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 - Starsky vs. Hutch
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1979
Competing for the affections of a policewoman, Starsky and Hutch neglect their investigation of the murder of a dance-hall girl.
#2 - Birds of a Feather
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1979
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
#3 - 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...
#4 - Cover Girl (a.k.a. No Deposit, No Return)
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1978
When a leading model an old flame of Hutch's 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 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...
#5 - Huggy Bear and the Turkey
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1977
Huggy Bear has linked up with his friend, former Sheriff "Turkey" Turquet, to set up their own private detective agency. Their first case sees them hired to find a woman's missing husband, and while trying to find him, they find themselves pursued by several undesirable parties who have various concerns with the elusive man in question...
#6 - 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...
#7 - 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...
#8 - Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1977
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...
#9 - The Plague (1)
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1977
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...
#10 - The Crying Child
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1977
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...
#11 - A Body Worth Guarding
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1978
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 - 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...
#12 - Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1976
Dedicated detectives Starsky and Hutch are working undercover at a plush Hollywood dance studio, as a dance teacher and student respectively, to investigate an extortion racket operating from the club that lures members into compromising situations, and then bribes the victims for large amounts of money...
#13 - Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1978
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...
#14 - The Heavyweight
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1978
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...
#15 - Photo Finish
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1978
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 - only for her life to now be endangered by the killer, who is determined to get their hands on the incriminating film...
#16 - Discomania
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1978
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...
#17 - The Las Vegas Strangler (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1976
Concluding part of this feature-length / two-part story. The duo close in on the serial strangler who is singling out chorus girls, but the investigation holds some unexpected, startling implications about several people linked to the case...
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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...
#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 - 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...
#22 - Satan's Witches
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1978
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...
#23 - 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...
#24 - 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...
#25 - Ballad for a Blue Lady
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1979
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.