Starsky & Hutch: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Starsky & Hutch Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)
Sep 17, 1977 · 60 min
Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)
Sep 17, 1977 · 60 min
Concluding this feature-length / two-part story. Still undercover at the lush resort of Playboy Island, Starsky and Hutch must find out who is behind the voodoo murders and why, bu
Fatal Charm
Sep 24, 1977 · 60 min
While Starsky, Hutch and Officer Linda Baylor are working on an operation to trap a wanted drug dealer, Hutch receives a minor wound, and reports to hospital, where he meets nurse
I Love You, Rosey Malone
Oct 1, 1977 · 60 min
Two Senate Investigative Committee agents want Starsky to strike up romance with a beautiful young woman he met while out jogging, in order to get close to her and extract informat
Murder Ward
Oct 8, 1977 · 60 min
The intrepid cops go undercover at a mental hospital, with Starsky as a patient and Hutch as an orderly, to investigate a number of mysterious patient deaths that have occurred at
Death in a Different Place
Oct 15, 1977 · 60 min
The intreptid Detective partners investigate when a colleague – an old friend of Starsky's – is found dead in a sleazy red-light district hotel, and are shocked to uncover that
The Crying Child
Oct 22, 1977 · 60 min
A school teacher, fearing loosing her job if her concerns are unfounded, asks Starsky and Hutch to look into a suspected case of child abuse surrounding a continually bruised six-y
The Heroes
Oct 29, 1977 · 60 min
The streetwise cops are disgruntled when they are assigned to have a newspaper journalist accompany them for a couple of days, until they learn that the reporter is an attractive w
The Plague (1)
Nov 19, 1977 · 60 min
First episode of a two-part story. Starsky and Hutch collect a colleague from the airport, but soon after the man is struck down by a deadly disease caught from a passenger on the
The Plague (2)
Nov 26, 1977 · 60 min
Conclusion of this two-part story. Hit-man Callendar, the carrier of the deadly plague, is still at large, and the disease has now claimed Hutch as its latest victim. With his part
The Collector
Dec 3, 1977 · 60 min
A calculating criminal bumps off a loan-shark's collector and takes over the role, collecting debts for the head of the money-loaning racket – a washed-up former child star. The
Manchild on the Streets
Dec 10, 1977 · 60 min
When a friend of Starsky and Hutch's is wrongfully shot dead by a rookie Cop after the drunk driving of the man's pal leads to a Police pursuit, the pair must do their best to stee
The Action
Jan 7, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch set out to bust an illegal gambling ring behind the brutal beating of a friend after he failed to pay off his debts. The duo end up playing for very high stakes a
The Heavyweight
Jan 14, 1978 · 60 min
The crime-busting partners meet a one-time boxing champ, now a dockland worker, who witnessed the murder of a Policeman arranged by a dockland racketeer. But the former champ's own
A Body Worth Guarding
Jan 25, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect visiting Russian prima ballerina Anna Akhanatova, whose life is threatened by political fanatics. Although Starsky is bemused by the appea
The Trap
Feb 1, 1978 · 60 min
A trip to buy Starsky's expensive new watch ends in chaos as the duo try to catch a tearaway tomboy shoplifter. Soon after, they respond to a call from Huggy after some thugs smash
Satan's Witches
Feb 8, 1978 · 60 min
Staying in Captain Dobey's mountain cabin while on a short vacation, Starsky and Hutch are met with cold reception from the nearby townspeople, particularly the short-tempered loca
Class in Crime
Feb 15, 1978 · 60 min
Investigating a series of immaculately executed murders, the case leads Hutch back to school as a college student, to get the low-down on a brilliant college professor who teaches
Hutchinson: Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One)
Feb 22, 1978 · 60 min
Out of the blue, Hutch's estranged former wife Vanessa suddenly contacts him, attempting to rekindle their relationship. Hutch doesn't want to know, until Vanessa claims that she's
Foxy Lady
Mar 1, 1978 · 60 min
An attractive young woman is the only eye-witness to a man being killed for the suitcase he is carrying. As Starsky and Hutch investigate, the girl goes about using her manipulativ
Partners
May 3, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky's reckless driving in pursuit of two robbers lands both himself and Hutch in hospital, with Hutch seemingly suffering from amnesia, unable to remember his partner or anythi
Quadromania
May 10, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky poses as a cab driver to investigate a series of strangulation murders of cabbies, performed by a man dressed in Shakespearean costume and with superhuman strength in his a
Deckwatch
May 17, 1978 · 60 min
A serial killing seaman, who preys on prostitutes, is badly shot during his latest attack. Wounded and on the run, he resorts to holding Hutch's friend and her wheelchair-bound mot