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The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch

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The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.

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  1. Background image for Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)

    S3:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)

    S3:E2

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Set-Up (1)
    8.1/10(286 votes)

    #3 - The Set-Up (1)

    S2:E16

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)
    8.1/10(282 votes)

    #4 - Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)

    S2:E19

    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...

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  5. Background image for Bounty Hunter
    8.0/10(327 votes)

    #5 - Bounty Hunter

    S1:E22

    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.

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  6. Background image for Nightmare
    8.0/10(288 votes)

    #6 - Nightmare

    S2:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Set-Up (2)
    8.0/10(283 votes)

    #7 - The Set-Up (2)

    S2:E17

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty
    8.0/10(268 votes)

    #8 - Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty

    S2:E25

    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...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Committee
    7.9/10(262 votes)

    #9 - The Committee

    S2:E21

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Death Notice
    7.8/10(392 votes)

    #10 - Death Notice

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:William Crain
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Kill Huggy Bear
    7.8/10(327 votes)

    #11 - Kill Huggy Bear

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Hostages
    7.8/10(333 votes)

    #12 - The Hostages

    S1:E15

    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.

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  14. Background image for The Specialist
    7.8/10(273 votes)

    #13 - The Specialist

    S2:E8

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Losing Streak
    7.7/10(315 votes)

    #14 - Losing Streak

    S1:E16

    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.

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  16. Background image for The Las Vegas Strangler (1)
    7.7/10(311 votes)

    #15 - The Las Vegas Strangler (1)

    S2:E1

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Las Vegas Strangler (2)
    7.7/10(263 votes)

    #16 - The Las Vegas Strangler (2)

    S2:E2

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Gillian
    7.7/10(298 votes)

    #17 - Gillian

    S2:E5

    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...

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Psychic
    7.7/10(291 votes)

    #18 - The Psychic

    S2:E15

    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...

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    Director:Don Weis
  20. Background image for Snowstorm
    7.6/10(365 votes)

    #19 - Snowstorm

    S1:E4

    Starsky and Hutch, along with three other Detectives, are involved in a large drug 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.

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  21. Background image for Terror on the Docks
    7.6/10(302 votes)

    #20 - Terror on the Docks

    S1:E12

    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.

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  22. Background image for Little Girl Lost
    7.6/10(274 votes)

    #21 - Little Girl Lost

    S2:E13

    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...

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Survival
    7.6/10(276 votes)

    #22 - Survival

    S2:E18

    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...

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    Director:David Soul
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Savage Sunday
    7.5/10(860 votes)

    #23 - Savage Sunday

    S1:E1

    An elderly couple, desperate to draw attention to the poor living conditions in their old folk’s 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.

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    Director:Jack Starrett
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Death Ride
    7.5/10(376 votes)

    #24 - Death Ride

    S1:E3

    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

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    7.5/10(294 votes)

    #25 - Running

    S1:E20

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)".