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The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 2

Every episode of Starsky & Hutch Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 2!

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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
    Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 1 - The Las Vegas Strangler (1)
    7.8/10(322 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 2 - The Las Vegas Strangler (2)
    7.7/10(271 votes)

    #2 - 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...

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 3 - Murder at Sea (1)
    7.3/10(271 votes)

    #3 - Murder at Sea (1)

    S2:E3

    First part of a feature-length / two-part story. Investigating a murder, the tough duo go undercover on luxury cruise ship The Amolola, as entertainment directors Hack and Zack, where the case leads to them uncovering drug smuggling...

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 4 - Murder at Sea (2)
    7.4/10(239 votes)

    #4 - Murder at Sea (2)

    S2:E4

    Concluding part of this feature-length / two-part story. The Detective duo, undercover as cruise ship entertainers Hack and Zack, find that they have stumbled onto something much bigger than dope dealers – the ship is to be the meeting place for a group of leading syndicate figures...

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 5 - Gillian
    7.8/10(305 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 6 - Bust Amboy (a.k.a. Nightlight)
    7.4/10(263 votes)

    #6 - Bust Amboy (a.k.a. Nightlight)

    S2:E6

    The Detective pair are determined to nail the wealthy Amboy, a crafty narcotics dealer who is supplying young prostitutes, and always avoids Police arrest with legal loop-holes...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 7 - The Vampire
    7.3/10(327 votes)

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

    #8 - 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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  9. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 9 - Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts
    7.2/10(256 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 10 - Vendetta (a.k.a. The Monster)
    7.5/10(271 votes)

    #10 - Vendetta (a.k.a. The Monster)

    S2:E10

    The Detective duo are on the case as criminals and public alike are endangered when Solkin, a Fagin-like felon, uses an imbalanced teenager to commit crimes - including brutal assaults and murder - for his own nefarious purposes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 11 - Nightmare
    8.1/10(299 votes)

    #11 - 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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  12. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 12 - Iron Mike
    7.5/10(257 votes)

    #12 - Iron Mike

    S2:E12

    The crime-busting pair's suspicions are aroused when they spot highly respected Police Captain "Iron Mike" Ferguson accepting an envelope from an underworld kingpin.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 13 - Little Girl Lost
    7.7/10(287 votes)

    #13 - Little Girl Lost

    S2:E13

    It's the Christmas season, and while Starsky is happily getting into the festivities, Hutch is far more sceptical about people's sudden goodwill over the period. Responding to a call of petty shop-lifting, the pair meet Molly, a twelve-year-old tomboy, who lives with her father, a recently released convict turned alcoholic.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 14 - Bloodbath
    7.5/10(280 votes)

    #14 - Bloodbath

    S2:E14

    On the day of trial of Simon Marcus, a murderous cult leader that Starsky and Hutch arrested, Starsky is snatched away by the cult leader's followers just before judgement is passed.

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

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

    #17 - 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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  18. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 18 - Survival
    7.7/10(285 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:David Soul
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 19 - Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)
    8.2/10(292 votes)

    #19 - 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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  20. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 20 - Huggy Bear and the Turkey
    5.5/10(270 votes)

    #20 - Huggy Bear and the Turkey

    S2:E20

    Huggy Bear has linked up with his friend, former Sheriff "Turkey" Turquet, to set up their own Private Detective Agency. Their first case sees them hired to find a woman's missing husband, and while trying to find him, they find themselves pursued by several undesirable parties who have various concerns with the elusive man in question...

    Director:Jack Starrett
    Writers:William Blinn, Ron Friedman

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  21. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 21 - The Committee
    8.0/10(275 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 22 - The Velvet Jungle
    7.5/10(249 votes)

    #22 - The Velvet Jungle

    S2:E22

    An illegal immigrant witnesses the murder of a co-worker who was threatening to expose the illegal activities of crooked Immigration officials, and is forced to hide out in fear as she too is now hunted by the killer. The Detective duo step in to investigate and uncover an illegal-alien smuggling operation...

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 23 - Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
    7.4/10(258 votes)

    #23 - Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road

    S2:E23

    The dashing Detectives try to catch the deranged stalker who is hounding a successful country singer, and will only stop if she pays him $10,000.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  24. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 24 - Murder on Stage 17
    7.4/10(273 votes)

    #24 - Murder on Stage 17

    S2:E24

    The dare-devil Detectives work undercover as stunt-men on the set of a new Western movie, in order to investigate a series of suspicious, fatal "accidents" that have befallen several members of a long-standing group of actors known as the 'Wolf Pack', with the head of the group and star of the film fearing that he'll be next.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Starsky & Hutch Season 2 Episode 25 - Starsky and Hutch are Guilty
    8.1/10(281 votes)

    #25 - 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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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Las Vegas Strangler (1)" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 322 votes. Directed by George McCowan and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/25/1976. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Las Vegas Strangler (2)".