Seasons & episodes
S3 · E19Hutchinson: Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One) 1978-02-22 · 60 min
Out of the blue, Hutch's estranged former wife Vanessa suddenly contacts him, attempting to rekindle their relationship. Hutch doesn't want to know, until Vanessa claims that she's ill with a cancerous tumour. But the next day, Vanessa is murdered in Hutch's apartment – and Hutch is the prime suspect. With two Internal Affairs agents investigating and seemingly convinced that Hutch is guilty, Starsky must help his partner trace the real culprits in order to clear his name...
S3 · E20Foxy Lady 1978-03-01 · 60 min
An attractive young woman is the only eye-witness to a man being killed for the suitcase he is carrying. As Starsky and Hutch investigate, the girl goes about using her manipulative charms to not only outwit both of them, but also the mobster behind the killing, in order to keep the hot cash inside the suitcase for herself...
S3 · E21Partners 1978-05-03 · 60 min
Starsky's reckless driving in pursuit of two robbers lands both himself and Hutch in hospital, with Hutch seemingly suffering from amnesia, unable to remember his partner or anything about their jobs. Starsky reminds him of some of their past adventures in an attempt to revive his memory.
S3 · E22Quadromania 1978-05-10 · 60 min
Starsky poses as a cab driver to investigate a series of strangulation murders of cabbies, performed by a man dressed in Shakespearean costume and with superhuman strength in his artificial hand.
S3 · E23Deckwatch 1978-05-17 · 60 min
A serial killing seaman, who preys on prostitutes, is badly shot during his latest attack. Wounded and on the run, he resorts to holding Hutch's friend and her wheelchair-bound mother hostage in their home. Hutch poses as a paramedic to get inside the house as he and Starsky try to apprehend the desperate killer and safely free the hostages...
S4 · E1Discomania 1978-09-12 · 60 min
The streetwise Detective partners go incognito as disco dudes at Fever, a popular dance club, where Sergeant Lizzie Thorpe is laid as bait in a trap set for a serial killer, who is drugging, abducting and murdering attractive women who refuse to dance with him...
S4 · E2The Game 1978-09-19 · 60 min
When they blow the capture of a wanted felon, Starsky and Hutch each blame the other, and lay down a bet to see whether or not Hutch can successfully elude Starsky for a whole weekend. But the exercise in hide-and-seek becomes more than just a game when Starsky realises that Hutch has unknowingly eaten contaminated soup, and could die from the potentially lethal botulism poisoning. It's a race against time as Starsky struggles to locate Hutch to warn him, but Hutch, unawares to the poisoning, assumes it's all part of Starsky's attempts to draw him out, and dons a number of disguises in order to stay one step ahead...
S4 · E3Blindfold 1978-09-26 · 60 min
Responding to a jewellery store robbery, Starsky is distraught when he accidentally shoots an art student caught in the cross-fire, costing the girl her sight. Guilt-stricken, he forcefully strikes up friendship with the blinded young woman, without confessing that he's the law officer that caused her to loose her vision. But their subsequent relationship soon proves to be very dangerous, as someone seems determined to keep him away from her, and Hutch comes to question just how much of a chance by-stander she really was in the incident...
S4 · E4Photo Finish 1978-10-10 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch brush shoulders with high-society, at an exclusive party that photographer friend Marcie has invited them to, but the event grinds to a halt when an artist is shot dead by an unknown assassin. Marcie has caught the shooting on camera, and the Detective duo confiscate the pictures for Police evidence as they begin some black-tie sleuthing on the champagne circuit. But Marcie is determined to use the valuable photos to break into big-time journalism, and quietly holds on to one to sell to the highest bidder – only for her life to now be endangered by the killer, who is determined to get their hands on the incriminating film...
S4 · E5Moonshine 1978-10-17 · 60 min
After they arrest two ploughboys who soon after die of poisoning, the Detective pals pose as country boys in order to track down some Southern moonshiners who have brewn a bad batch of bootleg whisky. But the ruthless head of the innocent operation is determined to continue pushing the lethal brew at any cost...
S4 · E6Strange Justice 1978-10-24 · 60 min
When his daughter is raped, long-standing, veteran Detective Slate is devastated, and shoots her attacker, who's been brought in for questioning. With the wounded rapist looking like he'll get off scott-free and Slate facing serious charges, the distinguished Lieutenant takes the law into his own hands to get even with his daughter's assailant - and it's up to Starsky and Hutch to stop him in time...
S4 · E7The Avenger 1978-10-31 · 60 min
The intrepid Detectives investigate a woman's claims that a jealous brief acquaintance from San Francisco has followed her to the city and is responsible for the vicious murders of a string of the her lovers. But there is a sinister twist to the case, and Starsky unknowingly places himself in great danger...
S4 · E8Dandruff 1978-11-14 · 60 min
The Detective pair are working undercover at a plush hotel as effeminate hair-dressers Mr. Marlene and Tyrone, to trim the plans of an international master thief known as The Baron, who is expected to strike at the private auction of a highly valuable cache of diamonds...
S4 · E9Black and Blue 1978-11-21 · 60 min
When the partners in crime-busting respond to a reported burglary, Hutch is shot by one of the teenage robbers, leaving him critically ill in hospital. Starsky is paired with a dynamic new partner, black Policewoman Joan Meredith, to track down the thieves, and they find themselves on the trail of an operation that is using ghetto youths to commit burglaries, and then selling their hauls on the black market...
S4 · E10The Groupie 1978-11-28 · 60 min
Hutch takes the guise of a bumbling swimwear buyer and Starsky poses as an eccentric photographer, as the Detective duo enter the fashion world to stitch up a garment-business racketeering ring. But as they look into the case, they receive an unusual offer of help from a woman eager to get in on the action – unfortunately, she only serves to compromise the undercover investigation...
S4 · E11Cover Girl (a.k.a. No Deposit, No Return) 1978-12-12 · 60 min
When a leading model – an old flame of Hutch's – is told that she is terminally ill with Cancer, she arranges for a hit-man to end her life before the disease can take it's toll on her body. Then her doctors discover that she is in remission – but her contact with the genius hit-man has been severed, and she must go to old friend Hutch for help to prevent the hit from taking place...
S4 · E12Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother) 1978-12-19 · 60 min
Starsky's younger brother Nick arrives in the city to visit to his elder sibling. But the older Starsky soon has cause for concern that Nick is mixed up in criminal activities, when he is spotted entering a restaurant at the centre of a Federal stake-out that's trying to nail a counterfeiting scam...
S4 · E13The Golden Angel 1979-01-16 · 60 min
The detectives are assigned to protect a wrestler who has received a death threat, with Starsky going into the ring himself to draw out a suspect.
S4 · E14Ballad for a Blue Lady 1979-01-23 · 60 min
The detectives are called when a witness is found dead before he can testify against a notorious racketeer. Hutch begins to suspect that his girfriend's brother may be involved.
S4 · E15Birds of a Feather 1979-01-30 · 60 min
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
S4 · E16Ninety Pounds of Trouble 1979-02-06 · 60 min
When a contract is put out to kill a top union official, Starsky and Hutch go undercover as hit men to protect him. But while Hutch rehearses his performance as a trigger man, Starsky is plagued by a young admirer who may compromise his cover.
S4 · E17Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back) 1979-02-13 · 60 min
An illegal poker game puts Huggy Bear in a tight spot - holding a dead man's hand and facing a choice between covering for a friend or obeying the law.
S4 · E18Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1) 1979-03-06 · 60 min
A friend of Huggy's offers to finger a judge who is supplying drugs but is killed before he can testify. The case looks lost, and the cops lose Huggy's friendship.
S4 · E19Targets Without a Badge (2) 1979-03-11 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.