More Starsky & Hutch talk

[Mikey]

Hi Guys,

If you guys will remember about a year ago I mentioned I started watching S&H for the first time ever and have been enjoying the show a lot (I never seen it back in the day)

Well, a buddy just loaned me a few discs from season-4 the other day.

Man, they are BAD

Anybody else agree that season-4 is pretty lousy ?

[Hector]

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[Hector]

You are watching the wrong season of Starsky & Hutch...watch the first two seasons..it's a very gritty cop drama.

Seasons three and four were water-downed, the violent action decreased...and it became a silly buddy-buddy show.

Paul Michael Glaser himself played a major part in the eventual fall of the show.

[Hector]

Hi Guys,

If you guys will remember about a year ago I mentioned I started watching S&H for the first time ever and have been enjoying the show a lot (I never seen it back in the day)

Well, a buddy just loaned me a few discs from season-4 the other day.

Man, they are BAD

Anybody else agree that season-4 is pretty lousy ?

Oh...OK...I got it now...




Yes...the last season was indeed terrible...lol.

[Cosmicman]

I'm a big fan and yes I agree. I own all four seasons and Season four was pretty lame. You can kind of tell the show was heading down the **** pipes during season four.


I was a big fan of this show and I when I got older I snagged Seasons One and Two at Walmart and had to hunt down three and four on eBay. I am pretty sure there was a good reason why Walmart didn't have three and four in stock.
Nothing is quite as classic as the one where those hoods shoot up Hutch with the heroin and dump him on the streets after tying him up for a week and shooting him up and getting him addicted. Then Starsky finds him all strung out and in an alley. Those were the classics. LOL

[HardyGirl]

Yeah, I have some fave eps, (not sure what season they were though). The one Cat mentioned, yeah, and the devil cult one, the one w/ Kristy McNicol, the one where John Saxon was a vampire wannabe, Starsky's Lady, and the one where the retarded girl gets raped.

[starsky]

the first two seasons are the best- lots of action. after that too much talking!!!

[bobws]

it was all across tv , to many complaining about the violence, S.W.A.T. was cancelled and others got watered down. and across the pond Mary (pain in the @#$) Whitehouse was complaining about violence on Doctor Who.

[MIB41]

I'm a HUGE Starsky and Hutch fan and watch the series on a pretty regular basis. I think what you saw in the fourth season were the early episodes, which had a tendency to embrace too much of the cultural rave at that moment - disco. I've lost count of how many stories had them in a disco tech for one reason or another. There was even one episode where you had a psychotic "Tony Menaro" type villain. THAT was sad. But the season does regain it's footing and actually finish out with some of the best stories ever written for the show. You had the three part "Targets without a badge" storyline, "Starsky vs Hutch", and the series finale "Sweet Revenge" where Starsky almost dies. Originally they were going to kill Starsky off, then they thought better of it. I'm glad they changed their minds! The series remained a ratings hit until the very end. It only ended because Glaser and Soul wanted to move on to other projects.

Some may not realize this, but Paul Michael Glaser was the director for the Schwarzenegger hit " The Running Man". Yep that was Starsky's baby. And, of course, most know David Soul went on to star in the classic hit "Salem's Lot". Glaser continued on as a successful producer and director, while Soul essentially fell off the map. After being something of a 70's icon, Soul decided to move to England, which had become pretty much a second home for him during that decade. Sadly he made it a permanent home and only came back to the states occasionally to visit his kids (who were grown by that point). He continued his acting career through local theater and received much acclaim for his performances. Fans of the show will be sad to know that Glaser and Soul had drafted a reunion movie to explore what had happen to these characters since the show's close back in '78. They were ready to sign a deal when, at the last minute, another studio jumped in and suggested a comedy with Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. Sadly, we all know the rest of that story...

[Mikey]

Of the couple of season 4 discs i've seen the worst episode has to be where they are undercover as hairdressers.

Reading the episode guide it looks like it should be a fun episode, but it turned out to be boring, annoying, stupid and hard to follow.

For me, that episode was their lowest point --- so far

[david_b]

The only DVD set I watched in Kuwait last year was the Second year.. By far my favorite..!!

My favorite episode was the longer Vegas one.., especially Huggy's fashion buddy, dressing the guys for their Vegas trip. Priceless..!!

In some ways, I felt the shark jumped with that one. Lynda Carter was stunning as well.

Or the one where Starsky's injected with a lethal drug one night, Hutch takes him to the hospital, then forgets to bring his pants.. ?!? Great scenes, before they played up the gooey buddy-buddy stuff too much.

And lest we forget the terrible 'David Soul Mustache'..

The 2nd Year music was the best as well, along with 1st Season's theme.

[Cosmicman]

I know that David Soul does have a lot of fans on the Internet and for some reason he has chosen Myspace as his home base to communicate with him. You'd think he'd be twittering or jumping on the Facebook communication band wagon. Nope.
This address is what he tells people to find him. Odd.

David Soul on Myspace

[jessica]

My mom and dad used to watch it. I can't ever remember seeing the show. I must have but there wasn't anything (cough--apes--cough) to catch my attention back then.

[MIB41]

I know that David Soul does have a lot of fans on the Internet and for some reason he has chosen Myspace as his home base to communicate with him. You'd think he'd be twittering or jumping on the Facebook communication band wagon. Nope.
This address is what he tells people to find him. Odd.

David Soul on Myspace

Very cool! Thanks! I think I'll join so I can talk to him.

[HardyGirl]

Very cool! Thanks! I think I'll join so I can talk to him.

I'm already on MySpace, maybe I'll talk to him.