Starsky & Hutch: Season 1

1975 · 22 episodes · ★ 8.3

What Season 1 of Starsky & Hutch

Starsky and Hutch are two plainclothes detectives who patrol the streets of Bay City, California. Starsky is a stocky brunet and Hutch a slender blond with a more intellectual look. They both drive a flashy red Ford Gran Torino with a white stripe, which Starsky considers his pride and joy. They work under Captain Harold Dobey, and their mission is to catch the criminals who disrupt life in the city. The season takes them through drug cases, mobsters, robbers and explosive threats. Outside of work, both have failed romances, so they must balance their personal lives with their investigations.

22episodes

Sep 10, 1975premiered

Apr 21, 1976Latest episode

22 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Savage Sunday
Sep 10, 1975 · 60 min
An elderly couple, desperate to draw attention to the poor living conditions in their old folk’s home, have rigged the trunk of their car with fifty sticks of dynamite and a timer, planning to set it off outside City Hall. But the car is stolen by two thugs on a spree of armed liquor store robberies, unaware that the car is loaded with explosives, ticking towards detonation in the trunk.
Directing: Jack Starrett · Starring: Dick Wesson, Hope Summers, Dave Shelley, Raymond Vitte
1x02 Texas Longhorn
Sep 17, 1975 · 60 min
Wealthy used-car dealer Zack Tyler and his wife stop to help two men seemingly having car trouble, only for the two thugs to rob Zack, and rape and murder his wife. Starsky and Hutch work all out using their underground contacts to track down the two murderers, but they don't quite realise that once they have found the culprits, that Zack intends to get even with his wife's killers by taking the law into his own hands.
Directing: Jack Starrett · Writing: Fred Freiberger · Starring: Nora Denney, Med Flory, Ann Weldon, Michael Lerner
1x03 Death Ride
Sep 24, 1975 · 60 min
On assignment to protect the daughter of a crime czar who's agreed to testify against mob bosses Starsky and Hutch must drive her back home from San Francisco pursued by ruthless killers all along the way
Directing: Gene Nelson · Writing: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Paul Hecht, Kathleen Miller, Jeff Corey, Joseph Bova
1x04 Snowstorm
Oct 1, 1975 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch, along with three other Detectives, are involved in a large drug bust, where pure cocaine with a street value three million dollars is seized. But following the successful raid, the detective duo come under suspicion when $1m worth of the drugs disappear. They have 48 hours to clear their names.
Directing: Gene Nelson · Writing: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Paul Benjamin, George Dzundza, Richard Venture, Bill Sorrells
1x05 The Fix
Oct 8, 1975 · 60 min
Hutch is dating a girl who was formerly associated with a big-time mobster. But Hutch is abducted by the jealous mobster, who forcibly gets him hooked on heroin, in order to find out where the girl is.
Starring: Robert Loggia, Geoffrey Lewis, Gino Conforti, Macon McCalman
1x06 Death Notice
Oct 15, 1975 · 60 min
When a message is left scrawled on a table cloth in a strip club that one of the strippers will be killed, Starsky and Hutch are called in to protect the dancing girls and find the strange man who was sitting at the table.
Directed by: William Crain · Starring: Lenore Kasdorf, Walter Brooke, Roz Kelly, Ivor Francis
1x07 Pariah
Oct 22, 1975 · 60 min
After shooting a homicidal teen during a hold-up Starsky is cleared of any wrongdoing. But, when fellow policemen are being murdered by a killer out to punish Starsky, he feels responsible and takes immediate action.
Directing: William Crain · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Anitra Ford, Stephen McNally, Graham Jarvis, Peter Hobbs
1x08 Kill Huggy Bear
Oct 29, 1975 · 60 min
Big pimping confidant Huggy Bear is marked for death after being robbed of a fortune owed to a ruthless racketeer. Starsky and Hutch must locate the stolen loot before their friend winds up murdered by the mob.
Directing: Michael Schultz · Starring: Dick Anthony Williams, Hamilton Camp, Roger Robinson
1x09 The Bait
Nov 5, 1975 · 60 min
Dressed as flashy hustlers and using a beautiful blonde as a bait Starsky and Hutch pose as a pair of high rolling heroin dealers, climbing up the underworld ladder to nail the city's top dope distributors
Directing: Michael Schultz, Ivan Dixon · Writing: Fred Freiberger · Starring: Marc Alaimo, Charles Macaulay, Michael Delano, Akili Jones
1x10 Lady Blue
Nov 12, 1975 · 60 min
A former girlfriend of Starsky's is found brutally murdered, with the body bizarrely wrapped in radio antenna wire. As the detective duo investigate, it emerges that the girl had been working undercover as a cocktail waitress while tracking down a psychotic killer. But there are several suspects as to the murderer's identity... are Starsky and Hutch on the right track?
Directed by: Don Weis, Ivan Dixon · Written by: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: James Keach, Victor Argo, Quinn K. Redeker, Elisha Cook Jr.
1x11 Captain Dobey, You're Dead!
Nov 19, 1975 · 60 min
When racist industrialist C.J. Woodfield puts out a contract on Captain Dobey and his family after the police chief a civil right's leader's assasination, Starsky and Hutch must infiltrate Woodfield's organisation before it's too late
Directed by: Don Weis, Michael Schultz · Written by: Michael Mann · Starring: Marla Adams, Lester Rawlins, Lynn Hamilton, Michael Durrell
1x12 Terror on the Docks
Nov 26, 1975 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch set about tracking down a dock-worker suspected of murdering an undercover Policeman who was investigating a series of waterfront heists. But a childhood friend of Hutch's is preparing to get married, and it seems that her groom-to-be might be involved.
Directing: Randal Kleiser, Michael Schultz · Starring: Kenneth Tobey, Joe Warfield, Sarah Cunningham, Stephen McHattie
1x13 The Deadly Impostor
Dec 10, 1975 · 60 min
John Colby, an old friend of Starsky and Hutch's, returns to town, and asks them to use their connections to help him find his ex-wife Karen. But as they look for the woman, the duo find that there are things that don't quite add up, and, unbeknownst to them, the man holds a sinister and deadly secret.
Written by: Fred Freiberger · Starring: Gordon Jump, Raymond Singer, Art Hindle, Peter Brandon
1x14 Shootout
Dec 17, 1975 · 60 min
After a particularly long and awkward interrogation, Starsky and Hutch decide to unwind for the evening by going for a meal at an Italian restaurant. But the evening out is hardly the relaxing time anticipated when the restaurant is taken over by two syndicate hit-men planning to take out a Mob boss when he arrives at the diner.
Directing: Fernando Lamas · Starring: Barbara Rhoades, Jess Walton, Norman Fell, Danny Wells
1x15 The Hostages
Jan 7, 1976 · 60 min
When Starsky offers for himself and Hutch to check on a waitress's missing friend, they find the man dead, leading them to stumble across a plot to rob an armoured car by a gang that are holding the driver's pregnant wife hostage, forcing the driver to go along with the plan.
Directing: Fernando Lamas, George McCowan · Starring: Jean Hagen, Kristy McNichol, Susan Peretz, Will Hare
1x16 Losing Streak
Jan 14, 1976 · 60 min
Down-on-his-luck jazz pianist, Vic Rankin, steals some money owed to him from a former boss, unaware that the cash is actually counterfeit. In over his head, Vic finds himself a hunted man and goes on the run.
Directing: George McCowan, Don Weis · Writing: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Dane Clark, Jacqueline Scott, Madlyn Rhue, Henry Slate
1x17 Silence
Jan 21, 1976 · 60 min
The Detective duo meet Larry—a friendly ex-con, deaf-mute—living at a local half-way house, when they book him on a small charge. But when the trail from a series of robberies leads to Larry being the culprit, the pair are convinced of his innocence, and that someone else is using him as the ideal pawn.
Directed by: George McCowan, Don Weis · Starring: Steve Kanaly, Jack DeLeon, Russ Grieve, Carl Betz
1x18 The Omaha Tiger
Jan 28, 1976 · 60 min
The dare-devil detectives become involved in the wild world of professional wrestling when they visit Mac Johnson, a retired colleague, now a promoter in the sport, who has some information for them about a recent suspicious accident in which a man was killed.
Directing: George McCowan, Don Weis · Starring: Dennis Burkley, James Luisi, Barbara Babcock, Wynn Irwin
1x19 Jojo
Feb 18, 1976 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch blow a Federal stake-out in order to intervene and stop violent rapist Jojo Forentic from committing his latest attack. But after they apprehend the attacker, who sprays his victims with orange paint, the duo find themselves struggling in an up-hill battle trying to get Forentic put away.
Directing: George McCowan, Don Weis · Writing: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Alan Fudge, Raymond Allen, Fran Ryan, Stephen Davies
1x20 Running
Feb 25, 1976 · 60 min
A washed up, alcoholic former model, who Starsky went to school with, is the only person to get a good look at a murderous thief when she finds him robbing her apartment. But when she refuses assistance from the Police, Starsky risks both his career and his life as he breaks procedure and hides the girl out at his home to safeguard her until the killer is caught.
Directing: George McCowan, Don Weis · Writing: Michael Mann · Starring: Lana Wood, Miriam Byrd-Nethery, Jan Smithers, Connie Hoffman
1x21 A Coffin for Starsky
Mar 3, 1976 · 60 min
Bent on seeking revenge against Hutch, a mad chemist mistakenly injects Starsky with a lethal poison that will kill him in 24 hours unless he finds the antidote in time. Things get worse when Starsky kills the only prime suspect who can identify the poison.
Directing: George McCowan, Don Weis · Starring: Carole Mallory, Jenny Sullivan, Gene Dynarski, Fritzi Burr
1x22 Bounty Hunter Season Finale
Apr 21, 1976 · 60 min
When a cop is shot dead, apparently by a bail-jumper, the detective duo pursue the alleged murderer. But as Starsky and Hutch search for the felon, they find that they are not the only ones after the felon.
Directed by: George McCowan, Don Weis · Starring: Jack Kirby, Lola Albright, Doodles Weaver, Jon Cedar