HOW FAR? DISTANCE

"There you go, cop. The first mile on a long, long trip." (Fix)

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Distance
• as long as your arm = McClellan has a long list of commendations “as long as your arm” (Targets 3)
• "not all that tall" = Starsky tells Mary Polanski, "Yeah, well, one thing you gotta realize is that I'm not all that tall." (Hostages)
• 3rd row = Russian Mummy threw referee into the 3rd row (Omaha Tiger)
• 10 stories = how far Jane Elexy fell to her death out a window (Murder on Stage 17)
• 20 story building = Gage uses it in class exercise regarding a suicide (Class in Crime)
• 375 cubic something = has something to do with the car Starsky wants Hutch to buy from his uncle (Snowstorm)
• 1 and 2/8 inches = equals one and a quarter mile on Kingston’s map. (Quadromania)
• 1 inch = Garner says he will use every inch of the law to get Starsky (Committee)
• 1 inch = Vic Rankin is killing himself one inch at a time, says Evelyn (Losing Streak)
• 1 inch = “Sexy Woman” (as she is known in the credits) tells Stryker she “almost got grabbed and isn’t moving another inch.” (Starsky’s Brother)
• 1 inch = move one more inch, says Annie to Jack, and Duvcha will “rip your legs off.” (Collector)
• 2 inches = the steel door’s thickness in the grocery warehouse Prudholm is holed up in (Starsky’s Lady)
• 2 inch = two inch story on page eight in newspaper, Candy complains about (Golden Angel)
• 2 inch = it is a 2 inch, .38, anti-rape, purse model Carboni comments about Madelaine’s weapon. (Deckwatch)
• 3 inches = Hutch claims his car was over yellow line (Strange Justice)
• 6 inches = the bullet was six inches from Hutch’s heart (Black and Blue)
• 6 inches = Torino’s front end sits up six inches (Pilot)
• 8 inches by 10 inches = car hop’s boyfriend has an “8 X 10 glossy photograph of her 6’2” boyfriend.” (Silence)
• foot long = Lee Bristol will sell you a foot-long hot dog for .65 (Collector)
• a 23 inch television fell out of the Belmont Hotel on Rupert Jones. (Targets 1)
• 2 feet = two feet is the height of Sugar Plum’s “Sweet Sioux” (Death in a Different Place)
• 1 yard = Starsky notes he and Hutch need “a long yard of green,” for their layered-look plan. (Action)
• a length and a half = how much Mouse ‘O War wins a race (Tap Dancing)
• a length = how far behind King Bangor is behind (Action)
• a neck = how much Salty Babe lost the race (Action)
• 5'5" = Belle Kates' height (Hostages)
• Mousey Loomis' height (Nightmare)
• 5'6" = Alice Conrad's height (Committee)
• 5'7" = Coley's height (Pilot)
• 5’9" = Dobey notes the height of Charles Baron. (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• 5'9" = Thomas Powell's height (Foxy Lady)
• 5'9" = Jack Cunningham's height (Collector)
• 5'9" = Artie Solkin's height (Vendetta)
• 5'10" = Carl Stoltz' height (Specialist)
• 5'10" = Joseph Tramaine's height, Starsky estimates it (Pariah)
• 5'11" = Victor O'Conner's height (Quadromania)
• 6'0" = Starsky's height (Specialist)
• 6'0" = Mac McDermott's height (Specialist)
• 6'0" = George Prudholm's height (Pariah)
• 6'0" =Jerry Konig's height (Bounty Hunter)
• 6'1" = Ward Billing's height (Committee)
• 6'2" = Skinny Momo's height (Iron Mike)
• 6'2" = Hutch's height (Specialist)
• 7 furloughs = Starsky comments Salty Babe never won in anything in seven furloughs (Action)
• 6 foot = a six foot male rose on fire is what Starsky asks about regarding an APB (Psychic)
• 6 foot two inches = This, and eyes of blue is Susan. Hutch mutters this outside of Golden Lady. (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• 8 foot = her eight foot tall husband keeps Lizzie’s suitors away (Discomania)
• 10 feet = Hutch points out Starsky would get nailed ten feet from barn door (Trap)
• 20/80 = Mrs. Marlowe’s vision without her glasses (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• 25 feet = how far the “vampire” jumps (Vampire)
• 500 feet = Starsky would rather fly at this height; if they crashed, it would be over sooner (Set-Up)
• 2000 feet = what the Baron’s “old girl” is flying at (Set-Up)
• 100 meters = Warrick, the kid Starsky played football against, could run this distance in 9.9 seconds (Pilot)
• 440 meters = Starsky and Hutch talk about running this next week (Rosey Malone)
• by the yard = Widdicombe says he has “witnesses by the yard that’ll prove I was nowhere near the joint” (Blindfold)
• 2 yards = Claude Burger will pay Jojo “two yards” for his part in the auto injury scam. This refers to amount of money, rather than distance. (Jojo)
• couple of yards over the yellow line, Starsky corrects Hutch’s answer of three inches. (Strange Justice)
• 50 yards = Turquet can hit the warts off a kosher pickle with his automatic at fifty yards. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• 50 yards = from the horseshoe pitch, Starsky’s “Christmas tree” has been planted (Little Girl Lost)
• 65 yards = Michelle tells Gage, “Your favorite mime was 65 yards away” from Gage’s rifle (Class in Crime)
• 70 yards = what Gage tells Michelle the distance was from him to Allen, he was in error (Class in Crime)
• 70 yards = a pro can hit his target with a rifle, says Todesco (Class in Crime)
• 71 yards = the actual distance was between Gage and Allen (Class in Crime)
• 100 yards = Colby’s thugs can only get within one hundred yards of the Karpel beach house (Deadly Imposter)
• 170 yards = a pro can hit his target with a scope on the rifle (Class in Crime)
• 200 yards = Hutchinson Ken tells Gage to meet him at beach house “200 yards north” on the beach. (Class in Crime)
• 300 yards off the green = Starsky and Hutch get caught on Thorne estate, claiming they hit a golf ball three hundred yards. (Playboy Island)
• 100 meters = Warwick, a kid Starsky knew in school, could run 100 meters in 9.9 seconds. (Pilot)
• 440 meters = Starsky and Hutch have to run the sprint and the 440 in a week. (Rosey Malone)
• 800 yards = Melinda says she can “read a cop at 800 yards” (Groupie)
• 1/2 a block = Singapore bar is half a block from where Nick Edwards was killed (Little Girl Lost)
• to the corner = Starsky can shoot 2 seconds faster than Lester can make it there (Iron Mike)
• around the block = Torino needs a tune-up, Hutch says, every time it is driven this far (Vendetta)
• around the block = Starsky comments that Rolly has been around the block a few times (Texas Longhorn)
• couple of blocks = “…go down a couple of blocks and stop,” Hutch directs Starsky to the warehouse. (Birds of a Feather)
• down the block, is where the bar Collandra “sees” being robbed. (Psychic)
• around the block = Hutch tells Harry he has a radio in the cab “around the block” (Deckwatch)
• 2 blocks = Hutch reassures he has Henderson in his sights “two blocks ahead on the left.” (Pilot)
• 2 blocks = Starsky tells “robber” at the Pits he “won’t get two blocks” (Game)
• a few blocks = Biggs is arrested by campus police a few blocks from the sorority house (Strange Justice)
• 3 blocks away = Mr. Arnold lives from Kira (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• 3 blocks = how far Laura has to go for cigs, liquor and fruit (Deckwatch)
• 3 blocks = Hutch tells Harry his partner is three blocks away (Deckwatch)
• 3 blocks = JC Café is this far from the Seaside Amusement Park (Psychic)
• 3 blocks north = distance from Don’s Arcade to the Laundry on Aurora and Pacific (Psychic)
• 3 blocks = tennis courts for the money drop are three blocks from Sue Ann’s hotel (Long Walk)
• 4 blocks = Starsky and Hutch are four blocks from Cruger address when call comes in (Black and Blue)
• “down the block” from J.C.’s Café, bar is being robbed (Psychic)
• 8 blocks = eight blocks is Monique’s house is from Cellars (Discomania)
• 10 blocks = how far the Torino gets before it overheats (Death in a Different Place)
• 10 blocks = Walter family house is this far from Midway hospital where Dr. Mason works, where Jackson was taken (Manchild on the Streets)
• 30 blocks = Harry won’t let Laura take the bike because she could go thirty blocks on it. (Deckwatch)
• 1 mile = Starsky comments, “…walk a mile for a Camel” (Golden Angel)
• 1 mile = “first mile on a long, long trip” (Fix)
• 1 mile = Starsky complains the guards will hear the fishing boat a mile out. (Playboy Island)
• 1 mile = One mile south of Clinton grocery, turn right, then go five miles is the location of the Yeager’s house. (Plague)
• 1 mile = Hutch’s daily run is one mile. (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• 1 mile = one mile up the coast, 4 miles pas the turn-off, Callendar’s car is found up the coast (Plague)
• 1 1/4 miles = 1 2/8 inches on Kingston’s map (Quadromania)
• 2 miles = how far Starsky, Hutch and Huggy’s boat is from Thorne estate (Playboy Island)
• 2 miles = two miles east of Barstow is Jeb’s Restaurant (Set-Up)
• 2 miles = two miles to the first dirt road on the right, after going 22 miles “north straight,” Zachary tells Starsky (Foxy Lady)
• 3 miles = three miles past the Nevada border is location of the prostitutes’ trailers with whom Starsky is in contact (Set-Up)
• 4 miles = four miles past the turn-off, 1 mile up the coast, Callendar’s car is found (Plague)
• 4 miles = four miles to the gallon, Hutch jokes with Starsky about car Uncle Al would sell him (Jojo)
• 5 miles = how far Hutch tells Starsky they have to run yet, Starsky jokes about an ambulance (Rosey Malone)
• 5 miles = Yeager house is five miles past the turn-off, one mile south of the Clinton grocery store (Plague)
• 5 miles = Starsky and Hutch warn Karl Regan if he comes within five miles of a high school to push drugs, they will “wipe you and your rights all over the street.” (Heroes)
• 6 miles = west, “down in the canyon,” Sonny starts his directions (Survival)
• 15 miles = from airport when the cab is shot at (Death Ride)
• 15 square miles = Starsky notes either the city limits are, or the game’s area is, or it may be the same thing. (Game)
• 20 miles = Starsky tells Rosey Malone he runs twenty miles everyday. (Rosey Malone)
• 20 miles = Large trucker was asked twenty miles back to stop at the truck stop. (Set-Up)
• 22 miles Starsky is supposed to drive “north straight,” then go two miles to dirt road, Zachary tells him (Foxy Lady)
• 30 miles = Vicky says this is too far to drive at night after work, which is why her mom takes care of her daughter (Las Vegas Strangler)
• 35 miles per hour = “that’s the speed limit!” Starsky and Hutch’s backseat prisoner, Milty, protests (Savage Sunday)
• 50 miles = how far the radio on the red pickup reaches (Moonshine)
cruising altitude = what the semi truck has to reach before the game starts (Action)
• 200 miles = current will carry Hutch’s body when tossed off the pier (Fix)
• 225 miles = It is mentioned the city of Los Angeles covers an area that is 15 square miles. (Game)
• 300 miles = Starsky has been broadening Hutch’s horizons for this long (Las Vegas Strangler)
• 500 miles = Starsky and Hutch reassure Durniak every syndicate man in a 500 mile radius is being watched (Set-Up)
• 500 miles = man asks Hutch if they have been weighed in the last 500 miles (Set-Up)
• 1000 miles = Starsky estimates Duluth is from the ocean (Murder at Sea)
• 1500 miles = Duluth is not 1000 miles from the ocean, but fifteen hundred miles instead. Hutch corrects Starsky. (Murder at Sea)
• 50,000-70,000 miles = Hutch’s hunk of squash goes before it gets a tune-up (Vendetta)
• 186,000 miles a second = speed of light, says Huggy (Death Ride)
• “speed of sound” = how fast the “half dollar” went into Palmer’s chest (Birds of a Feather)

Metric system used
• in measuring heroin, kilos (Bait, Pariah, Snowstorm)
• in measuring air in room, cubic centimeters and liters (Omaha Tiger)
• in measuring dope, kilos (Starsky’s Brother)
• in size of gun, 9 mm (Committee)
• in describing a foot race, the 440-meter (Rosey Malone)
• in describing the poisonous compound, ccs (A Coffin for Starsky)