7.0/10231 votes#1 - Discomania
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1978
The streetwise Detective partners go incognito as disco dudes at Fever, a popular dance club, where Sergeant Lizzie Thorpe is laid as bait in a trap set for a serial killer, who is drugging, abducting and murdering attractive women who refuse to dance with him...
Director: Arthur Marks
Writer: N/A
7.3/10217 votes#2 - The Game
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1978
When they blow the capture of a wanted felon, Starsky and Hutch each blame the other, and lay down a bet to see whether or not Hutch can successfully elude Starsky for a whole weekend. But the exercise in hide-and-seek becomes more than just a game when Starsky realises that Hutch has unknowingly eaten contaminated soup, and could die from the potentially lethal botulism poisoning. It's a race against time as Starsky struggles to locate Hutch to warn him, but Hutch, unawares to the poisoning, assumes it's all part of Starsky's attempts to draw him out, and dons a number of disguises in order to stay one step ahead...
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
7.3/10225 votes#3 - Blindfold
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1978
Responding to a jewellery store robbery, Starsky is distraught when he accidentally shoots an art student caught in the cross-fire, costing the girl her sight. Guilt-stricken, he forcefully strikes up friendship with the blinded young woman, without confessing that he's the law officer that caused her to loose her vision. But their subsequent relationship soon proves to be very dangerous, as someone seems determined to keep him away from her, and Hutch comes to question just how much of a chance by-stander she really was in the incident...
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
6.9/10214 votes#4 - Photo Finish
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1978
Starsky and Hutch brush shoulders with high-society, at an exclusive party that photographer friend Marcie has invited them to, but the event grinds to a halt when an artist is shot dead by an unknown assassin. Marcie has caught the shooting on camera, and the Detective duo confiscate the pictures for Police evidence as they begin some black-tie sleuthing on the champagne circuit. But Marcie is determined to use the valuable photos to break into big-time journalism, and quietly holds on to one to sell to the highest bidder – only for her life to now be endangered by the killer, who is determined to get their hands on the incriminating film...
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Robert Swanson
6.7/10216 votes#5 - Moonshine
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1978
After they arrest two ploughboys who soon after die of poisoning, the Detective pals pose as country boys in order to track down some Southern moonshiners who have brewn a bad batch of bootleg whisky. But the ruthless head of the innocent operation is determined to continue pushing the lethal brew at any cost...
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Fred Freiberger
7.6/10224 votes#6 - Strange Justice
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1978
When his daughter is raped, long-standing, veteran Detective Slate is devastated, and shoots her attacker, who's been brought in for questioning. With the wounded rapist looking like he'll get off scott-free and Slate facing serious charges, the distinguished Lieutenant takes the law into his own hands to get even with his daughter's assailant - and it's up to Starsky and Hutch to stop him in time...
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.2/10229 votes#7 - The Avenger
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1978
The intrepid Detectives investigate a woman's claims that a jealous brief acquaintance from San Francisco has followed her to the city and is responsible for the vicious murders of a string of the her lovers. But there is a sinister twist to the case, and Starsky unknowingly places himself in great danger...
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Robert Swanson
6.2/10231 votes#8 - Dandruff
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1978
The Detective pair are working undercover at a plush hotel as effeminate hair-dressers Mr. Marlene and Tyrone, to trim the plans of an international master thief known as The Baron, who is expected to strike at the private auction of a highly valuable cache of diamonds...
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
7.2/10222 votes#9 - Black and Blue
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1978
When the partners in crime-busting respond to a reported burglary, Hutch is shot by one of the teenage robbers, leaving him critically ill in hospital. Starsky is paired with a dynamic new partner, black Policewoman Joan Meredith, to track down the thieves, and they find themselves on the trail of an operation that is using ghetto youths to commit burglaries, and then selling their hauls on the black market...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10216 votes#10 - The Groupie
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1978
Hutch takes the guise of a bumbling swimwear buyer and Starsky poses as an eccentric photographer, as the Detective duo enter the fashion world to stitch up a garment-business racketeering ring. But as they look into the case, they receive an unusual offer of help from a woman eager to get in on the action – unfortunately, she only serves to compromise the undercover investigation...
Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: N/A
7.3/10211 votes#11 - Cover Girl (a.k.a. No Deposit, No Return)
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1978
When a leading model – an old flame of Hutch's – is told that she is terminally ill with Cancer, she arranges for a hit-man to end her life before the disease can take it's toll on her body. Then her doctors discover that she is in remission – but her contact with the genius hit-man has been severed, and she must go to old friend Hutch for help to prevent the hit from taking place...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10220 votes#12 - Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1978
Starsky's younger brother Nick arrives in the city to visit to his elder sibling. But the older Starsky soon has cause for concern that Nick is mixed up in criminal activities, when he is spotted entering a restaurant at the centre of a Federal stake-out that's trying to nail a counterfeiting scam...
Director: Arthur Marks
Writer: N/A
6.0/10207 votes#13 - The Golden Angel
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1979
The detectives are assigned to protect a wrestler who has received a death threat, with Starsky going into the ring himself to draw out a suspect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/10212 votes#14 - Ballad for a Blue Lady
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1979
The detectives are called when a witness is found dead before he can testify against a notorious racketeer. Hutch begins to suspect that his girfriend's brother may be involved.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: N/A
7.1/10209 votes#15 - Birds of a Feather
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1979
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
Director: Charlie Picerni
Writer: N/A
7.0/10211 votes#16 - Ninety Pounds of Trouble
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1979
When a contract is put out to kill a top union official, Starsky and Hutch go undercover as hit men to protect him. But while Hutch rehearses his performance as a trigger man, Starsky is plagued by a young admirer who may compromise his cover.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10213 votes#17 - Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back)
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/13/1979
An illegal poker game puts Huggy Bear in a tight spot - holding a dead man's hand and facing a choice between covering for a friend or obeying the law.
Director: David Soul
Writer: N/A
7.7/10222 votes#18 - Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1979
A friend of Huggy's offers to finger a judge who is supplying drugs but is killed before he can testify. The case looks lost, and the cops lose Huggy's friendship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10212 votes#19 - Targets Without a Badge (2)
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/11/1979
Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10188 votes#20 - Targets Without a Badge (3)
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1979
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.1/10216 votes#21 - Starsky vs. Hutch
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1979
Competing for the affections of a policewoman, Starsky and Hutch neglect their investigation of the murder of a dance-hall girl.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10236 votes#22 - Sweet Revenge
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/1979
As Starsky lies in a hospital bed at death's door, Hutch goes after the powerful man who tried to have him killed
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 4
Every episode of Starsky & Hutch Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Starsky & Hutch Season 4!
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaCrime
Network:ABC
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Discomania" is the best rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch" season 4. It scored 7/10 based on 231 votes. Directed by Arthur Marks and written by N/A, it aired on 9/12/1978. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Game".