Bernie Hamilton

Hutch is abducted and forcibly "strung out" on heroin by a jealous mobster whose ex-girl friend has become romantically involved with Hutch in "The Fix." When hoodlum Ben Forest learns that Jeannie Walden has become Hutch's girl-friend, he goes into a rage and sends one of his men to find the girl. But Hutch has found a hideaway for Jeannie's protection. Forest sends a henchman named Monk to abduct Hutch and hold him captive. He gives Hutch regular injections of heroin until the addicted young cop is willing to surrender Jeannie for another "fix." Also available on Amazon Instant Video

Business is booming as Huggy and a former sheriff from their own private detective agency in "Huggy Bear and the Turkey." Huggy Bear and J.D. Turquet become super-sleuths, "Brown and Turquet." Starsky and Hutch give them their first client -- an hysterical woman who reports her husband missing. In no time they learn that the man in question and two cohorts robbed a local gang boss of $300,000 and then the missing man apparently absconded with all three shares of the loot! The pilot thickens and Huggy and Turquet find themselves caught between the robber accomplices looking for their double crossing partner and the gang they all robbed in the first place. Each threatens to kill the fledg-ling private detectives if they don't find the man. To make matters worse, Huggy learns that the missing man's wife may be in cahoots with a member of the victim-gang and, together, they may have already killed him.

Starsky and Hutch, a hard, fast new police drama series about a pair of unusual, young, plainclothes cops who draw the toughest cases. David Soul stars as the soft-spoken Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson aid Paul Michael Glaser as the irrepressible Dave Starsky.

Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson are suspended from the police force when accused of taking bribes, coercion, assault and murder in "Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty." Two women and a police informant are brutally beaten by men witnesses say are Starsky and Hutch. The police commander of Internal Affairs, who disapproves of their sometime unorthodox tactics, jumps at the opportunity to investigate. The first victim dies. Starsky and Hutch are placed on suspension but re-fuse to turn in their badges. The second assault victim is found murdered and an all points bulletin is issued for the two. Starsky and Hutch manage to convince the third and only remaining victim, a prostitute, that whoever coerced her into accusing them in the first place -- is returning to kill all living witnesses. She is frightened and agrees to testify...this time leading police to one of their own ...the commander of Internal Affairs, who is just completing his latest book on police integrity! Also available on Amazon Instant Video

A down-and-out movie clown lives like a hermit in a major motion picture studio - appearing long enough to kill his former enemies in "Murder on Stage 17."

A small town radio disk jockey kills two people in an effort to extort $10,000 from a popular country singer in "Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road."

An illegal alien, who witnesses a murder, refuses to cooperate with police for fear of deportation, as "The Velvet Jungle." A Mexican girl threatens to expose the illegal activities of the local chief of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and she is soon murdered. Her roommate witnesses the killing, but can't go to police for fear of being deported. Starsky and Hutch corner one of the killers; but the government official arrives on the scene and shoots his cohort before their eyes -- claiming he actually saved their lives. In an attempt to catch the immigration official in a criminal act, Starsky and Hutch send a Latin policeman to his office in the guise of a crooked copy who wants a part of the illegal action. The time and place for the payoff is set in the city park where Starsky and Hutch are stationed in dis-guise - Hutch, in whiteface, as a mime, and Starsky, thrilling the kids, as Charlie Chaplin. Also available on Amazon Instant Video

A police death squad executes criminals who have received lenient court de-cisions in "The Committee." Starsky and Hutch capture a rapist but lose the chase to get his partner. They are surprised to see that the captured man is terrified that he will be shot instead of simply arrested. At the police station, a slick lawyer gets the criminal released on bail and Starsky is incensed. The released man's fears of being shot are somewhat justified when his partner on the loose is found executed in ritualistic gang-style. Once the police are suspected of the killing, Starsky is assigned to investigate undercover. Pretending to be furious over another early release -on bail, he gets into an argument with Hutch, slugs him and is suspended from the force. Later, the "maverick" Starsky is approached by the death squad. They offer him membership - but to prove himself he must execute the slick lawyer who got his accused rapist off in the first place. With their guns trained on him, he is given the man he must kill and a revolver containing one bullet. Also available on Amazon Instant Video

A man whose son was killed in prison returns to get Dave Starsky for sending him there - as "Starsky's Lady."

A man whose son was killed in prison returns to get Dave Starsky for sending him there -- as "Starsky's Lady." George Prudholm returns (from earlier episodes) to avenge his son's death by killing people Starsky loves and, ultimately, Starsky himself. Prudholm sets the two up -- causing them to kill a nineteen year old robber. He rigs a shotgun to kill Hutch and, in his most bizarre attempt to date, shoots Starsky's girlfriend. The bullet lodges in her brain and, while released from the hospital, she is told that it is only a matter of time until the fragment moves. It does and she dies. Also available on Amazon Instant Video

A sleazy racketeer, realizing that Hutch's testimony will send him to prison, hires a hit man to eliminate Hutch by forcing his car to crash in a canyon on "Starsky and Hutch." The episode marks David Soul's television directorial debut. In "Survival," Hutch sets himself up as the payoff man between mobster Vic Humphries and an Eastern syndicate in a hot car deal. At the rendezvous, Humphries double crosses Hutch and plans to kill him, but Starsky and the police arrive to arrest the racketeer. Humphies' lawyer posts his bail but they realize Hutch's testimony will convict the mobster. In desperation, Humphries hires a hit man who uses his own car as a battering ram to send Hutch's car crashing to the canyon floor where Hutch is left for dead. Also available on Amazon Instant Video

A bizarre deception causes a well meaning, average citizen to kill an im-portant state's witness as "The Setup," a special two part "Starsky and Hutch."