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The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 3

Every episode of Starsky & Hutch Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 3!

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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 3 Episode 18 - Class in Crime
    8.1/10(255 votes)

    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...

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Don Rene Patterson

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  2. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 23 - Deckwatch
    8.1/10(261 votes)

    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...

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 2 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
    7.9/10(310 votes)

    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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  4. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 5 - Murder Ward
    7.9/10(301 votes)

    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...

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Anthony Yerkovich

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  5. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 8 - The Heroes
    7.9/10(267 votes)

    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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  6. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 9 - The Plague (1)
    7.9/10(259 votes)

    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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  7. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 6 - Death in a Different Place
    7.8/10(276 votes)

    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?...

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 11 - The Collector
    7.8/10(252 votes)

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 17 - Satan's Witches
    7.8/10(257 votes)

    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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  10. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 15 - A Body Worth Guarding
    7.7/10(254 votes)

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 16 - The Trap
    7.6/10(282 votes)

    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...

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  12. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 19 - Hutchinson: Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One)
    7.6/10(240 votes)

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  13. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 3 - Fatal Charm
    7.4/10(269 votes)

    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...

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 7 - The Crying Child
    7.4/10(258 votes)

    S3:E7

    A school teacher, fearing loosing her job if her concerns are unfounded, asks Starsky and Hutch to look into a suspected case of child abuse surrounding a continually bruised six-year-old boy in her class. The pair are drawn into a disturbing case of domestic violence, but they most prove their concerns if they are to save the young boy from further abuse...

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 13 - The Action
    7.3/10(232 votes)

    S3:E13

    Starsky and Hutch set out to bust an illegal gambling ring behind the brutal beating of a friend after he failed to pay off his debts. The duo end up playing for very high stakes as they infiltrate the illegal club, run from a mobile casino in the back of an 18-wheeled truck...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  16. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 21 - Partners
    7.3/10(250 votes)

    S3:E21

    Starsky's reckless driving in pursuit of two robbers lands both himself and Hutch in hospital, with Hutch seemingly suffering from amnesia, unable to remember his partner or anything about their jobs. Starsky reminds him of some of their past adventures in an attempt to revive his memory.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 4 - I Love You, Rosey Malone
    7.2/10(273 votes)

    S3:E4

    Two Senate Investigative Committee agents want Starsky to strike up romance with a beautiful young woman he met while out jogging, in order to get close to her and extract information about her syndicate figure father. But as Starsky enters the ""undercover relationship"", he falls blissfully in love with the girl for real – and the two agents are manipulating them both...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 12 - Manchild on the Streets
    7.2/10(245 votes)

    S3:E12

    When a friend of Starsky and Hutch's is wrongfully shot dead by a rookie Cop after the drunk driving of the man's pal leads to a Police pursuit, the pair must do their best to steer his confused teenage son away from a life of crime, as he grows intent on avenging his father's needless death and becomes involved with a small-time thief...

    Director:David Soul
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 10 - The Plague (2)
    7.1/10(263 votes)

    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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  20. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 14 - The Heavyweight
    6.9/10(257 votes)

    S3:E14

    The crime-busting partners meet a one-time boxing champ, now a dockland worker, who witnessed the murder of a Policeman arranged by a dockland racketeer. But the former champ's own life is endangered after he refuses to take a fall in a boxing fight for the vicious racketeer...

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  21. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 20 - Foxy Lady
    6.8/10(243 votes)

    S3:E20

    An attractive young woman is the only eye-witness to a man being killed for the suitcase he is carrying. As Starsky and Hutch investigate, the girl goes about using her manipulative charms to not only outwit both of them, but also the mobster behind the killing, in order to keep the hot cash inside the suitcase for herself...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  22. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 1 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
    6.4/10(304 votes)

    S3:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 22 - Quadromania
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E22

    Starsky poses as a cab driver to investigate a series of strangulation murders of cabbies, performed by a man dressed in Shakespearean costume and with superhuman strength in his artificial hand.

    Director:Rick Edelstein
    Writer:Anthony Yerkovich

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Class in Crime" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch" season 3. It scored 8.1/10 based on 255 votes. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Don Rene Patterson, it aired on 2/15/1978. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Deckwatch".