• 1.M. Why does Vicky have
Starsky drive her all the way to Boulder City to see her
daughter, but then tells him she will “only be a minute”
when she goes up to the house? Do she, the child and
Starsky spend the day together? Or is she just dropping
something off? (Las Vegas Strangler)
• 2.N. Matt Coyle’s pixilated horror of a bathrobe looks
like the part of Sony’s beginning production notes on the
first three season DVDs, the same colors form right before
the standing lady symbol. (Iron Mike)
• 3.M. What does “DTDM” mean? Hutch calls it in regards to
Terry Nash’s driver’s license. (Set-Up)
• 4.M. What do “gold ring” and Starsky’s response, “good
saw” mean? (Set-Up)
• 5.M. Why is Officer Todesco so hostile? Something to do
with Hutch and Mrs. Todesco? Starsky and Mike’s shared
interest in leather? (Class in Crime, Collector)
• 6.M. Do Starsky and Hutch have regular physical fitness
tests? Hutch says he’ll be fine in a week. Starsky replies
it will be in time for the “sprints and the 440.” (Rosey
Malone)
• 7.M. Why do Hutch and Marianne have their revealing
conversation in the alley, knowing Casey is standing less
than ten feet away? (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• 8.M. What exactly is the history between Artie Solkin and
Hutch? (Vendetta)
• 9.M. What was the reasoning between having one man
(Michael Delano) play two characters with essentially the
same name (Bill Harkness, Billy Harknes) in back-to-back
episodes? (Kill Huggy Bear, Bait)
• 10.M. If Moreno is so willing to help Starsky and Hutch
and not Wheeling, then why doesn’t he tell them about
Wheeling’s visit and request? (Velvet Jungle)
• 11.M. Why does Starsky have that dropped jaw-freaked out
look in the underground garage as he sees Hutch make the
arrest? (Savage Sunday)
• 12.M Why does Starsky ask Hutch “gotta match?” when Hutch
is in the mini golf pool after shooting Posey? (Death
Notice)
• 13.M. Aside from looking cool, why does Hutch make a 360
degree spin in the dust by the ranch in the Torino and
waste valuable time when he goes after van? (Bloodbath)
• 14. N. Merle’s car business has a different name in each
of the episodes it is seen in. Earl’s Custom Car Cult and
Body Shop, Merle the Earl’s Custom Car and Earl the Pearl
Auto Repair. Continuity error or is it Merle’s idea to keep
changing the name of his business? (Jojo, Bloodbath, Game)
• 15.M. How did Dobey know about Diana’s ploy of pretending
to be “the kid sister from Boston”? It doesn’t seem like
something Hutch would tell Dobey, out of embarrassment. And
Starsky has already pooh-poohed it’s importance. Yet it is
the key that puts it together for Starsky. If Dobey hadn’t
mentioned it, it would have been too late for Hutch. (Fatal
Charm)
• 16.M. If Starsky is so worried about Hutch escaping, why
does Starsky go to sleep in a chair that isn’t up against
the door? (Fix)
• 17.M Dobey is “out for the evening” while he has an
officer in dire straits? It seems more likely he would stay
close to the phone. (Fix)
• 18.M. What was Starsky doing on the East Coast while
Hutch was working alone a few years ago? (Velvet Jungle)
• 19.M. Gunther says to Bates, but almost more to himself,
“I wish I had seen him sooner.” What does this mean? (Sweet
Revenge)
• 20.M. What the heck is Charlie Sireen talking about when
she mentions fish and whales? The Call of the Siren, or
something else? (Psychic)
• 21.N. Apparently, the bad guys wear ties so Starsky and
Hutch have handles to grab and use for rough up purposes.
(Snowstorm, Rosey Malone)
• 22.W. What Book is Hutch reading the Bible in the hotel
room? (Specialist)
• 23.N. Why does Starsky trade walkie talkies with Hutch?
(Losing Streak)
• 24.N. Sheila Larken who plays Nancy Blake went on to play
Scully’s mother in X-Files. (Terror on the Docks)
• 25.M. Who gave Starsky the red rose on his desk?
(Silence)
• 26.M. Where is Dobey’s degree from? There is the word
phrase “Universitas Harvardiana” on it. Sounds like Harvard
to me!
• 27.M. What is Starsky putting on his sore tooth? It comes
in a small bottle, used with a cotton swab and is bright
red. Clove oil? (Losing Streak)
• 28.N. One stupid moment: Hutch points his loaded gun at
Starsky. Even if he is joking around, it is disturbing.
(Body Worth Guarding)
• 29.N. Hutch has about six Christmas cards on his piano as
well as a variety of seasonal decorations. He can’t be a
total scrooge. (Little Girl Lost)
• 30.M. Hutch says he is not Catholic but mentions his
catechism teacher. (Heroes, Terror on the Docks)
• 31.M. Carl Stoltz’s partner is killed the day before and
he is already assigned a new partner? (Specialist)
• 32.M. When “George Stegner” says he’s “very aware the
secretary is upset,” whom is he referring to? (Set-Up)
• 33.M. Don’t Dobey, Starsky and Hutch find it odd that
Jerry Konig was found with no clothes on? (Bounty Hunter)
• 34.M. Starsky tells Dobey he is calling from a medical
building and that the Torino has just been blown up, but
Dobey doesn’t ask if Starsky and Hutch are okay. He swings
right into how much trouble they are in. (Set-Up)
• 35.M. Why does Balford agree so readily to help
Humphries? (Survival)
• 36.N. PatriciaTalbert spells Henderson’s name with a
little heart in place of the “o” on her class schedule, a
clue that is not commented on. (Pilot)
• 37.N. It isn’t that Starsky and Hutch are so sloppily
dressed, it is that most of the bad guys are in suits and
ties.
• 38.M. Why does Starsky refer to himself as “9W21” to
Dobey on the Torino phone? (Kill Huggy Bear)
• 39.M. Why does Starsky ask Rosey Malone what she is doing
for the next twelve years? Only twelve? (Rosey Malone)
• 40.N. Signs that two weeks really haven’t gone by for
Terry Nash—the fruit basket and plants in his apartment are
still fresh and he has no mail pile-up. (Set-Up)
• 41.M. Who is the guy with the dark mustache in the photo
on the driver’s license in Hutch’s hand? It’s not Terry
Nash. (Set-Up)
• 42.M. Why doesn’t Hutch use his mirror to signal for help
rather than trying to drag his gun over? It would have
worked as an SOS. It was the flash of that thing that
attracted Lance and the other boy. (Survival)
• 43.M. Why does Jerry Konig give Lola $26,000 as partial
payment when he plans on not paying the rest back and
skipping town? (Bounty Hunter)
• 44.M. Why the heck is Hutch dating Molly who appears to
be about 18 years old? (Collector)
• 45.M. Why do Starsky and Hutch go bowling with Terry
Nash? Nothing they did there that they couldn’t have done
somewhere else, and it was risky. (Set-Up)
• 46.M. Why does Huggy use his own pay phone in the bar?
(Kill Huggy Bear)
• 47.N. Wally Stone and Sonny McPherson have the same bike.
(Survival, Murder on Stage 17)
• 48.M. Merle knows what kind of a car Hutch is driving.
Starsky may have originally balked at $55 to find out what
it is, but considering the financial expense of the fake
shooting, it seems it is one Starsky should return and take
Merle up on it. And Merle may want to make a buck, but it
seems he would tell Starsky for free after hearing the
circumstances. Strangely, nobody bothers following the car
lead up, one that would have probably had good success.
(Game)
• 49.M. Why don’t Starsky and Hutch react to that strange
new MALE voice in dispatch? (Trap)
• 50.N. When Bagely asks Hutch if he remembers him,
wouldn’t you like to hear Hutch say, “Bagely? Vaguely.”
(Trap)