• 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 wrist watch, 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 Without a Badge 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 tha 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. Why is Rigger in trouble with his part in
listening to the the judge’s bribe? Huggy mentions Lionel
wants to work something off, but he hasn’t done anything
wrong with this particular crime yet.Someone offers him
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? (Targets Without a
Badge 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 Without a Badge 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 Without a Badge 2)
• 229.M. Patricia Talbert is indentified 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, say 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. (Starsky
and Hutch on 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? (Starsky and Hutch on
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?
(Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island)
• 241.N. Both the words “fakir” and “bokor” have been used
by Starsky and Hutch to describe Papa Theodore. 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. (Starsky and
Hutch on 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. (Starsky and Hutch on 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)