A Starsky and Hutch Canon Compendium

CONTINUITY ERRORS B

"Nature made the same mistake twice?" (Starsky's Brother)

• 51. Both Manny Birnbaum and Francine say they recognize Anton in the picture, from the alley, but neither of them actually saw him then. (Death Notice)

• 52. The time on wall clock when Hutch sneaks into Starsky’s room is 8:45, yet Dobey complains how hard it was to get an antipasto platter at 2:00 in the morning. (Sweet Revenge)

• 53. Starsky and Hutch originally say Dewey Hughes got $100,000 from the candy store, but this amount turns into $50,000 with no explanation. (Kill Huggy Bear)

• 54. In close-ups with the runaway Torino, the mars light is missing, but you can hear the siren. (Kill Huggy Bear)

• 55. Madame Marlene Bouvet tells Hutch and Dobey her dancer Susan is “dumb.” So Susan’s math is either an example of this, or a continuity error. Susan tells Starsky “half the men in the joint are strange” and three quarters of them are “really strange.” (Starsky vs. Hutch)

• 56. Hutch one-handedly pulls the tablecloth off table. The scene before it shows the table with stuff on it. This stuff would have hit the floor. (Shootout)

• 57. Starsky and Hutch know Harry’s last name is Johnson, but Amy didn’t mention this fact. (Hostages)

• 58. Starsky calls for a black and white back-up, but Starsky and Hutch leave Belinda’s, with Lemke laying out in the hall, with no further communication. (Losing Streak)

• 59. Starsky is wearing the same blue windbreaker Hutch cut up in the previous episode. (Hostages)

• 60. Starsky and Hutch crawl through little door to get inside Mardi Gras. White and Evelyn walk in thru unlocked front door. Most likely because no one wanted to make Evelyn get down and crawl too. This is obviously not the back either, as marquee is in front, and White makes a point of having Foote go around to the back. In either case, going in the front door or the back door, one enters the same flight of stairs. (Losing Streak)

• 61. Monty’s desk is covered with peanuts when he is alive, the desk is cleared of peanuts at his death, but Starsky walks to car eating a peanut. (Bounty Hunter)

• 62. The long shot placement of Nick’s body and trashcans in the ally is very different from the close up shot. It is a different infill shot. (Little Girl Lost)

• 63. Vicky says the party is across the hall, but across the hall from Vicky’s apartment is a railing and balcony. (Las Vegas Strangler)

• 64. Nancy, Clayburn’s secretary, appears to know Dobey’s phone number from memory. (Targets 3)

• 65. Despite Starsky’s wounds and thirty-plus minutes of bleeding, the couch is spotless. (Shootout)

• 66. The storeowner says guys didn’t care about the money, only about shooting Terry. So why is Prudholm’s thumbprint on the register? (Starsky’s Lady)

• 67. Dobey says only three people that know Starsky is undercover, but that doesn’t include the poor uniform staked out in Starsky’s bedroom. (Committee)

• 68. Regarding Sue Ann’s preferential treatment, Dobey says, “We treat all our suspects the same in our community.” Sue Ann isn’t a suspect (Long Walk)

• 69. Tabor tells Sue Ann he has Kellam’s ID as proof of his murder, but Starsky and Hutch find his driver’s license in his pocket. (Long Walk)

• 70. Newspaper headline says Arlene is killed in an apartment. It is actually a house. (Starsky vs. Hutch)

• 71. An unknown hand shuts off Hutch’s noisy shower at some point. (Fatal Charm)

• 72. The diploma in Dobey’s office read, “Harold R. Dobey (Rosey Malone, Pilot) . Dobey’s diploma says “Harold P. Dobey” (Death Ride, Groupie, Rosey Malone). “Harold C. Dobey” (Pariah). The correct initial is “C,” however, as that is what Dobey tells Sue Ann to put on her autographed photo. (Long Walk)

• 73. 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 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)

• 74. Hutch pulls very crisp bills out of his pant’s pocket shortly after Starsky and Hutch get very wet in river. (Playboy Island)

• 75. Starsky refers to a “polygraph” test as a “polygram” test. (Crying Child)

• 76. First camera shot of airport thief on the street has a radically different background than later shots. It is a different infill camera shot. (Plague)

• 77. Later in the Torino, Starsky rubs the opposite side of his face that Goose hit. (Bust Amboy)

• 78. You see the stunt drivers, rather than cops, in Andrew and Clayborn’s car. (Manchild on the Streets)

• 79. Polly refers to Jim as “Colonel” rather than “Commander Jim.” (Lady Blue)

• 80. The score no Huggy’s pinball game changes from 14 to 15 with no motion on his part. (Kill Huggy Bear)

• 81. Zach’s longhorn car is off the road and much closer to Emma Lou’s body when she is found. (Texas Longhorn)

• 82. Why does the morgue call Sarah to identify Dewey Hughes’s body before it is even moved to the ambulance? (Kill Huggy Bear)

• 83. Major Timing Issue: Starsky and Hutch are seen calling in a meal break and eating in Torino, Vic plays piano with Toby, Vic has a run-in with Foote, Vic goes back and steals money, Starsky and Hutch are still eating when they get the report of people beating up Evelyn Rankin. It all happens too fast, or Starsky and Hutch are taking way too long to eat. (Losing Streak)

• 84. Starsky and Hutch meet with Huggy, go to the Mardi Gras the first time and discover Vic, call an ambulance and get Vic to hospital and then Vic gets well enough to leave. This all happens after Evelyn was taken by Gil and Foote, which Hutch tells Vic happened “about an hour ago.” The timing is far too condensed. (Losing Streak)

• 85. The toy plane the angel crashes shown after the crash is arranged differently than the one in the next shot. It is a different infill shot. (Cover Girl)

• 86. In the opening scene, it is two days before Christmas. Hutch says this to Perkowitz about Juvie, Starsky says to Hutch in car. Molly / Pete stays with Hutch one night and with the Williams one night. After Molly is kidnapped the first time, Starsky comments “tomorrow is Christmas Eve,” making it appear no time has passed at all. (Little Girl Lost)

• 87. The bottom half of Goose’s coffin opens without anyone having to do it. (Bust Amboy)

• 88. While Starsky’s apartment exterior is the same and the apartments are supposed to be the same, the two kitchens are radically different. (Running, Gillian)

• 89. Skinny Momo’s blue prison shirt and Simon Marcus’ blue prison shirt are identical, number 51968. (Bloodbath, Iron Mike)

• 90. Possible error, Laura Lonigan closes door to bedroom when doorbell rings; Mike goes over to shut it again when Starsky, Hutch and Coyle start talking about Johnny. If not an error, then shows that Laura opens the door to listen. (Iron Mike)

• 91. Starsky and Hutch clear Marty Decker, saying he was “in the slams” the night Michelle died. Starsky and Hutch don’t get notice of her body being found until the next day. (Discomania)

• 92. There is no blue Subaru by the stairs Starsky and Hutch go up. The blue car appears with Hutch’s fall (to cover stunt’s mattress), then car disappears again. It reappears later in this section as a random car. (Starsky’s Brother)

• 93. The passport Doc Rafferty cooks up isn’t a Brazilian passport. According to the writing inside, it is Chilean, issued in Santiago, Chile. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)

• 94. The time on doctor’s wrist watch (11:40) doesn’t match time on wall clock (11:00). (Sweet Revenge)

• 95. There is a group of people in hallway when Hutch sees man sneaking into Starsky’s room; they mysteriously disappear when he runs after man in next scene. (Sweet Revenge)

• 96. Carlyle’s hospital room is # 614, but asks for Officer Kromack at “5th West” hospital wing. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)

• 97. It is clearly Starsky’s stunt double driving the blue car that almost hits Joey’s yellow Mercedes. It appears to be him in jail along with Lenny Biggs. It is possible the man Hutch runs into while escaping Monk is the stunt double as well. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble, Strange Justice, Fix)

• 98. How does Carlyle get a beautifully fitted, three piece suit on his hurried dash from hospital to Schiller. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)

• 99. Starsky’s pop changes levels in the tag. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)

• 100. Sharon reminds Emily of their 5:00 meeting at the park bench. The time on Starsky's watch appears to be 6:20 when he grabs camera off rack in his apartment. If the time is 6:20 pm, then he has missed Emily by 80 minutes. If he has been taking photos at the park since 6:20 am, he is certainly an early riser, as well as a persistent photographer. (Blindfold)