Telephones

“We’re only a phone call away. Remember that.”

(The Trap)

White Phone, Black Phone, Red Phone

• Dobey dials the red phone as a decoy move on Terry Evers. (Death Ride)
• Dobey uses the red phone to call Hutch at his place. (Kill Huggy Bear, Terror on the Docks)
• Dobey uses the red phone to call the Torino. (Terror on the Docks, Savage Sunday)
• Hutch primarily uses the black phone at Metro. (The Deadly Imposter, I Love You, Rosey Malone, Iron Mike, The Heroes, Foxy Lady, Death in a Different Place, various)
• Hutch uses the white phone at Metro. (The Trap, The Plague, Gillian)
• Starsky primarily uses the white phone at Metro. (Foxy Lady, The Heroes, I Love You, Rosey Malone, Iron Mike, Huggy Bear and the Turkey, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Death in a Different Place)
• Starsky uses the black phone at Metro. (The Trap, The Plague, Gillian)
• Starsky uses the red phone to call Bob in R & I to ask for the radio call numbers. (Blue Lady)
• The red phone goes on a field trip; it appears on the restaurant table. (The Specialist)
• The red phone is seen but not used. (Texas Longhorn, The Velvet Jungle, The Committee, Murder on Stage 17, Snowstorm, Running, The Fix, Lady Blue, The Deadly Imposter, Death Ride, Death Notice)
• The red phone takes an outdoor excursion to the police van. (The Psychic)

Starsky Bothers Hutch When Hutch is On the Phone

• “Don’t yell at me when I’m on the phone!” Hutch tells Starsky. (The Committee)
• “The snow tires! Don’t forget the snow tires,” Starsky bugs Hutch. (Texas Longhorn)
• Starsky bugs him about rolling his dice for Monopoly while he talks to the Vancouver Lions. (Starsky’s Lady)

Operators and Switchboards

• Amy calls Harry and the operator tells her the phone is off the hook. (The Hostages)
• Cole tried taking Drew’s call at the switchboard, but Drew insisted on talking to Starsky and Hutch. (The Specialist)
• Dobey calls Metro’s switchboard and asks for an APB on Crandell. (Snowstorm)
• Dobey calls Metro’s switchboard and asks for Internal Affairs. (The Committee)
• Edith Dobey calls the operator when she is looking for Harold. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Hutch calls the switchboard and asks for the local wire service. (Savage Sunday)
• Hutch calls Metro’s switchboard and asks for Dobey. (The Bait)
• Hutch tells Theresa to call the “emergency operator.” (Shootout)
• Hutch pretends to call the operator for the pretend distress call from the neighbors. (Blindfold)
• Monty Voorhees runs a switchboard. (The Bounty Hunter)
• Starsky calls Metro’s switchboard and asks for Dobey. (Snowstorm, The Fix, Death Notice, The Bait, various)
• Starsky calls Metro’s switchboard and asks for the Las Vegas Police Department. (Death Notice)
• Starsky pinches his nose and pretends to be the operator. (The Heavyweight)
• The hotel landlord mentions the switchboard. (Pilot)
• The hotel’s switchboard gets called with a bomb threat. (The Set-Up)
• Vanessa uses an operator to call Amsterdam. (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• Dan Slate calls the operator to get the Police Department when he is pretending to be Biggs. (Strange Justice)

Answering Dobey’s Phone

• Starsky answers it at his office, “Captain Dobey’s office.” (Lady Blue)
• Hutch answers it at Dobey’s house, “Dobey’s.” (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)

Has a Phone Trace Ever Worked?

• no, but not for lack of time (The Golden Angel)
• no, not enough time (Bloodbath)
• no, not enough time (Foxy Lady)
• no, not enough time (The Hostages)
• no, not enough time (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• no, not enough time (Pariah)

Phone Wires are Cut/Off the Hook

• Cultists cut the cabin’s phone line. (Satan’s Witches)
• The Dobey home phone wires are cut by Moon. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Starsky turns off the police radio. (Quadromania)
• Karpel’s beach house’s phone lines are cut. (The Deadly Imposter)
• The operator says Harry’s phone is off the hook. (The Hostages)
• Harry cuts the phone line to the Kanen house. (Deckwatch)
• Hutch asks Starsky, when Starsky won’t pick up his calls, “Phone not workin’?” (Blindfold)

When Does the Car “Phone” Handset Get Replaced With a Radio?

• radio (Pilot, Kill Huggy Bear)
• back to phone (Lady Blue)
• back to radio and stays a radio from then on (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)

That “Phony Radio Interference Jazz”

• Starsky does it to Dispatch. (Pilot)
• Hutch does it to Dobey. (Savage Sunday)

Other Objects as Phones

• Hutch pretends his banana is a phone. (Black and Blue)
• Hutch pretends the sea shell is a phone. (Cover Girl)

Call Us

• Starsky and Hutch write their number on a piece of paper. (Kill Huggy Bear, Blue Lady, Captain Dobey, You’re Dead, The Velvet Jungle, Bust Amboy, Vendetta, Gillian)
• Starsky and Hutch have an actual business card, “number’s on the caaard.” (Savage Sunday, Moonshine)

Phone numbers

• 23658 = the number Vanessa calls in Amsterdam, she needs operator assistance (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• 254.4327 = Gus and Al’s Tropical Fish, seen on truck (The Bait)
• 259.4411 = Williams’ Upholstery and Drapes in Newhall, California (Moonshine)
• 271.1274 = The second number Hutch calls with Huggy to reach Bates. It is a phone number in San Francisco and the private line of James Gunther. (Sweet Revenge)
• 277.8811 = Larry and RC’s print shop (Silence)
• 295.6463 = number on a dumpster (Losing Streak)
• 321.1321 = Mrs. Foxy Baker’s phone (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• 390.3554 = Briles Helicopter, seen on the helicopter (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• 392.3878 = Lee’s Precision Tune, around the corner from Hutch’s place (Little Girl Lost)
• 445.6632 = Hutch’s canal cottage, it is the number that Starsky fingers out on the phone (A Coffin for Starsky)
• 454.9201 = on the door of Fair Bail Bonds on the sign that instructs after hours calls. There is also a red phone to call the bondsman. (The Bounty Hunter)
• 459.3530 = Trans World Airlines (The Deadly Imposter)
• 462.9923 = Linda Mascellis’s home number (Jojo)
• 474.3998 = Steve’s number of house on the lot (Murder on Stage 17)
• 475.6731 = Dan Gabriel Realty Company (The Crying Child)
• 477.8557 = City Wide Towing, seen on truck (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3, The Plague)
• 478.3879 = number on the dumpster by the coffee house (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
• 483.9345 = liquor store across the street from Hotel Californian (The Game)
• 553.4977 = one phone number for Brody’s Heating and Air Conditioning (Pariah)
• 555.1329 = pay phone by White Airport (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• 555.1701 = The sign inside Fair Bail Bonds has this phone number. Differs from the one outside. (The Bounty Hunter)
• 555.2368 = car phone in Starsky and Hutch’s black car, area code (311), Soldier calls them on it (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• 555.2368 = appears to be Hutch’s phone number at Venice Place. (Gillian)
• 555.2379 = Roscoe Towing (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• 555.2387 = Metro Cab (Quadromania)
• 555.2552 = G.W. Jazz Club (Losing Streak)
• 555.3977 = The Pits, though the number Starsky punches in seems to include a “445” or a “112” (The Action)
• 555.4598 = hospital (The Plague)
• 555.4989 = Allison’s phone number (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
• 555.5341 = number of pay phone Hutch gives Rigger for McClellan to call him back on in twenty minutes. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• 555.6278 = Huggy reads this first number to Hutch as Hutch calls Bates at Gunther Enterprises (Sweet Revenge)
• 555.6473 = John Brown Harris, the pay phone at the dock (Texas Longhorn)
• 555.6673 = police department emergency switchboard (Savage Sunday)
• 555.6772 = Dobey’s home phone (The Fix)
• 555.7019 = 4th Street Gym phone in the hallway, Hutch calls to have it traced (The Golden Angel)
• 555.7246 = Carniary’s Laundry (Omaha Tiger)
• 555.7263 = Matt Coyle’s work, the red phone (Iron Mike)
• 555.7615 = number of the pay phone Bagely calls his thugs to remind them of the pick-up time. (The Trap)
• 555.8747 = City Cab (The Set-Up)
• 555.9063 = Prudholm’s home phone number on Patricia Avenue from old arrest record (Pariah)
• 555.9292 = Sal’s deli (The Collector)
• 555.9771= Larry Warwick Real Estate (The Deadly Imposter)
• 595.9557 = on the “for lease” sign on door Hutch falls through (The Psychic)
• 622.3614 = Kar Keys Locksmith (Moonshine)
• 623.1973 = Alfredo’s Tailor Shop (Kill Huggy Bear)
• 626.1362 = number to call for warehouse rental, on sign next to B and D Trading (The Plague)
• 680.1530 = B and D Trading Company (The Plague)
• 721.4737 = The Pits’ trash service, Wilshire (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• 736.8383 = Ace Taxi (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• 767.7153 = Universal Dumpster (Gillian)
• 781.6270 = United States Silver Corp., Van Nuys, CA (Terror on the Docks)
• 836.0606 = one phone number for Brody Heating and Air Conditioning (Pariah)
• 836.5646 = Police Towing (Pilot)
• 852.4567 = Green Hills Cab (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• CR3 6611 = Beverly Hill’s Cab (The Plague)
• EX9 7243 = Main Liquor and Deli, free delivery number (Snowstorm)
• HN1 4270 = Wizard Fence Co. (Kill Huggy Bear)
• HO4 9201 = Fair Bail Bonds phone number on the big sign. The number 454.9201 on the smaller sign on the door. It is the same number, just an updated format. (The Bounty Hunter)
• OL4 4232 = Duke’s Used Clothing (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• Q96415 = Sue Ann’s hotel room, the “Q” is “Quincy” (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• RI 95171 = Olympic Sports Arena (Omaha Tiger)
• X2268 = Dobey’s extension at work before he changes it due to pranks. People were calling it looking for the “snack bar.” His full number would be 555.2268. (Running)
• X2423 = This is the number on the phone the cultists use to call Hutch at the courthouse; Dobey asks for a tracer on it. (Bloodbath)
• X3056 = Dobey’s extension at work after the business card pranks, people call it looking for a plumber, his full number would be 555.3056. (Running)
• X338 = Hutch’s extension at work (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• X650 = “Doc,” the coroner at the Pathology Office (Omaha Tiger)