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Starsky and Hutch Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1976 - 1977
Episode 1
The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 1
Sat, Sep 25, 197660 mins
Starsky and Hutch are in Las Vegas to catch a serial killer who has strangled a string of chorus girls. What they don't realize is the prime suspect is an old high-school friend of Hutch's.
Episode 2
The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 2
Sat, Sep 25, 197660 mins
Starsky and Hutch continue to uncover the clues that will lead them to the Las Vegas Strangler. Hutch helps his troubled friend Jack while Starsky enjoys a brief encounter with a beautiful showgirl with a heartbreaking back story.
Episode 3
Murder at Sea
Sat, Oct 2, 197660 mins
In this double episode, after a ship's purser is murdered, Starsky and Hutch pose as onboard entertainment directors Hack & Zack to unravel a mystery involving cocaine, the syndicate, and a homicide witness who may not be who she appears to be. During their travels they contend with the Bayside Singles Club, explosives, Huggerini the Incredible, and a chase with a dune buggy.
Episode 4
Murder at Sea Part 2
Sat, Oct 2, 197660 mins
Starsky and Hutch pose as recreation officers aboard a luxury ocean liner filled with swinging singles, tourists, and an alarming collection of crime syndicate chieftains in the two-hour "Murder at Sea." The murder of a ship's officer takes on an air of intrigue when a young female travel agent for the ship, SS Amapola, is also discovered slain. Starsky and Hutch suspect a smuggling operation aboard the luxury liner and persuade a reluctant Captain LaRue to let them on board as undercover recreation staffers "Hack" and "Zack." At sea, Starsky and Hutch entertain the tourists and discover that several top bosses in the crime syndicate are aboard for a major conference.
Episode 5
Gillian
Sat, Oct 16, 197660 mins
While working a case, Starsky learns that Hutch's new girlfriend, Gillian is a high class prostitute working for some criminals they're investigating.
Episode 6
Bust Amboy
Sat, Oct 23, 197660 mins
Starsky and Hutch try to bust Mr. Amboy for his involvement in prostitution, numbers, and drugs despite their "first Bicentennial bribery offer" and the threat of a harassment charge.
Episode 7
The Vampire
Sat, Oct 30, 197660 mins
When dancers are discovered strangled and with their necks punctured, Starsky and Hutch head out to put the bite on the blood-sucking freak behind the series of vampire-style slayings.
Episode 8
The Specialist
Sat, Nov 6, 197660 mins
When Starsky and Hutch and two other cops are chasing some criminals, a woman is killed in the crossfire. The whole thing is ruled as an accident and the woman's husband doesn't take it well. When the two cops are killed, they suspect the husband. They learn that the man is a government agent who was laid off by his employers.
Episode 9
Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts
Sat, Nov 20, 197660 mins
Starsky goes undercover as Ramon the dance instructor and Hutch as wealthy Texan rancher and dance student Charlie McCabe to expose a blackmail operation.
Episode 10
Vendetta
Sat, Nov 27, 197660 mins
An investigation of brutal assaults leads Starsky and Hutch to Arty Solkin, a Fagin-like character who seems to be manipulating a troubled teen. When Arty targets Hutch, will his girlfriend, Abigail, be safe?
Episode 11
Nightmare
Sun, Nov 28, 197660 mins
Two thugs rape and assault a mentally challenged teen-aged girl. Bad news for them: Lisa is a friend of Starsky & Hutch's, who will now stop at nothing to see them put behind bars.
Episode 12
Iron Mike
Sat, Dec 18, 197660 mins
Starsky and Hutch inadvertently discover that a highly revered police captain may be in collusion with a criminal.
Episode 13
Little Girl Lost
Sat, Dec 25, 197660 mins
Molly "Pete" Edwards, a young girl living with her alcoholic, ex-con father, finds herself suddenly orphaned just before Christmas. Will Starsky and Hutch be there to help her when her father's partners in crime come looking for her?
Episode 14
Bloodbath
Sat, Jan 1, 197760 mins
In retaliation for arresting the mass murdering cult leader Simon Marcus, Starsky is kidnapped and held prisoner in a secret cult compound. Can Hutch decipher Marcus' cryptic clues and find his friend before Starsky is sacrificed?
Episode 15
The Psychic
Sat, Jan 15, 197760 mins
After Starsky and Hutch successfully chase down a transvestite shoplifter violating his parole, they get a tip from a Huggy Bear about a dead body. The flamboyant jive-talker got his information from Joe Collandra, formerly a stage psychic, now the owner of a diner, who was just showing off and now regrets it. Collandra's previous stint at using his paranormal abilities to help the police resulted in misery for the beleaguered ex-showman, and now he wants nothing to do with psychic detection. The trouble is, his vision of a dead body, in a place that is very like an amusement park, proves to be true. And now the skeptical Starsky and the believing Hutch need his help in a crime the dead man was involved with: the kidnapping of a schoolgirl, the daughter of a wealthy football team owner.
Episode 16
The Set-Up: Part 1
Sat, Jan 22, 197760 mins
Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect a criminal who's supposed to testify against his associates. But someone kills him. Later the man who kills him claims to have no remorse because the man killed his wife. But when they check him they find out that he doesn't exist and neither did his wife. And when he tries to show them all the things he remembers like the hospital he was in, which turns out to be a convent. And the bank account he withdrew from which doesn't exist. They wonder what is going on.
Episode 17
The Set-Up: Part 2
Sat, Jan 29, 197760 mins
Terry Nash confesses to assassinating a mob boss turned informant just before he was about to testify, in retaliation for his wife's murder. Starsky and Hutch discover that everything Terry remembers is not real, and they work to unravel an elaborate conspiracy with the help of Huggy's pilot friend "The Black Baron."
Episode 18
Survival
Sat, Feb 5, 197760 mins
Hutch goes undercover to get a criminal and he gets enough evidence to put him away. The criminal then instructs his lawyer to make sure that he doesn't testify. So the lawyer pays one of Hutch's informants to set him up by setting up a meet. The lawyer then sends a guy to force Hutch off the road and does. But he's not dead but pinned under his car and get out. When he doesn't show up, Starsky tries to find him. A man who's not exactly sane comes across Hutch and thinks he's a spy. He goes to see Starsky but Starsky brushes him off. Hutch tries to use his radio and a boy with a ham radio picks up his transmission. And the boy calls Starsky but can't tell him where Hutch is.
Episode 19
Starsky's Lady
Sat, Feb 12, 197760 mins
George Prudholm, who previously appeared in the season 1 episode "Pariah," has a grudge against Starsky. His desire for revenge puts Starsky's girlfriend, Terry Roberts, a special education teacher, in the line of fire.
Episode 20
Huggy Bear and the Turkey
Sat, Feb 19, 197760 mins
The title of this show sums up viewers' attitudes toward it (this was the lowest-rated "Starsky and Hutch" ever), as their flamboyant informant Huggy Bear goes into business on his own with an aspiring white private eye in an unsold spinoff-series pilot.
Episode 21
The Committee
Sat, Feb 26, 197760 mins
A cadre of corrupt cops is taking the law into its own hands, acting as judge, jury and executioner on hardened criminals freed by a soft judicial system. Starsky plays a disgruntled cop in order to infiltrate the vigilante group.
Episode 22
The Velvet Jungle
Sat, Mar 5, 197760 mins
A Costa Rican seamstress is murdered in the garment district, but an immigration official seeks to squash Starsky and Hutch's investigation, which interference only stirs their suspicions and strengthens their resolve to catch the killer.
Episode 23
Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
Sat, Mar 12, 197760 mins
Sue Ann Grainger is a country singer stalked by a gravelly voiced psychopath who insists she owes him $10,000. Stalling the investigation is Grainger's resisting Starsky and Hutch's offer to help.
Episode 24
Murder on Stage 17
Sat, Mar 19, 197760 mins
The set of a Western movie is the site of a murder, another in a series targeting members of actor Steve Hanson's Wolf pack club. Starsky and Hutch go undercover as stuntmen to protect Steve.
Episode 25
Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty
Sat, Apr 16, 197760 mins
It's double the fun but double the danger when Starsky and Hutch look-alikes hit the streets in an imitation Striped Tomato and terrorize citizens. Can the real Starsky and Hutch nab the knockoffs before having their badges yanked?
