“Kids grow up, the world marches on.”
(Nightmare, The Crying Child)
Games
- “I’m onto your game,” Pardee tells Hutch. (The Game)
- “It depends on what kind of a game you’re playing” with whether the third time is supposed to be lucky, says Hutch. (Jojo)
- “What are you guys doing? Playing some kinda funny game?” Crandell asks Starsky and Hutch. (Snowstorm)
- “Don’t play games with us,” Kalowitz tells Starsky and Hutch. (Snowstorm)
- “So you want to play a game, eh?” Prudholm asks himself after listening to the radio. (Pariah)
- “I don’t know what kind of a game you’re playing, but you’ve lost,” Carelli tells Starsky. (Foxy Lady)
- “Movie Star Game,” Iris Thayer and Sharon play. (The Las Vegas Strangler)
- “Shuffleboard.” Looks like pinball (Silence)
- “The game is ‘Hutch is dying.’” (The Plague)
- 20 Questions (I Love You, Rosey Malone, Murder on Stage 17, Starsky’s Brother)
- 40 Questions (Deckwatch)
- Arm wrestling (A Body Worth Guarding, The Heroes, The Avenger)
- Backgammon (Starsky vs. Hutch, Photo Finish)
- Bingo (Pilot, Jojo)
- Blind Man’s Bluff (Satan’s Witches)
- Charades (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- Charades, Wally asks Julie, “animal, vegetable, or mineral.” (Murder on Stage 17)
- Checkers (The Fix, Savage Sunday, Murder Ward, Quadromania, Starsky’s Brother, Vendetta)
- Chess (Iron Mike, Captain Dobey, You’re Dead, The Plague, Murder at Sea, Cover Girl, Quadromania)
- Cootie (The Crying Child)
- Hide and Seek (Foxy Lady, The Game, I Love You, Rosey Malone)
- Hide the Button (Snowstorm)
- Liar’s Poker (The Action)
- Life and Death, “That Hide and Seek number of yours has turned into a game of Life and Death.” (The Game)
- Marbles (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- Mastermind (Black and Blue)
- Monopoly (Starsky’s Lady)
- Patty Cake (Iron Mike)
- Peek-a-boo (The Avenger)
- pinball (Kill Huggy Bear, The Fix, Silence)
- Ping Pong (Sweet Revenge, The Groupie, I Love You, Rosey Malone)
- pinochle (Partners)
- Poker (Terror on the Docks, Losing Streak, The Action, Huggy Can’t Go Home, Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
- Pong (Death Ride, Savage Sunday)
- Pool (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead, Pilot, Birds of a Feather, The Committee, The Heroes, Texas Longhorn, The Game, Starsky vs. Hutch, The Golden Angel, The Groupie)
- Rock, Paper, Scissors, “baseball bat cancels out karate,” reference (Jojo)
- Scrabble (Discomania)
- Show and Tell (Little Girl Lost)
- Simon Says (Murder at Sea, Bloodbath)
- Sniff and Tell (Dandruff)
- Solitaire (The Heroes, The Game)
- Tic Tac Toe, Hutch appears to draw off camera on chalk board (The Velvet Jungle)
- Truth or Consequences (Discomania)
- Twister (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
- War, card game (The Plague)
Starsky and Hutch Quote Children’s Games or Poems
- “Abracadabra,” Starsky says, putting blindfold on Hutch. (Blindfold)
- “Button, button…[who’s got the button?] Starsky wonders about their fellow cops. (Snowstorm)
- “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” says Starsky. (Cover Girl, Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
- “Finders keepers,” Starsky says when he gets Allison’s phone number. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
- “Olly, Olly in free,” Starsky says to Joey. (Murder at Sea)
- “Olly, Olly in free,” “Starsky says to Basil, who is hiding under the pool table. (Photo Finish)
- “Pretty please with a big red berry on top,” Starsky begs Emily to sculpt. (Blindfold)
- “Think I may, I think I might” = variation on “I wish I may, I wish I might…[wish upon a star tonight],” Starsky. (Snowstorm)
- “If you don’t succeed at first, you try again” = variation on “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Hutch. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
Specific Playing Cards
- seven of spades, what Starsky drew (Murder at Sea)
- jack of diamonds, what Huggy thought he drew (Murder at Sea)
- five of hearts, what Hutch drew (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- jack of hearts, what Starsky thought he drew (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- two aces, Boseman had in his sleeve (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- cards mentioned in the poker game, a five, an eight, a six, and “a big seven” (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
Minors
- “A grown man doesn’t drive a car like that, not a grown man,” Starsky tells Hutch, regarding Belle. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
- “Look at him; he took to that stuff like a baby to a bottle. Hey, come on, baby,” goon says to Hutch. (The Fix)
- Jack Forest is killed while checking out a report of a baby left in a gas station restroom. (Pariah)
- “When a car is wild, it’s like my child,” Merle says to Starsky and Hutch. (Bloodbath)
- “This [the model train] is for kids, and you’re not a kid,” brat tells Starsky at the toy store. (Nightmare)
- Mr. Arnold has two “rotten kids.” (Starsky vs. Hutch)
- Detective Ed Jamieson’s wife “just had their first kid.” (Terror on the Docks)
- Stu Bassett just dropped “his kid” off at the bus station. (Foxy Lady)
- Detective Marchetti was the father of two. (The Heavyweight)
- Starsky interviews a 10-year-old boy. (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- Uncle Elmo’s “tiny little singing goldfish” probably grew up, and their voices changed, says Hutch. (Nightmare, The Crying Child)
- Crandell rapes a 17-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. (Snowstorm)
- Bobby Marsh (Survival)
- Kenny Adachis’ quintuplets (Dandruff)
- Kiko’s sullen pals on the dock (Running)
- There is a fake baby in the carriage (Cover Girl)
- A baby is heard crying in a room at the Leland Hotel (Running)
- Bruce (Black and Blue)
- Cary (The Las Vegas Strangler)
- Chicky (Quadromania)
- Corey (The Deadly Imposter)
- Donna Pilfrey (Birds of a Feather)
- Franklin Jones’ eight and ten year old kids (The Crying Child)
- Guy and Vickie Mayer (The Crying Child)
- Karen tells the other stripper her mom is watching the baby (Lady Blue)
- Gwen’s daughter in photo (The Crying Child)
- Harry Wheeling tosses a ball to one outside of apartment (The Velvet Jungle)
- Jamie Rigger (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- Joanna Haymes (The Psychic)
- Joey Carston (The Trap, Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- Junior Walters (Manchild on the Streets)
- Kiko Ramos (Running, Little Girl Lost)
- Lizzie Tyce (Satan’s Witches)
- Lizzie Thorne has an eight year old daughter (Discomania)
- Peter Pan (Nightmare)
- Lonnie Craig (Pariah)
- Meg (The Hostages)
- Ringo (The Psychic)
- Cha Cha (The Psychic)
- Billy Ryan (Vendetta)
- Mark Johnson, his name is seen on the top form of the child abuse cases stacked on the desk (The Crying Child)
- Mickey (Bust Amboy)
- Molly/Pete (Little Girl Lost)
- Richie Yeager (The Plague)
- Rosie Dobey (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
- Cal Dobey (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
- Ross Bradley, mentioned on the radio (Savage Sunday)
- Sally (Starsky’s Lady)
- Steve (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- Stevie Spenser (The Heavyweight)
- Stewart Ross (Cover Girl)
- Tommy (Nightmare)
- Toni (The Action)
- Tony and Huey (Savage Sunday)
- Warrick (Pilot)
- Vivian (Black and Blue)
Cops, Mostly Dead, as Family Men/Women
- Agent Bronson, it’s pointed out, had no family. (Starsky’s Brother)
- Fargo is divorced, appears to have one young son as per photo on his desk. (The Committee)
- Frank Marchetti was the father of two and married. (The Heavyweight)
- Hutch points out Corman, Burke, and Kalowitz are all “family men.” (Snowstorm)
- Jamieson’s wife “just had her first kid.” (Terror on the Docks)
- McDermont, divorced, had little girl. (The Specialist)
- Officer Jack Forest has a wife and kids. (Pariah)
- Lizzie Tyce has an eight-year-old daughter. (Discomania)
- Agent Weldon says to Starsky and Hutch, “Maybe there ought to be a law about people like us having families.” (Starsky’s Brother)
- Dobey has two children. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead, Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
Cops Point Out They Were Cops Long
Before Starsky and Hutch Were Cops
- “We were cracking heads when you were only daydreaming,” Kalowitz tells Starsky and Hutch. (Snowstorm)
- “I was busting scum in this division when you two were still playing patty-cake,” Mike tells Starsky and Hutch. (Iron Mike)
