An elderly couple, desperate to draw attention to the poor living conditions in their old folk’s home, have rigged the trunk of their car with fifty sticks of dynamite and a timer, planning to set it off outside City Hall. But the car is stolen by two thugs on a spree of armed liquor store robberies, unaware that the car is loaded with explosives, ticking towards detonation in the trunk.
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
An elderly couple, desperate to draw attention to the poor living conditions in their old folk’s home, have rigged the trunk of their car with fifty sticks of dynamite and a timer, planning to set it off outside City Hall. But the car is stolen by two thugs on a spree of armed liquor store robberies, unaware that the car is loaded with explosives, ticking towards detonation in the trunk.
Wealthy used-car dealer Zack Tyler and his wife stop to help two men seemingly having car trouble, only for the two thugs to rob Zack, and rape and murder his wife. Starsky and Hutch work all out using their underground contacts to track down the two murderers, but they don't quite realise that once they have found the culprits, that Zack intends to get even with his wife's killers by taking the law into his own hands.
On assignment to protect the daughter of a crime czar who's agreed to testify against mob bosses Starsky and Hutch must drive her back home from San Francisco pursued by ruthless killers all along the way
Starsky and Hutch, along with three other Detectives, are involved in a large drug bust, where pure cocaine with a street value three million dollars is seized. But following the successful raid, the detective duo come under suspicion when $1m worth of the drugs disappear. They have 48 hours to clear their names.
Hutch is dating a girl who was formerly associated with a big-time mobster. But Hutch is abducted by the jealous mobster, who forcibly gets him hooked on heroin, in order to find out where the girl is.
When a message is left scrawled on a table cloth in a strip club that one of the strippers will be killed, Starsky and Hutch are called in to protect the dancing girls and find the strange man who was sitting at the table.
After shooting a homicidal teen during a hold-up Starsky is cleared of any wrongdoing. But, when fellow policemen are being murdered by a killer out to punish Starsky, he feels responsible and takes immediate action.
Big pimping confidant Huggy Bear is marked for death after being robbed of a fortune owed to a ruthless racketeer. Starsky and Hutch must locate the stolen loot before their friend winds up murdered by the mob.
Dressed as flashy hustlers and using a beautiful blonde as a bait Starsky and Hutch pose as a pair of high rolling heroin dealers, climbing up the underworld ladder to nail the city's top dope distributors
A former girlfriend of Starsky's is found brutally murdered, with the body bizarrely wrapped in radio antenna wire. As the detective duo investigate, it emerges that the girl had been working undercover as a cocktail waitress while tracking down a psychotic killer. But there are several suspects as to the murderer's identity... are Starsky and Hutch on the right track?
When racist industrialist C.J. Woodfield puts out a contract on Captain Dobey and his family after the police chief a civil right's leader's assasination, Starsky and Hutch must infiltrate Woodfield's organisation before it's too late
Starsky and Hutch set about tracking down a dock-worker suspected of murdering an undercover Policeman who was investigating a series of waterfront heists. But a childhood friend of Hutch's is preparing to get married, and it seems that her groom-to-be might be involved.
John Colby, an old friend of Starsky and Hutch's, returns to town, and asks them to use their connections to help him find his ex-wife Karen. But as they look for the woman, the duo find that there are things that don't quite add up, and, unbeknownst to them, the man holds a sinister and deadly secret.
After a particularly long and awkward interrogation, Starsky and Hutch decide to unwind for the evening by going for a meal at an Italian restaurant. But the evening out is hardly the relaxing time anticipated when the restaurant is taken over by two syndicate hit-men planning to take out a Mob boss when he arrives at the diner.
When Starsky offers for himself and Hutch to check on a waitress's missing friend, they find the man dead, leading them to stumble across a plot to rob an armoured car by a gang that are holding the driver's pregnant wife hostage, forcing the driver to go along with the plan.
Down-on-his-luck jazz pianist, Vic Rankin, steals some money owed to him from a former boss, unaware that the cash is actually counterfeit. In over his head, Vic finds himself a hunted man and goes on the run.
The Detective duo meet Larry—a friendly ex-con, deaf-mute—living at a local half-way house, when they book him on a small charge. But when the trail from a series of robberies leads to Larry being the culprit, the pair are convinced of his innocence, and that someone else is using him as the ideal pawn.
The dare-devil detectives become involved in the wild world of professional wrestling when they visit Mac Johnson, a retired colleague, now a promoter in the sport, who has some information for them about a recent suspicious accident in which a man was killed.
Starsky and Hutch blow a Federal stake-out in order to intervene and stop violent rapist Jojo Forentic from committing his latest attack. But after they apprehend the attacker, who sprays his victims with orange paint, the duo find themselves struggling in an up-hill battle trying to get Forentic put away.
A washed up, alcoholic former model, who Starsky went to school with, is the only person to get a good look at a murderous thief when she finds him robbing her apartment. But when she refuses assistance from the Police, Starsky risks both his career and his life as he breaks procedure and hides the girl out at his home to safeguard her until the killer is caught.
Bent on seeking revenge against Hutch, a mad chemist mistakenly injects Starsky with a lethal poison that will kill him in 24 hours unless he finds the antidote in time. Things get worse when Starsky kills the only prime suspect who can identify the poison.
When a cop is shot dead, apparently by a bail-jumper, the detective duo pursue the alleged murderer. But as Starsky and Hutch search for the felon, they find that they are not the only ones after the felon.
