Physical Appearances

“Hey, do you have any idea how beautiful your
eyes become when you are angry?”

(The Bounty Hunter)

Also see Bodies and Care, Big Starsky Smiles

People Comment Starsky and Hutch Don’t Seem/Look Like Cops

• Barnes says, “Cops, huh? You don’t look like cops to me.” Hutch replies, “Well, we believe in understatement.” (Omaha Tiger)
• One of the bad guys Hutch holds at gunpoint at the elevator says, “That’s a pretty funny line for a pig.” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• “You guys really cops?” Amy asks Starsky, looking suspicious. (The Hostages)
• Father Delacourt thinks they dress worse than the bad guys. “Well, now, tell me something, with you two dressed like that, what’s there left for the criminals to wear?” (Terror on the Docks)
• Flashy Floyd says, “I thought it was a robbery, fellas. You cops don’t even look like cops anymore.” (The Specialist)
• George says, “That’s funny; they don’t look like cops.” He thinks they sound like cops though. (Death Ride)
• The salesman thinks Starsky and Hutch are there to hold him up. “These days you can’t tell the cops from the robbers.” (Cover Girl)
• Sharon complains about having to scour thrift shops for clothes similar to Starsky and Hutch. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• Paula comments Hutch looks like a “chairman of the board.” (Photo Finish)
• Seeing them in their regular clothes, Basil Monk tells Starsky and Hutch, “You were a touch less gamey yesterday.” (Photo Finish)
• Guy Mayer chortles, “You look like clowns!” (The Crying Child)
• “I should know a couple of grungy dudes like you would be the heat,” Joey says. (The Trap)
• Officer Harding asks Hutch if he and Starsky are going to pose as parking attendants at Fever. (Discomania)
• Kingston says about Starsky, “Man, they let anyone on the force these days.” (Quadromania)
• Sharman asks Starsky if he is “some kind of male nurse.” (Running)
• Sharman tells Starsky he looks like Mother Cabrini. (Running)
• One of the women at the Play Pen asks Starsky and Hutch, “Are you guys really cops?” (The Vampire)

Beards, Mostly on Bad Guys

• bad guys (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead, Huggy Bear and the Turkey, The Las Vegas Strangler, Nightmare, Satan’s Witches, Strange Justice, The Trap, Bust Amboy, Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• good guys (The Las Vegas Strangler, The Set-Up)

Fake Mustaches and Fake Hair

• Starsky and Hutch (Huggy Bear and the Turkey, Dandruff)
• Starsky (Murder Ward, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• Hutch (Dandruff)
• Hutch (The Game)

Beard for Dobey

• Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island
• I Love You, Rosey Malone

Mustache for Huggy

• The Trap
• Hutchinson for Murder One
• The Heavyweight
• The Vampire
• Sweet Revenge
• The Psychic

Individual Tattoos

• There are rows of fishes up John Brown Harris’s arm. (Texas Longhorn)
• The butterfly one on the woman at Rae’s is “distracting.” (Texas Longhorn)
• The Liberty Bell is what Lord Harry tattooed on a woman’s behind. (Murder at Sea)
• Lord Harry would do a black widow spider for Starsky and Hutch. (Murder at Sea)
• Lord Harry can do a red heart with inscription, “Born to make whoopee.” (Murder at Sea)
• Jane and Bobette’s phone number Starsky claims, is “tattooed on my brain.” (The Vampire)
• Rae has a hula dancer tattoo on her right bicep. (Texas Longhorn)

Comments on Hutch’s Blond Hair

• The fellow gambler calls Hutch “Blondie.” (The Action)
• Huggy calls Hutch “Blondie.” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3, The Avenger, Starsky’s Brother)
• Kingston calls Hutch “Blondie.” (Quadromania)
• Goodson tells Chambers, “She might go for blonds.” (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• Starsky tells Hutch to have whatever “your blond heart desires.” (Silence)
• Starsky tells Hutch he wouldn’t have recognized him with his “blond tuft” of hair. (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• Starsky calls Hutch’s basketball team, “The Blond Blintz Buffalo.” (Starsky’s Lady)
• Starsky gives Hutch the CB handle “Blond Blintz.” (The Set-Up)
• Starsky calls Hutch “Blondie.” (Bust Amboy, A Body Worth Guarding)
• The Grossmans tell Gillian, “We know all about this big, blond friend of yours.” (Gillian)
• The hick outside the bar calls Hutch “Blondie.” (Moonshine)
• The woman at the Cellar that asks Hutch to dance calls him “Blondie.” (The Avenger)
• Starsky calls Hutch “Tall Blond Genius.” (The Game)
• Starsky calls Hutch “Big Blond Beauty.” (The Plague)
• Artie says part two of his plan “is a blond cop.” (Vendetta)
• Artie says he wants that “blond cop” looking up at him on the street. (Vendetta)
• Artie tells Tommy to hurt the “blond cop’s blond girlfriend.” (Vendetta)
• Marty comments Alex “doesn’t like blonds.” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• Starsky says in his supposed trance, “Oh tall, blond man, protect this dummy.” (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• Ernie refers to Hutch as “the blond one.” (The Game)
• Huggy calls Hutch his “blond brother.” (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• Starsky tells Huggy, “I’ve got a beautiful blond coming to meet me.” It is unclear if he means Kira or Hutch. (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Minnie asks Starsky, “You taking care of that gorgeous blond sergeant?” It is unclear if she means Kira or Hutch. (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Dobey calls the Webster Clinic about the “blond guy” that checked in. (The Game)
• Hutch refers to his own blondness. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, A Body Worth Guarding, Death in a Different Place)
• Sugar Plum likes Hutch’s blond hair. (Death in a Different Place)
• Anna comments about the very blond babies she and Hutch would make together. (A Body Worth Guarding)

Comments on Starsky’s Curly Hair

• Alex, Marty says, doesn’t like curly hair. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• The gambler in Las Vegas calls Starsky “Curly Top.” (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Stella calls Starsky “Curly.” (The Golden Angel)
• Dolly calls Starsky “Curly.” (Moonshine)

Comments on Starsky and Hutch’s Physical Good Looks

• Anita says of Hutch, even in a gorilla mask she “would recognize that pretty partner of yours.” (The Game)
• Angel tells Hutch, “You’re cute.” (Texas Longhorn)
• Mrs. Zelinka comments on Starsky’s face, calling it “gorgeous.” Hutch agrees saying, “it’s ravishing.” (Murder at Sea)
• Lou Brownley tells Hutch regarding Starsky, “He’s cute.” (The Velvet Jungle)
• “Greta Wren” / Dora Pruitt says of Hutch she “doesn’t forget men with such well-honed features.” (Photo Finish)
• Huggy calls Hutch “Mr. America.” (The Trap)
• Huggy calls Hutch the “Police Department’s Number One Beach Boy.” (A Body Worth Guarding)
• Olivia the waitress says Starsky is “as cute as a teddy bear.” (Losing Streak)
• Rae calls Hutch “Gorgeous.” (Texas Longhorn)
• Nurse Bonnie says, “You guys are so cute.” (Partners)
• Roy Sears calls Hutch “Golden Boy.” (The Groupie)
• Marcie tells Starsky, after Hutch’s insult, “Don’t listen to him; you look gorgeous.” (Photo Finish)
• Vanessa tells Hutch, “Good looking partners are awfully hard to come by.” (Hutchinson for Murder One)

Starsky and Hutch’s Verbal Comments Regarding Their
Physical Attractiveness and/or Prowess with Chicks

• Starsky tells Hutch, “I got a way with women,” after Madame Yram comes on to him. (The Hostages)
• Hutch tells Starsky, as he prowls toward Jane and Bobette, “Watch the master at work.” (The Vampire)
• Starsky firms up après date plans with Hutch, “Suppose that we’re as irresistible, suave, and debonyer (sic) as usual…” (The Vampire)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “I can’t help it,” after Olivia calls him “cute as a teddy bear.” (Losing Streak)
• Hutch to Starsky, “What the lady wants the lady gets; it’s called technique, Starsk.” (The Bounty Hunter)
• Starsky tells Emily, “I happen to be one fascinating subject.” (Blindfold)
• Hutch to Starsky after dancer comes on to him, “It’s technique, Starsk, all technique.” (The Bounty Hunter)
• Hutch tells Starsky, “It’s not just to make me more healthy, it’s to maintain my already fantastic physical condition.” (Silence)
• Hutch tells Starsky, “You’re in great shape.” (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• Hutch to Starsky, “Amazing the power I have over women,” after goofing for girls out of window. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Starsky asks Hutch, “Tired of looking at my pretty face?” (The Plague)
• Hutch asks, “Fettuccine, huh?” Starsky replies, “Some of us got it.” (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• Starsky tells Ginger/Alice, “Aside from the fact that you find me irresistibly attractive,” in regards to why he is at her apartment. (The Committee)
• Starsky tells Hutch Ginger/Alice “just might be another lady that can’t resist my adorable charms.” (The Committee)
• Starsky asks Meredith, “What’s a hundred and ten pound woman going to do to protect my fragile features?” (Black and Blue)
• Starsky tells Meredith, “I’m worried about my beautiful body.” (Black and Blue)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “What this job calls for is a little flair, a little charisma,” insinuating Hutch doesn’t have them, but he does. (The Avenger)
• Emily calls Starsky handsome, and he replies, “Would I lie to you about a thing like that?” (Blindfold)
• Hutch asks Kate, “Do you think people in hospitals using bedpans are any less beautiful that you [a super model] or me?” (Cover Girl)
• Hutch says to Starsky, regarding his prowess with Phelps, “I just don’t want to take advantage of you, that’s all.” (The Heroes)
• Starsky says of Phelps, “Did you see the way she is checking me out?” (The Heroes)
• Hutch corrects Starsky’s assumption Phelps is looking at Starsky; “No, she’s looking at me.” (The Heroes)

Known About Starsky and Hutch’s Bodies

• Hutch’s suit size is a 40. (Photo Finish)
• Hutch has a scar on his lower left back. (The Groupie)
• Hutch’s blood type is B negative, his “skin texture is Caucasian,” he is a “Nordic-type,” and “most likely between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five.” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• Starsky weighs one hundred and sixty-five pounds. (Omaha Tiger)
• Starsky is left-handed. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead, Discomania, various)
• At the time of Nick Starsky’s visit, Starsky is a few years older than twenty-eight. At the time of their interview with Blaze, Starsky is thirty-six or younger. Starsky is a little bit older than Hutch. (Starsky’s Brother, Targets Without a Badge, Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Hutch’s hair is naturally blond. (Death in a Different Place, Starsky and Hutch are Guilty)
• Hutch “bathes regularly,” so says Starsky. (Murder at Sea)
• Starsky smells of sandalwood, so says Rosey. (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• Starsky’s body is “firm and irresistible,” so says Hutch. (The Heavyweight)