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Starsky and Hutch

Cop/Detective/Mystery Series

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Starsky and Hutch (usually written as Starsky & Hutch) is a 1970s US television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie (originally aired as a Movie of the Week entry) and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC network; distributed by Columbia Pictures Television in the United States and, originally, Metromedia Producers Corporation in Canada and some other parts of the world. Sony Pictures Television is now the worldwide distributor for the series.

The protagonists were two Southern California policemen: the dark-haired Brooklyn transplant David Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) who was a streetwise detective with intense, sometimes childlike moods, and the blond Duluth, Minnesota native Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson (David Soul), a more reserved and intellectual character. Under the radio call sign "Zebra Three", they were known for tearing around the streets of "Bay City" in Starsky's two-door Ford Gran Torino, which was red with a large white vector stripe. It was nicknamed the "Striped Tomato" by Hutch in the episode "Kill Huggy Bear"; the nickname was subsequently adopted by the fans of the series. However, the term didn't come from the writers - it came from a real-life comment that Glaser made. In a segment titled Starsky & Hutch: Behind The Badge that was featured on the first season DVD collection, Glaser stated that when he was first shown the Torino by Aaron Spelling, he sarcastically said to Soul, "That thing looks like a striped tomato!" Hutch also had a car, a battered tan 1973 Ford Galaxie 500, which occasionally appeared when the duo needed separate vehicles or for undercover work.

 

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People Who Talked About This Show

  • Aaron Spelling
  • George Barris
  • Leonard Goldberg
  • Reza Badiyi

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Starsky and Hutch at IMDb.

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  • Aaron Spelling on the genesis and production of <i>Starsky and Hutch</i> (02m 05s)Aaron Spelling on the genesis and production of Starsky and Hutch (02m 05s)

People Talking About This Show

  • Reza Badiyi
    • Reza Badiyi on directing Starsky and Hutch (06m 39s)
  • George Barris
    • Custom car designer George Barris on his work for Starsky and Hutch
      (03m 43s)
  • Leonard Goldberg
    • Leonard Goldberg about a Starsky and Hutch episode which used the Mona Lisa in the shot (01m 30s)
  • Aaron Spelling
    • Aaron Spelling on the genesis and production of Starsky and Hutch (02m 17s)
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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2011-12-20 23:36.

U need pics of Hutch's batterd Ford galaxie I'm disappointed u had not done that yet true fans of starsky and Hutchison wants to see hutch's car

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