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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 1 Episode 2 - Texas Longhorn
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Texas Longhorn

    S1:E2

    Wealthy used-car dealer Zack Tyler and his wife stop to help two men seemingly having car trouble, only for the two thugs to rob Zack, and rape and murder his wife. Starsky and Hutch work all out using their underground contacts to track down the two murderers, but they don't quite realise that once they have found the culprits, that Zack intends to get even with his wife's killers by taking the law into his own hands.

    Director:Jack Starrett
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  2. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 3 - Death Ride
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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

    Director:Gene Nelson
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  3. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 4 - Snowstorm
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Gene Nelson
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  4. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 8 - Kill Huggy Bear
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 9 - The Bait
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Bait

    S1:E9

    Dressed as flashy hustlers and using a beautiful blonde as a bait Starsky and Hutch pose as a pair of high rolling heroin dealers, climbing up the underworld ladder to nail the city's top dope distributors

    Directors:Michael Schultz, Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  6. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 18 - The Omaha Tiger
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Omaha Tiger

    S1:E18

    The dare-devil detectives become involved in the wild world of professional wrestling when they visit Mac Johnson, a retired colleague, now a promoter in the sport, who has some information for them about a recent suspicious accident in which a man was killed.

    Directors:George McCowan, Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 1 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

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

    S3:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 2 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 22 - Sweet Revenge
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 1 - Savage Sunday
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Jack Starrett
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 7 - Pariah
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Pariah

    S1:E7

    After shooting a homicidal teen during a hold-up Starsky is cleared of any wrongdoing. But, when fellow policemen are being murdered by a killer out to punish Starsky, he feels responsible and takes immediate action.

    Director:William Crain
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  12. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 7 - The Vampire
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Vampire

    S2:E7

    When a dancer is murdered in bizarre circumstances, with marks resembling fang bites on her neck and an unusually large quantity of blood missing from her body, Starsky and Hutch delve into the underworld of occcult worshippers as they investigate what appears to be the work of a vampire...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Grais

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  13. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 8 - The Specialist
    7.0/10(1 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 2 Episode 9 - Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts

    S2:E9

    Dedicated Detectives Starsky and Hutch are working undercover at a plush Hollywood dance studio, as a dance teacher and student respectively, to investigate an extortion racket operating from the club that lures members into compromising situations, and then bribes the victims for large amounts of money...

    Director:Fernando Lamas
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  15. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 11 - Nightmare
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 9 - The Plague (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 10 - The Plague (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Plague (2)

    S3:E10

    Conclusion of this two-part story. Hit-man Callendar, the carrier of the deadly plague, is still at large, and the disease has now claimed Hutch as its latest victim. With his partner hours from death, Starsky races against time to track down Callendar to obtain an anti-toxin...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 17 - Satan's Witches
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Satan's Witches

    S3:E17

    Staying in Captain Dobey's mountain cabin while on a short vacation, Starsky and Hutch are met with cold reception from the nearby townspeople, particularly the short-tempered local Sheriff. The cause of the people's fear soon becomes apparent when the pair find that they are neighbors in the woods to a coven full of Devil worshippers...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 5 - The Fix
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #19 - The Fix

    S1:E5

    Hutch is dating a girl who was formerly associated with a big-time mobster. But Hutch is abducted by the jealous mobster, who forcibly gets him hooked on heroin, in order to find out where the girl is.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 8 - The Heroes
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 21 - A Coffin for Starsky
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - A Coffin for Starsky

    S1:E21

    Bent on seeking revenge against Hutch, a mad chemist mistakenly injects Starsky with a lethal poison that will kill him in 24 hours unless he finds the antidote in time. Things get worse when Starsky kills the only prime suspect who can identify the poison.

    Directors:George McCowan, Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 6 - Death Notice
    0.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 10 - Lady Blue
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Lady Blue

    S1:E10

    A former girlfriend of Starsky's is found brutally murdered, with the body bizarrely wrapped in radio antenna wire. As the detective duo investigate, it emerges that the girl had been working undercover as a cocktail waitress while tracking down a psychotic killer. But there are several suspects as to the murderer's identity... are Starsky and Hutch on the right track?

    Directors:Don Weis, Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  24. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 11 - Captain Dobey, You're Dead!
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Captain Dobey, You're Dead!

    S1:E11

    When racist industrialist C.J. Woodfield puts out a contract on Captain Dobey and his family after the police chief a civil right's leader's assasination, Starsky and Hutch must infiltrate Woodfield's organisation before it's too late

    Directors:Don Weis, Michael Schultz
    Writer:Michael Mann

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  25. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 12 - Terror on the Docks
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    Directors:Randal Kleiser, Michael Schultz
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Texas Longhorn" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Jack Starrett and written by Fred Freiberger, it aired on 9/17/1975. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death Ride".