A Starsky and Hutch Canon Compendium

CONTINUITY ERRORS A

"She only said that maybe once she made a mistake." (Lady Blue)

• 1. Starsky’s sweater is on, then off and then on in the pool scene. (Pilot)

• 2. Starsky says, “Look at those legs” to Hutch, referring to a woman that has a full-length nightgown on. And it couldn’t have been the dog as it has a raincoat on. (Pilot)

• 3. “Joanne Mello” mentions being frightened about “what happened this morning” but the shooting was the day before. (Death Ride)

• 4. Hutch’s arm with tracks in the close up is inaccurate. The camera shot angle is wrong and the shirt is too clean. It is an infill shot. (Fix)

• 5. The fake Torino has the same license plate as the real one. And Tony’s car has the same one four years later. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Discomania)

• 6. When Starsky is holding Prudholm by the throat, sometimes he has two hands on him, sometimes one hand and the gun. (Starsky’s Lady)

• 7. Ward Billings, on a gurney and wheeled to ambulance, is dead. His face, however, is uncovered and his eyes are open. (Committee)

• 8. Zane and Canelli blast two huge holes in hotel door. In the next scene the holes are gone. And the next scene, they are there again. (Pilot)

• 9. Starsky’s beer levels in glass change. (Committee)

• 10. The same door in “Mickey’s” bar opens to the street and to the alley. (Fix)

• 11. Huggy’s cigarette does a “Set-Up/Missing Time Thing.” (Kill Huggy Bear)

• 12. Hutch puts in a buck, takes out coins for beer. Joey accuses him of taking out a “ten spot,” which wouldn’t line up with the coins. (Shootout)

• 13. The newspaper is folded a different way than when Amboy was reading it when Starsky get his big clue. (Bust Amboy)

• 14. The vegetables change in bag from corn to celery between the market and Dobey’s desk. (Bust Amboy)

• 15. Starsky asks for a “couple” of Huggy Specials and Huggy brings three plates. (Deadly Imposter)

• 16. Switek shoes change. (Murder Ward)

• 17. Starsky’s fly is open during his cathartic run. (Rosey Malone)

• 18. Starsky wears a white jacket talking to Polly, a brown one on the drive to the garage and a white one again when he gets out of the car. (Lady Blue)

• 19. The daylight level changes from dark to lighter on the drive Starsky and Hutch make to the massage parlor. It should either stay the same or get darker. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)

• 20. When Hutch “shoots” Starsky, a spot appears on his shirt. Later, the shirt is unmarked. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)

• 21.The negative has been flipped in one scene showing Starsky driving the Torino. It shows Starsky driving from the right side of the car, Brit style. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)

• 22. Hutch’s jeans change color often. (Crying Child)

• 23. Some of Starsky and Hutch’s misuse of names are on purpose (ex. Hutch’s “Gil” and “Garth” in Losing Streak), but some are out-and-out errors. See “Nicknames and Aliases: Inverted Words.” (various)

• 24. Artie Solkin’s mug shot is the same photo frame as his line-up with the other perps. The angle of the camera also makes him look like he is 6’6.” (Vendetta)

• 25. Starsky is wearing the same brown and white shirt in his FBI kickback report that he is wearing in the show. The photo looks like it was taken on the same day. (Specialist)

• 26. When the Torino stalls, there are no cars behind it. When Starsky and Hutch get out, there is a jam behind them. (Death in a Different Place)

• 27. Billy gets the time of his and Nancy’s wedding wrong. It is either a script error or his error.
(Terror on the Docks)

• 28. Hutch tosses clothes on bed in a pile. When Starsky comes to the house, the clothes are all neat and tidy. (Fix)

• 29. Hutch’s shirt is buttoned up right, then wrong, then right again while he lets Starsky in the door to the hotel. (Body Worth Guarding)

• 30. Starsky points out Gil’s car to hose guy, and the shot is of an open street. When Hutch messes with the tire, the car is next to a white brick wall. It is a different infill shot. (Losing Streak)
• 31. Hutch shows Starsky Jack’s desk calendar while Starsky sits in the car. The date is the 3rd in first two shots and the 4th on the last one. (Class in Crime)

• 32. Torino is outside station, but Starsky is home. (Blindfold, Rosey Malone)

• 33. The Mercedes turns into a Mustang when it explodes. (Cover Girl)

• 34. The Torino’s window is shot out in the alley, but repaired when Starsky and Hutch go to collar Forest. (Fix)

• 35. Hutch says PatriciaTalbert took a class from Henderson twice a week, but her class schedule shows it everyday but Tuesday. (Pilot)

• 36. Hutch’s hand is slashed in the underground parking lot. A few days later, there is no sign of the injury. In fact, he smashes a fist into the palm of his hand as he and Huggy leave law office. (Sweet Revenge)

• 37. Hutch tells Lou Scobie he will meet him at Barnaby’s in twenty minutes, yet he sets his oven timer for thirty-five minutes. Hutch must figure Lou will talk really fast, and that whatever Hutch is cooking could stand a little extra time in the oven. (Survival)

• 38. Starsky pushes Jojo into the car through the front door, yet Jojo is in the backseat in the next shot. (Jojo)

• 39. Hutch puts the mars light on the Torino on the way to the robbery, but it is off when they arrive. Not knowing how far sound travels makes it unlikely he takes if off before they get there to be crafty, so looks like a production error. (Tap Dancing)

• 40. Steve says Starsky doesn’t look enough like him to “fool a blind man,” yet in a previous scene Starsky plays his stunt double. (Murder on Stage 17)

• 41. Hutch refers to the Green Parrot as the Parrot Club when talking to Huggy. (Death in a Different Place)

• 42. Starsky and Hutch bet $5 over Chris helps. That bet turns into $10 without explanation, before the guys up the bet to $20. (Heroes)

• 43. Joey Carston flings her jacket over her shoulders. In the first scene, it is all the way over her shoulder. As she walks to her bedroom, the sleeve is stuck on her head. (Trap)

• 44. Starsky has frying pan in one hand, tries to put red zippered sweatshirt on with the other as he and Hutch hurry out the door. Seconds later, Starsky’s sweatshirt is zipped all the way up, pan in hand. (Satan’s Witches)

• 45. Starsky’s hat, which falls off his head as he falls out of the cab, isn’t next to the car when Hutch and K.C. show up. (Quadromania)

• 46. Starsky and Hutch tell Toni that they will be up later to tuck her in. The McDermott’s live in an apartment. (Action)

• 47. Starsky takes Julie out “to the porch,” but the McDermotts live in an apartment. (Action)

• 48. The Anderson family goes into the Federal Witness Protection Program in 1958, but the Program didn’t start until the late ‘60s. (Targets 2, Targets 3)

• 49. Hutch asks Starsky what they know after “two days of research.” Then they head to the county sheriff and ask for the logbook for “last week on Tuesday.” One of those times is wrong, or they spent about four days or so just hanging around doing nothing. (Targets 3)

• 50. When Corman, Burke and Kalowitz force the LTD over, the cars are right next to each other. When they get out, there is six feet between them. (Snowstorm)