• 51.N. Starsky is afraid
of rattlesnakes. Hutch tells him there aren’t any at Pine
Lake. Starsky says, “There will be when we get there!” How
right he is. (Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island, Satan’s
Witches)
• 52.M. Why do Simon’s followers abandon the van by the
ranch? (Bloodbath)
• 53.N. I expect Hutch to break into song when in front of
the morgue, when he says “somehow, somewhere.” (Bait)
• 54.M. Why does Starsky have Hutch’s gun? (Murder on Stage
17)
• 55.M. When Hutch explains to Molly / Pete why she can’t
live with him, it is for all the reasons he needs Starsky
to move in with him. (Little Girl Lost)
• 56.N. Just suppose: Chris Phelps is a reporter/writer.
Gillian said she was a writer. Maybe, and stay with me
here, both Starsky and Hutch suffered a head injury and
didn’t remember faces well. Maybe Chris and Gillian were
the same person, and Gillian was simply
undercover?(Gillian, Heroes)
• 57.M. Why does an isolation room have two beds? It seems
the best way to isolate something is to keep it apart from
any other variables. (Plague)
• 58. M. Vicky buys six pairs of panty hose. She takes one
with her and has five delivered to her apartment. Later,
there appears to be only four packages. Either Mrs. Pruitt
is dishonest as well as being thoroughly unpleasant, or
Eugene used one pair as a weapon. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• 59.N. Is there another “love interest” that is more
unappealing and stupid than Julie McDermott? Also, she has
really ugly hands; catch the close-up as she take the ice
cube out of the glass. (Action)
• 60.M. How well does Hutch know Mrs. Donner anyway? He
picks stuff off her sweater in a very primate-like way when
they are at the hospital. (Plague)
• 61.M. Why bother having two different actresses play Dr.
Ginny Simpson? Why not just have two different doctors?
(Velvet Jungle, Death in a Different Place, Heroes)
• 62.M. Nick’s prison sentence was three years. Flent and
Duran say it has been two years and six months since they
have seen him. Add this number to Nick’s release two months
ago. Either Nick got time off for good behavior, or they
came to visit him in jail during the first four months of
his term. (Little Girl Lost)
• 63.N. Starsky may have gotten Lloyd Herman Eckworth’s
lifetime batting average right, but missed on the Cuban
Comet (Minnie Minoso). Starsky says it is 303, but is
really 298. (Vendetta)
• 64.M. Why does Artie Solkin have a bouquet of fresh
flowers in his room? (Vendetta)
• 65.N. Emily and Sharon are wearing matching blue button
down shirts in their last scene together. (Blindfold)
• 66.M. An arm wrestling match between a left-handed cop
and a strong ballerina would make for whose victory? (Body
Worth Guarding)
• 67.M. Mike Ferguson “works in the same department” as
Starsky and Hutch. Dobey says he is Mike’s best friend. So
why haven’t Starsky and Hutch seen him for a year? (Iron
Mike)
• 68.M. The film negative is flipped in
the car scene, showing the car being driven from the right
side. Is this a glaring continuity error or a crafty
comment on left-handedness? (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• 69.M. There is an ashtray on the table next to Starsky’s
bed by the radio. Who does he sleep with that smokes?
(Running)
• 70.N. William Blinn directed an episode of The Rookies
(1973) “Prayers Unanswered, Prayers Unheard” In this
episode was a character named Huggy Bear.
• 71.M. What does the “biggest meeting of the syndicate
since Appalachia” mean? (Murder at Sea)
• 72.M. What does Hutch referencing when he says, “Quinine,
the bitter dose”? (Las Vegas Strangler)
• 73. N. Starsky holds his gun like a dancer. (various)
• 74.N. Papa Theodore’s chant is commanding Starsky to
attack Hutch with “two hands” (“deux mains”). He chants a
famous warlike anthem of the Caribbean, one the natives
sang about attempts to ward off the Spaniards (“lama samana
quana”). (Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island)
• 75.N. Starsky isn’t kidding when he tells Lisa Hutch
sleeps like a rock. Hutch doesn’t hear Starsky cough and
choke all night in the next bed. (Starsky and Hutch on
Playboy Island, Foxy Lady)
• 76. N. Larry Warwick (art/production), Raul Bruce
(sound), Alex Klinsky (craft service), on marquee for
Ziggy’s Jazz Café, are real production/technical assistants
on the show. Larry Warwick Realty is also used. (Deadly
Imposter, Losing Streak)
• 77.M. Why do Starsky and Hutch run so fast up the stairs
in response to a “DB report”? At this point, there is no
connection between Jojo and Elaine, and a dead body isn’t
going anywhere. (Jojo)
• 78.M. If “they couldn’t prove” Wally pushed Jane out the
window, what did he go to jail for? (Murder on Stage 17)
• 79.M. Why oh why do the bad guys always make a dash for
the roof? (Heroes, Las Vegas Strangler, A Coffin for
Starsky, Kill Huggy Bear, Nightmare, Survival)
• 80.N. Inside joke? It looks like the name scrawled on the
bottom of Hutch’s arrest warrant could be “R.C.
Whatshisname” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• 82.M. Starsky and Hutch’s car accident happens in the
daytime. Starsky knows he and Hutch were brought in
together, but Starsky doesn’t ask about Hutch until it is
dark. Was he unconscious? (Partners)
• 83.N. Starsky and Hutch could have busted out of that
flimsy barn in about ten minutes. They have certainly
kicked down doors stronger than those walls. And it has
already been proven at least one side of the barn, the one
facing the gully and the woods, isn’t covered by a
rifleman. (Trap)
• 84.N. Starsky’s use of the word “copasetic” makes me
think of Cindy, Starsky’s date in the Pilot. Instead of
Cindy being “acceptable, acceptable,” Starsky should have
said she was “copasetic, copasetic.” (Partners, Pilot)
• 85.N. There are two vacuum cleaners portrayed, and Hutch
trips over both of them. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty,
Blindfold)
• 86.N. Joey could have been a lot faster running down that
gully if she didn’t have to worry about her hat. (Trap)
• 87.M. Starsky’s uncle’s odd generational birth control
issues: the uncle begets 15 children, who in turn beget a
total of 3 children among them. Those 3 children beget a
total 32 children, giving the average per children per
family in the last generation just over 10. So happened
with his direct children and their lack of offspring?
(Golden Angel)
• 88.M. What is that odd massive artificial dike behind the
barn? (Trap)
• 89.N. Pinky rings seem to be the hot fashion statement;
numerous characters wear them, Rosey, Starsky, Paco and
various bad guys.
• 90.M. Why aren’t Starsky and Hutch notified when Jojo’s
body is found? They only discover this by driving by
Linda’s place. Is this Bettin’s doing? (Jojo)
• 91.N. There seems to be a lot more crime in Hutch’s
neighborhoods. Harry kills Madelaine there, Jack Cunningham
kills Joe Garras there and his apartments are broken into a
lot more. Aside from Bellamy’s attack, Starsky seems to
live in a relatively untouched area. (Deckwatch, Collector,
Vendetta, Foxy Lady, Hutchinson for Murder One, Fix, A
Coffin for Starsky)
• 92.N. Harry, spent nine months at sea, hasn’t had sex
with a woman in eight months. He must have gotten some a
month into the trip. Ask the cabin boy. Deckwatch)
• 93.N. Madeleine offers “Mad” as her nickname. Harry
refers to her later to Hannah as “Maddy.” They apparently
didn’t get too far in the relationship, chow mien or not.
(Deckwatch)
• 94.M. Why don’t Starsky and Hutch wonder why Clayburn is
so anxious to implicate McClellan when the two men have
been “very close personal” friends for the past ten years?
(Targets Without a Badge 1, Targets Without a Badge 2,
Targets Without a Badge 3
• 95.N. Filming and direction of Starsky and Hutch is
cutting edge at times, but also has many elements of
1950-60’s play staging. Scenes that come to mind are parts
of Shootout, Omaha Tiger, Quadromania and Deckwatch).
• 96.N. Starsky and Hutch is not self-referential. The
whole act of referring to the culture of the time is mostly
missing. There isn’t a whole lot of mentions of popular
culture, it doesn’t have a popular cultural soundtrack and
pre0dates the MTV/cut scene schtick where the music is
supposed to do the talking. The only music/cut seen is in
Huggy Can’t Go Home . In fact aside from a handful of
throwaway remarks about Watergate and old movie stars,
there really isn’t a lot to “mark” this show in its own
time period. The only politics that happens is
inter-departmental and in different government departments.
• 97.N. There is a definite lack of product placement, the
prevalence of brands and absence of chain stores. Bay City,
at least where Starsky and Hutch hang, is a massive
collection of seedy bars, seedy little hotels and mom and
pop eateries.
• 98.M. Starsky goes high, Hutch goes low. Prudholm
comments on their habit. How does he know? (Starsky’s Lady)
• 99.M. Why did Starsky and Hutch need the password (knock,
two shorter knocks) at Monty’s bookie joint when they ended
up kicking in the door? (Savage Sunday)
• 100.M. Why do Corman and Burke bother dragging Crandell’s
body outside after they kill him in the shack? (Snowstorm)