads his teenage henchman to stalk and terrorise Hutch and his girl-friend...

1976-11-28T05:00:00Z

2x11 Nightmare

2x11 Nightmare

  • 1976-11-28T05:00:00Z1h

A gang of rapists who attacked a 19-year-old girl may go free because an ambitious district attorney thinks that the victim's testimony may be worthless in court.

The crime-busting pair's suspicions are aroused when they spot highly respected Police Captain "Iron Mike" Ferguson accepting an envelope from an underworld kingpin. When Ferguson recruits the duo to aid on a stakeout, they learn that he is receiving tip-offs about various criminal activities in return for ignoring and covering for the crime kingpin's operations. It's resulting in getting a number of criminal organisations off the streets, but it means that Ferguson is ultimately a corrupt officer, and the pair are torn what to do...

1976-12-25T05:00:00Z

2x13 Little Girl Lost

2x13 Little Girl Lost

  • 1976-12-25T05:00:00Z1h

It's the Christmas season, and while Starsky is happily getting into the festivities, Hutch is far more sceptical about people's sudden goodwill over the period. Responding to a call of petty shop-lifting, the pair meet Molly, a twelve-year-old tomboy, who lives with her father, a recently released convict turned alcoholic. But when soon after the girl's father is murdered by his two former partners-in-crime, who are determined to get their hands on the stolen diamond cache he went to prison for, Hutch finds himself taking Molly in for Christmas. Unfortunately, with Molly being the only one who now knows the whereabouts of the diamonds, the two crooks who killed her father are now after her...

1977-01-01T05:00:00Z

2x14 Bloodbath

2x14 Bloodbath

  • 1977-01-01T05:00:00Z1h

On the day of trial of Simon Marcus, a murderous cult leader that Starsky and Hutch arrested, Starsky is snatched away by the cult leader's followers just before judgement is passed. The vengeful followers will only release him safely if their leader is released without charge - if Simon Marcus is sentenced to prison, then Starsky is sentenced to death. Hutch must find his partner before he is subjected to a deadly "religious" ritual, as foreseen in the deranged leader's visions...

1977-01-15T05:00:00Z

2x15 The Psychic

2x15 The Psychic

  • 1977-01-15T05:00:00Z1h

Huggy introduces the Detective duo to a friend of his, opening up a new café, who unwittingly has clairvoyant visions. Starsky is sceptical of such psychic ability, Hutch more willing to believe, but the psychic's predictions start to come true when his visions tie in to the whereabouts of a wealthy businessman's kidnapped teenage daughter, who is being held for a large ransom...

1977-01-22T05:00:00Z

2x16 The Set-Up (1)

2x16 The Set-Up (1)

  • 1977-01-22T05:00:00Z1h

First episode of a two-part story. The tough Detective partners are working incognito as truckers, in an operation to safely transport Joe Durniak - a man with Mob connections who Starsky knows from his childhood - who is promised protection and a new identity in return for giving testimony as a key state witness. But when Durniak is shot dead by a lone gunman convinced that Durniak was behind the murder of his wife, Starsky and Hutch find themselves uncovering a complex plot of bizarre deception. But as they investigate, they themselves come under suspicion for being involved with Durniak's murder...

1977-01-29T05:00:00Z

2x17 The Set-Up (2)

2x17 The Set-Up (2)

  • 1977-01-29T05:00:00Z1h

Conclusion of this two-part story. The duo try to uncover the truth behind Terry Nash - the well-intentioned gun-man out to avenge the murder of his wife and who, until recently, didn't seem to even exist - but in doing so, they are framed and wind up suspended from duty and becoming fugitives. Determined to unlock the secrets about Terry and to clear their names, the twisted trail of their investigations leads to a complex operation in which innocent victims are brain-washed into murdering those that they believe to be their enemies. But with the investigations getting too close to home, the masterminds behind the brain-washing set-up have new murder victims in their sights - Starsky and Hutch...

1977-02-05T05:00:00Z

2x18 Survival

2x18 Survival

  • 1977-02-05T05:00:00Z1h

After Hutch plays the key part in a successful undercover operation to nail a wanted racketeer, the captured felon hires a hit-man to prevent Hutch from testifying in court. The assassin runs him off the road and down an embankment, leaving Hutch trapped under the wreckage of his car, near death, in a desolate area, while Starsky desperately searches for his missing partner...

Crazed killer Prudholm returns to extract his revenge on Starsky, who he blames for the death of his son while in Police custody. By targeting Starsky's beloved girl-friend, making sure that she is shot in a supermarket heist, leaving her with a bullet fragment lodged in her brain and facing impending death...

1977-02-19T05:00:00Z

2x20 Huggy Bear and the Turkey

Huggy Bear has linked up with his friend, former Sheriff "Turkey" Turquet, to set up their own Private Detective Agency. Their first case sees them hired to find a woman's missing husband, and while trying to find him, they find themselves pursued by several undesirable parties who have various concerns with the elusive man in question...

1977-02-26T05:00:00Z

2x21 The Committee

2x21 The Committee

  • 1977-02-26T05:00:00Z1h

After the streetwise Detectives capture a rapist, they are outraged when the thug is let of with a lenient court sentence. Starsky openly vents his disgust at such light punishment - attracting the interests of a vigilante Police 'death squad', who are executing criminals that are given such lenient sentences, and see him as their next possible recruit...

1977-03-05T05:00:00Z

2x22 The Velvet Jungle

2x22 The Velvet Jungle

  • 1977-03-05T05:00:00Z1h

An illegal immigrant witnesses the murder of a co-worker who was threatening to expose the illegal activities of crooked Immigration officials, and is forced to hide out in fear as she too is now hunted by the killer. The Detective duo step in to investigate and uncover an illegal-alien smuggling operation...

The dashing Detectives try to catch the deranged stalker who is hounding a successful country singer, and will only stop if she pays him $10,000. At first, the anonymous madman just issues threats via phone, but when he turns to murder, Starsky and Hutch must piece together just who the extortionist is and capture him before anyone else is killed...

1977-03-19T05:00:00Z

2x24 Murder on Stage 17

2x24 Murder on Stage 17

  • 1977-03-19T05:00:00Z1h

The dare-devil Detectives work undercover as stunt-men on the set of a new Western movie, in order to investigate a series of suspicious, fatal "accidents" that has befallen several members of a long-standing group of actors known as the 'Wolf Pack', with the head of the group and star of the film fearing that he'll be next. As Starsky and Hutch roll with the punches and blows in their guises as stunt-men, the case leads them to uncover a bizarre story of thwarted stardom and twisted revenge...

Season Finale

1977-04-16T05:00:00Z

2x25 Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty

Season Finale

2x25 Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty

  • 1977-04-16T05:00:00Z1h

When a Police informant is brutally beaten, witnesses point the finger at Starsky and Hutch. As the vicious assaults continue, the Detective partners are dropped increasingly deeper in hot water as they realise they are being framed. Unbeknown to them, they're being impersonated by two look-alike impostors out to get the genuine pair a bad name and Police suspension...

Concluding this feature-length / two-part story. Still undercover at the lush resort of Playboy Island, Starsky and Hutch must find out who is behind the voodoo murders and why, but as they look into the strange goings-on surrounding billionaire recluse William Thorne, they find themselves battling the black magic of a powerful witch doctor...

1977-09-24T04:00:00Z

3x03 Fatal Charm

3x03 Fatal Charm

  • 1977-09-24T04:00:00Z1h

While Starsky, Hutch and Officer Linda Baylor are working on an operation to trap a wanted drug dealer, Hutch receives a minor wound, and reports to hospital, where he meets nurse Diana Harmon. After they meet later at a bar, they spend a romantic evening together. But when afterwards Hutch, concerned by her possessive ways, doesn't plan to continue with the relationship, Diana starts displaying unbalanced, obsessive behaviour that not only jeopardises the Police operation, but puts Hutch in great danger...

1977-10-01T04:00:00Z

3x04 I Love You, Rosey Malone

Two Senate Investigative Committee agents want Starsky to strike up romance with a beautiful young woman he met while out jogging, in order to get close to her and extract information about her syndicate figure father. But as Starsky enters the ""undercover relationship"", he falls blissfully in love with the girl for real – and the two agents are manipulating them both...

1977-10-08T04:00:00Z

3x05 Murder Ward

3x05 Murder Ward

  • 1977-10-08T04:00:00Z1h

The intrepid cops go undercover at a mental hospital, with Starsky as a patient and Hutch as an orderly, to investigate a number of mysterious patient deaths that have occurred at the asylum. With a female journalist, also undercover as a patient, they uncover that someone in the hospital is illegally using patients as human guinea-pigs for the testing of behaviour modification drugs...

The intreptid Detective partners investigate when a colleague – an old friend of Starsky's – is found dead in a sleazy red-light district hotel, and are shocked to uncover that the married murdered Lieutenant was a closet homosexual with a history of gay relationships. But just who is behind his death, and why?...

1977-10-22T04:00:00Z

3x07 The Crying Child

3x07 The Crying Child

  • 1977-10-22T04:00:00Z1h

A school teacher, fearing loosing her job if her concerns are unfounded, asks Starsky and Hutch to look into a suspected case of child abuse surrounding a continually bruised six-year-old boy in her class. The pair are drawn into a disturbing case of domestic violence, but they most prove their concerns if they are to save the young boy from further abuse...

1977-10-29T04:00:00Z

3x08 The Heroes

3x08 The Heroes

  • 1977-10-29T04:00:00Z1h

The streetwise cops are disgruntled when they are assigned to have a newspaper journalist accompany them for a couple of days, until they learn that the reporter is an attractive woman. As they try to trace a drug supplier who is poisoning the narcotics he pushes, the pair go all out to impress the reporter, but when she misunderstands their often unorthodox Policing methods, the woman writes a very unfavorable article about them...

1977-11-19T05:00:00Z

3x09 The Plague (1)

3x09 The Plague (1)

  • 1977-11-19T05:00:00Z1h

First episode of a two-part story. Starsky and Hutch collect a colleague from the airport, but soon after the man is struck down by a deadly disease caught from a passenger on the same flight. The streetwise Detectives must spring into action to find the carrier - an international assassin planning to make a hit on a major syndicate chief - as the entire city becomes threatened with the spreading, lethal virus...

1977-11-26T05:00:00Z

3x10 The Plague (2)

3x10 The Plague (2)

  • 1977-11-26T05:00:00Z1h

Conclusion of this two-part story. Hit-man Callendar, the carrier of the deadly plague, is still at large, and the disease has now claimed Hutch as its latest victim. With his partner hours from death, Starsky races against time to track down Callendar to obtain an anti-toxin...

1977-12-03T05:00:00Z

3x11 The Collector

3x11 The Collector

  • 1977-12-03T05:00:00Z1h

A calculating criminal bumps off a loan-shark's collector and takes over the role, collecting debts for the head of the money-loaning racket – a washed-up former child star. The Detective pals investigate, only for it to turn out that the father of Hutch's girl-friend is one of the people owing money to the crooked racket, and that the vicious new collector is actually a notorious killer with an ulterior motive...

1977-12-10T05:00:00Z

3x12 Manchild on the Streets

When a friend of Starsky and Hutch's is wrongfully shot dead by a rookie Cop after the drunk driving of the man's pal leads to a Police pursuit, the pair must do their best to steer his confused teenage son away from a life of crime, as he grows intent on avenging his father's needless death and becomes involved with a small-time thief...

1978-01-07T05:00:00Z

3x13 The Action

3x13 The Action

  • 1978-01-07T05:00:00Z1h

Starsky and Hutch set out to bust an illegal gambling ring behind the brutal beating of a friend after he failed to pay off his debts. The duo end up playing for very high stakes as they infiltrate the illegal club, run from a mobile casino in the back of an 18-wheeled truck...

1978-01-14T05:00:00Z

3x14 The Heavyweight

3x14 The Heavyweight

  • 1978-01-14T05:00:00Z1h

The crime-busting partners meet a one-time boxing champ, now a dockland worker, who witnessed the murder of a Policeman arranged by a dockland racketeer. But the former champ's own life is endangered after he refuses to take a fall in a boxing fight for the vicious racketeer...

1978-01-25T05:00:00Z

3x15 A Body Worth Guarding

3x15 A Body Worth Guarding

  • 1978-01-25T05:00:00Z1h

Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect visiting Russian prima ballerina Anna Akhanatova, whose life is threatened by political fanatics. Although Starsky is bemused by the appeal of ballet, Hutch is excited to get to meet Akhanatova, an idol of his – although when the pair actually meet, they quickly develop a fiery relationship. But as he safe-guards the girl while Starsky is investigating who is behind the threats, Hutch and the ballerina start to fall for each other...

1978-02-01T05:00:00Z

3x16 The Trap

3x16 The Trap

  • 1978-02-01T05:00:00Z1h

A trip to buy Starsky's expensive new watch ends in chaos as the duo try to catch a tearaway tomboy shoplifter. Soon after, they respond to a call from Huggy after some thugs smashed up his bar demanding information about Hutch – and unbeknown to any of them, the pair are being guided into a carefully laid ambush at a desolate farm, in a trap set by a ruthless criminal with an old score to settle with Hutch. Worse still, Joey, the young shoplifting girl, has stowed away in Starsky's car, and ends up trapped with the Detective duo in a barn that will soon be set ablaze...

1978-02-08T05:00:00Z

3x17 Satan's Witches

3x17 Satan's Witches

  • 1978-02-08T05:00:00Z1h

Staying in Captain Dobey's mountain cabin while on a short vacation, Starsky and Hutch are met with cold reception from the nearby townspeople, particularly the short-tempered local Sheriff. The cause of the people's fear soon becomes apparent when the pair find that they are neighbors in the woods to a coven full of Devil worshippers...

1978-02-15T05:00:00Z

3x18 Class in Crime

3x18 Class in Crime

  • 1978-02-15T05:00:00Z1h

Investigating a series of immaculately executed murders, the case leads Hutch back to school as a college student, to get the low-down on a brilliant college professor who teaches a senior student course on the ""philosophy of crime"" and specialises in murder...

Out of the blue, Hutch's estranged former wife Vanessa suddenly contacts him, attempting to rekindle their relationship. Hutch doesn't want to know, until Vanessa claims that she's ill with a cancerous tumour. But the next day, Vanessa is murdered in Hutch's apartment – and Hutch is the prime suspect. With two Internal Affairs agents investigating and seemingly convinced that Hutch is guilty, Starsky must help his partner trace the real culprits in order to clear his name...

1978-03-01T05:00:00Z

3x20 Foxy Lady

3x20 Foxy Lady

  • 1978-03-01T05:00:00Z1h

An attractive young woman is the only eye-witness to a man being killed for the suitcase he is carrying. As Starsky and Hutch investigate, the girl goes about using her manipulative charms to not only outwit both of them, but also the mobster behind the killing, in order to keep the hot cash inside the suitcase for herself...

1978-05-03T04:00:00Z

3x21 Partners

3x21 Partners

  • 1978-05-03T04:00:00Z1h

Starsky's reckless driving in pursuit of two robbers lands both himself and Hutch in hospital, with Hutch seemingly suffering from amnesia, unable to remember his partner or anything about their jobs. Starsky reminds him of some of their past adventures in an attempt to revive his memory.

1978-05-10T04:00:00Z

3x22 Quadromania

3x22 Quadromania

  • 1978-05-10T04:00:00Z1h

Starsky poses as a cab driver to investigate a series of strangulation murders of cabbies, performed by a man dressed in Shakespearean costume and with superhuman strength in his artificial hand.

Season Finale

1978-05-17T04:00:00Z

3x23 Deckwatch

Season Finale

3x23 Deckwatch

  • 1978-05-17T04:00:00Z1h

A serial killing seaman, who preys on prostitutes, is badly shot during his latest attack. Wounded and on the run, he resorts to holding Hutch's friend and her wheelchair-bound mother hostage in their home. Hutch poses as a paramedic to get inside the house as he and Starsky try to apprehend the desperate killer and safely free the hostages...

Season Premiere

1978-09-12T04:00:00Z

4x01 Discomania

Season Premiere

4x01 Discomania

  • 1978-09-12T04:00:00Z1h

The streetwise Detective partners go incognito as disco dudes at Fever, a popular dance club, where Sergeant Lizzie Thorpe is laid as bait in a trap set for a serial killer, who is drugging, abducting and murdering attractive women who refuse to dance with him...

1978-09-19T04:00:00Z

4x02 The Game

4x02 The Game

  • 1978-09-19T04:00:00Z1h

When they blow the capture of a wanted felon, Starsky and Hutch each blame the other, and lay down a bet to see whether or not Hutch can successfully elude Starsky for a whole weekend. But the exercise in hide-and-seek becomes more than just a game when Starsky realises that Hutch has unknowingly eaten contaminated soup, and could die from the potentially lethal botulism poisoning. It's a race against time as Starsky struggles to locate Hutch to warn him, but Hutch, unawares to the poisoning, assumes it's all part of Starsky's attempts to draw him out, and dons a number of disguises in order to stay one step ahead...

1978-09-26T04:00:00Z

4x03 Blindfold

4x03 Blindfold

  • 1978-09-26T04:00:00Z1h

Responding to a jewellery store robbery, Starsky is distraught when he accidentally shoots an art student caught in the cross-fire, costing the girl her sight. Guilt-stricken, he forcefully strikes up friendship with the blinded young woman, without confessing that he's the law officer that caused her to loose her vision. But their subsequent relationship soon proves to be very dangerous, as someone seems determined to keep him away from her, and Hutch comes to question just how much of a chance by-stander she really was in the incident...

1978-10-10T04:00:00Z

4x04 Photo Finish

4x04 Photo Finish

  • 1978-10-10T04:00:00Z1h

Starsky and Hutch brush shoulders with high-society, at an exclusive party that photographer friend Marcie has invited them to, but the event grinds to a halt when an artist is shot dead by an unknown assassin. Marcie has caught the shooting on camera, and the Detective duo confiscate the pictures for Police evidence as they begin some black-tie sleuthing on the champagne circuit. But Marcie is determined to use the valuable photos to break into big-time journalism, and quietly holds on to one to sell to the highest bidder – only for her life to now be endangered by the killer, who is determined to get their hands on the incriminating film...

1978-10-17T04:00:00Z

4x05 Moonshine

4x05 Moonshine

  • 1978-10-17T04:00:00Z1h

After they arrest two ploughboys who soon after die of poisoning, the Detective pals pose as country boys in order to track down some Southern moonshiners who have brewn a bad batch of bootleg whisky. But the ruthless head of the innocent operation is determined to continue pushing the lethal brew at any cost...

1978-10-24T04:00:00Z

4x06 Strange Justice

4x06 Strange Justice

  • 1978-10-24T04:00:00Z1h

When his daughter is raped, long-standing, veteran Detective Slate is devastated, and shoots her attacker, who's been brought in for questioning. With the wounded rapist looking like he'll get off scott-free and Slate facing serious charges, the distinguished Lieutenant takes the law into his own hands to get even with his daughter's assailant - and it's up to Starsky and Hutch to stop him in time...

1978-10-31T05:00:00Z

4x07 The Avenger

4x07 The Avenger

  • 1978-10-31T05:00:00Z1h

The intrepid Detectives investigate a woman's claims that a jealous brief acquaintance from San Francisco has followed her to the city and is responsible for the vicious murders of a string of the her lovers. But there is a sinister twist to the case, and Starsky unknowingly places himself in great danger...

1978-11-14T05:00:00Z

4x08 Dandruff

4x08 Dandruff

  • 1978-11-14T05:00:00Z1h

The Detective pair are working undercover at a plush hotel as effeminate hair-dressers Mr. Marlene and Tyrone, to trim the plans of an international master thief known as The Baron, who is expected to strike at the private auction of a highly valuable cache of diamonds...

1978-11-21T05:00:00Z

4x09 Black and Blue

4x09 Black and Blue

  • 1978-11-21T05:00:00Z1h

When the partners in crime-busting respond to a reported burglary, Hutch is shot by one of the teenage robbers, leaving him critically ill in hospital. Starsky is paired with a dynamic new partner, black Policewoman Joan Meredith, to track down the thieves, and they find themselves on the trail of an operation that is using ghetto youths to commit burglaries, and then selling their hauls on the black market...

1978-11-28T05:00:00Z

4x10 The Groupie

4x10 The Groupie

  • 1978-11-28T05:00:00Z1h

Hutch takes the guise of a bumbling swimwear buyer and Starsky poses as an eccentric photographer, as the Detective duo enter the fashion world to stitch up a garment-business racketeering ring. But as they look into the case, they receive an unusual offer of help from a woman eager to get in on the action – unfortunately, she only serves to compromise the undercover investigation...

When a leading model – an old flame of Hutch's – is told that she is terminally ill with Cancer, she arranges for a hit-man to end her life before the disease can take it's toll on her body. Then her doctors discover that she is in remission – but her contact with the genius hit-man has been severed, and she must go to old friend Hutch for help to prevent the hit from taking place...

Starsky's younger brother Nick arrives in the city to visit to his elder sibling. But the older Starsky soon has cause for concern that Nick is mixed up in criminal activities, when he is spotted entering a restaurant at the centre of a Federal stake-out that's trying to nail a counterfeiting scam...

1979-01-16T05:00:00Z

4x13 The Golden Angel

4x13 The Golden Angel

  • 1979-01-16T05:00:00Z1h

The detectives are assigned to protect a wrestler who has received a death threat, with Starsky going into the ring himself to draw out a suspect.

1979-01-23T05:00:00Z

4x14 Ballad for a Blue Lady

The detectives are called when a witness is found dead before he can testify against a notorious racketeer. Hutch begins to suspect that his girfriend's brother may be involved.

1979-01-30T05:00:00Z

4x15 Birds of a Feather

4x15 Birds of a Feather

  • 1979-01-30T05:00:00Z1h

A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.

1979-02-06T05:00:00Z

4x16 Ninety Pounds of Trouble

When a contract is put out to kill a top union official, Starsky and Hutch go undercover as hit men to protect him. But while Hutch rehearses his performance as a trigger man, Starsky is plagued by a young admirer who may compromise his cover.

An illegal poker game puts Huggy Bear in a tight spot - holding a dead man's hand and facing a choice between covering for a friend or obeying the law.

A friend of Huggy's offers to finger a judge who is supplying drugs but is killed before he can testify. The case looks lost, and the cops lose Huggy's friendship.

Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.

1979-05-08T04:00:00Z

4x21 Starsky vs. Hutch

4x21 Starsky vs. Hutch

  • 1979-05-08T04:00:00Z1h

Competing for the affections of a policewoman, Starsky and Hutch neglect their investigation of the murder of a dance-hall girl.

Season Finale

1979-05-15T04:00:00Z

4x22 Sweet Revenge

Season Finale

4x22 Sweet Revenge

  • 1979-05-15T04:00:00Z1h

As Starsky lies in a hospital bed at death's door, Hutch goes after the powerful man who tried to have him killed

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