Starsky and Hutch
September 2nd 2011 01:36
Shot on location in the Los Angeles beach community of San Pedro - Starsky and Hutch is classic 70s television and among other claims to fame spawned a pseudo pop career for David Soul and created a minor pop wardrobe sensation out of Paul Michael Glaser's knitted jacket!
Produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions the show ran for four years and found its biggest audiences locally as well as in Australia and Canada
Together, the two Southern California policemen: the dark-haired Brooklyn transplant David Michael Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and the blond Minnesota native Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson (David Soul) made the call sign "Zebra Three" the most copied call sign of the CB radio era.
Tearing around the streets of fictional "Bay City, California" in their vehicle of choice - Starsky's two-door Ford Gran Torino was cruelly christened the striped tomato - but a far cry from Hutch's battered tan 1973 Ford Galaxie 500 - which usually saw undercover work.
Supporting our two heroes were the street-wise, jive-talking Huggy Bear (Antonio Fargas) and the duo's boss. the , no-nonsense Captain Harold C. Dobey, played by Bernie Hamilton.
Two character names came from producer William Blinn's past: "Starsky" was the name of a high school friend, and "Huggy Bear" was a local disc jockey.
After its prime-time run, Starsky and Hutch was offered in syndication and spawned the 2004 movie directed by Todd Phillips - starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg and Vince Vaughn - and which featured a cute final scene cameo by both Soul and Glaser (see below).
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