Medical Ailments

“Dr. Bear, Dr. Bear. Please call your service.”

(Partners)

Also see Bodies and Care, Closed Sets: Medical, Body Parts

The Ailments

• acrophobia, Sugar (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• acrophobia, Annie (The Collector)
• allergies, Hutch says, “I’m allergic to furry dashboards.” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• allergies, Hutch says, “It doesn’t help that I’m allergic to this car.” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• allergies, Hutch seems to have for flowers, though he sure gives some a big sniff at the funeral home he and Starsky lure Wheeler to (Bust Amboy, Hutchinson For Murder One)
• allergies, Hutch tells Mickey he has allergies when she tries to spray him with cologne. (Bust Amboy)
• allergies, Mike is “allergic to green unless it comes in his regular police pay envelope,” says Huggy (Iron Mike)
• allergies, Pinky says he is allergic to cops (Blindfold)
• amnesia, Hutch fakes (Partners)
• anemic, Hutch warns Dr. Kaufman if she draws much more blood, he’ll become anemic (The Plague)
• arthritis, in Jim Lee’s knees, only when it rains (Death Notice)
• Asian Flu, Kenny Adachi’s quintuplets have (Dandruff)
• asthma, Doc Watson (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• athlete’s foot, Merle says Hutch’s car is like a case of athlete’s foot (Bloodbath)
• Black Plague, Starsky takes away Molly / Pete with suspicion of (Little Girl Lost)
• bloody nose, Starsky jokes to Sue Ann that he and Hutch might give her stalker one (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• bloody nose, Starsky says John Blaine gave him one as a boy when he was learning to fight (Death in A Different Place)
• bloody nose, Starsky tells Hutch he almost gave himself a bloody nose while blindfolded in his apartment and tripping over furniture (Blindfold)
• boils, Sammy’s mother would make him soup when he got them (A Coffin for Starsky)
• botulism, Hutch gets it from bad soup (The Game)
• brain tumor, Jack has a brain tumor (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• breathing difficulties, Starsky will suffer (A Coffin for Starsky)
• broken arm, Hutch suffers from (Partners)
• broken arm, Sammy’s mother made soup for him when he had one (Shootout)
• broken kneecaps, Hutch suggests Starsky drink the moonshine to avoid them (Moonshine)
• broken legs, Tommy breaks L. H. Eckworth’s (Vendetta)
• broken legs, head, Tommy breaks Jimmy Shannon’s (Vendetta)
• broken neck, what Jojo died from (Jojo)
• broken neck, what Ginger died from (Death Notice)
• broken ribs, Huggy suffers from (The Deadly Imposter)
• bruised, “You don’t mind if we get a little bruised, huh?” Starsky asks Coleman. (Death Ride)
• cold and fever, what Starsky makes Thistleman call in sick with (The Set-Up)
• cancer, “Cops like Starsky are a cancer,” says Prudholm (Pariah)
• cancer, terminal, Mrs. Greene has (Black and Blue)
• cardiac arrest, Starsky has one (Sweet Revenge)
• cardiac arrest, written in red by third floor nurses’ station door (Murder Ward)
• cavity, Starsky has one (Losing Streak)
• chronic lumbago, the Professor suffers from (The Action)
• claustrophobia, Starsky says, “Excuse me, I am having a severe case of claustrophobia (The Plague)
• cold, bad Mrs. Haberman of Crowley Pharmaceuticals has one (A Coffin for Starsky)
• cold, bad plague is worse than a bad cold, Huggy figures (The Plague)
• cold, bad Starsky comments that homosexuality isn’t like having one (Death in a Different Place)
• cold, bad Starsky gets one from water (Terror on the Docks)
• cold, Blaze complains porn star will catch cold and lose him money (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
• cold, Tony had which is why he borrowed prescription (Discomania)
• coma, Huggy accuses Walter T. of drinking himself into one (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• coma, Jane is in one due to barbiturate poisoning (Murder Ward)
• coma, Oscar Newton was in one before he died (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• coma, Starsky is in one, doctor tells Hutch (Sweet Revenge)
• coma, Starsky will be in one when he dies (A Coffin for Starsky)
• coma, Harry Sample has left a nineteen-year old woman in a coma. (Shootout)
• coma, Ted is in one, but his condition stabilizes (The Action)
• coma, Thorne is in some sort of (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• common cold, Hutch rails doctors can’t “even cure the common cold” (A Coffin for Starsky)
• concussion, Hutch has one (Partners)
• concussion, Mickey Stinger gets one via Grossman’s thugs. (Gillian)
• concussion, Al Taft dies from one. (Omaha Tiger)
• concussion, “Mac died of a brain concussion, but there’s a pressure point just above the motor nerve.” (Omaha Tiger)
• concussion, Zack Tyler has a slight one (Texas Longhorn)
• convulsions, Dr. Simpson says Roxie suffered from as she died (The Heroes)
• coordination, loss of, Starsky will suffer (A Coffin for Starsky)
• cough, Hutch has one from being shot (The Psychic)
• diabetes, Hutch warns Starsky of his sugar use and diabetes (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• disease, Starsky tells Hutch about Hutch’s car’s backseat, “Who knows what disease could be lurking back here.” (Jojo)
• distorted vision, Starsky will suffer (A Coffin for Starsky)
• epidemic, Hutch comments the broken bodies are like “an epidemic” (Vendetta)
• fever, Sweet Alice asks Starsky if he has one, he says yes (A Coffin for Starsky)
• finger, broken, lady at burglary gets (Lady Blue)
• flu, Doris blames the flu, “that 24 hour thing that is going around,” for her not feeling well (Birds of a Feather)
• flu, Marty isn’t working his shift because his wife has the flu. (Dandruff)
• food poisoning, Hutch guesses Starsky is suffering from, not just fatigue (The Heavyweight)
• fractures, Jack Thorn died of (Death Notice)
• fungus, Joey Webster suffered from during his stint in Vietnam (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• hallucinating, Hutch assures Dobey he and Starsky are not hallucinating (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• hangover, Starsky suffers the consequences of a snort of loudmouth, Cumberland Home Brew (Moonshine)
• headache, Collandra has one (The Psychic)
• headache, hell-of-a, Davidowsky has after being slipped a mickey by the Baron (Dandruff)
• headache, Huggy has one from his beating (The Deadly Imposter)
• headache, Hutch asks Starsky if he has a headache (Murder at Sea)
• headache, Hutch complains of one (Partners)
• headache, Slate has one, asks Officer Chuck for aspirin (Strange Justice)
• headache, Starsky tells Hutch, “Not tonight, I’ve got a headache” (Bust Amboy)
• heart attack, Starsky says, “Captain, give a guy a heart attack. ” (Sweet Revenge)
• heart attacks, Wedell, perhaps Blaine (Death in a Different Place, A Coffin for Starsky)
• heart condition, Ernie Silvers (The Game)
• heart condition, Mrs. Haymes (The Psychic)
• heartburn, Rudy Solenko has again (Lady Blue)
• heat prostration, Starsky accuses Hutch of suffering from (Death in a Different Place)
• high blood pressure, Tallman has, his father had (Pilot)
• hives, Hutch’s double-knit Legionnaire’s costume gives Huggy’s the hives (The Groupie)
• ill, “What are you looking so ill for?” Starsky asks Hutch. “It’s not everyday you get to buy a meal for your best buddy.” (Sweet Revenge)
• jet lag, Jake Donner complains of feeling ill and thinks it could be jet lag (The Plague)
• klepto phase, Mrs. Carston says she thought Joey was over this (The Trap)
• leg, gimpy, Pucker suffers from (Pilot)
• leprosy, Starsky feels “like a bloody leper.” He tells Hutch that Sharon, “looked at me like I got leprosy.” (Blindfold)
• leucopenia, Hutch and other plague victims have (The Plague)
• liquor and women, Gramps says this is what killed Lionel the Second (Quadromania)
• malaria, Joey Webster suffered from (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• massive damage, “He suffered massive damage,” Hutch says of Starsky. (Sweet Revenge)
• miscarriage, Ellie had one (The Hostages)
• natural causes, Nick says his main goal in life is to die of natural causes. (Starsky’s Brother)
• nerve trauma, severe, Emily suffers from (Blindfold)
• nervous breakdown, Starsky says he is going to have if he doesn’t get some shuteye. (Quadromania)
• numb, Starsky says his leg is (The Trap)
• organic disorder, combative mouse has (Murder Ward)
• pain in the neck, bus driver says most kids are a pain in the neck (Nightmare)
• pain in the neck, Dobey says Garner is a major pain in the neck (The Committee)
• paralysis, while there are other visual symptoms, paralysis is the only symptom of botulism mentioned by name (The Game)
• paranoid, Hutch suggests Starsky is paranoid (Murder Ward)
• perspiration, uncontrolled, Starsky will suffer (A Coffin for Starsky)
• petechial hemorrhage, John Blaine had (Death in a Different Place)
• pig flu, Starsky and Hutch are put on medical leave by Dobey for (Bust Amboy)
• pneumonia, Hutch mentions getting instant pneumonia from the fan (Death in a Different Place)
• pneumonia, Lou Posey is concerned he will catch it in the meat cooler (Death Notice)
• pneumonia, Starsky worries he will get (Terror on the Docks)
• pneumonia, symptom of the plague (The Plague)
• prolonged shock, Leslie suffers from (Strange Justice)
• real bad cough, Hutch thinks the word “bokor” sounds like (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• relapse, Hutch tells Diana it is good she is at Sullivan’s, as he may have a relapse. (Fatal Charm)
• respiratory failure, two of the patient deaths were by (Murder Ward)
• ribs (broken), bad bruises, bad headache are Huggy’s injuries (The Deadly Imposter)
• righteous rash, Pinky is going to have from his cop allergy (Blindfold)
• schizophrenia, Hutch wants Roger to get him names of people with schizophrenic delusions. (The Vampire)
• scratch, Dobey tells Starsky and Hutch he wants Joanne Mello brought to Bay City “without a scratch.” (Death Ride)
• seasick, Starsky says he is feeling at Anchor’s Aweigh party (The Groupie)
• seizure, Starsky fakes one (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• senile, Father Delacourt says Margaret is getting senile. (Terror on the Docks)
• severe limp, Starsky threatens Sterling with one (The Velvet Jungle)
• shock, Hutch asks the doctor if Emily’s blindness is caused by shock (Blindfold)
• sick, Hutch says, while watching Spenser lose the fight, “I think I’m going to be sick.” (The Heavyweight)
• sick, “I am so sick of discos I could scream,” Hutch tells Dobey. (Discomania)
• sick, “I called him this morning and he is still sick,” says Hutch to Dobey regarding Starsky. (Running)
• sick, Mickey tells Hutch, “You look sick, man, or something.” (The Fix)
• sick, Starsky explains Bagely’s plan to Joey and she says, “That’s sick.” (The Trap)
• sick, Julie West says on the phone, “Suddenly I felt so sick.” (Murder on Stage 17)
• sick, “Truth is, Captain, he’s sick,” Starsky lies to Dobey. (The Fix)
• sick, Hutch asks Kiko of he were sick, trying to understand why Kiko didn’t meet him the day before. (Running)
• sick, Dobey calls Leo a sick man and Leo agrees. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• sick, “I drank so many sodas, I almost got sick.” Starsky tells Eckworth. (Vendetta)
• sick, “I think I’m gonna be sick,” says Starsky right before he vomits. (Moonshine)
• sick, Hutch says Commander Jim is sick, he’s “never been unsick.” (Lady Blue)
• sinuses, are aggravated by the way porn star sits and the cold, says Blaze (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
• social disease, Starsky says of Crandell, “It’s like he’s got a social disease, he split so fast.” (Snowstorm)
• sprained ankle, Starsky suffers in his pursuit of Jackson Junior (Manchild on the Streets)
• sprained ankle, Starsky suffers in his pursuit of Sterling (The Velvet Jungle)
• sprained neck, Hutch suffers in car accident (Partners)
• stillborn birth, Sharman had one (Running)
• stomach ache, Starsky says he’s looking forward to a great breakfast, and Hutch says that means he’s expecting a stomach ache. (The Hostages)
• strangled and raped, Emma Lou Tyler (Texas Longhorn)
• stroke, Thorne had (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• sunburn, Hutch warns Starsky not to get one on picnic (The Avenger)
• that twenty-four hour thing, Doris blames it for her not feeling well. (Birds of a Feather)
• tissues, external, Emily has slight damage to (Blindfold)
• toothache, Starsky has (Losing Streak)
• tumor, Vanessa (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• ulcer, Coyle tells Johnny about guys with ulcers at the club (Iron Mike)
• ulcer, Freddie has five of them (The Action)
• ulcer, Starsky says Nash’s story is giving him one (The Set-Up)
• ulcer, Stryker needs milk when he is upset (Snowstorm)
• unidentified fatal illness, Kate Larrabee (Cover Girl)
• unsick, Hutch tells Dr. Melford Commander Jim has never been “unsick,” much less in a relapse. (Lady Blue)
• venereal disease, the prize in the bar school is one hundred thousand units of penicillin (Pilot)
• vomiting, Hutch says, “I think I am going to throw up,” due to Starsky’s driving. (Partners)
• vomiting, Starsky does after drinking moonshine (Moonshine)
• whiplash, Starsky complains the quick stop in the car causes (Bust Amboy)

Starsky’s Injuries and Ailments

• injected with poison (A Coffin For Starsky)
• shot in the left shoulder, bullet grazes head (Shootout)
• knocked out and tortured by Satanists (Bloodbath)
• shot in the right calf (The Trap)
• sprains ankle (The Velvet Jungle, Manchild on the Streets)
• knocked out by drugs (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• knocked out (Murder at Sea)
• injured in car accident (Partners)
• hit or bullet grazes head (Quadromania)
• hurts foot (Moonshine)
• drugged (The Avenger)
• cardiac arrest (Sweet Revenge)
• shot three times (Sweet Revenge)
• bad cold (Terror on the Docks)

Hutch’s Injuries and Ailments

• beaten and shot up with heroin (The Fix)
• knocked out (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• drugged (Murder Ward)
• knocked out (Foxy Lady)
• knocked out (The Deadly Imposter)
• car accident (Survival)
• car accident (Partners)
• shot in chest (Black and Blue)
• shot in chest wearing bulletproof vest (The Psychic)
• stabbed in arm (Fatal Charm)
• beat up (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• suffers from botulism (The Game)
• wrist slashed with knife (Sweet Revenge)
• hand burned in explosion (Vendetta)
• plague (The Plague)
• needs five stitches in the palm of his hand (Fatal Charm)

Blindness

• Starsky shouts to referee, “What’s the matter? You blind?” (The Heavyweight)
• Cheryl whines Danner, “Keeps all of us working in the blind.” (The Bait)
• Blind Bessie is blind. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Emily is blind, but Starsky sort of is too. (Blindfold)
• Leo the Cigar Man is blind. (Dandruff)
• Tommy blinds himself with the light bulb. (Vendetta)
• Terry is blind for a while. (Starsky’s Lady)
• Gramps Fitzgerald is blind. (Quadromania)
• Monahan says of Boseman, “A blind man could see” that he was dead. (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• Hutch complains about how going through microfilm and yellowed class records has made him half-blind. (Class in Crime)
• Steve tells Starsky, “We don’t look enough alike to fool a blind man.” (Murder on Stage 17)
• Monahan says, “A blind man can see that,” regarding Bozeman’s body in the street. (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• One showgirl tells the other a man’s gold tooth almost made her go blind when he smiled. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Johnny Doors complains about his brother-in-law “stealing him blind” back home. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)