OPENING LINES

”I must be crazy. I must have some sort of a death wish.” (Iron Mike)

• Pilot = “I hope we get back to the place by 1:00.”
• Savage Sunday = “Confidence, Huey, confidence.”
• Texas Longhorn = “Hey Mr., thank you for stopping. We had some trouble with the car.”
• Death Ride = “DA says ten o’clock sharp. Right to the second, Baby. Precision.”
• Snowstorm = “Hey Hutch, hey.” “Crandell’s five minutes late.”
• Fix = “Starsky, you want to write this one up? I gotta call to make.”
• Death Notice = “Please, that girl. I meet her someplace, yes?”
• Pariah = “Hi yourself.” “I thought you might want to know your partner’s here.”
• Kill Huggy Bear = “I’ll take that.” “Beat it, punk.”
• Bait = “How many times you going to count that, Starsk?”
• Lady Blue = “What do you mean you don’t have me listed as a member?”
• Captain Dobey, You’re Dead = “Open it up.”
• Terror on the Docks = “I’m glad your dad didn’t live to see this day.”
• Deadly Imposter = “Okay Mrs. McMillan, just what kind of a car was it that you had stolen.”
• Shootout = “As I said before, a man is safe in the shadow of the flower of the Himalayas.”
• Hostages = “That was Scotty Kane playing 'Ease My Mind' on this bright and chipper Friday morning.”
• Losing Streak = “This is Zebra Three. Request a Code Seven at Dody’s, 5th and Willow.”
• Silence = “Do you want to take this?”
• Omaha Tiger = “Where’s he going?” “If you ever catch him, you can ask him.”
• Jojo = “When’s he gonna show? We’ve been waiting all bloody morning.”
• Running = “Hey, look at those ducks.”
• A Coffin for Starsky = “Oh, no. I can’t. No. I can’t. Please.”
• Bounty Hunter = “Hutch, it’s right here in black and white.”
• Las Vegas Strangler = “Uh, Grable, Grable, Grable.”
• Murder at Sea = “Hold it. Thanks.” “How’s it look?” “Messy.”
• Gillian = “It’s Lonely.”
• Bust Amboy= “Now those are definitely not ladies in mourning.”
• Vampire = “I love you, Maria. I will always love you.”
• Specialist = “No, I’ll move that.” “Alex, won’t you reconsider and fly home with me.”
• Tap Dancing = “Ramon, when do we dip?”
• Vendetta = “Tommy? Tommy? You here? Tommy, no.”
• Nightmare = “I just don’t get it.” “Well, it’s not the end of the world you know.”
• Iron Mike = “I must be crazy. I must have some sort of a death wish.”
• Little Girl Lost = “Merry Christmas, ho, ho, ho.”
• Bloodbath = “I’ve seen cars, man. I’ve seen cars from Mars.”
• Psychic = “Where’s he going?” “If you ever catch him, you can ask him.”
• Set-Up = “Here, let me help you.” “Terry, I’m not that delicate.”
• Survival = “Okay, let’s run this thing down one more time. When you’re ready to have us come in, you say the code word.”
• Starsky’s Lady = “Hornets, Hornets, rah, rah, rah.”
• Huggy Bear and the Turkey= “Mr. and Mrs. Irving Caplan. They’re $100 behind to my father.”
• Committee = “Starsky, these are top of the line, pedigreed and they come with papers.”
• Velvet Jungle = “Elena, murder, matar, matar.”
• Long Walk = “He’s a rodeo cowboy, he follows the circuit, where top money’s paid, that’s where he’ll be found.”
• Murder on Stage 17 = “Okay, let’s shoot this after lunch, with effects.”
• Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty = “Hey Oscar. Come on Oscar, open up.”
• Playboy Island = “Starsky, you’re going to love it.”
• Fatal Charm = “’Pussycat went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat.’”
• Rosey Malone = “Oh come on, Starsk. We’ve only got five miles to go and we can call it a morning.”
• Murder Ward = “Delivering one bull-goose looney.”
• Death in a Different Place = “Yeah, all right. What are you going to do this time.”
• Crying Child = “I just don’t get it.” “Well, it’s not the end of the world you know.”
• Heroes = “I’m telling you, it’s the only way to go. The way property is going up now, we’ll double our money.”
• Plague = “’The white zone is for the immediate unloading and loading of passengers only.”
• Collector = “Out drinking with the boys again , eh Lee?”
• Manchild on the Streets = “Here we go. Over there. Here it is.”
• Action = “Hot damn, you chumps. What is this guy? A pacifist.”
• Heavyweight = “Hey, Jake.”
• Body Worth Guarding = “You ever wonder why?”
• Trap = “Wait until you see this watch!”
• Satan’s Witches = “Hey what a terrific guy Dobey is to give us his cabin for four days, huh?”
• Class in Crime = “You left the scope in the van, you know.”
• Hutchinson for Murder One = “They get you any way they can, they really do.”
• Foxy Lady = “They just got off the bus.”
• Partners = “Smell that, would you?” “Yeah, the smog’s real heavy.”
• Quadromania = “Hey, mister. You need a cab?”
• Deckwatch = “Hungry? Thought you might like some dinner before we go out.”
• Discomania = “’Intimidation: Controlling People for Love or Money.’”
• Game = “’When it appears to you where this begins, turn your displeasure that way. For our faults can never be so equal that your love can equally move with them. Provide you going. Choose your own company and command what cost your heart has mind to.’”
• Blindfold = “That should just about do it. Okay, open sesame.”
• Photo Finish = “I don’t know, Marcie. Maybe we ought to go get a pizza and hang out at the pier today?”
• Moonshine = “Don’t sweat it, Virgil. We’ve got enough now to turn the county reservoir into lemonade.”
• Strange Justice = “Hey, wait a minute. I mean that’s a police parking lot.”
• Avenger = “It’s an overhead can eight with four-barrel carbs. Thing corners like a dream.”
• Dandruff = “Well, I’ve lived with it, oh, oh…I’m sorry…You’ve got yourself all wet.”
• Black and Blue = “Pick a color.”
• Groupie = “What time is it?” “6:00 am.”
• Cover Girl = “Yeah. Hutchinson. I’m a detective. Hold on a minute please. Okay. Now you want to report an assault with a deadly weapon?”
• Starsky’s Brother = “So Mrs. Krupp, you say that your husband’s head just accidentally got in the way of your baseball bat?”
• Golden Angel = “One, two, three, four…” “Hammer, wanna work on the slam?”
• Ballad for a Blue Lady = “What do you got?” “11:15.” “You’ve seen Lou?” “Yeah, left at 10:00.”
• Birds of a Feather = “Come on, Sweetheart.” “What are we doing?” “Here we go.”
• Ninety Pounds of Trouble = “Why don’t you try going to bed at night? You’d better throw some coffee down.”
• Huggy Can’t Go Home = “I mean, huh, how come they don’t bust some of them blue-eyed johns, man? I ask you that. I know I ain’t no innocent, but I sure couldn’t be turning some tricks if there weren’t some dudes going for it, man.”
• Targets 1 = “Did you see that bald man in the front row, the one with the gold tooth? Every time he smiled, I thought I would go blind.”
• Targets 2 = “Hi. Just in case of showers. It’s a nice little car, huh?”
• Targets 3 = “Hey, what kind of car do you want? Low-profile or fancy?”
• Starsky vs. Hutch = “Bon soir.” “Bon soir, Monsieur Joey.”
• Sweet Revenge = “Mr. Lancaster?” “Thank you, Mr. Bates.”