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  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Mar 12, 1977
  • 1 h
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Mar 12, 1977
  • 1 h
Starsky & Hutch

Summary First screeching onto television screens in 1975, 'Starsky & Hutch' brought much of the streetwise grit, the violence, and the sheer excitement from hit movies such as 'Dirty Harry' to the small screen. There had been Police series virtually since then beginning of television, but 'Starsky & Hutch' had something else – this show was undo...

Directed By: George McCowan

Written By: William Blinn, Edward J. Lakso

  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Mar 12, 1977
  • 1 h
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Mar 12, 1977
  • 1 h
Starsky & Hutch
S2 • Episode 23
Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
Air Date: Mar 12, 1977
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Summary First screeching onto television screens in 1975, 'Starsky & Hutch' brought much of the streetwise grit, the violence, and the sheer excitement from hit movies such as 'Dirty Harry' to the small screen. There had been Police series virtually since then beginning of television, but 'Starsky & Hutch' had something else – this show was undo...

Created By: William Blinn

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 25, 1976 • 1 h
The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 1
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 • Sep 25, 1976 • 1 h
The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 2
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 • Oct 2, 1976 • 1 h
Murder at Sea
Episode 4 • Oct 2, 1976 • 1 h
Murder at Sea Part 2
Episode 5 • Oct 16, 1976 • 1 h
Gillian
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 • Oct 23, 1976 • 1 h
Bust Amboy
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 • Oct 30, 1976 • 1 h
The Vampire
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 • Nov 6, 1976 • 1 h
The Specialist
Episode 9 • Nov 20, 1976 • 1 h
Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts
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 • Nov 27, 1976 • 1 h
Vendetta
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 • Nov 28, 1976 • 1 h
Nightmare
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 • Dec 18, 1976 • 1 h
Iron Mike
Starsky and Hutch inadvertently discover that a highly revered police captain may be in collusion with a criminal.
Episode 13 • Dec 25, 1976 • 1 h
Little Girl Lost
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 • Jan 1, 1977 • 1 h
Bloodbath
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 • Jan 15, 1977 • 1 h
The Psychic
A psychic running a diner helps Starsky and Hutch when the schoolgirl daughter of a wealthy football team owner is kidnapped.
Episode 16 • Jan 22, 1977 • 1 h
The Set-Up: Part 1
Episode 17 • Jan 29, 1977 • 1 h
The Set-Up: Part 2
Episode 18 • Feb 5, 1977 • 1 h
Survival
When Hutch goes missing after he is ambushed on a mountain road, Starsky must depend on the help of a mentally addled WW II veteran and a child ham radio operator to find him before it's too late.
Episode 19 • Feb 12, 1977 • 1 h
Starsky's Lady
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 • Feb 19, 1977 • 1 h
Huggy Bear and the Turkey
Episode 21 • Feb 26, 1977 • 1 h
The Committee
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 • Mar 5, 1977 • 1 h
The Velvet Jungle
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 • Mar 12, 1977 • 1 h
Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
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 • Mar 19, 1977 • 1 h
Murder on Stage 17
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 • Apr 16, 1977 • 1 h
Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty
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?

Top Cast

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David Soul

Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson

Paul Michael Glaser

Det. Dave Starsky

Antonio Fargas

Huggy Bear

Bernie Hamilton

Capt. Harold Dobey

Eldon Burke

Police officer, Blood bank patient, Gambler

Marki Bey

Officer Minnie Kaplan

Charlie Picerni

Alex, Nicky Cairo, Larry

Peter MacLean

Judge Raymond McClellan, Matt Coyle, Professor Gage

Darrell Zwerling

Mr. Thistleman, Man, Mr. Gore

Chuck Hicks

Marty, Jimmy Lee Cronin, Officer Clayborne

Lynne Marta

Helen Carnahan, Cheryl Waite, K.C. McBride

Roz Kelly

Iris Thayer, Francine, Officer Linda Baylor

Dave Shelley

Geoffrey Mills, L.A. mayor, Lee Bristol

Alex Courtney

Bates, Officer Simonetti

Ann Foster

Abigail, Abigail Crabtree

Roberto Rodriguez

Club Patron, Miguelito, Mike Tedesco, Mike Todasco

LaWanda Page

Mrs. Swayder, Lady Bessie, Minnie

Ken Kercheval

Deputy D.A. Clayburn

Robert Tessier

Soldier

Kristy McNichol

Joey Carston, Meg, Molly Edwards

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