LITERACY

"Starsky, about this report. It reads like a comic book." (Texas Longhorn)

Girlie magazines
• Billy says the money they’ll get should keep Wally in beer and girlie magazines for the rest of his life. (Terror on the Docks)
• Bremen hotel desk clerk is reading “Boudoir” magazine. (Vendetta)
• Hutch is looking at, “For the Man.” (Partners)
• Hutch refers derisively to Joe’s collection of Penthouse and Playboy magazines. (Collector)
• Starsky is upset when his Playboy magazines are stolen. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• Starsky looks at “Oui” which he apparently steals from Crandell’s place. He seems a little shocked by it. (Snowstorm)
• Starsky looks at girlie mag, “Ahoy” (Bounty Hunter, Deadly Imposter)
• Oxey says Eric Snow had "kinky books" in his locker. (Murder at Sea)
• "Did you hear about the guy going through customs? They asked him if he had if he had any phonographic literature." (Shootout)

Newspapers and magazines
• Ahoy (Deadly Imposter, Hostages)
• Bazaar (Groupie)
• Be Beautiful (Dandruff)
• Boudoir (Vendetta)
• Car and Driver, Starsky’s copy? At Hutch’s place (Vendetta)
• Cosmopolitan (Sweet Revenge, Strange Justice, Collector)
• Daily Chronicle, also called “The Chronicle” (Foxy Lady, Hutchinson for Murder One, Bait, Body Worth Guarding, Vendetta, Committee, Savage Sunday, Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Dispatch (Heroes)
• Elite (Running)
• Esquire (Collector, Blindfold)
• Ladies Home Journal (Collector)
• Town and Country (Collector)
• Redbook (Collector)
• Travel and Leisure (Collector)
• Football (Groupie)
• For the Man (Partners)
• Gentleman’s Quarterly (Photo Finish)
• Herald Examiner (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• Independent (Pariah)
• Lady Beautiful (Running)
• London Daily Chronicle (Bust Amboy)
• Los Angeles Magazine (Collector)
• Los Angeles Times (Collector, Discomania, Ninety Pounds of Trouble, Targets 2)
• Lounge Lizard Monthly (Photo Finish)
• Midnight Globe (Collector)
• National Enquirer (Playboy Island, Black and Blue, Groupie)
• National Geographic (Plague)
• News Pilot (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• News World Magazine, managing editor John Reinhart (Set-Up, Photo Finish)
• Penthouse (Collector)
• Phoenix Sun (Murder at Sea)
• Playboy (Terror on the Docks, Collector) seen (Gillian)
• Racing Form (Little Girl Lost)
• Reader’s Digest (Lady Blue)
• Screw, seen (Gillian)
• Sunny News, Long Beach’s Full Line News Stand, Bookstore (Death Notice)
• The Times (Velvet Jungle)
• The Variety (Quadromania)
• Today’s Health (Blindfold)
• Vanity (Running)
• Vogue (Photo Finish, Groupie, Sweet Revenge)
• Wall Street Journal (Texas Longhorn, Game)
• Washington Post (Set-Up)
• Whitey’s Magazines and Newspapers, on 5th (Psychic, Heavyweight)
• Women’s Fashion Magazine (Photo Finish)
• World of Toys (Cover Girl)

Fairy tales
• “It’s your fairy tale, not mine,” says Goodson. (Rosey Malone)
• “So young Lochinvar went dashing after the beautiful princess again last night?” Hutch asks Starsky. (Heavyweight)
• “The Frog Prince,” Hutch asks Ted if he woke up due to a frog’s kiss (Action)
• “The House That Jack Built,” Mother Goose (Class in Crime)
• “Your wish is my command” Starsky says to Terry Roberts. (Starsky’s Lady)
• Beauty and the Beast (Black and Blue, Cover Girl)
• Boogyman (Deadly Imposter, Snowstorm)
• Chicken Little (Cover Girl)
• Cinderella (Texas Longhorn)
• Goldilocks, Harry calls Hutch (Deckwatch)
• Healey says, “Spare me the voodoo fairy tales.” (Playboy Island)
• Humpty Dumpty (Huggy Can't Go Home)
• Hutch eats the poisoned apple (Murder Ward)
• Mother Goose (Bust Amboy)
• Peter Pan (Nightmare, Murder Ward)
• Santa Claus (Nightmare, Collector)
• Sleeping Beauty (Set-Up, Body Worth Guarding, Starsky’s Brother)
• Snow White (Bust Amboy, Iron Mike)
• Starsky calls Rosey Malone a “damsel in distress.” (Rosey Malone)
• Starsky’s passenger says he “might turn into a pumpkin at sunrise.” (Quadromania)
• Tooth Fairy (Trap, Bloodbath, Deadly Imposter, Las Vegas Strangler, Nightmare, Crying Child)

Shakespeare quoted
• King Lear (Quadromania)
• Hamlet (Quadromania)
• Merchant of Venice (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra (Game)
• Macbeth (Quadromania)
• Richard the Third, "Perish the thought." (Body Worth Guarding)

Text of Doris Huntley’s contract with Anthony Reuben (Birds of a Feather)
• “Of my own free will and volition I, Doris Huntley, agree to pay Mr. Anthony Reuben the sum of twelve thousand (12,000) dollars in payments of one thousand (1000) dollars per week for twelve (12) consecutive weeks commencing from the first Monday from the above date.” The above date is October 20, 1978.

Guys reading
• Allen had “Mime Work Book” and “Tomaszewski’s Mime Theater” in his apartment. (Class in Crime)
• Will Hutch read the book he suggests Starsky and Todesco write together? (Class in Crime)
• Basil reads “Corpus Juris, Principal, Surety, Public Use, Volume 50.” (Photo Finish)
• Hutch brings Starsky two detective novels, The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, at Cabrillo. (Murder Ward)
• Hutch reads aloud from Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra.” (Game)
• Hutch looks up a phone number for the airport in the "City Telephone Directory." (Foxy Lady)
• Hutch reads Gideon Bible in hotel with a beer in hand. (Specialist)
• Hutch has a copy of "The Diary of Anne Frank" on his desk. (Cover Girl)
• Hutch remembers the book “Philosophy of Crime” from Allen Richard’s bookshelf. (Class in Crime)
• Hutch wants to read the book Dr. Jonas Tishaun wrote about the plague. (Plague)
• Hutch tells Cassie it took he and Starsky twelve rape cases to “discover the bad guys read different books” than the good guys. (Strange Justice)
• Lockly reads, “Hadrian’s Memoirs.” (Shootout)
• Monty the Geek reads a Marvel comic, “Werewolves at Night.” (Bounty Hunter)
• Nurse Jackson reads a Tom and Jerry comic. (Murder Ward)
• Prudholm says on the phone to the cops, "I want to read about it in tomorrow morning's paper." (Pariah)
• Starsky accuses Hutch of reading “Ways to More Colorful Speech,” Readers’ Digest. (Lady Blue)
• Starsky is apparently reading a book about vampires. (Vampire)
• Starsky gives Dobey the magazine about with the waning, waxing moon article. (Hostages)
• Starsky mentions seven hours will give him time to "finish that book I've been reading." (A Coffin for Starsky)
• Starsky asks, “Who wrote that book?” when Hutch says Starsky is stronger but he is smarter. The author of that book, Hutch says, “Is life.” (Game)
• Starsky has read Ringolevio. (Game)
• Starsky reads “An Anglo’s Guide to Latin Discomania.” (Moonshine)
• Starsky reads “Guidebook to Las Vegas.” (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Starsky reads Madame Olga’s Self-Help Program to Become Right Handed. (Deadly Imposter)
• Starsky reads the Bible or hymnbook in the Blake’s church. (Terror on the Docks)
• Starsky reads, “Intimidation: Controlling People for Love and Money.” (Discomania)
• Starsky will most likely read “One Thousand Ways to Win at Monopoly.” (Starsky’s Lady)
• Starsky's report says, "The fiery red Torino fishtails to a halt. We spill onto the street, ready for action." Dobey complains that "It reads like a comic book." (Texas Longhorn)
• Starsky or Hutch has a copy of "Doctor Zhivago" on his desk. (Cover Girl)
• The hotel clerk at Hotel Baltimore tells Starsky and Hutch, "I was reading my book, officers." (Strange Justice)
• Watson, Jr., reads “The Art of Liking Yourself.” (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Webster reads, “Demolition Materials, Property of the U.S. Army, Supplement of the Army Technical Manual.” (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Zane reads “Age of Voltaire, the Story of Civilization,” volume IX by Will Durant. (Pilot)
• "What’s the matter, Mr. Smart Man, huh? Mr. Intellectual. Ain’t you ever read one of those books of your's more than once? (Shootout)
• Lee Bristol tells Hutch he might write a book. Hutch says he should, and that he'd read it. (Collector)

 Newspaper headlines
• “Attorney Charges Murder By Badge,” Daily Chronicle (Committee)
• “Army Enters Battle for Beirut,” Starsky reads paper in his kitchen with this headline (Gillian)
• “Lockheed Plant Hit By Strike,” seen on paper Starsky is carrying, Los Angeles Times (Collector)
• “Police Officer Wanted For Murder One, Implicated in Million Dollar Diamond Heist”), Starsky asks Dobey to put out fake article in the Daily Chronicle (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• "Firemen Praised for Heroic Deeds at Annual Dinner." (Murder Ward)
• “Meet Angel Kate’s (Jackson) New Love,” seen on paper at John-John’s stand (Collector)
• “Gang Style Hit at Bus Terminal, Police Have Eyewitness,” article Stu Basset writes, Daily Chronicle (Foxy Lady)
• “Death Threat on Russian Ballerina,” in paper about Anna, Daily Chronicle (Body Worth Guarding)
• “Metro Cabbie Found Slain” (Quadromania)
• “Actor Crippled by Hit-Run Driver,” article in cabby’s locker (Quadromania)
• “Honor Student Sought in Slaying of Family,” article about Tommy Marlowe, Daily Chronicle (Vendetta)
• “Famous Stamp Stolen,” fake article that gets Danner excited (Bait)
• “Charlie Deek Held in Murder Probe,” article Charlie is reading in his room (Murder Ward)
• “Passengers Depart Southampton on S.S. Southwind for Luxury Cruise,” article that alerts Starsky and Hutch, London Daily Chronicle (Bust Amboy)
• “Track Clear in RR Case, Delay added” and “Callaghan Statement on Leaks MPS Told” , “New Spending Planned to Assist Industrial Aid,” all articles in the London Daily Chronicle (Bust Amboy)
• “Independent,” paper Prudholm reads (Pariah)
• “Mad Dog Charlie Convicted on Four Counts of Murder,” article taped to inside of Hutch’s locker (Murder Ward)
• “Transit Problems Given Airing at B.M.R. Convention,” seen on paper, Daily Chronicle (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• “Cop Guns Down Daughter’s Rapist,” “headlines of every newspaper in the city” (Strange Justice)
• “Wild Monkeys Eat Woman and Child,” Starsky is horrified by an article he reads (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “City Cops Lose Bitter Battle For Pay Hike,” Starsky teases Hutch with (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “Wrestler Claims Victory in Unscheduled Bout With Dummy,” article Reese reads from (Golden Angel)
• “Doctor Indicted in Hospital Deaths,” Jane finds article with this headline (Murder Ward)
• "Detectives Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson Credited With Daring Arrest." (Murder Ward)
• “Private College Hearing, Public Urged to Aid,” in Daily Chronicle next to Lionel’s article (Quadromania)
• “No Suspects in Second Dancegirl Murder,” Daily Chronicle (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• “Blond Taxi Dancer Found Dead in Apartment, Still No Suspects,” Daily Chronicle (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Starsky is reading a Los Angles Times with a headline about women smokers. (Targets 2)
• It is mentioned the Slate story will be in headlines of all the papers in the city. (Strange Justice)

Same newspaper mock-up is used in many episodes, this is the text
• The visible text of the two newspaper articles about Charlie Deek’s murder rampage, Starsky and Hutch’s “daring arrest” of Deek, the article about Matwick’s indictment and the second part of the article about Lionel’s accident are four identical blurbs of nothingness, a word salad, and are precisely the same words in the article about the “stolen” stamp.

The text reads: “The facts regarding the situation remain the same, state the authorities. Details concerning the action have been given a preliminary investigation but it is felt that only by a more detailed study will the facts become known. An immediate investigation is assumed and indications are that some new light will be shed on the situation in the near future. Available facts seem vague, but authorities feel that time will disclose some means of arriving at a solution. Future plans, of necessity, have great bearing on the situation as it now stands. Decisions will be made of the actual planning of the project.” (Murder Ward, Bait, Quadromania)

Text of first paragraph of article about Lionel
• “Actor Lionel Fitzgerald III was found near death this morning at the intersection of 4th and Main after his stunning debut at the Savoy Theater. It is quite certainly the end of the most brilliant career on the American stage.” The article then goes on to the same text prop used in other episodes seen directly above. (Quadromania)

Existential ruminations and poetic bad guys
• “Moonlight is such a nice time for burials,” Bad guy who is going to kill Starsky and Hutch in the construction site. (Action)
• “They say that rain washes everything away. There’s going to take a lot of it tonight before we are through.” Lockly (Shootout)
• “Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall and universal darkness buries all.” Voltaire 1744, says Zane. Fat Rolly says nervously, “I knew that.” Actually, they are both wrong. It is from Alexander Pope’s “Dunciad.” (Pilot)
• The patrons at Giovanni’s thinking about death and talking about the meaning of their lives is one long play. (Shootout)
• Carelli tells Zachary, "That's like a beacon in the night." (Foxy Lady)
• “I murder that which I most adore, laughing. I am indeed of those condemned forever without repose to laugh but who can smile no more.” Victor partially quotes Baudelaire, from Les Fleurs Du Mal [Flowers of Evil]. The first part of what Victor says is of his own making. (Murder Ward)
• “Hey man, stay cool and this man will live to see the sun rise tomorrow.” Robber in store. (Tap Dancing)
• “Now and forever...now and forever gone…never ceases to amaze me how we struggle to order the world around us, center it all on us…” Gunther (Sweet Revenge)
• “Time is running like a thoroughbred.” Don Widdicombe (Blindfold)
• "It's a tired old circus and the merry-go-rounds all out of tune," Tabor tells the derelict before he shoots him. (Long Walk)

Poetic Starsky and Hutch
• Hutch tells Laura, “Kid, what do you say we blaze a trail of passion across the barren wilderness?” to Laura (Quadromania)
• Starsky makes an allusion. "The sea is a harsh mistress." (Murder at Sea)
• Starsky says to Dobey, “Enter, the Puce Goose sayeth.” (Set-Up)
• Starsky says, “My nose is in a splint because I didn’t catch the glint in the eye of the cop in the alley.” (Long Walk)
• Starsky says, “Behold the desert prince.” This impresses Hutch. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Starsky says, “I see two thirsty souls trudging through the desert toward a neon city.” (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Starsky says, “Poetry was never my strong suit.” (Targets 3)
• Starsky says, “Probably a very friendly bee, probably just making an inquiry.” (Bust Amboy)
• Starsky says, to Sally, “Somehow a messenger as lovely as you takes the pain out of the coming hours.” (Specialist)

The Police Manual
• Mardean Rigger tells Dobey he sounds like a police manual. (Targets 1)
• Starsky mentions to Hutch, as they are trapped in the barn, that according to the Police Manual, they are supposed to wait for help. (Trap)
• Captain Ryan says he will go by the book, the one Starsky and Hutch disregard. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)

Starsky as a co-author
• Hutch suggests Starsky should write a book with Mike Todesco. (Class in Crime)