Starsky & Hutch: Season 2

1976 · 25 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 2 of Starsky & Hutch

Starsky and Hutch are two plainclothes detectives who patrol Bay City, California, under Captain Harold Dobey. Starsky, a stocky brunet, and Hutch, a blond with a more intellectual look, drive a red Ford Gran Torino with a white stripe. Their goal is to catch those who disrupt life in the city, but their failed romances complicate their lives outside of work. Their cases take them to Las Vegas, a cruise ship and the Hollywood studios, where they go undercover and face killers, drug dealers and blackmailers. Some investigations bring them face to face with old acquaintances and raise suspicions within the police department itself.

25episodes

Sep 25, 1976premiered

Apr 16, 1977Latest episode

25 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 The Las Vegas Strangler (1)
Sep 25, 1976 · 60 min
First part of a feature-length / two-part story. Dare-devil Detective duo Starsky and Hutch are loaned to the Las Vegas Police Department to snare a serial killer that has strangled a string of chorus girls. But the pair don't realise that they've been chosen for the case on more than merit alone - the prime suspect is an old high-school friend of Hutch's. While tracking down the killer, Starsky starts seeing an attractive show-girl - who could be the killer's next victim...
Directed by George McCowan · Starring Jayne Kennedy, Roz Kelly, George Tobias, Lynda Carter
2x02 The Las Vegas Strangler (2)
Sep 25, 1976 · 60 min
Concluding part of this feature-length / two-part story. The duo close in on the serial strangler who is singling out chorus girls, but the investigation holds some unexpected, startling implications about several people linked to the case...
Directed by George McCowan · Starring Roz Kelly, Seth Allen, Natasha Ryan, Rod Browning
2x03 Murder at Sea (1)
Oct 2, 1976 · 60 min
First part of a feature-length / two-part story. Investigating a murder, the tough duo go undercover on luxury cruise ship The Amolola, as entertainment directors Hack and Zack, where the case leads to them uncovering drug smuggling...
Directed by George McCowan · Starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Burr DeBenning, Zakes Mokae, Lynne Marta
2x04 Murder at Sea (2)
Oct 2, 1976 · 60 min
Concluding part of this feature-length / two-part story. The Detective duo, undercover as cruise ship entertainers Hack and Zack, find that they have stumbled onto something much bigger than dope dealers â€“ the ship is to be the meeting place for a group of leading syndicate figures...
Directed by George McCowan · Starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Burr DeBenning, Zakes Mokae, Lynne Marta
2x05 Gillian
Oct 16, 1976 · 60 min
The Detective duo investigate a killing that is latest in a string of crimes in the red-light district. Off duty, Hutch is getting serious with his new girl-friend, the classy Gillian, but as the intreptid Detectives investigate the killing, Starsky by chance finds that Hutch's new love is a prostitute.
Directed by George McCowan · Starring Mike Kellin, Sylvia Sidney, Joanna Kerns, Doodles Weaver
2x06 Bust Amboy (a.k.a. Nightlight)
Oct 23, 1976 · 60 min
The Detective pair are determined to nail the wealthy Amboy, a crafty narcotics dealer who is supplying young prostitutes, and always avoids Police arrest with legal loop-holes...
Starring Lisa Mordente, Art Metrano, Nicholas Worth, Richard Derr
2x07 The Vampire
Oct 30, 1976 · 60 min
When a dancer is murdered in bizarre circumstances, with marks resembling fang bites on her neck and an unusually large quantity of blood missing from her body, Starsky and Hutch delve into the underworld of occcult worshippers as they investigate what appears to be the work of a vampire...
Written by: Michael Grais · Starring: Colleen Camp, Phil Leeds, Suzanne Somers, G.W. Bailey
2x08 The Specialist
Nov 6, 1976 · 60 min
Starsky, Hutch, and two other officers respond to an armed robbery at a jeweler's, only for a woman to accidentally get shot dead from one of the lawmen. The dead woman's husband is a Special Agent, paranoid after being retired from service, and convinced that the officers were really hit-men after him, he sets about taking revenge.
Directed by Fernando Lamas · Written by Robert Earll · Starring Joel Fabiani, Charles Cyphers, Melendy Britt, Linda Scruggs
2x09 Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts
Nov 20, 1976 · 60 min
Dedicated Detectives Starsky and Hutch are working undercover at a plush Hollywood dance studio, as a dance teacher and student respectively, to investigate an extortion racket operating from the club that lures members into compromising situations, and then bribes the victims for large amounts of money...
Directed by: Fernando Lamas · Written by: Edward J. Lakso · Starring: Veronica Hamel, Sondra Currie, Liam Sullivan, Dorothy Shay
2x10 Vendetta (a.k.a. The Monster)
Nov 27, 1976 · 60 min
The Detective duo are on the case as criminals and public alike are endangered when Solkin, a Fagin-like felon, uses an imbalanced teenager to commit crimes - including brutal assaults and murder - for his own nefarious purposes.
Starring: Paul Jabara, Gary Sandy, Stefan Gierasch, M. Emmet Walsh
2x11 Nightmare
Nov 28, 1976 · 60 min
A gang of rapists who attacked a 19-year-old girl may go free because an ambitious district attorney thinks that the victim's testimony may be worthless in court.
Starring Sparky Marcus, Diana Scarwid, Gerrit Graham, Carl Weathers
2x12 Iron Mike
Dec 18, 1976 · 60 min
The crime-busting pair's suspicions are aroused when they spot highly respected Police Captain "Iron Mike" Ferguson accepting an envelope from an underworld kingpin.
Directed by Don Weis · Starring Michael Conrad, Buddy Lester, Marc Alaimo
2x13 Little Girl Lost
Dec 25, 1976 · 60 min
It's the Christmas season, and while Starsky is happily getting into the festivities, Hutch is far more sceptical about people's sudden goodwill over the period. Responding to a call of petty shop-lifting, the pair meet Molly, a twelve-year-old tomboy, who lives with her father, a recently released convict turned alcoholic.
Directed by Earl Bellamy · Starring King Moody, Kristy McNichol, Richard Dimitri
2x14 Bloodbath
Jan 1, 1977 · 60 min
On the day of trial of Simon Marcus, a murderous cult leader that Starsky and Hutch arrested, Starsky is snatched away by the cult leader's followers just before judgement is passed.
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser · Starring William Bowers, Raymond Allen, Anthony James, Patricia Pearcy
2x15 The Psychic
Jan 15, 1977 · 60 min
Huggy introduces the Detective duo to a friend of his, opening up a new café, who unwittingly has clairvoyant visions. Starsky is sceptical of such psychic ability, Hutch more willing to believe.
Directed by Don Weis · Written by Michael Mann · Starring Dianne Kay, Edward James Olmos, Cliff Emmich, Herb Voland
2x16 The Set-Up (1)
Jan 22, 1977 · 60 min
First episode of a two-part story. The tough Detective partners are working incognito as truckers, in an operation to safely transport Joe Durniak - a man with Mob connections whom Starsky knows from his childhood - who is promised protection and a new identity in return for giving testimony as a key state witness.
Directed by George McCowan · Starring Michael V. Gazzo, Eugene Roche, Heather MacRae, Connie Sawyer
2x17 The Set-Up (2)
Jan 29, 1977 · 60 min
Conclusion of this two-part story. The duo try to uncover the truth behind Terry Nash - the well-intentioned gun-man out to avenge the murder of his wife and who, until recently, didn't seem to even exist - but in doing so, they are framed and wind up suspended from duty and becoming fugitives.
Directed by: George McCowan · Starring: Roger E. Mosley, Eugene Roche, Heather MacRae, Jerry Hardin
2x18 Survival
Feb 5, 1977 · 60 min
After Hutch plays the key part in a successful undercover operation to nail a wanted racketeer, the captured felon hires a hit-man to prevent Hutch from testifying in court.
Directed by: David Soul · Starring: Paula Shaw, John Quade, Barry Miller, Tom Clancy
2x19 Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)
Feb 12, 1977 · 60 min
Crazed killer Prudholm returns to extract his revenge on Starsky, who he blames for the death of his son while in Police custody.
Directed by: Georg Stanford Brown · Starring: Wayde Preston, Stephen McNally, Season Hubley, Beulah Quo
2x20 Huggy Bear and the Turkey
Feb 19, 1977 · 60 min
Huggy Bear has linked up with his friend, former Sheriff "Turkey" Turquet, to set up their own Private Detective Agency. Their first case sees them hired to find a woman's missing husband, and while trying to find him, they find themselves pursued by several undesirable parties who have various concerns with the elusive man in question...
Directed by Jack Starrett · Written by William Blinn, Ron Friedman · Starring Richard Romanus, Stan Shaw, Blackie Dammett, R.G. Armstrong
2x21 The Committee
Feb 26, 1977 · 60 min
After the streetwise Detectives capture a rapist, they are outraged when the thug is let off with a lenient court sentence. Starsky openly vents his disgust at such light punishment - attracting the interests of a vigilante Police 'death squad.’
Directed by George McCowan · Starring William Bogert, John Ashton, Alex Rocco, Helen Martin
2x22 The Velvet Jungle
Mar 5, 1977 · 60 min
An illegal immigrant witnesses the murder of a co-worker who was threatening to expose the illegal activities of crooked Immigration officials, and is forced to hide out in fear as she too is now hunted by the killer. The Detective duo step in to investigate and uncover an illegal-alien smuggling operation...
Directed by: Earl Bellamy · Starring: Timothy Carey, Silvana Gallardo, Belinda Balaski, Cliff Osmond
2x23 Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
Mar 12, 1977 · 60 min
The dashing Detectives try to catch the deranged stalker who is hounding a successful country singer, and will only stop if she pays him $10,000.
Directed by George McCowan · Written by Edward J. Lakso · Starring Lynn Anderson, Dick Haynes, Scatman Crothers, Skip Young
2x24 Murder on Stage 17
Mar 19, 1977 · 60 min
The dare-devil Detectives work undercover as stunt-men on the set of a new Western movie, in order to investigate a series of suspicious, fatal "accidents" that have befallen several members of a long-standing group of actors known as the 'Wolf Pack', with the head of the group and star of the film fearing that he'll be next.
Directed by: Earl Bellamy · Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Layne Britton, Chuck McCann, Rory Calhoun
2x25 Starsky and Hutch are Guilty Season Finale
Apr 16, 1977 · 60 min
When a Police informant is brutally beaten, witnesses point the finger at Starsky and Hutch. As the vicious assaults continue, the Detective partners are dropped increasingly deeper in hot water as they realise they are being framed.
Starring: Val Avery, Mary Jo Catlett, Don Keefer, Lauren Tewes