The WORST episodes of Starsky & Hutch
Every episode of Starsky & Hutch ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Starsky & Hutch!
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 - Sweet Revenge
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/1979
As Starsky lies in a hospital bed at death's door, Hutch goes after the powerful man who tried to have him killed
#2 - 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...
#3 - The Las Vegas Strangler (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1976
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...
#4 - Murder at Sea (1)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1976
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...
#5 - Murder at Sea (2)
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1976
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 - the ship is to be the meeting place for a group of leading syndicate figures...
#6 - Gillian
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1976
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 intrepid Detectives investigate the killing, Starsky by chance finds that Hutch's new love is a prostitute, who wants out but is being forced to continue by a cunning pimp and his mother. Starsky knows that his unwitting discovery could destroy his partnership with Hutch...
#7 - The Specialist
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1976
Starsky, Hutch, and two other officers respond to an armed robbery on a jewellers, only for a woman to accidentally get shot dead from the gun-fire from one of the lawmen. The dead woman's husband is a Special Agent, paranoid after being retired from the service, and convinced that the officers were really hit-men after him, and sets about extracting his revenge on each of the cops involved in the death of his wife. With the man an expert in specialist weapons, Starsky and Hutch must stop the deranged agent before he uses his expertise training to wipe them out...
#8 - Vendetta (a.k.a. The Monster)
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1976
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. But when Hutch unwittingly aggravates him while investigating, Solkin goads his teenage henchman to stalk and terrorise Hutch and his girl-friend...
#9 - The Psychic
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1977
Huggy introduces the detective duo to a friend of his, opening up a new cafe, who unwittingly has clairvoyant visions. Starsky is sceptical of such psychic ability, Hutch more willing to believe, but the psychic's predictions start to come true when his visions tie in to the whereabouts of a wealthy businessman's kidnapped teenage daughter, who is being held for a large ransom...
#10 - The Set-Up (2)
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1977
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. Determined to unlock the secrets about Terry and to clear their names, the twisted trail of their investigations leads to a complex operation in which innocent victims are brain-washed into murdering those that they believe to be their enemies. But with the investigations getting too close to home, the masterminds behind the brain-washing set-up have new murder victims in their sights - Starsky and Hutch...
#11 - The Velvet Jungle
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1977
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...
#12 - Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1977
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. At first, the anonymous madman just issues threats via phone, but when he turns to murder, Starsky and Hutch must piece together just who the extortionist is and capture him before anyone else is killed...
#13 - Murder on Stage 17
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1977
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 has 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. As Starsky and Hutch roll with the punches and blows in their guises as stunt-men, the case leads them to uncover a bizarre story of thwarted stardom and twisted revenge...
#14 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1977
First half of a feature-length / two-part story. Tough Detectives Starsky and Hutch are assigned to go undercover on the luxurious, tropical Playboy Island to investigate the mysterious happenings connected to William Thorne, "the richest man in the world", who lives a reclusive life on the island, and who's associates are being murdered with what appears to be voodoo magic...
#15 - The Heroes
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1977
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...
#16 - Death in a Different Place
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1977
The intrepid detective partners investigate when a colleague - an old friend of Starsky's - 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?
#17 - Targets Without a Badge (3)
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1979
Conclusion. Starsky and Hutch discover a link between a friend and a crooked judge.
#18 - Targets Without a Badge (2)
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/11/1979
Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.
#19 - Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1979
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.
#20 - Ninety Pounds of Trouble
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1979
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.
#21 - The Golden Angel
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1979
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.
#22 - Black and Blue
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1978
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...
#23 - Dandruff
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1978
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...
#24 - The Avenger
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1978
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...
#25 - Strange Justice
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1978
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...