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Starsky Et Hutch

Starsky and Hutch
Original Title Starsky and Hutch
Genre Police series
Creator (s) William Blinn
Music Lalo Schifrin
Country of origin Flag: United States United States
Original string ABC
Number of seasons 4
Number of episodes 93
Duration 1 70 minutes
92 48 minutes
Original broadcast 30 April 1975 - 15 May 1979
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Starsky and Hutch (Starsky and Hutch) is a television series American 92 episodes of 48 minutes (and a driver 70 minutes), created by William Blinn and broadcast between 30 April 1975 and 15 May 1979 on the network ABC. In France, the series aired from 10 June 1978 to 9 December 1984 on TF1 , and on TMC in 2007 and in 2009 on Direct 8.

An adaptation of this series, entitled Duval and Moretti , was shot to M6.

Summary

Synopsis

This series features two officers of Bay City (Calif.), an imaginary city modeled on Los Angeles - but in one episode, Hutch said to be part of the LAPD. Michael Brown David Starsky ( Paul Michael Glaser ), who grew up in the streets of New York is a little naive and very outgoing, while his sidekick, blond, Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson ( David Soul ), is more reserved and thoughtful. Despite their apparent differences, they are like brothers to each other. Aided by their friend "Huggy Bear ( Antonio Fargas ) (known as "Huggy good tips" in the French version), they solve cases that are referred by their Captain Dobey ( Bernie Hamilton ) ways unconventional and very muscular.

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  • Executive producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg
  • Productions: Spelling Goldberg Productions and Columbia Pictures Television

Distribution

Episodes

First season ( 1975 - 1976 )

  1. Starsky and Hutch (Starsky and Hutch aka Pilot)
  2. Ah! The beautiful Sunday! (Savage Sunday)
  3. The revenge of Texas (Texas Longhorn)
  4. The walk of death (Death Ride)
  5. As the pitcher goes into the water (The fix)
  6. Storm (Snowstorm)
  7. Death notice (Death Notice)
  8. The Paria (Pariah)
  9. Kill Huggy (Kill Huggy Bear)
  10. Bait (The Bait)
  11. Amok (Lady Blue)
  12. Captain Dobey, You're dead! (Captain Dobey, You're Dead!)
  13. Terror on the Docks (Terror on the Docks)
  14. A childhood friend (The Deadly Impostor)
  15. Monty will come at midnight (Shootout)
  16. Hostages (The Hostages)
  17. Poker (Losing Streak)
  18. Silence (Silence)
  19. The Omaha Tiger (The Omaha Tiger)
  20. Yoyo (Jojo)
  21. Sauve qui peut! (Running)
  22. Condolences (A Coffin for Starsky)
  23. The premium of the Hunter (Bounty Hunter)

Second season (1976-1977)

  1. The Las Vegas Strangler - Part 1 (The Las Vegas Strangler - Part 1)
  2. The Las Vegas Strangler - Part 2 (The Las Vegas Strangler - Part 2)
  3. The girl (Gillian)
  4. Warm front (Bust Amboy)
  5. Cruise deadly - Part 1 (Murder at Sea - Part 1)
  6. Cruise deadly - Part 2 (Murder at Sea - Part 2)
  7. Vampire (The Vampire)
  8. The professional (The Specialist)
  9. Let's follow the path of your heart (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts)
  10. Vendetta (Vendetta)
  11. Nightmare (Nightmare)
  12. Arm wrestling (Iron Mike)
  13. The little girl lost (Little Girl Lost)
  14. Superstitious, me? (Bloodbath) directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
  15. Esprit es-tu l? (The Psychic)
  16. Pounce - Part 1 (The Set-Up - Part 1)
  17. Pounce - Part 2 (The Set-Up - Part 2)
  18. The survivor (Survival) directed by David Soul.
  19. Love when you hold us (Starsky's Lady)
  20. No luck Huggy (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) was not broadcast on TF1
  21. Vigilantes (The Committee)
  22. Jungle jungle you said? (Velvet Jungle)
  23. That the road is long (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
  24. The clown (Murder on Stage 17)
  25. Guilty? (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)

Third season (1977-1978)

  1. Beautiful creatures - Part 1 (Starsky & Hutch is Playboy Island - Part 1)
  2. Beautiful creatures - part 2 (Starsky & Hutch is Playboy Island - Part 2)
  3. What charm! (Fatal Charm)
  4. True love (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
  5. Investigations of all kinds (Murder Ward)
  6. The days are alike (Death in a Different Place)
  7. A great sorrow (The Crying Child)
  8. Heroes (The Heroes)
  9. The epidemic - Part 1 (The Plague - Part 1)
  10. Epidemic - Part 2 (The Plague - Part 2)
  11. Collectibles (The Collector)
  12. The streets are for everyone (Manchild On The Streets) directed by David Soul.
  13. The madness of the game (The Action)
  14. Heavyweight (The Heavyweight)
  15. Custody of a body (Body Worth Guarding A)
  16. The Trap (The Trap)
  17. Witchcraft (Satan's Witches)
  18. Professor (Class in Crime) directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
  19. The target (Hutchinson: Murder One)
  20. Face of an angel (Foxy Lady)
  21. Ah! The great team! (Partners)
  22. Quadrature (Quadromania)
  23. Fetching (Deckwatch) directed by Paul Michael Glaser.

Fourth season (1978-1979)

  1. Discomania (Discomania)
  2. The Great Game (The Game)
  3. Ultimatum (Blindfold)
  4. Photo (Photo Finish)
  5. Cheers (Moonshine)
  6. A strange justice (Strange Justice)
  7. Vengeance (Avenger)
  8. Noblesse derogatory (Dandruff)
  9. Blue and black (Black and Blue)
  10. What a job! (The Group)
  11. Cover Girl (Cover Girl)
  12. A difficult case (Starsky's Brother)
  13. The Golden Angel (Golden Angel)
  14. The Ballad (Ballad for a Blue Lady) directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
  15. A bird of doom (Birds of a Feather)
  16. 90 pounds of problems (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
  17. Huggy can not go home (Can not Go Home) directed by David Soul.
  18. Ah! What a beautiful part! - Part 1 (Targets Without a Badge - Part 1)
  19. Ah! What a beautiful part! - Part 2 (Targets Without a Badge - Part 2)
  20. Ah! What a beautiful part! - Part 3 (Targets Without a Badge - Part 3)
  21. Starsky Hutch cons (Starsky vs.. Hutch)
  22. That revenge is sweet (Sweet Revenge), directed by Paul Michael Glaser.

Characters

The biographies below are from the Encyclopedia of the great detective Eric Honor

David Michael Starsky

  • Occupation: Sergeant OPCD (Bay City Police Department)
  • Nationality: American
  • Known address: 2000 Ridgeway Avenue, Bay City, Los Angeles
  • Marital status: single
  • Family: Mother: Evelyn starsky, Nicholas Marvin Starsky (younger brother)

Detective David Starsky raised in New York in a family of more modest origins that include Jewish, Polish and Hungarian. At age 15 he suffered a tragedy because his father, a policeman, was shot in the street on the orders of the local sponsor. It is then sent to live in Los Angeles with his Uncle Al and Aunt Rosie, while his younger brother, Nick, is in New York with their mother. Little interest in studies, he chose to join the police in 1968 where he became a teammate Kenneth Hutchinson, who will then be his best friend.

Temperament is impulsive enough, it keeps its characteristic rose from street urchin, Starsky is hardly a diplomat and not hesitate to want to fight when it feels attacked, particularly by the feds. He also repeatedly threaten to resign. Fortunately for him, Hutch is always there to calm him down. On the heart, it is a seducer of mechanical drive before adoring women. What precludes it from being romantic once a couple, with more than once dreamed of marrying. One of his most serious relationship was Terry Roberts, a young animator center for the disabled.

Starsky became a sergeant in 1971 along with teammate Hutch and its first investigation leads to arrest Gary Vincent Prudholm. The latter died in prison a few days later and his father, George Prudholm, then Starsky held responsible for his death. When two years later Starsky killed in self defense, a young boy of 16, George Prudholm decides to take revenge on Starsky and demanded his resignation, otherwise he would kill a police officer every day. Fortunately, Starsky finally put him the upper hand. A year later, Prudholm escapes from the prison psychiatric in which he was confined. Again, he seeks revenge. He will then kill Terry Roberts, with whom Starsky went out and began to make wedding plans.

Besides his life as a police officer, Starsky also has a great passion in life: his Ford Gran Torino red white stripe, which will be in the series as famous as the two police officers themselves. Starsky's pampered every day but must regularly take her to the Merle Great, his mechanic to repair the consequences of their chases and other shootings.

Apart from his side a little show-off, the other big flaw Starsky is to be superstitious. Unlike Hutch, he believes them to all the stories of bad luck or ghosts. Thus, when their investigations will show that a murderer commits his crimes in the manner of vampires, Starsky will believe firmly that the vampires do exist, not hesitating to get snagged a clove of garlic around the neck. Starsky also confidence in astrology, especially when it provides good news for him, especially his stories of heart. Moreover, when it must attend various hearings of Justice, it always goes to the bathroom before entering the room, so the meeting goes as he wishes. Finally, he is very proud to be a lefty.

Kenneth Richard Hutchinson

  • Occupation: Sergeant OPCD (Bay City Police Department)
  • Nationality: American
  • Known address: Venice Place, 1027 Ocean Avenue (1st Floor), Bay City, Los Angeles
  • Marital status: divorced Nancy Vanessa "Van" Hutchinson
  • Family: James Hutchinson (father, lawyer), Lois (sister)

Sergeant Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson grew up in Duluth, in a bourgeois family of Scandinavian origin. He received a good education, including learning to speak several foreign languages and play several musical instruments. Initially it is planned to resume the direction of family affairs, but oppose and will spend his studies at the University of California, where he will be wrestling champion several years running.

His love for action and then pushes the adrenaline to embed the font in 1968, before joining the Criminal in October 1971. At the police academy, he met Dave Starsky, who became his teammate. While Starsky was someone rather impulsive, Hutch is anyone more thoughtful and more diplomatic in conversations.

But Hutch is also an environmentalist before his time, preferring to eat organic food, natural and healthy, rather than stuffed fat dishes like hamburgers or hot dogs devour Starsky adores. In terms of car, the two friends' tastes are very different: Hutch's car is an old Ford color indefinitely. Whatever it falls apart, or the horn goes off whenever the driver's door opens, Hutch loves his car and never change it for anything. In fact, Hutch does not like cars too showy, as the famous Ford Gran Torino Starsky, he repeatedly qualify "tomato wrapped.

In his private life, Hutch got married in 1971 with Vanessa, to whom he divorced in 1973, Vanessa Hutch accusing his police career, which invests much of his time and apparently no future. After their divorce, when the young woman in trouble, that she will turn towards him. Unfortunately, she will be murdered at home with the service firearm of the latter, which will make the perfect police suspect number 1, but of course he will prove his innocence.

After the failure of his marriage, Hutch multiply relationships, but none of them will be really serious. The most durable is probably the one he lived with a pretty blonde named Abigail "Abby" Crabtree.

Although several women were dear to his heart, is very attached to Hutch Starsky and will always be there to help, and vice versa, in short, a sincere, honest and unalterable.

Hutch's wearing the famous Python 6 inch magnum.

Huggy les bons-pipes

  • Occupation: bartender
  • Nationality: American
  • Marital status: single

Huggy Brown Jackson, said "Huggy Bear" (VO) or "Huggy les bons-pipe" (in VF), is the key indicator - and most effective - Starsky and Hutch, with whom he will eventually build strong bonds of friendship. Huggy is someone who can count two policemen when they get out of tricky situations, especially when Hutch became addicted to heroin after being tortured by the gangster Ben Forrest. Conversely, when Huggy finds himself in trouble up to his neck, is to Starsky and Hutch he asked for help first.

Huggy sees everything, hears everything, knows everything that happens in Los Angeles, particularly the preparation of the next moves of delinquents and criminals. Thus, it is for Starsky and Hutch's main source of information from their various investigations, hence its nickname (en VF) to "Huggy les bons-pipes." His profession is official keeper. It first runs the Huggy Bear's, then the Pit's. In this context, one of his main concerns is to use the pretty waitresses busty.

As a boy, Huggy grows and learns on the streets. It was thus destined to become, like most kids in his neighborhood, a little thug. But thanks to Julius T. Washington, a major figure in the neighborhood, he manages to rise above the rest. JT Washington initiates including poker. Become an ace in this game, Huggy earns enough money to open his first bar in a neighborhood a little less disreputable than his.

He envisions a time to become a private detective, partnering with a friend, Joseph D. Turquet. But the adventure stops after an initial investigation. In fact, as Huggy is a versatile, next to that of bartender, he can pursue other occupations; cook, magician, dealer on the run, a pet store manager, producer ...

He often organize innocent little tricks, the most used is to organize races on paris ... mouse.

Captain Harold Dobey Calvin

  • Occupation: Police Captain
  • Nationality: American
  • Marital status: Married
  • Family: Edith (wife), and Rosemary Calvin ("Cal" and "Rosie," children)

Captain Dobey is the supervisor of Starsky and Hutch in the Metropolitan Division of the Bay City Police Department, Central Police Station located at the intersection of Seventh Street and West 100th. Dobey The main feature to push his eternal outbursts of anger. Its main victims are his two favorite subject, especially Starsky who spends his time trying to find different ways to do rage. But behind the anger hide a sense of paternalism and a deep respect for the two men he knows to be the best in the department, not hesitating to cover when needed. Dobey is also a good husband and good father.

One of the greatest moments of his life came when he finally passed the handcuffs gang leader Strycker who hanged his former teammate, Elmo Jackson. At the police academy, which he joined in 1951, he had as condiscipline Leo Moon, which ultimately proved to be a deranged mind and that will eventually commit murder. It was Dobey who managed to get hold of him and locked up behind the bars. Since then, Moon no longer thinks of his revenge. When delivered to escape, he will not hesitate to attack the family of Captain. Fortunately, his plans fail.

Dobey, obese, still feels the need to embark on various schemes to try to lose weight, but his will not succeed finally to overcome his greed. Starsky and Hutch do nothing to help him, instead ...

In the "pilot", despite appearances, the superior of the two police officers is a near homonym of Dobey but not him. Indeed, one can notice that his name is not Harold C. Dobey, but William R. Doby.

What happened to the actors Starsky and Hutch

Comments

The Gran Torino Starsky

Relaxation and working methods of forceful characters have brought a revival in the image of police television series of the 1970s , mostly posed, polite and well dressed. The series has enjoyed considerable success in its infancy, but in 1977 , a campaign against violence on television shook American success. The writers are forced to cut scenes of action in favor of more romantic or comic scenes. The spirit of the series is gone and in 1979 , Starsky and Hutch return permanently to their famous car in the garage, never to emerge.

In France , the series owes part of its success to the voice of Jacques Balutin (Starsky) and Francis Lax (Hutch). Balutin Lax and amused to change or add comic reflections giving viewers the impression that the French comedy was much more present than it was in the original ... Phenomenon that had previously been the case of French dubbing of The Persuaders ( Persuaders ). The theme song written and composed by Haim Saban and sung by Lionel Leroy , also contributed to the success of the series.

In 1977 , the episode 2-20 (No luck Huggy) where Starsky & Hutch are replaced by Huggy and his friend that Turkey become private detectives, was to launch his own Antonio Fargas Huggy Bear series but the episode was a failure and its series canceled.

Paul Michael Glaser has directed five episodes and David Soul three.

If Starsky adored his Ford red and white, it was absolutely not the case with Paul Michael Glaser , who, during an interview for the channel M6 in 2004 , on the occasion of the movie Starsky and Hutch in end of which he and David Soul are a small appearance in the blink of an eye, confessed, "I hated this car: it was big, heavy, bulky, cornering, Hutch fell over me ... No, really, as soon as I could, I smashed the car! "

Given the success of the series, Ford realized in 1976 , a series of special cut Gran Torino red and white just baptized Starsky & Hutch and made 1000 copies. This is one of them is used in the film, a copy purchased new and piously preserved by a fan of the series, who graciously lent his car to film production.

Derivatives

Mego figures of the four characters of 20 cm each, posters, puzzles, cars, etc. ...

Film

Board Game

  • Starsky and Hutch Detective Game (1977). Published by MB. 2 to 4 players for an average of 30 minutes.

Video game

Music


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