• 451. Jack Cunningham says
his father smuggled him out of the convent in a suitcase
and took him home. One problem with this story is Jack was
fourteen when his father came to get him. Either he was a
pretty little kid or his dad had a very large suitcase. Or
Jack is lying about aspects of his story. (Collector)
• 452. Shockley tells Goring, “I ain’t never had a parking
ticket in my life.” He was, however, busted by Hutch a few
years ago. Perhaps Shockley is hoping the double negative
will make his statement regarding crime true. Either that
or he may have done something bad enough for Hutch to nab
him, but can rest easy at night regarding parking
violations. (Bait)
• 453. Describe a scenario where if Molly /Pete doesn’t
revise her thieving ways, she will go from Perkowitz to
Berkowitz. (Little Girl Lost, Lady Blue)
• 454. How do Starsky and Hutch manage to save the Dobey
and “shoot the moon” in more ways than one? (Captain Dobey,
You’re Dead)
• 455. Why don’t the thugs ask where Ted Banks is? And if
they know he is dead, why are they still sticking with
Billy? (Terror on the Docks)
• 456. Why do Starsky and Hutch think Skyler is involved at
the point when they see him shot? Unless they know
something the audience doesn’t, he is merely an injured
victim. (Terror on the Docks)
• 457. Billy tells Rick, “The weddings at 1:00. I think by
2:00 she’ll get the idea I’m not coming.” Actually, since
the wedding is at 2:00, she won’t suspect a thing until
Billy’s estimation of an hour, at 3:00. (Terror on the
Docks)
• 458. Marianne tells Hutch he is as interested in what
happens to her as the “man on the moon.” Later, Hutch’s
answer to her about who beat him up is, “the man on the
moon.” Is Hutch slinging it back at her, remembering her
earlier comment? (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• 459. Walter Healey makes the point the devil dolls were
given to the victims sometime before they died, yet Papa
Theodore lays Healey’s doll on his dead body. Is this a
direct comment that the voodoo portrayed in this episode is
invalid? (Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island)
• 460. Starsky tells Hutch, after the successful bomb
disposal, that he is going to “give a fiver to the first
holy man I see.” While it is possible Starsky sees other
holy men the viewer doesn’t, going with on-screen religious
figures, the first “holy” man he sees is Seeds/Slade,
leader of the money-making cult of which Nadasy was a
member. Assuming Starsky does not accept Father Seeds/Slade
as legitimate, then the next holy man he sees is “Father
Merle” when going to ferret out Hutch’s undercover car.
“Father Merle” is legit as per Hutch’s comment about how
Starsky makes “Earl’s Custom Car Cult sound like a
religion.” Actually, the only legitimate holy man is Father
Delacourt. The rest of Bay City’s religious leaders are all
members of cults or dressed up as nuns and priests for
duplicitous reasons. (Murder at Sea, Vampire, Jojo, Terror
on the Docks)
• 461. Starsky displays his knowledge of the Vodun religion
in his Green Voodoo Bird of Death charade. He incorporates
“Papa Legba,” the Vodun loa, or spirit, that is the
intermediary between the spirits and humans. Papa Legba is
also the loa of communication and understanding; sly
Starsky using the name to perhaps communicate to Hutch
their next action. Starsky also cites the name “Damballa,”
the loa of the snake. Perhaps he is thinking of Pine Lake
and how, while there aren’t snakes there, “There will be
when we get there!” (Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island)
• 462. Starsky listens for Hutch’s heart with the
stethoscope. He says he “can’t hear a thing.” Is it because
he is expecting a heartbeat. Perhaps, as per Starsky’s
later comment to Huggy that Hutch’s guitar is his heart,
Starsky should be listening for the sound of Hutch’s
fingers softly strumming an guitar? Either that, or Hutch
really is a “man without a heart,” as Starsky comments on
their way out of Uncle Elmos? I prefer to think of the
former. (Fatal Charm, Nightmare, Crying Child)
• 463. Diana tells Hutch she has “some steaks in the
refrigerator.” She didn’t have time to buy them, is dressed
in a nightgown so isn’t planning to pick some up and they
are not in the freezer where “some steaks” may reside for a
single person. Without a microwave, thawing them would be
difficult. Seems like she is ready to lure in a guy without
too much preparation. (Fatal Charm)
• 464. Hutch’s watch, as he unties Starsky, reads 11:55.
The lights-out is 11:00 yet it is not dark. (Murder Ward)
• 465. Note the shadow on the wall behind Matwick as Switek
asks him for the drugs. It makes Matwick look very large,
when in fact he is a regularly sized person. Compare this
scene to the one of Starsky and Hutch talking in the door
way of Starsky’s room and all you see is their black
silhouettes against the bright light of the hallway.
(Murder Ward)
• 466. Describe these two characters: Louie the Nose
Dicario and Carmen the Nose Pirelli. (Golden Angel, Murder
Ward)
• 467. Switek dials three numbers when he calls his drug
connection from the office. It must be an extension in the
building. Who is his buyer? (Murder Ward)
• 468. Just how much truth is in Starsky’s knowledge of the
Huichol Indians. He tells Rosey, “I spent some time up in
the mountains.” This would be the Sierra Madre Occidental
range in western Mexico and very desolate. While some
Wixarica (the name by which they refer to themselves) may
speak Spanish, their native language is Wixa. Rosey should
have said something to him in Wixa, trilling the “X” as an
“R.” (Rosey Malone)
• 469. Hutch comments that it must be Babe Ruth’s one
hundred forty-second birthday. Actually the Babe was born
in 1895, making it his eighty-second birthday. The Babe
died in 1948, not that long ago. Why is Hutch so far off?
It’s not like him. (Murder Ward)
• 470. Frank Malone kisses Rosey on the mouth in front of
Starsky. Starsky kisses Rosey on the mouth a few minutes
later. A little too close for comfort…(Rosey Malone)
• 471. When Starsky blindly runs when Rosey leaves him, he
looks like his brother Nick. In what other ways does he
resemble Nick, physically and otherwise. (Rosey Malone)
• 472. In Starsky’s tangle with Goodson and Chambers, he
twice attributes their worst attributes to their being
“civilians.” This episode is the only time he uses this
term disparagingly. Does he really feel this way, or is
“civilians” a code word for lawyers or federal workers?
(Rosey Malone)
• 473. Nick Dombarris tells Jojo he will be at Brooks in
two minutes and Jojo is going to rape Molly in that time?
Is Nick Dombarris aware of Jojo’s tendencies and fine with
them, or is Jojo acting on his own? (Jojo)
• 474. Jojo tells his fellow thug to go watch the back, but
the thug goes and sits in the car in the front. Is there
more going on in this bust than we first see? (Jojo)
• 475. It isn’t like Starsky and Hutch have family
commitments or religious services to go to, so what is the
big deal about working on Sundays? (Blindfold, Savage
Sunday, Jojo)
• 476. It is likely Molly would have been more receptive to
pressing charges against Jojo if Starsky and Hutch had
talked to her in a different room than “Interrogation.” It
is a scary, cold room reserved for criminals, not the most
conducive to making her feel at ease and comfortable.
Starsky and Hutch offer Molly nothing in way of comfort. At
least Andrea got a cup of coffee from Hutch and Paco. And
even Linda Mascelli got a lit cigarette from Hutch. (Jojo,
Velvet Jungle)
• 477. Hutch tells Dr. Franklin he assumed because Starsky
was in the hospital, that he would be treated successfully.
Later, he rails about doctors, “You get sick and they can’t
even cure the common cold!” Hutch, while under a great deal
of stress, expresses two opposite opinions in five minutes.
Starsky displays his ambiguous feelings about the medical
profession as well; when calling to find out Hutch’s
condition after being shot, the nurse comments Starsky
apparently doesn’t trust doctors. Are both men acting on
stress, or do they have an actual distrust of the medical
profession? (A Coffin for Starsky, Black and Blue)
• 478. Sharman Crane and Alice Adams probably knew each
other. They were the same age, as Starsky had them both in
his class two years apart. Imagine the interaction between
the beautiful Sharman and the lumpy, large Alice. And for
extra credit, speculate on Alice Adam’s life. She may not
have had Sharman’s looks and style, but perhaps her life
was less tumultuous? (Running, Specialist)
• 479. Starsky admits to Sharman, “Everyday of my life, at
some time or another, I say that (I’m not ready) to myself,
“ telling her sometimes “ya just gotta do.” What is he not
ready for? Does he really mean this or is he trying to talk
Rosey into making the phone call to her parents? And how
does this relate to his comment to Carol Wade, “Guess
sometimes you just have to jump in.” (Running, Crying
Child)
• 480. Put in order the three “Number One Rules” cited and
explain your decision. Rule Number One, “Cops aren’t
supposed to be happily married,” referring to “Police
Story.” Rule Numero Uno, “The one about emotional
involvement,” Starsky reminds Hutch of and “Rule Number One
in this precinct is no, absolutely flat-out no, private
parties,” Dobey says. (Bounty Hunter, Crying Child,
Vendetta)
• 481. Bo Rile tells Lola, “I get the feeling you kinda
enjoy this whole thing.” Lola doesn’t answer. Does she
enjoy what she is doing? (Bounty Hunter)
• 482. The Gay Decorating Theme seems to start with beading
curtains in the doorway. The Green Parrot has them at the
bar doorway and upstairs. Orrin Lawford has them in his
place as well. Speculate on the conversation Maggie and
John have when she, unknowingly (or not), suggests putting
up some beaded curtains in the living room doorway. (Death
in a Different Place)
• 483. Just how many drinks did Blaine drink? He is
drinking a martini when Hunter propositions him. Hunter
buys him another drink when he spills his scotch and water
on Blaine. Blaine refers to “all those drinks” having
“really hit me tonight.” Does he drink more than usual that
night? Was it Hunter who dropped barbiturates in his drink
and this made Blaine careless with his intake? Or was his
drunkenness attributed more to the drug than the amount of
alcohol? Or perhaps Dobey is right, and “everybody takes
pills.” ; are the barbiturates Blaine’s own? (Death in a
Different Place)
• 484. Starsky sees the marks on Guy’s back and has a
little breakdown. “I thought I’d seen everything.” In all
his years as being a cop, this is the worst he has seen
happen to children??? (Crying Child)
• 485. For all their worldly ways and the world Starsky and
Hutch patrol, there is an amazing lack of children. In
actuality, they’d be underfoot everywhere, complicating
cases and adding a lot more depth to Bay City. (various)
• 486. Do Starsky and Hutch have a moment of contemplation
as they remember Hutch’s play backhanding of Starsky in
front of Guy before they knew of his abuse? (Crying Child)
• 487. Starsky kvetches about stopping a robbery while
dressed in their disguises as cowboy and “Arab with funny
shoes.” Hutch is the one that crabs about stopping a
robbery dressed as Laurel and Hardy. Comment. (Tap Dancing,
Crying Child)
• 488. Dobey seems amazed at Starsky and Hutch’s access to
Corday’s file. “You got Corday’s file out of Narco?”
Getting an officer’s file didn’t seem to be too much of a
problem for Starsky and Hutch when they got Mike Ferguson’s
file from R & I. How much access do other officers have
regarding peers’ records and cases? (Death in a Different
Place, Iron Mike)
• 489. Envision the conversation between Maxine and LaVerne
about what they observed, sensed and guessed about the
murder of Orrin Lawford. (Death in a Different Place)
• 490. What is Corday’s history with Starsky and Hutch?
Hutch is immediately seemingly suspicious and hostile,
while Starsky glares in the background. Yet when Hutch asks
Starsky later what he knows about Corday, Starsky says not
as much as he should. What tips Starsky and Hutch off about
a fellow cop they appear to have heard nothing negative
about? (Death in a Different)
• 491. What is Starsky and Hutch’s knowledge of “Juvenile
Hall” based on? Hutch can’t stand the thought of Molly
being there, though it could be the Christmas thing. And
they can’t stand the thought of Guy and Vikki there, to the
extent they put Carol in an illegal situation by having her
take the children to her house. (Little Girl, Crying Child)
• 492. Assuming Starsky and Hutch are not that naïve, Guy
Mayer’s case is more about society’s attitudes changing
regarding child abuse. Starsky and Hutch are surprised
Eddie Mayer, brute they assume he is, makes pottery.
Starsky and Hutch, when finding out Eddie was on his way to
Phoenix when the first beating occurred, immediately rule
him out as a suspect, never giving thought to both Guy’s
parents being abusers. (Crying Child)
• 493. From the sound of it, Starsky may not have seen a
lot of action in his stint in the Army. He tells Hutch,
“Wait, wait, wait. I thought I finished that routine in the
Army.” (Plague)
• 494. Doing the math, there have been three outbreaks of
the plague in thirty-five years, according to Dr. Jonas
Tishaun. This isn’t alarming to health officials? Wouldn’t
Drs. Meredith and Kaufman be taking a VERY detailed and
careful look at those past cases, instead of reading about
them in an old, blue, dusty book? (Plague)
• 495. Is Callendar a basically good man? Or not? He
doesn’t harm, at least intentionally, the Yeagers. He gives
Richie money for shoes and tells him to buy a flower for
Mrs. Yeager. And he eventually comes in to save Richie. At
the same time, he is a vicious killer with a nasty history,
he not only kills his contact on the roof, but viciously
and needlessly kicks the man’s corpse, and one could see
his trip to the hospital as a way to get out of the country
rather than helping anyone one else, Hutch included.
(Plague)
• 496. Compare and contrast Thomas Callendar and his
“firing pin contact” on the roof. Both men have the same
goal in mind, Set-Up or do a kill and make money. Callendar
suggests the man count the money he just handed over, but
the man expresses his trust that it is all there. Both men
pull something long and sharp out of his hat or back of
collar and “give” it to the other. Callendar’s contact says
they need to trust each other but in actuality squeezes
more money out of Callendar. Callander gives a nod at the
trust comment, but kills the man in the end. And knowing
all this, did Callendar put money in the envelope he gives
the man or not? He doesn’t pick it up, either not caring
about the money or knowing there wasn’t $5000 in it in the
first place. Comment. (Plague)
• 497. While Starsky had limited time and a clear dislike
of Roper, would Starsky’s request have been taken more
seriously if he had been more polite about the offer of the
game of chess or refreshments? Roper was clearly unhappy
with Starsky’s brusqueness and right to the point, all
business attitude. “No social amenities, get right to the
point. You cops got no grace.” Or did Starsky know it
didn’t really matter what went down there in terms of
social niceties and Roper would have found something to
bitch about? (Plague)
• 498. Watch Starsky’s request to Roper become more and
more unlikely as Roper uses more and more casual, and
finally derisive forms of address for Starsky. “Officer
Starsky…Mr. Cop…Cop.” (Plague)
• 499. Speculate as to why Helen Yeager doesn’t get Thomas
Callendar to a hospital, when he is clearly very ill. He
asks her not to one time, and she could have figured it was
the fever talking. She doesn’t even seem to consider it a
possibility when Richie asks her if Steele is going to die
and her response is “I don’t know.” (Plague)