Worst & Best Starsky and Hutch Episodes

Title: Starsky and Hutch
Genre: Crime
Series: 4
Episodes: 91
First Transmission: 1975-1979

Two streetwise cops bust criminals with the help of police snitch, Huggy Bear

Episode Rankings

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Notes

*The Standard Deviation (SD) of the ratings is a measure of how much spread there is in the numbers. The median represents the middle value of the ratings

The top-rated episode differs from the mean-rated episode by 1.86 standard deviations.

The bottom-rated episode differs from the mean-rated episode by 3.29 standard deviations.

Best Episode #38

The Set-Up: Part 1 (1977) – Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect a criminal who’s supposed to testify against his associates – but someone kills him. The man who kills him tells them that the mobster killed his wife, but nothing about his story turns out to be true.

2nd Best Episode #39

The Set-Up: Part 2 (1977) – The boys try to unravel the conspiracy.

3rd Best Episode #21

A Coffin for Starsky (1976) – A vengence-fuelled fanatic injects Starsky with a chemical compound that will kill him in 24 hours. Starsky and Hutch have to race against time to track down the criminal and his poison formula so that an antidote can be created.

4th Best Episode #65

Hutchinson for Murder One (1978) – Hutch goes undercover as a college student to catch a professor committing murder.

5th Best Episode #47

Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty (1977) – A pair of Starsky and Hutch look-a-likes hit the streets in an imitation Striped Tomato Gran Torino to terrorize informants and extort money from citizens. The real Starsky and Hutch must try to clear their names and apprehend the imposters.

Worst Episode #42

Huggy Bear and the Turkey (1977) – Spinoff pilot series: Huggy Bear goes into business on his own with an aspiring white private eye.

Full Episode List

Key:-Blue episodes rated above par. Brown episodes rated below par.

#1 Savage Sunday (1975)
#2 Texas Longhorn (1975)
#3 Death Ride (1975)
#4 Snowstorm (1975)
#5 The Fix (1975)
#6 Death Notice (1975)
#7 Pariah (1975)
#8 Kill Huggy Bear (1975)
#9 The Bait (1975)
#10 Lady Blue (1975)
#11 Captain Dobey, You’re Dead (1975)
#12 Terror on the Docks (1975)
#13 The Deadly Imposter (1975)
#14 Shootout (1975)
#15 The Hostages (1976)
#16 Losing Streak (1976)
#17 Silence (1976)
#18 Omaha Tiger (1976)
#19 JoJo (1976)
#20 Running (1976)
#21 A Coffin for Starsky (1976)
#22 Bounty Hunter (1976)
#23 The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 1 (1976)
#24 The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 2 (1976)
#25 Murder at Sea (1976)
#26 Murder at Sea Part 2 (1976)
#27 Gillian (1976)
#28 Bust Amboy (1976)
#29 The Vampire (1976)
#30 The Specialist (1976)
#31 Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts (1976)
#32 Vendetta (1976)
#33 Nightmare (1976)
#34 Iron Mike (1976)
#35 Little Girl Lost (1976)
#36 Bloodbath (1977)
#37 The Psychic (1977)
#38 The Set-Up: Part 1 (1977)
#39 The Set-Up: Part 2 (1977)
#40 Survival (1977)
#41 Starsky’s Lady (1977)
#42 Huggy Bear and the Turkey (1977)
#43 The Committee (1977)
#44 The Velvet Jungle (1977)
#45 Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road (1977)
#46 Murder on Stage 17 (1977)
#47 Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty (1977)
#48 Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island (1977)
#49 Fatal Charm (1977)
#50 I Love You, Rosey Malone (1977)
#51 Murder Ward (1977)
#52 Death in a Different Place (1977)
#53 The Crying Child (1977)
#54 The Heroes (1977)
#55 The Plague: Part 1 (1977)
#56 The Plague: Part 2 (1977)
#57 The Collector (1977)
#58 Manchild on the Streets (1977)
#59 The Action (1978)
#60 The Heavyweight (1978)
#61 A Body Worth Guarding (1978)
#62 The Trap (1978)
#63 Satan’s Witches (1978)
#64 Class in Crime (1978)
#65 Hutchinson for Murder One (1978)
#66 Foxy Lady (1978)
#67 Partners (1978)
#68 Quadromania (1978)
#69 Deckwatch (1978)
#70 Discomania (1978)
#71 The Game (1978)
#72 Blindfold (1978)
#73 Photo Finish (1978)
#74 Moonshine (1978)
#75 Strange Justice (1978)
#76 The Avenger (1978)
#77 Dandruff (1978)
#78 Black and Blue (1978)
#79 The Groupie (1978)
#80 Cover Girl (1978)
#81 Starsky’s Brother (1978)
#82 The Golden Angel (1979)
#83 Ballad for a Blue Lady (1979)
#84 Birds of a Feather (1979)
#85 Ninety Pounds of Trouble (1979)
#86 Huggy Can’t Go Home (1979)
#87 Targets Without a Badge: Part 1 (1979)
#88 Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 (1979)
#89 Targets Without a Badge: Part 3 (1979)
#90 Starsky vs. Hutch (1979)
#91 Sweet Revenge (1979)