Starsky and Hutch
Tough Det. Sgt. Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and educated Det. Sgt. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul) are plainclothes cops taking on dope dealers, muggers, and other thugs, aided by their souped-up red-and-white 1974 Ford Special Edition Gran Torino and their informant, Huggy Bear (Antonio Fargas). Both bachelors' private lives play out as interweaving threads in the drama.
- 1975-1979
- 4 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Tough Det. Sgt. Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and educated Det. Sgt. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul) are plainclothes cops taking on dope dealers, muggers, and other thugs, aided by their souped-up red-and-white 1974 Ford Special Edition Gran Torino and their informant, Huggy Bear (Antonio Fargas). Both bachelors' private lives play out as interweaving threads in the drama.
Season 4 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1978 - 1979
Episode 1
Discomania
Tue, Sep 12, 1978 60 mins
Along with a female officer, the Detectives go undercover at Fever, a popular discotheque, in order to set a trap for a serial killer who is murdering women that refuse to dance with him.
Episode 2
The Game
Tue, Sep 19, 1978 60 mins
After the duo fail to capture a wanted felon, Hutch bets that he can successfully elude Starsky for 48 hours. The game becomes deadly serious when Starsky discovers that Hutch has unknowingly eaten soup contaminated with botulism.
Episode 3
Blindfold
Tue, Sep 26, 1978 60 mins
Starsky is grief-stricken when pretty Emily Harrison is accidentally blinded by a shot from his gun.
Episode 4
Photo Finish
Tue, Oct 10, 1978 60 mins
When philandering artist Tony Braddock meets his doom, Starsky and Hutch begin some black-tie sleuthing on the champagne circuit.
Episode 5
Moonshine
Tue, Oct 17, 1978 60 mins
Starsky and Hutch pose as good old country boys in order to track down moonshiners who have brewed up a lethal batch of bootleg hooch.
Episode 6
Strange Justice
Tue, Oct 24, 1978 60 mins
A veteran cop's daughter is raped and the cop shoots the suspect - Starsky and Hutch try to keep the cop out of trouble and also put the rapist in jail.
Episode 7
The Avenger
Tue, Oct 31, 1978 60 mins
Starsky unknowingly places himself in serious danger when the detectives look for a woman's jealous ex-lover who has followed her from San Francisco, and is responsible for the murders of her recent one-night stands.
Episode 8
Dandruff
Tue, Nov 14, 1978 60 mins
Starsky and Hutch work undercover in a beauty salon in order to set a trap for an international jewel thief.
Episode 9
Black and Blue
Tue, Nov 21, 1978 60 mins
Hutch is wounded by a teenage thief, Starsky dubiously goes to work with his new partner, black and beautiful Inspector Joan Meredith.
Episode 10
The Groupie
Tue, Nov 28, 1978 60 mins
Starsky and Hutch pose as an eccentric photographer and a clumsy, milk-swilling swimwear buyer when the duo enters the fashion world to investigate a garment-business racketeering ring.
Episode 11
Cover Girl
Tue, Dec 12, 1978 60 mins
A top model believes she has terminal cancer and arranges for a genius hit-man to end her life. She discovers the cancer is in remission, but it is too late to cancel the contract, so she turns to old flame Hutch to prevent her own death.
Episode 12
Starsky's Brother
Tue, Dec 19, 1978 60 mins
Starsky's little brother, a smalltime hustler, arrives in town to visit Starsky. He's approached by the mob and he thinks he's become a big fish until he gets caught up in a net he can't get out of without Starsky's help.
Episode 13
The Golden Angel
Tue, Jan 16, 1979 60 mins
In order to draw out a suspect, Starsky goes into the ring when he and Hutch are assigned to protect a wrestler who has received a death threat.
Episode 14
Ballad for a Blue Lady
Tue, Jan 23, 1979 60 mins
Hutch dates a lounge singer and is badly beaten and marked for death by her racketeer brother.
Episode 15
Birds of a Feather
Tue, Jan 30, 1979 60 mins
In order to pay off his wife's gambling debts, a former partner of Hutch's arranges for the murder of a witness.
Episode 16
Ninety Pounds of Trouble
Tue, Feb 6, 1979 60 mins
Hutch poses as a hitman and bluffs the murder of Starsky to support his identity after a kid accidentally blows his cover.
Episode 17
Huggy Can't Go Home
Tue, Feb 13, 1979 60 mins
Huggy Bear works alone to help a friend retrieve some stolen money; directed by David Soul.
Episode 18
Targets Without a Badge: Part 1
Tue, Mar 6, 1979 60 mins
Starsky and Hutch lose Huggy Bear's trust and respect when they are unable to save his close friend, a possible witness from assassination.
Episode 19
Targets Without a Badge: Part 2
Sun, Mar 11, 1979 60 mins
Starsky and Hutch lose Huggy Bear's trust when they are unable to save his close friend from assassination.
Episode 20
Targets Without a Badge: Part 3
Sun, Mar 18, 1979 60 mins
The Detectives use an informer to incriminate a corrupt judge who deals in drugs.
Episode 21
Starsky vs. Hutch
Tue, May 8, 1979 60 mins
Starsky and Hutch are dating the same undercover policewoman while all three try to catch a dance hall killer.
Episode 22
Sweet Revenge
Tue, May 15, 1979 60 mins
James Marshall Gunther returns to put out a murder contract on Dave Starsky. Starsky is critically wounded and seems to be dying. Hutchinson wants revenge, but can't seem to find Gunther -- until Gunther unexpectedly hands him a present -- the corpse of his own lawyer Bates in Gunther's office.
