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The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch

Every episode of Starsky & Hutch ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch!

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 Bounty Hunter
    8.0/10(327 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Class in Crime
    8.0/10(228 votes)

    #2 - 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...

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    8.0/10(241 votes)

    #3 - 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...

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    7.8/10(392 votes)

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for Kill Huggy Bear
    7.8/10(328 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
    7.8/10(282 votes)

    #6 - 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
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    7.8/10(273 votes)

    #7 - 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...

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    7.8/10(248 votes)

    #8 - 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...

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    7.8/10(240 votes)

    #9 - 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...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.7/10(334 votes)

    #10 - 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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    7.7/10(316 votes)

    #11 - 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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    7.7/10(257 votes)

    #12 - 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?...

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.7/10(231 votes)

    #13 - 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...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for A Body Worth Guarding
    7.7/10(235 votes)

    #14 - A Body Worth Guarding

    S3:E15

    Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect visiting Russian prima ballerina Anna Akhanatova, whose life is threatened by political fanatics. Although Starsky is bemused by the appeal of ballet, Hutch is excited to get to meet Akhanatova, an idol of his – although when the pair actually meet, they quickly develop a fiery relationship. But as he safe-guards the girl while Starsky is investigating who is behind the threats, Hutch and the ballerina start to fall for each other...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Satan's Witches
    7.7/10(237 votes)

    #15 - 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...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Snowstorm
    7.6/10(366 votes)

    #16 - 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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    7.6/10(302 votes)

    #17 - 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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    7.5/10(867 votes)

    #18 - 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
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    7.5/10(376 votes)

    #19 - 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)

    #20 - 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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    7.5/10(252 votes)

    #21 - The Trap

    S3:E16

    A trip to buy Starsky's expensive new watch ends in chaos as the duo try to catch a tearaway tomboy shoplifter. Soon after, they respond to a call from Huggy after some thugs smashed up his bar demanding information about Hutch – and unbeknown to any of them, the pair are being guided into a carefully laid ambush at a desolate farm, in a trap set by a ruthless criminal with an old score to settle with Hutch. Worse still, Joey, the young shoplifting girl, has stowed away in Starsky's car, and ends up trapped with the Detective duo in a barn that will soon be set ablaze...

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  23. Background image for Hutchinson: Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One)
    7.5/10(221 votes)

    #22 - Hutchinson: Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One)

    S3:E19

    Out of the blue, Hutch's estranged former wife Vanessa suddenly contacts him, attempting to rekindle their relationship. Hutch doesn't want to know, until Vanessa claims that she's ill with a cancerous tumour. But the next day, Vanessa is murdered in Hutch's apartment – and Hutch is the prime suspect. With two Internal Affairs agents investigating and seemingly convinced that Hutch is guilty, Starsky must help his partner trace the real culprits in order to clear his name...

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    Director:Unknown
  24. Background image for Texas Longhorn
    7.4/10(395 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    7.4/10(336 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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  26. Background image for Fatal Charm
    7.4/10(247 votes)

    #25 - Fatal Charm

    S3:E3

    While Starsky, Hutch and Officer Linda Baylor are working on an operation to trap a wanted drug dealer, Hutch receives a minor wound, and reports to hospital, where he meets nurse Diana Harmon. After they meet later at a bar, they spend a romantic evening together. But when afterwards Hutch, concerned by her possessive ways, doesn't plan to continue with the relationship, Diana starts displaying unbalanced, obsessive behaviour that not only jeopardises the Police operation, but puts Hutch in great danger...

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Bounty Hunter" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch". It scored 8/10 based on 327 votes. Directed by George McCowan, Don Weis and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/21/1976. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Class in Crime".