Starsky & Hutch

The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 1

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Network:ABC

Every episode of Starsky & Hutch Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 1!

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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22
Avg. Rating
7.4
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  1. 8.0/10(323 votes)

    #1 - Bounty Hunter

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    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 – an extortionist bail-bondsman and her accomplice are also on his trail...

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    Writer:N/A
  2. 7.8/10(388 votes)

    #2 - Death Notice

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    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. The hunt for the man intensifies as the stripper who was threatened is murdered, and another warned in a message that she is next; but a surprise twist means that the duo may not be looking for the right man...

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    Director:William Crain
    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.8/10(325 votes)

    #3 - Kill Huggy Bear

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    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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  4. 7.7/10(331 votes)

    #4 - The Hostages

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    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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  5. 7.7/10(313 votes)

    #5 - Losing Streak

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    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, as his former boss, connected to the Mob, sends his heavies out to retrieve the money and wipe out the man who dare steal it. The race is on for Starsky and Hutch to find Vic before the Mob get to him...

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  6. 7.6/10(361 votes)

    #6 - Snowstorm

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    S1:E4

    Starsky and Hutch, along with three other Detectives, are involved in a large drugs 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 and the three fellow Detectives, who they assume to be innocent, and nail the drugs lord behind the operation – the same man who was responsible for the murder of Captain Dobey's former partner years before... Throughout the case, Hutch keeps spotting a Dalmatian dog that seems to appear whenever danger lurks nearby...

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  8. 7.6/10(298 votes)

    #7 - Terror on the Docks

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    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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  9. 7.5/10(856 votes)

    #8 - Savage Sunday

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    S1:E1

    An elderly couple, desperate to draw attention to the poor living conditions in their old folks 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. Starsky and Hutch initially are on the hunt for the two robbers – when they learn that the car is rigged with dynamite, they have mere hours to track it down before disaster strikes...

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    Director:Jack Starrett
    Writer:N/A
  10. 7.5/10(373 votes)

    #9 - Death Ride

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    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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  11. 7.5/10(291 votes)

    #10 - Running

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    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, but the killer and his cronies are out to see that the girl isn't around to point the finger...

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  12. 7.4/10(390 votes)

    #11 - Texas Longhorn

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    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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  13. 7.4/10(334 votes)

    #12 - Pariah

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    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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  14. 7.3/10(321 votes)

    #13 - The Fix

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    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. Starsky must find his friend and the people who did this to him before it is too late and Hutch ends up dead...

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.3/10(313 votes)

    #14 - The Bait

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    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

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  16. 7.3/10(313 votes)

    #15 - Captain Dobey, You're Dead!

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    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

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  17. 7.3/10(294 votes)

    #16 - The Deadly Impostor

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    S1:E13

    John Colby, an old friend of Starsky and Hutch's, returns to town, and asks them to use their connections to help him find his ex-wife Karen. But as they look for the woman, the duo find that there are things that don't quite add up, and, unbeknown to them, the man holds a sinister and deadly secret...

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  18. 7.3/10(288 votes)

    #17 - Shootout

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    S1:E14

    After a particularly long and awkward interrogation, Starsky and Hutch decide to unwind for the evening by going for a meal at an Italian restaurant. But the evening out is hardly the relaxing time anticipated when the restaurant is taken over by two syndicate hit-men planning to take out a Mob boss when he arrives at the diner. In the commotion, Starsky is critically wounded by a gun-shot wound, and Hutch must try and keep his partner alive while dealing with the trigger-happy gun-men...

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  19. 7.3/10(281 votes)

    #18 - The Omaha Tiger

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    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. But when Johnson too turns up dead, again in highly suspicious circumstances, the pair investigate the growing spate of deaths...

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  20. 7.1/10(306 votes)

    #19 - Lady Blue

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    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?

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  21. 7.1/10(282 votes)

    #20 - Silence

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    S1:E17

    The Detective duo meet Larry, a friendly ex-con deaf mute living at a local half-way house, when they book him on a small charge. But when the trail from a series of robberies leads all indications pointing at Larry of being the culprit, the pair are convinced of his innocence and that someone else is using him as the ideal pawn...

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  22. 7.1/10(287 votes)

    #21 - Jojo

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    S1:E19

    Starsky and Hutch blow a Federal stake-out in order to intervene and stop violent rapist Jojo Forentic from committing his latest attack. But after they apprehend the attacker, who sprays his victims with orange paint, the duo find themselves in an up-hill battle trying to get Forentic put away, due to all of his victims being too terrified to testify against him, and a Federal Agent who promises to protect Jojo in return from him leading them to the head of a drug-running ring...

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  23. 7.0/10(294 votes)

    #22 - A Coffin for Starsky

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    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.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Bounty Hunter" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 323 votes. Directed by Don Weis, George McCowan and written by N/A, it aired on 4/21/1976. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Death Notice".