The BEST episodes of Starsky & Hutch season 1
Every episode of Starsky & Hutch season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Starsky & Hutch season 1!
Tough Starsky and educated Hutch are plainclothes cops taking on dope dealers, muggers and other thugs, aided by their red 1974 Torino and informant Huggy Bear. Both bachelors' private lives play as interweaving threads in the drama. This was TV's coolest buddy cop show, fueled by full-throttle car chases, offbeat humour, colourful characters and a hip vibe.
#1 - The Fix
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1975
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. Starsky must find his friend and the people who did this to him before it is too late and Hutch ends up dead...
#2 - Savage Sunday
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1975
An elderly couple, desperate to draw attention to the poor living conditions in their old folks 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. Starsky and Hutch initially are on the hunt for the two robbers – when they learn that the car is rigged with dynamite, they have mere hours to track it down before disaster strikes...
#3 - The Bounty Hunter
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/21/1976
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 - an extortionist bail-bondsman and her accomplice are also on his trail...
#4 - The Omaha Tiger
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/28/1976
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. But when Johnson too turns up dead, again in highly suspicious circumstances, the pair investigate the growing spate of deaths...
#5 - A Coffin for Starsky
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1976
A masked assassin breaks into Starsky's apartment in the middle of the night, and injects him with a deadly poison. With the lethal drug quickly taking its hold, the rapidly ailing Starksy has less than 24 hours to live unless Hutch and himself can find the antidote in time. And to identify the exact poison in order to find the right antidote, they must first find the would-be killer...
#6 - Texas Longhorn
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1975
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...
#7 - Death Notice
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1975
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. The hunt for the man intensifies as the stripper who was threatened is murdered, and another warned in a message that she is next; but a surprise twist means that the duo may not be looking for the right man...
#8 - Kill Huggy Bear
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1975
Dewey, an old "acquaintance" of Huggy Bear's, robs a candy store, only to afterwards realise that the store is a front for a Mob numbers-fixing racket. Dewey once saved Huggy's life, and calling in the debt, he asks Huggy to use his underworld contacts and return the money to the Mob if they forgive him for the robbery. But Dewey's ex-partner and her new lover find out about the horde of stolen money, and decide to bump Dewey off, mug Huggy for the money before he can return it, and keep it for themselves. As a result, it is Huggy who is left owning the large haul of money to the Mob, and Starsky and Hutch - in the dark about the whole situation - must find out what is going on and save their friend, who is now marked as a dead man...
#9 - Running
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1976
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, but the killer and his cronies are out to see that the girl isn't around to point the finger...
#10 - Death Ride
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1975
Starsky and Hutch are involved in safeguarding a big time crime boss who has agreed to testify before a Senate sub-committee against some leading underworld figures. But when during escort of the crime boss, the party is ambushed and the man shot and hospitalised, and refuses to go ahead with the testimony unless his daughter is brought safely to him. So Starsky and Hutch are assigned to bring the man's daughter safely to him, but the trip is a dangerous one, as they are chased the whole way across state by ruthless hit-men out to see that they never make it, and thus the trial never going ahead. Further more, the daring detectives aren't even aware of the full state of affairs regarding the case...
#11 - The Hostages
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1976
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...
#12 - Lady Blue
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1975
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?
#13 - Pariah
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1975
When Starsky and Hutch deal with an armed hold-up, in self defence Starsky is forced to shoot one of the felons - who turns out to be a 16-year-old youth. An enquiry into the incident is held and Starsky is cleared of any wrong-doing, and he and Hutch set out to find who supplied the teenager with the gun. But a mad-man who's son was previously knifed to death in a jail cell after Starsky arrested him, begins killing cops, demanding Starsky's resignation, and promising that the killings will continue until Starsky complies...
#14 - Captain Dobey...You're Dead!
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1975
The Detective duo swing into action when Captain Dobey and his family are terrorised by a crooked ex-Cop who has just been sprung from prison and is determined to get his revenge on Dobey for putting him away...
#15 - The Bait
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1975
Starsky and Hutch work undercover as snazzy-dressed drug dealing pimps in an operation to put a heroin-pushing syndicate out of business. They spring a young woman, arrested for unwillingly acting as a drug courier, from jail, and convince her to act as a lure in a bid to trap the elusive drug kingpin at the head of the syndicate...
#16 - Terror on the Docks
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1975
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...
#17 - The Deadly Impostor
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1975
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, unbeknown to them, the man holds a sinister and deadly secret...
#18 - Shoot Out
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1975
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. In the commotion, Starsky is critically wounded by a gun-shot wound, and Hutch must try and keep his partner alive while dealing with the trigger-happy gun-men...
#19 - Snowstorm
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1975
Starsky and Hutch, along with three other Detectives, are involved in a large drugs 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 and the three fellow Detectives, who they assume to be innocent, and nail the drugs lord behind the operation - the same man who was responsible for the murder of Captain Dobey's former partner years before... Throughout the case, Hutch keeps spotting a Dalmatian dog that seems to appear whenever danger lurks nearby...
#20 - Losing Streak
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/14/1976
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, as his former boss, connected to the Mob, sends his heavies out to retrieve the money and wipe out the man who dare steal it. The race is on for Starsky and Hutch to find Vic before the Mob get to him...
#21 - Jo-Jo
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1976
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 in an up-hill battle trying to get Forentic put away, due to all of his victims being too terrified to testify against him, and a Federal Agent who promises to protect Jojo in return from him leading them to the head of a drug-running ring...
#22 - Silence
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/21/1976
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 all indications pointing at Larry of being the culprit, the pair are convinced of his innocence and that someone else is using him as the ideal pawn...