NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Quadromania
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1978
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
5.5/10255 votesLoading...#2 - Huggy Bear and the Turkey
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1977
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
Writer: William Blinn, Ron Friedman
6.0/10205 votesLoading...#3 - 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
6.1/10209 votesLoading...#4 - 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
6.2/10213 votesLoading...#5 - 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
6.3/10228 votesLoading...#6 - 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
6.4/10268 votesLoading...#7 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1977
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10217 votesLoading...#8 - Foxy Lady
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/1/1978
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: N/A
Writer: Robert Swanson
6.7/10215 votesLoading...#9 - 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
6.9/10231 votesLoading...#10 - The Heavyweight
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1978
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 Swanson
6.9/10212 votesLoading...#11 - 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
6.9/10214 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.0/10240 votesLoading...#13 - Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1976
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
7.0/10233 votesLoading...#14 - The Plague (2)
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10230 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.0/10217 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.0/10210 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10276 votesLoading...#18 - Silence
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/21/1976
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...
Director: Don Weis, George McCowan
Writer: N/A
7.1/10282 votesLoading...#19 - Jojo
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1976
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...
Director: Don Weis, George McCowan
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.1/10289 votesLoading...#20 - A Coffin for Starsky
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1976
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.
Director: Don Weis, George McCowan
Writer: N/A
7.1/10216 votesLoading...#21 - Manchild on the Streets
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1977
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: N/A
7.1/10208 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.1/10209 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.2/10301 votesLoading...#24 - Lady Blue
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1975
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?
Director: Ivan Dixon, Don Weis
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.2/10255 votesLoading...#25 - Murder at Sea (1)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1976
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: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Starsky & Hutch
Every episode of Starsky & Hutch ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaCrime
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Quadromania" is the worst rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Rick Edelstein and written by Anthony Yerkovich, it aired on 5/10/1978. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Huggy Bear and the Turkey".