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The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch

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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. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 16 - The Set-Up (1)
    8.2/10(296 votes)

    #1 - 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 whom Starsky knows from his childhood - who is promised protection and a new identity in return for giving testimony as a key state witness.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 22 - Bounty Hunter
    8.1/10(340 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Directors:George McCowan, Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 17 - The Set-Up (2)
    8.1/10(295 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 19 - Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)
    8.1/10(292 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.

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 25 - Starsky and Hutch are Guilty
    8.1/10(284 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 18 - Class in Crime
    8.1/10(241 votes)

    #6 - Class in Crime

    S3:E18

    Investigating a series of immaculately executed murders, the case leads Hutch back to school as a college student, to get the low-down on a brilliant college professor who teaches a senior student course on the ""philosophy of crime"" and specialises in murder...

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Don Rene Patterson

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  7. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 23 - Deckwatch
    8.1/10(252 votes)

    #7 - Deckwatch

    S3:E23

    A serial killing seaman, who preys on prostitutes, is badly shot during his latest attack. Wounded and on the run, he resorts to holding Hutch's friend and her wheelchair-bound mother hostage in their home. Hutch poses as a paramedic to get inside the house as he and Starsky try to apprehend the desperate killer and safely free the hostages...

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 22 - Sweet Revenge
    8.1/10(252 votes)

    #8 - Sweet Revenge

    S4:E22

    As Starsky lies in a hospital bed at death's door, Hutch goes after the powerful man who tried to have him killed

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 11 - Nightmare
    8.0/10(300 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 21 - The Committee
    8.0/10(276 votes)

    #10 - The Committee

    S2:E21

    After the streetwise Detectives capture a rapist, they are outraged when the thug is let off with a lenient court sentence. Starsky openly vents his disgust at such light punishment - attracting the interests of a vigilante Police 'death squad.’

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 6 - Death Notice
    7.9/10(403 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:William Crain
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 8 - Kill Huggy Bear
    7.9/10(337 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Michael Schultz
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 8 - The Specialist
    7.9/10(279 votes)

    #13 - The Specialist

    S2:E8

    Starsky, Hutch, and two other officers respond to an armed robbery at a jeweler's, only for a woman to accidentally get shot dead 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.

    Director:Fernando Lamas
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 2 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
    7.9/10(292 votes)

    #14 - 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...

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 5 - Murder Ward
    7.9/10(285 votes)

    #15 - Murder Ward

    S3:E5

    The intrepid cops go undercover at a mental hospital, with Starsky as a patient and Hutch as an orderly, to investigate a number of mysterious patient deaths that have occurred at the asylum. With a female journalist, also undercover as a patient, they uncover that someone in the hospital is illegally using patients as human guinea-pigs for the testing of behaviour modification drugs...

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Anthony Yerkovich

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  16. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 8 - The Heroes
    7.9/10(255 votes)

    #16 - The Heroes

    S3:E8

    The streetwise cops are disgruntled when they are assigned to have a newspaper journalist accompany them for a couple of days, until they learn that the reporter is an attractive woman. As they try to trace a drug supplier who is poisoning the narcotics he pushes, the pair go all out to impress the reporter, but when she misunderstands their often unorthodox Policing methods, the woman writes a very unfavorable article about them...

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 9 - The Plague (1)
    7.9/10(247 votes)

    #17 - The Plague (1)

    S3:E9

    First episode of a two-part story. Starsky and Hutch collect a colleague from the airport, but soon after the man is struck down by a deadly disease caught from a passenger on the same flight. The streetwise Detectives must spring into action to find the carrier - an international assassin planning to make a hit on a major syndicate chief - as the entire city becomes threatened with the spreading, lethal virus...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 18 - Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)
    7.9/10(239 votes)

    #18 - Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)

    S4:E18

    A friend of Huggy's offers to finger a judge who is supplying drugs but is killed before he can testify. The case looks lost, and the cops lose Huggy's friendship.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 15 - The Hostages
    7.8/10(345 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Directors:Fernando Lamas, George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 16 - Losing Streak
    7.8/10(327 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Directors:George McCowan, Don Weis
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  21. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 1 - The Las Vegas Strangler (1)
    7.8/10(323 votes)

    #21 - 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...

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 5 - Gillian
    7.8/10(306 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 15 - The Psychic
    7.8/10(298 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Michael Mann

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  24. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 6 - Death in a Different Place
    7.8/10(263 votes)

    #24 - Death in a Different Place

    S3:E6

    The intreptid Detective partners investigate when a colleague – an old friend of Starsky's – is found dead in a sleazy red-light district hotel, and are shocked to uncover that the married murdered Lieutenant was a closet homosexual with a history of gay relationships. But just who is behind his death, and why?...

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 11 - The Collector
    7.8/10(238 votes)

    #25 - The Collector

    S3:E11

    A calculating criminal bumps off a loan-shark's collector and takes over the role, collecting debts for the head of the money-loaning racket – a washed-up former child star. The Detective pals investigate, only for it to turn out that the father of Hutch's girl-friend is one of the people owing money to the crooked racket, and that the vicious new collector is actually a notorious killer with an ulterior motive...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Set-Up (1)" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch". It scored 8.2/10 based on 296 votes. Directed by George McCowan and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/22/1977. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bounty Hunter".