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Animals

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“Hey, look at those ducks!”

(Running)

Animals With Names
  • Fosdick (The Groupie)
  • Tiger (Pilot)
  • Friendly (Murder on Stage 17)
  • Duvcha (The Collector)
  • Salty Babe (The Action)
  • Muhla Bull (The Collector)
  • Sandy (Losing Streak, Running)
  • Hopeful (The Action)
  • Dusty (The Action)
  • Amnesiac (The Action)
  • Best Gal (Texas Longhorn)
  • Proud Moment (The Action)
  • Foolish Pride (The Heroes, Savage Sunday)
  • Expensive Girl (The Heroes)
  • Pan Hand (The Heroes)
  • Fire Foot (The Heroes)
  • Sir Winston (Murder at Sea)
  • King Bangor (The Heroes, Savage Sunday)
  • Cool Jazz (The Heroes)
  • Bo’s Folly (Murder Ward)
  • Electroshock (Murder Ward)
  • Cabrillo Kid (Murder Ward)
  • Miss Bycroft’s Bug (Murder Ward)
  • Dr. Jekyll (Murder Ward)
  • Cheese Biscuit (Omaha Tiger, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Cat’s Meow (Omaha Tiger, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Soon/Now Henry (Omaha Tiger)
  • Mouse O‘War (Omaha Tiger, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Squeaky Dancer (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Little Minnie (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
Insects, Bugs, and Spiders
  • A bee stings Hutch’s bum. (Bust Amboy)
  • A fake fly scare is used at the meat counter. (The Heroes)
  • A gnat spitting on cotton is used as an example of Blind Bessie’s excellent hearing. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
  • Fruit flies are used as a possible reason to close Andre’s. (Bust Amboy)
  • Fruit flies are used as a possible reason to ground the Amapola. (Murder at Sea)
  • Hutch refers to some bar patrons as cockroaches. (The Avenger)
  • Lord Harry offers to tattoo Starsky and Hutch with a black widow spider. (Murder at Sea)
  • Starsky asks Goodson about the “birds and the bees.” (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
  • Starsky gives Hutch an ant farm. (Little Girl Lost)
  • Starsky quotes Mohammed Ali, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” (Kill Huggy Bear)
  • Starsky teases Hutch about pretend spider. (Satan’s Witches)
  • Starsky is stung by a bee. (The Avenger)
  • Wally Stone’s sister’s plant has aphids. Hutch looks properly concerned. (Murder on Stage 17)
  • Starsky is worried about fleas. (Satan’s Witches)
  • The Hornets is the name of a Marshal basketball team. (Starsky’s Lady)
  • Gunther tells Bates, “There’s a fly in our ointment.” (Sweet Revenge)
  • There are cockroaches in the derby. (Murder Ward)
  • Todesco refers to a “mosquito’s mother.” (Class in Crime)
  • There are flies on the flypaper at the restaurant. (Bust Amboy)
  • Dobey complains Starsky and Hutch have “broken more rules than a centipede has legs.” (The Set-Up)
  • Hutch tells Mardean he and Starsky are going to crack the hornets’ nest. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
  • There are no crickets heard in the night at Pine Lake. (Satan’s Witches)
The Iconic Mother Hen
  • Dobey accuses Starsky of being a mother hen regarding Hutch. (Survival)
Bay City Animals Under the Hood
  • A lot of horses (Moonshine)
  • A black and white cat (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
Rodents
  • Starsky asks, “Does a mouse like cheese?” (The Action)
  • There are mice racing. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, Omaha Tiger)
  • “Oh, you dummy, mice can’t play musical instruments.” (Shootout)
  • Hutch finds a dead rat in his fridge. (Vendetta)
  • Dr. Matwick has mice he is experimenting on. (Murder Ward)
  • Louise is a guinea pig. Starsky wishes she were a chinchilla. (Hutchinson for Murder One)
  • Starsky is concerned about chipmunks and beavers. (Satan’s Witches)
  • Blue Chinchillas are mentioned as fur coats. (The Groupie)
Most Useful Animal in Bay City? The Goat
  • A goatskin rug is a scavenger hunt clue. (Murder at Sea)
  • The cultists use goat’s blood in their ceremony. (The Vampire)
  • Hutch used goat’s milk for his health drinks. (Pariah, The Bounty Hunter)
  • Starsky asks Hutch, “What are we looking for? A man or a goat?” This clue makes them investigate Rusz’ rooftop place. (Death Notice)
Alcohol is Fed to Animals
  • Huggy feeds rum to a horse. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • Hutch feeds a scotch and soda to the dog, Fosdick. (The Groupie)
  • Hutch feeds scotch to Fat Rolly. (Pilot)
Cockroach Derbies and Mouse/Rodent Downs
  • Mice. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, Omaha Tiger)
  • Cockroaches. (Murder Ward)
Lions and Tigers and …
  • Starsky reminds Hutch not to forget the gorilla joke. (Shootout)
  • A dead wild boar is hung in Starsky and Hutch’s window. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • Harry says of Madelaine, “The lady was a tiger.” (Deckwatch)
  • Hutch says a live coroner’s inquest on television will be like throwing Starsky to the wolves. (Pariah)
  • Starsky tells Hutch, “Come to think about it, I’ve never seen a thin hippopotamus.” (Silence)
  • Starsky refers to Monty Voorhees as a pet. (The Bounty Hunter)
  • Starsky comments about Eddie, “Why do I get the feeling it’s like watching a Christian head for the lions?” (Omaha Tiger)
  • Starsky tells Hutch to go to a pet store. (Blindfold)
  • Hutch tells Bettin, regarding Jojo, “the man’s an animal.” (Jojo)
  • Hutch asks Starsky, “You ever see a fat lion, huh?” (Silence)
  • Hutch tells Starsky, “Remember the lion, remember the lion.” (Silence)
  • Eddie Bell is the “Omaha Tiger.” (Omaha Tiger)
  • Hutch tells Starsky, “You put a sport coat on a tiger and you’ve got a pussy cat.” (Omaha Tiger)
  • There is a white rabbit in a cage in Matwick’s lab. (Murder Ward)
  • There’s a lion calendar on the wall at the Stardust Bookstore. (Gillian)
Crustaceans
  • Zack Tyler tells a story about scorpions. (Texas Longhorn)
  • A lobster is seen. It’s what Cheryl “really wants.” (The Bait)
Reptiles
  • Starsky suggests alligators in the sewer got Bristol’s gun. (The Collector)
  • Wally Stone asks, “Or maybe I’m a turtle?” (Murder on Stage 17)
  • Hutch tells Starsky he’s had more intelligent conversations with a turtle.
  • Connie threatens Starsky and Hutch with a “sack full of snakes.” (The Bait)
  • Crocodiles are mentioned in the trivia book. (The Bounty Hunter)
  • Ernie Silvers is referred to as Starsky’s pet rattlesnake. (The Game)
  • Zack Tyler tells a story about frogs. (Texas Longhorn)
  • Crocodiles and alligators are mentioned by Hutch. Starsky is afraid of them in the river. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • A rattlesnake is in the fridge. (Satan’s Witches)
Elephants
  • Starsky’s rifle is referred to as “an elephant gun.” (The Psychic)
  • Starsky tells Hutch about a movie he saw on the late show about people “who were smuggling elephants.” (Terror on the Docks)
  • Starsky refers to bad breath as “elephant breath.” (The Heroes)
  • Starsky sees Monty’s peanuts and comments, “You got a feeling an elephant lives here?” (The Bounty Hunter)
  • Officer Carl was killed with “enough poison in that glass to kill an elephant.” (The Specialist)
  • Olympic Arena is referred to as a “white elephant.” (Omaha Tiger)
  • Starsky comments that their plan is “as obvious as an elephant knitting in Times Square.” (The Specialist)
Bears
  • The waitress says Starsky is as “cute as a teddy bear.” (Losing Streak)
  • An actual bear is seen. (Shootout)
  • Huggy tells Starsky that “a bear gets a look at you and he’ll die of fright.” (The Fix)
  • A bear growls. Hutch suggests it’s a grizzly. (Satan’s Witches)
Birds
  • Starsky tells Hutch, “Hey, look at those ducks!” (Running)
  • Woodfield tells Starsky and Hutch they are on “a wild goose chase.” (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
  • Huggy has an “African Canary,” a crow. (Nightmare)
  • Hubert Stuffey imitates a Canadian snow goose. (Murder at Sea)
  • Hubert Stuffey imitates a bobwhite. (Murder at Sea)
  • A gaggle of geese is in Hutch’s nightmare call sign. (Lady Blue)
  • A partridge in a pear tree is in Hutch’s nightmare call sign. (Lady Blue)
  • Mrs. Carston tells Starsky and Hutch, “Hang gliding is for the birds.” (The Trap)
  • Hutch tells Starsky, “Pray for pigeons.” (Kill Huggy Bear)
  • Hutch tells the desk clerk at Hotel Baltimore that they’re looking for a “guy walking his duck.” (Strange Justice)
  • Hutch says, “When I walk out of this room, those guys watch me like a hawk.” (Shootout)
  • Starsky tells Forest, ”Your man sung like a stuck canary.” (The Fix)
  • Starsky asks Hutch, “What’s the matter, you chicken?” Hutch’s answer is, “Yeah.” (Omaha Tiger)
  • Starsky says about Bettin, “He’s a turkey; can’t talk to him.” (Jojo)
  • There are actual chickens in Huggy’s taxi. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • “Running around in circles is dumb…unless you are a chicken,” Starsky notes. (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
  • Starsky and Hutch talk of owls, eagles, and turkeys in relation to sex and a good night’s sleep. (The Heavyweight)
  • Starsky tells Dobey he hears seagulls. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
Fish and Fishing
  • “If you want the big fish, ya gotta have the big bait.” (The Bait)
  • “You disappeared out of Miami like a hooked bonefish,” Jackie says to John Colby. (The Deadly Imposter)
  • A fish tank is seen. (The Crying Child, Terror on the Docks)
  • Al Green is a loan shark. (Nightmare)
  • Billy Harkness tells Danner Rafferty and O’Brien are “fishing the street.” (The Bait)
  • Both Starsky and Hutch fish. (Class in Crime, Satan’s Witches)
  • Charlie the Muffler Woman’s last name is Sireen and she “don’t mean the fish, baby.” (The Psychic)
  • Cheryl refers to herself as “small fry.” (The Bait)
  • Corman and Burke go trout fishing at Bear Lake. (Snowstorm)
  • Dobey, “hands are colder than a dead trout.” (Foxy Lady)
  • Huggy is doing some fishing and being a real Gadabout Gaddis. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
  • Humphries is referred to as a “smiling barracuda.” (Survival)
  • Hutch feeds the fish at Vickie’s apartment. (The Las Vegas Strangler)
  • Hutch knows the dates of trout season. (Snowstorm)
  • Hutch asks Guy, “How’s the fishing?” Starsky says, “Where’s your pole?” (The Crying Child)
  • Hutch says he is “just fishing,” not wanting to give Laura information. (Quadromania)
  • Hutch wears a shark tooth necklace. (Bust Amboy, Disomania)
  • Karpel is “down there on the rocks, fishing,” when Colby brings Karen down to the beach. (The Deadly Imposter)
  • Lisa’s case “smells fishy, like a three-week-old dead carp,” Hutch says. (Foxy Lady)
  • Merle says Hutch’s car is “beneath my dignity, Man, lower than the belly of a flounder.” (Bloodbath)
  • Molly decides to “go fishing” and she’s “the bait.” (Little Girl Lost)
  • Monk wants to make Hutch “shark bait.” (The Fix)
  • Pine Lake is supposed to have “trout-filled streams.” (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • Starsky and Hutch are “two fish out of water.” (Murder at Sea)
  • Starsky hopes to go marlin fishing on his vacation. (A Coffin for Starsky)
  • Starsky refers to a bass. (Jojo)
  • Dobey says, “We’re fishing with the right bait,” after a phony credit union checks up on Charlie McCabe. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Starsky says they “have a shark on their tail.” (Pilot)
  • There is a goldfish bowl at the Jungle Club. (The Bounty Hunter)
Animals With Hooves
  • “You can lead a horse to water, but a jackass usually finds his own way,” Turquet says. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
  • Buzzy plays the ponies and sometimes gets in over his head. (The Golden Angel)
  • Huey Chaco and pal argue over horse racing. (Texas Longhorn)
  • Charlie puts his money on “the Pinto.” (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Dobey is a little too fond “of the ponies.” (Pilot)
  • Starsky tells Hutch Rolly “screamed like a stuck pig.” (Pilot)
  • Hutch asks Starsky about the large peeing dog, “Aren’t you glad she sold her pony?” (Pilot)
  • Huggy races mice because horses are too big to get in the basement. (Omaha Tiger)
  • Huggy tells Starsky and Hutch, “Dobey’s a pretty good cop, but he likes the ponies too much.” (Pilot)
  • Joe has racing forms in his hotel; Joe loses money at horse racing. (The Collector)
  • One sees and hears an actual donkey. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • There are horses in Steve’s movie. (Murder on Stage 17)
  • Starsky is impressed by Hank Munson’s truck, “You got yourself a lot of horses here.” (Moonshine)
  • Starsky is afraid of the biting cows in the woods. (Satan’s Witches)
  • Joe Fitch makes a crude reference to Marianne getting milked like a cow. (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
  • Forty buffalo is in Hutch’s nightmare call sign. (Lady Blue)
  • Starsky asks Hutch the name of Gene Autry’s and Tonto’s horse. (The Action)
  • Starsky calls Dispatch, “Our mule train just passed check point nine.” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
  • Starsky is afraid of horses in the woods. (Satan’s Witches)
  • Starsky and Hutch win their flash money in horse racing. (The Action)
  • Starsky tells Huggy, “For a man that looks like an Egyptian horse, your house is made of glass.” (Black and Blue)
  • The phrase “beating a dead horse” is used. (The Set-Up)
  • Starsky is afraid of lovesick moose in the woods. (Satan’s Witches)
  • The phrase “pretty dead horses grazing in the sun” is a clue. (The Psychic)
  • There is horse racing. (The Action, The Heroes, The Collector)
  • Van is referred to as “a mule.” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
  • There is a white horse in the corral at the Ivers’ barn. (Moonshine)
  • Make Gunther take off his shoes; he probably has cloven feet. (Sweet Revenge)
  • Hutch’s nightmare call sign includes 200 antelopes. (Lady Blue)
  • Hutch’s nightmare call sign includes 40 zebras. (Lady Blue)
  • Starsky and Hutch’s joke involves a cow and a milk bath. (Shootout)
  • Huggy fails the game show with the question, “Who was the greatest money-making horse of all time?” (Death Ride)
  • Freddie Lyle says he has a gun that could take out a rhino. (Murder Ward)
Cats

Also see Lions and Tigers And …

  • A cat jumps out of the Torino’s engine. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
  • Larry Horvath has a box of kittens. (Silence)
  • Hutch has Big Cat Malt Liquor in his icebox. (Vendetta)
  • Basil Monk has a cat who meows as Greta is sneaking around the lily pond. (Photo Finish)
  • Cat’s Meow is the name of a racing mouse. (Omaha Tiger)
  • Linda Baylor sings a smidge of “The Owl and the Pussycat.” (Fatal Charm)
  • Starsky and Hutch pretend to be a member of the Wildcat Bowling League. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
  • A woman in the crowd wears a Morris the Cat shirt. (Cover Girl)
  • Lord Harry’s kitty, frightened by screeching car tires, is named Sir Winston. (Murder at Sea)
  • A cat stuck in the Mission House ventilator is what clues folks in on Konig’s body. (The Bounty Hunter)
  • Huggy tells Starsky and Hutch, “Mean Joe Green is a pussycat compared to this Huggy Bear.” (Texas Longhorn)
  • Huggy says Dingle Dollies are “the perfect pet…cleaner than a cat.” Starsky replies, “Cleaner than a cat?” (The Hostages)
  • Starsky tells Daimier, “Is a cat interested in mice?” (The Action)
  • Starsky tells Solkin his hotel room is nice, and “too bad you don’t have a couple of kitty cats.” (Vendetta)
Dogs
  • “Guard Dog on Duty” signs are seen. (Death Ride, The Collector)
  • Huggy says Dingle Dollies are the perfect pet. They “eat less than a dog.” (The Hostages)
  • A little white dog runs out of the Pruitt’s garage. (The Las Vegas Strangler)
  • A Dalmatian is seen. (Snowstorm)
  • A German Shepard is being walked by the man that accosts Kira. (Starsky vs. Hutch)
  • John Callum is murdered while walking his dog, a Golden Retriever. (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
  • Benson thinks he hit a dog with his car. (Quadromania)
  • Blaze says it’s the Year of the Dog. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
  • Dobey has “Beware of Dog” sign on his back gate, but apparently no dog. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
  • Dobey tells Starsky and Hutch to get back to doing “poodle cuts.” (Dandruff)
  • Fosdick is Melinda’s dog. (The Groupie)
  • Starsky and Hutch’s joke, “Hello, hello, hello, I got a dog without a nose.” (Shootout)
  • Friendly the Doomed Dog is Steve Hanson’s dog. (Murder on Stage 17)
  • Gramps tells Hutch, “If you want to snoop around like a basset hound, you’d best provide a search warrant in Braille.” (Quadromania)
  • Huggy holds a puppy at his store. (Nightmare)
  • Hutch jokes it is a Border Collie at the end of his fishing line. (Class in Crime)
  • Lisa gets a cute puppy, probably the one from Huggy’s Ark. (Nightmare)
  • Manny Birnbaum is frightened that “some dingo is going to kill Ginger.” (Death Notice)
  • Max, the six-week-old puppy, is hit by a car. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
  • Mean guard dogs get after Starsky and Hutch. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • One of the Dingle Dollies is a Terrier. It says so on the box. (The Hostages)
  • Orange’s dog is named Sandy. (Running, Losing Streak)
  • Renaldo complains of “Margo’s Yorkies.” (The Groupie)
  • Starsky mentions a Seeing Eye dog. (Blindfold)
  • Starsky says “the hounds are really out tonight.” (Murder at Sea)
  • Starsky brings up “Weimaraner Four” as a call name. (Lady Blue)
  • The mean gun-sniffing dog is named Duvcha. (The Collector)
  • The peeing big dog is named Tiger. (Pilot)
  • The Spotted Dog (Snowstorm)
    It is seen at Huggy Bear’s.
    It is seen by Hampton and Division.
    It is seen by the underground parking garage.
    It is seen next to Huggy Bear’s.
    It is seen on the street by Crandell’s place, saved Starsky and Hutch from getting shot.
  • Why Friendly the Dog is killed. (Murder on Stage 17)
    Friendly recognized Wally.
    Wally wanted to scare Steve and killing his dog was a good way to do it.
Descriptions of Slippery Things as Animals
  • Clay Zachary describes Lisa Kendrick “as slippery as a greased eel.” (Foxy Lady)
  • Freddie describes Crandell as “about as easy to hold onto as a greased toad.” (Snowstorm)
  • The “water guy” describes the heavy water bottle on his shoulder as hard to manage as a “large glass snake.” (Murder on Stage 17)
Starsky and Hutch poke their heads out of a car window to look at an animal.
  • Starsky, “Hey, look at those ducks.” (Running)
  • Hutch, “Starsky, did you see that dog?” (Snowstorm)

‘CHARACTERS’ AT A GLANCE