Starsky & Hutch: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Discomania
Sep 12, 1978 · 60 min
The streetwise Detective partners go incognito as disco dudes at Fever, a popular dance club, where Sergeant Lizzie Thorpe is laid as bait in a trap set for a serial killer, who is
The Game
Sep 19, 1978 · 60 min
When they blow the capture of a wanted felon, Starsky and Hutch each blame the other, and lay down a bet to see whether or not Hutch can successfully elude Starsky for a whole week
Blindfold
Sep 26, 1978 · 60 min
Responding to a jewellery store robbery, Starsky is distraught when he accidentally shoots an art student caught in the cross-fire, costing the girl her sight. Guilt-stricken, he f
Photo Finish
Oct 10, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch brush shoulders with high-society, at an exclusive party that photographer friend Marcie has invited them to, but the event grinds to a halt when an artist is sho
Moonshine
Oct 17, 1978 · 60 min
After they arrest two ploughboys who soon after die of poisoning, the Detective pals pose as country boys in order to track down some Southern moonshiners who have brewn a bad batc
Strange Justice
Oct 24, 1978 · 60 min
When his daughter is raped, long-standing, veteran Detective Slate is devastated, and shoots her attacker, who's been brought in for questioning. With the wounded rapist looking li
The Avenger
Oct 31, 1978 · 60 min
The intrepid Detectives investigate a woman's claims that a jealous brief acquaintance from San Francisco has followed her to the city and is responsible for the vicious murders of
Dandruff
Nov 14, 1978 · 60 min
The Detective pair are working undercover at a plush hotel as effeminate hair-dressers Mr. Marlene and Tyrone, to trim the plans of an international master thief known as The Baron
Black and Blue
Nov 21, 1978 · 60 min
When the partners in crime-busting respond to a reported burglary, Hutch is shot by one of the teenage robbers, leaving him critically ill in hospital. Starsky is paired with a dyn
The Groupie
Nov 28, 1978 · 60 min
Hutch takes the guise of a bumbling swimwear buyer and Starsky poses as an eccentric photographer, as the Detective duo enter the fashion world to stitch up a garment-business rack
Cover Girl (a.k.a. No Deposit, No Return)
Dec 12, 1978 · 60 min
When a leading model – an old flame of Hutch's – is told that she is terminally ill with Cancer, she arranges for a hit-man to end her life before the disease can take it's tol
Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)
Dec 19, 1978 · 60 min
Starsky's younger brother Nick arrives in the city to visit to his elder sibling. But the older Starsky soon has cause for concern that Nick is mixed up in criminal activities, whe
The Golden Angel
Jan 16, 1979 · 60 min
The detectives are assigned to protect a wrestler who has received a death threat, with Starsky going into the ring himself to draw out a suspect.
Ballad for a Blue Lady
Jan 23, 1979 · 60 min
The detectives are called when a witness is found dead before he can testify against a notorious racketeer. Hutch begins to suspect that his girfriend's brother may be involved.
Birds of a Feather
Jan 30, 1979 · 60 min
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
Ninety Pounds of Trouble
Feb 6, 1979 · 60 min
When a contract is put out to kill a top union official, Starsky and Hutch go undercover as hit men to protect him. But while Hutch rehearses his performance as a trigger man, Star
Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back)
Feb 13, 1979 · 60 min
An illegal poker game puts Huggy Bear in a tight spot - holding a dead man's hand and facing a choice between covering for a friend or obeying the law.
Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)
Mar 6, 1979 · 60 min
A friend of Huggy's offers to finger a judge who is supplying drugs but is killed before he can testify. The case looks lost, and the cops lose Huggy's friendship.
Targets Without a Badge (2)
Mar 11, 1979 · 60 min
Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.
Starsky vs. Hutch
May 8, 1979 · 60 min
Competing for the affections of a policewoman, Starsky and Hutch neglect their investigation of the murder of a dance-hall girl.
Sweet Revenge
May 15, 1979 · 60 min
As Starsky lies in a hospital bed at death's door, Hutch goes after the powerful man who tried to have him killed