Starsky & Hutch: Season 4

1978 · 22 episodes · ★ 10.0

What Season 4 of Starsky & Hutch

Starsky and Hutch patrol the streets of Bay City in their red Ford Gran Torino, call sign Zebra Three, under the orders of Captain Harold Dobey. Their mission is to catch the criminals who disrupt life in the city, but their romantic failures force them to juggle the job with their personal lives. Their cases lead them to go undercover as disco dancers to hunt a serial killer, or as swimwear salesmen to dismantle a corruption ring in the fashion world. When an arrest goes wrong, they blame each other and the rivalry between them becomes personal. Every assignment requires them to improvise disguises, endure pressure from their superiors, and protect witnesses and victims.

22episodes

Sep 12, 1978premiered

May 15, 1979latest episode

22 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Discomania
Sep 12, 1978 · 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...
Directing: Arthur Marks · Starring: Adrian Zmed, Amanda McBroom, Bunny Summers, Pierrino Mascarino
4x02 The Game
Sep 19, 1978 · 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...
Directing: Leo Penn · Starring: Raymond Allen, Jack Ging, Suzanne Charny, D.J. O'Neill
4x03 Blindfold
Sep 26, 1978 · 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...
Directed by: Leo Penn · Starring: Kim Cattrall, Sheldon Allman, Howard George, Gary Wood
4x04 Photo Finish
Oct 10, 1978 · 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 â€“ only for her life to now be endangered by the killer, who is determined to get their hands on the incriminating film...
Directed by: Sutton Roley · Written by: Robert E. Swanson · Starring: Sally Kirkland, Graham Jarvis, Fran Ryan, Lois Hamilton
4x05 Moonshine
Oct 17, 1978 · 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...
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writer: Fred Freiberger · Starring: Mary Louise Weller, James Noble, Billy Green Bush, Pat Corley
4x06 Strange Justice
Oct 24, 1978 · 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...
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Starring: Carl Anderson, John Zenda, Tom Baker, Kenneth McMillan
4x07 The Avenger
Oct 31, 1978 · 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...
Directing: Sutton Roley · Writing: Robert E. Swanson · Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Marki Bey, Tim Thomerson, Michael Delano
4x08 Dandruff
Nov 14, 1978 · 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...
Directing: Sutton Roley · Starring: John Fujioka, Tracey Walter, Blackie Dammett, Layne Britton
4x09 Black and Blue
Nov 21, 1978 · 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...
Starring: Vonetta McGee, Mykelti Williamson
4x10 The Groupie
Nov 28, 1978 · 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 â€“ unfortunately, she only serves to compromise the undercover investigation...
Directing: Nicholas Colasanto · Starring: Caren Kaye, John Ashton, Robert Loggia, Gerald Hiken
4x11 Cover Girl (a.k.a. No Deposit, No Return)
Dec 12, 1978 · 60 min
When a leading model â€“ an old flame of Hutch's â€“ 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 â€“ 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...
Starring: Maud Adams, Russ Marin, Jeffrey Tambor, Calvin Lockhart
4x12 Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)
Dec 19, 1978 · 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...
Directed by: Arthur Marks · Starring: Eddie Fontaine, Nicholas Worth, Liberty Godshall, Stanley Grover
4x13 The Golden Angel
Jan 16, 1979 · 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.
Starring: Steve Oliver, Lynn Benesch, Hilary beane, Richard Karron
4x14 Ballad for a Blue Lady
Jan 23, 1979 · 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.
Directed by: Paul Michael Glaser · Starring: John Karlen, Malachi Throne, Sandy Baron, Jenny O'Hara
4x15 Birds of a Feather
Jan 30, 1979 · 60 min
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
Directing: Charlie Picerni · Starring: John P. Ryan, Anne Ramsey, Allan Arbus, Barbara Stuart
4x16 Ninety Pounds of Trouble
Feb 6, 1979 · 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.
Starring: Ann Prentiss, Marki Bey, Lana Wood, Mare Winningham
4x17 Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back)
Feb 13, 1979 · 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.
Directing: David Soul · Starring: Royce D. Applegate, Richard Ward, Lee Weaver, Francesca P. Roberts
4x18 Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)
Mar 6, 1979 · 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.
Starring: Robert Tessier, Ken Kercheval, Ted Neeley, Quinn K. Redeker
4x19 Targets Without a Badge (2)
Mar 11, 1979 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.
Starring: Bert Remsen, Peter MacLean, Richard Herd, William Prince
4x20 Targets Without a Badge (3)
Mar 11, 1979 · 60 min
Starring: Richard Herd, William Prince, Peter Jason, Gino Conforti
4x21 Starsky vs. Hutch
May 8, 1979 · 60 min
Competing for the affections of a policewoman, Starsky and Hutch neglect their investigation of the murder of a dance-hall girl.
Starring: Corinne Calvet, William Sanderson, Yvonne Craig, Fredric Cook
4x22 Sweet Revenge Season Finale
May 15, 1979 · 60 min
As Starsky lies in a hospital bed at death's door, Hutch goes after the powerful man who tried to have him killed
Directing: Paul Michael Glaser · Starring: Ivan Bonar, William Prince, Sean P. Griffin, Conrad Bachmann