NOTES AND MYSTERIES E

“When I get down to the nitty-gritty, down to what love is, I’m really old-fashioned about that.”
(Starsky vs. Hutch)

• 201.N. Curious what “Turquet” translates as? It isn’t “turkey” in French, as that is “dindon” (sounding much like ding-dong to this compendum-er). But after that, it appears to simply be a French last name. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)

• 202.M. Hutch looks at his wristwatch, then asks Marianne the time. Is his because his watch was broken in fight? Or is his vision blurry? Or is he trying to engage her to stay longer? (Ballad for a Blue Lady)

• 203.M. Why are people going to the Main Event at the wrestling match going into door marked “Studio 5”? (Golden Angel)

• 204.M. For all their proximity to the beach, why is it the only time one sees Starsky and Hutch on a beach, walking/brooding/sitting, is one of the last episodes of season four? (Targets 1)

• 205.N. There is not a single mention of police dogs in the series. (various)

• 206.M. Hutch asks ”Greta Wren”/Dora Pruitt’s landlady, “Ya got a permit for that cannon, Lady?” the rifle with which she threatens Starsky and Hutch. She says she doesn’t, but also can’t get ammo for it. Is the lack of ammunition a moot point, in terms of a permit? (Photo Finish)

• 207.M. Marcie rails, “What are you doing here…don’t you need a warrant to break down a door?” when she finds Starsky and Hutch in her apartment. “Greta Wren”/Dora Pruitt may have wrecked up Marcie’s lab, but who called the cops? (Photo Finish)

• 208.M. Wouldn’t Starsky and Hutch be suspended with pay, pending investigation of every shooting they were involved in? (various)

• 209.N. Voice over hospital’s PA appears to be the same as police dispatch. (Blindfold, possibly others)

• 210.M. Why does Doris wonder if Luke is home, calls out for him, when it is clear his car isn’t in the driveway (Birds of a Feather)

• 211.M. Someone offers Lionel money to bribe Starsky and Hutch. He doesn’t say yes right away, but goes to the cops and offers to help them. He hasn’t done anything wrong, so why does Hutch say the best he can get is a suspended sentence? Does it have something to do with Huggy telling Starsky and Hutch Lionel has something he wants to work off? (Targets 1)

• 212.M. What does the phrase “passion of a woman or a man and his friend” mean? Hutch says it to Allison at the coffee shop when she asks him if he were offered the job. (Targets 2)

• 213.M. Where is Vanessa’s luggage? (Hutchinson for Murder One)

• 214.M. How did Lisa know Hutch’s address? (Foxy Lady)

• 215.M. What was Professor Gage’s original crime, the one Jack and Allen were blackmailing him for? (Class in Crime)

• 216.M. Why does Gage leave the rifle on the scene? (Class in Crime)

• 217.M. If Prudholm “doesn’t even care about the money” and is robbing stores to “rip up” Starsky and Hutch’s beat and mess with Starsky, why does he rob the grocery warehouse after Terry dies. Dobey tells Starsky and Hutch “we got lucky” and the silent alarm worked, so it wasn’t that Prudholm wanted to get caught. If he wanted to confront Starsky, he had a hundred other easier ways to do it. (Starsky’s Lady)

• 218.M. Who the heck is answering the Lion’s Front desk at midnight? (Starsky’s Lady)

• 219.M. Lizzie is missing, yet her husband hasn’t reported her as such, and locating her car at Fever’s garage would have been the first place to start the hunt, but Starsky and Hutch don’t. (Discomania)

• 220.M. Seeing how the Torino has probably never seen snow, how does Starsky recognize a snow tire so quickly? (Texas Longhorn)

• 221.N. Starsky certainly memorizes Rosey Malone’s home number quickly; He dials it from memory from bed shortly after meeting her. (Rosey Malone)

• 222.M. Where is Hutch’s gun? Starsky has his on. Hutch dresses in the locker room but is gun-less. (Specialist)

• 223.M. Why does it apparently take at least four hours for Dobey and Cole to discover Officer Hagen’s kidnapping? (Specialist)

• 224.M. Who is Fat Rolly calling when he dials those four numbers? Henderson works at City Hall South, not Metro. (Pilot)

• 225.M. What does Hutch mean when he tells a tipsy and singing Starsky, “She must have been an owl”? (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)

• 226.M. Is one reason Starsky so enamored by Minnie is that she has the same hair as he does? (various)

• 227.M. Joey never gets a chance to tell Starsky and Dobey where Hutch is and drives away, yet Starsky arrives mysteriously at the warehouse. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)

• 228.N. Tallman’s blond steam room attendant comments on Hutch’s lack of a badge, “Couldn’t tell Honey. You ain’t wearing a badge,” in precisely the same way Blaze’s actress says to Blaze, “Honey, you’re not photographing my teeth.” (Pilot, Targets 2)

• 229.M. Patricia Talbert is identified through her fingerprints. Did she have a criminal record? (Pilot)

• 230.M. Starsky and Hutch don’t have a “safe word” or another sort of signal, used in dire situations to alert each other to danger? One that Starsky could have deployed with Hutch to make him stop playing the game? (Game)

• 231.N. The viewer never sees the squad room. (Pilot)

• 232.N. Hutch pretty much stops rubbing his face, head and chest in season four. He substitutes these actions with rubbing his mustache. (various)

• 233.M. Does Starsky get a little scare when Anita is trying to remember Ernie Silvers’ name and comes up with Solkin? (Game, Vendetta)

• 234.M. What is Starsky putting in his mouth while Hutch is asking about Jimmy’s mother in Cleveland? (Vendetta)

• 235.M. If Starsky, Hutch and Cheryl can’t contact Danner on their own, then how do they deliver the message about the stamp to him? They would need his address or phone number. And if they got somebody, says Connie, to deliver a message, then they would still need Danner’s address to go to his house. He hangs up on Cheryl before he gives it to her. (Bait)

• 236.M. Hutch tells Starsky, “I didn’t hesitate about my own neurosis when I pushed you out of the way of that truck.” Just what is Hutch’s neurosis? Getting hit by a truck? Being pushy? (Terror on the Docks)

• 237.M. John Colby tells Huggy, “You know, I was the first one ever to call them that.” Is he referring to “Starsky and Hutch” or “Husky and Starch”? (Deadly Imposter)

• 238.M. Those sneaky villagers on Playboy Island. One has set his or her produce scale for five pound overweight, charging the tourists extra. It looks like it is set five pounds under, but the scale goes counterclockwise. (Playboy Island)

• 239.M. After Healey drones on, “His (Thorne) mansion overlooks the Island Hotel, which he also owns,” Starsky slyly says to Hutch, “Sounds kind of familiar. Ha. Ha.” He looks at Hutch as if Hutch knows just what he is talking about. What are they referring to? (Playboy Island)

• 240.M. Why, with all the security for Thorne’s estate, does an unguarded road run up along the back of it exist? (Playboy Island)

• 241.N. Starsky and Hutch to describe Papa Theodore with the words “fakir” and “bokor”. The word “bokor” is correct, as it refers to a houngan (a male Vodun priest) who practices black magic. The word “fakir” is a Muslim or Hindu ascetic or mendicant monk, commonly considered a wonder worker. In any case, since “Voodoo” is a Hollywood invention based on the Western African religion of Vodun, the whole point is a little moot. One thing this episode does get right is Minnie as a “griot,” a storyteller. The jury remains out on her “lucky charms,” “hexes” and “love potions.” The viewer already knows the protection amulet didn’t work that great. (Playboy Island)

• 242.N. What an odd place Playboy Island is. The signs are in Spanish, the Inspector speaks French and has an English accent and the flavor and accents of everyone else is some Calypso thing. (Playboy Island)

• 243.M. How does Hutch know it is Diana who stabbed him. He never saw her, yet that is the name he calls out in his dark apartment. (Fatal Charm)

• 244.N. The time on the watch Diana buys is 10:05. This may be the correct time, putting Diana at the store right when it opened. Or it may not be the correct time, as one sees her setting it for 5:55 before she sets it down on Hutch’s plate. (Fatal Charm)

• 245.N. Cabrillo has loose security. Patients wander the halls at all hours, wander the parking lots, make fake phone calls to staff, enter unlocked offices and apparently do as they please. The folks running around on the yard with capes is a nice touch though. (Murder Ward)

• 246.N. Technically there is no such thing as a “First Annual.” One has to get to the second one to be an official annual. But Starsky can be forgiven for his “First Annual Cabrillo Cockroach Derby,” due to the good nature and societal descriptive customs. (Murder Ward)

• 247.N. Starsky appears to have an old tree stump as his model ship table. (Fatal Charm)

• 248.M. Who killed Switek? And who attacked Jane? It wasn’t Deek on Matwick’s orders, as he wasn’t on board until the day of Starsky’s surgery. (Murder Ward)

• 249.M. How does Freddie know it was Jane that dropped off the papers in his room? He never saw her. (Murder Ward)

• 250.M.. What is that burning can those bookies have? Emil has one and so does Ray Shelby. (Deadly Imposter, Rosey Malone)