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* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Averted in "Blindfold," when Starsky accidentally hits a young woman who runs into his line of fire during a shootout.
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* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Averted in "Blindfold," when Starsky accidentally hits a young woman who runs into his line of fire during a shootout.shootout, temporarily blinding her.
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* CallBack: The first episode, "Savage Sunday," and the early fourth-season episode "Blindfold" both open with Starsky complaining about having to work on Sunday and citing dubious statistics to prove he should be given the day off.
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* CarFu: Near the end of "Blindfold," Hutch drives alongside a villain who's trying to flee on foot, then hits him with the car door.
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** Hutch has blurry vision when he has botulism in "The Game."
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* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Averted in "Blindfold," when Starsky accidentally hits a young woman who runs into his line of fire during a shootout.
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* BookcasePassage: The fascists in "A Body Worth Guarding" meet in a secret room hidden behind a sliding door with a bookcase in front of it.
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** In "The Game," Hutch talks to a snitch in disguise. The snitch says that he and Starsky are both dumb, "especially the blond one." Hutch says, "I thought the blond one was supposed to be the bright one."
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** In "The Game," Hutch talks to a snitch in disguise.while disguised as a homeless man. The snitch says that he and Starsky are both dumb, "especially the blond one." Hutch says, "I thought the blond one was supposed to be the bright one."
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: In one episode, Hutch is undercover as a nerdy accountant. When a woman [=IDs=] him as a cop, he protests, "I am not a policeman. They have to be brave and manly and strong."
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** In "The Game," Hutch talks to a snitch in disguise. The snitch says that he and Starsky are both dumb, "especially the blond one." Hutch says, "I thought the blond one was supposed to be the bright one."
** In one episode, Hutch is undercover as a nerdy accountant. When a woman [=IDs=] him as a cop, he protests, "I am not a policeman. They have to be brave and manly and strong."
** In "The Game," Hutch talks to a snitch in disguise. The snitch says that he and Starsky are both dumb, "especially the blond one." Hutch says, "I thought the blond one was supposed to be the bright one."
** In one episode, Hutch is undercover as a nerdy accountant. When a woman [=IDs=] him as a cop, he protests, "I am not a policeman. They have to be brave and manly and strong."
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* {{Disco}}: "Discomania" features a serial killer who lurks in discos, kidnaps women, and forces them to dance with him before he kills them. Easily half the episode's runtime is taken up by endless scenes of people dancing.
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* {{Disco}}: "Discomania" features a serial killer who lurks in discos, a discotheque called Fever, kidnaps women, and forces them to dance with him in his mansion before he kills them. Easily half the episode's runtime is taken up by endless scenes of people dancing.
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* HuddlePower: Starsky forms a huddle with two other detectives in "The Game" while discussing his plan to find Hutch.
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* {{Disco}}: "Discomania" features a serial killer who lurks in discos, kidnaps women, and forces them to dance with him before he kills them. Easily half the episode's runtime is taken up by endless scenes of people dancing.
* PrecociousCrush: Joey Carston, an adolescent girl, develops a crush on Starsky when he busts her for shoplifting, leading her to stow away in the back of the Torino.
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* SlippingAMickey: In "Discomania," a SerialKiller does this to a female cop who's trying to catch him.
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* BusmansHoliday: "Satan's Witches", where a quiet fishing trip in the woods is interrupted by virgin-sacrificing Satanists. No, really.
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* BusmansHoliday: In "Satan's Witches", where Witches," a quiet fishing trip in the woods is interrupted by virgin-sacrificing Satanists. No, really.
* CampingEpisode: "Satan's Witches," in which the guys vacation in Dobey's lakeside cabin in the mountains. Hutch loves the natural setting, while Starsky spends most of the episode complaining about it.
* ContaminationSituation: In "The Plague," Starsky and Hutch are put in quarantine for 72 hours because they interacted with a man who died from the disease. They kill time by playing cards.
* HealItWithBooze: In "Deckwatch," a SerialKiller is shot in the leg by his latest victim. Afterwards, he hides out under a bridge, pouring whiskey over the wound.
* NonAnswer: In "Deckwatch," Hutch's ex-girlfriend Laura tells a man who is holding her and her grandmother hostage that Hutch is her brother. When the man asks what his eye color is, Laura answers, "Blue. With a greenish tint. Brown, sometimes. They get darker."
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* VivaLasVegas: "The Las Vegas Strangler"
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* VivaLasVegas: "The Las Vegas Strangler"Strangler," in which the guys go to Vegas to investigate a serial killer who authorities think is Hutch's BeleagueredChildhoodFriend.
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** In "Quadromania," Starsky's head is smashed into a taxi window. His vision is blurred for the rest of the scene.
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* ClearMyName: In "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hutchinson for Murder One]]," Hutch is accused of murdering his ex-wife with his gun in her home. [[spoiler:It was actually her associate Wheeler who did it, and Hutch would have been convicted if it wasn't for Huggy Bear hiding in a coffin while recording Wheeler's confession.]] Starsky, obviously, believes none of it, and spirits Hutch off in the middle of his arrest in order to find the real murderer, blithely telling Dobey over the phone, "If this doesn't work, [[UndyingLoyalty you can visit Hutch and I in San Quentin]]."
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* ClearMyName: ClearMyName:
** In "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hutchinson for Murder One]]," Hutch is accused of murdering his ex-wife with his gun in her home. [[spoiler:It was actually her associate Wheeler who did it, and Hutch would have been convicted if it wasn't for Huggy Bear hiding in a coffin while recording Wheeler's confession.]] Starsky, obviously, believes none of it, and spirits Hutch off in the middle of his arrest in order to find the real murderer, blithely telling Dobey over the phone, "If this doesn't work, [[UndyingLoyalty you can visit Hutch and I in San Quentin]].""
** Also in "The Set-Up," where first Terry Nash is set up as the assassin of a mob leader, and then Starsky and Hutch are set up as his accomplices and a warrant for their arrest is issued when they start uncovering evidence that something fishy is going on. They spend half the episode on the run and, unusually, the episode ends right before their hearing, and although they likely have enough evidence to prove their innocence, it still ends on a never-resolved cliffhanger.
** In "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hutchinson for Murder One]]," Hutch is accused of murdering his ex-wife with his gun in her home. [[spoiler:It was actually her associate Wheeler who did it, and Hutch would have been convicted if it wasn't for Huggy Bear hiding in a coffin while recording Wheeler's confession.]] Starsky, obviously, believes none of it, and spirits Hutch off in the middle of his arrest in order to find the real murderer, blithely telling Dobey over the phone, "If this doesn't work, [[UndyingLoyalty you can visit Hutch and I in San Quentin]].
** Also in "The Set-Up," where first Terry Nash is set up as the assassin of a mob leader, and then Starsky and Hutch are set up as his accomplices and a warrant for their arrest is issued when they start uncovering evidence that something fishy is going on. They spend half the episode on the run and, unusually, the episode ends right before their hearing, and although they likely have enough evidence to prove their innocence, it still ends on a never-resolved cliffhanger.
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* CouldntFindAPen: Two opposing examples. In "Bloodbath," Starsky is kidnapped by a murderous cult, who leave his name scrawled in blood on a mirror for his partner to find. In "The Plague," Hutch is in an isolation room with a fatal disease; before Starsky leaves to go look for a cure, he uses a borrowed lipstick to write his name on the observation window where Hutch can be reassured by it.
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* DoesNotLikeMen: One episode shows a divorced mother [[spoiler:who abuses her son due to her hatred for all men]].
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* ClearMyName: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hutchinson for Murder One]]"
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* ClearMyName: In "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hutchinson for Murder One]]"One]]," Hutch is accused of murdering his ex-wife with his gun in her home. [[spoiler:It was actually her associate Wheeler who did it, and Hutch would have been convicted if it wasn't for Huggy Bear hiding in a coffin while recording Wheeler's confession.]] Starsky, obviously, believes none of it, and spirits Hutch off in the middle of his arrest in order to find the real murderer, blithely telling Dobey over the phone, "If this doesn't work, [[UndyingLoyalty you can visit Hutch and I in San Quentin]]."
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* HurtFootHop: Starsky does this in "Foxy Lady" after kicking a trash can.
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* PetsHomageName: One of Huggy Bear's racing mice is named [[Film/{{Seabiscuit}} Cheesebiscuit]].
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* PetsHomageName: One of Huggy Bear's racing mice is named [[Film/{{Seabiscuit}} [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabiscuit Cheesebiscuit]].
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* CallingCard: [=JoJo=] sprays all the women he rapes with orange paint.
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* CallingCard: [=JoJo=] "[=JoJo=]" features a rapist who sprays all the women he rapes his victims with orange paint.
* CarpetOfVirility: Starsky.
* ClothingSwitch: In "Foxy Lady," a witness sneaks out of the police station by paying the janitor $100 to switch clothes with her.
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* CurseCutShort: When Starsky sees his tires have been slashed, he says, "I'll kill those..." The scene ends before he can finish the sentence.
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** In "Foxy Lady," a character says of the titular thieving witness, "I think that little b- lady is as slick as a greased eel."
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** In "Foxy Lady," a character says of the titular thieving witness, "I think that little b- lady is as slick as a greased eel."
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* HappierHomeMovie: In "The Set-Up," a brainwashed assassin watches videos of himself and his "wife," not knowing they were faked.
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* HiddenWire: Starsky tries wearing one in "Foxy Lady," but the criminals he's meeting guess he's wearing one and make him remove it.
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* AFriendInNeed: Both protagonists are willing to go out of their own ways to help each other when one of them is shot, poisoned, or even framed for murder.
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* AnimalAssassin: In "Satan's Witches," Starsky opens a refrigerator and a rattlesnake falls out. Hutch picks it up with a blanket and throws it out the window.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Hutch uses one to knock out some of the Satanists in "Satan's Witches."
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* HalloweenEpisode: "The Vampire," in which a serial killer strangles women, then punctures their necks and steals some of their blood. Starsky reads books on vampires and buys garlic necklaces for himself and Hutch, who is much more skeptical.
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* HalloweenEpisode: "The Vampire," in which a serial killer strangles women, then punctures their necks and steals some of their blood. Starsky reads books on vampires and buys garlic necklaces for himself and Hutch, who thinks the whole idea of vampires is much more skeptical.ridiculous.
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* HollywoodSatanism: "Satan's Witches"
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* HollywoodSatanism: The Satanists from "Satan's Witches"Witches" wear hooded robes, paint pentagrams with extremely fake-looking blood, kidnap a sheriff's daughter to be "forever wed to Satan," and march in circles chanting "Hail Satan! Dominus Satanis!"
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* HandsOffParenting: Mrs. Carston from "The Trap" is "one of those liberated mothers" who refuses to discipline her daughter in any way even when she shoplifts from a jewelry store.
-->'''Mrs. Carston''': Oh, it's that old klepto phase again. I mean, she'll get over it\\
'''Hutch''': Excuse me, ma'am, but don't you think that's a rather casual approach to take?\\
'''Mrs. Carston''': Oh, pooh. I don't believe in that old school of discipline. Stifles their creativity.… Listen, boys, I'll have a good talk with her about this. But I'm certainly not gonna punish her over something as trivial as a cigarette lighter. I mean, she has a very sensitive psyche.
-->'''Mrs. Carston''': Oh, it's that old klepto phase again. I mean, she'll get over it\\
'''Hutch''': Excuse me, ma'am, but don't you think that's a rather casual approach to take?\\
'''Mrs. Carston''': Oh, pooh. I don't believe in that old school of discipline. Stifles their creativity.… Listen, boys, I'll have a good talk with her about this. But I'm certainly not gonna punish her over something as trivial as a cigarette lighter. I mean, she has a very sensitive psyche.
* PrecociousCrush: Joey Carston, an adolescent girl, develops a crush on Starsky when he busts her for shoplifting, leading her to stow away in the back of the Torino.
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* TomboyishName: Molly Edwards, aka Pete, from "Little Girl Lost."
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* TomboyishName: Molly Edwards, aka Pete, "Pete" Edwards from "Little Girl Lost."Lost" and Joey Carston from "The Trap," both played by Kristy [=McNichol=].
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* BodyguardCrush: Hutch gets into one of these with a visiting Russian ballerina who's received death threats.
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* DartboardOfHate: In "A Body Worth Guarding," terrorists use a cardboard cutout of a Soviet ballerina for target practice.
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* ReverseArmFold: Starsky stands like this sometimes.
* RightBehindMe: While talking about the snobby Russian ballet dancer they're bodyguarding, Hutch grumbles to Starsky, "She'll be asleep. At least I won't have to listen to her talk." Then they both turn around to see her standing behind them.
* RightBehindMe: While talking about the snobby Russian ballet dancer they're bodyguarding, Hutch grumbles to Starsky, "She'll be asleep. At least I won't have to listen to her talk." Then they both turn around to see her standing behind them.
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* TheScapegoat: In "A Body Worth Guarding," the Fascist Party of America plans to murder a Russian ballerina so they can pin it on the Jewish Organization for Action, who were protesting the treatment of the Russian Jews.
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* TalentDouble: During the scenes where Anna is dancing in "A Body Worth Guarding," she is clearly played by a different actress.
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* TheBoxingEpisode: In "The Heavyweight," a boxer is ordered to [[ThrowingTheFight throw a game]], but he wins anyway because he can't bear to let his son down, getting himself in trouble with criminals.
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** Assistant director Eldon Burke can be seen polishing the Torino in "Silence."
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* DigYourOwnGrave: The villains of "The Action" try to force Starsky and Hutch to do this. Instead, they knock the criminals out with their shovels.
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* PetsHomageName: One of Huggy Bear's racing mice is named [[Film/{{Seabiscuit}} Cheesebiscuit]].
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* TheAllegedCar: Pretty much every vehicle Hutch drove, in deliberate contrast to his partner's CoolCar.
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* TheAllegedCar: Pretty much every vehicle Hutch's vomit-colored, dented, rusting, crumbling Ford LTD, with a missing rearview mirror, window cranks that don't stay in, and a horn that randomly blasts at top volume whenever he opens the door. An overly prideful mechanic is so offended by the car's very ''existence'' that when Hutch drove, tries to bring it in deliberate contrast to for repairs, he buries it in his partner's CoolCar.trash heap just so he can yell at Hutch that "Garbage belongs WITH garbage!" When the LTD is totaled in an assassination attempt, Starsky buys him another one exactly as crappy as the first one, though not before writing "condemned in 1827" on the windshield.
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* ImpairmentShot: When Hutch is under the influence of an incapacitating drug in "Murder Ward," a shot from his point of view is blurred around the edges.
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** When Hutch is under the influence of an incapacitating drug in "Murder Ward," a shot from his point of view is blurred around theedges.edges.
** In "The Plague," a ProfessionalKiller who has fallen ill has blurry vision, preventing him from aiming properly.
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** In "The Plague," a ProfessionalKiller who has fallen ill has blurry vision, preventing him from aiming properly.
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* PreviouslyOn: "The Set-up, Part 2" opens this way.
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* ToBeContinued: The first halves of "The Las Vegas Strangler" and "The Set-Up" end this way.
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* FoundingDay: After a bribe attempt in "Bust Amboy," which aired in the fall of 1976, Starsky remarks, "You know, I think this is gonna be our first bicentennial bribery offer."
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* StuffedIntoATrashCan: The abusive mother in "The Crying Child" leaves her eight-year-old son in a trash can in the shed after she beats him.
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* CountingBullets: During the climax of "Death in a Different Place," Starsky yells at a man who's threatening to shoot a bystander, "No way! That's six!" After the man has surrendered, Hutch asks, "Six?" To his horror, Starsky shrugs and says, "Five, six."
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* HeatWave: "Death in a Different Place" takes place during one. After the heat causes the Torino to break down in the same spot for the third day in a row, the guys use Hutch's car for the rest of the episode.
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* SoftGlass: The windows in Bay City are absurdly fragile. In "Lady Blue," Starsky breaks a window by gently tapping it with his gun, and in "Murder Ward," Hutch shatters a window with his elbow.
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* ImpairmentShot: When Hutch is under the influence of an incapacitating drug in "Murder Ward," a shot from his point of view is blurred around the edges.
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* MadDoctor: Dr. Matwick from "Murder Ward" has invented a drug that inhibits a patient's behavior more and more as the patient becomes violent. Four of the patients he tested it on died of respiratory failure.
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* NeverSuicide: Two mental patients who supposedly hanged themselves in "Murder Ward" were actually killed by an experimental drug.
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* SleepingDummy: In "Murder Ward," Starsky goes undercover as a mental patient. When he leaves his room to snoop around, he leaves two pillows under the blanket.
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* VengefulVendingMachine: In "Fatal Charm," Starsky gets his arm stuck up a vending machine that ate his dime. Hutch has to pull him loose.
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* EasyImpersonation: "Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty," in which two similar-looking guys drive around in a Torino replica beating people up.
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* EasyImpersonation: "Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty," in which two similar-looking guys drive around in a Torino replica beating people up. While the impostors bear a fair general resemblance, it's nowhere near good enough to justify a woman who knows the real cops on sight get a good look at both pairs, five minutes apart, and be unable to tell the difference.
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* CreatorCameo: Assistant director Eldon Burke can be seen polishing the Torino in "Silence."
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** Makeup artist Layne "Shotgun" Britton appears in "Murder on Stage 17" as a crew member [[TheDanza named Shotgun]].
** Assistant director Eldon Burke can be seen polishing the Torino in "Silence.
** Makeup artist Layne "Shotgun" Britton appears in "Murder on Stage 17" as a crew member [[TheDanza named Shotgun]].
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* TheIllegal: "Velvet Jungle" involves an immigration ring that brings people in from Mexico, puts them to work in the garment industry, then forces them to give up half their paychecks.
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* LoonyFan: Jerry Tabor from "A Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road" used to run a radio station, where he played the same country record over and over again in the hopes that the singer would notice him and help him become a famous singer himself. Eventually someone got mad about it and stabbed him in the throat, causing him to lose his voice and his job. He gets revenge by calling her and demanding money, then killing random people when she doesn't pay up.
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* SpecialGuest: Lynn Anderson, best known for her 1970 hit "Rose Garden," guest stars in "A Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road" as country singer Sue Ann Grainger.
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* CompanionCube: In "The Committee," Huggy Bear sells Starsky a ridiculously overpriced pet rock, which he swears is much better than the ones sold in stores. Starsky names the rock Ignatius and carries it around for the rest of the episode.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The villains mostly have terrible aim. When anyone starts shooting at Starsky and Hutch, they almost always miss, no matter how easy the shot is.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The villains mostly have terrible aim. When anyone starts shooting at Starsky and Hutch, they almost always miss, no matter how easy the shot is.
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* ThisIsReality: A character in "The Committee" grumbles, "You take those shows on TV. The good guys always win. But that ain't the way it happens. That ain't the way it happens at all."
* ThrowingTheDistraction: During the climax of "The Committee," Starsky throws his pet rock away to distract one of the villains. Once everyone has been arrested, he runs back to look for it.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: During the climax of "The Committee," Starsky throws his pet rock away to distract one of the villains. Once everyone has been arrested, he runs back to look for it.
