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Starsky’s Bogey Impersonations

• to booking officer, “Don’t forget to book my shoes.” (The Bait)
• to his girlfriend on the fishing dock (Class in Crime)
• to Humphries in truck, “Brains ain’t exactly your strong suit, are they, sweetheart?” (Survival)
• to Joey, “You know what I mean, Sweetheart.” (The Trap)
• to Lola, “You’d better believe it, Sweetheart.” (The Bounty Hunter)
• to Louise, “You and me tonight, Louise.” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• to nurse Bonnie, “What’s wrong with now, Sweetheart?” (Partners)
• to Sid Archer, “Your father’s disappointment, Sweetheart.” (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• to waitress in drive-in, “Ah, sweetheart, I guess it’s just you and me.” (Silence)

Bigfoot

• Bigfoot is in Starsky’s trivia book. (The Bounty Hunter)
• Starsky tells Hutch and Meghan he has heard Bigfoot has been spotted near Pine Lake. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)

Pat O’Brien

• Hutch tells Fat Rolly he and Starsky aren’t a Pat O’Brien, wanting the best for everyone. (Pilot)
• Hutch asks Starsky if he thinks “Pat O’Brien will ever forgive him” for arresting a “priest.” (Silence)
• The patrolman that Wally Stone chloroforms and then impersonates is named Patrolman O’Brien. (Murder on Stage 17)

“Jungle Club” Theme Heard in the Background

• at the Jungle Club (The Bounty Hunter)
• at Huggy’s (The Deadly Imposter, Kill Huggy Bear, Snowstorm)
• at Frieta’s Bar (Running)

“Pick Up the Pieces” Heard in the Background

Song by David Sanborn

• at Rae’s tattoo parlor (Texas Longhorn)
• at Huggy Bear’s when Starsky and Hutch meet Crandell (Snowstorm)
• at Huggy Bear’s when Starsky and Hutch meet Colby (The Deadly Imposter)
• at the bar where Starsky, Hutch, Kathy, and Diana go dancing (Fatal Charm)
• at the bar where Harry picks up Maddie (Quadromania)
• at Huggy Bear’s when Hutch meets Vanessa (Hutchinson for Murder One)

Classy Samba Music Heard in the Background

• It makes its big entrance at Ginger Evan’s Dance Studio. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• It is heard in the back ground at Marlene and Tyrone’s salon. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)

Songs and Tunes—Heard and Mentioned

• “1927 Kansas City,” Reilly, Hutch mentions (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens,” J. Cramer, J. Whitney, Starsky quotes, Merle quotes (Black and Blue, The Game)
• “Anchors Aweigh” Hutch starts the official song of the Navy (The Groupie)
• “Autumn Leaves,” Prevert, played on piano (Losing Streak)
• “Baltimore Oriole,” Hoagy Carmichael, Marianne sings. (Ballad For a Blue Lady)
• “Black Bean Soup,” Soul, Starsky and Hutch sing, Hutch whistles and sings (Death Notice, The Set-Up)
• “Blue Moon,” Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Marianne sings (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “Blueberry Hill,” Lewis/Stock/Rose, Starsky sings (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• “Braham’s Lullaby,” hummed by Starsky, Hutch and Allison after concert (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
• “Disco Inferno,” Green/Kersey, Tramps, heard at disco (Discomania)
• “Feet Do Your Thing,” when Starsky says this he was probably citing Melvin Van Peebles, used in his 1971 musical and later LP (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• “Fly Me to the Moon” is played at Ziggy’s Jazz Cave. (Losing Streak)
• “Frankie and Johnny,” traditional, Sugar Plum sings (Death in a Different Place)
• “Glory Hymn of the Republic,” Sonny sings in canyon, piano tuner plays it at Huggy’s (Survival)
• “Goodnight Irene,” American folk song standard (The Golden Angel)
• “Greensleeves,” traditional, “Mrs. Cairo” can play it on the zither (Murder at Sea)
• “Happy Birthday,” traditional, Starsky, Hutch, and Jane (Murder Ward)
• “Habanera” from Bizet’s “Carmen” is sung badly by Mrs. Zelinka. (Murder at Sea)
• “Harlem Globetrotter” whistling theme is the background at Jackson High School. (Savage Sunday)
• “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,” traditional, Lisa sings in the bus parking lot (Nightmare)
• “Hello Dolly,” torn playbill for the 1978 revival of, starring Carol Channing, “She’s still glowing, she’s still crowing…” in alley (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• “High Flyin’ Bird,” Richie Havens, Marianne sings (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “I Know That You Know,” Nat King Cole, Starsky cites (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• “I Wish,” Soul, Hutch sings to Anna (A Body Worth Guarding)
• “I’m a Loser,” Beatles, Nick and Starsky sing (Starsky’s Brother)
• “Limbo Song,” Chubby Checker or Harry Belafonte, heard and danced to at party (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• “Love to Love You, Baby,” Donna Summer, heard in disco (Discomania)
• “Macho Man,” “YMCA,” heard in disco (Discomania)
• “Miss You,” Rolling Stones, heard in disco (Discomania)
• “Moonlight Serenade,” by Miller and Parrish, 1939 is played in the opening scene. (The Collector)
• “My Kind of Town,” Sinatra, Hutch sings a part of (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• “My Wild Irish Rose,” Olcott, Clint Takahashi sings (Murder at Sea)
• “Nature Boy,” Abhez, sung by Marianne (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “New York, New York, It’s a Wonderful Town,” Bernstein, Hutch quotes to Vic (Survival)
• “Night and Day,” Cole Porter, Starsky and Hutch sing parts of on numerous occasions. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• “Nobody Loves You Quite Like You Do” K.C. sings (Quadromania) also heard in bar (Moonshine)
• “Nobody’s Heart (Belongs to Me),” Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart, 1962, Marianne sings (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “Nola,” Huggy threatens to play it on Rafferty’s molars (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• “Off You Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder,” Starsky whistles a part of the Air Force Anthem to Colby (The Deadly Imposter)
• “Oklahoma,” Starsky says he knows both the words and tune to (Pilot)
• “Old Folks At Home,” is played on the harmonica at the North Star Mission. (The Game)
• “Owl and the Pussycat,” Linda Baylor sings it. Little aside: the actress was in the movie by this title in 1970. (Fatal Charm)
• “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,” James Brown, Kingston sings part of (Quadromania)
• “Point Blank,” Point Blank, poster or LP cover is on Jimmy Shannon’s wall. It was released 1.1.1976. (Vendetta)
• “Popeye the Sailor Man,” Starsky whistles (Murder at Sea)
• “Rio By the Sea,” played on piano (Losing Streak)
• “Rio By the Sea-O,” Sarah Kingston sings the first part of Rudy Vallee song (Kill Huggy Bear)
• “Shave and a Haircut, Two-Bits,” traditional, Starsky knocks on bell at Stella’s (The Golden Angel), Huggy knocks on the door (The Fix), Tommy Marlowe knocks it on Hutch’s door. (Vendetta) Starsky hums it when he pulls Hutch out of the car at the cafe. (The Hostages)
• “Since I Fell For You,” Buddy Johnson, 1947, jazz staple, singer at Velvet Slide sings (Starsky’s Brother)
• “Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell,” Starsky, Hutch, and Huggy sing Eartha Kitt (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” Angel sings line from refrain of 19th century black spiritual, “A Long Way From Home” (Texas Longhorn)
• “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” E.V. Harburg, Starsky whistles (Murder Ward)
• “Strangers in the Night,” Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder, Ivo Robic, played on piano (Losing Streak)
• “Summertime,” Gershwin, Hutch sings (Satan’s Witches)
• “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” Kris Kristofferson, Hutch sings (Blindfold)
• “Sweet Home Alabama,” Lynyrd Skynyrd, Starsky mentions (Moonshine)
• “Thanks for the Memories,” Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger, Joey sings a part of it (The Trap)
• “That’s All Right, Momma,” Elvis Presley, Willy sings a part of in red pickup (Moonshine)
• “The Ding Dong Song,” Huggy mentions at the Limbo party. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• “Theme to the Dick Van Dyke Show,” Starsky appears to whistle bits of while approaching Sulko’s trailer. (Jojo)
• “Wild Colonial Boy,” Starsky sings an old Irish song, alludes it is from the movie “The Quiet Man” but I don’t find the link. (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• “Wrap Your Love,” “Rodeo Cowboy,” “I’ve Never Loved Anyone More,” “Lovin’ Arms” and “Cry,” Lynn Anderson, Sue Ann sings (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• “Yentl” torn playbill for Broadway production of seen in alley (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• Starsky comments that “to know him is to love him,” perhaps a reference to the Teddy Bear’s hit of 1958 (Jojo)
• Starsky sings and whistles a variety of Christmas carols (Little Girl Lost)
• Tommy listens to unidentifiable classical music. (Vendetta)
• The Angel listens to Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, 1st movement. (Cover Girl)

Fictional Movies, Songs, and
Other Show Business Characters

• “Abbott and Costello Go Disco,” Lizzie figures Starsky and Hutch would be more like this non-existent movie. (Discomania)
• The band aboard the Amapola is called “Artie Frennell and his Frantic Five Minus Four.” (Murder at Sea)
• “Curly Girl,” was Annie’s last movie thirty years ago. (The Collector)
• “Giveaway on the Docks” is not a real movie. (Terror on the Docks)
• “Godzilla vs. Rodan,” while Rodan is a Japanese monster, the movie doesn’t exist (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• “Honeymoon for One,” was Wally Stone’s best movie. (Murder on Stage 17)
• “I know where my head is at, won’t somebody find my body?” is a song made up and sung by Cindy, Helen’s roommate. (Lady Blue)
• “Look Out Big Mama,” the song Billy Joe sings is of his own making. (Partners)
• “My Nose is in a Splint Because I Didn’t Catch the Glint of the Eye of the Cop in the Alley,” is the name of Starsky’s song suggestion to the drunk guy. (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• “Pavlov’s Dog,” is the fictional name of the band at the disco. (Discomania)
• “Scoot Jackson” is a fictional jazz musician, though a real senator. (The Collector)
• “The Blind Girl and the Cop,” is the fictional silly soap opera Hutch speculates Starsky is in with Emily. (Blindfold)
• “The Story of X,” shown at the Love Nest. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• “Vic Rankin Plays the Blues,” is one LP Vic put out. (Losing Streak)
• Big Red hasn’t missed a day of “The Disenchanted,” a fictional soap opera, in five years (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• Huggy talks about Spenser fighting “Billy Coyle” six years ago. This is not a real person. (The Heavyweight)
• Maybe not fictional, but I can’t pinpoint the lyrics to the song Starsky sings to Monique. (The Avenger)
• Scotty Caine and “Ease My Mind,” on the radio appears to be fictional. (The Hostages)
• Starsky mentions the Flying Berninis. I don’t find a real-life reference to them. (The Heroes)
• Starsky says, “I know what you know so let’s not play any games,” in reference to a song. I can’t finger the song. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• Starsky sings a song with some lyrics, “Sittin’ up here, wonderin’ why…”Croce? (The Avenger)
• Starsky sings something with the lyrics, “Boom, boom, boom where are you hiding?” (Silence)
• Starsky tells Lionel, in desperation, Lionel is not in a Shakespeare play. He is in a real play, called “Life.” (Quadromania)
• The song Maurice sings as he steals Dewey’s car, “Like what kind of car can I get today…got me a car today,” is of his own drug-addled mind. (Manchild on the Streets)
• The song Starsky sings to Lisa, rather than “Happy Birthday,” has the words, “Birthday girl, a birthday girl, a belle of a girl.” It is a song of his own making. (Nightmare)

Starsky and Hutch’s Trivia Game/Ping-Pong Questions

(Sweet Revenge)

• “I’ll Marry You Tomorrow, But Let’s Honeymoon Tonight.” Starsky says it was a “big hit in 1962.” Actually it is a riff on a supposed country song that only exists as a title.
• “The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous Made a Fool Out of Me.” Hutch says, “It was a monster.” What Hutch probably meant to quote was, “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser of Me,” 1968 Jerry Lee Lewis hit.
• “If I Had To Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You,” says Starsky. Bob Dylan recorded this song.
• “Don’t Cry Down My Back, Baby, You Might Rust My Spurs,” says Hutch.
• “If the Phone Don’t Ring, Darling, You’ll Know It’s Me,” says Starsky. A riff on a supposed country song that only exists as a title.
• “I’d Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me, Than a Frontal Lobotomy,” says Hutch. Originally a Dorothy Parker quote.

Popular Culture, Literary Allusions, Movies,
Television Shows, and Historical Figures

• Abbott and Costello (Discomania, Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Dear Abby (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• “Adorable Dora,” 1926 silent film short (Photo Finish)
• Muhammad Ali (A Body Worth Guarding, Kill Huggy Bear, Sweet Revenge, Huggy Can’t Go Home, The Game)
• Dick Allen, baseball player (Moonshine)
• Andre the Giant (Omaha Tiger)
• “Antony and Cleopatra,” Shakespeare (The Game)
• Marie Antoinette (Death Ride)
• Fredric Apcar (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Fred Astaire (Murder at Sea, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• “Auntie Mame” (Quadromania)
• Gene Autry (Terror on the Docks, Shootout, The Action)
• Bard, the (The Action)
• Lionel Barrymore (Quadromania)
• “Ben Hur” (The Game)
• “Beauty and the Beast” (Black and Blue, Cover Girl)
• Constance Bennett (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Ingmar Bergman (Murder on Stage 17)
• Ingrid Bergman (Murder on Stage 17)
• Milton Berle (The Velvet Jungle)
• Bigfoot (The Bounty Hunter, Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Bogey (Shootout, Survival, The Trap, Partners, Silence, Class in Crime, Ninety Pounds of Trouble, The Hostages, The Bounty Hunter)
• James Bond (Iron Mike, Death Ride, Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island, The Groupie)
• Boston Strangler (Gillian)
• Brahms (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
• George Brent (The Las Vegas Strangler, The Bounty Hunter)
• Tom Brown (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• “Charlie Brown” (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, The Groupie)
• Charles Bronson (The Trap)
• Bugs Bunny (Huggy Bear and the Turkey, The Game)
• George Burns (The Bounty Hunter)
• Camille (Shootout)
• “Casablanca” (The Action)
• Casanova (Death in a Different Place)
• “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (Shootout, Starsky’s Lady)
• James Cagney (The Trap)
• “Captain Marvel” (The Plague)
• Vince Cardell (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Carmen, the opera by Bizet (Murder at Sea)
• Carol Channing (Death in a Different Place)
• Charlie Chaplin (The Velvet Jungle, Murder on Stage 17)
• Denise Clemente (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (The Collector)
• “Coop” Starsky says, “Can’t do that Bill, but we’ll try to be gentle” imitating Gary Cooper’s voice (The Groupie)
• Corsican Brothers (The Deadly Imposter)
• Noel Coward (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Buster Crabbe (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Walter Cronkite (The Heroes)
• Cupid (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• Bette Davis (The Bounty Hunter, Death in a Different Place)
• Doris Day (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• Leonardo Da Vinci (Jojo)
• John Dean (Death in a Different Place)
• John Denver (Satan’s Witches, Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Neil Diamond (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Marlene Dietrich (Cover Girl)
• John Dillinger (Little Girl Lost)
• Joe DiMaggio (Running)
• Gunga Din (The Collector)
• “Dogs” a 1976 horror film (Death in a Different Place)
• Dracula (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Wyatt Earp (Iron Mike)
• “Edge of Night” (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• John Erlichman (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• Julius Erving (Dr.J) (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• Fats Domino (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Farrah Fawcett (Huggy Bear and the Turkey, Photo Finish)
• Jose Ferrer (Quadromania)
• Barry Fitzgerald (The Las Vegas Strangler, Quadromania)
• A.J. Foyt (The Trap)
• “Frankenstein” (Jojo, The Specialist, Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Fuller, baseball player (Vendetta)
• Gadabout Gaddis, The Flying Fisherman (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Clark Gable (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• “Galloping Gourmet” (Foxy Lady, The Heroes)
• Greta Garbo (Blindfold)
• Ava Gardner (Moonshine)
• “Godzilla” (The Game)
• Betty Grable (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• President Ulysses S. Grant (Running, Iron Mike)
• “Great Escape” (The Trap)
• Mean Joe Green (Texas Longhorn)
• “Grizzly Adams, Life and Times of” (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Gunga Din (The Collector)
• “Guys and Dolls” (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• H. R. Haldeman (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• “Happy Hooker,” 1975 movie (The Psychic, Omaha Tiger)
• “Dirty Harry” (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• Ernest Hemingway (Texas Longhorn)
• Jimi Hendrix, seen on wall (The Bait, Vendetta)
• Jimmy Hoffa (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• “Sherlock Holmes” (Silence, The Vampire, The Avenger)
• Buddy Holly (The Game)
• Billie Holliday (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “Robin Hood” (Starsky’s Brother)
• J. Edgar Hoover (The Groupie)
• Hopalong Cassidy (Running)
• Harry Houdini (Murder at Sea)
• “Hustle,” 1975 Burt Reynolds movie (The Psychic, Omaha Tiger)
• Kate Jackson (Murder on Stage 17, The Collector)
• Reggie Jackson (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Jesse James (The Plague)
• “Dr. Jekyll” (Murder Ward)
• Waylon Jennings (Moonshine)
• “Barnaby Jones” (Little Girl Lost)
• Tom Jones, playing at Caesar’s (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Janice Joplin (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Gabe Kaplan (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Edward Keane (Quadromania)
• Kemosabe (Murder at Sea)
• John F. Kennedy (seen on wall) (Iron Mike, Texas Longhorn, Vendetta, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Vendetta)
• Robert F. Kennedy, photo on wall (Texas Longhorn)
• “King Lear” (Quadromania)
• Alan King (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Kiss, seen on poster (Quadromania)
• Evel Knievel (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Ann Landers, (visual) (Silence)
• “Late Show” (Foxy Lady, Quadromania)
• “Laurel and Hardy” (The Crying Child)
• Toulouse Lautrec Story (Quadromania)
• “Laverne and Shirley” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• General Robert E. Lee (Running)
• “Let’s Make a Deal” (Snowstorm)
• Lewis and Clark (Partners)
• Liberace (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Abraham Lincoln (Death Ride, Iron Mike)
• “Little Orphan Annie” and “Sandy” (Running, Losing Streak)
• Lochinvar (Foxy Lady, The Heavyweight)
• “Looney Tunes” (The Bounty Hunter)
• Bela Lugosi (Shootout)
• Loretta Lynn (Quadromania)
• General MacArthur (Vendetta, Survival)
• “Macbeth” (Quadromania)
• Steve McQueen (The Trap)
• Mickey Mantle (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• Roger Maris (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• Groucho Marx, Starsky imitates (Partners)
• “The Merchant of Venice,” Shakespeare (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Mean Mistreater, reference to old Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf tunes (Texas Longhorn)
• Minnesota Fats [Rudolph Wanderone] (Birds of a Feather)
• Minnie Minoso (Vendetta)
• Mr. America (The Trap)
• Marilyn Monroe (Death in a Different Place)
• “Mother Macree” (Iron Mike)
• Willie Mosconi (Starsky’s Brother)
• Mother Cabrini (Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini) (Running)
• Mozart (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• “Much Ado About Nothing” (Dandruff)
• Paul Muni (Silence, Lady Blue)
• Stan Musial, Stan the Man (Vendetta)
• Willie Nelson (Moonshine)
• Elliot Ness (Moonshine)
• Florence Nightingale (The Plague)
• Pat O’Brien (Pilot, Silence)
• Tatum O’Neal (Photo Finish)
• “Popeye the Sailor Man” (Murder at Sea, The Heroes)
• “Oklahoma” (Pilot)
• Laurence Olivier (Huggy Bear and the Turkey, Quadromania)
• Lee Harvey Oswald (Photo Finish)
• Palamedes (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Colonel Parker (Moonshine)
• “Peter Pan” (Nightmare, Murder Ward)
• Pancho Villa (Lady Blue, Fatal Charm)
• Ara Parsegian (The Psychic)
• Pavlov (Strange Justice, Discomania)
• Gordon Petty (The Trap)
• “Police Story” (The Bounty Hunter)
• Alexander Pope (Pilot)
• Popeye (The Heroes, Murder at Sea, Running)
• Ty Power (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Vincent Price (Terror on the Docks, Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Charlie Pride (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• “The Quiet Man,” John Wayne movie (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Don Quixote (The Set-Up)
• George Raft (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• James Earl Ray (The Set-Up)
• Robert Redford (Gillian, Savage Sunday, Photo Finish, Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• “Red River,” John Wayne movie (Pilot)
• Rembrandt (Bloodbath)
• Burt Reynolds (The Psychic, Omaha Tiger)
• Ringolevio (The Game)
• Tony Rocca (The Golden Angel)
• Auguste Rodin (Jojo)
• “Rookies,” episode Jack is watching is “Blue Christmas.” (Class in Crime)
• Diana Ross (Black and Blue)
• Peter Paul Rubens (Discomania)
• Jack Ruby (Photo Finish)
• “Runaway Express,” name of the movie Larry sees, made in 1926, starring Jack Daugherty (Silence)
• Babe Ruth (Murder Ward, Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Freddie Sales (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• David Sanborn, “Pick up the Pieces” jazz tune (Fatal Charm, Quadromania, Texas Longhorn, Snowstorm, Hutchinson for Murder One)
• Tony Sandler, Tonight Show (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Albert Schweitzer (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Neil Sedaka (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Bugsy Siegel (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Frank Sinatra (Black and Blue)
• Sirhan Sirhan (The Set-Up)
• Bessie Smith (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “Sleeping Beauty” (A Body Worth Guarding)
• Socrates (Savage Sunday)
• “Sam Spade” (Murder Ward)
• Bruce Springsteen (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Sylvester Stallone (Photo Finish)
• “Brenda Starr” (Foxy Lady)
• “Star Wars” (Black and Blue)
• Barbra Streisand (I Love You, Rosey Malone, Black and Blue)
• Barbara Stanwyck (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Sugar Ray (The Heavyweight)
• Donna Summers (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• “Superman,” speeding bullet reference (Savage Sunday), plus X-Ray vision reference (Black and Blue)
• “Suspiria,” a 1977 horror film (Death in a Different Place)
• Shirley Temple (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• “Terror House,” a 1972 horror movie (Death in a Different Place)
• Rothschild’s, the (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• “Three Stooges” (Terror on the Docks)
• “Tonto” (The Action)
• “Dick Tracy” (The Action, Jojo, The Psychic, Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• John Travolta (Discomania)
• Orrin Tucker (Death in a Different Place)
• Helen Twelvetrees (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• “Twilight Zone” (Satan’s Witches)
• Rudolph Valentino (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, Lady Blue, Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Ventures, the (The Heavyweight)
• Voltaire (Pilot)
• “Dr. Watson” (Silence, The Avenger)
• “Sherlock Holmes” (The Avenger)
• Rudolph “Minnesota Fats” Wanderone (Birds of a Feather)
• Andy Warhol (Photo Finish)
• George Washington (Iron Mike)
• John Wayne (The Las Vegas Strangler, Pilot, Murder on Stage 17)
• Marcus Welby (Death Ride)
• Mae West, Nurse Bobbi Ackerman impersonates (Partners)
• Wolfman Jack (Quadromania)
• Stevie Wonder (I Love You, Rosey Malone, The Golden Angel)
• Ralph Young, Tonight Show (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Tony Zale (The Heavyweight)

Products Mentioned by Name or Seen

(not including magazines or newspapers)

• All Bran (Little Girl Lost)
• Allen Wertz Candies (The Groupie)
• Avis (The Hostages)
• Bailey’s (The Committee)
• Barbie doll (Running)
• Bell Potato Chips (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Bentley (The Golden Angel)
• Bering Champion Cigars (Dandruff)
• Big Red Soda (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• Black and White Vodka (The Psychic)
• Burton Golf Bags (Running)
• C and H Pure Cane Sugar (Moonshine)
• Cadillac (The Golden Angel)
• Camel Cigarettes (The Golden Angel)
• Campbell’s (Starsky’s Lady)
• Cartier (The Golden Angel)
• Cheez-its (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Chevy (various)
• Chiquita (The Heavyweight)
• Cinzano (Class in Crime)
• Coca Cola (Satan’s Witches, Survival)
• Colt .45 (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Confidence (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Coors (various)
• Corvette (The Golden Angel)
• Dino Ferrari (The Golden Angel)
• Dittos (Iron Mike)
• Everlast (The Heavyweight)
• Ford (various)
• Fudgesicle (The Game)
• Gaines Meal (Starsky’s Lady)
• Glad Wrap (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Greyhound (Partners)
• Gold Eagle (The Game)
• Green Stamps (Blindfold)
• Inglenook wine (The Psychic)
• Ivory Soap (Manchild on the Streets)
• Jackson Rope (Terror on the Docks)
• Jacuzzi (The Trap)
• Jersey Maid (The Psychic, Omaha Tiger)
• Jim Beam (Sweet Revenge)
• Kentucky Fried Chicken (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Kool-Aid (Moonshine)
• Krispy Saltines (Iron Mike)
• Kundsen Dairy Products (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• Lays (Iron Mike)
• Maserati (The Golden Angel)
• Matchbox (Iron Mike)
• Myers Rum (Running)
• NCR, National Cash Register (Running)
• Nikon (Blindfold)
• Penthouse (The Collector)
• Pepsi (Starsky’s Lady)
• Pioneer Cycles, Sulko wears a tee shirt of it (Jojo)
• Playboy (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Terror on the Docks, The Collector)
• Polaroid (Death in a Different Place)
• Rolls Royce (The Golden Angel, The Trap)
• Ronrico Rum (Death Notice)
• Roto-Rooter (Class in Crime)
• Seabury and Johnson’s Mustard (Running)
• Seagram’s Scotch Whiskey (The Psychic, Savage Sunday)
• Sega (The Bait)
• Sheaf Stout Ale (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• Smell-Well (Snowstorm)
• Southern Pacific (The Hostages)
• Spice Islands (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• Superba Corona Cigars (Dandruff)
• Tide (Starsky’s Lady)
• Tupperware (Strange Justice)
• Turtle Wax (Iron Mike)
• UPS (Discomania)
• Valiant Cigarettes, ad on back of perpetual set magazine (Partners, The Deadly Imposter, The Hostages)
• Waterford crystal (The Collector)
• Weight Watchers (Pilot)
• White Shoulders (Class in Crime)
• Winston Lights (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Wisk Laundry Detergent “ring around the collar” (Pilot)
• Wrigley Chewing Gum (Vendetta, Terror on the Docks)