Media

“Only this ain’t no TV.”

(The Trap)

Also see Popular Culture

Television and Radio Stations

• Channel 5, Hutch thinks there is ”a good ball game on 5.” Starsky corrects him and says, “No, the news is on 5.” (Blindfold)
• Channel 6, mentioned on the phone by Edith (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• KBEX, “Spotlight on Sports,” announcer Tommy Reese, Studio 5 (The Golden Angel)
• KBEX, channel 7 on sign of outside entrance (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• KBEX, radio station, talk show that Hutch listens to (Survival)
• K-BIG FM104 “Just beautiful music” on billboard (Pilot)
• KDF TV (The Plague)
• KLOW 97.4 radio, “For the glow that’s mellow” (Lady Blue)
• KTNQ (Ten Q) billboard seen for radio station, established in 1976 (The Committee)
• KTNS on camera in studio (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• KXIW radio (Quadromania)
• Radio Moscow (Survival)

Mentions of Television

• A television falls out of a window and kills Rupert Jones, a snitch. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• Arlene says what she knows about the Vietnam War she learned on television. (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Chicky says he left Juvenile Hall because the television reception was bad. (Deckwatch)
• Dirty Nellie comments to Starsky that on television the good guys always win, but that isn’t the way it is in real life. (The Committee)
• Dobey has “seen those TV disco routines.” (Discomania)
• Dobey is on television. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Gillian, in the porn movie, invites the television repair guy into her bedroom. (Gillian)
• Gunther watches television and has a remote control for it. (Sweet Revenge)
• Huggy asks Hutch for a fence for a television. (Death Ride)
• Huggy could win a television. (The Deadly Imposter)
• Hutch calls television “the tube.” (Manchild on the Streets)
• Hutch comments that Billings’ shooting is “all over television.” (The Committee)
• Hutch says he was on the Maxie Malone Show. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Jack Morgan watches “The Rookies.” (Class in Crime)
• Joey says digging a tunnel worked on “The Great Escape.” Starsky replies, “This ain’t no TV.” (The Trap)
• Kiko and Molly watch television together. (Little Girl Lost)
• Meredith fences Starsky’s television. (Black and Blue)
• Starsky appears on television, asking for Callendar to come to the hospital. (The Plague)
• Starsky comments that there is “no use arguing with the television.” (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• Starsky complains there is no television at the Dobey cabin. (Satan’s Witches)
• Starsky mentions there “is a great movie on the Late Show.” (Foxy Lady)
• Starsky says he has never been in a television station before. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Starsky says he saw Wally on the Late, Late, Late, Late Show. (Murder on Stage 17)
• Starsky tells Meredith “There’s a great special on.” (Black and Blue)
• Starsky tells Sue Ann, “Psychos see something on television and want to take credit for it.” (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• Starsky and Hutch tease the married couple in the cafeteria about being happily married. They mention Police Story. (The Bounty Hunter)
• Starsky watches a cop chase show in the hotel. (The Specialist)
• Starsky’s inquest for Lonnie Craig is on television. (Pariah)
• The cop mentions watching Zack Tyler on a commercial on TV the night before. (Texas Longhorn)
• The hit man wants to watch a John Wayne movie on television. (Pilot)
• The old guy calls Starsky “the fuzz,” saying he heard it on television. (Death Ride)
• The victims were wrapped in television antenna wire. (Lady Blue)
• The witness uses “The Edge of Night” as a clue for timing. (Starsky and Hutch are Guilty)

Watching Something Specific on Television

• “The Late, Late, Late,Late Show” (Murder on Stage 17)
• “The Late Show” (Foxy Lady)
• a ball game (Blindfold)
• “The Great Escape” (The Trap)
• a great special (Black and Blue)
• “The Rookies” (Class in Crime)
• “The Maxie Malone Show” (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• “The Edge of Night” (Starsky and Hutch are Guilty)
• “The Galloping Gourmet” (Foxy Lady, The Heroes)
• “Gadabout Gaddis, the Flying Fisherman” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• “Spotlight on Sports” (The Golden Angel)
• “Laverne and Shirley” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• “Police Story” (The Bounty Hunter)
• “Twilight Zone” (Satan’s Witches)
• “Marcus Welby,” M.D. (Death Ride)
• “Barnaby Jones” (Little Girl Lost)

Newspapers and Magazines

• Ahoy (The Deadly Imposter, The Hostages)
• Bazaar (The Groupie)
• Be Beautiful (Dandruff)
• Boudoir (Vendetta)
• Car and Driver, Starsky’s copy? At Hutch’s place (Vendetta)
• Cosmopolitan (Sweet Revenge, Strange Justice, The Collector)
• Daily Chronicle, also called “The Chronicle” (Foxy Lady, Hutchinson for Murder One, The Bait, A Body Worth Guarding, Vendetta, The Committee, Savage Sunday, Starsky vs. Hutch)
• Dispatch (The Heroes)
• Elite (Running)
• Esquire (The Collector, Blindfold)
• Ladies Home Journal (The Collector)
• Town and Country (The Collector)
• Redbook (The Collector)
• Travel and Leisure (The Collector)
• Football (The Groupie)
• For the Man (Partners)
• Gentleman’s Quarterly (Photo Finish)
• Herald Examiner (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• Independent (Pariah)
• Lady Beautiful (Running)
• London Daily Chronicle (Bust Amboy)
• Los Angeles Magazine (The Collector)
• Los Angeles Times (The Collector, Discomania, Ninety Pounds of Trouble, Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
• Lounge Lizard Monthly (Photo Finish)
• Midnight Globe (The Collector)
• National Enquirer (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island, Black and Blue, The Groupie)
• National Geographic (The Plague)
• News Pilot (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• News World Magazine, managing editor John Reinhart (The Set-Up, Photo Finish)
• Penthouse (The Collector)
• Phoenix Sun (Murder at Sea)
• Playboy (Terror on the Docks, The Collector) seen (Gillian)
• Racing Form (Little Girl Lost)
• Reader’s Digest (Lady Blue)
• Screw, seen (Gillian)
• Sunny News, Long Beach’s Full Line News Stand, Bookstore (Death Notice)
• The Times (The Velvet Jungle)
• The Variety (Quadromania)
• Today’s Health (Blindfold)
• Vanity (Running)
• Vogue (Photo Finish, The Groupie, Sweet Revenge)
• Wall Street Journal (Texas Longhorn, The Game)
• Washington Post (The Set-Up)
• Whitey’s Magazines and Newspapers, on 5th (The Psychic, The Heavyweight)
• Women’s Fashion Magazine (Photo Finish)
• World of Toys (Cover Girl)