Starsky & Hutch: Season 3

1977 · 23 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 3 of Starsky & Hutch

Starsky and Hutch patrol Bay City behind the wheel of their red Gran Torino, keeping the radio tuned to the call sign "Zebra Three." They work under Captain Harold Dobey and chase the criminals who disrupt life in the city, while trying to hold together love lives marked by failure. Their cases take them to a resort where voodoo murders are investigated, to a psychiatric hospital where patients are used as guinea pigs, and to the death of a colleague in a seedy hotel. Each investigation tests their private lives, especially when an obsessive nurse starts causing trouble for Hutch.

23episodes

Sep 17, 1977premiered

May 17, 1978latest episode

23 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
Sep 17, 1977 · 60 min
3x02 Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
Sep 17, 1977 · 60 min
Concluding this feature-length / two-part story. Still undercover at the lush resort of Playboy Island, Starsky and Hutch must find out who is behind the voodoo murders and why, but as they look into the strange goings-on surrounding billionaire recluse William Thorne, they find themselves battling the black magic of a powerful witch doctor...
Directing: George McCowan · Starring: Anitra Ford, Linda Thompson, Daina House, Roscoe Lee Browne
3x03 Fatal Charm
Sep 24, 1977 · 60 min
While Starsky, Hutch and Officer Linda Baylor are working on an operation to trap a wanted drug dealer, Hutch receives a minor wound, and reports to hospital, where he meets nurse Diana Harmon. After they meet later at a bar, they spend a romantic evening together. But when afterwards Hutch, concerned by her possessive ways, doesn't plan to continue with the relationship, Diana starts displaying unbalanced, obsessive behaviour that not only jeopardises the Police operation, but puts Hutch in great danger...
Directing: Earl Bellamy · Starring: Karen Valentine, Roz Kelly
3x04 I Love You, Rosey Malone
Oct 1, 1977 · 60 min
Two Senate Investigative Committee agents want Starsky to strike up romance with a beautiful young woman he met while out jogging, in order to get close to her and extract information about her syndicate figure father. But as Starsky enters the ""undercover relationship"", he falls blissfully in love with the girl for real â€“ and the two agents are manipulating them both...
Starring: James Keach, John P. Ryan, Stepfanie Kramer, Tracy Brooks Swope
3x05 Murder Ward
Oct 8, 1977 · 60 min
The intrepid cops go undercover at a mental hospital, with Starsky as a patient and Hutch as an orderly, to investigate a number of mysterious patient deaths that have occurred at the asylum. With a female journalist, also undercover as a patient, they uncover that someone in the hospital is illegally using patients as human guinea-pigs for the testing of behaviour modification drugs...
Directed by: Earl Bellamy · Written by: Anthony Yerkovich · Starring: H.B. Haggerty, Blackie Dammett, Fran Ryan, Joey Forman
3x06 Death in a Different Place
Oct 15, 1977 · 60 min
The intreptid Detective partners investigate when a colleague â€“ an old friend of Starsky's â€“ is found dead in a sleazy red-light district hotel, and are shocked to uncover that the married murdered Lieutenant was a closet homosexual with a history of gay relationships. But just who is behind his death, and why?...
Directed by: Sutton Roley · Starring: Richard Davalos, Charles Pierce, Art Fleming, Don Gordon
3x07 The Crying Child
Oct 22, 1977 · 60 min
A school teacher, fearing loosing her job if her concerns are unfounded, asks Starsky and Hutch to look into a suspected case of child abuse surrounding a continually bruised six-year-old boy in her class. The pair are drawn into a disturbing case of domestic violence, but they most prove their concerns if they are to save the young boy from further abuse...
Directing: Georg Stanford Brown · Starring: Dee Wallace, Nancy McKeon, Rosalind Cash, Meeno Peluce
3x08 The Heroes
Oct 29, 1977 · 60 min
The streetwise cops are disgruntled when they are assigned to have a newspaper journalist accompany them for a couple of days, until they learn that the reporter is an attractive woman. As they try to trace a drug supplier who is poisoning the narcotics he pushes, the pair go all out to impress the reporter, but when she misunderstands their often unorthodox Policing methods, the woman writes a very unfavorable article about them...
Directed by: Georg Stanford Brown · Starring: Gary Graham, Lynn Borden, Karen Carlson, Jerrold Ziman
3x09 The Plague (1)
Nov 19, 1977 · 60 min
First episode of a two-part story. Starsky and Hutch collect a colleague from the airport, but soon after the man is struck down by a deadly disease caught from a passenger on the same flight. The streetwise Detectives must spring into action to find the carrier - an international assassin planning to make a hit on a major syndicate chief - as the entire city becomes threatened with the spreading, lethal virus...
Starring: Patrick Labyorteaux, Al Ruscio, Alex Rocco, Frank Marth
3x10 The Plague (2)
Nov 26, 1977 · 60 min
Conclusion of this two-part story. Hit-man Callendar, the carrier of the deadly plague, is still at large, and the disease has now claimed Hutch as its latest victim. With his partner hours from death, Starsky races against time to track down Callendar to obtain an anti-toxin...
Starring: Patrick Labyorteaux, John Alvin, Al Ruscio, Alex Rocco
3x11 The Collector
Dec 3, 1977 · 60 min
A calculating criminal bumps off a loan-shark's collector and takes over the role, collecting debts for the head of the money-loaning racket â€“ a washed-up former child star. The Detective pals investigate, only for it to turn out that the father of Hutch's girl-friend is one of the people owing money to the crooked racket, and that the vicious new collector is actually a notorious killer with an ulterior motive...
Starring: Susan Tyrrell, Dave Shelley, Danny DeVito, Roberto Rodriquez
3x12 Manchild on the Streets
Dec 10, 1977 · 60 min
When a friend of Starsky and Hutch's is wrongfully shot dead by a rookie Cop after the drunk driving of the man's pal leads to a Police pursuit, the pair must do their best to steer his confused teenage son away from a life of crime, as he grows intent on avenging his father's needless death and becomes involved with a small-time thief...
Directing: David Soul · Starring: Shizuko Hoshi, Helen Martin, J. Jay Saunders, Sheila Frazier
3x13 The Action
Jan 7, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch set out to bust an illegal gambling ring behind the brutal beating of a friend after he failed to pay off his debts. The duo end up playing for very high stakes as they infiltrate the illegal club, run from a mobile casino in the back of an 18-wheeled truck...
Written by: Robert E. Swanson · Starring: Melanie Griffith, Richard Venture, M. Emmet Walsh, Marc Alaimo
3x14 The Heavyweight
Jan 14, 1978 · 60 min
The crime-busting partners meet a one-time boxing champ, now a dockland worker, who witnessed the murder of a Policeman arranged by a dockland racketeer. But the former champ's own life is endangered after he refuses to take a fall in a boxing fight for the vicious racketeer...
Directed by: Earl Bellamy · Written by: Robert E. Swanson · Starring: Bob Minor, Susan Buckner, Gary Lockwood, Whitman Mayo
3x15 A Body Worth Guarding
Jan 25, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect visiting Russian prima ballerina Anna Akhanatova, whose life is threatened by political fanatics. Although Starsky is bemused by the appeal of ballet, Hutch is excited to get to meet Akhanatova, an idol of his â€“ although when the pair actually meet, they quickly develop a fiery relationship. But as he safe-guards the girl while Starsky is investigating who is behind the threats, Hutch and the ballerina start to fall for each other...
Starring: Signe Hasso, Monique van de Ven, Michael Margotta, Glenn R. Wilder
3x16 The Trap
Feb 1, 1978 · 60 min
A trip to buy Starsky's expensive new watch ends in chaos as the duo try to catch a tearaway tomboy shoplifter. Soon after, they respond to a call from Huggy after some thugs smashed up his bar demanding information about Hutch â€“ and unbeknown to any of them, the pair are being guided into a carefully laid ambush at a desolate farm, in a trap set by a ruthless criminal with an old score to settle with Hutch. Worse still, Joey, the young shoplifting girl, has stowed away in Starsky's car, and ends up trapped with the Detective duo in a barn that will soon be set ablaze...
Directing: Earl Bellamy · Writing: Robert E. Swanson · Starring: Ann Prentiss, Pat Morita, Anthony Geary, Kristy McNichol
3x17 Satan's Witches
Feb 8, 1978 · 60 min
Staying in Captain Dobey's mountain cabin while on a short vacation, Starsky and Hutch are met with cold reception from the nearby townspeople, particularly the short-tempered local Sheriff. The cause of the people's fear soon becomes apparent when the pair find that they are neighbors in the woods to a coven full of Devil worshippers...
Starring: Joseph Ruskin, Charles Napier, Taylor Lacher, Robert Sutton
3x18 Class in Crime
Feb 15, 1978 · 60 min
Investigating a series of immaculately executed murders, the case leads Hutch back to school as a college student, to get the low-down on a brilliant college professor who teaches a senior student course on the ""philosophy of crime"" and specialises in murder...
Directing: Paul Michael Glaser · Writing: Don Rene Patterson · Starring: Carl Anderson, Rebecca Balding, Michele Carey, Roberto Rodriquez
3x19 Hutchinson: Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One)
Feb 22, 1978 · 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 â€“ 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...
Writer: Robert E. Swanson · Starring: Veronica Hamel, Severn Darden, Bill Duke, Dan Vadis
3x20 Foxy Lady
Mar 1, 1978 · 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...
Writing: Robert E. Swanson · Starring: Priscilla Barnes, Morgan Woodward, Jamie Tirelli, Mark Gordon
3x21 Partners
May 3, 1978 · 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.
Starring: Ralph Nelson, Helen Martin
3x22 Quadromania
May 10, 1978 · 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.
Directed by: Rick Edelstein · Written by: Anthony Yerkovich · Starring: Lynne Marta, Philip Michael Thomas, Richard Lynch, John McLiam
3x23 Deckwatch Season Finale
May 17, 1978 · 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...
Directing: Paul Michael Glaser · Starring: Carole Mallory, Susan French, Kathryn Harrold, Jack Somack