How Far? Distance

“There you go, cop. The first mile on a long, long trip.”

(The Fix)

Also see Away From Bay City, Scenes and Places, Addresses

Distance

• as long as your arm = McClellan has a long list of commendations “as long as your arm.” (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
• “not all that tall” = Starsky tells Mary Polanski, “Yeah, well, one thing you gotta realize is that I’m not all that tall.” (The Hostages)
• 3rd row = Russian Mummy threw referee into the 3rd row. (Omaha Tiger)
• 10 stories = how far Jane Elexy fell to her death out a window (Murder on Stage 17)
• 20 story building = Gage uses it in a class exercise regarding a suicide. (Class in Crime)
• 375 cubic something = has something to do with the car Starsky wants Hutch to buy from his uncle. (Snowstorm)
• 1 and 2/8 inches = Equals one and a quarter mile on Kingston’s map. (Quadromania)
• 1 inch = Garner says he will use every inch of the law to get Starsky. (The Committee)
• 1 inch = Vic Rankin is killing himself one inch at a time, says Evelyn. (Losing Streak)
• 1 inch = “Sexy Woman” (as she is known in the credits) tells Stryker she “almost got grabbed and isn’t moving another inch.” (Starsky’s Brother)
• 1 inch = Move one more inch, says Annie to Jack, and Duvcha will “rip your legs off.” (The Collector)
• 2 inches = The steel door’s thickness in the grocery warehouse Prudholm is holed up in. (Starsky’s Lady)
• 2 inch = two-inch story on page eight in newspaper, Candy complains about (The Golden Angel)
• 2 inch = It is a 2-inch, .38, anti-rape, purse model Carboni comments about Madelaine’s weapon. (Deckwatch)
• 3 inches = Hutch claims his car was over yellow line. (Strange Justice)
• 6 inches = The bullet was six inches from Hutch’s heart. (Black and Blue)
• 6 inches = Torino’s front end sits up six inches. (Pilot)
• 8 inches by 10 inches = Car hop’s boyfriend has an “8 X 10 glossy photograph of her 6’2″ boyfriend.” (Silence)
• foot long = Lee Bristol will sell you a foot-long hot dog for .65. (The Collector)
• A 23-inch television fell out of the Belmont Hotel on Rupert Jones. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
• 2 feet = Two feet is the height of Sugar Plum’s “Sweet Sioux.” (Death in a Different Place)
• 1 yard = Starsky notes he and Hutch need “a long yard of green” for their layered-look plan. (The Action)
• a length and a half = how much Mouse O’War wins a race (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
• a length = how far behind King Bangor is behind (The Action)
• a neck = how much Salty Babe lost the race (The Action)
• 5’5″ = Belle Kates’ height (The Hostages), Mousey Loomis’ height (Nightmare)
• 5’6″ = Alice Conrad’s height (The Committee)
• 5’7″ = Coley’s height (Pilot)
• 5’9″ = Dobey notes the height of Charles Baron. (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• 5’9″ = Thomas Powell’s height (Foxy Lady)
• 5’9″ = Jack Cunningham’s height (The Collector)
• 5’9″ = Artie Solkin’s height (Vendetta)
• 5’10” = Carl Stoltz’ height (The Specialist)
• 5’10” = Joseph Tramaine’s height, Starsky estimates it (Pariah)
• 5’11” = Victor O’Conner’s height (Quadromania)
• 6’0″ = Starsky’s height (The Specialist)
• 6’0″ = Mac McDermott’s height (The Specialist)
• 6’0″ = George Prudholm’s height (Pariah)
• 6’0″ = Jerry Konig’s height (The Bounty Hunter)
• 6’1″ = Ward Billing’s height (The Committee)
• 6’2″ = Skinny Momo’s height (Iron Mike)
• 6’2″ = Hutch’s height (The Specialist)
• 7 furloughs = Starsky comments Salty Babe never won in anything in seven furloughs. (The Action)
• 6 foot = A six-foot male rose on fire is what Starsky asks about regarding an APB. (The Psychic)
• 6 foot two inches = This, and eyes of blue is Susan. Hutch mutters this outside of Golden Lady. (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• 8 foot = Her eight-foot tall husband keeps Lizzie’s suitors away. (Discomania)
• 10 feet = Hutch points out Starsky would get nailed ten feet from barn door. (The Trap)
• 20/80 = Mrs. Marlowe’s vision without her glasses (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• 25 feet = how far the “vampire” jumps (The Vampire)
• 500 feet = Starsky would rather fly at this height; if they crashed, it would be over sooner. (The Set-Up)
• 2000 feet = what the Baron’s “old girl” is flying at (The Set-Up)
• 100 meters = Warrick, the kid Starsky played football against, could run this distance in 9.9 seconds. (Pilot)
• 440 meters = Starsky and Hutch talk about running this next week. (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• by the yard = Widdicombe says he has “witnesses by the yard that’ll prove I was nowhere near the joint.” (Blindfold)
• 2 yards = Claude Burger will pay Jojo “two yards” for his part in the auto injury scam. This refers to amount of money, rather than distance. (Jojo)
• couple of yards over the yellow line, Starsky corrects Hutch’s answer of three inches. (Strange Justice)
• 50 yards = Turquet can hit the warts off a kosher pickle with his automatic at fifty yards. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• 50 yards = from the horseshoe pitch, Starsky’s “Christmas tree” has been planted (Little Girl Lost)
• 65 yards = Michelle tells Gage, “Your favorite mime was 65 yards away” from Gage’s rifle. (Class in Crime)
• 70 yards = what Gage tells Michelle the distance was from him to Allen, he was in error (Class in Crime)
• 70 yards = A pro can hit his target with a rifle, says Todesco. (Class in Crime)
• 71 yards = The actual distance was between Gage and Allen. (Class in Crime)
• 100 yards = Colby’s thugs can only get within one hundred yards of the Karpel beach house. (The Deadly Imposter)
• 170 yards = A pro can hit his target with a scope on the rifle. (Class in Crime)
• 200 yards = Hutchinson, Ken tells Gage to meet him at beach house “200 yards north” on the beach. (Class in Crime)
• 300 yards off the green = Starsky and Hutch get caught on Thorne estate, claiming they hit a golf ball three hundred yards. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• 100 meters = Warwick, a kid Starsky knew in school, could run 100 meters in 9.9 seconds. (Pilot)
• 440 meters = Starsky and Hutch have to run the sprint and the 440 in a week. (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• 800 yards = Melinda says she can “read a cop at 800 yards.” (The Groupie)
• 1/2 a block = Singapore bar is half a block from where Nick Edwards was killed. (Little Girl Lost)
• to the corner = Starsky can shoot 2 seconds faster than Lester can make it there. (Iron Mike)
• around the block = Torino needs a tune-up, Hutch says, every time it is driven this far. (Vendetta)
• around the block = Starsky comments that Rolly has been around the block a few times. (Texas Longhorn)
• couple of blocks = “… go down a couple of blocks and stop,” Hutch directs Starsky to the warehouse. (Birds of a Feather)
• Down the block, is where the bar Collandra “sees” being robbed. (The Psychic)
• around the block = Hutch tells Harry he has a radio in the cab “around the block.” (Deckwatch)
• 2 blocks = Hutch reassures he has Henderson in his sights “two blocks ahead on the left.” (Pilot)
• 2 blocks = Starsky tells “robber” at The Pits he “won’t get two blocks.” (The Game)
• a few blocks = Biggs is arrested by campus police a few blocks from the sorority house. (Strange Justice)
• 3 blocks away = Mr. Arnold lives from Kira (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• 3 blocks = how far Laura has to go for cigs, liquor, and fruit (Deckwatch)
• 3 blocks = Hutch tells Harry his partner is three blocks away (Deckwatch)
• 3 blocks = JC Café is this far from the Seaside Amusement Park (The Psychic)
• 3 blocks north = distance from Don’s Arcade to the Laundry on Aurora and Pacific (The Psychic)
• 3 blocks = Tennis courts for the money drop are three blocks from Sue Ann’s hotel. (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
• 4 blocks = Starsky and Hutch are four blocks from Cruger address when call comes in. (Black and Blue)
• “down the block” from J.C.’s Café, bar is being robbed (The Psychic)
• 8 blocks = Eight blocks is Monique’s house is from Cellars. (Discomania)
• 10 blocks = how far the Torino gets before it overheats (Death in a Different Place)
• 10 blocks = Walter family house is this far from Midway hospital where Dr. Mason works, where Jackson was taken. (Manchild on the Streets)
• 30 blocks = Harry won’t let Laura take the bike because she could go thirty blocks on it. (Deckwatch)
• 1 mile = Starsky comments, “… walk a mile for a Camel.” (The Golden Angel)
• 1 mile = “first mile on a long, long trip” (The Fix)
• 1 mile = Starsky complains the guards will hear the fishing boat a mile out. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• 1 mile = One mile south of Clinton grocery, turn right, then go five miles is the location of the Yeager’s house. (The Plague)
• 1 mile = Hutch’s daily run is one mile. (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• 1 mile = one mile up the coast, 4 miles pas the turn-off, Callendar’s car is found up the coast (The Plague)
• 1 1/4 miles = 1 2/8 inches on Kingston’s map (Quadromania)
• 2 miles = how far Starsky, Hutch, and Huggy’s boat is from Thorne estate (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
• 2 miles = two miles east of Barstow is Jeb’s Restaurant (The Set-Up)
• 2 miles = Two miles to the first dirt road on the right, after going 22 miles “north straight,” Zachary tells Starsky. (Foxy Lady)
• 3 miles = Three miles past the Nevada border is location of the prostitutes’ trailers with whom Starsky is in contact. (The Set-Up)
• 4 miles = four miles past the turn-off, 1 mile up the coast, Callendar’s car is found (The Plague)
• 4 miles = four miles to the gallon, Hutch jokes with Starsky about car Uncle Al would sell him (Jojo)
• 5 miles = how far Hutch tells Starsky they have to run yet, Starsky jokes about an ambulance (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• 5 miles = Yeager house is five miles past the turn-off, one mile south of the Clinton grocery store (The Plague)
• 5 miles = Starsky and Hutch warn Karl Regan if he comes within five miles of a high school to push drugs, they will “wipe you and your rights all over the street.” (The Heroes)
• 6 miles = west, “down in the canyon,” Sonny starts his directions (Survival)
• 15 miles = from airport when the cab is shot at (Death Ride)
• 15 square miles = Starsky notes either the city limits are, or the game’s area is, or it may be the same thing. (The Game)
• 20 miles = Starsky tells Rosey Malone he runs twenty miles everyday. (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• 20 miles = Large trucker was asked twenty miles back to stop at the truck stop. (The Set-Up)
• 22 miles = Starsky is supposed to drive “north straight,” then go two miles to a dirt road, Zachary tells him. (Foxy Lady)
• 30 miles = Vicky says this is too far to drive at night after work, which is why her mom takes care of her daughter. (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• 35 miles per hour = “That’s the speed limit!” Starsky and Hutch’s backseat prisoner, Milty, protests. (Savage Sunday)
• 50 miles = how far the radio on the red pickup reaches (Moonshine)
• cruising altitude = what the semi truck has to reach before the game starts (The Action)
• 200 miles = current will carry Hutch’s body when tossed off the pier (The Fix)
• 225 miles = It is mentioned the city of Los Angeles covers an area that is 15 square miles. (The Game)
• 300 miles = Starsky has been broadening Hutch’s horizons for this long. (The Las Vegas Strangler)
• 500 miles = Starsky and Hutch reassure Durniak every syndicate man in a 500-mile radius is being watched. (The Set-Up)
• 500 miles = Man asks Hutch if they have been weighed in the last 500 miles. (The Set-Up)
• 1000 miles = Starsky estimates Duluth is from the ocean (Murder at Sea)
• 1500 miles = Duluth is not 1000 miles from the ocean, but 1500 miles instead. Hutch corrects Starsky. (Murder at Sea)
• 50,000-70,000 miles = Hutch’s hunk of squash goes before it gets a tune-up (Vendetta)
• 186,000 miles a second = speed of light, says Huggy (Death Ride)
• “speed of sound” = how fast the “half dollar” went into Palmer’s chest (Birds of a Feather)

Metric System Used

• in measuring heroin, kilos (The Bait, Pariah, Snowstorm)
• in measuring air in room, cubic centimeters, and liters (Omaha Tiger)
• in measuring dope, kilos (Starsky’s Brother)
• in size of gun, 9 mm (The Committee)
• in describing a foot race, the 440-meter (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
• in describing the poisonous compound, ccs (A Coffin for Starsky)