Loads more TV Themes at http Starsky Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series, which consisted of a 70. Starsky Hutch Series TV Tropes. Starsky Hutch is a 1. It centered around two Southern California plainclothes police officers, streetwise Brooklyn native David Starsky, and the quiet, intellectual Minnesotan Kenneth Hutch Hutchinson. Welcome to the Webs first SH fiction archive. Started in 1996 by fans on the VenicePlace discussion list, the archive hosts zine fic, new fic, and can link to fic. Includes downloads, cheats, reviews, and articles. Starsky Hutch is a 1970s television series that ran for 92 episodes plus a pilot movie between 19. It centered around two Southern. Under the radio callsign Zebra Three, they patrolled the Bay City in Starskys iconic red Ford Gran Torino with that awesome white vector stripe. Their main contact in the criminal underworld is Jive Turkey Huggy Bear, a police snitch who often dressed extravagantly and ran his own bar. Review Roundup Were Critics Charmed by DisneyPixars COCO BWW Review Theatre Stars Shine in the Simple Masterpiece, LADY BIRD Review Roundup Julia Roberts. MTS_DrPixel-690624-Colors.jpg' alt='Starsky Hutch Game' title='Starsky Hutch Game' />Starsky Hutch was one of the first prime time dramas to portray black characters in a positive light, with both Captain Dobey and despite his walking on the edge of the law the honest and trustworthy Huggy seen to be positive black role models. In fact, Huggy Bear was so popular with fans that the producers considered spinning off a Huggy Bear series, but this ultimately fell through. A Starsky Hutch video game was released in 2. Minds Eye. Made into a motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in 2. Adorkable Both have their moments, but it is Hutch who takes the cake in this one. The Alleged Car Pretty much every vehicle Hutch drove, in deliberate contrast to his partners Cool Car. Ambiguously Jewish Starsky. In at least one episode he has a Star of David on his dashboard and a menorah in his apartment. Paul Michael Glaser is Jewish in real life. Avenging the Villain George Prudholm holds Starsky responsible for the death of his son in jail after Starsky arrests him he kills two cops and Starskys lover in an effort to make him pay. Zoster Free Download there. Beleaguered Childhood Friend Subverted in The Las Vegas Strangler Hutchs high school friend Jack Mitchell really isnt the serial killer the guys are chasing. Not that it helps, since hes dying of a brain tumor and doesnt make it out of the episode alive. Binocular Shot. Bloodless Carnage Unsurprisingly for a show made in the 7. Bodyguard Crush Hutch gets into one of these with a visiting Russian ballerina whos received death threats. Brainwashed and Crazy In Playboy Island, Hollywood Voodoo causes Starsky to try to kill Hutch. Weirdly, once hes shocked back to normal its ignored for the rest of the episode. Broken Pedestal Hutchs mentor Luke Huntley in Birds of a Feather. Buddy Cop Show Possibly the Trope Codifier. Bulletproof Human Shield In the final episode, Hutch is ambushed by two hitmen, one with a gun and one with a knife. He manages to take advantage of this by maneuvering the knifewielder between himself and the gunman, just in time to take the shot. Bulletproof Vest Makes a rare appearance in The Psychic naturally Hutch is shot in the chest shortly thereafter. Busmans Holiday Satans Witches, where a quiet fishing trip in the woods is interrupted by virgin sacrificing Satanists. No, really. Car Chase Well, yeah. Christmas Episode Little Girl LostClear My Name Hutchinson for Murder OneClip Show PartnersCool Car The Gran Torino, though Hutch compares it to a striped tomato. Unlike most cool cars, theres nothing particularly special in its features or general performance, but the bright red paint job with that white vector stripe was special in and of itself. Cop Show. Cowboy Cop Both main characters. They almost seem to be private detectives rather than cogs in a larger machine. Also, their methods include bribery, blackmail, and Mafia style intimidation. Starsky fits the scheme more, while Hutch tends more to be more bookish. Cult In Bloodbath, Starsky is abducted by the followers of the memorably creepy Simon Marcus. Da Chief Captain Dobey. A Day in the Limelight Huggy Bear gets these in the cringeworthy Huggy Bear and the Turkey a failed Poorly Disguised Pilot and the considerably better Huggy Cant Go Home. Dirty Cop Not them, but they do deal with plenty. Dirty Harriet Starskys ex girlfriend turns out to have been undercover as this in Lady Blue. Easy Amnesia Subverted in Partners. Hutch apparently has amnesia after a car accident and a Clip Show ensues as Starsky tries to remind him who he is, but he was faking it as revenge for Starskys reckless driving. Easy Impersonation Starsky and Hutch Are GuiltyEvery Car Is a Pinto It was the seventies. Fake Defector Starsky pretends to join a group of vigilante cops in The Committee. Fangirl the original largely teenage and almost exclusively female fanbase, who have grown up into an Estrogen Brigade for David Soul, a man still working the nostalgia circuit as a singer. Fashion Dissonance. Fatal Attractor Hutch sometimes seems to be one of these. Find the Cure The episode A Coffin for Starsky. The two parter The Plague also qualifies, especially the second part. Flatline After being critically injured in the series finale, Starsky has one of these. Resuscitation attempts fail and the doctor is about to call it. Hutch races in and Starskys heart starts beating again. Four Temperament Ensemble Starsky SanguineCholeric Hutch MelancholicPhlegmatic Dobey CholericMelancholic Huggy PhlegmaticSanguine. Fur and Loathing Hutchs thieving ex wife shows up in a white fur coat. Generic Cop Badges. Silent Hunter 5 Patch 1.2 on this page. Girl of the Week They are both quite the ladykiller. Not literally, of course, although enough at times they verge on Cartwright Cursed. Going Cold Turkey Hutch has to do this after being shot up with heroin in The Fix. Good CopBad Cop The boys play this with great enthusiasm at the beginning of The Shootout. Played with and then lampshaded in the pilot, when Hutch tells Fat Rolly that he and Starsky dont do this formula, with both being bad cops. Cue Starsky looking at them in disbelief. The Grinch Hutch spends the Christmas Episode complaining about the phony wave of euphoric sentimentalism orchestrated by the clanging of cash registers. Hand Cannon Hutchs weapon of choice is a. Magnum. Heterosexual Life Partners Playfully and frequently dances the line, as the duo is famously known to be very. The duo were called Prime time Homos frequently during the shows run. Theres a reason why the actors are always asked if Starsky and Hutch were supposed to be a romantic duo. Those were never answered, and they would frequently drop conflicting hints towards each side. Its no accident that the show has had a huge amount of slash fiction written about it, rivaling the KirkSpock fics of the 7. It didnt help matters that during outtakes Paul andor Dave would kiss each other if one or both of them forgot lines. Hollywood Satanism Satans WitchesHollywood Voodoo Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island, complete with voodoo dolls of the guys. Hooker with a Heart of Gold The title character of Gillian minor character Sweet Alice also seems to be one of these. If I Wanted You Dead. In the pilot, two killers are after the heroes but several people who should know, including an Affably Evil mob boss, assure them that these hit men cant be the ones trying to kill them, or theyd be dead by now. This turns out to be key. The hit men already killed their actual target, and are making it seem theyre after Starsky and Hutch instead in order to conceal their clients motive for the real killing. Insignia Ripoff Ritual Throwing their badges into the ocean at the end of The Snitch. Internal Affairs Unsurprisingly played as jerks. Jive Turkey Huggy Bear. Key Under the Doormat For reasons best known to himself, Hutch insists on keeping one on top of the door.