NOTES AND MYSTERIES C

"Hey. Hey Hutch, look, I'm no character; I'm Huggy Bear. We go back further than Louis and Clark." "Well, you'd think that somebody who dresses the way that you do, I wouldn't forget." (Partners)

• 101.M. How do Corman and Burke get Crandell’s body outside? The door is locked and the window seems an unlikely choice. (Snowstorm)

• 102.M. Why does Dobey all of a sudden start yelling the numbers he is reading back to Starsky on the phone? (Fix)

• 103.M. If Starsky is trying to hide Hutch, why does he park the Torino right in front of Huggy Bear’s? (Fix)

• 104.M. When Hutch takes off in a cab, why doesn’t Huggy alert Starsky? (Fix)

• 105.M. Is Starsky armed when he is in that upstairs room with Hutch? (Fix)

• 106.N Nectar or ambrosia? Huggy, both would work. Nectar is sweet substance from a plant. Ambrosia is drink or food of the Greek gods. (Fix)

• 107.M. Which department does Hutch call when he says, ‘Hutchinson, send an ambulance to Huggy Bear’s restaurant. Tell Captain Dobey to send over a back up unit”? Switchboard? Desk? Why doesn’t he request the back up directly? (Snowstorm)

• 108.M. What was in the little wrapped gift Abby placed on Hutch’s plate when she cooked dinner for him at his place? Hopefully not a watch, saying, “Forever Abby.” (Vendetta)

• 109.N. Starsky tells Gillian, “Back east, like Cleveland.” This makes Hutch’s comment that he lived next door to the Blake’s “back east,” more understandable. By this definition of “back east,” Duluth would qualify, rather than a locale on the eastern seaboard. (Gillian, Terror on the Docks)

• 110.M. If Fifth Avenue is so hard to get a hold of, why does Hutch interrupt Dispatch during the phone number read off and asked to be patched through? One would think he would want to save that number for later, if nothing else to save Wally’s next car. (Lady Blue)

• 111.N. Chief Ryan and Captain Dobey are both called “Chief of Detectives.” (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)

• 112.M. Starsky and Mickey say, “I’ll have a beer” in precisely the same way. An accent thing? Or did they do that scene so many times together it became an earworm of sorts? (Gillian, Fix)

• 113.M. Why does Bellamy only get a year sentence when caught with the drugs with Jerry? He had already been convicted of pimping, pushing, armed robbery and suspected of two homicides. (A Coffin for Starsky)

• 114.M. What makes Starsky and Hutch so sure that the APB will cause a policeman to shoot Larry on sight? (Silence)

• 115.N. Either Bessinger has his sport jacket in the car or he makes a stop at his house for it. Apparently he feels the need to dress up his look from the bar to crack a safe. (Silence)

• 116.M. Why does Hutch ask Officer Bill in R & I to call “Parole” to get Prudholm’s current address? While Parole certainly has this information, why doesn’t R & I have it? And if R & I doesn’t keep current addresses, then all of those types of questions would require a call to Parole. (Pariah)

• 117.M. Where are Starsky’s pants at the hospital? He had them on when Bellamy left. Did the paramedics take them off? (A Coffin for Starsky)

• 118.N. No wonder Starsky likes Sharman; she runs just like him. (Running)

• 119.N. Starsky’s “date” on the couch at the Cheese Ball Party at Hutch’s place looks just like Starsky from the back. (Deadly Imposter)

• 120.M. If Sue Ann’s last show is at 11:00, are Starsky, Hutch and Dobey giving her preferential treatment by having her fill out her complaint at Metro at roughly 1:30 in the morning? (Long Walk)

• 121.N. Sharon really did a good job scouring those thrift stores; the fake Starsky is wearing the same shirt the real Starsky wears in a later episode. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Specialist)

• 122.N. Both the fake Starsky and the real Starsky like to work on models. The real Starsky: ships. The fake Starsky: cars. (Fatal Charm, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)

• 123.M. Starsky and Hutch said they stayed fifteen minutes, from 2:55 to 3:10. Mrs. Marlowe said she saw “them” leave at 3:30. It makes the most sense that she saw the real Starsky and Hutch arrive and the fake ones leave. But this doesn’t jive with what the viewer sees Mrs. Marlowe see. It also appears she would have had to see two sets arriving and only one leaving. Lennie Atkins hears, along with the viewer, the fake Starsky and Hutch stay with Oscar Newton for a total of perhaps thirty-five seconds, which anyone taking their depositions would see clash information. This whole timing thing doesn’t make a lot of sense, showing it might be more than Mrs. Marlowe’s eyesight that is mixed up. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)

• 124.N. Vending machines seem to require either for a quarter or fifteen cents, yet Starsky is always short a dime. (Fix, Rosey Malone)

• 125.N. Dobey says the call about Blaine came in a few minutes ago, and he has already called Maggie? (Death in a Different Place)

• 126.N. Starsky's first name is used far more often than Hutch's first name regardless of the speaker. (Manchild on the Streets, Starsky’s Lady, Death in a Different Place, A Coffin for Starsky…)

• 127.M. Dobey says the, “Department is under a lot of pressure to let gays on the force.” Next sentence he utters, “So the department is not anxious to let the world know that one of its finest might have been a homosexual.” It seems that Dobey is making two opposing statements. (Death in a Different Place)

• 128.M. If the plague can be detected by a simple blood test on the street, how come it couldn’t be found in Hutch when he was in the hospital the first time? (Plague)

• 129.N. Perhaps it is the current times, but Helen’s comments about Callendar’s interest in Ritchie seem to be more along the lines of sexual interest rather than fatherly disappointment. (Plague)

• 130. Vanessa says it is Hutch’s habit to go out for his jog at 6:15 am, but Hutch is jogging at 9:30 when called to Garras’ murder. (Hutchinson For Murder One, Collector)

• 131.N. Annie’s dog, “Duvcha” seems to be a Russian word. As close as I can tell (¡ÂÁ ÔÂ‚Ӊ‡) means “absence, or without.” But this is very rudimentary. Jack also refers to dog as “Duvcha Khan,” “khan” meaning a prince or king in Persia or Turkey. (Collector)

• 132.M. Starsky must have Huggy’s number memorized. Why does he need to have it written down on the money band? (Action)

• 133.M. How did Stevie get to the sports arena? Spenser alludes to the mom being unaware Stevie us at the fights, and Stevie has no ride home. (Heavyweight)

• 134.M. Why, with two different actors, did they stick with the name “Dobey” after the Pilot? It would make more sense, and work well, to have their captain just be a different man with a different name. (Pilot, various)

• 135.N. Starsky and Hutch first see white Chevy at 1:20. They are in meeting with Dobey at 1:37. This makes for some fast footwork, as well as a short distance, from when they narrowly avoid hitting the truck with Milty and when they sit down with the Captain. Include in this seventeen minutes, Starsky and Hutch’s need to turn over their prisoner, Milty, and get up to Dobey’s office, the timing is even more amazing. (Savage Sunday)

• 136.M. Dobey tells Sarah and Henny they are free to leave; their lawyer paid their bail two hours ago. Why does Dobey keep them sitting there that long? (Savage Sunday)

• 137.M. Hutch mentions “trace of heroin in the blood analysis,” regarding either Huey Chaco or John Brown Harris. Where did they get the blood? Off of Emma Lou’s body? Neither Chaco nor Harris seems to have been injured. (Texas Longhorn)

• 138.M. Huey Chaco is released because he can’t be held for Murder One. Starsky says they should have held him, Dobey asks, “Hold him on what?” How about holding a woman at knifepoint and threatening to kill her? (Texas Longhorn)

• 139.M. How well does Starsky know Jeanie Walton? Starsky describes her as a pretty girl, knows where she lives and can get into her home. Yet he didn’t know she had been working as a waitress in his favorite bar. (Fix)

• 140.M. Why does Starsky fire only one bullet at Rodgers when they are fired upon on the street? Starsky’s gun either appears to have jammed, though he says nothing to Hutch. Either that, or he only had one bullet going into gunfight, which seems careless. He does something to it quick enough to cover Hutch as he runs across the street. (Snowstorm)

• 141.M. Why is Starsky’s gun in his back pants pocket, and not in his holster, as he fights Burke on the couch? (Snowstorm)

• 142.M. Why doesn’t Dobey give Starsky the message from Mickey over the Torino radio, instead of relying on Huggy? (Fix)

• 143.M. Why doesn’t Starsky handcuff Forest right away when he puts him in the Torino? (Fix)

• 144.M. How did Internal Affairs get involved with the missing kilo of cocaine? It is doubtful Stryker called them with a complaint. The guy Stryker bailed out wouldn’t know. Dobey gives Starsky and Hutch forty-eight hours, “What Stryker gave you,” so one knows Starsky and Hutch talked to Dobey about it. (Snowstorm)

• 145.N. Matt Coyle sends Starsky and Hutch to Schulz’s Bar to sneak on Johnny Lonigan. The bar’s address is 1326 Devon. Years later, Starsky and Hutch hear of a “211 in progress” over the police radio at the same address. (Iron Mike, Moonshine)

• 146.M. Is Starsky not wearing his gun? Or if he is, how does he expect to get it out from that zipped red sweatshirt? Or that blue zippered sweatshirt? (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead, Deadly Imposter)

• 147.M. Why does Bettin come to Elaine’s murder site? There was no connection with Jojo at that point, and Bettin is a busy Fed. (Jojo)

• 148.N. Either a sign of the times, or a choice the writers made, but Starsky or Hutch dealing with reporters is kept at a complete minimum. One would think juggling the media would be a much bigger part of their job. (various)

• 149.M. Isn’t Dobey worried about slander on Sutton’s show when he accuses Woodfield, along with showing his photo, of murdering Douglas?(Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)

• 150.N. On the side of the laundry bin at Vinnie’s, the one Colby falls in, has “SDPO” on it. Perhaps this is a mail bin, borrowed from San Diego Post Office? (Deadly Imposter)