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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 The Set-Up (1)
    8.1/10(286 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 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
  2. Background image for Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)
    8.1/10(283 votes)

    #2 - 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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    8.0/10(327 votes)

    #3 - 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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    8.0/10(289 votes)

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for The Set-Up (2)
    8.0/10(283 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty
    8.0/10(269 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for Class in Crime
    8.0/10(228 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Deckwatch
    8.0/10(241 votes)

    #8 - 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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    7.9/10(263 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 Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
    7.8/10(282 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...

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    Writer:Unknown
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    7.8/10(273 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...

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    7.8/10(248 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...

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  18. Background image for The Plague (1)
    7.8/10(240 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...

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

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for The Las Vegas Strangler (1)
    7.7/10(311 votes)

    #19 - 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
  21. Background image for The Las Vegas Strangler (2)
    7.7/10(263 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for Gillian
    7.7/10(298 votes)

    #21 - 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
  23. Background image for The Psychic
    7.7/10(291 votes)

    #22 - 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
  24. Background image for Survival
    7.7/10(277 votes)

    #23 - 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
  25. Background image for Death in a Different Place
    7.7/10(257 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?...

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Collector
    7.7/10(231 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...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Set-Up (1)" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch". It scored 8.1/10 based on 286 votes. Directed by George McCowan and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/22/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)".