WORDS AND LETTERS

"Right, right. You drive that red tomato with the white stripe."
"Ah, red Torino."
"To-mah-to, to-may-to. What's the difference?" (Jojo)

also see, Undercover Roles, also see, Miscellaneous Names, Aliases and Nicknames

Words Starsky and Hutch mix-up/play with inversion
• 35,000/35,900, Hutch (Class in Crime)
• 465/456, Starsky (Vampire)
• 515 Sinclair/516 Sinclair, Hutch (Psychic)
• 6437/6473, Hutch (Texas Longhorn)
• a dip like Ramon/can dip like Ramon, Hutch (Tap Dancing)
• Albert/Arnold, Starsky (Death Notice)
• Ama-pola/Amapola, Huggy, pronunciation of (Murder at sea)
• Backwards/Backwoods, Hutch (Moonshine)
• bad cough/bokor Hutch (Playboy Island)
• band-aid/bandeau, Hutch (Groupie)
• Barbette/Bobbette, Starsky (Vampire)
• Bernice/Bernadette, Hutch (Dandruff)
• Better Bureau of Business/Better Business Bureau, Starsky (Little Girl Lost)
• box/pouch, Hutch (Dandruff)
• brakes/breaks, Hutch (Partners)
• brother-in-law/friend-in-law, Hutch (Starsky’s Lady)
• Carl/Cal, Starsky (Specialist)
• carma/karma, Starsky (Quadromania)
• Catherine Isabel Oates/Isabel Catherine Oates, Hutch (Collector)
• Cecil/Cecil, pronunciation of, Starsky says “Cess-sil,” Hutch says “See-sill” (Pariah)
• Apple Charlie/Charlie's Apple, Starsky (Jojo)
• Cherry/Ginger, Hutch (Death Notice)
• Columbus/Akron, Hutch (Murder at Sea)
• Command Ralph/Command Robert, Starsky (Jojo)
• condemnation/commendation, Starsky (Snowstorm)
• Corona Superba Corona/Corona Superba, Hutch (Dandruff)
• coroner’s lab and a crime team/coroner’s team and a crime lab, Starsky (Gillian)
• Cranston/Carston, Hutch (Trap)
• Dopey/Dobey, Hutch (Partners)
• dye/die, Starsky and Hutch, (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• farm out/far out, Hutch (Groupie)
• floor/window / wall / Wally, Starsky (Lady Blue)
• Frank Astaire/Fred Astaire, Hutch (Tap Dancing)
• Frazer-Kaiser/Kaiser-Frazer, Starsky (Deadly Imposter)
• Funk/Monk, Starsky (Photo Finish)
• Garth/Gil, Hutch (Losing Streak)
• gay/guy, Starsky (Dandruff)
• Goodman/Goodson, Starsky (Rosey Malone)
• greek/geek, Hutch (Bounty Hunter)
• Guapo/Guybo, Hutch. (Vampire)
• Hack/Zack, Starsky and Hutch (Murder at Sea)
• Harry Harry/Harry Marisipio, Hutch (Starsky’s Lady)
• her/him, Starsky (Psychic)
• Honeymoon for Two/ Honeymoon for One, Hutch (Murder on Stage 17)
• Husky/Starch and Starsky and Hutch, Colby (Deadly Imposter)
• I/we, Starsky (Tap Dancing)
• igneous/Ignatius, Hutch (Committee)
• Ingrid Bergman/Ingmar Bergman, Starsky (Murder on Stage 17)
• invenigration/ nvigoration, Starsky (Specialist)
• Julio/Julio, pronunciation of, Hutch strangely gets it really wrong with a hard “J.” (Psychic)
• Lagoosi/Lugosi, Starsky (Shootout)
• Leonardo and Da Vinci/Leonardo Da Vinci, Starsky (Jojo)
• listenin’/missing, Starsky and Hutch (Partners)
• Macaroon/Cameroon/Cameron, Ace, Starsky and Hutch (Las Vegas Strangler)
• mayo/maillot, Hutch (Groupie)
• mice-stro/maestro, Starsky and Hutch (Shootout)
• Mountainview/Hillview, Hutch (Bait)
• mushu pork/mushi pork, Starsky (Iron Mike)
• nectar/ambrosia, Huggy (Fix)
• nauseous/nauseated, Hutch (Body Worth Guarding)
• Lazinka/Kazinka/Zelinka, Starsky and Hutch (Murder at Sea)
• orange juice/carrot juice, Starsky (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Parker Hose/Parker House, Hutch (Murder at Sea)
• Parrot Club/Green Parrot, Hutch (Death in a Different Place)
• prince/earl, Hutch (Jojo)
• Rachel and Mary/ illiam and Mary, Starsky (Class in Crime)
• Randolph the Magnificent/ andolph the Great, Hutch (Cover Girl)
• Renaldo/Renaldi, Hutch (Groupie)
• Rita/Anita, Hutch (Game)
• Rita/Anita, Starsky (Game)
• seat/suit, Hutch (Groupie)
• Second Inspector/Detective Inspector, Starsky (Black and Blue)
• semper fee/semper fi, Starsky (Little Girl Lost)
• serape/tent, Starsky (Long Walk)
• Smelly Rolly/Fat Rolly, Starsky (Texas Longhorn)
• Smithers/Withers, Starsky (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Smooth Talking Tony Zucker/Smooth Tony Zucker, Hutch (Groupie)
• South Carolina/North Carolina, Starsky (Long Walk)
• Swiss cheese/cream cheese, Hutch (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• Teddy's Paris Bar/Teddy's Bar, Starsky (Jojo)
• Three Musketeers/Three Corks/Corkasin Brothers/Three Corsicans, Starsky (Deadly Imposter)
• Three Zebras/Zebra Three, Hutch (Partners)
• tempus/tempest, Starsky (Pariah)
• tout suite/tout de suite, Huggy (Bait)
• trout with your wine/wine with your trout, Starsky (Satan’s Witches)
• underbed/undercover, Hutch (Starsky vs. Hutch)

Other notable word mix-ups
• abolitionists/prohibitionists, Nick Starsky (Starsky’s Brother)
• Boo-vet/Bouvet, Dobey (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• bottle-ism/botulism, Merle (Game)
• brought/bought, Marianne (Ballad For a Blue Lady)
• bud/flower, Kenny Adachi (Dandruff)
• buzzard/man, Hutch (Golden Angel)
• California Hotel/Hotel Californian, Ernie (Game)
• Catherine Elizabeth Oates/Isabel Catherine Oates, Dobey (Collector)
• civil/civic, Hilda Zuckerman (Dandruff)
• Colonel Jim/Commander Jim, Polly (Lady Blue)
• decoy/duck, Masha (Body Worth Guarding)
• Gary/Woody, Prudholm (Starsky’s Lady)
• Henderson/Hutchinson, Ace (Las Vegas Strangler)
• her mother/her matar, Danny (Velvet Jungle)
• Hup/Hutch, Eddie Hoyle (Bounty Hunter)
• Husky/Hutch, John Colby (Deadly Imposter)
• Hutchinson Ken/Ken Hutchinson, Professor Gage (Class in Crime)
• Miss/Mrs., Dobey (Targets 1)
• Mr. Prince/Prince Nairobi, Buddy Owens (Dandruff)
• Rile/Lyle, Eddie Hoyle (Bounty Hunter)
• Selma/Birmingham, Cassie (Strange Justice)
• sending device/bug, Davidowsky (Dandruff)
• Silvers/Slokin/Silva, Anita (Game)
• Sparsky/Starsky, Bonnie (Partners)
• Spotlight of Sports/Spotlight on Sports, Tommy Reese (Golden Angel)
• Starch/Starsky, John Colby (Deadly Imposter)
• Starchy/Starsky, Laura (Velvet Jungle)
• Starky/Starsky, Bonnie (Partners)
• Starpy/Starsk, Eddie Hoyle (Bounty Hunter)
• Stephen/Starsky, Katie (Starsky’s Brother)
• Terry/Harry, Sue Ann (Long Walk)
• tresses/dresses, Hilda Zuckerman (Dandruff)
• Tyrone/Marlene, Huggy (Dandruff)
• underbed/undercover, Madame Marlene Bouvet (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• whore/horse, Huggy (Death Ride)
• Witson/Whitmore, Callendar’s cabbie (Plague)

Aural alphabet soup, someone has to say the actual letter, did not include acronyms
• Starsky reminds Bigalow, “Hutchinson, it begins with an ‘H.’” (Survival)
• Clay Hilliard’s nickname is “Josie the N'.” (Action)
• Hutch tells Gage, “Give the professor an ‘A'.” (Class in Crime')
• Starsky tells Goodman, “The “S” comes before the ‘K’.” (Rosey Malone)
• Starsky tells Huggy, “That’s Gillian, with a ‘G’.” (Gillian)
• Starsky and Hutch, "S-L-O-B-S are we." (Playboy Island)
• Tony Mariposa tells Rita, “If we do not, I say, if we do ‘N-O-T’ win those fifty big ones…” (Discomania)
• Hutch says Allen Richards graduated with a 'B+'.” (Class in Crime)
• Dobey tells Hutch that Starsky, “had better be on his 'J-O-B'.” (Class in Crime)
• Huggy refers to Haimie as “B", perhaps referring to his last name. (Deadly Imposter)
• Starsky points out “O” and “C” after someone’s name means “organized crime.” (Groupie)
• Starsky begins sign language with Rosey, “There’s the first letter, ‘A’.” (Rosey Malone)
• Starsky tells Hutch if his name started with an “A”, rather than an “S”, he might have been a doctor. (Specialist)
• Basil Monk spells out his name for police. “M-O-N-K.” (Photo Finish)
• Monique Travers shouts “You, you, you, you.” (Avenger)
• Hutch alludes to his handkerchiefs monogrammed with the letter “H.” (Specialist)
• Starsky tells Hutch to go home and “catch a few “Z's.” (Fatal Charm)
• Iris Thayer says she is "P" for punctual and "H" for hot. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Abby reassures Hutch there is a “triple dose of vitamin 'E' in the dessert. (Bounty Hunter)
• Starsky hassles Hutch about his vitamin “E.” (Plague)
• According to Stafford, guests from staterooms "D, E, F, B" as well as "C" are not in attendance. (Murder at Sea)
• Huggy says about Eric Snow's next voyage, "N-E-X-T." (Murder at Sea)
• Hutch says, “looks like plan 'B' just went into effect.” (Fatal Charm)
• Starsky and Hutch argue over the license plate number, "No, B." "E" "B" "It's E." "It's B." (Losing Streak)
• Simonetti tells Dryden they will do their job “down to crossing the last ‘T’.” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• Hutch says Zebra Three “sounds like something out of a 'B' movie.” (Partners)
• Starsky asks Hutch if he has to take vitamin “E” to live a long time. (Plague)
• Starsky corrects Hutch, “That’s Starsky, with an 'S'.” (Partners)
• Gramps asks Lionel to return the bishop to “Q3.” (Quadromania)
• The Black Baron mentions he has vitamin “C” in his bag. (Set-Up)
• Hutch tells the car club, “That’s Hutchinson. 'H-U-T'…” (Blue Lady)
• Hutch asks Wally, "'D’ is for drive, right?” (Lady Blue)
• Hutch spells out Lisa's last name for the airport, "K-E-N-D-R--I-C-K." (Foxy Lady)
• Hutch asks Wally, "'R’ is reverse?” (Lady Blue)
• Starsky calls Mrs. Walters “Mrs. ‘W'.” (Manchild on the Streets)
• Hutch threatens Lola they have enough to charge her with Extortion and Murder “in capital letters.” (Bounty Hunter)
• Gunther’s dad used the phrase “easy as alphabet soup.” (Sweet Revenge)
• Starsky and Hutch guess at the letters on the car seat, “’M,’ that a ‘P’…it’s an ‘E’, ‘R,’” before deciding on “M-E-R.” (Discomania)
• The mechanic spells out Marty’s last name, “P-O-M-M-I-E-R.” (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Nick will get his money from Stryker “C.O.D,” “Collect On Delivery.” (Starsky’s Brother)
• "S-L-O-B" stands for Sanitation Lift Operators Brotherhood. (Playboy Island)
• The dealer calls Freddie “Mr. ‘F’.” (Action)
• Hutch refers to the quarter as a "J-F-K." (Vendetta)
• Vivian spells out her name, “F-E-L-L-E-R-S” for Starsky’s report. (Manchild on the Streets)
• Hutch asks Billy, “ ‘A’, if you’ve told Nancy and ‘B’, if you’re going to change your ways.” (Terror on the Docks)
• The Professor fingers Josie "the N." (Action)
• Mac Johnson's body was found at the hot dog stand near section "E". (Omaha Tiger)
• Dobey spells out D-Y-E. (Sweet Revenge)

Malapropisms and mixed-metaphors
• “Cream of the society blue book,” says Hutch. (Photo Finish)
• “Turn you into Siamese twins,” threatens Slate. (Strange Justice)
• “Treading on thin ice,” says Marcie. (Photo Finish)
• “First in a once-in-a-life time opportunity,” Marcie hopes for. (Photo Finish)
• “Clear as a bell,” is the weather says Starsky. (Pilot)
• “Cracking a hornets’ nest,” says Hutch. (Targets 3)
• “Committing double-suicide,” says Huggy. (Plague)
• “The voice of conscience raises his sacred heart,” says Gage. (Class in Crime)
• “Working for the abolitionists or what?” Nick asks Starsky about he and Hutch, regarding his selling dope. (Starsky’s Brother)
• "All work and no play gives Jack Ives a dull day," says Hutch . (Groupie)

Words to kill by
• Billy says, “Say hello for me,” to Jameson. (Terror on the Docks)
• Soldier says, “Hello Pigeon, let’s see if you can fly,” to Lionel. (Targets 1)
• Jimmy Lucas says, “Reuban sends his regards,” to Palmer. (Birds of a Feather)
• Soldier says, “Die,” to Judge McClellan after the judge asks, “What can I do for you?” (Targets 3)
• Jack Cunningham tells Joe Garras, "Well, bye-bye, then, Joe." (Collector)

Starsky and Hutch and dying last words
• Ted Banks, “…Silver box.” (Terror on the Docks)
• Zach Tyler, “A man’s got to be true to his nature.” (Texas Longhorn)
• Iron Mike, “Nothing to be ashamed of… it’s the best for everyone.” (Iron Mike)
• Terry Roberts, “I love you…I’m not afraid anymore.” (Starsky’s Lady)

Black people repeating the same phrase over and over and over again
• Blind Bessie, “Don’t help me.” (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Walter T., “We’s gonna die.” (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Duke, “That’s right.” (Las Vegas Strangler)

Nag, nag, nag
• Joanna says, “Nag, nag, nag” to her dad regarding a good breakfast. (Psychic)
• Alex says, “Nag, nag, nag” to Janet regarding his promise to not carry a gun. (Specialist)
• Warren asks Karen, “Am I that much of a nag?” Karen replies, “Worse.” (Deadly Imposter)

Words to kill by
• Billy says, “Say hello for me,” to Jamieson. (Terror on the Docks)
• Soldier says, “Hello Pigeon, let’s see if you can fly,” to Lionel. (Targets 1)
• Jimmy Lucas says, “Reuben sends his regards,” to Palmer. (Birds of a Feather)
• Soldier says, “Die,” to Judge McClellan after the judge asks, “What can I do for you?” (Targets 3)

Starsky and Hutch’s closing remarks to addicts
• Starsky tells Angel, “Careful how you go” and pats her hand. (Texas Longhorn)
• Hutch gives Roxy some money and tells her to “buy yourself something pretty.” (Heroes)
• Hutch gives Belinda some money and tells her to “die a little.” (Losing Streak)

• LAPD phonetic alphabet:



A

Adam
M
Mary
Y
Young
B
Baker
N
Nora
Z
Zebra
C
Charles
O
Ocean
0
Zero
D
David
P
Paul
1
One
E
Edward
Q
Queen
2
Two
F
Frank
R
Robert
3
Three
G
George
S
Sam
4
Four
H
Henry
T
Tom
5
Five
I
Ida
U
Union
6
Six
J
John
V
Victor
7
Seven
K
King
W
William
8
Eight
L
Lincoln
X
X-ray
9
Niner