NOTES AND MYSTERIES F

“Starsky's going to die, Hug. Starsky's going to die, and there ain't nothing anybody can do about it.” (Sweet Revenge)

• 251. M. Leo never touches Hutch's hands, so how does he know they're rough? (Dandruff)

• 253.M. Hutch asks Dr. Franklin, “What about the twenty-four hours? Does it still hold?” When has Hutch had the opportunity get this bit of information? (A Coffin for Starsky)

• 254.M. Why doesn’t Hutch drag the professor back to the lab with him? It would seem he would be of some help in diagnosing the antidote. (A Coffin for Starsky)

• 255.M. How does Sharman Crane get into her room without the key she dropped at Frieta’s? (Running)

• 256.M. Why does Starsky park the Torino at his apartment so it blocks three garages? (A Coffin for Starsky, Running)

• 257.M. Why does Starsky tell Sharman he knows her real name, “not the name you checked into this dump with?” He and Hutch don’t know that name either, as they didn’t stop at the desk. (Running)

• 258.M. Dobey comments, “The bracelet was part of the stuff she (Sharman) had with her when she turned up missing.” How does one determine a missing person’s jewelry? (Running)

• 259.M. When Bo Rile calls Lola at the bail bonds office, he dials three numbers, 1, 8, 7. It isn’t any part of the bail bond office’s number, which is HO4 9201. And what’s with the three-number thing? (Bounty Hunter)

• 260.M. Does Hutch hot wire the old orange truck at the construction yard? Did Starsky hot-wire the vehicle at the junkyard? Or were the keys in it? (Bounty Hunter, Texas Longhorn)

• 261.N. The first thing Starsky and Hutch must notice, when they come into see Orrin Lawford’s body, is the intense smell of burning custard. (Death in a Different Place)

• 262.N. Guy Mayer’s classroom is full of a bunch of pretty slow third graders; the same lesson is on the board every time Starsky and Hutch are there. (Crying Child)

• 263.M. What does the IA stand for on Guy Mayer’s baseball cap stand for? (Crying Child)

• 264.M. How does Hunter know Corday killed Orrin Lawford? (Death in a Different Place)

• 265.M. Was there $5000 in the envelope Thomas Callendar gives to his rooftop contact? Or was it just plain paper? Callendar doesn’t stoop to take the money back when he leaves. (Plague)

• 266.M. Starsky and Hutch are observed in quarantine for seventy-two hours and released due to lack of evidence of the plague in their blood. Later, Dr. Meredith says the plague shows up in one’s blood within seventy-two hours or it doesn’t show at all. So what the heck happened to the diagnosis with Hutch? (Plague)

• 267.M. So why is the Thermos in the Torino’s trunk as Starsky and Hutch watch Roper? (Plague)

• 268.M. What is the back-story to Starsky mentioning to Hutch twice the Torino is “his car,” not Hutch’s? With the airport tow, he tells Hutch, “Do you mind? It is my car.” Later, as they watch Roper, Hutch tosses his empty cup into the backseat and Starsky chides him with “This does happen to be my car.” (Plague)

• 269.M. Dr. Meredith tells Dr. Kaufman he suspected the plague was a virus, “when the antibiotics didn’t work on the new cases.” Did they work on the old ones? (Plague)

• 270.M. So what is the name of the hospital Drs. Kaufman and Meredith work out of and Hutch is at? Starsky calls it Lincoln Hospital over the phone when asking to speak to Dr. Kaufman. Starsky and Hutch tell Lieutenant Anderson to head over to City Hospital and ask for Dr. Kaufman. And the physical site of the hospital is Memorial. (Plague)

• 271.M. Why doesn’t Gramps ask Lionel about the sound of the broken beer mug? Gramps has already been shown to be very observant, yet there are all sorts of things he seems to miss. (Quadromania)

• 272.N. Gotta love the fact that the actor that portrays Big Benny is Little Angie. (Plague)

• 273.M. Knowing the first phone call will come at the Auto Park at 4:00, why do Starsky and Hutch make a made dash for it? Why not just wait there, saving their breath? (Psychic)

• 274.M. What tips Moo-Moo and Earl the cops are involved, causing them to change the plans? (Psychic)

• 275.M. Hutch threatens to arrest Joe Haymes “if he tries anything,” and gets in the way of the money drop. On what charge? (Psychic)

• 276.N. Claire Dodsman has sex with Carl Starger after a “long, boring lunch.” She is heard on the recording asking Starger to dim the lights, as she is insecure regarding her body. She must be really insecure, as it would be the middle of the day when she asks him to keep the lights on. (Tap Dancing)

• 277.M. Why does Chambers have Marianne’s hotel phone number memorized? He dials it without reference or hesitation. (Tap Dancing)

• 278.M. What does “L.A.M.T.A. employees only” referring to? It is seen as Starsky and Hutch go into the alley behind Gung Ho’s. (Iron Mike)

• 279.M. If Starsky and Hutch are within their beat, how come Uncle Elmo’s Toy Shop being closed is such a big surprise to both Starsky and Hutch? And why aren’t they familiar with Uncle Elmo’s adult bookstore, if nothing else for professional reasons? By default, is Starsky’s knowledge of the short cut to the laundry due to childhood memory or adult professional knowledge? (Crying Child, Nightmare)

• 280.M. Don Widdicombe’s record says he was arrested for armed robbery on 6.2.76. Yet he is out of prison and has committed a second armed robbery on 5.28.78, less than two years later. If the viewer takes two clues about the date Starsky accidentally shoots Emily, the airing of the episode on 9.26.78, combined with the falling of leaves off the tree in the park, then Don Widdicombe is out of prison after a second arrest and committing a third crime four months later. (Blindfold)

• 281.M. Hutch introduces himself on the phone to Matt Coyle as Detective Hutchinson. Two sentences later, Coyle calls him Sergeant. Is this a continuity error, or does Matt Coyle know more about Starsky and Hutch than he lets on? (Iron Mike)

• 282.M. Is Laura Lonigan wearing Hutch’s orange bath towel? (Iron Mike, Fatal Charm)

• 283.M. Just what is Hutch bitching to Starsky about as they make Lucky Lester open the trunk of the blue Mercury? (Iron Mike)

• 284.M. Why is the van abandoned? Dobey thinks it is by accident. Hutch seems to doubt it. In any case, it is a forensic bonanza. (Bloodbath)

• 285.M. Thomas May uses the Flower Power woman as a drop. He does it in front of Washington Square Towers. She gets into her van and drives to? Washington Square Towers. Just a diversion for any tails? Or something else? (Targets 2)

• 286.N. Jack Cunningham’s take of the Carroll collection was ten percent of $461. Taking out the cost of the bathroom bomb, Jack didn’t make much on that deal. (Collector)

• 287.N. The buses in the lot say RFD but the driver’s hat says MTL. (Nightmare)

• 288.M. Garras’ apartment has a maid? That is who discovers the body. (Collector)

• 289.N. Annie Oates appears to live near Hutch’s old canal neighborhood; Cunningham is seen driving through it. (Collector)

• 290.M.Why is Starsky putting hot water into his cup in Dobey’s office? (Heavyweight)

• 291.M. Dobey says Willits has no convictions, yet he is listed as an accomplice on Billing’s arrest record. (Committee)


• 292.N. Ginger’s address is 902 Merrivale. This compendium-er lived on 713 Merrivale while in high school. Come to think of it, she remembers Ginger’s house; it had lots of men coming and going out of it at all hours of the night. It is doubtful it had anything to do Ginger’s maternal instincts. (Committee)

• 293.M. Ginger was arrested, Hutch remembers, four years ago. According to her police record, she was also arrested about a year ago. Did Fargo get her off of that charge as well. (Committee)

• 294.M. Why doesn’t Starsky stop the nurse from giving Hutch a “morphine derivative” painkiller? He is plainly aware of its connection to heroin, even telling the nurse the story of Hutch’s forced addiction. Yet he doesn’t seem alarmed regarding the pill she is giving Hutch. (Partners)

• 295.M. Why does Lionel rob his victims as well? Does he need the money? Or is it to confuse the authorities? (Quadromania)

• 296.M. What is with the timing of Jack’s murder? Allen was supposed to meet Jack at 2:30, according to the date book. The timing of this meet is either changed to 2:00, according to the recording between them, or the other way around. In any case, it is unclear whether Jack expected Allen at 2:00 or 2:30. Michelle goes to his door at second commercial break. In an hour-long show in the seventies, this would most likely be around 2:20, perhaps a little later. Starsky and Hutch pass Michelle on the way out of the apartment at 2:20; Hutch asks Starsky the time. Michelle was in Jacks apartment for “forty-nine of the most exquisite seconds of her life” as well as the amount of time to light and smoke a portion of the cigarette Hutch finds. The timing is too tight, if not impossible. (Class in Crime)

• 297.M. Are bracelets with one’s first name engraved on them a 1970’s thing? Or a handy plot device for coroners and police detectives? Two of these bracelets turn up in Bay City; one says Sharon, the other says Madelaine. (Discomania, Deckwatch)

• 298.M. Assuming the old checker cabs aren’t taken out of circulation after a murder occurs in them, then when does Lionel know when to quit murdering people? He doesn’t pay attention to who is in them, or he wouldn’t have gone after Starsky. (Quadromania)

• 299.N. The Rookies episode Jack is watching, “Blue Christmas,” which originally aired in December of 1974. (Class in Crime)

• 300.M. How do Gage and Michelle know Allen will show up and stand in exactly the right place to be shot? (Class in Crime)