GIRLFRIENDS, DATES AND FEMALE
ATTRACTIONS
“Do you trust me or not?"
“With my life, yes. With your choice of women, no.” (Starsky and
Hutch Are Guilty)
Sorts of
girlfreinds
• Serious girlfriends -- Example: Helen (Lady Blue)
• Girlfriends mentioned in passing -- Example: What's-Her-Name
(Pilot)
• Past dates -- Example: the lady cab driver Hutch dates via
Starsky (Velvet Jungle)
• Women with whom it is implied they will date -- Example: girl at
the bowling alley (Gillian)
• Women Starsky and Hutch wish were girlfriends but are thwarted in
some way -- Example: Dr. Kaufman (Plague)
Notes
• The two lists below don't include the women with whom they simply
flirt. As Starsky says, "I can't help it." (Losing Streak) --
Examples: Olivia (Losing Streak) and Madame Yram. (Hostages). It
also doesn't include women the two men wish they could have a date
with. Example: Officer Hagen (Specialist)
• Obviously, the lists below don't include the women Starsky and
Hutch date that the viewer never sees and aren't mentioned.
• The reader will have to sort out the seriousness of the
relationship, perhaps right along side an equally puzzled Starsky
and Hutch.
• The women are listed in chronological order and from when the
episode originally aired. For more information on episode order,
see Episode
Order
Hutch's
List
Nancy (Pilot)
• Nancy is his ex-wife and is only mentioned. Hutch brings her name
up once. When he does, Starsky makes a face. Hutch says Nancy used
to run back into the house when she and Hutch left, thinking she
had left the water or something on. Nancy may or may not be the
same person as Vanessa.
Vanessa (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• Vanessa is Hutch’s ex-wife. She and Hutch have been divorced, by
her recollection, four years, six months and twelve days. She calls
him from the airport and wants to meet him. They meet at the Pits
and have a fight. Hutch leaves, but she follows, asking him if she
can stay at his place that night. She tells him she is going to the
hospital in the morning for a biopsy. He reluctantly says yes.
Vanessa hides a stolen diamond in his car. She tries to seduce him,
but it doesn’t work. She tells him she is in the international
jewelry market and tries to get him to be her partner. While Hutch
goes for his morning run, Vanessa is killed by her boss’ thugs.
They use Hutch’s gun, and Hutch is arrested for her murder. Starsky
and Hutch run away together when it appears Hutch is going to go to
jail. Vanessa’s favorite drink is a Brandy Alexander. She says she
never darned Hutch’s socks. Vanessa may be Hutch’s first or second
ex-wife, depending on how one interprets Nancy, the ex-wife he
mentions in the “Pilot”.
What's-Her-Name (Pilot)
• Starsky asks if Hutch is still seeing What's-Her-Name. Hutch says
he is, but it's not serious. Hutch has taken her to the
whatchamecallit and given her his thingamajig.
Linda Williams (Death Ride)
• Williams is a detective from San Francisco. She impersonates
Joanne Wells, acting as a decoy. Starsky and Hutch accompany her
from Bryland to Bay City. Hutch is clearly attracted to her, and
they do a fair amount of flirting in the diner and in the panel
van.
Jeannie Walton (Fix)
• Walton is Ben Forest’s former girlfriend. Two months ago, she ran
away from Forest, and Hutch has been hiding her. Hutch gets her a
waitress job at the Pits for her, a job she leaves suddenly when
she thinks someone recognizes her. She calls Hutch from a beach
house, a place where Hutch has hidden her. Walton asks Hutch to
come see her but to not tell anyone, not even Starsky. After Forest
strings Hutch out on heroin, Hutch reveals her location. Forest
allows her to see Hutch one more time, and then promises to let him
go. Starsky and Hutch arrest Forest, and Walton decides to break it
off with Hutch.
Molly (Pariah)
• Molly is stewardess with whom Hutch is sleeping. She alludes to
meeting Starsky at a party the night before. Molly and Hutch trick
Starsky into drinking one of Hutch's health drinks. In the end,
Starsky makes banana daiquiris and serves them to Hutch, Molly and
Starsky's date.
blond woman (Deadly Imposter)
• Hutch pretends to see her future with cards as they sit in bed at
his party. Fifi interrupts them.
Abigail Crabtree (Deadly Imposter, Silence, Running, Bounty Hunter,
Vendetta)
• (Deadly Imposter) Abby is a friend of Maggie McMillian. Maggie
sends her to the station for a date with Starsky. Starsky, thinking
her name means she’s another old lady, asks Hutch to cover for him.
Hutch ends up with Abby, a young woman, instead. (Silence) credited
only (Running) Hutch brings clothes over to Sharman who is at
Starsky’s apartment. He says that Abby picked the clothes out.
Hutch says Abby had to guess at the sizes. Abby herself is not
seen. (Bounty Hunter) Abby is at the police cafeteria eating lunch
with Starsky and Hutch. She and Hutch talk about their forty-eight
hour fast over the weekend. In the tag, Abby serves Starsky and
Hutch a salad. Starsky complains to Hutch that it isn’t steak and
potatoes. Abby mixes up a health shake, but Starsky gives his to
Hutch. (Vendetta) Abby is at picnic with Hutch. They talk about
going back to his place, but Starsky’s girlfriend runs up and tells
them about a call on the radio. Later, Abby has lunch with Starsky
and Hutch and pesters him about showing up for supper on time. That
night at Hutch’s place, she is talking on the phone to her friend,
Donna. It sounds like she is going to give Hutch some sort of
ultimatum. She is setting the table when Tommy Marlowe busts in. He
assaults her. In the tag, her arm is in a sling. She and Hutch are
on a picnic. Abby tells him the thing with Marlowe really scared
her and she is leaving. Her brother is waiting for her in his car.
After she leaves, Starsky tells Hutch she had already told him she
was leaving. Abby likes Norwegian cheese. brother to pick her up
and take her home, leaving Hutch. Hutch finds out she had already
told Starsky.
Gillian Ingram (Gillian)
• Gillian is Hutch’s girlfriend. Hutch goes out with her for month
before he introduces her to Starsky. She tells Starsky she was
named by her father after an English woman he'd loved. She says she
is a writer. She lives in a really nice apartment. While in a
massage parlor looking for Lonely Bloggs’ killer, Starsky sees
Gillian in back with a customer. Starsky calls Huggy, and it is
confirmed that she is a high-priced call girl who works for the
Grossmans. The Grossmans brought her with them from Cleveland.
Gillian wants to quit her hooker job, but the Grossmans won’t let
her. Starsky goes to Gillian’s apartment and tries to give her
money to leave town. He tells her Hutch needs to know about her
real job and her past. She agrees to tell Hutch in the morning.
After Starsky leaves, Gillian goes to tell Olga she is quitting.
Gillian hits Olga and leaves her keys with her. Olga orders Al to
kill Gillian. Starsky discovers Gillian’s body shortly before Hutch
does.
Girl at the bowling alley (Gillian)
• She is the unnamed woman bowling next to Starsky, Hutch and
Nancy. Hutch offers to give her some bowling tips. She calls a
strike a "bingo," a clue that Starsky is trying to set Hutch
up.
Jane (Vampire)
• Jane and Bobette meet Starsky and Hutch at "The Playpen." Both
Bobette and Jane are intrigued by Starsky and Hutch's job. Starsky
gets their phone number but forgets to write it down. Starsky
spills popcorn on them. Jane and Bobette have a hard time keeping
Starsky and Hutch straight, but that confusion is reciprocated.
They look enough alike that Starsky and Hutch call them "twins”.
They are both privy to Starsky's vampire imitation. Hutch tells
Starsky he he and Jane "don't like crowds" when Starsky asks Hutch
where they should take the girls once they have a date.
Christine (Starsky's Lady)
• Christine, Terry, Starsky and Hutch go to the amusement park
together. Christine rides in the bumper car with Hutch. All four
also play miniature golf together. After Terry is shot, the four
have a date and play Monopoly. Christine makes a blunder and talks
about “next year” and Terry. Terry tells them she might surprise
them all and still be around.
Lady cabdriver (Velvet Jungle)
• Starsky thinks Hutch is sending him into the bar as payback for a
blind date with whom Starsky set him up, a lady cabdriver.
Kathy Marshall (Fatal Charm)
• Marshall is a stewardess. She has apparently dated both Starsky
and Hutch. She has Starsky pick her up at the airport and take her
to surprise Hutch. She, Starsky, Hutch and Diana Harmon go out
dancing. Harmon, jealous, makes a glass of wine spill on Kathy,
making her leave the disco with Starsky.
Diana Harmon (Fatal Charm)
• Harmon is the nurse who helps Hutch when he comes to the hospital
for stitches in his hand. She hears of Starsky and Hutch’s plan to
meet at a bar and follows them. She and Hutch go to her place, and
they sleep together. She says she just moved to Bay City, likes her
job and confesses to following him. She proceeds to make the
relationship more intense than he intended. She buys a watch for
him, telling the clerk she and Hutch are engaged. Harmon confronts
Hutch at work and bawls him out. Harmon destroys Hutch’s apartment,
and she attacks Linda Baylor. She also stabs Hutch while he is in
the shower, intending to kill him.
Carol Wade (Crying Child)
• Wade is third grade teacher. She notices that someone is abusing
one of her students, Guy Mayer. When Starsky and Hutch come to the
school to rehearse their comedy routine, Wade asks Starsky and
Hutch to investigate. She says Mayer had marks on his back two
weeks ago as well, and but this is the first time she is doing
anything about it. Wade is worried that her accusations will get
her in trouble at her job. After the confrontation at the Mayer
house, Wade takes Guy and his sister home with her. Thinking the
abuser is the children’s father, she lets them go home with their
mother.
Judith Kaufman (Plague)
• Kaufman is one of two doctors who fly in from Alabama to work on
a cure for the plague. Her partner is Dr. Meredith. They both work
for the Disease Control Center. She rides along with Starsky and
Hutch as they track down Donner's contacts. She and Hutch flirt a
little. Hutch tries to convince her to stay in Bay City. She
declines.
Molly Bristol (Collector)
• She is one of Hutch's girlfriends. Her father is Lee Bristol who
runs the "L&A Market and Deli." She lives in the back of the
store. She rides a bike. Molly puts on a blond wig and helps
Starsky and Hutch by going undercover as Heather O'Brian, a young,
pregnant girl who wants an abortion. John John the Apple directs
her to Oates' new collector. Cunningham meets her in a cafe and
offers to lend, and then give her money so she can go to San
Francisco to have her baby boy. Cunningham claims he can see and
hear her baby.
Anna Akhanatova (Body Worth Guarding)
• She is a Russian prima ballerina performing the play "Sleeping
Beauty." While touring the United States, she has attracted
demonstrators from the Jewish Organization for Action (JOA). There
have been threatening letters sent to the newspaper about her.
Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect her. Her coach is retired
dancer Masha Barovnika. Anna and Hutch spar but then spend the
night together. Anna goes back to Russia. She can beat Starsky at
right-handed arm wrestling, with a little help from Hutch.
Mary (Class in Crime)
• Mary is one of the women fishing with Starsky and Hutch. The
other woman, Rachel, is Starsky's date.
Lisa Kendrick (Foxy Lady)
• Lisa is from San Francisco. Her boyfriend is Kevin Mackey. She
and Mackey steal two million dollars from Mackey’s boss. After
Mackey is shot, Lisa has half the money and tricks Starsky and
Hutch into thinking she is an innocent witness. Both detectives vie
for her attentions. Lisa tells Starsky and Hutch a series of lies,
gets kidnapped with Hutch and manages to elude everyone. In the
end, she gets a reward check from the insurance company and despite
her criminal ways. Hutch attempts to feed her leftover pizza and
Chianti.
Laura Kanen (Deckwatch)
• Laura is Hannah’s granddaughter. They live together. Laura is
Hutch’s former girlfriend. She broke off their relationship,
telling him he was too vague. After finding Salidas in her house
with Hannah, Laura is sent for supplies. She finds Starsky and
Hutch instead. Laura works with Hutch to capture Salidas. She,
Hutch and Hannah pretend Hutch is a paramedic. Laura rides a bike
and tequila makes her sick. She accidentally hits Starsky in the
face with a lemon meringue pie.
Paula (
Photo Finish)
• Paula is Marcie Fletcher’s boss.
They both work for a public relations firm. The firm is hired to
take photographs at the party for Troy Braddock. Paula tells Marcie
she thinks Hutch is good looking, and Marcie brings Hutch along to
the party. She and Marcie have champagne with Starsky and Hutch at
the Pits to celebrate solving the case.
Roxy (Moonshine)
• Mentioned only. They are going to go to a dance contest after he
told her he was the West Coast Disco Champion. Starsky had had too
much to drink at the time. Hutch describes her as having "almond
eyes with killer lashes, Long, sexy legs and an Ava Gardner mouth.”
When Starsky injures his foot in the moonshine bust, Hutch moves in
and makes a date with her instead. Starsky gripes, saying Hutch
doesn’t even know how to fox trot.
Melinda
Rogers (Groupie)
• Rogers is a police groupie. She likes to sleep with cops. She is
thirty years old and has a dog name Fosdick. Rogers sleeps with
Harold, makes him late for his shift and steals a bullet he needs
later. Rogers works in the fashion industry for Jack Parker. The
company is called Ann Lock Fashions. Hutch goes undercover as Jack
Ives and has lunch with Rogers and her friend, a model named
Barbara. Rogers guess Hutch is a cop and sleeps with him. She helps
Starsky and Hutch in their attempts to bust Parker. Roy Sears and
Parker capture her and tie her to a chair. After they escape, Hutch
hands her his gun and tells her to keep an eye on Sears. She says
she is half Sicilian. Later at the Pits, Hutch tries to talk her
out of sleeping with cops. She dates Starsky instead.
Kate Larrabee (Cover Girl)
• Larrabee is famous fashion model. She and Hutch used to know each
other seven years ago. Larrabee is told she has a terminal illness
that will also make her ugly. She hires a hit man to kill her to
save her from this fate. After she discovers the illness is in
remission, she tries to stop the hit. Larrabee asks for help from
Starsky and Hutch when she is unable to stop her future killer.
Angel, the hit man blows up her car. He also attempts to kill her
with exploding light bulbs. She likes red wine. Larrabee agrees to
testify against Angel
Marlene (Starsky's Brother)
• Marlene is a stewardess at the airport. She and Nick flirt a bit.
When Starsky comes to pick Nick up, he diverts her attentions to
himself. Marlene agrees to meet the guys at "Tramps" later. She
brings her friends, Carol and Katie. Marlene becomes Hutch's date.
She's more interested in watching the Starsky brothers and doesn't
pay much attention to Hutch. The next day, Nick asks Hutch about
Marlene. He says they left, and she threw up on the stairs.
Mary (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• Starsky calls someone called Mary and asks her if Hutch has been
in contact with her. He asks her to call him if Hutch shows up. She
may or may not be a girlfriend.
Marianne Owens (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• Marianne is a singer at the club Joseph Fitch owns. Her brother,
Harry, works for Fitch. Marianne went to prison for five years for
something her brother, in Fitch’s employ, did. Harry has Marianne
lure Charles Baron to a hotel room for what she thinks will be a
conversation. Instead, Baron is beaten to death. Marianne meets
Hutch, who is undercover as a musician. Hutch thinks he can protect
her and tries to get her to turn Fitch over. Marianne discovers
Hutch is a cop and is angry. She is with Harry when he dies.
Allison
May (Targets 2 + 3)
• Laura Anderson was her former name. Under the Witness Protection
Program, she became Allison May at age eleven. She and Starsky were
like brother and sister. (See: Anderson, Franklin) She is now
thirty-two years old. Starsky used to call her Aunt Marion and her
father Uncle Frank. Allison realizes her father is in trouble. She
recognizes Starsky from a newspaper article about the McClellan
case and decides to ask him for help. She parks her little car
behind his as a diversion and then goes on a "date" with both
Starsky and Hutch. Starsky remembers who she is after he looks at
her photo album. After her father is killed, she is kidnapped by
Soldier. In the amusement park showdown, she and Starsky uses a
shared memory of Crazy Sammy Pearl and how he jumped through a
window to save themselves.
Kira (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Kira is the detective assigned to go undercover at the “Golden
Lady Ballroom.” She dates Starsky, and makes the move on Hutch,
too. After Hutch sleeps with her, Starsky hits him. She tells Hutch
she loves both men and doesn’t want to choose. Starsky and Hutch
meet her at the Pits and tell her neither of then wants her.
Starsky's
List
Cindy (Pilot)
• Hutch asks about Starsky's date with Cindy the night before.
Starsky said the date was "acceptable."
this lovely little lady named Nancy (Jojo)
• While doing surveillance with the Feds, Starsky complains about
missing a date with Nancy.
Woman (Pariah)
• She is the unnamed woman Starsky is apparently dating. She has a
daiquiri with Hutch, Starsky and Molly.
Helen Davvison (Lady Blue)
• Davisson is a former girlfriend of Starsky’s. They used to talk
about having children. Starsky tells Hutch he and Davisson argued a
lot. Starsky and Davisson broke it off five months ago. While it
appears she quite the force two months ago, she is really
undercover at the “Mellow Yellow” where she is posing as a dancer.
She is trying to crack a burglary ring. Davisson’s body is found
wrapped in antenna wire. She is one of the victims of James
Wrightwood. Davisson tells her friend, Cindy, that “once she made a
mistake.” This sends Starsky out to brood in his car. The character
is portrayed in a photograph by the same actress that plays Abby
Crabtree.
Sharman Crane (Running)
• Sharman and Starsky were in ninth grade woodshop class for one
semester. She doesn't remember him. Her father died, her mother
re-married and they moved away after the ninth grade. Sharman
became a top model in New York. Her first husband died in Vietnam,
and she lost their stillborn baby. Her second husband, Tony,
committed suicide after getting caught stealing money from his job.
Two months before the episode, Sharman disappeared. DuBois steals
her inscribed bracelet and Starsky recognizes it from a robbery. He
and Hutch locate Sharman, now almost always drunk. Starsky takes
her to his place, against Hutch's wishes, to "dry her out" and to
protect her from the media as well as DuBois. Starsky takes her
back to her parents in the end.
Vicky (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Vicky works as a showgirl in Las Vegas at the Thunderbird Hotel.
She has a young daughter named Cary. Cary has a leg brace. Cary
lives with Vicky’s mother in Boulder City while Vicky works two
jobs to pay for Cary’s operations. Vicky is divorced. Her
ex-husband’s name is Lloyd. Lloyd becomes physically abusive when
he drinks. Vicky meets Starsky and Hutch in her dressing room. She
invites them to a party at her apartment. Lloyd attacks her as she
is walking by the pool, and Starsky saves her, with help from
Hutch. Vicky is friends with Jack Mitchell. Vicky knew one of the
victims. She tells Starsky the victim felt like there was someone
in her room shortly before she was killed. Starsky goes to buy
nylons with her and figures out the drug store is a big clue.
Meanwhile, Jack Mitchell gets into her car and begs her to help
him. He is confused and convinced Hutch is trying to kill him. She
takes him to her apartment, but both are attacked by Pruitt. Pruitt
slams her against a wall, giving her a severe concussion. Starsky
and Hutch send all their Las Vegas winnings to her so she can pay
for her debts and her daughter’s operations.
Andrea (Vendetta)
• She is Starsky's picnic date.
Nancy Rogers (Gillian)
• Rogers is Starsky’s girlfriend. She doesn’t bowl very well. She
gets the gang cokes and beers. Rogers calls Starsky “Red” and a
strike “Bingo.”
Bobbette (Vampire)
• Bobette and Jane meet Starsky and Hutch at "The Playpen." Both
Jane and Bobette are intrigued by Starsky and Hutch's job. Starsky
gets their phone number but forgets to write it down. Starsky
spills popcorn on them. Bobette and Jane have a hard time keeping
Starsky and Hutch straight, but that confusion is reciprocated.
They look enough alike that Starsky and Hutch call them "twins.”
They are both privy to Starsky's vampire imitation.
Terry Roberts (Starsky's Lady)
• Roberts works at the “Marshal Center for Exceptional Children.”
She often tells Starsky she loves him. Prudholm shoots Roberts in a
revenge plan. Her doctor can’t remove the bullet and tells her she
will die within the year. Roberts decides to go on living her life.
She tells Starsky and Hutch she used to want to skate in a derby.
Starsky asks her to marry him, but she doesn’t answer him. After
she dies, she tells Starsky and Hutch to have a memorial service
her two weeks later, She leaves Hutch her teddy bear and Starsky a
Monopoly book.
Laura Stevens (Velvet Jungle)
• Stevens is a model. Stevens comes out of a warehouse's door and
knocks Starsky into a dumpster. She laughs at him and kids him
about his ratty clothes. Starsky sees her again at the fashion show
rehearsal. She asks him to hold her clothes and tells him they are
going to go on a date. Starsky takes Stevens to a nice restaurant,
but she complains about his tennis shoes, noting Starsky
embarrassed her in front of a fashion editor.
Sharon Freemont (Starsky and Hutch are Guilty)
• Freemont is a District Attorney who is dating Starsky. She has
been using her position of power to blackmail people. She makes a
deal with Eric Ronstan, telling him she will drop indecent exposure
charges against his son if he agrees to make her a junior partner
in his law firm. Freemont tries to ruin Starsky and Hutch’s
reputation by hiring two people who look like them. These doubles
beat and kill people. Freemont wants to make Starsky and Hutch look
bad so their testimony at the Ronstan trial will be suspect. When
Starsky invites her over for supper, she chooses fettuccine over
goulash. She says she has to be ambitious in her own way because
she was tired of waiting for the Equal Rights Amendment to
pass.
Kathy Marshall (Fatal Charm)
• Marshall is a stewardess. She has apparently dated both Starsky
and Hutch. She has Starsky pick her up at the airport and take her
to surprise Hutch. She, Starsky, Hutch and Diana Harmon go out
dancing. Harmon, jealous, makes a glass of wine spill on Kathy,
making her leave the disco with Starsky.
Rosey Malone (Rosey Malone)
• Rosey is Frank Malone’s daughter. Her mother died two years ago.
Rosey has been in Mexico, helping impoverished villagers raise
money with art. She has been in the United States for a month now
and runs a shop selling native art. Starsky and Hutch see her
running the park, and Starsky tried to date her. She brushes him
off. Two F.B.I agents take their picture and goad Starsky into
getting to know her better. It is suspected Rosey knows a lot about
her father’s illegal mob business and is a delivery person for him.
Starsky goes undercover, falls in love with Rosey, but he doesn’t
tell her he’s a cop. When his cover is blown, Rosey is at first
angry, then takes him back, standing up to her father. After
Rosey’s father makes a deal with the Feds, she decides to go with
him into hiding. She alludes they are going back to Mexico.
Woman (Collector)
• She is the unnamed woman Starsky is dancing with at the
deli.
Carstairs, Sharon (Heavyweight)
• Starsky is sleeping with Sharon. She is a stewardess who is
taking a break from her airline pilot boyfriend. Hutch asks Sharon
to drive Stevie Spencer home. Both he and Starsky mock her lack of
understanding about boxing. She keeps Starsky up all night with
lots of sex. When Starsky goes to meet Hutch on the docks, she
hooks back up with her former boyfriend, George. They become
engaged.
Most Beautiful Thing Since (Body Worth Guarding)
• Starsky tells Hutch he has a "midnight meet with the most
beautiful thing since ..."
Rachel (Class in Crime)
• Rachel is one of the women fishing with Starsky and Hutch. The
other woman, Mary, is Starsky's date.
Catlin (Class in Crime)
• Catlin is the odd saleswoman at the car showroom, “The House That
Jack Built.” The dealership sells very expensive cars. Starsky and
Hutch go there to question her about her boss’ death but she has
already heard about it. Starsky sits in the car with her and
flirts. Later, she goes home with Starsky and sleeps with him.
Hutch sees her at Starsky’s place in the morning. She makes Starsky
eggs for breakfast and let him drive his dream car.
Lisa Kendrick (Foxy Lady)
• Lisa is from San Francisco. Her boyfriend is Kevin Mackey. She
and Mackey steal two million dollars from Mackey’s boss. After
Mackey is shot, Lisa has half the money and tricks Starsky and
Hutch into thinking she is an innocent witness. Both detectives vie
for her attentions. Lisa tells Starsky and Hutch a series of lies,
gets kidnapped with Hutch and manages to elude everyone. In the
end, she gets a reward check from the insurance company and despite
her criminal ways. Starsky gets her away from Hutch and takes her
out for shishkabobs and palm reading.
K.C. McBride (Quadromania)
• McBride drives a cab for "Metro Cab Company." She is an aspiring
country western singer. She and Starsky go out on a date, but he
falls asleep in the car. McBride and Hutch rescue Starsky from
Fitzgerald. McBride thinks she's hiring an experienced manager
named Buck the Panhandle Bear. The man turns out to be Huggy.
Emily Harrison (Blindfold)
• Harrison is the woman Starsky accidentally shoots during a
robbery. Harrison is blinded, and Starsky feels extreme guilt. He
befriends her, not telling her who he is. It turns out Harrison is
Donald Widdicombe’s girlfriend and was the lookout for the robbery.
Widdicombe tells her he is taking her to Hawaii to marry her. She
suspects this is to keep her from testifying against her.
Harrison’s sight comes back, and she helps save Starsky and Hutch
in the underground parking lot. Harrison’s apparent only friend is
Sharon, her neighbor. Harrison has no other family.
Marcie Fletcher (Photo Finish)
• Fletcher is Starsky’s girlfriend and is a freelance photographer.
She works for Paula who runs public relations company. She takes
Starsky to a party she is working. It is a gathering for Troy
Braddock, a big-name painter. Braddock is shot during his speech.
Fletcher, who has been taking photos, realizes she has a photo of
Braddock as he is killed. She tricks Starsky and doesn’t give him
the film, instead calling News World magazine and getting a good
deal there. She compares her picture to the famous Jack Ruby-Harvey
Oswald photo. The killer, realizing the implications of the photo,
ransacks her darkroom, but doesn’t get the evidence. Fletcher is
nearly killed in a hit-and-run attempt. She ends up cooperating
with Starsky and Hutch, luring the killer to Monk’s house. She,
Paula, Starsky and Hutch celebrate with champagne at the
Pits.
Roxy (Moonshine)
• They are going to go to a dance contest after he told her he was
the West Coast Disco Champion. Starsky had had too much to drink at
the time. Hutch describes her as having "almond eyes with killer
lashes, Long, sexy legs and an Ava Gardner mouth.” When Starsky
injures his foot in the moonshine bust, Hutch moves in and makes a
date with her instead. Starsky gripes, saying Hutch doesn’t even
know how to fox trot.
Dee
O'Reilly (Strange Justice)
• O’Reilly works in traffic. She gives Dobey and Hutch parking
tickets. Hutch gets after her, threatening to make her walk a beat.
She tells Hutch this would be a promotion. O’Reilly files a
harassment complaint against Hutch. O’Reilly and Starsky are
dating, something Hutch doesn’t know.
Joan Meredith (Black and Blue)
• Meredith is a cop. She was fourth in her class at the Academy and
used to work in Juvenile. Dobey assigns her to be Starsky's partner
while Hutch is in the hospital. Dobey thinks that her being black
will help in solving the robbery crimes. She tells she understands
that her being black and female fulfills two quotas. In
hand-to-hand combat, she takes Starsky down; his underestimation of
her his downfall. Meredith, undercover as a young thief,
infiltrates Train's hideout. Vivian blows her cover. Starsky jokes,
in front of Dobey and Hutch, that if Hutch were ever shot again,
he'd want her as a partner. It is insinuated that Starsky and
Meredith slept together.
Melinda Rogers (Groupie)
• Rogers is a police groupie. She likes to sleep with cops. She is
thirty years old and has a dog name Fosdick. Rogers sleeps with
Harold, makes him late for his shift and steals a bullet he needs
later. Rogers works in the fashion industry for Jack Parker. The
company is called Ann Lock Fashions. Hutch goes undercover as Jack
Ives and has lunch with Rogers and her friend, a model named
Barbara. Rogers guess Hutch is a cop and sleeps with him. She helps
Starsky and Hutch in their attempts to bust Parker. Roy Sears and
Parker capture her and tie her to a chair. After they escape, Hutch
hands her his gun and tells her to keep an eye on Sears. She says
she is half Sicilian. Later at the Pits, Hutch tries to talk her
out of sleeping with cops. She dates Starsky instead.
Katie (Starsky's Brother)
• Katie is friends with Marlene and Carol. The three women meet
Starsky, Hutch and Nick at "Tramps", a disco. Katie ends up as
Starsky's date.
Allison May (Targets 1 + 2)
• Laura Anderson was her former name. Under the Witness Protection
Program, she became Allison May at age eleven. She and Starsky were
like brother and sister. (See: Anderson, Franklin) She is now
thirty-two years old. Starsky used to call her Aunt Marion and her
father Uncle Frank. Allison realizes her father is in trouble. She
recognizes Starsky from a newspaper article about the McClellan
case and decides to ask him for help. She parks her little car
behind his as a diversion and then goes on a "date" with both
Starsky and Hutch. Starsky remembers who she is after he looks at
her photo album. After her father is killed, she is kidnapped by
Soldier. In the amusement park showdown, she and Starsky uses a
shared memory of Crazy Sammy Pearl and how he jumped through a
window to save themselves.
Kira (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Kira is the detective assigned to go undercover at the “Golden
Lady Ballroom.” She dates Starsky, and makes the move on Hutch,
too. After Hutch sleeps with her, Starsky hits him. She tells Hutch
she loves both men and doesn’t want to choose. Starsky and Hutch
meet her at the Pits and tell her neither of then wants her.
Notable
couples
• Dewey Hughes and Sarah Kingston (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Nick Dombarris and Elaine Stroud (Jojo)
• Melinda Rogers and Harold (Groupie)
• Linda Offenbecker and Slade (Vampire)
• Rene and Maria Nadasy (Vampire)
• Alex and Janice Drew (Specialist)
• Alice Adams and Steven Anderson (Specialist)
• Vic and Evelyn Rankin (Losing Streak)
• Vern DuBois and Ella (Running)
• Sharman Crane and Tony (Running)
• Sue and Victor Bellamy (Coffin for Starsky)
• Denise Gerard and Jerry Konig (Bounty Hunter)
• Lola Turkel and Bo Rile (Bounty Hunter)
• Sharon Flynn and Ted Cameron (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Kitty and Harv (Murder at Sea)
• Mr. and Mrs. Mills (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Amboy and Mickey (Bust Amboy)
• Lola Brenner and Leo Moon (Captain Dobey, You're Dead)
• Patricia Talbert and Mark Henderson (Pilot)
• Henny and Sarah Wilson (Savage Sunday)
• Wilbur and Sally Ann Sloan (Savage Sunday)
• Zack and Emma Lou Tyler (Texas Longhorn)
• Ben Forest and Jeanie Walton (Fix)
• Lim Lee and Ginger (Death Notice)
• Kathi Carmer and Jerry Neilan (Death Notice)
• Sarah Kingston and Harry Martin (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Cheryl Waite and Billy Harkness (Bait)
• Nancy Blake and Billy Desmond (Terror on the Docks)
• Karen and Warren Karpel (Deadly Imposter)
• Mr. and Mrs. Durant (Shootout)
• Theresa DeFusto and Jimmy Lee Carson (Shootout)
• Tom and Ellie Cole (Hostages)
• Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Pitkin (Murder at Sea)
• Mikki Mara and Professor Joshua Gage (Class in Crime)
• Matt Coyle and Laura Lonigan (Iron Mike)
• Peter Whitelaw and John Blaine (Death in a Different Place)
• Ginger and the Professor (Action)
• Ray Pardee and Gina (Game)
• Ellen and Ted McDermott (Action)
• James and Lillian Spenser (Heavyweight)
• Basil and Nicole Monk (Photo Finish)
• Sharon Carstairs and George (Heavyweight)
• Lisa Kendrick and Kevin Mackey (Foxy Lady)
• Huggy and Miss Treasure Chest (Death Ride)
• Vivian and Harry (Dandruff)
• Tyrone and Marlene (Dandruff)
• Marlene and Tyrone (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Buzzy Boone and Candy Reese (Golden Angel)
• Luke and Doris Huntley (Birds of a Feather)
• Joey Carston and Steve (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Lionel and Mardean Rigger (Targets 1)
• Thomas and Marion May (Targets 2 + 3)
• Richie and Arlene (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Linda Offenbecker and Slade (Vampire)
• Starsky and Hutch (all of them)
Women
they both "date"
• Kathy Marshall (Fatal
Charm)
• Roxy (Moonshine)
• Melinda Rogers (Groupie)
• Kira (Starsky vs. Hutch)
Women for
whom they compete
• Lisa Kendrick (Foxy
Lady)
• Allison May (Targets 2 +
3)
• Christine Phelps (Heroes)
• Officer Sally Hagen (Specialist)
• Julia and Tricia Martin (Satan's Witches)
• Meghan (Murder on Playboy Island)
• Detective Lizzie Thorpe (Discomania)
• Dolly Ivers (Moonshine)
• Roxy (Moonshine)
• Melinda Rogers (Groupie)
• Kira (Starsky vs. Hutchº
Women
Starsky and Hutch rebuff
• Joey, Starsky (Trap, Ninety Pounds)
• large woman at disco, Hutch (Avenger)
• Judith, Starsky and Hutch (Discomania)
• Roxy, Hutch (Heroes)
• Fifi, Hutch (Starsky and Hutch are Guilty)
• Terrible Tessie, Starsky (Omaha Tiger)
• October Moss, Starsky and Hutch (Murder at Sea)
• Nikki, Hutch (Starsky and Hutch are Guilty)
• Sheila, Starsky (Captain Dobey, You're Dead)
• Bertha Zelinka by way of her mother (Murder at Sea)
• Monique Travers, Starsky (Avenger)
Episode
with not a single female
• Snowstorm