Originally Posted by Riffster
If someone can define how the memory of it was "killed" by a
funny Stiller re-make I'd be very interested to hear "how" this was done.
It's questions like these that keep me coming back time and time again to
the Museum boards
I mean, even if you didn't like the movie---how does it take away from your
enjoyment of the original series?
When I .... how do you say (?) .... think of my mindframe on this spaceplane, I'm Skywalker with my X-Wing like I was when I was a kid.
What's up with Huggy Bear ?
He's clearly the biggest snitch that ever was -- so why do bad guys tell him their secrets ?
Captain Dobey ......
I love this guy ...
The actor who plays Dobey really pulls off the tough teddy bear really well.
Dobey is my favorite character so far.
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I never saw it when it originally aired, I was too young to stay up till ten.
It was kind of a cool legend among the kids. Then I saw it in re-runs later.
I was hooked. It is a great TV show.
I also recall when I was watching the re-runs how much my dad hated it.
I don't know if it was because it was on during the weather report or if
he thought the boys were too "friendly", as some guys thought back then.
Oddly enough, my dad was huge Columbo fan, and I hated it.
Now I'm going through a phase of watching all the Columbo movies.
Bottom line, it's weird how these shows are threaded through our lives.
I've only seen like 9 episodes so far, but I don't see their friendliness as anything more then just close brothers.
It might be unrealistic for a cop drama, but to me it seems perfectly innocent.
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I don't know if there was any intentional subtext, but I doubt it.
Starsky and Hutch is not terribly realistic in a number of ways.
I mean, look at the car they go around in. Undercover my butt.
I loved that show!!! I begged my mom to get me the Megos soon as she did I watched them with Megos on hand.
Chips was my thing but I saw a few episodes as a kid, I know my mom really liked it
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Type 1 Kirk. I can relate to your post. As a little kid, I knew of Starsky and Hutch and I recall seeing the Mego dolls as a kid, but I never saw the series as a kid. I was too young to watch it, with the exception of one night when my parents left me at a babysitter's house. She was watching a show about a black father and son having a disagreement, the son running out, and the father being driven to work by a friend who was a drinker and he drove a clunker car, which broke down on them in an alley and the father was shot by a police officer and later died. I did not know at the time I was watching an episode of S&H. Years later, I caught this episode on TNN and discovered it was called Manchild on the Streets and was directed by David Soul (Hutch) and it was a third season episode.
I first got interested in Starsky and Hutch in the 90's because I had the season two theme intro on a Television's Greatest Hits CD. It wasn't until 1999 or 2000 when TNN began airing the show and I began watching it. And I fell in love with it. I was already a huge fan of the Dukes of Hazzard and CHiPs and this was another awesome buddy show that was a cross between the other two in that they are two cops who dress casual and drive around in a sporty car. Huggy Bear was entertaining and so was Captain Dobey, whom I always enjoyed being the butt of occasional pranks. My favorites were when Hutch faked radio interference and you're hearing Dobey shouting on the other end or when Dobey got mad because he was consistently getting calls from people who think his office is a fast food joint. Or the episode "Partners" where he gets the last laugh when Hutch's faking of amnesia is exposed and Dobey tells S&H to report for traffic duty Monday morning and "Bring your whistles."
I loved Starsky's taste in cars and food, but I can relate to Hutch's personality. I could see myself being Hutch in that series, even if it means driving the crappy car and eating the organic foods.
As for the movie, it wasn't all that great since they made it a comedy with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. I could not see it as a prequel but more as an original and reimagining. Stiller and Wilson's S&H were incompetent. The only reason to see this movie is to see Glaser and Soul's cameos at the end of the movie and the extra feature where Glaser gets on to Soul for selling his car.
But Starsky and Hutch is another awesome show and I proudly own the DVD sets and the new movie. "I'm Hutch. He's Starsky."
Zebra 3 out.
I never watched it either when I was a kid (I watched a lot of CHiPs though) and admit I've never seen an episode. Hmmm, with all the good things people are saying about it here, I might have to try it out.
I think alot of kids didnt watch S&H back when it originally ran thats because ABC had it playing at their 10 pm time slot since it was alot more violent then CHIPS on NBC which had a 8:00 pm Sunday night slot .but Im with you guys I watched alot more chips and when it when into syndication around 1980 it was on 5 days a week .I watched S&H in syndication starting around 1983?
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