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In the rough-and-tumble, wildly entertaining world of Starsky & Hutch, impatient cops-anxious to join a foot race in pursuit of a villain-throw themselves out of moving vehicles and roll to a bruising stop. Undercover detectives Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul), hardly imbued with the powers of Spider-Man, routinely scale walls, hop from rooftop to rooftop, and fling themselves down steep hillsides to stop bad guys from doing what bad guys do. Years later Hill Street Blues would redefine the cop genre as a mesh of overlapping storylines and workaday frustrations, but Aaron Spelling's iconic 70s show portrays LA's finest as madly heroic creatures of reckless determination and physicality. This first season is also startlingly brutal for a primetime US show—it was later significantly toned down, much to the regret of fans—while maintaining a delightful, often incongruous, self-deprecating humour. From the series pilot on, partners and best pals Starsky and Hutch work a fine line between predator and prey, relentlessly pursuing suspects while also snared by crime chieftains or short-sighted superiors. In "The Fix", Hutch's secret romance with the former girlfriend of a mafia boss (Robert Loggia) results in the lawman's kidnapping and forced addiction to heroin. Similarly, in "A Coffin for Starsky", a mad chemist injects the wisecracking cop with a slow-acting but lethal poison. "Jo-Jo", written by Michael Mann, finds our guys at loggerheads with federal officers over a dumb deal the G-Men make with a serial rapist. The 23 episodes in this set are all fun, if sometimes shocking, viewing. Expect each character to take as much abuse as he dishes out. [+]

Still, the comic sight of Starsky and Hutch (in "Death Notice") trying to conduct business amid busy strippers is well worth the surrounding violence. -Tom Keogh.

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Starsky & Hutch - Season One: Pilot + Episode 2 - 4 (Uca Catalogue)

Actors & Directors

Paul Michael Glaser
David Soul

Release date: 2007-03-26
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £1.50

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Starsky & Hutch [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Vince Vaughn
Todd Phillips
Snoop Dogg
Owen Wilson
Fred Williamson
Ben Stiller
Tom Dey

Release date: 2006-10-10
Run time: 195 min.
Price: £1.56

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Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Starsky and Hutch: The Movie [2004]

Starsky and Hutch: The Movie [2004] (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Todd Phillips
Fred Williamson
Vince Vaughn
Owen Wilson
Ben Stiller
Snoop Dogg

Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £1.96

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Starsky And Hutch / High Fidelity [2004]

Starsky And Hutch / High Fidelity [2004] (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm)

Actors & Directors

Stephen Frears
Lisa Bonet
Jack Black
Todd Phillips
Will Ferrell
John Cusack
Ben Stiller

Release date: 2006-05-15
Run time: 210 min.
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £9.94

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Starsky And Hutch - The Complete Fourth Series

Starsky And Hutch - The Complete Fourth Series (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Paul Michael Glaser
David Soul

Release date: 2006-02-13
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £9.00

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Review Cinema Club / Starsky And Hutch - Vol. 2 [1976]

Starsky And Hutch - Vol. 2 [1976] (Cinema Club)

Actors & Directors

Dick Moder
Ivan Nagy
Charlie Picerni
George McCowan
Peter Levin

Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £4.95

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Starsky And Hutch - The Complete Second Series [1976]

Starsky And Hutch - The Complete Second Series [1976] (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

George McCowan
Charlie Picerni
Peter Levin
Dick Moder
Ivan Nagy

Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £3.76

Review Starsky And Hutch - The Complete Second Series [1976] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Starsky & Hutch: The Complete Second Season proves the 1970s series, in its sophomore year, both codified its earliest strengths while continuing to evolve into a sharper, wittier and often darker show. Contributing to those improvements were the stars themselves: David Soul (who plays maverick police detective, intellectual and health nut Ken Hutchinson) and Paul Michael Glaser (as Hutch's more impulsive, junk-food-junkie partner Dave Starsky), each of whom directed exemplary episodes in the second series. The series' creators also struck a more entertaining balance between the comic and dramatic possibilities inherent in Starsky and Hutch's bluntly honest, fraternal relationship. A number of stories placed the guys in intentionally funny undercover situations: as garish gamblers in the two-part opener "The Las Vegas Strangler"; entertainment directors (named Hack and Zack) on a luxury cruise ship in "Murder at Sea"; gigolo-like dance aficionados in the playfully-titled "Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts"; and, most amusingly, stunt men in "Murder on Stage 17". Those are all good shows, and the duo often bicker within them, to great comic effect, like an old married couple. But it's the relentlessly tougher episodes that prove each character's mettle and demonstrate the depth of Starsky and Hutch's mutual trust. Among these is the powerful "Gillian", in which Starsky discovers Hutch's classy new girlfriend is a prostitute and breaks the news to his shattered friend. Somewhat lighter but just as revealing is "Little Girl Lost", starring a young Kristy McNichol as an orphaned street urchin whom Hutch, lately in a misanthropic, anti-Christmas mood, takes into his home. Glaser's directorial debut, the harrowing "Bloodbath", gives Soul a lot of room for an intensely physical and psychological performance as Hutch scurries to find his kidnapped partner. Soul returns the favour with "Survival", in which Starsky desperately seeks his missing pal, trapped and slowly dying beneath a car wreck. [+]

All in all, a very good series, with (of course) Antonio Fargas still sharp as sidekick Huggy Bear. -Tom Keogh.

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Starsky And Hutch [Blu-ray] [2004]

Starsky And Hutch [Blu-ray] [2004] (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm)

Actors & Directors

Ben Stiller
Carmen Electra
Owen Wilson
Vince Vaughn
Todd Phillips
Will Ferrell

Release date: 2008-02-18
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: ~~£26.99~~
Price: £17.97

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Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson-dark, wiry, and tense meets blond, lanky, and loose-make a solid comic team (and previously appeared together in Zoolander), but the funniest man in Starsky and Hutch is Vince Vaughn. Vaughn dives into his role as a sleazy drug dealer (who nonetheless buys a pony for his daughter's bat mitzvah) with the offhand zest that he brings to almost every role (from Swingers to Old School) and effortlessly steals every scene he's in. Vaughn has concocted a new and undetectable kind of cocaine, and only two cops who aren't afraid to break the rules-our titular pair-can catch him. But the plot isn't the point; mocking-yet-loving jabs at the '70s, including the homoerotic overtones of Starsky and Hutch's partnership, are what this movie is about. The satire is surprisingly mild but entertaining nonetheless, particularly when Vaughn or Snoop Dogg (as informant Huggy Bear) hold the screen. -Bret Fetzer.

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