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The Worst Episodes of Starsky & Hutch

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

    #1 - Quadromania

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

    #2 - 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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  3. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 13 - The Golden Angel
    6.1/10(220 votes)

    #3 - The Golden Angel

    S4:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 21 - Starsky vs. Hutch
    6.2/10(228 votes)

    #4 - Starsky vs. Hutch

    S4:E21

    Competing for the affections of a policewoman, Starsky and Hutch neglect their investigation of the murder of a dance-hall girl.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 8 - Dandruff
    6.3/10(246 votes)

    #5 - Dandruff

    S4:E8

    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:Unknown

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  6. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 1 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
    6.4/10(288 votes)

    #6 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)

    S3:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 14 - Ballad for a Blue Lady
    6.4/10(226 votes)

    #7 - Ballad for a Blue Lady

    S4:E14

    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:Unknown

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  8. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 5 - Moonshine
    6.7/10(230 votes)

    #8 - Moonshine

    S4:E5

    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

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  9. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 20 - Foxy Lady
    6.8/10(232 votes)

    #9 - Foxy Lady

    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 Swanson

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  10. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 14 - The Heavyweight
    7.0/10(245 votes)

    #10 - The Heavyweight

    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 Swanson

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  11. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 4 - Photo Finish
    7.0/10(232 votes)

    #11 - Photo Finish

    S4:E4

    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

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  12. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 10 - The Groupie
    7.0/10(230 votes)

    #12 - The Groupie

    S4:E10

    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:Unknown

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  13. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 21 - A Coffin for Starsky
    7.1/10(303 votes)

    #13 - A Coffin for Starsky

    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.

    Directors:George McCowan, Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 10 - The Plague (2)
    7.1/10(250 votes)

    #14 - The Plague (2)

    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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  15. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 1 - Discomania
    7.1/10(244 votes)

    #15 - Discomania

    S4:E1

    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:Unknown

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  16. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 12 - Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)
    7.1/10(235 votes)

    #16 - Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)

    S4:E12

    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:Unknown

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  17. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 16 - Ninety Pounds of Trouble
    7.1/10(223 votes)

    #17 - Ninety Pounds of Trouble

    S4:E16

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 10 - Lady Blue
    7.2/10(315 votes)

    #18 - Lady Blue

    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?

    Directors:Don Weis, Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  19. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 17 - Silence
    7.2/10(294 votes)

    #19 - Silence

    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 to Larry being the culprit, the pair are convinced of his innocence, and that someone else is using him as the ideal pawn.

    Directors:George McCowan, Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Starsky & Hutch Season 1 Episode 19 - Jojo
    7.2/10(296 votes)

    #20 - Jojo

    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 struggling in an up-hill battle trying to get Forentic put away.

    Directors:George McCowan, Don Weis
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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

    #21 - 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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  22. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 4 - I Love You, Rosey Malone
    7.2/10(260 votes)

    #22 - I Love You, Rosey Malone

    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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  23. Starsky & Hutch Season 3 Episode 12 - Manchild on the Streets
    7.2/10(229 votes)

    #23 - Manchild on the Streets

    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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  24. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 17 - Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back)
    7.2/10(227 votes)

    #24 - Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back)

    S4:E17

    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:Unknown

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  25. Starsky & Hutch Season 4 Episode 19 - Targets Without a Badge (2)
    7.2/10(225 votes)

    #25 - Targets Without a Badge (2)

    S4:E19

    Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Quadromania" is the worst rated episode of "Starsky & Hutch". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Rick Edelstein and written by Anthony Yerkovich, it aired on 5/10/1978. This episode scored 5.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Huggy Bear and the Turkey".