Starsky and Hutch
Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red-and-white Ford Gran Torino, with the help of police snitch, Huggy Bear.
Cast:David Soul , Paul Michael Glaser , Antonio Fargas , Bernie Hamilton , Eldon Burke , Marki Bey , Charlie Picerni , Peter MacLean , Darrell Zwerling , Chuck Hicks , Lynne Marta , Roz Kelly , Dave Shelley , Alex Courtney , Ann Foster , Roberto Rodriguez , LaWanda Page , Ken Kercheval
S2.E1 ∙ The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 1
Starsky and Hutch are in Las Vegas to catch a serial killer who has strangled a string of chorus girls. What they don't realize is the prime suspect is an old high-school friend of Hutch's.
S2.E2 ∙ The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 2
Starsky and Hutch continue to uncover the clues that will lead them to the Las Vegas Strangler. Hutch helps his troubled friend Jack while Starsky enjoys a brief encounter with a beautiful showgirl with a heartbreaking back story.
S2.E3 ∙ Murder at Sea
In this double episode, after a ship's purser is murdered, Starsky and Hutch pose as onboard entertainment directors Hack & Zack to unravel a mystery involving cocaine, the syndicate, and a homicide witness who may not be who she appears to be. During their travels they contend with the Bayside Singles Club, explosives, Huggerini the Incredible, and a chase with a dune buggy.
S2.E4 ∙ Murder at Sea Part 2
Starsky and Hutch pose as recreation officers aboard a luxury ocean liner filled with swinging singles, tourists, and an alarming collection of crime syndicate chieftains in the two-hour "Murder at Sea." The murder of a ship's officer takes on an air of intrigue when a young female travel agent for the ship, SS Amapola, is also discovered slain. Starsky and Hutch suspect a smuggling operation aboard the luxury liner and persuade a reluctant Captain LaRue to let them on board as undercover recreation staffers "Hack" and "Zack." At sea, Starsky and Hutch entertain the tourists and discover that several top bosses in the crime syndicate are aboard for a major conference.
S2.E5 ∙ Gillian
While working a case, Starsky learns that Hutch's new girlfriend, Gillian is a high class prostitute working for some criminals they're investigating.
S2.E6 ∙ Bust Amboy
Starsky and Hutch try to bust Mr. Amboy for his involvement in prostitution, numbers, and drugs despite their "first Bicentennial bribery offer" and the threat of a harassment charge.
S2.E7 ∙ The Vampire
When dancers are discovered strangled and with their necks punctured, Starsky and Hutch head out to put the bite on the blood-sucking freak behind the series of vampire-style slayings.
S2.E8 ∙ The Specialist
When Starsky and Hutch and two other cops are chasing some criminals, a woman is killed in the crossfire. The whole thing is ruled as an accident and the woman's husband doesn't take it well. When the two cops are killed, they suspect the husband. They learn that the man is a government agent who was laid off by his employers.
S2.E9 ∙ Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts
Starsky goes undercover as Ramon the dance instructor and Hutch as wealthy Texan rancher and dance student Charlie McCabe to expose a blackmail operation.
S2.E10 ∙ Vendetta
An investigation of brutal assaults leads Starsky and Hutch to Arty Solkin, a Fagin-like character who seems to be manipulating a troubled teen. When Arty targets Hutch, will his girlfriend, Abigail, be safe?
S2.E11 ∙ Nightmare
Two thugs rape and assault a mentally challenged teen-aged girl. Bad news for them: Lisa is a friend of Starsky & Hutch's, who will now stop at nothing to see them put behind bars.
S2.E12 ∙ Iron Mike
Starsky and Hutch inadvertently discover that a highly revered police captain may be in collusion with a criminal.
S2.E13 ∙ Little Girl Lost
Molly "Pete" Edwards, a young girl living with her alcoholic, ex-con father, finds herself suddenly orphaned just before Christmas. Will Starsky and Hutch be there to help her when her father's partners in crime come looking for her?
S2.E14 ∙ Bloodbath
In retaliation for arresting the mass murdering cult leader Simon Marcus, Starsky is kidnapped and held prisoner in a secret cult compound. Can Hutch decipher Marcus' cryptic clues and find his friend before Starsky is sacrificed?
S2.E15 ∙ The Psychic
A psychic running a diner helps Starsky and Hutch when the schoolgirl daughter of a wealthy football team owner is kidnapped.
S2.E16 ∙ The Set-Up: Part 1
Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect a criminal who's supposed to testify against his associates. But someone kills him. Later the man who kills him claims to have no remorse because the man killed his wife. But when they check him they find out that he doesn't exist and neither did his wife. And when he tries to show them all the things he remembers like the hospital he was in, which turns out to be a convent. And the bank account he withdrew from which doesn't exist. They wonder what is going on.
S2.E17 ∙ The Set-Up: Part 2
Terry Nash confesses to assassinating a mob boss turned informant just before he was about to testify, in retaliation for his wife's murder. Starsky and Hutch discover that everything Terry remembers is not real, and they work to unravel an elaborate conspiracy with the help of Huggy's pilot friend "The Black Baron."
S2.E18 ∙ Survival
When Hutch goes missing after he is ambushed on a mountain road, Starsky must depend on the help of a mentally addled WW II veteran and a child ham radio operator to find him before it's too late.
S2.E19 ∙ Starsky's Lady
George Prudholm, who previously appeared in the season 1 episode "Pariah," has a grudge against Starsky. His desire for revenge puts Starsky's girlfriend, Terry Roberts, a special education teacher, in the line of fire.
S2.E20 ∙ Huggy Bear and the Turkey
The title of this show sums up viewers' attitudes toward it (this was the lowest-rated "Starsky and Hutch" ever), as their flamboyant informant Huggy Bear goes into business on his own with an aspiring white private eye in an unsold spinoff-series pilot.
S2.E21 ∙ The Committee
A cadre of corrupt cops is taking the law into its own hands, acting as judge, jury and executioner on hardened criminals freed by a soft judicial system. Starsky plays a disgruntled cop in order to infiltrate the vigilante group.
S2.E22 ∙ The Velvet Jungle
A Costa Rican seamstress is murdered in the garment district, but an immigration official seeks to squash Starsky and Hutch's investigation, which interference only stirs their suspicions and strengthens their resolve to catch the killer.
S2.E23 ∙ Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
Sue Ann Grainger is a country singer stalked by a gravelly voiced psychopath who insists she owes him $10,000. Stalling the investigation is Grainger's resisting Starsky and Hutch's offer to help.
S2.E24 ∙ Murder on Stage 17
The set of a Western movie is the site of a murder, another in a series targeting members of actor Steve Hanson's Wolf pack club. Starsky and Hutch go undercover as stuntmen to protect Steve.
S2.E25 ∙ Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty
It's double the fun but double the danger when Starsky and Hutch look-alikes hit the streets in an imitation Striped Tomato and terrorize citizens. Can the real Starsky and Hutch nab the knockoffs before having their badges yanked?
