A
“Hey, look, they sat him at the worst table in the house,
and he ordered a coke. Does that tell you something?”
(Death Notice)
- Ace (The Las Vegas Strangler) Tobias, George
He is an older man with a scraggly white beard. He tells Starsky and Hutch he has cut hair for 47 years. Some of his clients were famous people, including Bugsy Siegel. Ace is the manager of Jack Mitchell’s apartment building and can tell when Jack is home. Ace gets people’s names mixed up. - Ackerman, Nurse Bonnie (Partners) Steinberg, Melissa
She is one of the two nurses who take care of Starsky and Hutch after their car accident. Ackerman tells Dobey that Hutch was faking amnesia after the car accident. She calls Starsky “Mr. Sparsky” and likes his Bogart imitation. - Adachi, Mr. Kenny (Dandruff) Fujioka, John
Adachi is one of the bidders for the Belvedere Diamond collection. His signal to Buddy Owens (hotel security) was a flower. Adachi is from Japan and has quintuplets who have the Asian flu. He loses the bid. - Adachi quintuplets (Dandruff) mentioned
They are Mr. Adachi’s children with the Asian flu. - Adams (The Committee) mentioned
Adams is one of the bad guys, along with Billings and Blake, killed by The Committee. - Adams, Alice (The Specialist) mentioned
Alice Adams was in the same sixth grade as Starsky. She weighed 200 pounds, wore horn-rimmed glasses, and had terrible acne. Her family was the richest in town. Because the students were arranged alphabetically, she ended up sitting next to a guy named Anderson, rather than Starsky. Starsky figures if they had sat closer together, he might have married Adams. This would have made become him a doctor by default as everyone in her family was a doctor. - Adams, Alice’s family (The Specialist) mentioned
They were the richest family in town, and they were all doctors. - Akhanatova, Anna (A Body Worth Guarding) van de Ven, Monique
She is a Russian prima ballerina performing the play “Sleeping Beauty.” While touring the United States, she has attracted demonstrators from the Jewish Organization for Action (JOA). There have been threatening letters sent to the newspaper about Akhanatova. Starsky and Hutch are assigned to protect her. Her coach is retired dancer Masha Barovnika. Akhantova and Hutch spar, but then spend the night together. Akhanatova returns to Russia. She can beat Starsky at right-handed arm wrestling—with a little help from Hutch. - Al (Starsky’s Brother) Worth, Nicholas
He is one of Frank Stryker’s thugs. - Al, Officer (Photo Finish) mentioned
Hutch asks him to check out the rental car activities of Dora Pruitt/Greta Wren. - Alex (Targets Without a Badge Part 2 + 3) Picerni, Charles
He is a thug for a syndicate connection dealing with the Judge McClellan case. He and his partner are assigned to follow Starsky and Hutch after the McClellan case was lost and the detectives quit the force. He and his fellow thug confront Starsky and Hutch in the steam room. - Allen, Walter (Cover Girl) Lockhart, Calvin
Walter Allen is a professional hit man. His nickname is the “Angel.” Allen is a toy freak and subscribes to a toy magazine, one of which is used to track him down through a change of address. He uses his knowledge of toys to make weapons and bombs. In one instance, he rigs up a bomb in a baby stroller. It kills a protected witness, Lindsay, and injures his police escort, Officer Richards, before he can testify at a trial. His contact man is James Brady. Brady gives him Kate Larrabee’s money and envelope of information after she hires him to kill her. Allen tries to blow up her car, but it goes off prematurely due to Starsky and Hutch’s walkie-talkies. He rigs up the light bulbs in her bathroom to blow up, but Starsky and Hutch save her in time. Allen likes classical music and chess. - Al, Starsky’s Uncle (Jojo, Snowstorm) mentioned
See Before They Were Cops - Alphonse, Starsky’s Uncle (The Trap) mentioned
See Before They Were Cops - Amboy, (Bust Amboy) Metrano, Art
Amboy is a big drug supplier. He’s also involved in organized prostitution and running numbers. He owns the restaurant, “Andre’s,” and a company called “Amboy’s Catering.” Some of his employees are Squire Fox, Itchy, Goose, Chuckles, Denny, and Mickey. He tries to bribe Starsky and Hutch into looking the other way by tempting them with champagne and caviar. He serves papers to Starsky and Hutch, saying he is being harassed. Hutch speculates Amboy will serve 30 years in prison. - Ames (The Hostages) Hare, Will
He is the big-mouthed owner of Ames Armored Car Company. When one of his Friday trucks is hijacked, he hassles Starsky and Hutch about getting his $1 million back, rather than being concerned about the Coles. - Amy (The Hostages) Newman, Melissa
Amy is the waitress at a café Starsky goes to. She’s into horoscopes. Starsky tries to make a date with her. She asks Starsky and Hutch to go check on her boyfriend, an armored car driver, who is late for his usual breakfast. Her boyfriend’s name is Harry Johnson and he eats at exactly the same time every day. He is a Sagittarius and supposedly never late. - Amy (Foxy Lady) Mason, Connie
Amy is one of the two women who gawk at Starsky and Hutch at the airport in the episode’s tag. She is the blonde woman with the big hat. It was probably a bigger role at some point and edited to just a bit, non-speaking part. - Anderson (The Specialist) mentioned
He was Starsky’s and Alice Adams’ classmate. Alphabetically, he sat next to Alice. Starsky thinks that is why Anderson became a doctor. - Anderson, Franklin (Targets Without a Badge 2 + 3) Remsen, Bert
See May, Thomas - Anderson, Gary (The Specialist) mentioned
He is listed as one of Flashy Floyd’s accomplices on the arrest record. Anderson’s name is there, along with Jane Zanuck. - Anderson, Laura (Targets Without a Badge 2 + 3) Thompson, Hilary
See May, Allison - Anderson, Lieutenant (The Plague) Kent, Paul
He works for Airport Security. He is very helpful and gets a photo of Thomas Callendar from the security camera for Starsky and Hutch. He contracts the plague and most likely dies from it. - Anderson, Marion (Targets Without a Badge 2) mentioned
See May, Carol - Anderson, Pat K. (Discomania) Summers, Bunny
Anderson is an older woman and employee of Tony Mariposa at “Mariposa Mag Wheels” shop. She let Mr. Mariposa borrow some of her prescription medicine when he had a cold. The prescription was for antihistamines and barbiturates. Mariposa uses the drug to subdue the women he kidnaps. - Anderson, Ron (Murder Ward) mentioned
He is one of the reporters who wrote the newspaper article about Charlie Deek. The name is seen on the clipping. - Andrea (Vendetta) Golden, Ginny
She is Starsky’s picnic date. She runs up to Hutch to tell him he has a call on the radio. Later, she and Starsky find Hutch and Abby at the park. - Andrews, Mrs. (Class in Crime) mentioned
She taught the class, “European History,” that Richards and Morgan took together at Jameson College. - Andrews, Raymond T., Officer (Manchild on the Streets) Stratton, W.K
He is a rookie and anxious to make it big. He and his partner, Officer Clayborn, chase Walter and Dewey’s car, thinking they are thieves. Andrews has a quick trigger finger and shoots Walters when he tries to protect Dewey. Andrews lies to Starsky and Hutch about what really happened. When contradicted by witnesses, Andrews calls one of them a “nigger.” Starsky slaps him and is pulled away by Hutch. He is put on probation without pay for ninety days. After that, he can appeal and have the board review his case, something Starsky thinks is wrong. Officer, Rookie, he shoots Jackson Walters, Sr., and lies about what happened to Starsky and Hutch. - Angel (Texas Longhorn) Weldon, Ann
She is a heroin addict and knows all the hypes around. She used to be a physically beautiful singer, but drugs have aged her dramatically. She tells Starsky and Hutch about the salt-and-pepper team they are seeking, sending them to Big Chucks. She sings for Starsky and Hutch. Starsky pats her knee and tells her to be “careful how you go.” - Angel (Cover Girl) Lockhart, Calvin
See Walter Allen - Angie (Kill Huggy Bear, The Deadly Imposter, The Bait) Taylor, Wally
He works as a cook at The Pits. In The Bait, he slips between Starsky, Hutch, Carter, and Dobey by the kitchen. Huggy calls him “B” in The Deadly Imposter. Perhaps it is part of his first or last name. - Angie (The Set-Up) mentioned
Mr. Thistleman calls her at the bank to say he won’t be in to work due to illness. He calls her “dear.” - Angie, Officer (Lady Blue) Pulford, Lee
Officer Angie goes undercover as a maid to help Starsky and Hutch catch Solenko and his gang. She is the only female officer in Bay City the viewer sees handle a gun. - Anita (Huggy Can’t Go Home, The Game) Torres, Liz
She is introduced to Starsky and Hutch in The Game. Both Starsky and Hutch get her name wrong and call her Rita. She hassles both of them. When Starsky sets up the fake shooting to get Hutch to come in, it is Anita who bears the brunt of the trauma, thinking the injury is real. She calls for an ambulance and comforts Starsky. Later, Ernie Silvers asks her about Starsky, and she tells him what she saw. When she finds out the shooting was fake, she is upset. She is able to pinpoint Ernie which sends him to Hutch’s hotel. At one point, she tells Starsky that even if Hutch were in a gorilla mask, she would recognize him by his good looks. In Huggy Can’t Go Home, she is credited only. - Archer, Sidney (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Wood, Lana
Sid met Carlyle in New York last month and has a date to meet him in the lounge at a hotel. She also knows Avery Schiller. While Carlyle is in the hospital, Starsky meets Sid, and tries to keep her busy so she won’t blow Hutch’s cover. Joey Carston hooks up with her and tells her Starsky is a cop. Sid calls Schiller to warn him, which leads to Hutch, undercover as Carlyle, to “shoot” Starsky, proving he is legitimate. Later, she identifies the real Carlyle. - Arlene (Starsky vs. Hutch) Swope, Topo
She is a blonde dancer at the “Golden Lady Ballroom.” Despite the fact that two blonde dancers have been killed, she puts on a dark wig rather than quit. Starsky and Hutch don’t know this, so they are unable to protect her when Joseph Webster follows her home and kills her. Her husband’s name is Ritchie, and he works early in the morning. - Arnold (Death Notice) Bergansky, Chuck
He is the waiter at the Panama Club. He is rather dense. Starsky suggests to Hutch he has a point on his head. Starsky keeps getting his name mixed-up. Arnold tells Starsky and Hutch about the man who left the message on the table. - Arnold, Mr. (Starsky vs. Hutch) Cook, Frederic
He lives at 358 North Adams Street. He says he is married and that he has two rotten kids. While out walking his German shepherd, he tries to pick up Detective Kira, not knowing she’s a cop. He grabs her and tries to assault her. Hutch runs out, thinking Arnold is the killer. It turns out he’s just a creep. Hutch warns Arnold off. - Arnold, James (Savage Sunday) not credited
Arnold works at the bank Morton and Sloan rob. He comes out of his office while the robbery is in process. He shuts the door and messes with his desk. Morton shoots a bullet through the glass on his door. - Arnie (Iron Mike) mentioned
Arnie is Matt Coyle’s bookkeeper at his company Coyle Provision Inc. Coyle tells Johnny Lonigan to go with Arnie to check out the shipment of cherries. - Ashford, Harry (The Avenger) Cassidy, Joanna
Harry Ashford is the alternate personality of Monique Travers, a character she has made up out of her guilt about her sexuality. Harry hated all the men she had been with and hated what Monique had become. While in San Francisco, Harry kills a man Monique had just slept with. Monique had described Harry to the police and a sketch was made. Phil is one of the men killed by Ashford after sleeping with Monique. Shortly after, Ashford kills Roger, another one of Monique’s dates. Dobey assigns Starsky and Hutch to hang out with her and hopefully attract Ashford. When Hutch goes home, Monique invites Starsky back to her place. She tells him about Ashford and about her fiancé dumping her. Starsky plays the guitar and sings. Monique drugs his tea and chases him around. Hutch rescues him in time. - Atkins, Lennie (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Kramer, Sy
He is a nervous man who lives in the same building as Oscar Newton. He eats a TV dinner. After telling Starsky and Hutch about how he heard them beat up Newton, he leaves for Detroit to avoid testifying. - Atwater, Commodore (Murder at Sea) Geer, Will
He is an old man and sits in a wheelchair. He owns many ships, including the Amapola. Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey visit him to find out more information about Eric Snow. Atwater didn’t like Snow and doesn’t like the fact he used to know all the people who worked for him and that now he doesn’t. He gives Starsky and Hutch grudging permission to go undercover on his ship to solve the crime.
B
“All you think they have to be is big up here, and long down there,
and just move in and out like that. Is that the idea?”
(Death Notice)
- B. (The Deadly Imposter) Taylor, Wally
Huggy calls his cook, Angie, “B.” - Babcock, Detective (The Game) Braha, Herbert S.
He is a plain clothes detective. His partner is Simmons. He helps Starsky set up the sting to lure Hutch in so Hutch can be taken to the hospital. Babcock pretends to be a masked robber who shoots Starsky during a robbery at The Pits. Later, he and Simmons hang out in the hospital waiting for Hutch to appear. - Badham, Dr. (The Plague) mentioned
His or her name is heard over the hospital PA. Nurse Webster is asked to report to Dr. Badham in surgery. - Bagley, Ernie (The Trap) mentioned
He was Johnny Bagley’s brother. Seven years ago, he and Johnny were trapped in a warehouse. Ernie was perhaps shot and was unable to escape when the building caught on fire. Johnny blames Hutch for Ernie’s death, as he was one of the officers at the scene. - Bagley, Johnny (The Trap) McKinney, William
Hutch calls him a borderline psychotic. Hutch arrested him seven years ago. He and his brother, Ernie, were in a warehouse. Johnny was shot in the leg. When the warehouse fire started, Johnny escaped, but Ernie didn’t. Johnny blames Hutch for Ernie’s death. Johnny hires Delano and Trayman to lure them (and their stowaway, Joey Carston) on a chase and then to an abandoned barn. Johnny’s plan is to torment Starsky and Hutch and then set the barn on fire. He is captured when Hutch uses Starsky’s watch to distract him. - Baker, Foxy (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Yancy, Emily
Foxy is Walter T. Baker’s wife. She and her boyfriend, Sonny Watson, run a scam to have Walter, Milo, and Sugar to break in and steal $300,000 from his father, ’Dad’ Watson. They plan on taking all the money themselves. Walter takes all the money and disappears. Foxy hires Huggy and Turquet to find her husband, pretending to be worried about him. - Baker, Officer (Quadromania) Carrott, Ric
Baker is an energetic and eager young officer who is at the scene of Victor O’Connor and the Joseph Benson murders. He gives Starsky and Hutch a good clue about the fare flag. - Baker, Walter T. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Bagley, Fuddle
Walter is the husband of Foxy Baker. He lets her talk him into letting Milo and Sugar into the offices of ’Dad’ Watson. Watson is a loan shark and area bad buy. Milo and Sugar steal $300,000. Walter is afraid of his wife, Foxy. Walter takes the money and disappears. He orders a fake passport from Doc Rafferty, but doesn’t pick it up. He drinks too much booze and depends on Huggy and Turkey to save him. He is referred to as a “Black Bugs Bunny” and has a goofy face. - Balenger, Professor Andrew (Pilot) mentioned
He is one of Patricia Talbert’s instructors. His name is seen on Talbert’s class schedule. - Balford, James (Survival) Bisoglio, Val
Balford is Vic Humphries lawyer. While unhappy with the plan, he goes along with Vic’s plan to have Lou Scobie lure Hutch to a certain road so that Roy Slater can run him off the road. Hutch is the main witness in Humphries’ trial. Humphries thinks that by killing Hutch, the case against him won’t stand. Starsky refers to Balford as a “smiling barracuda.” - Banks, Earl (Terror on the Docks) Walberg, Garry
Earl is Ted’s father. He works as a dishwasher in a cafeteria. Starsky and Hutch go to tell him about Ted’s death. He tells him Ted was involved with no-good people and that he told him it would come to no good. Earl is very upset about his son’s death and focuses on the new shoes he lent his son. - Banks, Ted (Terror on the Docks) Redding, Robert
Banks is in a theft-ring with Billy Desmond, Rick Hauser, Wally, and Jerry. He tries to run Starsky and Hutch down with his truck on the docks. Billy turns him in. Banks calls Starsky and Hutch while they are at the Blake’s for supper and wants to meet with them. Billy shoots him before they get there. Banks dies, but not before telling Hutch about a “silver box.” Banks will be missed by his dad who knew his son was into trouble. Banks was wearing his dad’s new shoes when he was killed. - Barnes (Omaha Tiger) Worth, Nicholas
Barnes is Tommy Carniary’s pal. Huggy contacts Barnes. Barnes meets with Starsky and Hutch and tells them about his suspicions. - Baron (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Brown, Jophrey
He is the guard Starsky and Hutch fool with about the Voodoo Green Bird of Death. - Baron, Charlie (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Barto, Dominic
Baron is a witness for an upcoming Grand Jury trial against Joseph Fitch. He is lured to a room by Marianne Owens who thinks she is only setting him up for a meeting. The room is busted into and Fitch has his men beat Baron to death. - Baron, the Black (The Set-Up) Mosley, Roger E.
The Black Baron is a friend of Huggy’s and he owes him a big favor. He is a pilot and his small plane is so old that it barely flies. He takes Starsky, Hutch, and Terry Nash out to the castle stronghold in the desert. He has a backpack with guns, food and water, and freeze-dried tuna casserole with peas and mushrooms. He teams up with Starsky and gives him hand grenades. - Barovnika, Masha (A Body Worth Guarding) Hasso, Signe
She is a retired Ballerina and Anna Akhanatova’s coach. Barovnika accompanies Anna on her U.S. tour. Starsky takes her to breakfast to distract her. - Barracuda, (Targets Without a Badge 1 + 2 + 3) Tessier, Robert
See Soldier - Bartlett, Nurse (The Plague) mentioned
His or her name is heard on the hospital PA. He or she is asked to call Physical Therapy on 214. - Basil (The Velvet Jungle) mentioned
Basil is at the fashion show. Lou asks, “Where’s Basil with the dress?” - Basset, Stu (Foxy Lady) Zwerling, Darrell
Basset is a reporter for the “Daily Chronicle.” While taking his son to school, he is able to shoot photos of the murder at the bus terminal. He is the first reporter on the scene and even beats the police, something with which he goads Starsky and Hutch. The photo he takes appears in the paper and puts the case in jeopardy. Starsky and Hutch call Basset “Brenda Starr” and accuse him of having bad breath. Starsky tells Hutch he’d like to shove Basset into his “sports section.” - Basset, Stu’s son (Foxy Lady) mentioned
Basset said he was taking his son to school when he saw the shooting at the bus terminal. - Bates (Targets Without a Badge 2 +3, Sweet Revenge) Courtney, Alexander
Bates is the personal Assistant to James Gunther. It is he who arranges the garage attack on Starsky and then the one on Hutch. Despite his earnestness, he fails at what Gunther wants. Gunther poisons him with something in his hot drink. - Bates, Johnny (Targets Without a Badge Part 1) mentioned
Bates was one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches. He is dead. Starsky and Hutch mention him as proof snitches are vulnerable. - Batson, Officer (I Love You, Rosey Malone) not credited
Batson is one of the officers at the Ray Shelby clearing house raid. Hutch tells him to take Shelby to the precinct. He could be the same one in Cover Girl. - Batson, Officer (Cover Girl) not credited
Batson is the officer who takes Kate Larrabee to a doctor’s appointment. He could be the same one in I Love You, Rosey Malone. - Batson, Officer (Black and Blue) not credited
Dobey tells Batson to take Bruce from Interrogation up to Property. - Batson, Officer (A Body Worth Guarding)
He is one of the officers at the demonstration. Starsky hands Miller over to him. He tells Batson, “Get this nut out of here.” - Baylor, Officer Linda (Fatal Charm) Kelly, Roz
She is an undercover officer, working with Benny to set up Max Frost, a drug pusher for a bust. She appears to work Vice. She, Starsky, and Hutch have spent a month trying to get the Frost drug sting set up. After the successful Frost bust, she goes home. Diana Harmon thinks Baylor is Hutch’s girlfriend. She goes to Baylor’s pad and hits her on the head. Baylor is seriously injured and has surgery. She recovers and wants Hutch to bring her some Mexican food to the hospital. - Beam, Ezra (Terror on the Docks) Zagon, Marty
Beam is a fence Starsky and Hutch know. He tells them he has gone legit and has a business of Demonology and Devil worship in his home called ’Netherworld Science.’ He claims his new business makes him so much money, he doesn’t have to fence stuff anymore. This is a lie. He is the middle-man on the goods being stolen from the docks. He sets up the big jewelry heist with Hans Skyler and Rick Hauser. - Belin, Judge (Targets Without a Badge, Part 1) Davison, Michelle
Belin is the judge at the preliminary hearing of McClellan. Hutch accidentally calls her “Sir.” - Bell, Eddie (Omaha Tiger) Burkley, Dennis
Eddie Bell is a professional wrestler. His wrestling name is “The Omaha Tiger.” His manager is Al Taft. He knows Mack Johnson and liked him. Johnson was always warning him about Taft and how Taft would use him. He has a crush on Helen Forbes, and he stays with her outfit out of gratitude. He nearly strangles Hutch in an impromptu fight. He helps take out the bad guys in the end. - Bellamy, Sue (A Coffin for Starsky) Mallory, Carole
She is Victor Bellamy’s wife. She lies to the cops about her husband’s broken leg. She is a real screamer. - Bellamy, Victor K. (A Coffin for Starsky) Dynarski, Gene
Bellamy just got out of prison. He was in prison for selling a Red Devils on campus. He was a supplier to Jerry Jennings, who was killed in a scuffle with Hutch. Bellamy has a tenth grade education, is a pimp, a drug pusher, is guilty of armed robbery, and a suspect in two homicides. Jerry Jennings’ father hires Bellamy to shoot Starsky with a poison as revenge. Bellamy was then supposed to do the same thing to Hutch. Bellamy is at first cleared as one of Starsky and Hutch’s three suspects, due to a leg cast. After the cast is proven to be false, Hutch chases him to the roof of his apartment. Just as Bellamy is getting ready to shoot Hutch, Starsky shoots Bellamy and kills him. Bellamy’s wife is named Sue. Bellamy’s file is #93-189-05. His mug shot #68015 1967. - Bennett (Strange Justice) mentioned
Bennett is mentioned as a rapist who got off on rape charges in court. - Bennie (Hutchinson for Murder One) mentioned
He is a snitch Starsky and Hutch recall taking out for a hot dog and orange juice. Accounting is hassling them for not getting a receipt for the transaction. - Benny (Fatal Charm) Stipanich, Michael
Benny is a junkie and police snitch. He is the go-between for drug pusher Max Frost. It takes Officer Linda Baylor several days to agree to help her set up a meet with Frost. Benny’s reward is to get his drug charges dropped. - Benny (Bust Amboy) mentioned
Benny runs the farm stand/numbers bank where Amboy does business. Amboy tells Denny to ask Benny to pack him up some corn. - Benson, Joseph Riley (Quadromania) Basso, Bob
Benson is the fourth victim of Lionel Fitzgerald. He is a cab driver for Metro Cab Company. He is a known drunk who has had multiple accidents. Two years ago, he hit something. He thought/said it was a dog and fled the scene of the crime. It turns out it was the actor Lionel Fitzgerald III. Fitzgerald ends up crippled and seeking revenge. It is discovered that Benson had a clipping of the accident in his locker room, as well as the accident report. - Benton (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) McLarty, Gary
It is unclear who this character is. The actor is a well-known stuntman, so he was probably doing stunts in the episode. It is likely he is the man in the car with Starger when they see Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey at the park together. - Bering, Officer (The Crying Child)
He works in the office with Sergeant Sheila Peterson. - Berkowitz, Lieutenant (Lady Blue) mentioned
Lieutenant Berkowitz is Officer Helen Davisson’s boss. He works in Burglary. He tells Dobey about her undercover work. - Berl (The Heavyweight) Smith, Darryl B.
Berl is one of the Haley Gavin’s thugs. He is one of the men that kills Detective Frank Marchetti. - Bernice (Dandruff) Shear, Pearl
Bernice is first customer we see for Mr. Marlene. She drinks a lot of champagne, supplied by Marlene, perhaps in hopes to make her overlook her terrible haircut. - Bertold, Professor (Class in Crime) mentioned
He taught the “Art of Mime” class that Allen Richards and Jack Morgan took together at Jameson College. - Bessie (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Page, La Wanda
She is an older, blind woman. She tells fortunes and gets racing tips from the spirit world. Walter T. Baker is one of her biggest customers. She doesn’t like white people, so when Huggy and Turkey go to her for information, Turkey tries to pretend he’s Black. She serves them lunch and insists on grace. While she knows she is being lied to, she still helps them out. - Bessinger, Herman (Silence) LeLeon, Jack
He is an ex-con who used to be at the Dismas Center. He shared a cell with Larry Horvath. Bessinger is a safe cracker and helps Kim and the fake Father Ignatius to open safes and steal jewelry. He works as a bartender in “The Glitter Club.” Marty has him killed and leaves a candy bar wrapper by his body to make the police think Larry did it. - Betsy (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) mentioned
Hutch tells Silky that Betsy is a four-ton super-torque double-action pooper-scooper garbage truck. - Bettin, Federal Agent (Jojo) Fudge, Alan
Bettin works for the Feds. He is in charge of the sting operation on Nick Dombarris, one that Starsky and Hutch are assisting. After the bust is disrupted, he allows Jojo Forentic back on the street, thinking Jojo will be a way to get Dombarris. He is shaken when Elaine Stroud is killed by Jojo, but when Jojo is killed, arrests Linda Mascelli. Hutch calls him a “skin graft off a computer.” - Betty Lou (Targets Without a Badge, Part 3) mentioned
Betty Lou, Rhonda, and Rhoda are the three names Starsky and Hutch tell Officer O’Reilly the Torino goes by. - Big Benny (The Plague) Little Angie
Big Benny is a very small person. He works at the Shira Shoe Shine Station where he is a bookie. Dr. Judith Kaufman tests some of his blood, looking for the plague. - Big Ed (Cover Girl) Olfson, Ken
Credited only - Big, Mr. (Targets Without a Badge, Part 3) mentioned
It’s the man in charge, presumably Gunther. Starsky refers to Mr. Big when he speculates on who Clayburn called when he said he was talking to Sheriff Fred Oates. - Bigelow, Officer (Survival) Pepper, Paul
Bigelow is in charge of running the stockroom. He is very meticulous about numbers and forms and hassles people when they request supplies. He considers himself a funny person. - Biggs, Lenny (Strange Justice) Reale, Joseph
Biggs is a rapist. He watches the girls in a sorority house at Weldon College. Later he breaks in and rapes Leslie Slate. Leslie’s father, Lieutenant Dan Slate, shoots and wounds him while Biggs is in the hallway at headquarters. Slate arranges to have Biggs’ bail posted by his snitch, Marcellus Cobb. After Biggs gets out, Slate kidnaps him and pretends Biggs is holding him hostage. He tries to get Biggs killed while Slate looks like the hero. Biggs is shot and killed by Officer Chuck Dobson. Dobson believes the set-up to be real and is devastated. - Bill (Kill Huggy Bear) Haynes, Cal
He is one of Lou Malinda’s four main thugs. - Bill, Officer (Kill Huggy Bear) Haynes, Cal
He tells Starsky and Hutch about Huggy’s trashed bar. Then he tells one of them to talk to Dobey on the radio. - Bill, Officer (Pilot) mentioned
He calls Hutch when Fat Rolly is released. - Bill, Officer (Pariah) not credited
He sticks up for Starsky after Officer Lee hassles him. His last name may be Edwards or Taft. - Billings, Ward (The Committee) MacRae, Michael
Billings is a known rapist. He teams up with Paul H. Willits and attempts to rape a girl, Millie, in a warehouse. Starsky and Hutch rescue the girl and catch Willits. Billings escapes. Billings decides to turn himself in. Two policemen arrive at his hotel room and kill him. The officers are Knight and Williams. They belong to “The Committee,” a vigilante group made up of cops. Billings is their third victim. According to his rap sheet, Billings is thirty years old, is 6’1,” 195 pounds, was born on April, 3, 1946. His crimes are acquitted robbery and rape and grand theft with a firearm; he was arrested June, 3, 1975; his address is 173 West 71st St., and his accomplice is Paul Willits. - Billy (Savage Sunday) Lowell, Skip
Billy is the liquor store owner’s son. Morton hits him in the head during the robbery just as Billy answers the phone. Billy describes Morton as “big and black.” Starsky holds a bandage to Billy’s head and assures him his father, shot during the robbery, will be okay. - Billy (The Psychic) mentioned
Joanna Haymes asks her father if he is going to replace Billy with Ara Parsegian. - Billy Joe (Partners) Baker, Ronni B.
Billy Joe is a robbery suspect driving the 1964 maroon Ford that Starsky and Hutch chase just before they crash in the Torino. He is Southern and prides himself on his driving. His partner-in-crime is Henderson, a man who wants him to slow down, not unlike what Hutch is asking Starsky to do. - Billy’s father (Savage Sunday) not credited
He is shot during the robbery. It appears he will be okay. - Binns, Pat (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Gerard, Ben
Binns is in the credits as the sound engineer at the recording studio. Sue Ann, however, calls him Harry. - Black, Stony (Bloodbath) mentioned
He and his partner, Rex Woods, used to cook up junk for Simon Marcus. They had a traveling lab that they parked at the old City Zoo. Simon Marcus killed both a few months ago. Marcus uses both their names in the clue he gives to Hutch. - Blackie (Murder on Stage 17) Morgan, Read
Blackie is one of the stuntmen in the Steve Hanson movie. He is Chet’s partner. Blackie is the man Hutch hits in the belt. - Blaine, Lieutenant John (Death in a Different Place) Fleming, Art
Lieutenant Blaine works with Starsky and Hutch. Starsky grew up next to John and Maggie and seems to consider John a father figure. John gave Starsky a bloody nose when he was teaching him to fight. John used to play football and is a good marksman. John and Maggie were married for 22 years. It is unclear if he was aware of his wife’s knowledge of his sexuality. He had a room, #305, at the St. Francis Hotel for over a year, spending all but the last six months in the company of Peter Whitelaw. He had been seen with several other men since. One night, after a bust with Starsky and Hutch, Blaine gets drunk at the “Green Parrot,” a gay bar. It appears that Nick Hunter drugs his drink. Hunter allows Nick Hunter to take him back to his hotel. John recognizes Lieutenant Alec Corday making a drug deal with Orrin Lawford. Lawford recognizes Blaine as well. Nick takes Blaine upstairs, robs him, and leaves. Corday comes in and suffocates Blaine. - Blaine, Margaret (Death in a Different Place) Leith, Virginia
Maggie Blaine was the wife of John Blaine. They were married for 22 years. She knew of her husband’s sexual inclinations, but tolerated them. She knew of John’s relationship with Peter Whitelaw. She considered John a good man. Starsky grew up next to John and Maggie and seems to view John as a father figure. - Blake (The Committee) mentioned
Blake, along with Billings and Adams, is a bad buy killed by The Committee. - Blake, Maureen (Terror on the Docks) Cunningham, Sarah
She is Nancy Blake’s mother. She is a widow. She and her family used to live next door to Hutch back east. When her husband died, Hutch became a big brother to Nancy. Her husband wasn’t Catholic until she met him. She is very interested in Starsky’s religion and appears to want him to convert. She hints that Starsky could be a prospective son-in-law. She complains about paying $140 for Nancy’s wedding cake. She flings cake in Starsky’s face. - Blake, Mr. (Terror on the Docks) mentioned
Mr. Blake was Maureen’s husband and Nancy’s father. He died when Nancy was a little girl. He wasn’t Catholic until he converted when he married. - Blake, Nancy (Terror on the Docks) Larken, Sheila
Blake is an old friend of Hutch. She and her family used to live next door to Hutch “back east.” After her dad died, Hutch became much like a big brother to her. The Blakes are Catholic. Hutch hadn’t heard from her for a long time when she called to ask him to be at her wedding to Billy Desmond. Blake works as secretary to Andy Wilkins, head of security for the Port Authority, which is where, coincidentally, Starsky and Hutch are investigating a series of thefts. It turns out Blake is being used by Billy Desmond for the information she has on the arrivals and shipments coming in. In the end, the wedding is called off. - Blaze (Targets Without a Badge, Part 2) Conforti, Gino
Blaze is an X-rated film producer. He offers Starsky and Hutch $100 a day as actors in one of his films. He likes the look of Starsky and Hutch, a “couple of clear-eyed stockers.” Blaze is constantly worried about his actors’ health. He is into blue ions. - Bloggs, Lonely (Gillian) not credited
Bloggs is Eddie Hoyle’s friend. Bloggs does occasional work at the Stardust Adult Bookstore, sweeping and cleaning up. Bloggs is killed behind the store by two of Al Grossman’s thugs. Harry Blower, owner of the store and Bloggs’ boss, thinks Bloggs’ death is no big deal. Bloggs’ friend, Eddie, is very upset at his death. Lonely and Eddie were going to go down to the mission for creamed tuna. - Blossom, Mr. (Black and Blue) mentioned
Mary talks to Mr. Blossom on the phone. He is calling Allied to say he will be in Mexico for a week. It is likely he is married, as the sign in front of his house reads, “The Blossoms.” - Blower, Harry (Gillian) Foronjy, Richard
Blower owns the Stardust Adult Bookstore. He hires the homeless man, Lonely Bloggs, to clean out the bathrooms and sweep up. Grossman’s men beat Bloggs to death behind the Stardust. Blower is cold and unhelpful about providing any information to catch Bloggs’ killer, asking Starsky why anyone should care about the death of an old derelict. Starsky tells him to look in the mirror some time and ask himself the same thing. Bloggs and his good friend, Eddie Hoyle, were going to head down to the Mission for supper, a tuna special. - Blue, Dr. (The Las Vegas Strangler) mentioned
Dr. Blue’s name is used on the hotel PA as a code word for security. - Blue Boy (Targets Without a Badge, Part 2) mentioned
Blue Boy is from Atlanta. Bates gets a call from him saying his “monthly affiliate wants a higher monthly payment.” - Bo (Murder Ward) Haggerty, H.B.
Bo is a patient at Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. He likes practical jokes and pulls one on Starsky, making him fall on the floor. Bo laughs and laughs. - Bob (Vendetta) not credited
Bob is the man in the line-up with the raincoat. The officer there goads him. Bob appears to have been in before as a flasher. Eckworth, who is looking for his attacker, doesn’t pick Bob. - Bob, Officer (Lady Blue)
Starsky asks Officer Bob for information on radio call numbers. - Bob (The Las Vegas Strangler) Soul, David
Jack Mitchell calls Hutch “Bob” when he first sees him in jail. - Bobby (Manchild on the Streets) not credited
Maurice greets Bobby in the bar. Bobby is playing pool, and Maurice wants to play him for money. - Bobby (Starsky’s Lady) not credited
His name appears in the original script. In the original script, Bobby is a thug in the car with Woody, Prudholm, and another thug named Marty. - Bobette (The Vampire) Camp, Colleen
Bobette and Jane meet Starsky and Hutch at “The Playpen.” Both Jane and Bobette are intrigued by Starsky and Hutch’s job. Starsky gets their phone number, but forgets to write it down. Starsky spills popcorn on them. Bobette and Jane have a hard time keeping Starsky and Hutch straight, but that confusion is reciprocated. They look enough alike that Starsky and Hutch call them “twins.” They are both privy to Starsky’s vampire imitation. - Boone, Buzzy (The Golden Angel) Oliver, Steve
Boone is the January 1979 Pro Wrestling Heavyweight champion. His fiancée of Candy Reese, his promoter, and daughter of Tommy Reese. Boone’s wrestling persona is the “Golden Angel.” Buzzy’s life is threatened and Starsky and Hutch are assigned to find the perpetrator. He used to be married to Camille for eight years, but has been divorced for two. He feels the upcoming match is his last big chance. He eats a lot of hamburgers. He bets on the ponies and owes Stella, a pawnshop owner, $1800. He is up-to-date in his payments. - Boone, Camille (The Golden Angel) Beane, Hilary
Camille is the ex-wife of Buzzy Boone, a professional wrestler known as ’The Golden Angel.’ They were married for eight years and divorced two years ago. Despite the fact she is a “pacifist,” she wants to kill Buzzy. She shoots him in the arm during a practice. Camille puts a threatening dummy in Buzzy’s locker and tries to shoot at him through a window when he’s on the phone. Hutch interviews her and thinks she’s a “space chicken.” Camille has the odd habit of saying certain words twice, twice. She is flushed out of hiding during a match when Starsky dresses up as the Golden Angel. - Boseman (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Weaver, Lee
Boseman is one of the players at J.T. Washington’s hours-long poker game. After Big Red McGee and Dolphin rob the game, he runs out to the street to get his money back. McGee shoots him in the scuffle. - Bouvet, Mrs. Marlene (Starsky vs. Hutch) Calvet, Corrine
Bouvet is the owner and operator of the “Golden Lady Ballroom,” a dance hall. She asks the police for help after two of her blonde dancers are killed. A third is later killed. Starsky, Hutch, Officer Kira, and Susan go undercover there to find the killer. Bouvet speaks French and is not happy with the police’s progress. - Bower, Marcy (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
Perhaps Bauer. Her puppy was in a hit-and-run accident reported by Joey Carston. - Bower, Max (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
Perhaps Bauer. Max is not a person even though Joey Carston makes it appear so to Starsky. Max is the six-week-old puppy run over in a hit-and-run. The puppy belonged to Marcy Bower. - Bowerman, Officer (Iron Mike) mentioned
Perhaps Bauerman. He is one of officers in the Darcy’s Department Store stakeout. Besides Ferguson, Starsky and Hutch, the other three officers are Sawyer, Platt, and Nelson. - Boyce, Carl (Omaha Tiger) Luisi, Jimmy
Boyce is Helen Forbes’ business manager at the Olympic Wrestling Arena. He says he brought the arena back from the red, but Forbes is unaware it is because he secured a large loan from George Felton. Boyce and Felton arrange to have Tommy Carinari, Mack Johnson, and Al Taft killed. This allows the arena’s concessions to go to Felton. - Boyle (Hutchinson for Murder One) Levine, Floyd
Boyle is one of Mr. Wheeler’s thugs. Wheeler is a high-up jewelry fence. Boyle and his partner, Cardwell, follow Vanessa home from Huggy’s and see that she is staying with Hutch. Cardwell and Boyle go up to Hutch’s apartment while he is running. Cardwell shoots Vanessa. Cardwell tells Boyle, his junior, to have more patience. - Braddock, Troy (Photo Finish) Kane, Jayson
Braddock is a famous painter. His garish paintings bring him a lot of attention and money in high social circles. Braddock makes it a practice to sleep with the wives of his potential clients, thinking it will help his career. Nicole Monk gives a party in his honor. Just as someone is opening champagne and Braddock is giving a speech, someone shoots him. His killer is someone hired by Nicole’s husband, a dweeby toy inventor named Basil. - Bradley, Ross (Savage Sunday) mentioned
His name is heard on the radio. He has been injured and is in the hospital. - Brady, James (Cover Girl) Miller, Allan
He is the owner of “Brady’s Tavern” and the contact man for the hit man, Walter Allen (Angel). Kate Larrabee contacts him to have someone kill her. Brady meets Allen and sets up the hit. After leaving Allen, Brady is unable to get a hold of him to tell him Larrabee changed her mind. Starsky visits him and dumps his peanuts on the ground. When Allen tells him a person can “soar like an eagle or self-destruct like some hophead” and asks him which he will do, Brady supposes he be a hophead. - Brady, Michelle (Discomania) Sills, Paula
Brady went with a friend to Fever. Starsky refers to her friend as a “Pair of Hot Pants.” Brady told her friend she wasn’t feeling well and was going to go home. She thought Brady left by herself. It turns out she was drugged, kidnapped, and killed by Tony Mariposa. Mariposa puts an ankle bracelet on her with the name of Sharon. - Brams (Jojo) mentioned only
It is unclear who this character is. It could be one of Dombarris’ thugs. - Brenner, Lola (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) O’Connell, Taaffe
She is Leo Moon’s girlfriend. She has waited for him for four years and thinks that is too long. She works at a massage parlor at 15th and Hudson. She knows of Moon’s plans and hopes to go away with him to South America. Starsky and Hutch capture her, and she agrees to testify against the bad guys. - Brennan (The Las Vegas Strangler) not credited
He is the postman in Boulder City, Nevada. Cary runs out to meet him and brings in the letter that has the money Starsky and Hutch sent her mom. - Brennon, Karen (The Deadly Imposter) Gailey, Suzan
See Karpel, Karen - Brett (Murder on Stage 17) “Hanson, Steve”
Brett is the character Hanson plays in the movie. - Bristol, Lee (The Collector) Shelley, Dave
Bristol is Molly Bristol’s father. Hutch calls him “Pop.” He owns and lives behind the “L&A Market and Deli” in Hutch’s neighborhood. Hutch says he makes the best hot pastrami sandwiches in the world. Starsky and Hutch bring their dates there to dance to records. Bristol used to play in a band with Scoot Jackson until he “blew his lungs out.” Bristol smokes and says he never imagined living in a place that always smells like deli meat. A year before, he borrowed $1000 from Annie Oates and has already paid $2000 interest on it. He bought a gun to protect himself. When Cunningham, the new collector, show up for money and threatens Molly, he goes out with his gun. Apparently, he gets drunk, accidentally drops his gun down a sewer, and asks a cop to get it out for him. There is a tussle, and Bristol is taken to the police station. After all is resolved, he makes Starsky and Hutch sandwiches. - Bristol, Molly (The Collector) Kalem, Toni
She is one of Hutch’s girlfriends. Her father is Lee Bristol who runs the “L&A Market and Deli.” She lives in the back of the store. She rides a bike. Molly puts on a blonde wig and helps Starsky and Hutch by going undercover as Heather O’Brian, a young, pregnant girl, who wants an abortion. John John the Apple directs her to Oates’ new collector. Cunningham meets her in a café and offers to lend, and then give her money, so she can go to San Francisco to have her baby boy. Cunningham claims he can see and hear her baby. - Bronson, FBI (Starsky’s Brother) Moses, David
He is one of the agents keeping the surveillance on Frank Striker’s place, The Velvet Slide. He apologizes for being late for his shift. Bronson is killed in an explosion set off by Stryker. It is mentioned he has no family. - Brown, Huggy Bear (various) Fargas, Antonio
For Huggy Bear’s relatives, see Before They Were Cops - Brown, Chester (Running) mentioned
He went to junior high school with Starsky. Chester wrote, “Remember Grant, remember Lee? To hell with them, remember me!” in Starsky’s yearbook. - Brown, Councilman (Savage Sunday) not credited
Brown is enlisted to help the residents of the Eastside Home for the aged. He has lunch at the home and agrees the food is terrible. He promises to fix things. - Brown, Jenny (Sweet Revenge) Hart, Beverly
Brown is a super model. Her name is recognized by Huggy Bear. It turns out her condo is owned by Gunther Enterprises. She arranges the hit on Starsky and was the money go-between. Hutch visits her condo and gets the information out of her. The law firm of Welles, Kelly, and Hodson bails her out. - Brownley, Lou (The Velvet Jungle) Bay, Susan
Brownley is a high-energy, no-nonsense manager in the fashion industry. She is overseeing the fashion show that Laura Stevens is in. Brownley suggests the police never come for good news, and tells Hutch that Starsky is cute. She is able to identify Helena from a photo and gives Hutch Helena’s address from her files. - Brown, Nellie (Murder at Sea) Marta, Lynne
See Carnoffsky, Helen - Bruce (Black and Blue) Williamson, Michael
Bruce is a minor. He and his partner Vivian work for Lionel Train. While robbing a house, Vivian shoots Hutch in the chest. Starsky fights him and takes him in. Train bails him out. - Bryant, Kenny (The Las Vegas Strangler) mentioned
His name is heard over the casino P.A. He is told he has a phone call. - Buckland, Agent (The Deadly Imposter) Wertimer, Ned
Buckland is the agent in charge of hiding the Karpels. - Bubbles (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) mentioned
Bubbles is a woman working at the Playboy Hotel. She is helping Charlotte Connery hide the death of William Thorne. Bubbles helps carry Starsky and Hutch’s luggage. - Bumper (The Set-Up) Balin, Richard
Bumper and Fields are two of Stegner’s thugs. - Burger, Claude (Jojo) mentioned
Perhaps “Berger.” He runs an auto insurance scam on the east side. Dombarris suggests Jojo hook up with him. Jojo declines so Dombarris sends him to kill Elaine Stroud. - Burke, Detective (Snowstorm) Benjamin, Paul
He is a veteran officer. Burke is Black and partnered with Detective Corman, a white man who makes racist comments. He, Corman, and Detective Kalowitz work with Starsky and Hutch to break up the drug ring snitched on by Marty Crandell. Crandell hides a quarter of the drugs for himself. In the shootout, it is Corman who shoots Edward Crown, one of the drug guys. Corman or Burke steals Crown’s gun to use for later. Detective Corman later kills Crandell when he and Burke show up to collect the drugs. Corman and Burke hide the drugs at Corman’s cabin at Bear Lake. The two surprise Dobey by asking for a day off together. They go to Bear Lake to hide the drugs. Starsky and Hutch figure out the missing gun, and Hutch determines it isn’t trout fishing season. Starsky and Hutch go to Bear Lake and confront their fellow officers. There is a gun battle. Starsky shoots Burke in the arm, and Hutch kills Corman. - Burke, Officer (Photo Finish) Burke, Eldon
He is the uniformed officer who guards Marcie Fletcher. He ends up letting the disguised hit man (woman) into the apartment. - Burke, Officer (Ballad for a Blue Lady) mentioned
Starsky asks him, while at Metro, if he has seen Hutch. You don’t see him. It is most likely an in-joke regarding Eldon Burke, the production assistant that had recurring roles in the series. - Burnbalm, Manny (Death Notice) Kogan, Milton
Perhaps Birnbalm. Manny is the owner of the Panama Club. He is afraid for his girls and calls Starsky and Hutch in when Arnold finds a threatening note left on a table. He tells Starsky that being a stripper is not as easy as it looks and to please not scare the girls. - Butler, Officer (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Weatherill, James
He is the officer on the scene of Boseman’s death. He found the body. - Bycroft, Nurse (Murder Ward) Ryan, Fran
She is the gruff but kindly nurse at Cabrillo State Mental Institution. She stomps on the cockroach races, killing the Cabrillo Kid. In the end, she lets Starsky loose so Dr. Matwick can’t operate on him.
C
“Hey, who are you calling a broad?”
(Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
- Cabe, Dr. (Lady Blue) Adams, Arthur
Cabe is Cindy’s doctor. He tells Starsky and Hutch what Solenko’s thugs did to her. - Cabot, (Satan’s Witches) Sutton Robert Raymond
He is one of the cultists. - Caifalno, Marshall (The Psychic) Emmich, Cliff
Caifalno’s nickname is “Fat Moo-Moo.” He is from Philadelphia. His partner is Earl Pola. Pola and Fat Moo Moo kidnapped a victim in Philadelphia. They took the ransom money and killed the delivery person, but never revealed where the victim was. The victim was never found. He teams up with Earl Pola. Fat Moo Moo and Pola get one of the Haymes’ employees, Julio Gutierrez, to help them kidnap high school student Joanna Haymes. They lure her into a truck as she heads to school. Then they kill Julio and leave his body in a van at an amusement park. Fat Moo Moo and Pola tie Joanna up in a truck and leave her in a scrap yard, not intending to return. Fat Moo Moo calls Joe Haymes and sets up the ransom drop. When he realizes cops are involved, he makes the terms harder. Fat Moo Moo demands $200,000 to be delivered by a runner. The runner is to follow precise rules, something Fat Moo Moo revels in. When the set-up is ruined unintentionally by some uniformed officers, Fat Moo Moo shoots Hutch in the chest. Hutch is wearing a bulletproof vest and, while injured, is not killed. Starsky, following Hutch on a motorbike, doesn’t know Hutch is still alive. Starsky shoots the getaway car. It blows up, killing both men. - Cairo, Nicky (Murder at Sea) Picerni, Charles
He is Patsy Cairo’s younger brother and secretly working with Joey Fortune. Nicky Cairo and Jensen turn the tables on Nicky and Fortune at the shipboard meeting, not knowing that Fortune has outfoxed them by placing bombs on the ship. Nicky, Jensen and Fortune leave the ship by boat and try to drive a jeep to an airfield. Starsky and Hutch chase them in a jeep and capture them. - Cairo, Patsy (Murder at Sea) Picerni, Paul
He is a syndicate leader. He is there for a big syndicate meeting with Joey Fortune, Marty Simon, Jack Patches, Gus Trainer, Oscar Nash, and his brother. He is traveling with his girlfriend, Lily. They travel under the names of Mr. and Mrs. Clark. Fortune has set up this meeting aboard the ship to tell them he wants back into the business. They all vote to give him more money, but that there’d be no job for Fortune. Patsy is betrayed by his brother Nicky. All are left to be blown up by a bomb, but saved by Starsky and Hutch. - Callendar, Thomas (The Plague) Rocco, Alex
Callendar is an international hit man, known for being especially successful and rich. He contracts the plague on his travels. He accidentally scratches a man’s hand at the airport, spreading the plague. Callendar has arrived to assassinate Roper, a well-known mobster. Callendar kills one of his contacts, a man who withholds the firing pin to his gun. Callendar stays in a room in a house owned by a woman and her son. He becomes fond of the boy, Richie. While the plague kills everyone else who gets it, Callendar lives through it, giving his blood special properties. Callendar passes the plague to Richie. When Mrs. Yeager pleads for Callendar to come to the hospital to give some blood to save Richie, he agrees. His reward is immunity from his crimes. Roper tries to kill Callendar, but only wounds him. Callendar shoots Roper, wounding him as well. Callendar tells the Yeagers he is from Montreal, Canada. - Cameron, Lieutenant Ted (The Las Vegas Strangler) Burke, Paul
Cameron is a police lieutenant in Las Vegas. He has worked with Starsky and Hutch before when their cases overlapped. They are surprised he requests their help, as he has made it clear he doesn’t like them. His excuse is he needs two cops who are not known in the area to help with a case involving strangled showgirls. Cameron withholds at least two bits of information from Starsky and Hutch. The first is that one of the strangled dancers was his former girlfriend. Her name was Sharon Flynn. She dumps Cameron for Jack Mitchell who is an old high school friend of Hutch’s from Duluth. Cameron doesn’t tell Starsky and Hutch that Mitchell is the Number One suspect. After a staged fight in a casino, Hutch recognizes Jack as his old friend. Starsky and Hutch figure out that Cameron has set them up, using Hutch’s friendship with Mitchell as a way to keep an eye on him and solve the case. Cameron can’t prove it, but he is sure Mitchell is guilty. Cameron runs a sloppy investigation due to his biases in the case. - Cannell (Pilot) Conrad, Michael
Cannell is a hit man imported from out-of-town. His partner is Zane. They have a reputation for never missing their mark. Cannell is a big John Wayne fan and is constantly frustrated about not being able to finish watching a movie on television. District Attorney Henderson hires them to kill Patricia and the young man she is with. He wants them dead, but for the murder to look like Starsky was the intended target. Fat Rolly is the go-between for the hit men and Henderson. Cannell and Zane make a second “attempt” on Starsky and Hutch’s lives, pretending to shoot them in the pool. They end up killing the drug runner instead. Frank Tallman and Huggy both emphasize that Cannell and Zane never miss their mark. - Cannell, Zane Mr. (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky and Hutch use this name to lure Henderson to the hotel. Miss Forsythe gives the message to Henderson that “Mr. Zane Cannell called” and that he wants to renegotiate for a new trial. - Cannon, Fireball (Omaha Tiger, The Psychic) Klein, Sonny
Fireball is a bald man. While on probation, he shoplifts. He does it while wearing women’s clothing. He leads Starsky and Hutch on a merry car chase. They end up chasing him through a restaurant and its kitchen. Starsky gets pasta dumped on him, and Hutch finally gets Fireball as he tries to climb a fence. Fireball asks Hutch to shoot him, saying he doesn’t want to go back to jail. Hutch declines and insults Fireball’s dress. The same pre-tag is used in both Omaha Tiger and The Psychic. - Caplan, Mr. & Mrs. Irving (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) mentioned
The Caplans are an elderly couple who are $100 behind on payments from a loan by Bad Dad Watson. They run a laundry. Starsky and Hutch disguise themselves as the Caplans to fool Watson’s thugs. Starsky portrays Mrs. Caplan, and Hutch, her husband. - Carboni, Medical Examiner (Quadromania) Guardino, Jerome
Carboni is the medical examiner who deals with the body of cabdriver Victor O’Connor. - Cardwell (Hutchinson for Murder One) Vadis, Dan
He is one of Wheeler’s thugs. He and Boyle are partners. Cardwell shoots Vanessa. - Carelli, John (Foxy Lady) Gordon, Mark
Carelli is Clay Zachary’s right-hand man. Carelli helped with the $2 million bank robbery in San Francisco. Lisa Kendrick and Kevin Macky double-cross Carelli and Zachary, taking the money themselves. After Macky is killed and his half of the money is taken, Carelli kidnaps Lisa in an effort to get her half of the money. Carelli and Zachary trash Hutch’s place looking for the cash. They knock him out and kidnap him as well. Starsky is forced to bring the money to a small airstrip outside of town to get Lisa and Hutch back. - Carlyle, Eddie (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Garas, Kaz
Carlyle is a professional hit man. One of his skills is that no one really knows what he looks like. He met Sid Archer in New York the previous month and set up a meet in a Bay City bar. He is shot by Starsky and Hutch in an attempt to flee and is hospitalized. Trying to capture the man who hired Carlyle, Hutch disguises himself as the hit man. While Hutch is under, Carlyle escapes from the hospital and Hutch tries to convince his boss, Schiller, that he is the real deal. - Carmer, Kathi (Death Notice) Kasdorf, Lenore
She is a dancer at the “Panama.” Her boyfriend is Jerry Neilan. When Carmer sees Jack Thorn’s murder, she tells Neilan. Neilan sees a way out of his job at the golf course. He and Carmer come up with a plan to blackmail Thorn’s killers. Carmer pretends to have a southern accent on the phone, something that gets two of her friends killed. - Carnahan, Helen (Murder at Sea) Marta, Lynne
See Carnoffsky, Helen - Carnoffsky, Helen (Murder at Sea) Marta, Lynne
She uses the name Helen Carnahan with October Moss. She uses the name Nellie Brown on the Amapola. Her father was an important union figure. Both Starsky and Hutch say they admired him. He fought Joseph Fortune and was killed by him. Helen wants to kill Fortune in revenge. She and October Moss are roommates. During her investigation, she sees Eric Snow’s murder. Snow’s murderer comes to the apartment to kill his witness and kills Moss by accident. Helen lies to the police about her real name and involvement. Starsky and Hutch run into her later on the Amapola. She is there under the name of Nellie Brown and says she is working for the ‘Phoenix Sun’ newspaper. She agrees to help them if they don’t let on her real name. Helen tries to shoot Fortune, but only gets him in the arm. She is with Starsky and Hutch when they are captured and tied up. - Carniari, Tommy (Omaha Tiger) mentioned
Carniari ran a laundry business. He put in a bid for the laundry contract at the Olympic Wrestling Arena, knowing it was the lowest bid. When the contract was given to George Felton, he threatened to sue. Carniari’s truck went off a cliff and he was killed. It turns out Felton had him killed. Carniari’s good friend, Barnes, helps Starsky and Hutch with information. Carniari was one of three people Felton has killed. - Carnosffsky, Mr. (Murder at Sea) mentioned
He was a good guy who worked for the Union. He fought against Joey Fortune. Fortune had him killed. His daughter, Helen, vows to kill Fortune in revenge. - Carol (Starsky’s Brother) Lawrence, Linda
Carol, Marlene, and Katie are the three women who meet Starsky, Hutch, and Nick at the disco, “Tramps.” She becomes Nick’s date. - Carol (Starsky vs. Hutch) Craig, Yvonne
Carol is a dancer at the “Golden Lady Ballroom.” She dances once with Hutch. - Carrie (The Set-Up) Ligon, Tom
The brainwashed man at the castle is talking about Carrie. - Carroll, Frankie (The Collector) LePore, Richard
He is the owner of Carroll’s Lounge. He owes Annie Oates $461. When he refuses to pay, the new collector (Jack Cunningham) blows up the bathroom at his lounge. - Carson, Carol (The Vampire) mentioned
Carol was a dancer and Rene’s first victim. She worked in an office building on Broadway, the same block as the ballet school. She was killed on the south side and in the same manor as Honey Williams. - Carson, J.B. (Foxy Lady) mentioned
He is listed as an accomplice of Carelli’s on Carelli’s arrest report. - Carson, Jimmie Lee (Shootout) Sandor, Steve
Carson is Theresa Defusto’s boyfriend. He comes to see her. She tells him to go home, as that night isn’t a good one. She promises to go on a big date another night. He stays. He has a temper and attacks the bad guys, messing up Hutch’s first plan. Joey locks him in the basement. - Carstairs, Sharon (The Heavyweight) Buckner, Susan
Starsky is sleeping with Sharon. She is a stewardess who is taking a break from her airline pilot boyfriend. Hutch asks Sharon to drive Stevie Spenser home. Both he and Starsky mock her lack of understanding about boxing. She keeps Starsky up all night with lots of sex. When Starsky goes to meet Hutch on the docks, she hooks back up with her former boyfriend, George. They become engaged. - Carston, Joey (The Trap, Ninety Pounds of Trouble) McNichol, Kristy, Winningham Mare
Joey Carston is played by two different actresses. In The Trap, she is a young girl Starsky and Hutch chase after they see her shoplifting a lighter from a jewelry store. She gets away. They see her later on the street and apprehend her. Starsky and Hutch take her to the jewelry store, where the owner seems unconcerned that she has stolen from him. He says her mother is a valued customer, and that Joey is always welcome in his store. He puts the losses on the Carston tab. Starsky and Hutch decide to take Joey home to talk to her parents. Mrs. Carston is there, but seems unconcerned about her daughter’s thievery. Joey sneaks into the back of the Torino. When Starsky and Hutch are trapped in the barn by Bagely, she is trapped there as well. She asks Starsky out on a date. He promises to take her out for pizza and a movie when they escape. Joey escapes during a diversion in which Starsky is shot in the leg. In the tag, Joey appears at the police station. She complains to Dobey that Starsky stood her up for their date.
In Ninety Pounds of Trouble, Joey has been apparently harassing Starsky and filing false police reports. One of those reports is of a hit-and-run that turns out to be about a dog. Starsky finally agrees to go out to lunch with her, but stands her up when he has to go undercover. Joey goes to The Pits and tries to order an alcoholic drink. Huggy serves her a Shirley Temple instead. She hears Huggy on the phone with Starsky and figures out where Starsky is. Joey sees Starsky with Sid. When Sid is alone, Joey confronts her and lets on that Starsky is a cop. Joey is shown writing love letters to Starsky in her car and then throwing them in the back seat. She sees the apparent “hit” on Starsky by Hutch, follows Hutch’s car, and overhears the bad guys. Realizing that Hutch is in trouble, she goes to the station and tries to convince Starsky and Dobey. They don’t believe her. She goes back to subdue the bad guys with later help from Starsky and Dobey. Starsky buys two tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert, but Joey says she would rather watch her high school boyfriend play football. She tells Steve that Starsky and Hutch are her uncles. Her CB handle is “Foxy.” Joey is left-handed and drives a yellow Mercedes. - Carston, Mrs. (The Trap, Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Prentiss, Ann
(The Trap) Carston is Joey Carston’s liberated mother. She doesn’t believe in discipline as it will stifle Joey’s tender psyche. When Starsky and Hutch bring Joey home after they catch her shoplifting, Mrs. Carston seems unconcerned. She mentions her husband along with a derision for hang-gliding. Mrs. Carston leaves, saying she is late for her EST meeting. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Mrs. Carston shows up at the station. She says she hasn’t seen Joey for a while. It turns out she is more interested in the golf clubs in the trunk of Joey’s car. She says she finds Hutch very attractive. - Carston, Mr. (The Trap) mentioned
Mrs. Carston says he isn’t around, that she wishes he were, and that “hang-gliding thing is for the birds.” - Carter, Federal Agent (The Bait) Karen, James
Carter is from the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Starsky and Hutch need his $250,000 for the final heroin deal with Danner. The first time they meet with Danner, Hutch gives Carter the wrong address so he won’t interfere with them. When that deal goes bad, Carter demands the money back, saying he’ll hold onto it and deliver the money at the new meeting himself. He is also responsible for the delivery of the Hawaiian Missionary Stamp to-and-from the meet. - Carter, Judge (The Committee) mentioned
Carter is the judge who set Willit’s bail at $10,000. - Carter, Spaceman Sam (Losing Streak) mentioned
He used to play drums with Vic Rankin. He did “some time” and works as an orderly in a hospital. Rankin contacts him, according to Huggy, for help. - Carvel, Homer (Blindfold) mentioned
Carvel is the lawyer who bailed out the Widdicombe brothers. - Cary (The Las Vegas Strangler) Ryan, Natasha
She is Vicky’s little girl. She is about three years old and has a brace on one leg. She lives with her grandmother in Boulder City while her mother works two jobs. Her father’s name is Lloyd. She has had three operations on her leg and needs more surgery. Starsky and Hutch send their Vegas winnings to Cary’s mother to help with her medical bills. - Casey, Shotgun (Murder on Stage 17) Britton, Layne
He is a stunt manager for Hanson’s movie. He calls Starsky and Hutch, “Spaghetti and Meatball.” He wears a red, silky outfit. - Cassie (Strange Justice) Heldfond, Susan
Cassie is a student at Weldon College. She is Leslie Slate and Lori Prescott’s sorority sister. She tells Lori what happens at the end of the movie they were watching in the lounge. When Starsky and Hutch come back to interview her after Leslie’s rape, she is strident about advertising and the bad portrayal of women as a cause of violence. She isn’t helpful. - Castille (Targets Without a Badge, Part 1) mentioned
Gesslin brings up three preceding cases that make Hutch’s informant stance moot. The cases are the People vs. Castille, the People vs. Garcia, and the People vs. Williams. - Catlin (Class in Crime) Carey, Michele
Catlin is the odd saleswoman at the car showroom, “The House That Jack Built.” The dealership sells very expensive cars. Starsky and Hutch go there to question her about her boss’ death, but she has already heard about it. Starsky sits in the car with her and flirts. Later, she goes home with Starsky and sleeps with him. Hutch sees her at Starsky’s place in the morning. She makes Starsky eggs for breakfast and lets him drive his dream car. Hutch refers to her as “Catlin the Weird” and as Miss Catlin. - Cavanaugh (Foxy Lady) Vasgersian, Ed
He works for Pacific Insurance Company. He finds Lisa Kendrick at the airport and gives her a check for $50,000. It is her reward for turning in the money she stole. - Cecil (Pariah) Alderman, John
Cecil is a local drug pusher and user. He is the person who sells to Tramaine. When Starsky and Hutch raid his apartment, he tries to flush drugs down the toilet. - Cha Cha (The Psychic) Everett, Charles
Cha Cha and his buddy, Ringo, try to steal Starsky’s car tires. Cha Cha is the Black one. - Chaco, Little Huey (Texas Longhorn) Loros, George
Chaco is a heroin addict. He and his partner, John Brown Harris, rape and kill Emma Lou Tyler. They also steal her squash blossom necklace, which they pawn, along with some snow tires, at Fat Rolly’s place. Chaco wears $200 custom-made cowboy boots with silver toe pieces. One of the toe pieces is found at the crime scene and is a clue. Chaco is traced to “Big Chucks” where he takes a hostage as Starsky and Hutch arrest him. Zack Tyler refuses to identify Chaco, wanting him released so he can kill Chaco. Chaco is shot dead shortly by Tyler. Chaco is from Puerto Rico. He is superstitious, telling his partner it was bad luck to mess with a married woman. - Chambers, A.C. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Sullivan, Liam
Chambers is chairman of an Advisory Committee. He brought an older, famous dancer out of retirement and helped her set up her dance studio. Chambers uses the studio to entice married men and married women into illicit affairs, tapes the encounters, and bribes them. His partners in this blackmail scheme are Marsha Sterns and Carl Starger, two dance instructors. Stearns clues him in that Millicent Forbes is really Teddy Tustin’s sister. Teddy was a blackmail client that was killed. Chambers sets up a hit on Hutch, after finding out he is a cop, and not the dance student Charlie McCabe. Chambers and Stearns kidnap Marianne Tustin and put her in the back of his car. - Chambers, Ed (I Love You, Rosey Malone) Keach, James
Chambers is an attorney with the Justice department. He and his partner, Bill Goodson, are working with the Senate Investigating Committee in trying to prosecute the Malone syndicate. He and his partner, Bill Goodson, served a subpoena on Frank Malone to testify. Chambers and Goodson use Starsky to get personally close to Malone’s daughter, Rosey. Then they leak an anonymous tip to the police about Malone’s competition in an effort to make Malone’s enemies think he is cooperating with the police. They also tell Malone’s rival that Rosey is dating a cop. Goodson and Chambers threaten Malone that they will drop the subpoena so that his enemies will think he is giving information and will be killed. - Charlene, Aunt (Jojo) mentioned
Merle the Earl says his Aunt Charlene is looking for a guy. - Charles (Pilot) not credited
Charles is one of the men sitting at the bar where Starsky and Hutch find Fat Rolly. Starsky greets him. He might be the same person as Creepy Charlie. - Charles (Pilot) not credited
Charles is a friend of the homeless man, Lijah. After Hutch gives Lijah a dollar, Lijah offers to buy Charles some coffee. - Charles (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) not credited
Charlotte asks Charles to push Walter Healey’s wheelchair. - Charles (Pilot) not credited
District Attorney Henderson greets Charlie in the hallway at City Hall South. - Charlie (Omaha Tiger) Joi, Marilyn
Charlie works with Huggy at Rodent Downs. She is the race caller and takes the bets. - Charlie (Pilot) not seen
Hutch calls The Pits. He gets Charlie on the phone. Hutch leaves a message with him for Huggy to meet him and Starsky tomorrow night at the usual place. - Chartreuse, Billy (Vendetta) mentioned
Chartreuse is a 48-year-old pimp who is killed by Tommy Marlowe. - Cherie (Dandruff) mentioned
Starsky and Hutch use his name as a diversion to distract Buddy Owens. Cherie is supposedly a drum player. - Cherry (Death Notice) mentioned
Starsky calls Ginger “Cherry” by accident. It is unclear if there is actually someone named Cherry in the dressing room. - Chest, Miss Treasure (Death Ride) not credited
See Treasure Chest, Miss - Chester, Dora (Photo Finish) Kirkland, Sally
See Wren, Greta - Chet (Murder on Stage 17) not credited
Chet is a stunt man working on Steve’s movie. He has a fight scene with Starsky and Hutch. After he and his partner, Blackie, decide to not pull their punches, Starsky and Hutch don’t pull theirs, either. Chet is who Starsky fights. - Chicky (Deckwatch) Walker, Will
Chicky is a minor. Starsky and Hutch both know him. He was supposed to be at Juvenile Hall, but he left. He tells Starsky and Hutch he left because of crummy television reception. Chicky has seen Salidas under a bridge and sees the gunshot wound. Chicky is suspicious when Salidas tells him the injury is from a car accident. He tells Salidas he is going to call an ambulance, but finds Starsky and Hutch instead. He tries to trade what he knows for money, but Hutch is very short with him and Chicky gets nothing. Chicky contradicts Hutch about the cigarettes found. Hutch said they were French. Chicky says they are English and smell like the “stale Columbians” his brother smokes. - Chicky’s brother (Deckwatch) mentioned
He smokes the same kind of cigarettes that Salidas smokes, English, and smell like “stale Columbians.” - Chicky (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Pierce, Stack
Chicky is the piano player at Joe Fitch’s blues club. He has known Marianne Owens a long time. He is worried about her and tries to give Hutch more information, but is scared into silence by Fitch’s thug. - Christine (Starsky’s Lady) George, Rita
Christine is Hutch’s girlfriend. She, Terry, Starsky, and Hutch go to the amusement park together. Christine rides in the bumper car with Hutch. All four also play miniature golf together. After Terry is shot, the four have a date and play Monopoly. Christine makes a blunder and talks about “next year” and Terry. Terry tells them she might surprise them all and still be around. - Chuckles (Bust Amboy) Honig, Howard
Chuckles runs the funeral home where Amboy is running a prostitution scam. - Cindy (Pilot) mentioned
Cindy is a girl Starsky is dating. Hutch asks about her. Starsky describes last night’s date with her as “acceptable, acceptable.” - Cindy (Lady Blue) Blake, Timothy
Cindy is Helen Davisson’s roommate and friend. They are both go-go dancers at the “Mellow Yellow.” She thought of Helen as the big sister she never had. Cindy doesn’t know Helen is a cop. Helen tells Cindy that she loved Starsky and that “once she made a mistake.” After overhearing information at the club, she tries to call Starsky and Hutch. She is caught and given a mind-altering mixture of drugs. Starsky and Hutch visit her in her hospital room. All Cindy does is sing a nonsense song over and over again. - Clancy, brothers (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky tells Henderson and Steele the Clancy brothers, “might take a crack at spashin’ us again.” - Clark (Quadromania) mentioned
He is one of the first two cabbies killed by Lionel Fitzgerald. - Clark, Suzette (The Vampire) Sills, Paula
Suzette is Nadasy’s third victim. She was one of his students. Clark is killed in the underground garage where she lived. It is implied her roommate tells Hutch about the connection to the dance school. - Claxton (Targets Without a Badge, Part 1) mentioned
Sneaky Regan, one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches, was killed because of his involvement in “the Claxton case.” - Clayborn, Officer (Manchild on the Streets) Hicks, Chuck
Clayborn is Officer Raymond T. Andrews’ senior partner. - Claybourne, Cal (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Haynes, Dick
Cal is Sue Ann Grainger’s longtime manager. He is very fond of Sue Ann. He calls in the police to help put a stop to the harassing phone calls Sue Ann is getting. - Clayburn, Deputy D.A. (Targets Without a Badge 1 + 2 + 3, Sweet Revenge) Kercheval, Ken A.
Clayburn is a lawyer and appears to help Starsky and Hutch in their case against McClellan. He is actually the syndicate’s connection to the District Attorney’s office. Clayburn orders the death of Judge McClellan. He is shot and killed by Karen in the airport as he tries to make his escape. In Sweet Revenge, Hutch mentions his name as being on the computer printout. - Cleveland, Dr. (The Las Vegas Strangler) Ray, James
Dr. Cleveland is apparently the in-house police psychiatrist. He tested Jack Mitchell when Mitchell had been brought in for questioning regarding the murders of the showgirls. He and Lieutenant Cameron believe that Jack is psychotic and a serial killer. - Cobb, Marsellus (Strange Justice) Anderson, Carl
Cobb is a Vietnam veteran and was an officer in the army. He is now a junkie and Lieutenant Dan Slate’s snitch. Slate pretends to roust him in an alley, but it is a trick to get Cobb alone and save his image. Cobb gives Slate a little gun he brought back from Vietnam. When Slate asks him how he’s gone from being an officer in the army to his current situation, Cobb turns the tables and asks Slate the same thing. Slate also has Cobb bail Lenny Biggs out of jail so Slate can kill him. Starsky and Hutch chase Cobb to his hotel room and find him hiding under the bed. Cobb tells Starsky and Hutch about the plan Slate has for Biggs. - Codes, Professor Linda (Pilot) mentioned
She is one of Patricia Talbert’s instructors. Her name is seen on Talbert’s class schedule. - Colby, John (The Deadly Impostor) Hindle, Art
Colby is an old friend of Starsky and Hutch. He appears at Vinnie’s gym, and Vinnie calls Hutch to tell him his old friend is in town. The three of them went to the Police Academy together. Colby quit the Academy and joined the Air Force. Their nickname was the “The Three Corsicans.” He tells Huggy he was the first one to call them “Husky and Starch.” Colby quit the academy and joined the air force. He tells Starsky and Hutch he spent five years in a prisoner of war camp, then two years in a hospital in Hawaii. Colby says he is on his way to Germany and only in town for the weekend. He is trying to find his ex-wife and son who are in the area. Starsky and Hutch offer to help him. Colby is really a hit man, hired by Nate Garvin, to kill a witness against him in a Grand Jury case. Colby stabs Harvey Russo, another witness. He also kills a woman named Jackie, who recognizes him as a man she used to know as Mike Robbins. The woman Colby asks Starsky and Hutch to find is actually the wife of the man Garvin wants him to assassinate. Not knowing this, Starsky and Hutch track the woman down. Colby knocks Hutch out, takes the woman to the beach in order to kill her husband, but is stopped by Starsky and Hutch. Colby tells Hutch that he was good at killing and a man should do what he is good at. - Colby, Karen (The Deadly Imposter) Gailey, Suzan
See Karen Karpel. - Cole, Ellie (The Hostages) Kelsey, Linda
Ellie is Tom Cole’s newly pregnant wife. It is her second pregnancy; she lost the first baby. She is kidnapped and used as a hostage in an attempt to rob Tom Cole’s armored car. She tells Belle Kates she is on a special diet and needs lots of rest. Kates seems to like her, alluding that once she was as pretty as Ellie. - Cole, Federal Agent Arthur (The Specialist) Cyphers, Charles
Cole is Alex Drew’s immediate supervisor. He knew Drew had been under stress in his forced retirement, but did didn’t do enough to help. After he is told Drew is killing a policeman, he still doesn’t do enough. He is not cooperative with Starsky, Hutch, or Dobey and makes a lot of poor decisions. - Cole, Tom (The Hostages) Ritter, John
Tom is the security guard for “Ames Armored Car Company.” His wife is Ellie, and she is pregnant. His partner is Harry Johnson. Johnson is killed, and a thug takes Harry’s place. Ellie is kidnapped as a tool to make Tom cooperate in a plan to steal the money, $1 million. He is able to help Starsky and Hutch without blowing his cover with the bad guys. - Cole, Ellie and Tom’s baby (The Hostages) mentioned
He or she is about the size of a large kidney bean and is expected to be born in about seven months. - Coleman, brothers (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky tells Henderson and Steele that the Coleman brothers would “mulch us if they had a chance.” - Coleman, District Attorney (Death Ride) Hecht, Paul
Coleman is the man from the District Attorney’s office who is in charge of keeping Andrew Mello safe so Mello can testify at a Grand Jury hearing. After Kester tries to kill Mello, he agrees with him that there is a crooked cop involved. He sets up Linda Williams as a decoy for Joanne Wells. Coleman sends Starsky and Hutch to get the woman and bring her back. He doesn’t let Dobey tell Starsky and Hutch about the switch. - Coley (Pilot) Lester, Buddy
Coley is a con man known to Starsky and Hutch. He was in prison and paroled on January 7th, two months earlier. Coley has been arrested for pandering and pick-pocketing. Starsky and Hutch spot him stealing a tourist’s wallet. They make him give the wallet back. Starsky and Hutch don’t arrest him after he convinces them it wouldn’t be worth their time. They tell Coley to stay out of their district. He is the first person to act surprised to see Starsky. - Collandra, Joe (The Psychic) Miller, Allan
Collandra is a psychic. He works at a café. Four years ago in Atlantic City, Collandra was able to lead police to the body of a kidnapped boy. The father paid him $10,000. The police thought maybe he had something to do with the killing. His nickname was “The Amazing Collins.” After the Atlantic City mess, he tries to give up his psychic ways. He tells Huggy he can see a body, and Huggy calls Starsky and Hutch. After Collandra’s vision is proven true, Starsky and Hutch try to get him to help in the kidnapping case. Collandra is very reluctant, but finally agrees. - Collins, City Attorney (Pariah) Jarvis, Graham
He and the Chief set up a televised coroner’s inquest about Lonnie Craig’s death. - Collins, Officer Charles (A Coffin for Starsky) Griffin, Jack
Collins works in the R&I department. Hutch gets after him on the police radio about his information being too slow. Collins apologizes in person to Starsky, but ignores Hutch. - Commissioner, the (The Velvet Jungle, The Heroes, Omaha Tiger, Hutchinson for Murder One, Jojo, Photo Finish, Fatal Charm, The Groupie, The Deadly Imposter, The Heavyweight, The Crying Child) mentioned
The Commissioner is often mentioned, but never seen. - Coney (The Fix) Charnota, Anthony
Coney is Ben Forest’s thug. He is one of the men who shoots Hutch up with heroin. Coney meets Mickey after Hutch has been tricked into going to the bar to meet Mickey. Coney attempts to give Hutch an overdose of heroin in the alley. Hutch head-butts him and escapes. Coney and Monk are both killed by Starsky in an alley. - Conley, Officer (Strange Justice) not credited
Conley is one of the officers at the standoff in the end. He takes Slate away. - Connery, Charlotte (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Eggar, Samantha
Connery is William Thorne’s nurse. She has an English accent. She tells Starsky and Hutch she thinks something bad is going on, and that Thorne is in danger. In reality, she is in on the plot to cheat and kill Thorne. Her partners-in-crime are Little Philippe, Papa Theodore, and many of the women who work at the hotel. She marries Thorne in a bogus ceremony and intends to kill him, leaving her as the rich and grieving widow. - Connie, (The Bait) Jones, Akili
Connie is a pimp and drug pusher. He uses underage girls. He is one of Danner’s contacts. Cheryl introduces the undercover detectives to him. Connie makes a deal with Starsky and Hutch (as Rafferty and O’Brien), but tries to cheat them. They cheat him back. Connie and his thugs try to beat up Starsky and Hutch in the alley behind Huggy’s. Connie is at the final raid at Danner’s. - Conrad (The Hostages) Tanner, Clay
Conrad is the one in charge of the gang. He rides with Tom Cole in the truck and tells everyone what to do. - Conrad, Alice K. (The Committee) May, Angela
She goes by the name of Ginger. Ginger listens at Nellie’s bar, a popular spot for cops, for disgruntlement. Ginger is being blackmailed to find the contacts for “The Committee.” Ginger tells Starsky she is a friend of Millie, the girl they saved from being raped. She invites Starsky to her apartment in order to have members of “The Committee” screen him. Hutch recognizes her as someone who was charged with a felony Bunko charge five years ago. He finds out the charge was reduced via Lieutenant Fargo of Internal Affairs. In the end, she helps them rescue Starsky. Ginger signs a statement that will help to convict the group of murder and attempted murder. Her rap sheet says she was arrested on June 26, 1976, was born in Dallas, Texas, on May 23, 1953, she has blue eyes, is 115 pounds, is 5’6,” and her address is 1233 East 31st. St. - Cookie (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) mentioned
He is the cook at the Thorne estate. Charlotte Connery tells Starsky and Hutch that she thinks he will help them with Thorne. - Coop (The Crying Child) Ronard, Jason
Coop works as a mechanic for “City Trucking.” He is a friend of Eddie Mayer, though it was Eddie who gave him a black eye the night before. Coop says Eddie is a good guy except when he is drunk. - Cooper, Dr. (The Plague) mentioned
Dr. Meredith asks a nurse to bring a test tube to Dr. Cooper. - Coppet, Judith (Starsky & Hutch Are Guilty) Danese, Shera
Coppet works at “Paradise Massage.” She has a criminal record which should have made it impossible for her to get a massage license. It was District Attorney Sharon Freemont who tweaked the rules for her. In exchange for this favor, she helps set up Starsky and Hutch by claiming they visited her and beat her up. Coppet has the wonderful line, “Hey, who are you calling a broad?” - Cora Lee (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Roberts, Francesca
Cora Lee is an old girlfriend of Huggy’s. She works at the “Funky Chicken,” a restaurant in Huggy’s old neighborhood. Big Red McGee is killed in front of the “Funky Chicken.” She is happy to see Huggy when he comes into the restaurant. She wants to help Huggy help get the money back that was stolen at the poker game. She recognizes a complicated food order and follows Dolphin to the hotel. She rides a yellow moped. Huggy remembers that her mother weighed over 300 pounds. Cora Lee’s mother hit Huggy for making out with Cora Lee on the couch when he was a kid. - Corday, Lieutenant Alec (Death in a Different Place) Gordon, Don
Corday works in the Narcotics department. Corday is crooked. Lieutenant John Blaine sees Corday in the lobby of the Francis Hotel making a drug deal with Orrin Lawford. Not wanting a witness, Corday smothers Blaine while Blaine is drunk and passed out in his room. Then Corday goes after Nick Hunter, who was with Blaine. After Hunter is arrested, Corday arranges for Orrin Lawford to bail him out. Corday hides in Lawford’s room and listens to Lawford and Hunter make a deal to keep Hunter quiet. Corday tries to kill Nick, but Nick escapes out the window. Corday then kills Lawford with a letter-opener. Starsky and Hutch are called to the scene. Corday tells them that Nick killed Lawford. Corday says he had busted Lawford several weeks ago and was meeting him to make a deal for the Narcotics unit. Starsky and Hutch become suspicious of Corday. Starsky and Hutch attempt to set Corday up with a plan at the Green Parrot. It goes badly, and Corday takes Sugar hostage. Corday is taken down after shooting up the bar while it is full of people. Starsky counts the number of bullets Corday shoots and decides the gun is empty. - Corman, Phil Detective (Snowstorm) Venture, Richard
He is a veteran officer. Corman is white and makes racist comments directed at his partner, Detective Burke, who is Black. Burke, Corman, and Detective Kalowitz work with Starsky and Hutch to break up the drug ring snitched on by Marty Crandell. Crandell hides a quarter of the drugs for himself. Corman shoots and kills a drug dealer named Crown. In the confusion, Corman steals Crown’s gun to use for later. Detective Corman later kills Crandell when he and Burke show up to collect the drugs. Corman and Burke hide the drugs at Corman’s cabin at Bear Lake. The two surprise Dobey by asking for a day off together. They go to Bear Lake to hide the drugs. Starsky and Hutch figure out the missing gun, and Hutch determines it isn’t trout fishing season. Starsky and Hutch go to Bear Lake and confront their fellow officers. There is a gun battle. Starsky shoots Burke in the arm and Hutch kills Corman. - Count (The Vampire) not credited
He is the caped man Starsky interviews before Supergnat. Starsky says he’s not credible. - Courey, Nacy (Murder Ward) mentioned
He or she is one of the reporters that wrote the article about Dr. Matwick. The name is seen on the clipping. - Coyle, Matt (Iron Mike) MacLean, Peter
Coyle owns “Coyle Provision.” It is a fine food supplier to restaurants and grocery stores. He was born in Jersey City, but has an Irish accent. Coyle runs drugs and stolen goods on the side. He also has some protection scams going on with certain businesses. He has a mutual agreement with Captain Mike Ferguson. Coyle supplies Ferguson with information about various criminal activities and Ferguson looks the other way with Coyle’s shady dealings. Coyle even turned in a man, Skinny Momo Mantel, who he liked and considered a son. Momo is spending ten years in jail. Coyle sends his “old lady” money every month. Coyle is having an affair with the wife of his right-hand man. The right-hand man is Johnny Lonigan and his wife is Laura. Ferguson is shot and, before he dies, he turns over his book to Starsky and Hutch, encouraging them to follow in his dealings with Coyle. Coyle tries to make the same deal he had with Ferguson with Starsky and Hutch. At first they decline, but then take him up on a trial offer, planning on bringing Coyle down later. Coyle gives them good information. They ask Coyle to turn in Johnny Lonigan, and he does. Starsky and Hutch use this willingness to get Lonigan to turn Coyle in, citing Coyle’s affair with Laura. Coyle has a spectacularly ugly bathrobe. He is left-handed. - Coyle, Billy (The Heavyweight) mentioned
Huggy remembers that Spenser fought Billy Coyle at Madison Square Gardens six years ago and knocked him out in the 8th round. - Crabtree, Abigail (The Deadly Impostor, Silence, Running, The Bounty Hunter, Vendetta) Foster, Ann
(The Deadly Imposter) Abby is a friend of Maggie McMillian. Maggie sends her to the station for a date with Starsky. Starsky, thinking her name means she’s another old lady, asks Hutch to cover for him. Hutch ends up with Abby, a young woman, instead. (Silence) credited only. (Running) Hutch brings clothes over to Sharman who is at Starsky’s apartment. He says that Abby picked the clothes out. Hutch says Abby had to guess at the sizes. Abby herself is not seen. (The Bounty Hunter) Abby is at the police cafeteria eating lunch with Starsky and Hutch. She and Hutch talk about their 48-hour fast over the weekend. In the tag, Abby serves Starsky and Hutch a salad. Starsky complains to Hutch that it isn’t steak and potatoes. Abby mixes up a health shake, but Starsky gives his to Hutch. (Vendetta) Abby is at a picnic with Hutch. They talk about going back to his place, but Starsky’s girlfriend runs up and tells them about a call on the radio. Later, Abby has lunch with Starsky and Hutch and pesters him about showing up for supper on time. That night at Hutch’s place, she is talking on the phone to her friend, Donna. It sounds like she is going to give Hutch some sort of ultimatum. She is setting the table when Tommy Marlowe busts in. He assaults her. In the tag, her arm is in a sling. She and Hutch are on a picnic. Abby tells him the thing with Marlowe really scared her and she is leaving. Her brother is waiting for her in his car. After she leaves, Starsky tells Hutch she had already told him she was leaving. Abby likes Norwegian cheese. - Crabtree, Abigail’s Brother (Vendetta) mentioned
Abby tells Hutch she called her brother and that he is coming to take her home. Her brother drives a white VW bug. He honks at her at the park. - Craig, Eunice (Pariah) Haynes, Hilda
Eunice is Lonnie Craig’s mother. She understands that Lonnie had gotten into some bad stuff. Starsky goes to visit her house after Lonnie’s service. She agrees to help Starsky find Lonnie’s killer. Starsky apparently visits her later. She gives him a recipe for banana daiquiris. Starsky says Eunice Craig drinks one every day. - Craig, Lonnie Malcolm (Pariah) not credited
Lonnie is the 16-year-old son of Eunice Craig. He hadn’t been in any trouble until a year ago. He was known as a loner. Lonnie’s cousin tells Starsky he tried to break up the friendship between Tramaine and Lonnie. Lonnie and Joseph Tramaine rob a liquor store and shoot a cop. Starsky chases Lonnie out the back and tells him to stop. Lonnie turns to shoot Starsky, and Starsky shoots him dead. Starsky is cleared of wrongdoing in Lonnie’s death. After Starsky is cleared, George Prudholm uses the whole thing as an excuse to kill other cops. Prudholm wants Starsky to resign. - Cramer, Miss (Targets Without a Badge, Part 3) mentioned
Bates calls Miss Cramer on the phone. He arranges for a plane ticket and money to be waiting for her at a hotel. - Crandell, Marty (Snowstorm) Dzundza, George
Crandell is one of Stryker’s hired men. To avoid drug charges, he becomes a snitch for Starsky and Hutch, tipping them off about a cocaine buy. He is also secretly working with Detectives Corman and Burke. The three of them plan to siphon off some of the drugs before they get to Stryker. Crandell hides a quarter of the shipment worth $1 million. After the drug bust, Dobey has Starsky and Hutch make Crandell snitch for them further by threatening him with rape charges involving a 17-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. Crandell is double-crossed by Burke and Corman. Corman shoots and kills him. Crandell lives at 211 Frontal Road. He has a lot of nudie magazines. Hutch comments that Crandell has a lot of Smell-Well, a hair product. - Crane, Sharman (Running) Smithers, Jan
Sharman and Starsky were in 9th grade woodshop class for one semester. She doesn’t remember him. Her father died, her mother re-married, and they moved away after the 9th grade. Sharman became a top model in New York. Her first husband died in Vietnam, and she lost their stillborn baby. Her second husband, Tony, committed suicide after getting caught stealing money from his job. Two months before the episode, Sharman disappeared. DuBois steals her inscribed bracelet and Starsky recognizes it from a robbery. He and Hutch locate Sharman, now almost always drunk. Starsky takes her to his place, against Hutch’s wishes, to “dry her out,” and to protect her from the media as well as DuBois. Starsky takes her back to her parents in the end. - Crane, Sharman’s father (Running) mentioned
Starsky tells Hutch Sharman’s dad died while she was in the 9th grade and that Sharman and her mother moved away. - Crane, Sharman’s mother (Running) Netherly Byrd, Miriam
Sharman’s mother moves away after her husband died when Sharman was thirteen years old. Sharman’s mother remarries. She’s been ill, Dobey notes, possibly from worrying about her daughter. Sharman calls her from Starsky’s place to tell her she’s okay. - Crane, Sharman’s first husband (Running) mentioned
He dies in Vietnam. Three months later, Sharman delivers their baby, stillborn. - Crane, Sharman’s second husband, Tony (Running) mentioned
Tony and Sharman married a year ago. Six months ago, Tony committed suicide. It was discovered he had been embezzling money from his employers. He is the one who gives the diamond bracelet to Sharman. - Crane, Sharman and Tony’s baby (Running) mentioned
This baby is stillborn three months after Tony is killed in Vietnam. - Crane, Sharman’s stepfather (Running) not credited
He is standing with his wife when Starsky brings Sharman home. - Crazy Sammy Pearl (Targets Without a Badge, Part 3) mentioned
Pearl is someone Starsky and Allison May both remember from their New York days. Starsky reminds Allison of Pearl and how he threw himself out of a window without injury. It is what helped Starsky and Allison get away from Soldier. - Creepy Charley (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky mentions that Creepy Charlie seemed surprised to see him. It might be the same Charlie that Starsky greets in the bar where Fat Rolly is. - Crenshaw (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) McLeod, Duncan
Crenshaw is one of C.J. Woodfield’s thugs. - Crimmons, Lieutenant (Death Notice) mentioned
He works for the Las Vegas Police. Starsky calls him on the phone and gets information about the death of Jack Thorn. - Cronin (Death Notice) Hicks, Chuck
Cronin is one of Delano’s bodyguards. At the meatpacking plant, Starsky dumps him into a dumpster. - Crow, R.J. (Bloodbath) Brown, James
He is the owner of the ’Pinion Pine Ranch’ outside of L.A. He let Simon Marcus’ people stay on his land for a while because he was getting sexual favors from the women. Crow tells the cult to leave when they start killing his cattle. Hutch finds Crow digging a hole to bury a prize bull. Crow doesn’t tell Hutch much and is killed when his barn blows up. - Crown, Edward (Snowstorm) not credited
Crown was one of Stryker’s thugs. He was part of a gang moving a shipment of cocaine. Other members of the gang are Marty Crandell, Freddie, and Rogers. Crown is shot and killed by Detective Corman during the drug bust. Corman steals Crown’s gun off the scene and uses it later to kill Crandell. - Cruiser (The Heavyweight) Minor, Bob
He is one of Gavin’s hired thugs. His fellow thug is Berl. He and Berl killed the undercover detective, Frank Marchetti, while Marchetti was investigating a warehouse on the docks. - Cubby (Starsky’s Brother) mentioned
Stryker believes Cubby is snitching on him to Starsky and Hutch and orders Cubby “taken care of.” - Cunningham, Jack (The Collector) Viharo, Robert
His real name is John Gallagher. His rap sheet says he is 35 years old, has brown eyes, and is 165 pounds. He was raised in a convent in San Francisco called ’Sisters of Hope’ where Sister Theresa Margaret beat him. His father smuggled him out of the convent in a suitcase. Cunningham is wanted for shooting a man in Tuscan a year earlier and shooting a man in Phoenix a month ago. He is wanted for 43 burglaries, four counts of armed robbery, and is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. Cunningham shoots Joe Garras for his book and uses the book to infiltrate Annie Oate’s home in order to steal her money. He threatens Lee Bristol through his daughter and blows up the bathroom at Frank Carroll’s bar, both tactics to get loans repaid. He smears meat on his gun to trick Oate’s dog. He claims he can see and hear a woman’s unborn child. - Cunningham, Jack’s father (The Collector) mentioned
Jack says his father snuck him out of the convent he was raised in by hiding him in a suitcase. Jack says his father didn’t want him to be an altar boy. - Cutler, Albert (Murder Ward) Sullivan, J. Christopher
He is probably credited only. Perhaps originally he was another patient or the person Switek talks to on the phone.
D
“You know what the worse thing about being a cop’s wife? It’s waiting.”
(The Plague)
If you are looking for Dobey’s relatives, see Inner Circle Relatives.
- Daimier (The Action) Alaimo, Marc
He is Glace Hilliard’s right-hand man. He is on the semi with Starsky and Hutch. Tori gets him a coke. - Damien (The Las Vegas Strangler) Lussier, Robert
It not clear who this character is. - Damon (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Baker, Lenny
He is Avery Schiller’s thug and go between. He meets “Carlyle” at Chez Moi. He is impressed by Carlyle’s cold-bloodedness. - Dan (Texas Longhorn) mentioned
He is the medical examiner who will do the report on Emma Lou Tyler. The officer says Dan will “fill you in at the post.” - Danner (The Bait) MacCaulay, Charles
Danner is a big time drug dealer. One of his thugs is Billy Harkness. Danner owns a legitimate business that handles rare stamps and coins. Danner is lured in by the offer of the Hawaiian Missionary stamp, one of two in existence. - Danny (The Velvet Jungle) Carey, Timothy
He is the racist pancake-maker that Starsky and Hutch question about Helena. - Daveen, Danny (Quadromania) King, Freeman
Daveen is a drug pusher. Starsky picks him up in his cab. Daveen tries to sell Starsky drugs. Starsky recognizes the medallion around Daveen’s neck and arrests him for the cabbie murders. Daveen says he found the medallion in the trash. - Davidowsky, (Dandruff) Aubuchon, Jacques
Davidowsky is one of the four bidders for the diamond collection. His signal to hotel security is a watch. The Baron drugs him and knocks him out in an effort to bug his briefcase. He doesn’t win the auction. - Davisson, Officer Helen (Lady Blue) Foster, Ann
Davisson is a former girlfriend of Starsky’s. They used to talk about having children. Starsky tells Hutch he and Davisson argued a lot. Starsky and Davisson broke it off five months ago. While it appears she quit the force two months ago, she is really undercover at the “Mellow Yellow” where she is posing as a dancer. She is trying to crack a burglary ring. Davisson’s body is found wrapped in antenna wire. She is one of the victims of James Wrightwood. Davisson tells her friend, Cindy, that “once she made a mistake.” This sends Starsky out to brood in his car. The character is portrayed in a photograph by the same actress that plays Abby Crabtree. - Day, Officer (The Bounty Hunter) Kirby, Jack
He helps guard Monty Vorhees. Starsky gives him the diamonds to take to “Property.” - Day, Ed (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Soul, David
Day is Hutch’s undercover character. Day is a garbage truck company owner. His partner is Fred Knight. - DeAppoliso, John (The Collector) Devito, Danny
DeAppoliso runs a newspaper and magazine stall in Hutch’s neighborhood. He also makes book and sends people looking to borrow money towards Annie Oates’ collector. He knew about Joe Garras’ gambling addiction and says he refused to deal with him. His nickname is John John the Apple. - Debbie (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Feuer, Debra
Debbie is a girl on Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island helping Charlotte Connery hide the death of William Thorne. - Debra (The Set-Up) MacRae, Heather
Debra is another brainwashed victim. She thinks Starsky, Hutch, and Terry killed twenty people, including her brother. She pretends to have car trouble and asks the three men for help. Then she leaves and the car blows up. - Debra’s brother (The Set-Up) mentioned
Debra thinks Starsky, Hutch, and Terry killed twenty people, including her brother. She has been brainwashed to think this. It is the reason she tries to kill Starsky, Hutch, and Terry Nash. - Decker, Marty (Discomania) Zmed, Adrian
Decker is a patron of “Fever.” He is also a pickpocket. After he wins a dance contest with Lizzie Thorpe, he steals some things from Tony Mariposa. When Starsky and Hutch arrest him and find the bracelet with the name Sharon on it, they think Decker is the killer. Decker is kept in jail overnight. He is the only character, besides Starsky and Hutch, to pick up the pig bank on their desk. - Dee (The Velvet Jungle) mentioned
Dee is at the fashion show rehearsal. Lou tells her, “C’mon we don’t have much time.” - Deek, Charles (Murder Ward) Dammett, Blackie
Deek is a killer and a patient at Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. Starsky and Hutch were his original arrestors. They don’t recognize him because he used to have long hair and a beard. Deek blackmails Matwick for drugs, telling him he knows Starsky and Hutch are cops. Deek attacks Hutch after Matwick drugs him. - DeFusto, Theresa (Shootout) Walton, Jess
DeFusto is a waitress at an Italian restaurant. She got the job after being approached by the mob with a deal to avenge her younger brother’s death. The mob also threatens her mother. DeFusto’s job is to call Lockely and Martin when she knows Vic Monte is coming in to eat. She knows the two men will come to kill Monte, but thinks only he will be hurt. Her boyfriend is Jimmy Lee Carson. DeFusto, upon discovering she is in deeper than she thought, helps Hutch bring down Lockely and Martin. DeHaven, Henry (Bust Amboy) not credited - DeFusto, Theresa’s brother (Shootout) mentioned
He was not quite twenty years old. Some mobsters killed him three months ago. - DeFusto, Theresa’s mother (Shootout) mentioned
Mobsters threaten to kill Theresa’s mom if Theresa doesn’t help them kill Vic Monte. - DeHaven, Mrs. (Bust Amboy) Marshall, Trudi
She is Amboy’s guest at his restaurant. She is dining with Amboy and her husband when Starsky and Hutch come to harass Amboy. - DeHaven, Mr. Henry (Bust Amboy) not credited
He is Amboy’s guest at his restaurant. He is dining with his wife and Amboy when Starsky and Hutch come to harass Amboy. - Delacourt, Father (Terror on the Docks) Fox, John J.
Delacourt is the priest who is going to perform Billy and Nancy’s wedding. He teases Starsky about his clothes. - Delaney, Medical Examiner (The Avenger) Cyphers, Charles
Delaney is the medical examiner who examines Phil’s body. He isn’t forthcoming with information and seems put out about how much Hutch knows about Phil’s wounds. - Delano, (The Trap) Geary, Anthony
Delano is one of the hit men hired by Johnny Bagley to help kill Starsky and Hutch. Delano’s partner is Trayman. - Delano, David (Death Notice) Brooke, Walter
Delano owns a meat-packing plant. Starsky and Hutch know of his criminal reputation. Delano’s thug kills Jack Thorn at a party. The witness to the killing blackmails Delano. Delano’s thug keeps killing the wrong girl. Delano is caught when he goes to meet Jerry Neilan at Golf World. - De Meo (The Psychic) Keenan, Michael
He owns the car wash where Julio used to work. Starsky and Hutch go to question De Meo. They threaten De Meo, saying they will call Immigration. - Denny (Bust Amboy) Worth, Nick
Denny is one of Amboy’s thugs. - Desmond, William Michael (Terror on the Docks) McHattie, Stephen
Billy works on the docks. He is engaged to marry Nancy Blake, an old friend of Hutch’s. Nancy has been unknowingly providing Billy and his gang of thieves information they use to rob the incoming ships. Starsky and Hutch are called in to solve the dock robberies. They discover that Billy used to be an Eagle Scout, but ended up going to prison for just over two years for armed robbery. Billy kills Ted Banks and Detective Jameson. He leaves gum wrappers folded in a certain way at the crime scene, a clue Starsky picks up on. Starsky and Hutch confront Billy, and then eventually apprehend him. - Dewey (Manchild on the Streets) Bagley, Fuddle
Dewey is Jackson Walter’s friend. His car is stolen by a hype and used in a robbery. When Dewey drives Walters to work, cops recognize the car and chase him. Dewey, drunk and afraid, tries to outrun them. Walters tries to keep Dewey from getting shot by a racist, overeager cop and ends up dead instead. - Dicario, Louie (The Golden Angel) Soul, David
Dicario is the disguise Hutch uses in the fight. Dicario is referee. - Dierdre (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Marlowe, Nora
Deirdre is one of Ramon’s students at Ginger’s dance studio. She likes it when Ramon dips her. - Dinty (Dandruff) Arnold, Madison
Dinty is one of the Baron’s thugs. His partner is Ellis. Dinty and Ellis blow up the computer security system, attack Buddy Owens and try to steal the diamonds. - Dirkson, Officer (Ballad for a Blue Lady) mentioned
Starsky asks Dirkson, while they are at Metro, if he has “got a line yet on Casey O’Connor.” - Dirty Nellie (The Committee) Martin, Helen
Nellie owns a bar where cops like to eat. She talks about the pet rock she bought from Huggy and listens to Starsky complain about the judicial system. - Dixie (Jojo) Farese, Jude
Dixie is one of Dombarris’ thugs. He and Jojo run the pharmacy robbery. Dixie and Jojo are arrested. Dixie is released on $10,000 bail. Dombarris sends Dixie, Sulko, and Jojo to Elaine Stroud’s place. Dixie is captured at the Tennessee Trailer Court. - Dixon, Officer (Texas Longhorn) mentioned
Hutch talks to him about Huey Chaco. He works in Lock-Up. - Doc (Omaha Tiger) mentioned
Hutch talks to Doc on the phone at his desk. He tells Starsky Doc’s conclusions about Mac Johnson’s death. - Dobey, Rosie (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Touchstone, Claire
See Before They Were Cops - Dobey, Cal (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Sutter, Eric
See Before They Were Cops - Dobey, Edith (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Hamilton, Lynn
See Before They Were Cops - Dobson, Officer Chuck (Strange Justice) Baker, Tom
Dobson has known Dan Slate since Dobson was a rookie seven years ago. Dobson tries to keep Slate from seeing his daughter in the squad room, reporting her rape. Dobson is tricked by Slate into killing Biggs. - Doc (The Specialist) not credited
He’s the Medical Examiner at Gigi’s Place who tells Hutch about the poison that killed Carl. Hutch probably calls all the doctors “Doc.” - Dodds, FBI. Agent (Targets Without a Badge Part 3) Young, Ben
He heads up the Federal Agents in the whole area. Smithers and Waldheim’s boss. He was unaware of what his two men were up to in the Judge McClellen case. - Dodsman, Claire (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Shay, Dorothy
Claire is a dance student at the studio. She sleeps with Carl Starger and then is blackmailed. - Dodsman, Mr. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
He is Claire Dodsman’s husband. Charlie interrupts his dance with Marsha. He takes her home after her encounter with her blackmailers. She tells him she’s not feeling well. - Doe, Mr. John and his Family (Targets Without a Badge, Part 3) mentioned
Starsky and Hutch mention the name as an example of the people McClellan has been taking advantage of with is FHA scheme. - Dombarris, Nick (Jojo) Riesel, Robert
Dombarris is a drug dealer. He is the main target of a bust the feds are trying to set up. The bust goes bad when Starsky and Hutch jump in to stop a rape. Dombarris’ thugs are Jojo, Dixie, and Sulko. Dombarris bails Dixie out of jail, but leaves Jojo in, as he is suspicious of him. Dombarris offers to set Jojo up with a car scam guy, but sends him to kill his old girlfriend instead. Dombarris is killed in a shootout at the boat yard. Hutch fires the killing shot. - Donahue, Dr. (The Game, Blindfold) mentioned
His or her name is heard over the hospital P.A. He or she is asked to call extension 276. - Donna (Vendetta) mentioned
Donna is the person Abby Crabtree is talking to on the phone. Abby calls her while she is preparing Hutch’s dinner. Abby appears to be talking to Donna about the amount of time Hutch spends at work. - Donner, Lieutenant Jake (The Plague) Mathews, Walter
Donner has been doing some work in Europe. Starsky and Hutch meet him at the airport. Donner complains a few days later of feeling ill. He collapses at work and dies of the plague at the hospital. His wife, Virginia, wasn’t with him when he died. Starsky and Hutch take Donner’s book and try to track down all the people with whom he was in contact. - Donner, Virginia (The Plague) Norwick, Natalie
Virginia is Jake Donner’s wife. She says she’s always been afraid for him in his job. Hutch comforts her when she learns her husband has died. The doctor gives her a sedative to help her calm down. - Doors, Johnny (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Picerni, Paul
Doors is referred to as the West Coast Godfather. He is on Thorne’s board of directors and considers himself a friend. He comes to visit Thorne because he is worried about him. Starsky and Hutch suspect Doors is trying to take over, but he denies this claim. Papa Theodore has put him under a curse. After asking for help from Starsky and Hutch, Doors runs out into the street and is killed by a car. - Doris, Officer (Texas Longhorn) mentioned
Doris works in R & I. - Dorothy (The Velvet Jungle) mentioned
She is one of the workers at the fashion show rehearsal. Lou says, “I don’t have time to talk; talk to Dorothy.” - Douglas, Isaac (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) mentioned
Douglas was one of Dobey’s good friends. He was civil rights leader who was planning a march to protest how city contracts were awarded. He was killed by one of Woodfield’s thugs. Douglas is only seen in photos, though is portrayed by the same actor who played R.C. - Doyle, Mrs. (Dandruff) Auerbach, Stefanie
It is not clear who this character is. - Drew, Federal Agent Alexander (The Specialist) Fabiani, Joel
Alex is a government special agent who is an expert in weapons. He works out of Washington. When his wife, Janice, is accidentally killed in a police shooting gone bad, Alex’s paranoid tendencies cause him to start murdering the four officers involved. He kills two of the cops and goes after Starsky and Hutch. His boss knew of Alex’s instability and didn’t do enough to stop him. Drew is captured after he kidnaps Officer Hagen and lures Starsky and Hutch to an abandoned oil field. - Drew, Janice (The Specialist) Britt, Melendy
Janice is traveling with her husband, Alex. She has asked him not to carry a gun on their visit to Bay City. She tells Alex she doesn’t want to go shopping, as she has enough clothes. Janice is accidentally shot during a robbery. It is never revealed which of the four officers the bullet came from. Her body is shipped back to Washington D. C. Her death makes Alex go on his revengeful killing spree. - Dryden, Officer (Hutchinson for Murder One) Duke, Bill
Dryden works in Internal Affairs. He is tall and wears a bowtie. He and his partner, Simonetti, investigate Hutch for Vanessa’s murder. Dryden seems willing to listen to Hutch, but Simonetti is determined to put Hutch away. Dryden goes with Starsky to arrest Hutch. Starsky cuffs Dryden to his table and they make their escape. - DuBois, Vernon (Running) Viharo, Robert
DuBois is a thief and a killer from Reno. He has terrorized Bay City, and his crimes are escalating. He breaks into Sharman Crane’s hotel room and steals her diamond bracelet. She sees him and he worries she’ll be able to identify him. DuBois takes the bracelet to Packrat’s place to fence. He kills Packrat in an altercation about how much the bracelet is worth. DuBois and Ella, his girlfriend, kill the janitor, Smitty, and set out to kill Sharman, too. Hutch shoots DuBois as he tries to escape. - Duke (The Las Vegas Strangler) Beard, Stymie
Duke is an older man. Huggy sends them to Duke’s used clothing store to get some high-roller clothes. Little do they know, Duke’s fashion sense is way out of date; the last time he was in Las Vegas was 1946. The only thing Duke says is, “That’s right.” - Duran (Little Girl Lost) Dimitri, Richard
Duran is one of the three men who robbed a jewelry salesman three years ago. His partners are Flent and Edwards. Edwards went to jail. Duran and Flent go to him after Edwards is released, asking for their share of the diamonds. Duran, an excitable fellow, shoots Edwards in the back. Duran and Flent then go after Edwards’s daughter. Duran dresses up as a priest and tricks her foster mother into letting him take her. - Durant, Mr. (Shootout) Arvan, Jan
He and his wife are two of the hostages in the Italian restaurant. They have no children. - Durant, Mrs. (Shootout) Hughes, Tresa
She and her husband are two of the hostages in the Italian restaurant. They have no children. - Durant’s friends (Shootout) mentioned
The Durants figure their friends won’t care if they die. - Durniak, Joseph (The Set-Up) Gazzo, Michael V.
Durniak is a mob boss. He has decided to testify at a Grand Jury and has been in protective custody for seven months. He doesn’t think he will survive the trial. Starsky and Hutch are part of a complicated plan involving semi trucks and secret messages, all designed to keep Durniak safe. They end up with Durniak in the back of their truck. Hutch and Durniak talk together while Starsky drives. Durniak knew Starsky’s father and tells him some things about him. He warns Starsky that some of this information will make Starsky unhappy. Durniak is shot when Starsky and Hutch are tricked into bringing him out the hotel’s front door. Before Durniak dies, he tells Starsky to have, “Joe Durniak, end of an era” put on his tombstone. - Duvall, Officer (The Plague) mentioned
Duvall works in Counterfeit. The grocer called him when Mrs. Yeager passed a hundred dollar bill.
E
“Oh, well, you know, that’s the trouble with you
younger generation. No respect for age.”
(Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
- Earl (Moonshine) McLaughlin, Lee
Starsky and Hutch get dust all over Earl’s clothes as they pull up to the Smokey Mountain Inn. When they go inside, it is Earl who introduces them and makes toasts with moonshine. - Easy (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) House, Dana
Easy is a woman working at the Playboy Hotel. She is helping Charlotte Connery hide the death of William Thorne. She helps Starsky and Hutch with the luggage. She also explains the hotel rules and gives Starsky and Hutch their messages. - Eberly, Sam (The Action) Caridi, Carmine
Eberly is one of Hilliard’s main men. He helps beat up Ted McDermott. - Eckworth, Lloyd Herman (Vendetta) Walsh, M. Emmet
Eckworth owns the “The Home Plate.” He used to be a utility infielder. Starsky tells Hutch that Eckworth was with the Yankees in 1949 and was traded to the Chicago White Socks in 1954. Eckworth’s lifetime batting average was 247. Starsky tells Eckworth that when was nine years old, he saw Eckworth play in the second half of a double-header during a hot summer. Eckworth made an out-of-the-park home run. Eckworth refuses the offer by Artie Solkin. Solkin has Tommy Marlowe break both of his legs. Eckworth tells Starsky and Hutch he doesn’t recognize Solkin in a line-up. Eckworth calls a woman named Janet while he is at the hospital asking for a ride home. - Ed (Savage Sunday) Wesson, Dick
Ed is a bookie at Monty’s Bar. His partner in crime is Marty. They think they need to offer Starsky and Hutch protection money. As soon as Starsky and Hutch leave, they call Ted at the body shop. Ed is the calmer of the two. He ups Marty’s protection money offer, suggesting $700. - Eddie (The Action) Geer, Leonard P.
He is a truck driver that follows the rolling crap game. He cuts off the police car following the truck, pretending his brakes are broken. Then he calls someone named Lenny to warn them they are being followed. - Edwards, Molly (Little Girl Lost) McNichol, Kristy
Edwards is the twelve-year-old daughter of Nicholas Edwards. She tells Starsky and Hutch she prefers the name “Pete.” Her father had served three years for jewel robbery and has been recently released. Molly is caught shoplifting food from a store. She slams Hutch’s finger in a door. Starsky and Hutch drive her home to talk to her father. She says he is out looking for work. It is obvious Mr. Edwards drinks too much and is not being a good father. Starsky talks to Edwards about their mutual love for baseball. He notes she is left-handed like he is. Molly gets a call from her father’s girlfriend telling her her father is dead, and Starsky and Hutch drive her to the alley where he has been killed. Molly meets Kiko and stays with Hutch overnight. The bad guys, one of whom pretends to be a priest, kidnap her from her foster family. After she escapes, she decides to be bait to reel the bad guys in. Hutch arranges, along with Perkowitz, to go live with Kiko and his mom. Molly hates pink, dresses, and football. She likes the same kinds of breakfasts that Starsky likes. - Edwards, Nicholas Allen (Little Girl Lost) Moody, King
Edwards is Molly Edward’s father. He was a partner with Flent and Nick Durant. They robbed a jewelry salesman of $125,000 of single diamonds. Nick had the diamonds and went to jail for three years. Edwards has been out of prison for two months. One of the first things he does is get his daughter out of foster care. His old partners come after him, looking for the diamonds. When he runs away, they shoot him dead. - Edwards, Officer (Birds of a Feather) mentioned
Edwards is guarding Palmer at the St. Francis Hotel. Luke Huntley relieves him at twelve o’clock. - Edwards, Officer (Pariah) Milton, David Scott
His character is never called by name. - Eileen (The Crying Child) Sudrow, Penelope
She is credited only. The character would have been a twelve-year-old girl, according to the actress’ age. She most likely would have been a friend of Vikki Mayer. - Elaine (Black and Blue) Baff, Regina
Elaine works with Mary at “Allied Answering Service.” She tells Starsky and Hutch she has no idea that her partner is doing criminal things. She has a daughter and an ex-husband. She says her ex-husband doesn’t pay her enough child support. - Elaine’s Daughter (Black and Blue) mentioned
She doesn’t get enough Twinkies. - Elaine’s Ex-Husband (Black and Blue) mentioned
Elaine complains he doesn’t pay enough in child support. - Eleanor (Targets Without a Badge, Part 3) mentioned
She is the mayor’s secretary. - Elena (The Velvet Jungle) not credited
Elena is Andrea Gutierrez’s cousin. They share an apartment together and work at the same garment factory. Harry Wheeling kills Elena in part of a blackmailing scheme gone wrong. Andrea witnesses the death and becomes a reluctant witness. The medical examiner suspects Elena is from Costa Rica. - Elexy, Jane (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
She is Pete Elexy’s wife. In the Wolf Pack’s prime, there was a party with all the members present. Many people were drunk. Wally went into the bedroom with Jane. The people heard a scream, and she fell out of a ten-story building. While not proven that he killed her, Wally went to prison, and his career was ruined. Wally tells Steve he “took the rap” for him. - Elexy, Pete (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
Pete Elexy was a movie art director. He was one of the members of the Wolf Pack. Other members of the group were Phil Lubeck, Phil Moxley, Wally Stone, Steve Hanson, and Julie West’s father. Wally supposedly killed Pete’s wife, Jane, by pushing her out of a window at ten stories. Pete Elexy was an art director. He was killed two years ago in Europe. The cause of death is not mentioned. - Elijah, Cousin (Losing Streak, The Hostages) mentioned
See Inner Circle Relatives - Eliza (Deckwatch) mentioned
Hannah Kannen mentions Eliza was her sister. - Ella (Running) Wood, Lana
Ella is Vern DuBois’ girlfriend. She drives the car when she and Vern are going somewhere. She shoots at Sharman Crane. - Ellis (Dandruff) Dammett, Blackie
He is one of the thugs hired by The Baron. His partner is Moon. He and Moon blow up the computer security system, attack Buddy Owen, and are supposed to steal the diamond collection. - Engie (The Action) LeBell, Gene
Engie (Engine) is Glade Hilliard’s thug. He beats up Ted McDermott. - Ethel (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead.) Raymond, Robin
Ethel is the older woman who runs the massage parlor that Leo Moon’s girlfriend worked at. Its address is 14th and Hudson. She passes on a phone message to Starsky and Hutch. She hits on Starsky. She is good at chess. - Evans (Gillian) Grossman, Teddy
He is one of Grossman’s two thugs. He is the curly-haired one who drives Al around, calls from the bowling alley, goes with Olga and Al to Gillian’s apartment, and who kills Lonely Bloggs. - Evans, Ginger (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Christie, Audrey
Evans is a famous dancer from old movies. Hutch says he remembers learning all her dances. It made him popular in high school. She was retired, but A. C. Chambers convinces her to open up a dance studio with him. While Chambers uses the studio for sexual blackmail, Evans knows nothing about the crimes. She is cleared of any wrongdoing in the end. - Evers, Miss (Targets Without a Badge, Part 2) Campbell, Catherine
Miss Evers is the woman who interviews Starsky for a job after he fills out the questionnaire at the agency he and Hutch go to. - Evers, Terry (Death Ride) Lewis, Mary
Evers is a disbursement clerk. Her desk is just outside Dobey’s office. Because of the nature of her work and her proximity to Dobey, she is able to hear a lot of confidential information. She becomes a snitch for Kester, relaying information about Mello to him by phone. She makes $140 a week in her job at the police department and drives a Cadillac.
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“We don’t overdose him. We string him out. We get him hung up on horse.
Pretty soon he’s gonna beg us to tell us where she is.”
(The Fix)
- Fancy Pants (The Fix) not credited
See Tiger - Fargo, Lieutenant (The Committee) Rocco, Alex
Fargo is the head of Internal Affairs. Dobey refers to Fargo as the “Original Centurion.” Fargo has been a cop for twenty-four years. He is divorced. There is a photo of a boy on his desk, which could be his son. He says his job has cost him his marriage as well as a lot of friends. He calls Starsky and Hutch to his office to hear Samuel Garner’s complaints. He appears to be a good cop, but he is secretly the head of a vigilante group called The Committee. This group has killed Adams, Blake, and Billings. Fargo uses Ginger, a woman he got out of jail, to help him. Fargo lets it slip to Dobey that he knows Ginger, which tells Dobey that Fargo knows Starsky is undercover on the case. Fargo tries to make Starsky shoot Garner and threatens to kill Starsky. - Farrino, Mac (Murder Ward) Glaser, Paul Michael
See Rudy Skyler. - Fat Moo Moo (The Psychic) Emmich, Cliff
Fat Moo Moo’s real name is Marshall Caifalno. He is from Philadelphia. His partner is Earl Pola. In Philadelphia, they kidnapped someone, killed the money drop guy after getting the cash, and their victim was never found. Fat Moo Moo and Pola plan the Haymes kidnapping. They enlist the help of Julio Gutierrez. They kill Julio, tie up Haymes and leave her in a truck in a scrap yard. Fat Moo Moo calls and demands a two hundred thousand dollar ransom. Hutch is the runner, and is given very specific directions for the drop. Fat Moo Moo shoots Hutch. Starsky chases down Fat Moo Moo and Pola’s car. He shoots the car and it explodes, killing both kidnappers. - Fat Rolly (Pilot, Texas Longhorn) Lerner, Michael
In the “Pilot,” Starsky and Hutch corner Rolly in a bar and try to find out why people are looking at Starsky with surprise. They take Rolly in on a public drunkenness charge after giving him six scotches that he drinks in five minutes. It is Fat Rolly, hired by Henderson, who hires Zane and Cannell. Henderson gives Rolly, who then gives the hit men, Starsky and Hutch’s locations. In “Texas Longhorn,” he is called Smelly Rolly. He is a fence and runs “Rolly’s Bargain Circus.” It is where Harris and Chaco fence the things they stole from the Tylers. He tells Starsky and Hutch his alibi is the married woman he is sleeping with. Before he can call Starsky and Hutch and tell them what he knows, the married woman’s husband shows up. The man beats Fat Rolly, putting him in the hospital. Starsky and Hutch visit him in the hospital, question and threaten him. He eventually tells Starsky and Hutch about Harris and Chaco. - Fat Rolly’s mother (Pilot) mentioned
Fat Rolly tells Starsky he swears “on his mother’s life.” Starsky says Fat Rolly doesn’t have a mother, that he was found in a trashcan behind “Weight Watchers.” Fat Rolly tells Hutch he is calling her to say he’ll be late for din-din. Perhaps her name is Mrs. Rolly? (wink) - Felicia (Targets Without a Badge, Part 2) not credited
She is an actress in Blaze’s sex movies. She asks for cigarettes, Blaze tells her they’ll wreck her teeth and she replies, “Honey, there not lookin’ at my teeth.” - Fellers, Vivian (Manchild on the Streets) Martin, Helen
Fellers is one of the witnesses to the alley shooting. She comes down to the station, and Hutch types up her report. She thinks the police won’t take her testimony seriously because she and Walters are black. She confronts Dobey with this opinion, and Dobey sets her straight. - Felton, George (Omaha Tiger) David, Thayer
Felton is trying to take over the businesses that work in the Olympic Arena. He has Tom Carniary, Mack Johnson, and Al Taft killed in an effort to get their contracts or cover up his crimes. Felton tries to kill Starsky and Hutch by first locking them in an airtight room, then by having them shot at the arena. Felton lent Carl Boyce a large amount of money to keep the stadium going in return for his cooperation. - Ferguson, Captain Mike (Iron Mike) Conrad, Michael
Ferguson’s nickname is “Iron Mike.” He is one of Dobey’s good friends. Ferguson has been a captain for about a year. He has been on the force for twenty-five years. Hutch has apparently worked under Ferguson, without Starsky, in the past and has less than fond memories of that time. Starsky and Hutch see Ferguson accept what looks to be a bribe from Matt Coyle. They suspect Ferguson is crooked. After the Darcy Department Store bust, they suspect Ferguson may be setting them up. Ferguson is shot on a raid. Before he dies, he hands over his black book, telling Starsky and Hutch to use the information in it and not be ashamed. Starsky and Hutch find out he was getting information from Coyle and using it to apprehend smaller crooks. In return, he looked the other way with Coyle’s crimes. - Ferrino, Max (Murder Ward) Glaser, Paul Michael
Freddie Lyle calls Skyler “Max Ferrino” and ties him in with the Sternwood case. - Fields (The Set-Up) Tanner, Clay
He is one of Stegner’s thugs. His partner is Bumper. - Fifi (The Deadly Impostor, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Hoven, Louise, Catlett, Mary Jo
Two different actresses portray Fifi. (The Deadly Impostor) She serves food at Hutch’s party, offering to stay late and help him clean up. Fifi answers the door and finds a bloody John Colby. Starsky threatens to hit her if she doesn’t shut up her piercing screams. Starsky sends her into the bathroom to get a washcloth. He slaps her butt. (Starsky & Hutch are Guilty) Fifi is Hutch’s housecleaner. She is supposed to clean once a week, on Wednesday. Hutch comes home to find her on a different day, doing his laundry. She tells him she was jogging by his place and decided to stop in. Hutch is not amused. Fifi tells him Starsky was by and dropped an envelope by the door. She recognizes Starsky’s car and hair, but doesn’t actually talk to him. Fifi wears a Charlie Brown sweatshirt. It says, “I need all the friends I can get” on the back. After Hutch gets her out the door, she comes back for her purse. She hands Hutch a pair of his shorts. - Fifth Avenue (Lady Blue) Bakey, Ed
Fifth Avenue is Wally’s brother. He is hard to get a hold of. Starsky and Hutch arrange a meet with him when they test drive one of Wally’s cars and abuse it. Fifth Avenue is an old-world jewelry thief. He prides himself by never having carried a gun. He is proud of his work and derides the amateurs working today. He promises to call Starsky and Hutch if he hears anything about any big jewelry heists. Fifth Avenue proves his pickpocketing skills by lifting Hutch’s watch. He returns the watch. He later calls Hutch and gives him information on Solenko. - Fingers (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Ferguson, Jessie Lawrence
Fingers and Sour Joe are two thugs. They work Huggy’s old neighborhood. When they see Huggy back on their streets, they hassle him. Washington steps in and scares them off. - Fingers (I Love You, Rosey Malone) mentioned
He misdials and calls the station at 9:00 am. Hutch takes the call and tells Starsky Fingers was looking for a massage. - Fireball (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Crothers, Scatman
Starsky and Hutch find Fireball playing invisible baseball with Huggy on a vacant lot. He seems to be mentally damaged, but alert. He is a sometimes snitch for Starsky and Hutch. He says he has seen Jerry Tabor and points out the Adams Hotel across the street. Starsky and Hutch humor him with some invisible baseball talk. They pay him some money. - Fitch, Joseph (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Throne, Malachi
Fitch is a big-time crime boss. He runs the blues bar where Marianne Owens sings. He and Marianne’s brother, Harry, have some history. Fitch makes Harry use his sister to lure Charlie Baron into a room, where Baron is killed. Baron and Benny Paycheck, another man Fitch has killed, are both witnesses in an upcoming Grand Jury case. After he discovers Hutch is an undercover cop, he tells Harry his sister has to be killed for her involvement with him. He gives Harry the impression he has been talked out of having Marianne killed. It is really a test to see if Harry is still loyal. Fitch orders Hutch’s beating. - Fitzgerald, Lionel III (Quadromania) Lynch, Richard
Lionel is a theater actor. His father was also an actor and is deceased. Two years ago, after a smash debut at the Savoy Theater, a car hit Lionel. It was a hit-and-run, and the driver was drunk. The car was an old checkered cab from the Metro Cab Company. Lionel was badly injured. He lost his right arm and walks with a limp. He spent two years at County General Hospital. Lionel has a fake, silver arm that is very strong. After being released, he goes to live with his blind grandfather, who was also a theater actor. Lionel then starts to take revenge on whoever is driving old checkered cabs, killing the drivers at the scene of his original accident. Lionel uses a variety of disguises. He lies to his grandfather about where he is at nights, saying he is acting at the Savoy again. After Starsky and Hutch visit, his grandfather catches on that something is wrong. Lionel ties his grandfather up and stuffs him in a trunk. Lionel dresses up as an old lady. He is Starsky’s last call after a long night. Lionel asks Starsky to turn his radio off and drive him to the park. He tries to strangle Starsky. Starsky escapes, and Lionel follows him into an alley. Lionel is a quoting Shakespearean mess by the time Hutch and K.C McBride come to the rescue. - Fitzgerald, Lionel II (Quadromania) mentioned
He was an actor as well. He died at a relatively young age, apparently from too much alcohol and messing around with women. - Fitzgerald, Lionel Sr. (Quadromania) McLiam, John
He is Lionel III’s grandfather. Lionel calls him Gramps. Gramps is blind and a retired theater actor. He likes to play chess. He does his grandson’s make-up. He and Lionel III live together. Lionel III moved in after his accident. Gramps believes his grandson has been acting in the theater for the past two years. After a visit from Starsky and Hutch, he becomes aware his grandson is not only lying about acting again, but is suspected of murder. He helps Hutch find after Hutch finds him locked up in a trunk. - Flent (Little Girl Lost) Bennett, Matt
Flent is partners with Duran and Nick Edwards. All three robbed a jewelry salesman and got away with one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars worth of loose diamonds. Nick ended up with the diamonds but went to jail for three years. Flent and Duran wait for him to get out, then go after him for the gems. Duran shoots and kills Nick before he can tell them the diamond’s location. Flent and Duran go after Nick’s daughter. They search her apartment and kidnap her. Flent carries a man-purse for his gun. He is calmer than Duran. - Fletcher, Marcie (Photo Finish) Lind, Brit
Fletcher is Starsky’s girlfriend and is a freelance photographer. She works for Paula who runs public relations company. She takes Starsky to a party she is working. It is a gathering for Troy Braddock, a big-name painter. Braddock is shot during his speech. Fletcher, who has been taking photos, realizes she has a photo of Braddock as he is killed. She tricks Starsky and doesn’t give him the film, instead calling News World Magazine and getting a good deal there. She compares her picture to the famous Jack Ruby-Harvey Oswald photo. The killer, realizing the implications of the photo, ransacks her darkroom, but doesn’t get the evidence. Fletcher is nearly killed in a hit-and-run attempt. She ends up cooperating with Starsky and Hutch, luring the killer to Monk’s house. She, Paula, Starsky, and Hutch celebrate with champagne at The Pits. - Flynn, Sharon (The Las Vegas Strangler) Berry, Victoria Ann
Flynn is a chorus girl and the first victim of the Las Vegas Strangler. She was dating Lieutenant Tom Cameron for about six months, but leaves him for Jack Mitchell. She and Cameron had a lot of arguments. Flynn was killed a few days after she started seeing Mitchell. It is her death that makes Cameron focus his investigation on Mitchell. - Flower (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) mentioned
Flower is a woman working at the Playboy Hotel. She helps carry Starsky and Hutch’s luggage. - Floyd, Henry Malcom (The Specialist) Ziggarelli, Anthony
Yes, it is spelled “Malcom” on the arrest report. His nickname is Flashy Floyd. Floyd has been out of prison for a month. During his trial, he threatened Officer ’Mack’ McDermott, making him a suspect in McDermott’s recent death. Starsky and Hutch go to visit him at the “Chapel of Body Invigoration.” Floyd shows them a Las Vegas hotel receipt as proof he didn’t kill McDermott. - Flynn, Sharon (The Las Vegas Strangler) Berry, Victoria Ann
She is one of the dancers Pruitt kills. Her sister has borrowed her car. - Flynn, Sharon’s Sister (The Las Vegas Strangler) mentioned
Sharon’s sister borrowed Sharon’s car. - Foote, Gordon (Losing Streak) Kazann, Zitto
Foote is Garth White’s main thug. He and his partner, Lemke, rough up Vic Rankin’s wife, Evelyn, in their effort to locate Vic. He punches Starsky in the face in the end, making him loose a tooth. He wears a fabulous suit. - Forbes, Helen (Omaha Tiger) Babcock, Barbara
She used to be married. It is unclear if she is divorced or widowed. She is the owner of the Olympic Wrestling Arena, a business she inherited. Her business manager is Carl Boyce. He has brought the arena out of the red and into the black, but through illegal means. Forbes is unaware of his criminal dealings. Eddie Bell has a crush on her. She offers to buy Starsky and Hutch dinner in the end. - Forbes, Millicent (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) mentioned
Forbes lives in Oklahoma. Her husband’s name is John. She lets her friend, Marianne Tustin, use her name to go undercover at the dance studio. - Forentic, Jojo (Jojo) Davies, Stephen
Jojo is a rapist. He has attacked several girls. One of his shticks is to spray his victims’ chests with orange spray paint. Starsky and Hutch interrupt the Dombarris bust to keep Jojo from raping again. Bettin, the fed in charge of the bust, gets Jojo out of jail in hopes Dombarris can be captured. Starsky and Hutch are ordered to stay away from Jojo, but they don’t. Jojo calls up Linda Mascelli, the victim who agrees to testify against him, and harasses her. Dombarris has Sulko and Dixie drive Jojo, whom he suspects of double-crossing him, to Elaine Stroud’s house. He tells Jojo to kill Elaine. Later, Sulko kills Jojo and makes it look like Mascelli did it. - Forest, Ben (The Fix) Loggia, Robert
Forest is a big crime boss. He is used to getting what he wants. When his girlfriend, Jeanie Walton, runs away from him, he goes after Hutch. Hutch has been hiding her from Forest. Forest kidnaps Hutch and has his thugs string Hutch out on heroin. Forest hopes withholding heroin from Hutch will make him tell where Walton is. He gets Walton back and promises her he will let Hutch go. Forest then orders his thugs to kill Hutch. After Hutch escapes, Forest orders his main thug, Monk, to find him at all costs. After Monk fails and is killed, Starsky and Hutch apprehend Forest at his house. - Forrest, Officer Jack (Pariah) Monde, Arthur
Forrest is the second policeman Prudholm kills. He and his partner are called to investigate a report of an abandoned baby at a gas station. A bomb in the bathroom kills him. An officer he went to the academy with, Lee, takes up a collection for his wife and two children. - Forsythe, Miss (Pilot) not credited
Forsythe is Mark Henderson’s secretary. She sits at her desk outside his office. Forsythe gives him the message that Zane Cannell called and wants a new trial. - Fortune, Joey (Murder at Sea) Ferrer, Jose
Fortune is a big crime boss. He comes aboard the Amapola cruise ship for a big meeting with Marty Simon, Jack Patches, Gus Trainer, Patsy Cairo, Nicky Cairo, and Oscar Nash. All the men were set up in their business by Fortune. Fortune wants back into the business. The men vote and want to give him more money instead, giving him no say in the business. He turns the tables on them by rigging up the ship with bombs. He plans on making his escape with Nicky Cairo and Jenson. Helen Carnoffsky shoots Fortune, wanting to kill him. She gets him in the arm. She is taking revenge for her father, a big union leader Fortune killed. Fortune says he remembers her from her father’s funeral. Fortune and his two thugs try to escape in a dune buggy across the Mexican desert. - Fosdick (The Groupie) as himself
Fosdick is Melinda’s dog. He drinks Hutch’s drink. - Fox, Squire (Bust Amboy) not credited
Starsky and Hutch recognize Squire Fox at Amboy’s. He smuggles liquor and cigarettes and is a small time thug. Amboy uses Fox to distract Starsky and Hutch from Amboy’s activities. Starsky and Hutch capture Goose and Fox as they chase down the Amboy Catering van. - Francine (Death Notice) Kelly, Roz
Francine is a stripper at the Panama Club. Hutch interviews her and finds out about the party that Jack Thorn was at. - Frank (Death Notice) not credited
Frank is a butcher who works for Delano at “Superior Meats.” Delano tells him to cut two hundred ribs. - Frank (Moonshine) Collins III, Johnnie
Frank is originally from Kentucky. His brother’s name is Virgil. He and Virgil are stealing sugar from a warehouse. They have both been drinking bad moonshine. It has been cut with wood alcohol. Starsky and Hutch chase after them while they are driving away. Both Frank and Virgil die the next day in the hospital. Dobey refers to them as plowboys. The Ivers, their bosses, ship their bodies back to Kentucky to be buried. - Frankie (Pilot) Jump, Gordon
He is the owner of “Frankie’s” gym where Hutch is a member. He says he doesn’t know what Starsky and Hutch do for a job, and he doesn’t care either. He makes fun of Hutch about his junker car. He also requires Hutch to pay up his gym dues, something Hutch makes Starsky do. He mysteriously becomes Vinnie in “The Deadly Imposter.” - Frankie (The Heroes) Holt, Nick
Frankie is an ex-con out on parole. Starsky, Hutch, and Chris see him in O’Reilly’s bar. He leans over and complains to Chris about Starsky and Hutch’s methods. Starsky threatens to tell the other patrons what Frankie was doing time for. - Franklin, Barney (The Set-Up) mentioned
Franklin is a contact of Hutch’s. He works at the 22nd Precinct. Hutch calls him for information about the shooting Terry Nash describes. Franklin says there was no such thing. - Franklin, Dr. (A Coffin for Starsky) Byrd, David
Franklin is the kindly doctor who treats Starsky at the hospital after Vic Bellamy’s attack. - Freddie (Snowstorm) Bohan, Jim
Freddie is one of Stryker’s thugs. He wears a bolo tie and has a Texan accent. After Rogers misses the rooftop hit on Starsky and Hutch, Freddie and Roger kidnap Huggy and use him to lure Starsky and Hutch to the room over The Pits. Starsky and Hutch rescue Huggy, shoot Freddie, and get Rogers to tell them about Stryker. Freddie is on a diet and refuses Stryker’s offer of cheese. Note: Freddie is this compenduimer’s favorite thug, the second being Al in “Starsky’s Brother.” - Freddie (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) not credited
Freddie drives a sandwich truck. He is one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches. He gives them a false tip after Starger threatens he and his wife. - Freddie (Starsky’s Lady) Viera, Joey
Freddie is one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches. He drives a “Mardi Gras Food Service” van. George Prudholm kidnaps Freddie’s wife to pressure him into double-crossing Starsky and Hutch. Freddie gives them a fake address, one that Prudholm has rigged with a bomb. After Starsky and Hutch go to his place of business, they find that Freddie has disappeared. - Freddie (The Action) Walsh, M. Emmet
Freddie is a compulsive gambler. Starsky and Hutch meet him at the Marlborough Health Club. Freddie tells them he has lost three wives, has had four comebacks and five ulcers over his addiction. Freddie proves he will bet on anything when he enters the bet with Starsky and Hutch about Tonto’s horse. Starsky and Hutch tell Freddie to play their action. He helps them in the rolling crap game when they break the bank. He retrieves his losses by filing a claim on the confiscated money with police. Freddie says he is going to quit gambling to get his wife and mortgage back. - Freddie (The Heroes) not credited
He is one of the patrons at O’Riley’s Bar. He is out of prison on parole. Freddie is playing pool. - Freemont, D.A. Sharon (Starsky & Hutch are Guilty) Tewes, Lauren
Freemont is a District Attorney who is dating Starsky. She has been using her position of power to blackmail people. She makes a deal with Eric Ronstan, telling him she will drop indecent exposure charges against his son if he agrees to make her a junior partner in his law firm. Freemont tries to ruin Starsky and Hutch’s reputation by hiring two people who look like them. These doubles beat and kill people. Freemont wants to make Starsky and Hutch look bad so their testimony at the Ronstan trial will be suspect. When Starsky invites her over for supper, she chooses fettuccine over goulash. She says she has to be ambitious in her own way because she was tired of waiting for the Equal Rights Amendment to pass. - Freemont, Mrs. (Black and Blue) Berns, Judy Jean
Fremont is the neighbor who calls in the robbery that Hutch is shot in. - Frisco Fats (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) McLaughlin, Lee
Frisco Fats is a very large pool player. He is also a good pool player and laughs a lot. Fats testified against Leo Moon. Starsky and Hutch visit Fats and tell him Moon has escaped. They want information from Fats and use his fear of Moon to get it. Though Fats is cooperative, he can only give them Lola’s name, something Starsky and Hutch already know. He promises to try to find out more. Starsky leaves him with a box of doughnuts. - Frost, Max (Fatal Charm) Lukather, Paul
Frost is a drug dealer and set up by one of his employees, Benny. Starsky, Hutch, and Linda Baylor have been trying to bust Frost for a long time. They trick Frost by bringing him to a house, masking noise with Huggy on a jackhammer, and pulling off the rear wheels of his car with a cable tied to a tree. When Officer Baylor is attacked, Starsky and Hutch speculate Frost is behind the attack. - Fry (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Durrell, Michael
Fry is the man in the office that Starsky and Hutch interview at the airfield. He identifies Moon from a photo.
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“The important thing is, are you a good dancer?”
(Black and Blue)
- Gage, Prof. Joshua (Class in Crime) MacLean, Peter
Gage is a Professor at Jameson College. He is also a hit man. His girlfriend’s name is Mickie Marra. He and Marra set up a hit with her as a mime in order to kill Allen Richards. Richards and fellow student Jack Morgan found out about one of Gage’s prior hits and were blackmailing him. Starsky and Hutch suspect Gage is involved when they find Morgan’s body. Discovering both men were Gage’s former students, Hutch goes undercover as a student in Gage’s “Philosophy of Crime” class. Hutch leaves a blackmail note on the classroom blackboard and Gage figures out it was Hutch. He has Hutch meet him at his beach home, planning on having Marra kill him. Starsky shoots Marra before she can kill Hutch. - Gallagher, John (The Collector) Viharo, Robert
See Cunningham, Jack - Mr. Gallagher, John’s father (The Collector) mentioned
See Cunningham, Jack’s father - Garcia (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) mentioned
Gesslin brings up three preceding cases that make Hutch’s informant stance moot. The cases are the People vs. Castille, the People vs. Garcia, and the People vs. Williams. - Garner, Samuel (The Committee) Bogert, William
Garner is Paul H. Willits’ defense lawyer. Willits is accused of attempted rape, along with his partner, Ward Billings. The rape charge is not their first one. Starsky and Hutch feel Garner is the perfect example of a lawyer who is more interested in protecting criminals than in protecting victims. After Willits gets out on bail, Garner goads Starsky and Hutch in the courtroom hallway. When Willits is killed, Garner says he believes Starsky may have done it and may be a member of the vigilante group that has been doing similar crimes. Garner sics Fargo on Starsky. The Committee kidnaps Garner. They want Starsky to kill Garner, calling it Starsky’s initiation into their club. Later, Garner admits Starsky and Hutch did a good job, but that he would continue doing his job, too. Starsky and Hutch complain to Dobey that Garner never thanked them. - Garras, Joe (The Collector) O’Leary, Jack
Garras is Annie Oates’ collector. When he looses four thousand dollars of her money in four months betting on horses, she puts out a contract to have him killed. Jack Cunningham shoots him in his apartment, a place near Hutch’s home. Cunningham steals Garras’ book. Garras has a lot of pornographic magazines in his closet. - Gary, Dr. (The Game, Blindfold) mentioned
His or her name is heard over the hospital PA. He or she is told he has an emergency call on line six. - Gary, Officer (The Hostages) not credited
Hutch asks him to sit with Meg and the mug books while he and Hutch talk to Dobey. - Garvin, Nate (The Deadly Impostor) Darcy, Gene
Garvin is a big drug boss and the target of a Grand Jury hearing that starts in a few days. He hires John Colby to kill two of the witnesses who are going to testify against him, Harvey Russo and Warren G. Karpel. - Gavin, Haley (The Heavyweight) Behrens, Benard
Gavin is a mob boss. He was kicked out of the union. He thinks of himself as a sportsman. He has his men steal cargo from the docks, store it in his warehouse, and use his trucks to get it out of state. His thugs catch undercover officer Frank Marchetti checking a crate against the inventory. They kill Marchetti. James Spenser, a boxer who is working the docks, is a witness. Garvin is Spenser’s “angel,” getting him boxing jobs and backing his career. Garvin orders Spenser to throw a fight, and Spenser refuses. After Starsky and Hutch help Spenser, he realizes he was a witness to Gavin’s crime. Spenser tries to run away, afraid to testify. His best friend, Jeeter, betrays him. Spenser arranges a showdown at the docks, hoping to get Gavin off his back. - George (Death Ride) Bova, Joe
George is the driver for the taxi that comes to drive Starsky, Hutch, and Williams to the airport. He says Starsky and Hutch don’t look like cops, but that they sound like cops. Starsky and Hutch drop George off at the side of the road after their run through the cornfield. Hutch gives Starsky’s watch to George as collateral for the taxi. Later George turns the watch back in, and the watch shows up on a stolen properties list. - George (The Heavyweight) mentioned
George is an airline pilot. Starsky is sleeping with George’s on-again, off-again girlfriend. George is supposedly sexy and mature. George and Sharon get back together and become re-engaged while Starsky is out on a call. - Gerard, Denise (The Bounty Hunter) Jackson, Sherry
Gerard is Jerry Konig’s girlfriend. She is a dancer at the “Jungle Club.” She wishes Konig would go straight. Bo Rile and Lola Turkel are afraid Konig told Gerard about their activities and are going to kill her. Rile calls her, pretends to be Konig, lures her to a warehouse, and tries to kill her. - Gertrude (Birds of a Feather) Ramsey, Anne
Gertrude’s other name is Yvonne. She has been caught spying on a naked Mr. Kramer. She tells Starsky about Kramer’s scar. Minnie books and charges her with for Voyeurism, Public Nuisance, and Peeping Tom. - Gesslin (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) Pentecost, George
Gesslin is Judge Raymond McClellan’s lawyer. - Gibson (The Hostages) Fornjy, Richard
Gibson is one of Conrad’s thugs. He and Belle Kates took Ellie from her house and guard her in the car barn. - Gina (The Game) Charney, Suzanne
Gina is Ray Pardee’s girlfriend. She buys him a plane ticket in another name, gives him money and hides him. Hutch finds her and tries to warn her about Pardee. She takes Hutch to Pardee. She almost turns Pardee in, but is too afraid. - Ginger (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) not credited
Ginger is the house detective at Playboy Hotel. - Ginger (A Coffin For Starsky) not credited
She is one of the women in Janos’ movie. Janos tells her to get rid of her chewing gum. - Ginger (Death Notice) Charney, Suzanne
Ginger is a stripper at the “Panama Club.” She is Delano and Posey’s first victim. She has an unlisted phone number, a heavy Southern accent, and a boyfriend who used to play for the New Orleans Saints. Her boyfriend tries to protect her but fails. Ginger dies of a broken neck, and Starsky pulls her body out of a pool. - Ginger (The Committee) May, Angela
Her real name is Alice K. Conrad. She works for “The Committee” and lures possible recruits from Nellie’s bar. She hears the exchange between Starsky and Hutch and invites Starsky to her place. She tells him she has maternal instincts for him and compliments his taste in wine. Ginger tries to warn Starsky off after she changes her mind, but it is too late. Hutch recognizes Ginger from an old bunko charge. He and Dobey figure out that Fargo reduced her charge and is involved. - Ginger (The Action) Steelsmith, Mary
Ginger is a large masseuse and the Professor’s girlfriend. He calls her a “powerful pile of pummeling pulchritude.” - Glassman, Officer Bernie (The Fix) McCalman, Macon
Glassman stays with Hutch in the alley. Starsky grabs his shirt and tells him not to tell anyone about Hutch’s condition. Glassman agrees. - Glassman, Officer Bernie’s Partner (The Fix) not credited
He and his partner call in when they see Hutch. Glassman goes after Hutch. Glassman’s partner stays in the car and directs Starsky to the alley. - Glenda (The Las Vegas Strangler) Bertrand, Collette
She lives across the hall from Vicky at the Palm Crest Apartments. Vicky invites Jack, Starsky, and Hutch to Glenda’s birthday party. - Gloria (Birds of a Feather) Peters, Victoria
Gloria is Reuben’s secretary. He gives her some money and asks her to buy a briefcase for his uncle. - Godfrey, Inspector Amadeus (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Brown, Roscoe Lee
He is the police inspector on Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island. Godfrey finds the body of Walter Healey and traces the names “Night” and “Day” to Starsky and Hutch. Godfrey is suspicious of Starsky and Hutch and warns them. They don’t know if Godfrey is trustworthy, but after Johnny Door’s death, they cooperate with him. Godfrey drives a boat to rescue Starsky, Hutch, and the Regans in the end. Godfrey tells Starsky and Hutch that Papa Theodore escaped. Hogarth is one of Godfrey’s employees - Goldberg, Dimitri (Iron Mike) mentioned
Goldberg is fat, wears a silver shirt, is a gourmet, and bowls in a league. Starsky reminds Hutch about Goldberg, so Hutch knows about him, too. Goldberg recommends the “Gung Ho” to Starsky and says the Moo Shoo (which Starsky calls Mushi) Pork is the best dish but only when it is cooked by Harry. - Goodson, Bill (I Love You, Rosey Malone) Jenkins, Paul
Goodson is an attorney with the Justice Department. His partner is Ed Chambers. They are working with a senate investigating committee to prosecute Frank Malone. Goodson and Chambers goad Starsky into getting close to Malone’s daughter, Rosey. Then they leak anonymous tips to Malone’s enemies, making them think he is cooperating with police. Goodson and Chambers also have Malone’s enemy know Rosey is dating a cop. Both Goodson and Chambers play both sides of the game in order to get their case. - Goose (Bust Amboy) Bergansky, Chuck
Goose is one of Amboy’s thugs. He plays the body in the casket. Starsky and Hutch trick Goose into leading them to Amboy’s bank. - Gore (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) Zwerling, Darrell
Gore works in an employment agency. He and his partner try to find Starsky and Hutch a job. Hutch is clumsy in front of him, knocking over a table. - Goring (The Bait) Kramer, Sy
Goring is a Danner’s lawyer. He sees Shockley in the hallway. Shockley is there on a trumped up ticket charge to keep him out of the Danner bust. Goring gets Shockley out of jail and the bust is disrupted. - Graham, Frank (Nightmare) mentioned
Frank was Mitzi’s husband and Lisa’s father. He died a while ago. He might have been a cop, as Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey all remain in contact with his widow and daughter. - Graham, Lisa (Nightmare) Scarwid, Diana
Lisa is Frank and Mitzi’s daughter. It is her birthday and she is turning nineteen. She has the mental age of ten years old. Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey are invited to her birthday party. Lisa is raped as she heads downtown to the library. While Manning is caught, the district attorney recommends that the charges against him be dropped. Manning breaks in and tries to kill Lisa. In the end, Starsky and Hutch stop by and bring her a puppy. - Graham, Mitzi (Nightmare) Morrow, Karen
Mitzi is Lisa’s mom. Her husband was Frank, but she has been a widow for some time. She and Frank decide to raise Lisa at home rather than in an institution. She is friends with Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey. - Grainger, Sue Ann (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Anderson, Lynn
Granger is a country singer. A man is harassing her and demanding money. Her manager, Cal, calls Starsky and Hutch and convinces her to file a report. Her harasser is Jerry Tabor, a man from her past with a grudge. Granger agrees to meet Tabor and pay him off after he kills two people and blames her. She signs an autograph for Dobey. Granger sings at the bar with Hutch in the end. - Grainger, J.C. (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Bryant, Josh
It is the name Tabor uses when he calls Sue Ann at the bar, pretending to be her relative. See Jerry Tabor. - Grange, Hammerlock (The Golden Angel) Karron, Richard
Grange is a professional wrestler. He and Boone are fighting for the championship title. The two pretend to be enemies for the game but are friendly with each other in real life. - Greek, Sam the (Nightmare) mentioned
Sam the Greek is a used car salesman. He is also a fence. He agrees to tell Starsky and Hutch when Manning and Mousy come in with stuff to sell because he is disgusted by their crime. Sam asks that Starsky and Hutch say that he was arrested so that he can keep his reputation. Sam communicates with Starsky and Hutch through Huggy. - Green, Jerry (Terror on the Docks) not credited
Green is the security guard who was on duty on the docks when Jameson was killed. He was knocked out. Wilkins gives him some time off. - Greene, Dr. (Partners) Nelson, Ralph
Greene is Starsky and Hutch’s doctor. He sees them after their car accident. - Greene, Mrs. (Black and Blue) Valenty, Lili
Greene is an old lady in the hospital waiting room. She has terminal cancer and is waiting to see her doctor. She gets Starsky soup and tells him not to worry about Hutch, that he will be all right. Starsky says he will marry her if she is a good dancer. She says she is. Starsky sees her later and tells her Hutch is okay. - Greene, Mr. (The Las Vegas Strangler) Fetty, Darrell
Greene is the name Pruitt uses to lure Iris Thayer to Circus Circus. He tells her on the phone that he needs her to be the lead dancer in a new review. - Griggs, Buddy (The Set Up) Korkes, Jon
Griggs is probably Terry Nash’s real name. A man, a veteran, named Steve Reynolds recognizes him outside the gun shop. He tries to talk to him, citing a battle there. Terry says he doesn’t know who Reynolds is and denies that he is Buddy Griggs. - Grossman, Al (Gillian) Kellin, Mike
Al is a pimp, along with his mother, Olga. They come to Bay City from Cleveland along with Gillian, one of their call girls. Al and his mom are ambitious and want to take over a big part of the adult businesses in Bay City. The Grossmans have men hassle Harry Blower, and Lonely Bloggs is killed. Al and Olga don’t want Gillian dating a cop and try to make her drop him. Al kills Gillian. Al goads Hutch into meeting him at a theater so he can kill him. Starsky and Hutch stop Al. Al suggests that he has slept with Gillian. - Grossman, Olga (Gillian) Sidney, Sylvia
Olga is a pimp, along with her son. They come to Bay City from Cleveland along with Gillian, one of their call girls. Olga and her son, Al, are ambitious and want to take over a big part of the adult businesses in Bay City. She has men hassle Harry Blower, and Lonely Bloggs is killed. Olga doesn’t want Gillian dating a cop and try to make her drop him. When Gillian says she is quitting and slaps Olga, Olga has Al kill her. Olga does the books for the business. She insults Gillian’s tea. - Grogan, Detective Phil (Foxy Lady) mentioned
He is a homicide detective in San Francisco. Starsky calls him to find out about Clay Zachary and his associates. Yes, the name’s stupidly close to the one below. - Grover, Detective Phil (Foxy Lady) Fox, John J.
Grover is the plain-clothes officer that Starsky and Hutch ask to watch Lisa Kendrick while they talk to Dobey. Grover lets Lisa slip by him after she goes to the bathroom and exchanges clothes with the janitor. Later, he and Dobey tail Starsky in a car as he makes the ransom drop. Yes, the name is stupidly close to the one above. - Grovner, Sammy (Shootout) Fell, Norman
Grovener is a second-rate comedian. His last job was at a bowling alley. His assistant is Robin. He is in love with her. Grovener and Robin get caught up in the attempted mob hit on Vic Monte. Grovener says his mother used to make him chicken soup when he was feeling poorly. - Gutierrez, Andrea (The Velvet Jungle) Gallardo, Silvana
Gutierrez is an illegal immigrant, most likely from Costa Rica. She is Helena’s cousin, and they live together. Helena and Gutierrez both work in Harry Wheeling’s garment industry. Gutierrez sees Wheeling kill Helena and runs away to hide. She knows Helena had information about Wheeling’s illegal dealings. Gutierrez’s landlord tells Starsky and Hutch where she is. They, along with Paco Ortega, question her. She is too afraid to tell them much of anything. - Gutierrez, Julio (The Psychic) Olmos, James Edward
Gutierrez works at a car wash. He hangs out with low-lifes who give him a rough time. He owes Su Long money from gambling. Charlie Sireen is his girlfriend. Gutierrez gets mixed up with Fat Moo Moo and Earl Pola. Joanne Haymes knows him and is lured into the kidnapper’s van. Fat Moo Moo and Pola kill Gutierrez and leave his body in a van at the amusement park. Joe Collandra’s vision leads Starsky and Hutch to Gutierrez’ body. - Gunther, James Marshall (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3, Sweet Revenge) Prince, William
Gunther is referred to in Targets 2 and 3, but not seen until Sweet Revenge. Gunther is a mob boss and the head of the fourth largest holding company in the United States. Hutch says Gunther turned down a chance at the presidency because it would have been a step down in power. Gunther, upset about the bite Starsky and Hutch have taken out of his crime profits, orders the hit on Starsky. Gunther kills his assistant, Bates. Hutch arrests Gunther. Gunther’s father repaired sewing machines and could fix anything. - Gunther’s father (Sweet Revenge) mentioned
Gunther says Bates and his dad would have gotten along. Gunther says his dad repaired sewing machines, was optimistic that anything could be fixed, and that his nickname was “Mr. Fix-It.” Gunther alludes to his father not having gone to college. - Guybo (The Vampire) Leeds, Phil
Guybo is an expert in the occult and a palm reader. Starsky and Hutch go see him to ask about occult activity in the area. Starsky gives him money for information Guybo says he got off the six o’clock news. - Guybo’s ancestors (The Vampire) mentioned
Guybo says his ancestors, many years ago, have spoken about blood-drinkers.
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“He wanted to buy all the materials to make a leg cast.”
(A Coffin For Starsky)
If you are looking for any of Hutch’s or Huggy Bears’ relatives, see Inner Circle Relatives
- Haberman, Mrs. (A Coffin for Starsky) Burr, Fritzi
Haberman works for Crawley Pharmaceuticals. She comes to the station late because she had a bad cold. She remembers Bellamy because he didn’t buy chemicals but instead bought all the supplies for a leg cast. - Hagen, Officer Sally (The Specialist) Scurggs-Bogart, Linda
Hagen works in the File office. She tells Starsky and Hutch she got a promotion to work the street. Her first assignment is to go undercover as a waitress to help in the Drew case. Drew kidnaps her and ties her up at an oil field. He uses her as bait for Starsky and Hutch. After her rescue, Hagen is transferred to Vice. She invites Starsky and Hutch over to her place and practices her self-defense moves on her, telling them it is payback for all their demeaning comments. - Hall, Melvin (Moonshine) Lewis, Zachary
Melvin is Willy’s younger brother. Melvin and Willy are from Kentucky and work for the Ivers. Melvin and Willy are cutting the moonshine with wood alcohol. After Frank and Virgil are killed, the Ivers tell the Halls to dump the rest of the moonshine in the woods. The Halls don’t, wanting to make a big score with it later. The Halls kill Agent Kendall and kidnap Starsky. - Hall, Nurse (The Plague) mentioned
His or her name is said over the hospital PA. He or she is asked to call his or her station. - Hall, Willy (Moonshine) Bush, Billy
Willy is Melvin’s older brother. Melvin and Willy are from Kentucky and work for the Ivers. Melvin and Willy are cutting the moonshine with wood alcohol. After Frank and Virgil are killed, the Ivers tell the Halls to dump the rest of the moonshine in the woods. The Halls don’t, wanting to make a big score with it later. The Halls kill Agent Kendall and kidnap Starsky. Willy has a thing for Dolly Ivers, but she doesn’t like him. Willy has a plan to take over the business and take Dolly with him. - Hanson (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Epper, Gary
Hanson is the real name of the fake Hutch. - Hanson (Murder Ward) Soul, David
Hanson is the name Hutch uses while undercover at the mental hospital. - Hanson, Steve (Murder on Stage 17) Calhoun, Rory
Hanson is a famous movie star. He comes to Starsky and Hutch for help. He is a member of an old club called the Wolf Pack. All the other members of the Wolf Pack are dead, and Hanson suspects they were all murdered. Hanson raised Julie, the daughter of one of the dead men. The movie he is shooting may be his last, as Hanson has spent all his money on it. He says that’s why he can’t go into hiding. Starsky and Hutch go undercover on Hanson’s movie set. Hanson’s unfortunate dog’s name was Friendly. - Harcourt, Gail (Bloodbath) Pearcy, Patricia
Gail is one of Simon Marcus’ cultists. She is ordered to get Starsky ready for sacrifice by bathing him. She is angry that the water Starsky drinks is poisoned. Gail is ordered to kill Starsky while he is tied up. His murder is to be Gail’s initiation. The cultists goad her by telling her she is weak. Gail uses the knife to cut Starsky’s bonds instead. - Harcourt, Mr. (Bloodbath) Thomas, Michael
He doesn’t appear. The character is credited only. - Harcourt, Mrs. (Bloodbath) Hughes, Tresa
She doesn’t appear. The character is credited only. - Harding, Officer (Discomania) Tarpey, Tom
Harding works in Missing Persons. He and Hutch don’t have a good working relationship. - Hardy, Officer (Starsky vs. Hutch) Gamble, Duncan
Hardy works in the Police Lab. Starsky gets after him about analyzing the piece of black rubber found at the crime scene. - Harkness, Billy (The Bait) DeLano, Michael
Harkness is Danner’s thug. Harkness gets girls to run drugs and be prostitutes. He beats up Cheryl. Starsky and Hutch go to Harkness’ house in the night and warn him to keep away from Cheryl. Hutch backhands him. Harkness has Starsky and Hutch come to a warehouse for a drug buy. He plans to kill them both, but instead is shot by one of his own men in the firefight. - Harkness, Billy (Kill Huggy Bear) DeLano, Michael
The actor appears in the credits but not in the show. It appears to be a glitch from the previous episode aired (The Bait) where he does appear under the name Billy Harkness. - Harmon, Diana (Fatal Charm) Valentine, Karen
Harmon is the nurse who helps Hutch when he comes to the hospital for stitches in his hand. She hears of Starsky and Hutch’s plan to meet at a bar and follows them. She and Hutch go to her place and they sleep together. She says she just moved to Bay City, likes her job, and confesses to following him. She proceeds to make the relationship more intense than he intended. She buys a watch for him, telling the clerk she and Hutch are engaged. Harmon confronts Hutch at work and bawls him out. Harmon destroys Hutch’s apartment, and she attacks Linda Baylor. She also stabs Hutch while he is in the shower, intending to kill him. - Harold (Omaha Tiger) Grey, Christian
Harold works as a security guard and is Carl Boyce’s main thug. Harold and another thug follow Starsky and Hutch to the meat plant and lock them in the airtight room. Harold and the other thug are in the shootout at the end. Harold is Hutch’s opponent in the wrestling ring. - Harold (The Groupie) McCullough, Darryl
Harold is a security guard for “Switzer Protection Agency,” He spends the night with Melinda Rogers, a cop groupie. Rogers steals one of his bullets for her collection, a bullet he needs later to stop a robbery. Starsky and Hutch bring him in for questioning. Harold says both his uncle and his father were in law enforcement. Harold says he has an application in at the police academy. - Harold’s father (The Groupie) mentioned
Harold’s father was a detective for Union Pacific for thirty years. - Harold’s uncle (The Groupie) mentioned
Harold says he was in law enforcement, too. He was a prison guard. - Harold, Officer (Texas Longhorn) mentioned
He works in the Crime Lab. - Harriman, Dr. (Cover Girl) Marin, Russ
Harriman is Kate Larabee’s doctor. He comes to her house to tell her the disease is in remission. - Harris, John Brown (Texas Longhorn) Napier, Charles
Harris and his partner, Huey Chaco, rape and murder Emma Lou Tyler. They fence her stuff with Fat Rolly. Starsky and Hutch track him down via Harris’ tattoos and through his time at the blood bank. Zack Tyler is shot as he tries to kill Harris. Harris is a sailor and a heroin addict. - Harrison, Emily (Blindfold) Cattrall, Kim
Harrison is the woman Starsky accidentally shoots during a robbery. Harrison is blinded and Starsky feels extreme guilt. He befriends her, not telling her who he is. It turns out Harrison is Donald Widdicombe’s girlfriend and was the lookout for the robbery. Widdicombe tells her he is taking her to Hawaii to marry her. She suspects this is to keep her from testifying against her. Harrison’s sight comes back, and she helps save Starsky and Hutch in the underground parking lot. Harrison’s apparent only friend is Sharon, her neighbor. Harrison has no other family. - Harry (Iron Mike) mentioned
Harry is the cook at the “Gung Ho” Chinese restaurant. Dimitri Goldberg tells Starsky to only go when Harry cooks, and that the Moo Shu Pork with the soft brown noodles is Harry’s specialty. Harry doesn’t appear to speak English. - Harry (Dandruff) Parker, F. William
- Harry is Vivian’s husband. He sees his wife on the ground with Hutch and doesn’t appear to care. Harry is going to go golfing.
- Harry (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Ben Gerard
Sue Ann calls the sound engineer “Harry.” However, in the show’s credits, he is called Pat Binns. - Harry (The Las Vegas Strangler) mentioned
Harry owns the gas station where Vicky’s car is being repaired. - Harvey (Photo Finish) not credited
Harvey is Basil Monk’s butler. He brings Monk food to feed the fish at the pond. When Monk is afraid someone is breaking into his house, he calls out for Harvey, Myrtle, and Mrs. Hilton. - Hauser, Rick (Terror on the Docks) Olek, Henry
Hauser is a thief. He also runs a ship’s chandler. Hauser’s partners are Billy, Jerry, Wally, and Ted Banks. Hauser is planning a big jewelry heist and will run the jewels through Ezra Beam. - Haymes, Joanna (The Psychic) Kay, Diane
Joanna is a high school student. She is kidnapped on her way to school. She is left in a truck in a scrap yard. Her kidnappers don’t intend to come back. She is rescued with the help of Joe Collandra. - Haymes, Joe (The Psychic) Voland, Herb
Haymes owns the football team, the “Turbos.” His wife has a heart condition. His daughter, Joanna, is kidnapped and Starsky and Hutch help get Joanna back. - Haymes, Mrs. (The Psychic) mentioned
Joanna looks in on her before school. She tells her father her mom was sleeping. Later, Mrs. Haymes is in bed and sedated. The news of her daughter’s kidnapping is too much for her. She has a heart condition. - Hayes, Big Billy (Starsky’s Brother) mentioned
Hayes is a street hustler on the east coast. Nick says he is someone he looks up to. - Healey, Walter (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Stevens, Craig
Healey is Dobey’s friend. He works for the Justice Department. He has been investigating Thorne Enterprises and is concerned for William’s Thorne’s health. He sends Starsky and Hutch to Voodoo Island to help solve the mystery. Healey is killed after he meets with Janice. His cab driver abandons him and Healey is killed in a fall. It is assumed Healey was killed by Papa Theodore’s curse. - Henderson (Partners) Lewis, Zachary
Henderson and his partner, Billy Joe, are whom Starsky and Hutch chase just before the car accident. - Henderson (The Las Vegas Strangler) Glaser, Paul Michael
Ace accidentally calls Starsky “Henderson.” Starsky tells Ace Hutch is “Henderson.” - Henderson, D.A. Mark (Pilot) Morgenstern, Albert
Henderson is a district attorney with eyes on higher office. He is a guest lecturer at the university, and that is where he meets Patty Talbert. They have an affair, she becomes pregnant, and he kills her to keep his future certain, one that involves his engagement to a wealthy woman. Henderson’s thugs are Zane and Cannell and he creates a convoluted plan to have Talbert’s murder covered up. Henderson is killed in a gun battle with Starsky, Zane, and Cannell. Henderson has an ugly suit, thick glasses and a secretary named Miss Forsythe. - Henderson, Detective (Quadromania) mentioned
Dobey says he is taking Henderson off the cabbie murders and giving the case to Starsky and Hutch. - Henderson, Detective (Birds of a Feather) Stoiber, Edmund
Henderson gives Starsky and Hutch the details of how Palmer died. - Henry, Marsha (Partners) King, Kathleen
Henry and fellow nurse, Bonnie Ackerman, are two of the people who help take car of Starsky and Hutch after their car accident - Herman (The Bounty Hunter) Kessler, Zale
Herman is a fence. His nickname is “The Red Baron.” He has a thick accent, and runs “Hollywood Used Clothes.” Starsky and Hutch go to him to get information about Jerry Konig. After Starsky discovers his room of stolen goods, Herman tells them what he knows. - Hernandez, Rafael (Murder Ward) mentioned
He or she is one of the reporters that wrote the article about Dr. Matwick. The name is seen on the clipping. - Hideaway, Fernando (Pilot) mentioned
He is a bad guy in Starsky’s book, the page before Coley. According to it, Hideaway is the hatchet killer of seven people in San Francisco, wears fake mustache and eyebrows, is 5’1”, 160 pounds, “has young look but is no less than 58 years old,” and “has had many facelifts.” - Higgins (Strange Justice) Wood, John L.
He is a thief. - Hill, Phil (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Madden, Dave
Hill is a S.L.O.B conventioneer and attending a convention on Voodoo Island. He is there with his friend, Jerry Perry. Hill and Perry play golf with Starsky and Hutch. Hill tricks Perry into jumping into the pool with no clothes on. Phil Hill gives Starsky the wooden club when they meet on the golf course. - Hilliard, Glace (The Action) Venture, Richard
His other names are Josie the N and Joseph Noland. Hilliard was kicked out of Las Vegas for hustling the casinos. There was also a murder charge against him, but it didn’t stick. Hilliard now owns the Marlborough Health Club. It doubles as an illegal gambling establishment. Hilliard runs a rolling crap game that takes place in the back of a semi. When Ted McDermott gets behind on his gambling payments, Hilliard orders him beat up. - Hilton, Mrs. (Photo Finish) mentioned
Basil calls out for her when he thinks someone is breaking into his house. She is one of his employees, along with Harvey and Myrtle. - Hobart, Officer (The Action) White, Ken
Hobart is an officer out of Vice. He has been trying to bust the gambling at the “Marlborough Club” but has had no success. When Starsky and Hutch are put on the case, he refuses to work with them. Starsky and Hutch consider him ineffectual, and Starsky calls him “Hobie.” - Hobson (Quadromania) mentioned
Hobson was one of the cabbies Fitzgerald killed. - Hogarth, Sergeant (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) not credited
Inspector Godfrey tells Hogarth to call the Coroner’s office about Johnny Doors. - Hollander, Gretchen (The Las Vegas Strangler) Kenneday, Jayne
Hollander was the fifth girl strangled. She was twenty-six years old and worked as a dancer at “The Dunes.” - Holmby, Dr. (Black and Blue) Petlock, John
Holmby is Mrs. Greene’s doctor. He tells Starsky about her cancer. His name is seen on the door. - Hong, Mrs. (Manchild on the Streets) Hoshi, Shizuko
Hong runs the grocery store Maurice robs. She chases him out and calls the cops. - Horace (Photo Finish) as himself
Horace is the name of the plant in the lobby at News World. - Horvath, Larry (Silence) McCann, Chuck
Horvath is deaf and can’t talk. He is an ex-con who shared a cell with Herman Bessinger, a safe cracker. Starsky and Hutch try to arrest Horvath for stealing forty-two dollars worth of candy. Horvath has been arrested for shoplifting before. A priest shows up at the station and demands his release. Horvath is associated with an organization to help ex-cons called the Dismas Center. Horvath is good friends and business partner in a print shop with a man named R.C. Turner. The priest, an imposter, tries to frame Horvath with murder. Horvath runs, but is cornered at a movie theater. Horvath tends to a box of kittens in the basement and names two after the detectives. - Howard (Murder Ward) Ball, Robert E.
Howard is a patient at Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. He carries a briefcase and is concerned about being late. He keeps the time for the cockroach races. - Hoyle, Eddie (The Bounty Hunter, Gillian) Weaver, Doodles
In “The Bounty Hunter,” Hoyle is a homeless guy who does odd jobs for Lola Turkel. He calls Starsky and Hutch “Starpy and Hup.” Hoyle is easily confused. Rile and Turkel give him Konig’s old clothes. Rile takes Hoyle to a warehouse where he intends to kill him. Rile is going to burn the warehouse down and make the cops think Konig’s body was there. In “Gillian,” Hoyle is at the scene of his friend’s beating death. Starsky is kind to Hoyle and asks a cop on the scene to be kind to him. - Huey (Savage Sunday) Kilpatrick, Eric
Huey and his pal, Tony, play basketball at Jackson High School. Starsky and Hutch play against them to get information. - Huggarino the Magnificent (The Psychic) Fargas, Anthony
Huggy plans to apprentice himself to Joe Collandra. He wants to become “the seer of things that are, the seer of things that aren’t, and the seer of things to come.” - Huggy Bear
For Huggy Bear’s relatives, see Before They Were Cops - Hughes, Dewey (Kill Huggy Bear) Robinson, Roger
Hughes robs a store. He is surprised by the amount of money he gets away with and realizes it is mob money. He goes to The Pits, as he is Huggy’s old friend. Hughes reminds Huggy he saved his life in a rumble on the East Side. Hughes goes to Huggy for help in returning the money to Lou Malinda. When Hughes tells his girlfriend, Sarah, about the money, she and her other boyfriend decide to get their hands on it. Sarah’s boyfriend, Harry, kills Hughes and dumps his body. - Humphries, Vic (Survival) Quads, John
Humphries sells stolen cars. Hutch goes undercover to bust him. After Humphries is arrested, he tells his lawyer to have Hutch, the best witness in his trial, killed. Starsky threatens Humphries in the station’s elevator. Starsky keeps Humphries from finishing off the job of killing Hutch. Humphries wears a toupee. - Hungry Momma (The Set-Up) not credited
Hungry Momma is a prostitute in Nevada. Starsky hears her on the C.B. radio. She tries to entice him to her business but he turns her down, telling her he has to get gas. - Hunter, Nick (Death in a Different Place) Rozakis, Gregory
Nick Hunter is a hustler. He sleeps with both men and women. He is a friend of Sugar Plum. It appears he drugs John Blaine’s drink. He takes Blaine back to the St. Francis Hotel and robs him. Hunter is framed for Blaine’s death. Hunter tries to get money from Orrin Lawford. Hunter sees Corday kill Orrin Lawford and runs away. Hunter runs to his friend Sugar to help, and calls in an anonymous tip about Corday. Starsky and Hutch convince Hunter to help them trap Corday. - Huntley, Detective Luke (Birds of a Feather) Ryan, John
Luke is an old friend and one of Hutch’s old bosses. Luke says he taught Hutch everything he knows and that Hutch is a cop because of him. Luke’s wife’s name is Doris. They have no children. When Luke finds out Doris is in over her head in gambling debts, he goes after Anthony Reuben, the loan shark. Reuben blackmails Luke into giving up Palmer, a witness Luke is supposed to protect. Luke tapes the conversation to turn the table on Reuben. They agree to meet, and Luke calls Hutch to help, citing Hutch’s duty as a friend. In the end, Dobey says Luke will serve time in prison. - Huntley, Doris (Birds of a Feather) Stuart, Barbara
Doris is Luke’s wife. She and Luke have no children. In an apparent act of loneliness, Doris starts gambling. Over a period of ten years, she has lost fifty thousand dollars, the Huntley’s life savings. Luke finds out she is in over her head in her attempt to pay the money back. - Huntley, Doris’ sister (Birds of a Feather) mentioned
Doris tells Hutch Luke told her to go stay with her sister. - Hutchinson
For Hutch’s relatives, see Before They Were Cops - Hutton, Jane (Murder Ward) Somers, Suzanne
Hutton is a reporter undercover at the mental hospital. Starsky and Hutch recognize her. They decide to work together to solve the case. Hutton is injured when Switek catches her with stolen files. Hutton, Starsky, and Hutch return to Cabrillo in the end and bring the supplies for a birthday party. Hutch tells her she wouldn’t make a half-bad cop. - Hyatt, Dr. (Partners) mentioned
His or her name is heard on the hospital P.A. Hyatt is asked to report to Admitting.
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“Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be Hutch? In one lifetime, you have two people who love you so much.”
(Gillian)
- Iggy the Mummy (Omaha Tiger) Kiel, Richard
Iggy the Mummy, is also known as the Russian Mummy. He is a professional wrestler who is in love with Terrible Tessie. Tessie mentions Iggy threw a referee into the third row when he thought he was flirting with her. Iggy gives Starsky a mean look at the arena, which makes Starsky nervous. At the end, Tessie tells Starsky and Hutch she and Iggy are getting married. Iggy picks Starsky up and says the Russian word for “friend.” Then he kisses Starsky on both cheeks. Starsky has to do the same back to him. - Ignatius/Igneous (The Committee) not credited
Ignatius is Starsky’s pet rock. He buys him from Huggy. Starsky uses the pet rock to distract Fargo in the tunnel so he and the lawyer can get away. At one point, Starsky jokes to Hutch that the rock’s name could be Igneous, the geological term. - Ingram, Gillian (Gillian) Carlson, Karen
Gillian is Hutch’s girlfriend. Hutch goes out with her for a month before he introduces her to Starsky. She tells Starsky she was named by her father after an English woman he’d loved. She says she is a writer. She lives in a really nice apartment. While in a massage parlor looking for Lonely Bloggs’ killer, Starsky sees Gillian in back with a customer. Starsky calls Huggy, and it is confirmed that she is a high-priced call girl who works for the Grossmans. The Grossmans brought her with them from Cleveland. Gillian wants to quit her hooker job, but the Grossmans won’t let her. Starsky goes to Gillian’s apartment and tries to give her money to leave town. He tells her Hutch needs to know about her real job and her past. She agrees to tell Hutch in the morning. After Starsky leaves, Gillian goes to tell Olga she is quitting. Gillian hits Olga and leaves her keys with her. Olga orders Al to kill Gillian. Starsky discovers Gillian’s body shortly before Hutch does. - Iris (Running) Fradella, Kathlyn
Iris is the woman Vern DuBois tries to rob. He jimmies her door open, thinking she’s not there. Later, Iris comes running down the hall, screaming that the man tried to rob her too. Sharman tells her not to call the cops as he “didn’t steal anything.” - Itchy (Bust Amboy) Jung, Nathan
Itchy is one of Amboy’s thugs. He is also a gourmet chef who studied at “Cordon Bleu.” After Starsky and Hutch turn down the fancy meal Amboy offers them, they beat up the thugs there, including Itchy. Itchy knows karate. He is taken down by a pan of lamb ragout. - Ignatius, Father Jonathan (Silence) Betz, Carl
The real Father Jonathan Ignatius was about 6’0, a hundred eighty pounds and his seventy-first birthday was the day Dobey reads off his stats to Starsky and Hutch. The man who kills him and takes his place at Dismas House is named Marty. One of Marty’s other names may be Greg Filmon. - Ivers, Dolly (Moonshine) Weller, Mary
She is Sam Iver’s daughter. The Ivers are originally from Kentucky but came to California to escape the mines, something that was bad for her father’s health. The Ivers have been making moonshine in three states, over four wars, and during twenty presidencies. Dolly drives a yellow GMC pickup as she makes moonshine deliveries to the bars in the area. After hearing that Frank and Virgil have died from bad moonshine, she and her father want to ship their bodies back home. Willy Hall, one of their employees, wants to be Dolly’s boyfriend. She can’t stand Willy. She orders Willy to dump the rest of the bad moonshine. He disobeys her orders. She is angry with Willy when he says he is going to kill Starsky. Dolly and her father return to Kentucky after Willy and his brother, Melvin, are arrested. - Ivers, Sam (Moonshine) Fisher, Shug
He is Dolly Iver’s father. The Ivers are originally from Kentucky but came to California to escape the mines, something that was bad for her father’s health. The Ivers have been making moonshine in three states, over four wars, and during twenty presidencies. After hearing that Frank and Virgil have died from bad moonshine, Sam and his daughter want to ship their bodies back home. Sam backs up his daughter’s decision to dump the bad moonshine. - Iverson, Carla (Survival) Charles, Katharine
Carla is Roy Slater’s girlfriend. He hurts her, and she is afraid of him. Huggy tells Starsky where she works. Carla used to work at the amusement park at Mandalay Heights before it was torn down. Carla works as a prostitute now. Starsky promises her she will never have to see Roy Slater again if she helps him find him.
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“Excuse me, this is not a library, it’s a losing proposition.”
(The Collector)
- J.J. (Little Girl Lost) Pepper, Paul
J.J. is the manager of the apartment building where the Edwards live. He is shown reading the racing news. He calls Flent and Duran to tell them Molly has appeared. - Jackie (Deadly Impostor) Bellan, Jane
Jackie is a woman who recognizes John Colby at The Pits. She goes back with him to her apartment. She used to be a commercial artist in Miami. She recognizes Colby as an investment counselor she used to know named Mike Robbins. She moved to Bay City after her boss and his family is killed in a car accident. Robbins disappeared at the same time. After she asks too many questions and threatens Colby, he kills her by shoving a knife into her spine in the same way he kills Harvey Russo. - Jackson (Murder Ward) Jessie, DeWayne
Jackson is a nurse at Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. He introduces Starsky to some fellow inmates. Jackson reads a Tom and Jerry comic on his break. - Jackson (Savage Sunday) mentioned
Starsky tells the thug at Ed and Marty’s bookie joint that “Jackson” sent him. It is actually the name of the high school he and Hutch just came from. - Jackson, C. W. (Moonshine) Glaser, Paul Michael
Jackson is Starsky’s undercover character. Jackson is a music manager. - Jackson, Elmo (Snowstorm) mentioned
Jackson was Dobey’s partner. Stryker’s thugs killed him and hung him on a meat hook. Dobey tells Starsky and Hutch that he and Jackson were as close as they are. Dobey gets the satisfaction of cuffing and arresting Stryker for Jackson’s murder. - Jackson, Michael (Survival) not credited
Jackson is the radio host on the talk show Hutch listens to in his kitchen and in his car. The radio station is KBEX. - Jake (Texas Longhorn) not credited
Jake gives Hutch information about Emma Lou Tyler’s death. He is at the scene of her body. - Jake (The Heavyweight) Britton, Layne
Jake is the security guard drinking on the job. Spenser tells him to go sleep in his car and stay warm. - Jake (Starsky’s Brother) Fontaine, Eddie
Jake is one of Frank Stryker’s thugs. - James (Black and Blue) Sneed, Maurice
James is one of Lionel Train’s thieves. He and Vivian and are going to steal from Lionel. When Vivian recognizes Starsky in the car out front, James runs away. - James (Black and Blue) Sneed, Maurice
James is one of Vivian’s fellow thieves. She and James are all set to rip off Lionel Train. James bails out when Vivian recognizes Starsky in the car out in front of Train’s house. - Jamieson, Officer Ed (Terror on the Docks) Warfield, Joe
Jameson is an undercover cop. He has been working the docks during the last six months, trying to break up the robbery ring. Billy spots him while he is calling for back up. Billy shoots him as Jameson is on his radio. - Jamieson, Ed’s wIfe and kid (Terror on the Docks) mentioned
Starsky mentions that Jamieson was married and that she had “just had their first kid.” - Jane (The Vampire) Bloom, Lindsay
Jane and Bobette meet Starsky and Hutch at “The Playpen.” Both Bobette and Jane are intrigued by Starsky and Hutch’s job. Starsky gets their phone number but forgets to write it down. Starsky spills popcorn on them. Jane and Bobette have a hard time keeping Starsky and Hutch straight, but that confusion is reciprocated. They look enough alike that Starsky and Hutch call them “twins.” They are both privy to Starsky’s vampire imitation. - Jane (Ballad for a Blue Lady) not credited
She is a character on the television audio that is heard in the background in the show Baron turns on. - Janet (Vendetta) not credited
Lloyd Herman Eckworth calls her on the phone from the hospital. He argues with her about his ride home. It is probable the woman with Eckworth at the police line-up is Janet. - Janie (The Las Vegas Strangler) mentioned
Jack Mitchell sees her at Glenda’s party and wants to talk to her. - Jeeter (The Heavyweight) Mayo, Whitman
Jeeter is the manager and friend of James Spenser, a boxer. They’ve known each other for twelve years. Gavin, a mob boss, tells Spenser to throw a fight. When Spenser refuses, Gavin approaches Jeeter and threatens him. Jeeter gives up Spenser. Booker Wayne overhears Jeeter making the phone call to Gavin and tells Hutch. - Jennie (Kill Huggy Bear) Coleman, Maryiln B.
She is the waitress who calls in the candy store robbery. Her son has a brown 1973 Ford. She makes sure she gets her dime back from Starsky and Hutch. - Jennie’s son (Kill Huggy Bear) mentioned
His mother tells Hutch he has a brown 1973 Ford. - Jennings, Cheryl (A Coffin for Starsky) Sullivan, Jenny
Cheryl is Professor Jennings’ daughter. She is the sister of Jerry Jennings and is the one who told the police about his drug dealing. Cheryl works in the police lab. She tries to figure out the poisonous compound with which Starsky has been injected. She also helps him with injections for pain control. She doesn’t understand why her father won’t see her or helping the case. - Jennings, Jerry (A Coffin for Starsky) mentioned
He was Professor Jennings’ son and Cheryl’s brother. He was a drug addict. Jerry also sold drugs on campus. Victor Bellamy supplied the drugs. Jerry was a drug addict, selling drugs on campus. After his sister turned him in, he was in a scuffle with the police. Jerry grabbed Hutch’s gun and accidentally killed himself. This happened about a year ago. Hutch says Jerry’s “brain was soup.” - Jennings, Professor (A Coffin for Starsky) McLiam, John
The professor is Jerry and Cheryl’s father. He is a chemist who teaches at the University. He blames Starsky and Hutch for the death of his son, Jerry. The professor contacts Bellamy, Jerry’s supplier, and makes a deal with him. He hires Bellamy to inject Starsky with a poison and then to do the same to Hutch after Starsky is dead. He blames his daughter for turning Jerry in and refuses to see her. Hutch and Cheryl talk him into giving Hutch the antidote just in time. - Jensen (Death Ride) Andre, E.J
Jenson is the old man who works at the gas station at Jenson Corner. Starsky bribes him to hide the cab. Jenson lends Starsky and Hutch his van, extorting what Starsky thinks is a lot of money. He warns Starsky to stay away from the meatloaf at the diner. - Jensen, Second Officer (Murder at Sea) DeBenning, Burr
Jensen works on the Amapola. He pretends to work for Patsy Cairo, but his boss is really Joey Fortune. He puts on a mask and kills Eric Snow on the docks. Then he kills October Moss, thinking she is the witness to Snow’s murder. Jenson search’s Captain LaRue’s office and finds out Starsky and Hutch’s real identity. When LaRue catches him, Jenson kills him and hides his body in the closet. Jenson plants five bombs on the ship. He escapes with Nicky Cairo and Fortune. Starsky and Hutch chase them in a dune buggy across the Mexican desert. - Jenson, Lord (Sweet Revenge) mentioned
Lord Jenson lives in Hong Kong. Lancaster is going to visit him during a festival. Gunther tells Lancaster to let Lord Jenson use Gunther’s yacht. - Jerry (Terror on the Docks) Martel, William
Jerry is one of the dock thieves. He is in a gang with Wally, Billy, Rick, and Ted. - Jerry (Kill Huggy Bear) Howard, Dan
Jerry is one of Malinda’s four main thugs. Jerry’s partners are Bill, Sam, and Tom. - Jerry (Survival) Miller, Barry
Jerry and Lance are two thugs who find Hutch in the car wreck. They steal Hutch’s wallet and sell it to Harry Trask., - Jeru, Maharaja (Shootout) Welles, Danny
Jeru is the name Harry Sample gives Starsky and Hutch during his interrogation. They are trying to get Sample to confess to attacking a nineteen-year old girl and putting her into a coma. He says he was Sample in another life. Jeru doesn’t smoke, as it is “against the teachings.” Starsky and Hutch play good cop/bad cop with him and get him to admit to being stoned and committing the crime. - Jessie (Silence) Carroll, Helena
Jessie is an ex-con. She was convicted of armed robbery. She works at Dismas Center. When Starsky and Hutch come to question Father Ignatius, she is very protective of him. She serves Ignatius tea and quotes St. Matthew. The quote she chooses has to do with being aware of wolves in sheep clothing. Jessie tells Starsky she looks like Paul Muni. - Jim (The Plague) not credited
Jim is one of Roper’s thugs. - Jimmy (The Golden Angel) mentioned
Candy Reese talks to Jimmy, a sports writer, on the phone. - Jimmy (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) mentioned
Jimmy and Mario are two people Kathy and Linda, the showgirls, date. - Joe, Captain (The Hostages)
He works in Vice. - Johnny (The Velvet Jungle) not credited
He’s at the fashion show rehearsal. Lou tells him, “She’s all ready.” - Johnson, Detective Bill (Lady Blue)
Hutch calls him to confirm information about the car radio station. Johnson is the officer on the latest killing. - Johnson, Harry (The Hostages) not credited
Johnson is a security guard for the “Ames” armored car company. His partner is Tom Cole. His girlfriend is Amy who works as a waitress in the “Corner Café” close to his apartment. Johnson is killed in his own apartment, just after he gets out of the shower. His killer takes his uniform to use in robbing “Ames.” Johnson eats breakfast at exactly the same time every day. When he doesn’t show up, his girlfriend asks Starsky and Hutch to go check on him. Amy says he is never late because Johnson is a Sagittarius. - Johnson, Mac (Omaha Tiger) Wilkie, Bob
Johnson is a retired cop. His old beat was in the area he now runs concessions. Johnson says he broke Dobey in on the same beat. Johnson has called Starsky and Hutch down to the wrestling arena because he has some suspicions about Tom Carniary’s death. Before he can talk to him, Johnson is killed in a fall. It turns out his death was not an accident. Johnson is one of the victims of George Felton, a man committing murder to get a corner on the arena’s concession market. - Jones, Desk Sergeant (The Avenger) not credited
Jones is on duty as Hutch is working on the face kit. Jones transfers Hutch’s call down to Minnie in the lab. - Jones, Father (Little Girl Lost) Dimitri, Richard
Jones is the name Duran uses when he is impersonating a fake priest. - Jones, Franklin (The Crying Child) White, Al
Starsky and Hutch arrest Jones after he is caught shoplifting cold cuts. He tells Starsky and Hutch he is stealing them for his motherless eight and ten year old children. Starsky spends a lot of time trying to find Jones a job. Jones’ job experience is that of a go-cart mechanic and a sushi chef. - Jones, Franklin’s Children (The Crying Child) mentioned
They are eight and ten years old. Their mother is gone. Their father steals for food. Starsky and Hutch bring them chilidogs. - Jones, Roy (Kill Huggy Bear) Cambridge, Ed
Jones runs the liquor store that Dewey Hughes robs. Hughes doesn’t know the store is also a numbers drop for the mob. Jones is shot is the shoulder, and Hughes makes off with fifty thousand dollars, money Lou Malinda was expecting to get. Jones tells Starsky and Hutch he can’t remember anything about the robber and refuses an ambulance. Starsky calls one anyway, citing his fear of the NAACP. - Jones, Rupert (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) mentioned
Jones was one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches. He was injured two days before he was to testify in court on the Simmons case. Someone dropped a twenty-three inch color television out of a hotel window. Starsky and Hutch cite the Jones’ case as one reason they don’t trust that Lionel Rigger will be safe. He is still in the hospital. - Joseph (Pilot) not credited
Joseph is a hired thug of Tallman. He tries to make Starsky and Hutch give him their guns. He explains Starsky and Hutch need to be naked when they meet with his boss so he can tell they’re unarmed. Starsky beats him up, and Hutch beats Joseph’s unnamed partner up, incapacitating them both. - Josie the N (The Action) Venture, Richard
His other names are Glade Hilliard and Joseph Noland. Josie was kicked out of Las Vegas for hustling the casinos. There was also a murder charge against him, but it didn’t stick. Josie now owns the “Marlborough Health Club.” It doubles as an illegal gambling establishment. Josie runs a rolling crap game that takes place in the back of a semi. When Ted McDermott gets behind on his gambling payments, Josie orders him beat up. - Joy (Gillian) Kerns, Joanna
She is a prostitute that works at the same place Gillian does. She calls Huggy to tell him Gillian is in danger. - Judith (Discomania) Duvall, Susan
Judith is a short, chubby woman. She is a frequent patron of the disco, “Fever.” Judith hits on a lot of men, using the same line. She tries to pick up both Starsky and Hutch. Hutch gets some information from her about some disco patrons. - Judson (Sweet Revenge) mentioned
Judson is at the board meeting with Gunther. Bates asks him for the reports on Federal Charities. Before Judson speaks, Gunther asks for Bates’ report. - Junior (The Heavyweight) Burk, Jim
Junior is the third thug in Haley Gavin’s triad. Berl and Cruiser are Junior’s partners. - Junior (Huggy Can’t Go Home) O’Dell, Bryan
Junior is a young man who lives in Huggy’s old neighborhood. J.T. Washington is Junior’s mentor. Washington sends him to get food from the “Funky Chicken” to feed guys at a long-running poker game. Big Red McGee and Dolphin force Junior to rob the poker game members. Huggy counsels Junior at one point, telling him he used to be just like him.
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“I guess I just wanted somebody big and strong around so I could sleep.”
(Foxy Lady)
- Kalowitz, Detective (Snowstorm) Sorrells, Bill
Kalowitz was in on the drug bust with Corman, Burke, Starsky, and Hutch. While he is hostile towards Starsky and Hutch, it isn’t clear if he had a part in stealing the drugs or killing Crandell. - Kanen, Eliza (Deckwatch) mentioned
Eliza is Hannah’s sister. - Kanen, Fred (Deckwatch) mentioned
Fred was Hannah’s husband. Hannah describes an accident Fred had with a lawn mower. She talks about how long it took for his foot to stop bleeding. - Kanen, Hannah (Deckwatch) French, Susan
Hannah is Laura’s grandmother. She is in a wheelchair. It appears her son was a policeman and died three years ago in the line of duty. Hannah and Laura are taken hostage by Hector Salidas. Hannah keeps the situation calm. She plays cards with Starsky in the kitchen. She and Laura live together. - Kanen, Hannah’s son (Deckwatch) mentioned
It is suggested he may have been a cop who was killed in the line of duty three years ago. His photo is in the living room. He may or may not be Laura’s father. - Kanen, Laura (Deckwatch) Harrold, Kathryn
Laura is Hannah’s granddaughter. They live together. Laura is Hutch’s former girlfriend. She broke off their relationship, telling him he was too vague. After finding Salidas in her house with Hannah, Laura is sent for supplies. She finds Starsky and Hutch instead. Laura works with Hutch to capture Salidas. She, Hutch, and Hannah pretend Hutch is a paramedic. Laura rides a bike and tequila makes her sick. She accidentally hits Starsky in the face with a lemon meringue pie. - Kaplan, Officer Minnie (The Collector, The Avenger, Cover Girl, Birds of a Feather, Ninety Pounds of Trouble, Starsky vs. Hutch) Bey, Marki
In the “The Collector,” Minnie is a Traffic Coordinator. She doesn’t like Starsky and Hutch calling the job, Meter Maid. They try to talk her into going undercover and asking for a loan from Cunningham. They try to bribe her with doughnuts, but she won’t do it without Dobey’s permission. In “The Avenger,” she is working in the police lab after midnight. Hutch calls the lab to get the results from the blood in the hotel. Minnie tells him the blood was from a woman. Minnie is shown dancing to disco music in a karate outfit. She tells Hutch she is learning self-defense. In “Cover Girl,” Minnie brings Starsky and Hutch a computer printout of known hit men. Minnie later gives Starsky the change-of-address clue. In “Birds of a Feather,” Minnie takes Gertrude/Yvonne to booking. In “Ninety Pounds of Trouble,” Minnie tries to take Joey Carston’s statement. Later, she runs after Joey down the hall in an attempt to detain her. In “Starsky vs. Hutch,” Minnie is working the night shift. She asks Starsky if it’s the real thing with Kira, or if he’s just playing. He doesn’t answer. Minnie calls herself, “Mother Minnie.” - Karen (Lady Blue) Liston, Denyce
Karen is the last dancer that James Wrightwood attacks. She declines going out with her girlfriend after work, telling her she needs to get home to pick up her baby at her mom’s house. She is rescued on the roof by the radio tower. - Karen (The Groupie) not credited
Karen is one of the swimsuit models in the show for Jack Ives. She wears a red bikini. - Karpel, Cory (The Deadly Impostor) not credited
Cory is Karen’s son. Warren G. Karpel adopted him when Karen remarried. Cory’s dad’s name was John, and he was killed in Vietnam. The guard says Corey has “quite an arm on him” as Corey throws rocks into the ocean. - Karpel, Karen (The Deadly Impostor) Gailey, Suzan
Her maiden name was Brennan. John Colby claims her last name used to be Colby. Karen has a son named Cory. Her first husband was named John. He was killed in Vietnam. Karen has remarried to a man named Warren. Warren is an accountant. He is going to testify to a Grand Jury about his old boss, Nate Garvin. Karen, Cory, and Warren go into hiding. John Colby uses Starsky and Hutch to track the Karpels down, pretending she is his ex-wife. - Karpel, Karen first husband (The Deadly Imposter) mentioned
He is Corey’s father. He died in Vietnam. - Karpel, Warren G. (The Deadly Impostor) Brandon, Peter
Warren was Nate Garvin’s accountant. Warren served twenty-six months for tax evasion. He is married to Karen and adopted her little boy, Cory. All three Karpels are in hiding, waiting for Warren to testify against Nate Garvin, his old boss. - Kate (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Bell, Jean
Kate is one of the prostitutes working for Nikki. Nikki asks her to go do her nails. - Kates, Belle (The Hostages) Hagen, Jean
Kates is a Madam. She used to be Sweet Alice’s boss. Kates is fifty-two years old. She wants to make one last big deal so she can get out of the business. Kates helps Conrad set up the armored car heist. She is in charge of watching Ellie Cole. Kates begins to have doubts about the plan when she learns Ellie is pregnant. She cooperates with the police in the end. - Kathy (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) Lawrence, Linda
Kathy is a Las Vegas showgirl. She and her partner, Linda, are also drug runners for Judge McClellan. Both women are caught after a car accident. Kathy hides the drugs in a fake belly, pretending to be pregnant. - Katie (Starsky’s Brother) Godshall, Liberty
Katie is friends with Marlene and Carol. The three women meet Starsky, Hutch, and Nick at “Tramps,” a disco. Katie ends up as Starsky’s date. - Kauffman, Morty (A Body Worth Guarding) Miller, Allan
Kauffman is the leader of the Jewish Organization for Action, the JOA. The JOA is picketing the performances of Anna Akhanatova, protesting the treatment of Jews in Russia. A letter appears in the paper threatening the ballerina’s life, but the Fascist Party of America, who hopes to kill the ballerina and have the Jewish organization blamed, sent it. Starsky interrogates Kauffman. Kauffman is hostile, but agrees to help Starsky when Starsky says he would be catching a fascist. - Kaufman, Dr. Judith (The Plague) Margolin, Janet
Kaufman is one of two doctors who fly in from Alabama to work on a cure for the plague. Her partner is Dr. Meredith. They both work for the Disease Control Center. She rides along with Starsky and Hutch as they track down Donner’s contacts. She and Hutch flirt a little. Hutch tries to convince her to stay in Bay City. She declines. - Kazelkovsky (Bloodbath) mentioned
Kazelkovsky works on the site of the found van. Dobey yells at him about prints. - Kellim, John (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) not credited
Jerry Tabor kills Kellim as he is out walking his dog. Tabor kills Kellim to threaten Sue Ann Grainger. - Kendell, Treasury Agent (Moonshine) Noble, James
Kendell is a federal treasury agent. He is investigating the illegal moonshine trade in the area. He comes to Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey for help. The Hall brothers murder Kendell and his body is found on Old Ranch Road. - Kendrick, Lisa (Foxy Lady) Barnes, Priscilla
Lisa is from San Francisco. Her boyfriend is Kevin Mackey. She and Mackey steal two million dollars from Mackey’s boss. After Mackey is shot, Lisa has half the money and tricks Starsky and Hutch into thinking she is an innocent witness. Both detectives vie for her attentions. Lisa tells Starsky and Hutch a series of lies, gets kidnapped with Hutch, and manages to elude everyone. In the end, she gets a reward check from the insurance company despite her criminal ways. - Kester (Death Ride) mentioned
Kester is a mob boss. He has a contract out on Andrew Mello. Mello is due to testify against him in court. Kester’s men shoot and wound Mello. Mello is afraid they will go after his daughter next. Terry Evans is Kester’s snitch in the police department. He uses her to get information to chase Starsky and Hutch when they go get Mello’s daughter. Mello describes Kester as a former “two-bit bag man.” - Kim (Silence) Kanaly, Steve
Kim is Marty’s accomplice. Both pose as workers at the Dismas Center. Starsky threatens him with the death penalty to get him to talk. - Kingston, Sarah (Kill Huggy Bear) Edwards, Gloria
Kingston is a Dewey Hughes’ girlfriend. She lends him his car. Kingston is a cashier at a car dealership. She is also seeing Harry Martin, a man who works in the garage. When she hears about the money Hughes got away with, she wants to keep it. Martin kills Hughes and hides the body at High Ridge, near Crestline. Kingston and Martin knock Huggy out and steal the money Dewey gave him to return to Malinda. Kingston wants to head out of town, but Martin convinces her to go to work. He says it will throw off suspicion. Starsky and Hutch go to tell her about her car and she lies to them. When Starsky and Hutch return to arrest her, Martin splits on her, taking much of the money. - Kira (Starsky vs. Hutch) Ingalls, Joyce
Kira is the detective assigned to go undercover at the “Golden Lady Ballroom.” She dates Starsky, and makes the move on Hutch, too. After Hutch sleeps with her, Starsky hits him. She tells Hutch she loves both men and doesn’t want to choose. Starsky and Hutch meet her at The Pits and tell her neither of them wants her. - Kitty (Murder at Sea) Ericson, Devon
Kitty is a member of the single’s group on the Amapola. Harvey Schwab is apparently her boyfriend. He is very jealous of the attention Kitty pays to other men. Kitty sleeps with at least two passengers. - Klemp, Mr. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Sutton, Henry
Kemp owns the typewriter shop next door to the Paradise Massage Parlor. The fake Starsky tussles with him when he and the fake Hutch come out of the massage parlor after hassling Judith Coppet. He positively identifies Starsky and Hutch to Captain Ryan. - Knebel, Gretchen (Pilot) White, Carole Ita
Knebel is Patricia Talbert’s college roommate. Knebel is a phys ed major and wasn’t that close to Patty. Knebel tells Hutch she likes men who are physically fit. She has come to the coroner’s officer to collect Patty’s belongings. At first she is suspicious, but Starsky talks her into letting he and Hutch see Patty’s things. - Knight, Officer (The Committee) Cort, Bill
Knight is part of the vigilante group, “The Committee.” His partner is Officer Williams. Knight is the officer who hassles Starsky and Hutch at Nellie’s bar, telling them how he thinks Starsky and Hutch waste their time and aren’t serious. - Konig, Jerry (The Bounty Hunter) Cedar, Jon
Konig is a thief and arsonist, is Denise Gerards’s boyfriend and stutters. He has been arrested twice and released on bail twice. He arranges his bail money with Lola Turkel and Bo Rile. He blackmails them, after discovering their criminal ways. When he tells them he is going to the police, Turkel shoots and kills him. Rile hides his body in an abandoned factory. Gerard tells Starsky and Hutch Konig told her he was going to go straight. - Kramer, Mr. (Birds of a Feather) mentioned
He is the old man Yvonne spies on. She likes to look at him naked and knows he has a strawberry birthmark. - Kromack, Officer (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Bonny, Joe
Kromack is the cop assigned to guard Eddie Carlyle while he is in the hospital. Carlyle sneaks out anyway. - Krupp, Mrs. (Starsky’s Brother) Shawlee, Joan
Krupp is accused of beating up her husband with a baseball bat. She says he was cheating on her. Krupp flirts with Hutch. Hutch orders her booked on First Degree Husband Beating. - Krupp, Mr. (Starsky’s Brother) mentioned
He is he one hundred and sixty pound husband of Mrs. Krupp. He is in the hospital because he wife beat him with a baseball bat. She claims he was cheating on her.
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“When I’m nervous, I cook, okay?”
(Death in a Different Place)
- Lancaster (Sweet Revenge) Bonar, Ivan
Lancaster is one of Gunther’s employees. He reports on steel protection. Lancaster is going to fly to Hong Kong on Saturday. Gunther reminds him to let Lord Jenson use the yacht. - Lance (Survival) not credited
Lance and Jerry are the two thugs who find Hutch in his wrecked car. Instead of helping him, they steal his wallet and pawn it at Harry Trask’s pawnshop. - Lantz (The Las Vegas Strangler) Allen, Seth
Lantz has just been released from a mental institute. He attacks a girl at Circus Circus and escapes to the roof. He shoots Jack Mitchell and is detained by Starsky and Hutch. He admits to being the strangler, but also says he blew up Boulder Dam, the Empire State Building, the Washington Monument, as well as many flying saucers. - Larrabee, Kate (Cover Girl) Adams, Maud
Larrabee is famous fashion model. She and Hutch used to know each other seven years ago. Larrabee is told she has a terminal illness that will also make her ugly. She hires a hit man to kill her to save her from this fate. After she discovers the illness is in remission, she tries to stop the hit. Larrabee asks for help from Starsky and Hutch when she is unable to stop her future killer. Angel, the hit man blows up her car. He also attempts to kill her with exploding light bulbs. She likes red wine. Larrabee agrees to testify against Angel - Larry the Fall Guy (The Heroes) Picerni, Charles
Larry the Fall Guy is a man who jumps in front of cars, pretends to be injured and swindles insurance companies. Starsky and Hutch watch him do his trick in front of them as they eat lunch with Chris Phelps. They chase him off and ruin his plan. - La Rue, Captain (Murder at Sea) Aumont, Jean-Pierre
La Rue is the captain of the Amapola. He is a crabby, arrogant drunk. He doesn’t want Starsky and Hutch on his ship. He won’t let them call for help. Jensen kills him after La Rue finds him searching his office. Starsky and Hutch find his body in his closet. - Larsen (Murder Ward) Soul, David
Larsen is the name Hutch uses when he is undercover as an orderly at the mental hospital. - Larson, Gwen (The Crying Child) Tyson, Tara
Larson is Eddie Mayer’s girlfriend. They have been together for two years. She is a widow and has a young daughter whom she says Mayer treats well. Mayer makes clay pots, and she paints them. She tells Starsky and Hutch that Mayer has never hurt her, nor would he hurt a child. - Larson, Gwen’s daughter (The Crying Child) mentioned
Gwen says Mayer is good to her. She is seen in a photograph. She is blond and looks like she is about ten years old. - LaVerne (Death in a Different Place) St. Clair, Shelly
LaVerne is a prostitute at the St. Francis Hotel. She is coming in with a customer when she sees Tramaine and Blaine. - Lawford, Orrin (Death in a Different Place) Davalos, Dick
Lawford is the manager at the St. Francis Hotel. He and Alec Corday are dealing drugs. Blaine sees them dealing, and Corday kills him. Lawford tells Corday he wants out of the deal; Corday kills Lawford with a letter opener and then tells Starsky and Hutch that Tramaine did it. Lawford cooks when he is nervous. - Lee, Jim (Death Notice) not credited
Jim Lee is Ginger’s boyfriend. He used to be a linebacker for the New Orleans Saints. He is 6’4” and was two hundred and thirty-five pounds. Ginger says he weighs more now. Lee has a messed-up knee that hurts when it rains. Starsky wonders if he has slowed down any; Hutch tells him he doubts it. Lee is with Ginger when she is attacked. He tries to protect her, but is unsuccessful. Lee attacks Starsky and Hutch, thinking they are the bad guys. He cries over Ginger’s body. - Lee, Officer (Lady Blue) not credited
He was a friend of Officer Jack Forrest. They went to the academy together. When Starsky offers to give him money for the officer’s family, he bawls Starsky out. Hutch roughs Lee up against the wall. - Lemke, Earnest (Losing Streak) La Belle, Gene
Lemke is one of Garth White’s thugs. He is a partner with Gordon Foote. Both men are told to find Vic Rankin and kill him. - Lenny (The Action) mentioned
Lenny is one of Hilliard’s thugs. Eddie the truck driver calls him after faking the brake problem. - Lenny the Glass Eye (Texas Longhorn) mentioned
He is a fence. Starsky and Hutch decide Emma Lou Tyler’s squash blossom necklace is too high class a deal for him. - Lenny the Torch (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
Lenny the Torch’s real name is Lenny Torkel. He is a safe cracker for Avery Schiller. Torkel gives the cops information for a reduced sentence. - Leo (Texas Longhorn) not credited
Leo is one of Fat Rolly’s thugs. When he hears the commotion, he comes downstairs. Hutch tells him to leave. - Leo (Dandruff) Walter, Tracey
Leo works in the tobacco store in the hotel lobby. He is blind and can tell a lot about a person by their hands. He tells Hutch he will call him when someone comes in to buy Superba Corona Superba cigars. He has also told Buddy Owens the same thing. Leo, not knowing Hutch is a cop, tells him a whole box came in. Buddy Owens planned this trick, not knowing Starsky and Hutch were undercover cops. - Leotis, Cousin (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Shaw, Stan
Leotis is one of Huggy’s cousins. He is a genius with numbers, but takes things literally. He brings Huggy and Turkey a hot water heater when they ask him for a gun. - Lester, Lucky (Iron Mike) Lester, Buddy
He is a thief who pulled a jewelry heist the week before. Matt Coyle turns him over to Starsky and Hutch as s sign that Coyle’s information is good. Starsky and Hutch search Lester’s car and find jewels in his trunk. He starts to run away, and Starsky tells him he won’t get far. - Licentia (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) not credited
She is an actress in Blaze’s sex movies. Blaze scolds her, telling her he’s told her a thousand times, “You sit like that you’re gonna aggravate your sinuses.” - Lijah (Pilot) Fowley, Douglas
Lijah is a homeless man. Starsky and Hutch see him collecting bottles. He tells Hutch he thinks the world may have ended, and that perhaps they are all in hell. Hutch gives him some money. Lijah thanks him and calls out to someone named Charlie. He offers to buy Charlie a cup of coffee. - Lillian (Texas Longhorn) not credited
Lillian is married to a wrestler. She is sleeping with Fat Rolly. When her husband finds out about the affair, he beats Fat Rolly up. She and her husband come to The Pits later to apologize. - Lillian’s Husband (Texas Longhorn) Brannigan, Butcher
He beats Fat Rolly up for sleeping with his wife. Starsky and Hutch subdue and arrest him. Hutch complains the man’s wrists are too big for cuffs. He shows up at The Pits later with Lillian. He offers to buy Starsky and Hutch some French wine as an apology. - Lily (Murder at Sea) Hardy, Gari
Lily is a prostitute. She travels with Patsy Cairo, pretending to be his wife. They use the name Clark. Starsky says she can play “Greensleeves” on the zither. - Linda (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) Kiger, Susan
Linda is a Las Vegas showgirl. Her partner is Kathy. Kathy is the one who hides the cocaine in her fake pregnancy belly. They are both mules for Judge McClellan. Starsky and Hutch catch them after a car accident. - Lindsay (Cover Girl) Guardino, Jerome
While being escorted to court to testify by Officer Richards, he looked into a baby carriage to check on a crying infant. It was really a tape recorder and bomb, and he was killed when it exploded. - Lloyd (The Las Vegas Strangler) not credited
Lloyd is Vicky’s ex-husband and Cary’s father. He is in the military. When he has too much to drink, he tries to find Vicky to hurt her. Starsky and Hutch subdue him in Vicky’s apartment pool. - Lobo, Eddie (The Heroes) mentioned
He is doing time. Lobo used to deal with Jimmy Wells. - Lockett, Mrs. (Class in Crime) mentioned
On “The Rookies” episode in the background, she is the woman interviewed by the police. She says there was a man on her fire escape. She was baking gingerbread men for her Christmas tree. The actress who played her is Ruth McDevitt. - Lockley, Tom (Shootout) Paulsen, Albert
Lockley is a hit man from another state. He is teamed up with Joey Martin to kill Vic Monte. He considers himself a learned man and hassles Martin about his lowbrow interests. He and Martin take over the Italian restaurant and wait there to kill Monte. Hutch shoots and wounds him in the end. - Long, Su (The Psychic) Hong, James
Long is a Korean man who runs a crap game. Julio Gutierrez owes him money. Long says he doesn’t get involved with any capital offenses. He tape-records his conversation with Starsky and Hutch. - Longello, Mrs. (The Vampire) mentioned
Guybo thinks Starsky and Hutch are there on behalf of Mrs. Longello. He thinks she wants her money back for a bad “reading.” - Lonigan, Johnny (Iron Mike) Mancini, Ric
Lonigan is Matt Coyle’s right hand man. He replaces Skinny Momo Mantel, a man Ferguson asked to be turned over. Johnny’s wife, unknown to him, is sleeping with Coyle. Starsky and Hutch ask Coyle to turn Lonigan over as a sign of good faith. When they tell him that, and that Coyle is sleeping with his wife, Lonigan tells Starsky and Hutch what they need to know to bust Coyle. - Lonigan, Laura (Iron Mike) Wilcox, Shannon
Laura is Johnny’s wife. She is sleeping with Johnny’s boss, Matt Coyle. Laura is in the bedroom when Starsky and Hutch come to make a deal with Coyle. It is unclear whether she hears them or not - Lonnette (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Mobley, Candy
Lonnie is an old friend of Huggy’s. He goes to bail her out after she is arrested. She points out her john was just as guilty, but because he was white, didn’t get nabbed. She invites Huggy up for coffee, and he takes her up on it. - Loomis, Robert Emmett (Nightmare) Lewis, Zachary
Loomis’ nickname is Mousy. He is a partner with Nick Manning. He and Manning met in prison. Mousy and Loomis have borrowed money from Al Martin and are stealing things to sell to pay him. Mousy acts as a lookout for Manning while Manning rapes Lisa. Mousy is identified in the mug book. Hutch says he thought, from what he heard from the prison, was that Mousy was gay. - Lord Harry (Murder at Sea) Mokae, Zakes
Lord Harry is the tattoo artist who saw Cheryl drive away from Snow’s murder. He has a cat named Sir Winston. He offers Starsky and Hutch a tattoo special with a spider and the words, “Born to make whoopee.” - Lorraine (Dandruff) Blake, Sydney
It is unclear who this character is. - Louie, Cousin (The Vampire) mentioned
See Before They Were Cops - Lubbock, Phil (Murder on Stage 17) not credited
He is an actor on the stage of Steve Hanson’s movie. Lubbock is killed by an exploding valise and is the second to the last member of the Wolf Pack supposedly still alive. The other members of the Wolf Pack are Steve Hanson, Wally Stone, Pete Elexy, Julie West’s father, and Phil Moxley. Hanson mentions that Phil was married and that Phil was his best friend. - Lucas, Jimmy (Birds of a Feather) Kove, Martin
Lucas is Anthony Reuben’s thug. Lucas kills Palmer and the tries to kill Huntley. Huntley shoots him instead. - Luke (Bloodbath) James, Anthony
Luke is one of Marcus’ thugs. He’s the one with dark, long, greasy hair. - Lundo, Gino (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Kubik, Alex
He is one of Charlie Baron’s bodyguards. He tells Fitch and Owens that his fellow bodyguard, O, left at 10:00. - Lyle, Freddie (Murder Ward) Forman, Joey
Lyle is a patient of Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. Lyle tells Starsky he is undercover there as a gumshoe. Lyle is fascinated by 1940’s cop talk. Lyle decides to work with Starsky. He gives the papers Jane Hutton gets to Starsky. Lyle also tells Starsky’s his suspicions about Switek.
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“Fifteen thousand of us, marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C.
Fifteen thousand. We were living in tents, shacks made out of old newspapers.”
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- Mac, Officer (Foxy Lady) not credited
Starsky asks Officer Mac to take Stu Bassett away. - Macky, Kevin (Foxy Lady) Lofton, Chris
Macky is from San Francisco. He and his girlfriend, Lisa Kendrick, are supposed to deliver two million dollars from a bank heist to Mackey’s boss, Clay Zachary. They steal it instead. One of Zachary’s thugs kills Mackey as he and Kendrick get off the bus in Bay City. Lisa witnesses his murder. She tells Starsky and Hutch she loved Mackey because he was exciting. Mackey and Kendrick were planning to escape to Algiers. - Madeleine (Deckwatch) Mallory, Carole
Madeleine meets Hector Salidas in a bar. He takes her to dinner, then attempts to rape her and kills her. She was an actress from New York. She likes chow mien but not octopus. She wounds Salidas in the leg with a bullet from her small gun, a two-inch 38 special. - Maggie (Foxy Lady) Severn, Maida
Maggie works as a janitor at the station. Lisa Kendrick pays her one hundred dollars to switch clothes with her. The clothing switch allows Kendrick to sneak out of the station. Maggie is unrepentant, feeling she got a good deal. - Magic Minnie (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Jinaki
Minnie is one of Huggy’s aunts. Starsky, Hutch, and Huggy visit her on Voodoo Island. Minnie practices voodoo and knows everything about the island. She warns Starsky and Hutch about Papa Theodore and sells Starsky a protection charm, an amulet that turns out to be not terribly effective. - Malinda, Lou (Kill Huggy Bear) Camp, Hamilton
Malinda is a Mob boss. When Dewey Hughes realizes the robbery he’s just committed netted him Melinda’s money, he asks Huggy to help him return it. Malinda agrees to take the money back. When the money is stolen from Huggy, Malinda sends his goons after him. Starsky and Hutch question Malinda at the gym he runs. Malinda tells them he doesn’t care about the money as much as he does about his image. In the end, he decides not to claim the money. Malinda tells Starsky and Hutch he is moving to Florida. - Malone, Frank (I Love You, Rosey Malone) Ryan, John P.
Frank is a big mob boss. His wife died two years ago. Frank’s daughter, Rosey, has been living in Mexico. Two months ago, she returned to run a gallery. She works with the Huichol Indians, helping them sell their artwork. It is believed Frank is funneling money through Mexico, perhaps using his daughter as a contact. Bill Goodson and Ed Chambers, two lawyers for the Senate Investigating Committee, serve him a subpoena to testify. It is expected Frank will plead the Fifth Amendment. The two lawyers use Starsky to get close to Rosey to find out information about Frank. Frank is very protective of Rosey and disapproves of Starsky’s contact with his daughter. Frank doesn’t know Starsky is a cop until Goodson and Chambers leak that information, along with other tips, to Ray Shelby, Frank’s competition. Frank warns Starsky away from Rosey, but Starsky doesn’t back down. Figuring out they are all being played by Goodson and Chambers, Frank decides to appear before the committee. In exchange, he and Rosey are going to disappear, most likely back to Mexico. - Malone, Maxi (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) mentioned
Both Starsky and Hutch watched the “Maxie Malone Show” when they were kids. Malone was a very short, left-handed man. He was arrested for something. Starsky doesn’t know about the arrest. Hutch tells him he doesn’t know what the charges were as his mother wouldn’t let him read that part of the article. - Malone, Mrs. (I Love You, Rosey Malone) mentioned
Rosey tells Starsky her mother has been dead for two years, and that Rosey still misses her. - Malone, Rosey (I Love You, Rosey Malone) Swope, Tracy Brooks
Rosey is Frank Malone’s daughter. Her mother died two years ago. Rosey has been in Mexico, helping impoverished villagers raise money with art. She has been in the United States for a month now and runs a shop selling native art. Starsky and Hutch see her running the park, and Starsky tried to date her. She brushes him off. Two F.B.I agents take their picture and goad Starsky into getting to know her better. It is suspected Rosey knows a lot about her father’s illegal mob business and is a delivery person for him. Starsky goes undercover, falls in love with Rosey, but he doesn’t tell her he’s a cop. When his cover is blown, Rosey is at first angry, then takes him back, standing up to her father. After Rosey’s father makes a deal with the Feds, she decides to go with him into hiding. She alludes they are going back to Mexico. - Mandy (The Bounty Hunter) mentioned
Nina tells Denise that Mandy took a phone call for her at the Jungle Club. - Manning, Nickolas John (Nightmare) Graham, Gerrit
Manning is a thief and a rapist. His partner is Robert Emmett Loomis. Loomis, whose nickname is Mousy, and Manning met in prison. Manning told Loomis about his big plans to get rich when they got out. Manning and Loomis owe Al Green, a loan shark, over four thousand dollars. Manning rapes Lisa Graham and makes Loomis be his lookout. Starsky and Hutch arrest the two men after the bus driver, Mr. McDevlin, identifies them from the mug book. The assistant district attorney doesn’t do much to make the case against Manning and Loomis stick, thinking the case won’t help him in his political career. While out on bail, Manning breaks into Lisa’s house and attacks her. He wants to eliminate her as a witness. Starsky and Hutch save her. Al Green beats Manning up. Manning tells his emergency room doctor Starsky and Hutch did it. In the end, Starsky and Hutch convince the district attorney to take the case from his assistant and make it stick - Manny (The Game) mentioned
Manny is a dispatcher at Metro Cab Company. Hutch calls him from the “Hotel California.” Ernie Silvers tells Starsky about the phone call Hutch made to Manny. - Mantel, Skinny Momo (Iron Mike) Alaimo, Marc
Mantel is in jail on a ten-year sentence. He was Matt Coyle’s main thug. Ferguson asked Coyle to turn Mantel over as a sign of good faith. Coyle did, even though he thinks of Mantel like a son. Coyle sends Mantel’s “old lady” five hundred dollars a week. Starsky and Hutch visit Mantel in jail and try to convince him Coyle betrayed him. Mantel doesn’t believe them. - Marcartur, Harry (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
He is the union leader Carlyle has been hired to kill. - Marcartur, Harry’s Family (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
Dobey says he’s put police protection out for it. - Marchetti, Detective Frank (The Heavyweight) not credited
Marchetti had been working undercover on the docks, trying to break up a robbery ring. One night, he is checking boxes against inventory sheets and is killed by Haley Gavin’s thugs. James Spenser witnesses his murder. Spenser didn’t realize Marchetti died, nor did he know he was a cop. Marchetti had a wife and two children. - Marco the Magnificent (Murder at Sea) mentioned
Marco owns a magic shop. His cousin, Huggy, runs it while Marco is in court for cutting off a man’s finger in a guillotine trick. Starsky and Hutch visit Huggy at Marco’s shop to question Huggy about what he knows about the Amapola. They are treated to Huggy’s unspectacular attempts at magic. - Marcus, Simon (Bloodbath) Aquarian, Aesop
Marcus is the leader of an evil religious cult. He is about to be sentenced for multiple counts of murder. He has his followers kidnap Starsky in an effort to get out of jail. When Hutch questions Marcus, Marcus gives him answers in riddles. - Marcy (Huggy Can’t Go Home) mentioned
Marcy is a character on “The Disenchanted,” the show Big Red McGee watches. Other characters are Roy, Marcy, Sean, Rebecca, and Phil. - Margaret (Terror on the Docks) mentioned
Margaret is the organist in the church Father Delacourt works at. She is hard of hearing. Margaret plays a funeral dirge, rather than a wedding song, at Nancy and Billy’s wedding rehearsal. - Marge (The Action) mentioned
Marge was supposed to be at the supper at the McDermott’s as a date for Starsky or Hutch. She calls and cancels, citing a lost filing. - Mario (The Psychic) mentioned
He works at the car wash where Julio worked. His boss, De Meo, tells him to “put some elbow in that.” - Mario (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) mentioned
Mario and Jimmy are two guys Linda and Kathy, the showgirls, date. - Mariposa, Tony (Discomania) Mascarino, Pierrino
Mariposa owns “Mariposa Mag Wheels.” He is a wealthy, self-made man. He calls his mother regularly to ask her to move in with him. She declines. Someone named Sharon sometime in the past jilted Mariposa. Now he goes to discos and tries to dance with women. When they refuse, he drugs their drinks with prescription medicine and takes them to his house for nefarious purposes. Then he kills them, puts an ankle bracelet on them with the name “Sharon” and dumps their bodies. Starsky and Hutch are called in on the case when women start to disappear from a dance club called “Fever.” Mariposa kidnaps four women, including undercover policewoman, Lizzie Thorpe. Starsky and Hutch rescue Thorpe, tracing her to Mariposa’s house by a dropped prescription bottle. - Mariposa, Mrs. (Discomania) mentioned
Her son, Tony, calls her regularly. He tells her he loves her and wants to have her move in with him. She declines. - Marisipio, Harry (Starsky’s Lady) mentioned
Hutch tries to call Marisipio during Terry’s memorial evening. Hutch wants to ask him about jobs as football players for the Canadian team, The Lions. As drunk as Hutch is, it is difficult to determine if Marisipio is Hutch’s brother-in-law or a friend of his brother-in-law. - Markeno, Tony (Starsky’s Brother) mentioned
Markeno is a thug in New York. He tells Nick Starsky to look up Frank Stryker when he is in Bay City. Stryker has Markeno called to check on Nick’s reliability - Markham, Harry (Murder on Stage 17) Goldblum, Jeff
Markham is the Steve Hanson’s director. He gives Hutch a bit part. Hutch is excited to “watch him work.” Hutch tells Starsky Markham “represents the subtlest kind of symbolism, like Bergman.” - Marks, Mr. (The Groupie) Hiken, Gerald
Marks comes to Dobey’s office to complain about the lack of progress the cops are making on the garment district thefts. Marks is the president of the Garment Manufacture’s Commission. He tells Dobey how much money his industry brings to the economy. Starsky and Hutch make fun of Marks’ limp handshake. - Marlene (Starsky’s Brother) Brooks, Elizabeth
Marlene is a stewardess at the airport. She and Nick flirt a bit. When Starsky comes to pick Nick up, he diverts her attentions to himself. Marlene agrees to meet the guys at “Tramps” later. She brings her friends, Carol and Katie. Marlene becomes Hutch’s date. She’s more interested in watching the Starsky brothers and doesn’t pay much attention to Hutch. The next day, Nick asks Hutch about Marlene. He says they left, and she threw up on the stairs. - Marlene, Mr. (Dandruff) Soul, David
Marlene is Hutch’s undercover character. - Marlene, Mr. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Glaser, Paul Michael
Marlene is Starsky’s undercover name. - Marlowe, Mrs. (Starsky and Hutch are Guilty) Meyer, Dorothy
Marlowe owns the “Cozy Corner Café.” She sees the fake Starsky and Hutch go into Lennie Atkin’s apartment. She tells Chief Ryan she knows the men left at 3:30 because her soap opera was just ending. It turns out she is an unreliable witness as she didn’t have her glasses on. - Marlowe, Tommy (Vendetta) Sandy, Gary
Marlowe was an excellent student from Indiana. He killed his whole family six months ago. Marlowe becomes one of Solkin’s artful dodgers. Marlowe is ordered to scare Jimmy Shannon, but he kills him instead. Solkin has Marlowe beat up a number of other people, including Lloyd Herman Eckworth. Marlowe attacks Abigail Crabtree, puts a dead rat in Hutch’s refrigerator, throws a brick through his window, and puts a bomb in Hutch’s trunk. Marlowe blinds himself by staring at a light bulb all the time. He is mentally ill. Billy Ryan refers to Marlowe as “The Spook.” - Marlowe, Tommy’s Family (Vendetta) mentioned
They lived in Indiana. Six months ago, Tommy killed them all. - Marr, Dr. (Black and Blue, The Plague) mentioned
His name is heard on the hospital PA. Dr. Redfield is report to Dr. Marr in Administration. - Marra, Michelle (Class in Crime) Balding, Rebecca
Marra is Gage’s girlfriend. Dressed as a mime, she helps Gage kill Allen Richards. She goes to Jack Morgan’s apartment and kills him as well. She catches Starsky sneaking into their house and kicks him out. Gage tells her to shoot Hutch after he gets Hutch on the beach. Starsky shoots her instead. - Marsh, Bobby (Survival) Janek, George
Bobby hears Hutch’s calls for help over his ham radio. He calls the police. Starsky visits Bobby and gets just enough information to make the connection between the cryptic message and Sonny McPherson’s visit. Starsky invites Bobby to come down to the station to see the communications center, something that Bobby says he would like to do. - Marsh, Mrs. (Survival) Shaw, Paula
Mrs. Marsh’s son is Bobby. She hassles him about his dirty bedroom, tells him to get off his ham radio and asks him to zip up her dress. She is going out on a date. - Marshall, Kathy (Fatal Charm) Heiden, Janice
Marshall is a stewardess. She has apparently dated both Starsky and Hutch. She has Starsky pick her up at the airport and take her to surprise Hutch. She, Starsky, Hutch, and Diana Harmon go out dancing. Harmon, jealous, spills a glass of wine on Kathy, making her leave the disco with Starsky. - Martin, Dr. (The Plague) mentioned
- His or her name is heard over the hospital P.A. Dr. Redfield is asked to report to Dr. Martin in Administration.
- Martin, Al (Nightmare) Weathers, Carl
Martin is a loan shark. He has two kids in school. He says his wife thinks he’s Santa Claus. Nick Manning and Mousy owe Martin over four thousand dollars. Martin beats up Manning, telling him to tell the authorities it was Hutch who attacked him. Martin says he is embarrassed to be associated with Manning and Mousy. Martin says he has a plumber that says he needs a whole new line to the sewer. - Martin, Harry (Kill Huggy Bear) Williams, Dick
Martin is one of Kingston’s boyfriends. He works in the same car place she does. She and Kingston kill Dewey in a plan to get the money Dewey stole. Martin and Kingston knock Huggy out and take the cash. When Starsky and Hutch go to see Dewey’s body, Martin cuts the Torino’s brake lines. Hutch shoots him in the leg as they take him down on a rooftop. - Martin, Joey (Shootout) Keats, Steven
Martin and Tom Lockley are partners. They are out-of-state hit men. His partner is Tom Lockley. They have been brought to Bay City to kill mob boss, Vic Monte. Theresa DeFusto is their contact at the restaurant where they are going to shoot Monte. When Martin recognizes Starsky and Hutch, he panics and shoots Starsky. Hutch describes Martin as a “wild man” who is “wound up tighter than a drum.” Hutch shoots and kills Martin in the end. Martin is a real sports fan and thinks his partner’s fondness for books is silly. - Martin, Julie (Satan’s Witches) Zon, Deborah
Julie is a member, along with her sister Tricia, of Rodell’s satanic cult. The women pretend to be hikers. Julie stays outside and chats up Starsky and Hutch at the cabin, while her sister puts a rattlesnake in the refrigerator. They promise to come back later for a date. - Martin, Tricia (Satan’s Witches) Ray, Jeri
Tricia is a member, along with her sister Julie, of Rodell’s satanic cult. The women pretend to be hikers. Julie stays outside and chats up Starsky and Hutch at the cabin, while Tricia puts a rattlesnake in the refrigerator. They promise to come back later for a date. - Martini, Janos P. (A Coffin for Starsky) Allen, Seth
Martini is one of the three suspects in Starsky’s poisoning. He runs a porno studio out of an old storefront. He used to be Sweet Alice’s pimp until he beat her up on camera. Starsky and Hutch question Martini on a movie set, threatening to drop his expensive lens. They require Martini to laugh because Starsky thinks he may recognize the sound of his voice. In a funny bit of set design, Martini and the other two suspects all appear to live in the same apartment, as per the rap sheets. - Martini, Janos P.’s brother-in-law (A Coffin for Starsky) mentioned
Martini says his brother-in-law is who lent him money for the expensive camera lens. - Marty (Savage Sunday) Castronova, Tom
Marty is a bookie at Monty’s Bar. His partner in crime is Ed. They think they need to offer Starsky and Hutch protection money. As soon as Starsky and Hutch leave, they call Ted at the body shop. Marty is a hothead; Ed keeps telling him to calm down. Marty offers Starsky and Hutch five hundred dollars a week as a bribe. - Marty (Texas Longhorn) Hall, Bobby
Marty works for or with Fat Rolly. Starsky takes him down when he and Hutch go to question Rolly about the squash blossom necklace. Rolly’s makes a snide remark about Marty’s ability to protect him. - Marty (Starsky’s Lady) not credited
His name appears in the original script. In the original script, Marty is a thug in the car with Woody, Prudholm, and another thug named Bobby. - Marty (Silence) Betz, Carl
Mary is the real name of the thug who killed Father Jonathan Ignatius and took his place at “Dismas Center.” Starsky and Hutch first meet him when he comes to rescue Larry Horvath from shoplifting charges. Marty and his partner, Kim, are using the ex-cons to steal for them. Marty gives Starsky and Hutch a list of tenants, making him appear cooperative. Marty threatens Horvath and is arrested in a movie theater. One of Marty’s alias is Greg Filmon. - Marty (Dandruff) mentioned
Marty works for hotel security. He is someone who operates the security system’s computer. Buddy Owens thinks he sees Marty messing around with the control panel. Owens points out the man can’t be Marty, as Marty called in saying he was staying home to take care of his sick wife. Owens notes, a little late, that May is unmarried. - Marty (Targets Without a Badge Part: 3) Hicks, Chuck
Marty is one of McClellan’s thugs. His partner is Alex. They follow Starsky and Hutch around. Both Marty and Alex meet Starsky and Hutch in a steam room and try to kill them. Marty tells Starsky and Hutch he doesn’t like blondes or guys with curly hair. - Marty (Pariah) Baker, Brian
Marty is one of Solenko’s thugs. - Marty (The Plague) not credited
Marty is one of Roper’s thugs. - Marty, Officer (Lady Blue) Baker, Brian
He is the first officer at the scene of Helen Davisson’s body. He is shaken by what he saw. Hutch asks him how he’s doing and pats his body. - Mary (Class in Crime) Katzman, Sherril Lynn
Mary is one of the girls fishing with Starsky and Hutch. She is Hutch’s date. - Mary (Huggy Can’t Go Home) mentioned
Mary is a character on “The Disenchanted,” the show Big Red McGee watches. Other characters are Roy, Marcy, Sean, Rebecca, and Phil. - Mary (The Groupie) not credited
She is a swimsuit model at the show for Jack Ives. She has a very long blonde braid. - Mary (Black and Blue) Kellerman, Susan
Mary works with Elaine at “Allied Answering Service.” Between the two of them, they split all the shifts. Mary has a scam going. When someone tells her they are going out of town, she slips a note to Vivian, the sandwich girl. Vivian pays her money. Then Vivian passes the information along to Lionel Train, setting the house up to be robbed. Elaine doesn’t know about Mary’s crime and hopes Mary doesn’t make her lose her job. - Mary (Ballad for a Blue Lady) mentioned
Starsky calls her from Hutch’s apartment. He asks her to call him if she sees Hutch. She’s a possible girlfriend. - Mary, Officer (Hutchinson for Murder One) mentioned
Simonetti calls her from the lab with a three number extension. He asks if she has Hutch’s file in front of her and confirms Hutch’s blood type. - Mascelli, Linda (Jojo) Scruggs, Linda
Mascelli is one of Jojo’s rape victims. Starsky and Hutch go to see her in hopes she’ll testify against him in court. She agrees. When Bettin gets Jojo out of jail, Jojo starts giving Mascelli obscene phone calls. Jojo’s body is found in her artist’s studio. Since Mascelli knows karate and can’t prove her alibi, she is arrested for his murder. - Mason, Dr. Sammy (Manchild on the Streets) Frazier, Sheila
Mason rents a room in the Walter’s house. She is an intern at Midway Hospital, ten blocks away. She is with Starsky and Hutch when they get to Jackson after he is shot. It appears she also helps treat him at the hospital. Junior, at Maurice’s prompting, steals Mason’s keys. The two are going to break into the hospital pharmacy. At the hospital, Maurice takes her hostage. Starsky, Hutch, and Junior subdue him. - Matthew (Bloodbath) Doubleday, Frank
Matthew is one of Marcus’ thugs. He isn’t the blond one and he isn’t the one with long, greasy, dark hair. He’s the third man in the van. - Matwick, Dr. (Murder Ward) Charles, Leon
Matwick is the head doctor at Cabrillo State Mental Institution. Starsky and Hutch go in undercover to investigate a number of mysterious deaths. They find out Matwick was indicted twelve years ago for two negligent homicides with two former patients in New York. Switek discovers Matwick’s past and blackmails him. Matwick pays Switek off with lithium carbonate, a drug with street value. Matwick has Switek killed, and he frames Starsky. When Charlie Deek tells him he recognizes Starsky and Hutch, Matwick poisons Hutch’s apple. Deek goes after him and tries to kill him. Matwick has Starsky tied down in a procedure room and intends to do him harm. Nurse Bycroft releases Starsky so he can stop Matwick. - Maurice (Manchild on the Streets) Sneed, Maurice
Maurice is a two-bit punk. While hyped out, he clumsily steals food from a store. Maurice sees Dewey’s parked car and drives it a few blocks. The crime is reported by the shopkeeper, which puts into action the chain of events that kills Walter Jackson. Later, Junior asks Maurice for money to get out of town. Maurice has Jackson steal Dr. Mason’s keys. They plan to rob the hospital pharmacy. When cornered, Maurice takes Mason hostage. - Maxine (Death in a Different Place) Deffenbaugh, Joella
Maxine and Laverne are two prostitutes at the “St. Francis Hotel.” They both know Nick Hunter and watch him come in with John Blaine. The two women also hear Lawford killed and call the police. - Maxine, Officer (The Committee) Wilcox, Shannon
Hutch sweet-talks her into helping him identify Ginger. She tells him his interests better be business, not personal. - May, Allison (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3) Thompson, Hilary
Laura Anderson was her former name. Under the Witness Protection Program, she became Allison May at age eleven. She and Starsky were like brother and sister. (See: Anderson, Franklin) She is now thirty-two years old. Starsky used to call her mother Aunt Marion and her father Uncle Frank. Allison realizes her father is in trouble. She recognizes Starsky from a newspaper article about the McClellan case and decides to ask him for help. She parks her little car behind his as a diversion and then goes on a “date” with both Starsky and Hutch. Starsky remembers who she is after he looks at her photo album. After her father is killed, Soldier kidnaps her. In the amusement park showdown, she and Starsky uses a shared memory of Crazy Sammy Pearl and how he jumped through a window to save themselves. - May, Carol (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) mentioned
Marion Anderson is her former name. After going into the Witness Protection Program, her name becomes Carol May. (See: Franklin Anderson) Starsky used to call her Aunt Marion when he was a child. She died six years ago. - May, Thomas (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3) Remsen, Bert
Frank Anderson was his former name. It was changed to Thomas May when he and his family went into the Witness Protection Program. Twenty-six years ago, the Andersons moved next door to the Starsky’s on 84th Street in New York. Laura Anderson, his daughter, was six years old and became a good friend of Starsky. Starsky used to call Anderson Uncle Frank. Anderson worked as an accountant for the mob and went into the protection program twenty-one years ago. The Anderson family’s disappearance was faked, with all three of them “dying” in a car accident in New England. At that time, the Andersons became the Mays and moved to California. Anderson took up work in a bank and then began to be blackmailed for Federal Housing Authority loan information. Anderson’s daughter is threatened and he tries to scare Starsky off. Anderson is murdered in his living room and his death is supposed to look like a suicide. His wife was named Marion and she died six years ago. - May, Allison’s Girlfriend (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) mentioned
Starsky tells Dobey he was picking up Allison at her girlfriend’s house to take her out for a cup of coffee. This was his excuse for being in the underground garage. - Mayer, Eddie (The Crying Child) Lane, Mike
Mayer is a truck driver for “City Trucking.” He is divorced. His ex-wife is Janet, and she has custody of their two children, Guy and Vikki. His friend, Coop, says Mayer is a good driver, but a bad drunk with an Irish temper. Mayer gave Coop a black eye the night before. Starsky and Hutch suspect Mayer is abusing Guy. It turns out his ex-wife is the abuser. Mayer has a girlfriend. Her name is Gwen Larson, and she has a little girl. She says Mayer would never hurt a child. Mayer makes pots, and he and Gwen sell them at flea markets. - Mayer, Guy (The Crying Child) Peluce, Meeno
Guy is in the third grade. His sister is Vikki. His mom is Janet and his dad is Eddie. His parents are divorced and the kids live with their mom. Guy’s teacher notices signs of abuse on him and calls Starsky and Hutch. Guy’s father is arrested for the crime, but it is Guy’s mother who is the abuser. Guy hopes Starsky and Hutch will take him to a baseball game and for a ride in the Torino. - Mayer, Janet (The Crying Child) Dano, Linda
Janet is Vikki and Guy’s mom. She used to be married to Eddie. Her father sexually abused Janet when she was growing up. It gave her a hatred of men. Janet is a conflicted and religious person. She abuses Guy when she is angry with Eddie. - Mayer, Janet’s father (The Crying Child) mentioned
He abused Janet Mayer when she was young. He was sent to prison for child abuse and incest. - Mayer, Janet’s mother (The Crying Child) mentioned
She died when Janet was young. - Mayer, Vikki (The Crying Child) McKeon, Nancy
Vikki is Guy’s big sister. Guy and Vikki’s parents are divorced, and the children live with their mother. Vikki knows her mother abuses Guy but is too frightened to say anything. When Starsky and Hutch question Mrs. Mayer about Guy’s back, Vikki lies and says their father did it. - McArthur, Harry (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
McArthur is a big-time union boss. Avery Schiller hires Carlyle to assassinate him. - McBride, K.C. (Quadromania) Marta, Lynne
McBride drives a cab for “Metro Cab Company.” She is an aspiring country western singer. She and Starsky go out on a date, but he falls asleep in the car. McBride and Hutch rescue Starsky from Fitzgerald. McBride thinks she’s hiring an experienced manager named Buck the Panhandle Bear. The man turns out to be Huggy. - McCabe, Charlie (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Soul, David
McCabe is Hutch’s undercover character. McCabe is a dance student. - McClellan, Judge Raymond (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3) MacLean, Peter
McClellan used to work for the FBI. Now he is a federal judge who runs drugs. When Starsky and Hutch arrest two of his drug mules, he hires Lionel Rigger to bribe Starsky and Hutch into dropping the charges. After Hutch is forced to reveal Rigger, McClellan has Rigger killed. McClellan has also been running a blackmail scam with the information he has from the Witness Protection Program. Soldier, Rigger’s killer, shoots and kills McClellan in the courthouse bathroom. It is Clayburn who ordered the hit, fearing Starsky and Hutch are getting too close to the truth. - McCoy (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
McCoy is the man (or woman!) Hutch is supposed to comment on when he is doing his bit part for the Hanson’s picture. Hutch is supposed to spot McCoy out of the bar window and say, “Here comes McCoy now.” - McDermont, Officer ’Mack’ (The Specialist) not credited
Mack and Officer Carl Stoltz were partners. They, along with Starsky and Hutch, respond to a robbery. One of the four men accidentally shoots and kills Janice Drew. Alexander Drew kills him, planting a bomb in his car. Mack, divorced, lived with his dad. His daughter visited regularly. According to his police file, Mack’s ex-wife is named Sarah and she lives in San Diego. - McDermont, Mack’s daughter (The Specialist) mentioned
She is at school when her father is killed. She visits her father every other Wednesday and on Saturdays. - McDermont, Sarah (The Specialist) mentioned
Sarah is Mack’s ex-wife. According to Mack’s police record, she lives in San Diego. - McDermont, James (The Specialist) Zoller, Jack
James is Officer McDermont’s father. The two men live together. James tells his son goodbye, and then watches as the car is blown up. James tells Hutch he warned his son how dangerous his job was. - McDermott, Ellen (The Action) Wells, Julienne
Ellen is Ted’s wife, Toni’s mother and Julie’s sister-in-law. Ellen invites Starsky and Hutch over for dinner for a double date with another woman and Julie. She also asks Hutch to help her with Ted’s gambling problem. - McDermott, Julie (The Action) Griffith, Melanie
Julie is Ted’s younger sister. She reminds Starsky of when he took her to an ice skating rink seven years ago. Starsky comments at how much she’s changed. Hutch tries to horn in and be Julie’s date, but she goes off with his partner. Julie helps in her brother’s case by going undercover at Starsky’s money delivery person. She puts an ice cube down his back. Julie plays “Liars’ Poker” with Starsky and Toni. - McDermott, Ted (The Action) Sikking, James
Ted is one of Starsky and Hutch’s old friends. His wife is Ellen. His daughter is Toni. His sister is Julie. Ted is in over his head in gambling at the “Marlborough Health Club.” He threatens Glace Hilliard, telling him he’ll go to the authorities about Hilliard’s crooked ways. Hilliard has Ted beaten up. Ellen asks Hutch to help Ted. - McDermott, Toni (The Action) Cummings, Quinn
Toni is Ted and Ellen’s daughter. Her sister is Julie. When Starsky and Hutch come for dinner, she jumps on Starsky from behind the door. Toni plays “Liars’ Poker” with Julie and Starsky. - McDevlin (Nightmare) Guardino, Jerome
McDevlin is Lisa Graham’s bus driver. He is very fond of her. He finds her after she’s been attacked. McDevlin identifies her attackers from the mug book. Later, he gives more testimony in the private meeting Starsky and Hutch aren’t invited to. - McGee, Big Red (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Mosley, Roger
McGee and his partner, Dolphin, rob J.T. Washington’s poker game. One of the players, Boseman, chases the thieves out to the street. Boseman and McGee fight, and McGee shoots and kills him. McGee and Boseman hide out, but are tracked down by Cora Lee through McGee’s lunch order at the “Funky Chicken.” Dolphin, unhappy with how bossy McGee is, fight. McGee shoots and kills Dolphin. McGee, shot in the stomach, escapes through the window. Huggy tracks McGee down in an abandoned warehouse and they argue over the money. Before McGee can kill Huggy, he dies of his gunshot wound. - McGinnis, Spider (Starsky’s Brother) mentioned
McGinnis is someone both Starsky and Nick know. McGinnis is a thug, but Nick tells Starsky he respects him. - McMillan, Felix (The Deadly Impostor) mentioned
Felix is Maggie McMillan’s late husband. He worked for forty-two years as a high school history teacher at Central High School. Felix bought Maggie the 1952 Kaiser-Frasier for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. - McMillan, Maggie (The Deadly Impostor) Schmidt, Georgia
Maggie comes down to the police station frequently. She reports crimes that most likely didn’t happen. Starsky types up her report of a stolen car, the 1952 Kaiser-Frasier her husband bought for her on their anniversary. Starsky flirts with her and Maggie promises to send him a nice girl to date. She sends a woman named Abigail Crabtree. Starsky, thinking Crabtree is an old woman, asks Hutch to hide him. - McPherson, Sonny (Survival) Clancy, Tom
McPherson is a mentally unstable veteran. He thinks he is still in Europe during the war. He finds Hutch pinned under his car, but thinks Hutch is a German spy. McPherson threatens to shoot him but ends up sitting by Hutch for a while, telling him stories about the war. Hutch tries to get McPherson to find Starsky. McPherson goes to the police station, but no one listens to him. An officer takes McPherson to the Veteran’s Hospital. When Starsky connects what McPherson says to what Bobby Marsh tells him, he goes to the hospital and talks to McPherson. McPherson, thinking Starsky is a fellow soldier, tells him what he needs to know to find Hutch. - Meadows, Ben (Moonshine) Corley, Pat
Meadows owns the “Backwoods Inn Bar.” He hosts an amateur talent night, one at which Hutch plays. Meadows hooks up the undercover Starsky and Hutch with Willy Hall. - Meg (The Hostages) McNichol, Kristy
Meg lives next door to the Coles. Starsky and Hutch question her about the kidnapping. Meg is working on a trail bike and tells Starsky and Hutch she’s going to run away. She’s angry about a ticket she got for riding her trail bike in the street. Meg agrees to go downtown to look at mug books if Starsky and Hutch can fix the ticket with her parents. Meg identifies Belle Kates in the mug book. - Meg’s parents (The Hostages) mentioned
Meg says they’re at work. She doesn’t want them to know about her traffic ticket. - Meghan (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Thompson, Linda
Meghan is one of the women that work at the “Playboy Hotel.” She is also one of the women who help Charlotte Connery. - Meghan’s Girlfriend (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) mentioned
Meghan says she and her girlfriend go up to Pine Lake all the time. Starsky and Hutch go back to Meghan’s apartment to meet her. - Melanie (Class in Crime) Heldfond, Susan
Melanie is one of the students in Professor Joshua Gage’s class, “The Philosophy of Crime,” at Jameson College. When the class is asked about the blackmail note, Melanie says it “implies a knowledge shared by others.” - Melford, Dr. (Lady Blue) Redeker, Quinn
Melford was James March Wrightwood’s doctor when Wrightwood was a patient at the “San Leone Medical Institution for the Criminally Insane.” Starsky and Hutch question Melford and find out he deemed Wrightwood sane after the man scored a high enough score on a test. - Mello, Andrew (Death Ride) Corey, Jeff
Mello is a big-time mobster. Mello is arrested on tax evasion charges, the best thing the government could get him on. Mello agrees to testify against his rival, Kester. After Kester has someone shoot and wound Mello, Mello refuses to testify unless his daughter, Joanne Wells, is brought to Bay City safely. Mello doesn’t trust Starsky and Hutch, telling Dobey when he was in charge; he always had a snitch in the police department. - Meredith, Detective Joan (Black and Blue) McGee, Vonetta
Meredith is a cop. She was fourth in her class at the Academy and used to work in Juvenile. Dobey assigns her to be Starsky’s partner while Hutch is in the hospital. Dobey thinks that her being black will help in solving the robbery crimes. She says she understands that her being black and female fulfills two quotas. In hand-to-hand combat, she takes Starsky down; his underestimation of her his downfall. Meredith, undercover as a young thief, infiltrates Train’s hideout. Vivian blows her cover. Starsky jokes, in front of Dobey and Hutch, that if Hutch were ever shot again, he’d want her as a partner. It is insinuated that Starsky and Meredith slept together. - Meredith, Dr. (The Plague) Marth, Frank
Dr. Meredith and Dr. Kaufman fly up from the Disease Control Center in Alabama to help find a cure for the plague. - Merle the Earl (Jojo, Bloodbath, The Game) Allen, Raymond
In “Jojo,” Starsky and Hutch question Merle about a car he saw at the garage when he had his own car in to be repaired. Merle steers them to Dixie who lives in the trailer court across the street. Merle knows Starsky’s Uncle Al and thinks the Torino isn’t much of a car. Later, he tries to sell Hutch a flashy car. In “Bloodbath,” Hutch brings his car to Merle for a routine tune-up. Merle promises “nothing supernatural,” but when Starsky and Hutch go to pick it up, Merle has covered the inside with fake fur. In the “The Game,” Starsky goes to Merle looking for information about Hutch’s car. Hutch has paid Merle not to tell Starsky, but Starsky offers more. In the end, Starsky doesn’t get the information because Merle won’t take his check. - Merle the Earl’s Aunt Charlene (Jojo) mentioned
Merle says she’s looking for a man. - Mervin, Cousin (Fatal Charm) mentioned
See Before They Were Cops - Meschugah Mantherlus (Ballad for a Blue Lady) as itself
This is Hutch’s houseplant. He admires its new growth and offers to play some Donna Summer for it. Meschugah (or Mishugana) is Yiddish for “crazy person.” Mantherlus doesn’t translate as anything, but is probably an inside joke and supposed to sound Latin. - Michael (Cover Girl) mentioned
Michael is one of Randolph’s assistants. He is a photographer. - Meshuggenah (Ballad for a Blue Lady) itself
Meschuggenah is one of Hutch’s houseplants. He is pleased with its growing process and tells it he’s going to play some Donna Summer “to get you off.” - Mickey (The Fix) Conforti, Gene
Starsky goes to see Mickey, hoping Mickey has information about Hutch’s disappearance. Despite desperately wanting Starsky’s fifty dollars, Mickey says he doesn’t know. Starsky threatens him. Later, hired by Ben Forest, Mickey calls and tries to lure Starsky into a trap. It is Hutch that shows up instead. Monk describes Mickey as a guy that would sell his own mother for ten bucks. - Mickey’s mother (The Fix) mentioned
Monk says Mickey would sell his own mother for ten bucks. - Mickey (Bust Amboy) Mordente, Lisa
Starsky and Hutch arrest Mickey at Amboy’s funeral home party. She is a seventeen-year-old prostitute and junkie. Starsky and Hutch know her from at least one other previous bust. Francis Bacon Stockwood bails her out. Starsky and Hutch try to get her to help them, citing the danger she’s in. Under duress, she lures Starsky and Hutch to Amboy’s place. Starsky and Hutch rescue her. Mickey goes straight. She shows up at the station later touting her new job as a salesperson for a company that sells cosmetics for men. - Miguelito (The Velvet Jungle) Rodriguez, Robert
Miguelito is a bartender at “Guillermo Bar” in the barrio. Starsky and Hutch go there to find a snitch named Ramon. Hutch takes a peek at Miguelito and remembers he arrested him three years ago while Starsky was out east. Hutch talks Starsky into going into the bar and asking for Ramon. Miguelito pretends to not understand English at first. Then he tells Starsky that Ramon was beaten up and in St. Luke’s Hospital. Miguelito starts to do the same thing to Starsky. Paco Ortega steps up and saves Starsky. - Mike (Little Girl Lost) Cutell, Lou
Mike owns the grocery store Molly/Pete steals from. He calls Starsky and Hutch to arrest the girl. When they don’t, he is angry. - Mike, Sergeant (Vendetta) Saunders, J. Jay
Mike handles the police line-up with Artie Solkin. He harangues the men in line. - Mildred (Survival) not credited
Mildred works in Dispatch. Hutch can hear her on his ruined car radio, but he can’t get her to respond to his calls for help. - Miller, Ed (The Hostages) Burns, Art
Miller is the dispatcher at “Ames Armored Car Company.” He tells his boss he saw Tom Cole get into his truck. Miller brings Starsky and Hutch a list of all the truck’s stops. Miller wears a horribly wide tie. - Miller (A Body Worth Guarding) Baker, Tom
Miller is a member of the Fascist Party of America. Steinmetz is his boss. He and Steinmetz harass Anna Akhanatova, sending threatening letters to the newspaper. Miller is supposed to shoot Akhanatova during her last performance. He and Steinmetz hope the crime will be blamed on the Jewish Organization for Action, a group that protests the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. Miller is a hothead; Steinmetz slaps his face at one point. - Miller, Judge (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) mentioned
Dobey calls Judge Miller to arrange a bench warrant to arrest D.A. Clayburn. - Millie (The Committee) Durham, Muffi
Paul H. Willits and Ward Billings try to rape Millie at a warehouse. Starsky and Hutch are called to the scene, and they stop the attack. Later, Ginger tells Starsky she is a friend of Millie’s in an attempt to gain credibility. It’s not clear if Ginger and Millie are actually friends. - Mills, Geoffrey (Savage Sunday) Shelley, Dave
He is a very observant man and a witness to a robbery. Hutch interviews him and has to borrow a pencil and paper. Mills remembers the car’s license plate. He tells Hutch, and Starsky, that he was in the store next door buying his wife a gift for their fifteenth wedding anniversary. - Mills, Mrs. (Savage Sunday) mentioned
She and her husband, Geoffrey, have been married for fifteen years. - Milo (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Napoleon, Titus
Milo, Sugar, Sonny Watson, Foxy, and Walter T. Baker steal money from Dad Watson. Sonny and Foxy try to double-cross the rest of the gang. Walter runs off with the cash. Milo and Sugar try to track down Walter by harassing Turquet and Huggy. Milo is a large, Hawaiian man. - Milton, Officer (Strange Justice) not credited
Milton is the officer who takes Leslie Slate’s rape report. - Milty (Savage Sunday) not credited
Starsky and Hutch bust him on a Sunday. Starsky chases him down Glenview. Milty has to ride with Starsky and Hutch as they go on a call. He faints from the stress. Milty has a new suit. - Mitchell, Jack (The Las Vegas Strangler) Converse, Frank
Mitchell is an old friend of Hutch from high school. Mitchell and Hutch were both lifeguards at the time. Their nickname was “The Prince and The Pauper.” The Mitchell family was richer than the Hutchinsons. Hutch comments that the family’s favorite sport was writing checks. Mitchell went on to become a doctor. He was a resident for two years, then quit and came out to Las Vegas. Mitchell has been in Las Vegas for six months where he has been a non-stop party. Mitchell has been arrested a number of times for assault, standing nude in public, and unpaid parking tickets. He has been brought in for questioning several times regarding the Strangler murders because he knew all four girls and his feet are the same size as prints found at the murder scene. He hooks up with Starsky and Hutch in jail and invites them to stay with him. This is part of Lt. Cameron’s plan. Cameron is a cop who’s convinced Mitchell is guilty. Mitchell behavior is suspicious, though he is not the killer. He is suffering from a terminal brain tumor that is affecting his behavior. Mitchell is shot and runs, asking Vicky to hide him. Mitchell is killed in a fall from a balcony in a fight with the killer. Hutch suffers a lot of guilt about his role in Mitchell’s final days. - Molly (Pariah) Ford, Anitra
Molly is stewardess with whom Hutch is sleeping. She alludes to meeting Starsky at a party the night before. Molly and Hutch trick Starsky into drinking one of Hutch’s health drinks. In the end, Starsky makes banana daiquiris and serves them to Hutch, Molly, and Starsky’s date. - Molly (Jojo) not credited
Molly works as a secretary at “Brooks Pharmaceuticals.” When Jojo and Dixie go there to meet Dombarris, Jojo tries to rape her. Starsky and Hutch stop Jojo, busting their bust. Molly refuses to testify against Jojo, citing her fear of reprisal from Jojo and of the personal questions the court will ask. - Monahan (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Knapp, Charles
Monahan is one of the card players at J.T. Washington’s poker game. He is fat. Boseman chides him about drinking milk. - Monk (Allen Monk Philos) (The Fix) Lewis, Geoffrey
It is unclear if “Monk” is a nickname or if the man is referred to by his middle name. Monk is Ben Forest’s main thug. Forest tells Monk to find Jeannie Walton, Forest’s old girlfriend. Monk and some thugs kidnap Hutch from his own house. They beat Hutch up, but Hutch won’t talk. Forest instructs Monk to string Hutch out on heroin. After they get what they want from Hutch, Monk is told to kill him and drop him into the bay. After Hutch escapes, Monk hires Mickey to help him trap Hutch via Starsky. Starsky kills Monk and a thug in an alleyway. Forest didn’t have a lot of respect for Monk, once asking him why he was always wrong. - Monk, Basil (Photo Finish) Jarvis, Graham
Basil owns a toy factory. He’s very wealthy. His wife’s name is Nicole, and she buys a lot of art Basil hates. He knows Nicole is having an affair with Troy Braddock, an artist. Basil hires a hit woman to kill Braddock. After unexpected evidence shows up in the form of a photograph, Basil and the hit woman argue about how to get rid of the picture. Starsky, Hutch, and Marcie Fletcher trick the hit woman into coming to Basil’s house at night. Basil and the hit woman are both captured. - Monk, Nicole (Photo Finish) Denese, Shera
Nicole is Basil’s wife. She buys a lot of stupid art. Nicole throws a party for Troy Braddock, a famous artist with whom she is sleeping. Braddock is killed during her party. Starsky and Hutch question her and find out she doesn’t like her husband very much. Nicole says she is going to her beach house. She suggests a threesome with the detectives. - Monk, Basil’s Accountant (Photo Finish) mentioned
Monk tells Hutch he didn’t tell his accountant about his backgammon gambling loss because the amount was such a trifle. - Monique (Quadromania) Kellerman, Susan
Monique is a prostitute. She gets into a cab and then realizes the driver, Victor O’Conner, is dead. Starsky talks to her at the crime scene. She describes O’Conner’s last fare. She tells Starsky she watched the “Toulouse Lautrec Story” on television the night before. - Monte, Vic (Shootout) mentioned
Monte is a big mob boss. Tom Lockley and Joey Martin are imported hit men who plan to kill him at an Italian restaurant at midnight. Monte drives away when he hears the gunshots from inside the restaurant. - Moon (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Morton, Mickey
Moon and Yank are two of Bad Dad Watson’s thugs. - Moon, Leo (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Watson, Bill
He went to the Police Academy with Captain Dobey. Moon used to have Starsky and Hutch’s beat before he was convicted of extortion and murder. Dobey helped to send him up. Escaped the penitentiary after four years with the help of C.J. Woodfield’s men. Moon plans on killing Dobey and his family for $50,000 and a flight to South America. His girlfriend is Lola Brenner. He tries to break into the Dobey house, but is shot by Edith Dobey. Moon tried to kill Dobey the next day at Church, but is found out in time. Hutch shoots and kills him. - Moore, Eddie (The Bait) Alaimo, Marc
Eddie Moore is the drug dealer arrested along with Starsky and Hutch. Cheryl tells Connie that she laid low when she heard Moore had been captured. - Moreno (The Velvet Jungle) Lugo, Frank
Moreno is the landlord at Andrea and Helena’s apartment. Starsky and Hutch question him. He is horrified about Helena’s death. He agrees to call Starsky and Hutch when Andrea appears. He keeps his promise. - Morgan, Dr. (Hutchinson for Murder One) Strauss, Jo Anne
Morgan performs the autopsy on Vanessa. She tells Simonetti there was no sign of a tumor. She also tells Simonetti other information that incriminates Hutch. - Morgan, Jack (Class in Crime) not credited
Morgan went to college with Allen Mitchell. He got better grades than Mitchell. Together they are blackmailing Professor Gage. He is the owner of ’The House That Jack Built,’ an auto showroom of very expensive cars. Morgan has never missed an episode of “The Rookies.” Gage’s girlfriend, Marra, kills Morgan while he watches his favorite television show. - Morton, Gregg (Savage Sunday) Delegall, Bob
Morton and his partner, Sloan, are thugs. Morton is a big music fan and listens to the radio all the time. Morton and Sloan steal a car and commit crimes with it. They have no idea there is a bomb in its truck. Hutch shoots Greg after he and Sloan leave the sports arena. - Morton, Robin (Shootout) Rhoades, Barbara
Morton works with Sammy Grovner in their comedy act. Morton and Grovner are trapped in the Italian restaurant. Morton tries to bargain with Joey Martin, offering sex for her freedom. She asks Hutch for advice. Grovner tells her she loves her. - Moss, October (Murder at Sea) Shaw, Jennifer
Moss is Carnahan’s roommate. They both work for the cruise line. Moss used to be Eric Snow’s girlfriend, but she broke up with him when he became violent. They broke up two weeks ago. Moss is killed when she is mistaken for Carnahan. - Moxley, Phil (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
Moxley was a member of the Wolf Pack. Wally Stone kills him, though his cause of death is not mentioned. He was a director. Hanson says a car hit him. - Moxley, Phil’s Wife (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
It is mentioned Phil had a wife. - Mullins (The Plague) mentioned
Mullins is the name Callendar uses when he rents the car. - Munson, Detective Hank (Moonshine) Cort, William
Starsky borrows his red pickup for an undercover mission. Munson is Detective First Class, like Starsky and Hutch. Munson is from Giddings, Texas and playfully says he used to be its teenage terror. Munson loves his truck and is very protective of it. He drives it only on weekends. - Munson, Detective Hank’s Wife (Moonshine) mentioned
Hank says one of the reasons he loves his truck so much is it gives his wife something to complain about. - Murph (Death in a Different Place) Joseph, Allen
Murph tends bar at the “Green Parrot.” He knows Sugar and Hunter. Starsky and Hutch bribe him with twenty bucks to say what he knows. - Murray (Losing Streak)
He runs the cash register at White’s place. White goes out to help him when the tape gets messed up. - Myerson, Captain Ed (Strange Justice) Zenda, John
Myerson works in Internal Affairs. He gets the Slate case, though he seems to be more worried about how the whole thing will look from the public relations angle. Later, he tells Hutch Officer Dee O’Reilly is filing harassment charges against Hutch. - Myrtle (Photo Finish) mentioned
Basil Monk calls out for help when he thinks someone is breaking into his house. He also calls out for Harvey and Mrs. Hilton. - Myron, Cousin (The Trap) mentioned
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“How do you think I feel every night, you up there on that runway in front of all those leering, sweating, old men getting their cheap thrills? You think I like running that two-bit golf course?”
(Death Notice)
- Naar, Vice Captain Joe (The Hostages) name seen on a door
Most certainly an inside joke: the office across the hall from Dobey’s office is #514 and it belongs to Vice Captain Joe Naar. Naar is the show’s producer. - Nadasy, Maria (The Vampire) mentioned
Maria was Rene Nadasy’s wife. He has a painting of her and lights candles under it. She died recently and, Rene is very distraught. He and Renee were in Slade’s satanic cult. - Nadasy, Rene (The Vampire) Saxon, John
Rene used to dance for the National City Ballet. He injured his leg fifteen years ago and walks with a crutch. Now he runs “Rene’s School of Classical Ballet.” His wife was Maria. She recently passed away. They both were members of Slade’s satanic cult. Rene is killing young girls and drinking their blood. He thinks this will help bring his wife back to life. His three victims are Carol Carson, Honey Williams, and Suzette Clark. Hutch watches Rene make a leap to a rooftop twenty-five feet away. It makes Hutch have some doubts about Starsky’s vampire theory. Rene lures Linda Offenbecker to an old theater in order to kill her. Starsky and Hutch interrupt him. He tries to escape by climbing into the ceiling, but falls and dies. - Nairobi, Prince (Dandruff) Fargas, Antonio
Prince Nairobi is Huggy’s undercover character. Nairobi comes to the hotel beauty parlor and requests Hutch cut his hair. Starsky uses scissors on his whisk. Nairobi is one of the four bidders for the diamond collection. His symbol to hotel security is a bone. - Nancy (Pilot) mentioned
When Hutch mentions being married to her, Starsky makes a face. Hutch says Nancy used to run back into the house when she and Hutch left, thinking she had left the water or something on. Nancy may or may not be the same person as Vanessa. - Nancy (Jojo) mentioned
While Starsky is on the Dombarris stakeout, he misses a date with a woman named Nancy. - Nancy (The Bounty Hunter) Durham, Muffi
Nancy is Lola Turkel’s secretary at “Failsafe Bail Bonds.” - Nancy (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) Roberts, Joan
Nancy is Clayburn’s secretary. Hutch bullies her into calling the station to have Clayburn apprehended. It is Nancy who comes in to tell Clayburn about his two o’clock meeting, a clue that helps Starsky and Hutch finger Clayburn. - Nash, Oscar (Murder at Sea) mentioned
Nash is one of the syndicate leaders aboard the Amapola for a big meeting with Joey Fortune. - Nash, Patty (The Set-Up) Ligon, K.C., also Katherine Dunfee Clark
Patty Nash is another brainwashed victim of George Stegner. Patty Nash is not her real name. She is the fictional wife of Terry Nash. She tells Terry she is pregnant. Shortly afterwards, both she and Terry are shot at in their car. She “dies.” Terry goes after and kills Joe Durniak in revenge. Patty’s photo is seen at the desert stronghold in the bedroom of another victim. - Nash, Terrance Patrick (The Set-Up) Korkes, Jon
Terry Nash’s real name appears to be Buddy Griggs. A fellow Vietnam veteran recognizes him and mentions a battle they were both at. Terry has been brainwashed. He thinks he has a pregnant wife who was murdered by Joe Durniak. Nash goes to his old apartment and watches old movies of his wife, then shoots and kills Durniak. He talks to Starsky and Hutch, who don’t believe that he killed Durniak, or Terry’s story. After Terry takes them back to his apartment, then the hospital and then the bank, all places that have no record of him, they start to see some anomalies. Starsky and Hutch take Terry to see Dr. Hank Wachman who tells them Terry’s fingerprints have been surgically removed. Terry goes with Starsky, Hutch, and the Black Baron to the castle desert stronghold where they find other victims of the brainwashing scheme. - Nedloe, Dorothy (The Bounty Hunter) Miles, Rosalind
Dorothy is Officer Jim Nedloe’s wife. She is eating with him at the police cafeteria when Starsky and Hutch see them. Starsky and Hutch tease them about their happy marriage. Later, Dorothy comes to the hospital when she hears her husband has been shot. - Nedloe, Officer Jim (The Bounty Hunter) Johnson, John C.
He is a uniformed officer who is eating in the police station cafeteria. Starsky and Hutch tease him about his happy marriage. Jim’s wife is named Dorothy. She eats at the cafeteria with him. Bo Rile shoots him as Rile robs a store. The shooting is blamed on Jerry Konig. Nedloe’s condition is serious. It is unclear if he survives. - Neilan, Jerry (Death Notice) Baggetta, Vince
Neilan is Kathi’s boyfriend. He runs a mini-golf course, “Golf Land,” and hates his job. When Kathi tells him of the murder she witnesses at the party, he cooks up a deal to blackmail David Delano. The plan backfires when attention is called to two other strippers who Delano has killed. Neilan sets up a money drop at the golf course. Lou Posey kills him. - Nelson, Officer (Iron Mike) mentioned
One of the officers at the Darcy Department Store bust. He is there with Iron Mike, Starsky, Hutch, Bowerman, Platt, and Sawyer. - Newton, Oscar (Starsky & Hutch are Guilty) mentioned
Newton is a junkie and one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches. Captain Ryan accuses Starsky and Hutch of beating him up. The assault is overheard by his neighbor, Lennie Atkins. Newton remains in a coma. When Starsky and Hutch try to visit him, they learn he has died just a short time ago. Starsky jokes his nickname was “Skinny,” but that the ladies didn’t think so. - Night, Fred (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Glaser, Paul Michael
Night is Starsky’s undercover character. Night is a garbage truck owner. - Nikki (Starsky & Hutch are Guilty) Carey, Michele
Nikki runs a whorehouse. Starsky and Hutch go there to tell her to shut it down as the neighbors are complaining. She tells Starsky and Hutch she has heard that they are taking bribes. Nikki is relieved they aren’t. She agrees to leave. She tries to give Hutch her forwarding address, but he declines. The fake Starsky and Hutch beat her up, and she files charges downtown the next day. - Nina (The Bounty Hunter) Berry, Victoria Ann
Nina is the go-go dancer that comes on to Hutch at the Jungle Club. - Noland, Joseph (The Action) Venture, Richard
His other names are Glade Hilliard and Josie the N. Noland was kicked out of Las Vegas for hustling the casinos. There was also a murder charge against him, but it didn’t stick. Noland now owns the “Marlborough Health Club.” It doubles as an illegal gambling establishment. Noland runs a rolling crap game that takes place in the back of a semi. When Ted McDermott gets behind on his gambling payments, Noland orders him beat up. - Norris (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Traylor, Bill
Norris is C.J. Woodsfield’s thug. Norris helps bust Moon out of jail. He has breakfast with Woodfield, Starsky, and Hutch. - Norton, Officer (Survival) not credited
Starsky asks him to take Sonny to the Veteran’s Hospital.
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“You move another inch and he’ll rip your legs off.”
(The Collector)
- O (Ballad for a Blue Lady) mentioned
He is one of Charlie Baron’s bodyguards. The other bodyguard asks when “O” left. The man says “O” left at 10:00. - Oates, Annie (The Collector) Tyrrell, Susan
She also goes by the name Isabelle Catherine Oates and Catherine Elizabeth Oates. Oates used to be a child movie star, last appearing on the screen thirty years ago. One of her movies was “Curly Girl.” Oates is a loan shark who employed Joe Garras. She put out a contract on Garras when he started stealing from her. Jack Cunningham, Garras’ murderer, takes Garras’ book and becomes Oates’ new collector. Cunningham is really after the money he knows she has under her mattress. Oates has a dog named Duvcha, a Doberman she has trained to smell guns. Oates has agoraphobia, is afraid to leave her second story apartment and has no phone. - Oates, Sheriff Fred (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) Jackson, Peter
Clayburn pretends to call Oates at 1:45, telling him to put protection on Judge McClellan. When Starsky and Hutch visit Oates after McClellan is killed, they find out Clayburn didn’t make the phone call until 2:10. Oates checks the logbook to make sure. - O’Brian, Patrolman (Murder on Stage 17)
O’Brian is the name Wally Stone uses when he gives Hanson the message Rogers is waiting for him in her trailer. It could be the name of the real officer he knocked out in the car with chloroform. - O’Brien, Casey (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Blanton, Arell
O’Brien is one of Joseph Fitch’s thugs. O’Brien beats Charles Baron to death. O’Brien is the name in the credits, however he is called O’Connor several times in the episode. - O’Brien (The Bait) Glaser, Paul Michael
O’Brien is the undercover persona of Starsky when he and Hutch try to bust Danner’s drug ring. O’Brien is Rafferty’s partner, Rafferty being Hutch. - O’Brien, Heather (The Collector)
She is the character Molly Bristol says she is for Jack Cunningham. Heather O’Brien is pregnant and unmarried. Her boyfriend’s father is a doctor. Heather tells Cunningham she is looking for an abortion. She wants s to borrow three hundred dollars. - O’Brien, Heather’s Boyfriend (The Collector)
Molly tells Cunningham he gets an allowance from his father and wants Heather to have an abortion. - O’Brien, Heather’s Boyfriend’s Father (The Collector)
Molly tells Cunning ham he’s a doctor, doesn’t like Heather O’Brien and doesn’t know she’s pregnant. - O’Connor, Victor (Quadromania) not credited
O’Connor is the third cabdriver strangled. He was thirty-eight years old, 5’11’, one hundred sixty pounds, and born in Trenton. He had a medallion that Fitzgerald accidentally takes with him. After Fitzgerald throws the medallion away, Danny Daveen finds it and is subsequently suspected of being the killer. - O’Connor, Casey (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Blanton, Arell
O’Connor is one of Joseph Fitch’s thugs. He beats Charles Baron to death. O’Brien is the name in the credits, however he is called O’Connor several times in the episode. - O’Keefe, Officer (The Las Vegas Strangler) Dunn, George
O’Keefe is the officer in Las Vegas who deals with Starsky and Hutch when they think the strangler is on the hotel casino’s roof. - O’Reilly, Officer (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3) Walters, Barbara Ann
O’Reilly is the desk cop Starsky and Hutch deal with when they go to report the parts stolen from the Torino. She is a stickler about rules. She calls Starsky a “smart mouth” and catches him sticking her tongue out at her. She is also the officer Starsky and Hutch see when they go to get their gun permit forms. - O’Reilly, Officer Dee (Strange Justice) Bloom, Lindsay
O’Reilly works in traffic. She gives Dobey and Hutch parking tickets. Hutch gets after her, threatening to make her walk a beat. She tells Hutch this would be a promotion. O’Reilly files a harassment complaint against Hutch. O’Reilly and Starsky are dating, something Hutch doesn’t know. - O’Riley, Al (The Heroes) McLaughlin, Lee
O’Riley owns a bar at 3rd and Jefferson. Roxy rents a room upstairs and turns tricks there. O’Riley also appears to run drugs through Roxy. He threatens her when her business is slow and catches her when she tries to steal money out of his register. O’Riley finds Roxy dead in her room. - O’Toole, Nurse (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Hilton, Robyn
O’Toole is Doc Rafferty, the Credit Dentist’s nurse. - Offenbecker, Linda (The Vampire) Somers, Suzanne
Offenbecker is a dancer at “Slade’s Cave” and was friends with Honey Williams, They took dance lessons at Nadasy’s studio together. Offenbecker appears stoned when Starsky and Hutch question her. Nadasy lures her to a theater with pictures from William’s locker. Nadasy attacks her. Starsky and Hutch save here before he can kill her. - Ohlin, Federal Agent Ed (The Groupie) Roberts, Arthur
Ohlin is Bill Walter’s new partner. Both men are federal agents. They warn Starsky and Hutch off of the Parker case. - Oliver, FBI Agent (The Set-Up) McMullen, Dennis
Oliver is a fake FBI agent. He tells Starsky and Hutch to take Durniak through the hotel’s front door, setting him up for a bullet to the chest. - Olivia (Losing Streak) Ross, Adina
Olivia is the waitress at “G.W.’s Jazz Club.” She shows Starsky and Hutch Garth White’s office. She tells Starsky she thinks he’s as cute as a teddy bear. - Orange (Losing Streak, Running) Marie, Connie Lisa
In “Losing Streak,” Huggy introduces Orange to Starsky and Hutch. Orange is a prostitute who dresses like Little Orphan Annie, right down to her dog, Sandy. Orange tells Starsky and Hutch Belinda William’s address. In “Running,” Starsky and Hutch run off her john, a sea farin’ man. She gives Starsky and Hutch information about Sharman and hands over Sharman’s hotel key. Orange says Sandy nabbed it. - Orme, Professor Charles (Pilot) mentioned
He is one of Patricia Talbert’s instructors. His name is seen on Talbert’s class schedule. - Ortega, Officer Paco (The Velvet Jungle) Cervera Jr., Jorge
Ortega is an officer with the Immigration Department. He introduces himself to Sterling as, “Ortega, Metro.” Ortega is undercover, trying to bust an illegal immigration scam. Starsky meets him when Paco rescues him from getting beat up in a bar. Ortega and Starsky stage a fight. Ortega tells Starsky and Hutch about what he knows about Sterling and helps interview Andrea Gutierrez. He pretends to have Helena’s blackmail materials in order to draw Sterling out into the open. He gets shot in the leg during the Sterling bust. In the end, he and Hutch hang out at Hutch’s place and talk to Starsky and Laura Stevens about their date. - Oscar (Losing Streak) Slate, Henry
It is not clear who this character is. It is either the man with the hose or the guy Rankin shoots. - Owens, Buddy (Dandruff) Alden, Norm
Owens works for hotel security. He doesn’t know Starsky and Hutch are undercover. He tricks them with a false report of cigars through Leo. Owens suspects the Baron is going to try to steal the diamond collection. He agrees to help Starsky and Hutch. Dinty and Ellis attack Owens and he ends up in the hospital. He meets with the four diamond bidders there, checking to make sure they all have the appropriate symbols. - Owens, Harry (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Baron, Sandy
Harry is Marianne Owens’ brother. He has known Joseph Fitch a long time and is in his employ. Fitch knows Marianne served five years in prison for a crime Harry, as Fitch’s thug, committed. Harry kills Benny Paycheck, a man who was going to testify against Fitch. Harry tricks his sister into luring Charles Baron, another witness, to a hotel room. Casey O’Brien beats Baron to death. Harry tries to warn Marianne to stay away from Hutch. He tries to keep Fitch from killing her. In the end, he tries to get Marianne out of town but is shot and killed when Fitch catches him. - Owens, Marianne (Ballad for a Blue Lady) O’Hara, Jenny
Marianne is a singer at the club Joseph Fitch owns. Her brother, Harry, works for Fitch. Marianne went to prison for five years for something her brother, in Fitch’s employ, did. Harry has Marianne lure Charles Baron to a hotel room for what she thinks will be a conversation. Instead, Baron is beaten to death. Marianne meets Hutch, who is undercover as a musician. Hutch thinks he can protect her and tries to get her to turn Fitch over. Marianne discovers Hutch is a cop and is angry. She is with Harry when he dies. - Oxey (Murder at Sea) Martin, Pepper
Oxey works Security for the “Atwater Steamship Company.” He is attacked while he was cleaning out Eric Snow’s locker. He goes after Starsky and Hutch, thinking they were his attackers. He tells Starsky and Hutch what was in Snow’s locker.
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“I’m not drawing. I’m making dials. And when I’m finished with the dials, I’m gonna tape them on the wall, and we’ll all get out of here. You see, you can’t get out of this joint. So I’m blasting the whole building off the planet earth.”
(Lady Blue)
- Packrat (Running) Azarow, Martin
Packrat is a fence familiar to Starsky and Hutch. Vern Dubois meets him to fence some stuff, including Sharman Crane’s diamond bracelet. Packrat offers Dubois less than Dubois thinks he jewelry is worth. The two fight and Dubois and Packrat struggle over a gun. Packrat is killed. Starsky and Hutch are called to Packrat’s place with a call of reported gunshots. Hutch calls a property van to take care of Packrat’s loot. Starsky discovers Crane’s bracelet at Packrat’s place. - Pablo (The Psychic) mentioned
He works at the car wash where Julio worked. His boss, De Meo, tells him to “Pronto it up.” - Palmer (Birds of a Feather) Kramer, Sy
Palmer is a snitch. He is a protected witness who is going to testify against Anthony Reuban. Luke Huntley is one of the officers assigned to protect Palmer. Huntley lets Lucas, Rueben’s thug, kill Palmer in a deal to protect his wife. Palmer smokes and sends Huntley down to the lobby for cigarettes. Lucas kills Palmer when Huntley leaves. Huntley tells Palmer he’s a “two-bit hustler who’d sell a radio to a deaf man.” - Pamela Sue (The Game) mentioned
Pamela Sue is the hospital emergency line operator that Anita reaches when she calls in Starsky’s gunshot wound. Anita thinks Pamela Sue is too slow in her reaction and threatens her. - Papa Theodore (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Colley, Don Pedro
Papa Theodore is a voodoo priest on Voodoo Island. He, Charlotte Connery, Little Philippe, and an undetermined number of the women working at the hotel kidnap Bert Regan. They tell his daughter Regan has drowned. Papa Theodore puts a spell on Regan and pretends he is William Thorne. It is all part of a plan to take control of Thorne’s empire. Theodore kills as many of Thorne’s friends as he can in an effort to keep anyone from realizing Thorne is dead. Papa Theodore sends little voodoo dolls to his intended victims. He kills Walter Healey, Thorne’s lawyer and Johnny Doors. He tried to make Starsky kill Hutch. Papa Theodore is caught and put in jail, but escapes. Inspector Godfrey points out Papa Theodore is a failed leader, and that he no longer has any power. - Pardee, Ray (The Game) Ging, Jack
Pardee is an escaped convict. He has a girlfriend named Gina. A snitch tells Starsky and Hutch where Pardee is, and they go to arrest him. Pardee gets away when Hutch’s car stalls. Gina hides Pardee, gives him money and buys him a plane ticket under the name Ray Samuels. Hutch convinces Gina to take him to Pardee, but collapses, allowing Pardee to capture him. Pardee means to use Hutch as a hostage, but is stopped by Starsky. - Parker, Jack (The Groupie) Loggia, Robert
See Zucker, Tony - Parkins, Gloria (Discomania) mentioned
Tony Mariposa kidnaps Parkins from the disco club, “Fever.” He puts an ankle bracelet on her and dumps her body. The autopsy reveals she was drugged with heroin. - Parouche, Emile (The Deadly Impostor) Singer, Raymond
Parouche is a known character in the numbers business. Starsky and Hutch question him about Warren Karpel. They make him talk by tossing his receipts in a burning bucket. Parouche asks Starsky and Hutch to come back later and arrest him so he doesn’t get in trouble for losing information. - Pat (Photo Finish) mentioned
John Reinhardt tells his secretary to call Pat and have him cancel the Farrah cover. - Patches, Jack (Murder at Sea) mentioned
Patches is a mob member. He is on the Amapola for the big meeting. - Paul (The Velvet Jungle) not credited
He is at the fashion show. Lou asks him, “What’s with the shedding?” - Paul (Bust Amboy) not credited
Paul is a waiter at Andre’s. Amboy asks him to bring the table a bottle of Mersault. - Paula (Photo Finish) Hamilton (Areno), Lois
Paula is Marcie Fletcher’s boss. They both work for a public relations firm. The firm is hired to take photographs at the party for Troy Braddock. Paula tells Marcie she thinks Hutch is good looking, and Marcie brings Hutch along to the party. She and Marcie have champagne with Starsky and Hutch at The Pits to celebrate solving the case. - Paycheck, Benny (Ballad for a Blue Lady) mentioned
Paycheck was going to court to be a witness against Joseph Fitch. He is killed when he is shot in the back. - Pearl, Crazy Sammy (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) mentioned
Pearl is someone Starsky and Allison May both remember from their New York days. Starsky reminds Allison of Pearl when they are making their dangerous walk at the amusement park. Starsky asks Allison to remember how Pearl threw himself from a window without injury. Starsky and Allison do the same thing and escape Soldier and his thugs. - Peggy (Little Girl Lost) mentioned
Peggy is Nick Edwards’ girlfriend. She calls Molly/Pete on the phone, telling her Nick has been shot. Peggy gives Molly/Pete the location of the crime. - Pepper (Gillian) Joi, Marilyn
She is a shoeshine girl who is shining Huggy’s shoes. Huggy asks her, “How’s it shakin’?” - Pepper (Losing Streak) not credited
She is shining Huggy’s shoes when Starsky and Hutch come to him for information. Huggy tells her to “take a powder, Pepper” and to bring him back some coffee. - Perkowitz, Officer (Little Girl Lost) Balding, Rebecca
Perkowitz is called to take Molly/Pete to Juvenile Hall. Hutch talks her into letting Molly/Pete come home with him instead. She spends Christmas morning with Starsky, Hutch, Kiko, Molly/Pete, and Mrs. Ramos at the Ramos house. - Perry, Jerry (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Nye, Louis
Perry is a S.L.O.B member from Harper’s Ferry. He is going to Voodoo Island with his buddy, Phil Hill. Perry reminds Starsky and Hutch that there is “a sexual revolution going on.” Hill tricks Perry into being the only one to jump naked into the pool with Pussycat. Both men meet Starsky and Hutch on the golf course. - Pete (Murder on Stage 17) Griffith, James
Pete is a stagehand on the Steve Hanson movie. - Peter (Bloodbath) Horn, John
Peter is one of Simon Marcus’ thugs. He’s the blond one who sits by Starsky in the van. - Peterson, Detective (Deckwatch) Somac, Jack
Peterson is the detective on the scene where Madeleine is killed. He tells Starsky and Hutch about Madeleine’s gun, the blood found on the scene, and the contents of her stomach. Her last meal was chow mien. - Peterson, Sergeant Sheila (The Crying Child) Cash, Rosalind
Peterson heads up the Child Abuse Unit. Starsky and Hutch go to her to investigate the Mayer case. Peterson tells them how understaffed she is. She sends Starsky and Hutch to investigate the case personally. - Petrov, Mr. (The Bounty Hunter) not credited
Mr. Petrov comes to Lola and Bo’s bail bond business. Lola bullies him into signing papers to get his son out of jail. - Petrov, Mr. Son (The Bounty Hunter) mentioned
He has committed some unknown crime. His father goes to Fair Bail Bonds to get him out of jail. - Phelps (Death Ride) Marino, Ben
Phelps is Andrew Mello’s driver. He tells Hutch, after his boss is shot, “He’ll live.” - Phelps, Christine D. (The Heroes) Carlson, Karen
Phelps is a columnist with “The Dispatch.” She has specifically requested to ride along with Starsky and Hutch to do an article about “Counter Culture Cops, the New Breed.” Starsky and Hutch first refuse to have a reporter with them, but then change their minds when they see she is a gorgeous chick. Dobey tells Starsky and Hutch to concentrate on the heroin/strychnine case. Phelps sees Starsky and Hutch ignore calls and bully people. Starsky and Hutch don’t help matters any as they fall all over each other trying to impress her. The first part of Phelps’ article reads: “Does Bravado and Belligerence hide behind a badge?” The article goes downhill from there. Angry after reading the article, Phelps is shown the “real” Starsky and Hutch.” She changes her mind about justice and police work after she is faced with some criminal hard realities. The second part of her article is nothing but flattering. - Phil (The Avenger) Thomerson, Tim
Phil is Monique Travers’ second victim. He brags about his car. - Phil (Huggy Can’t Go Home) mentioned
Phil is a character on “The Disenchanted,” the show Big Red McGee watches. Other characters are Roy, Marcy, Sean, Rebecca, and Mary. - Philippe (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Madden, Tommy
Philippe is a very little person. His nickname is Little Philippe. He is one of Papa Theodore and Charlotte Connery’s thug. - Phillips, Nurse (Partners) mentioned
He or she is paged on the hospital P.A. and asked to report to the Maternity Ward. - Phillips, Dr. (The Plague) mentioned
Dr. Meredith calls him or her on the phone and asks for him or her to come to his office right away. - Philos, Allen Monk (The Fix) Lewis, Geoffrey
See Monk - Pilfrey, Donna (Birds of a Feather) mentioned
Her name is heard on the radio. She dies in a house fire, along with her grandfather, Edmund. He was babysitting her. Smoking caused the fire. She was three years old. She lived in Lone Pine. - Pilfrey, Edmund (Birds of a Feather) mentioned
He was the eighty-six year old grandfather who was smoking and started a house fire. He was babysitting his three-year-old granddaughter, Donna. Both are killed. His name is heard on the radio. He lived in Lone Pine. - Pinky (Blindfold) George, Howard
Pinky owns a pawnshop. He has been arrested twice before for taking in stolen cameras and furs. He has spent five years in jail. Don Widdicombe fences jewelry with Pinky. After Hutch questions Pinky, threatening him with more jail time, he calls Huggy to set up a bust. Hutch busts Pinky instead and gets information about the Widdicombe’s. - Pirelli, Carmen “the Nose” (Murder Ward) mentioned
Starsky tells his fellow poker player about a card game he was in with Pirelli. Pirelli cheated, just like Weeze just did. Pirelli was found “doing the cast iron crawl off the Lido Pier.” - Pitkin, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo (Murder at Sea) not credited
Starsky mentions Pitkin and his wife during the talent show. They are celebrating their twelfth wedding anniversary. - Platt, Officer (Iron Mike) mentioned
He is one of the officers at the Darcy Department Store bust. He is there with Iron Mike, Starsky, Hutch, Bowerman, Sawyer, and Nelson. - Poindexter (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky and Hutch tell Henderson and Steele that Poindexter would be willing to take a shot at them. - Pola, Earl (The Psychic) Loros, George
Pola is from Philadelphia. His partner is Marshall Caifalno (Fat Moo Moo). The two of them have a kidnap scam that they have used before. They get the ransom money and abandon their victim to die. Pola and Fat Moo Moo kidnap Joanna Haymes. They enlist the help of Julio Gutierrez. They kill Julio, tie up Haymes and leave her in a truck in a scrap yard. Fat Moo Moo calls and demands a two hundred thousand dollar ransom. Hutch is the runner and is given very specific directions for the drop. Fat Moo Moo shoots Hutch. Starsky chases down Fat Moo Moo and Pola’s car. He shoots the car and it explodes, killing both kidnappers. - Polanski, Mary (The Hostages) Peretz, Susan
See Yram, Madame - Polanski, Mr. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
Joey Carston comes to the police department to report a hit and run. She says Polanski ran over a six-week old puppy. - Polly (Lady Blue) Cook, Jr., Elisha
Polly is a mentally ill snitch. Starsky and Hutch question him in the hospital. Polly tells them about Wrightwood. Polly gets after Hutch for picking up his slide ruler. Polly is planning to blast off and go to another planet. - Pommier, Marty (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Grayson, Kurt
Pommier is one of Woodfield’s thugs. He was a demolition’s expert in the Navy and a pilot. He has worked for Woodfield for twelve years. Pommier flies Moon’s getaway plane from prison and is lined up to fly him out of the country. He is also supposed to kill Dobey. Pommier, pretending to be a telephone repairman, puts twelve sticks of dynamite under the Dobey house. Pommier is shot in the leg at the airfield, a victim of his own employer. - Pops (Gillian) not credited
Pops is a street person who gives a card to Starsky and Hutch. The card says to meet Huggy at the shoeshine station. Starsky gives some money to Pops. - Popeye (The Heroes) not credited
He is a patron at O’Riley’s Bar. Starsky rousts him out of what is probably the bathroom. - Posey, Lou (Death Notice) Martorano, Vince
Posey is one of David Delano’s thugs. Starsky and Hutch interview him in a meat locker at the company where he works. Posey kills Ginger, Sonia, and Jerry Neilan. He is arrested at the mini golf course. - Powell, Thomas (Foxy Lady) Ziman, Jerrold (photo only)
He is shown on the arrest report in the stack, right before Johnny Carelli. Powell is listed as being born in Denver, Colorado, was convicted of willful manslaughter, is married, was arrested July, 15, 1974, has a thin build, is 5’9, is 185 pounds, and lives at 7468 Washington Blvd. - Prescott, Lori (Strange Justice) Andelman, Juli
Prescott, Cassie and Leslie Slate are students at Weldon College. They belong to the same sorority. Cassie teases Prescott about going on a diet. It is Prescott who goes with Leslie to the police station to make the rape report. Cassie says Prescott is “of the suburban Tupperware mold.” - Prideman, Harvey (Strange Justice) mentioned
Starsky and Hutch cite him as a man who raped an old woman and didn’t serve time. - Priven, Harvey (Strange Justice) mentioned
He raped an old lady, but got off in court. Starsky and Hutch bring him up as a reason to be even more upset by the Biggs case. - Professor, the (Bust Amboy) not credited
The Professor is one of Amboy’s drug connections. - Professor, the (The Action) Carradine, John
Starsky and Hutch question him at a massage parlor. He is someone they have met before. He is an expert on gambling. He teaches Starsky how to throw trick dice and he tells them about Joseph Noland. His girlfriend is Ginger, someone he calls a “powerful pile of pummeling pulchritude.” - Prudholm, Gary Vincent (Pariah, Starsky’s Lady) mentioned
Gary’s father is George. Starsky and Hutch arrested Gary in the first case they had out of uniform. They arrested Gary for pushing drugs at McKinley High School. Thirty-six hours after he was in the city jail, Gary was killed in a knife fight. He was nineteen years old. George Prudholm blames Starsky and Hutch for his death. When Starsky kills Lonnie, Prudholm is furious and sees parallels between the two young men. He uses Gary’s death in “Pariah” as an excuse to kill some cops. Later, when George Prudholm gets out of the hospital on a clerical error, he shoots Starsky’s girlfriend in a further need for revenge in “Starsky’s Lady.” - Prudholm, George (Pariah, Starsky’s Lady) McNally, Stephen
In the “Pariah,” Prudholm starts to shoot police officers in retaliation for Lonnie’s killing, connecting it to the death of his son. His son, Gary Vincent Prudholm, was arrested for dealing drugs at a high school. Starsky and Hutch apprehended Gary in their first plainclothes assignment. Prudholm says he will keep killing cops until Starsky resigns. Prudholm kills Officers Tinker and Forest. Starsky agrees to meet him at the zoo to keep him from killing more cops. Prudholm is captured and taunts Starsky to shoot him. Starsky hands him over to Hutch. In “Starsky’s Lady,” Prudholm has escaped from the mental hospital due to a clerical error. He and his gang pull off a number of robberies in Starsky and Hutch’s area. Prudholm has Starsky’s girlfriend, Terry, shot. Prudholm has Freddy, a snitch, set up Hutch to be shot, but the plan fails. Prudholm is finally caught in a warehouse. Once again, Starsky declines to kill him. A profiler says Prudholm is in his fifties and from the Atlantic seaboard. - Pruitt, Dora (Photo Finish) Kirkland, Sally
See Wren, Greta - Pruitt, Eugene (The Las Vegas Strangler) Fetty, Darrel
Eugene lives with his mom in Las Vegas. He makes deliveries for “Roberts’ Drugs” and uses his connections there to find his victims. Eugene sneaks into their bedrooms, steals their pantyhose, and watches them sleep. He kills seven women, one of whom is his mother. Eugene attacks Vicky and Jack Mitchell. Eugene tries to kill Iris Thayer but Starsky and Hutch stop him in a spectacular trapeze scene at Circus Circus. - Pruitt, Mrs. (The Las Vegas Strangler) Blondell, Joan
She lives in Las Vegas with her son, Eugene. She manages “Roberts Drugs,” and Eugene makes the store’s deliveries. She is a shrew who often berates Eugene. “Roberts Drugs” is the one thing all the strangler’s victims have in common; they all had shopped there. Eugene is the Las Vegas strangler. Eugene kills his mom as she sits in the car in the garage waiting for him to take her to Mass. - Pucker (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky tells Henderson and Steele that Pucker is someone who would be willing to “take a shot” at them. He has a limp and bad breath. - Pussycat (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Mcguire, Patricia L.
Pussycat is the doorman at the Voodoo Island Hotel. She is the woman in the pool when Phil Hill tricks Jerry Perry into jumping in naked. She is also the doorman at the hotel.
Q-R
“Well, what can I get you…um, maybe some coffee or some tea…oh God, I don’t have any coffee. I don’t have any tea…uh, how about a glass of water?”
(The Heroes)
- Quo, Dr. (Starsky’s Lady) Quo, Beulah
Quo is a doctor at Memorial Hospital. She is Terry’s doctor. - R.C. (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Scott, Walter
R.C. is probably one of the men in the bar. - Rachel (Class in Crime) Torres, Gloria
Rachel is fishing with Starsky and Hutch. She is Starsky’s date. Her friend is named Mary. - Rafferty, Dr. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Lo Russo, Eddie
Rafferty is a dentist. He also makes phony passports on the side. Starsky and Hutch go to see him about Walter T. Baker. He tells them he made a fake Brazilian passport for Baker, but that Baker never came and got it. - Rafferty (The Bait) Soul, David
Rafferty is Hutch’s undercover character. Rafferty is a drug dealer. His partner is O’Brien, Starsky’s character. - Ralph (Class in Crime) Anderson, Carl
Ralph is one of Professor Gage’s students in the class “The Philosophy of Crime.” He seems to doubt Gage’s wisdom and questions him. He also says the note on the board implies blackmail. - Ralph (The Heavyweight) not credited
Ralph holds the punching bag for Booker Wayne. Wayne tells Ralph to take a break. - Ramon (The Velvet Jungle) mentioned
Ramon is one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches. Hutch talks Starsky into going into the barrio bar and asking for Ramon. The bartender tells Starsky that he beat up Ramon, and that he is in St. Luke’s hospital. The bartender wants to know why Starsky hangs out with a snitch like Ramon. Starsky says he doesn’t like Ramon very much either. - Ramon (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Glaser, Paul Michael
Ramon is Starsky’s undercover character. Ramon is a dance instructor. - Ramos, Kiko (Running, Little Girl Lost) San Juan, Guillermo
In “Running,” Kiko is introduced as the almost twelve-year-old boy Hutch is mentoring through the Big Brother program. Kiko and Hutch have been pals for two years. Kiko starts to avoid Hutch, bowing to pressure from his hoodlum friends. Kiko returns to Hutch and asks to be taken back. In “Little Girl Lost,” Kiko comes by Hutch’s place and has breakfast with Hutch and Molly/Pete. Kiko later helps Molly/Pete with Flent and Duran. In the end, it is suggested that Molly/Pete goes to live with Kiko and his mom. Kiko likes football, gives Starsky a bug-eating plant for Christmas, and says his mother makes really good Mexican food. - Ramos, Mrs. (Little Girl Lost) Scott, Milcha
She is Kiko’s mother. She makes delicious Mexican food and knows how to sew. It is suggested she will take Molly/Pete in as a foster child. She prepares the Christmas meal at her house. - Randolph (Cover Girl) Tambor, Jeffrey
Randolph is a professional photographer. He takes photos of Kate Larrabee, paying her one hundred and fifty dollars an hour. He senses Larrabee is upset about something as she has lost her shine. Randolph gets called “Randolph the Great” and “Randolph the Magnificent.” He takes photos with Kate, Starsky, and Hutch. - Rankin, Evelyn (Losing Streak) Scott, Jacqueline
Evelyn is Vic’s husband. They have been married twelve years. Evelyn is aware and tired of Vic’s gambling addiction. Evelyn tells Starsky and Hutch about Belinda Williams. Evelyn is of two minds; she loves her husband but is tired of his gambling. Foote and Lemke kidnap Evelyn to be bait for her husband. Starsky, Hutch, and Evelyn go to hear Vic play at his new job. - Rankin, Vic (Losing Streak) Clark, Dane
Vic is a jazz pianist. He has been in the business a long time. Hutch says he bought Vic’s albums when Hutch was in high school. Vic has a gambling problem and has lost jobs and friends over the years. His wife, Evelyn, loves him but is exasperated. He and Evelyn have been married twelve years. Vic had a job at Garth White’s jazz club six months ago, and Garth didn’t pay him for his five weeks. When a big poker game comes up, Vic decides to break into Garth’s club and steal back his two thousand dollars. He doesn’t know the bills are counterfeit. When Vic’s fellow poker players discover the money is “queer,” there is a fight. Vic accidentally shoots someone. Thinking the man is dead, Vic runs. He hides out at Belinda William’s place. Williams turns him in for money, and though Vic gets away, he is shot. Starsky and Hutch find him, and take him to the hospital. Vic goes with them to rescue his wife. He later gets a job at “Ziggy’s Jazz Cave.” Vic goes to Alcoholics Anonymous. - Ray (Texas Longhorn) Denny, Dodo
Ray is a tattoo artist. Starsky and Hutch visit and ask about information about the sea faring tattoos Harris has. Hutch brings her a postcard of a man with a tattooed back. - Raymond, Officer (The Psychic)
Hutch asks Raymond to run a suspect through R & I. - Reagan, C.P. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) mentioned
Reagan is a snitch who knew information about the Claxton case. He was a hype and a witness at an upcoming trial. Starsky and Hutch say he was killed when he slipped on a banana peel and fell on a knife six times. Reagan is one reason they don’t want to give up Lionel Rigger’s name. - Reasoner, Deputy Chief (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) Redeker, Quinn
He demands that Starsky and Hutch give up Lionel Rigger’s name as an informant. He threatens Starsky and Hutch with disciplinary action. - Rebecca (Huggy Can’t Go Home) mentioned
Rebecca is a character on “The Disenchanted,” the show Big Red McGee watches. Other characters are Roy, Marcy, Sean, Phil, and Mary. - Redfield, Dr. (The Plague, Black and Blue) mentioned
In “Black and Blue,” his or her name is heard on the hospital P.A. He or she is asked to report to Dr. Marr in Administration. In the “Plague,” he or she is asked to report to Dr. Martin in Administration four times. - Reese, Candy (The Golden Angel) Lynn, Benisch
Candy’s father is Tommy. Candy is a promoter for professional wrestling. She is engaged to Buzzy Boone, a professional wrestler. She is worried about Boone proceeding with the fight, even though he has been threatened, but understands his decision. - Reese, Tommy (The Golden Angel) Walston, Ray
Tommy’s daughter is Candy. Tommy’s nickname is “Smilin’ Tommy Reese.” He has been a sports announcer for thirty years. His show he broadcasts on is LBEX and his show is “Spotlight on Sports.” Tommy is the announcer for the Boone/Golden Angel fight. Reese is a fierce promoter of the sport. - Regan, Bert (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Allan, Lane
Bert is Janice’s father. He worked in store security and was offered the Chief of Security job for Thorne Enterprises. He went to Voodoo Island and was reportedly drowned. Janice goes to Voodoo Island to find him, believing him to still be alive. She tells Starsky and Hutch her father used to send her a charm every year on her birthday, and she received one even after his supposed death. It turns out Charlotte Connery, Papa Theodore, and Little Philippe have put Regan under a voodoo spell. They have replaced William Thorne with Regan in a plan to take over his company. Starsky, Hutch, Charlotte, and Inspector Godfrey rescue Regan and find out his true identity. - Regan, Janice (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Collins, Joan
Janice has a job as a photographer at the Playboy Hotel. Her father is Bert Regan. Regan worked in store security and was offered the Chief of Security job for Thorne Enterprises. He went to Voodoo Island and was reportedly drowned. Janice goes to Voodoo Island to find him, believing him to still be alive. She tells Starsky and Hutch her father used to send her a charm every year on her birthday, and she received one even after his supposed death. It turns out Charlotte Connery, Papa Theodore, and Little Philippe have put Regan under a voodoo spell. They have replaced William Thorne with Regan in a plan to take over his company. She meets with Walter Healey. After Healy is killed she contacts Starsky and Hutch in a steam room and asks for their help. - Regan, Karl (The Heroes) Arnold, Madison
Regan is Roxy’s heroin supplier. - Reilly, Officer (Sweet Revenge) mentioned
Hutch calls him or her on the phone and asks that Jenny Brown be transferred to Maximum Security. - Riley, Officer (The Trap) not credited
He holds the door open for Starsky. - Reinhart, John (Photo Finish) Brandt, Hank
Reinhart is the managing editor of News World magazine. He buys the photo of Troy Braddock’s shooting from Marcy Fletcher. He cancels the Farrah cover so he can use Fletcher’s photograph. Dora Pruitt kills him, trying to get the negative. Ballistics confirms that Reinhart was killed with the same caliber bullet as Braddock. - Reuban, Anthony (Birds of a Feather) Arbus, Allan
Reuban runs a gambling operation and takes advantage of the people that play cards by offering them loans at a large interest rate. One of his clients is Doris Huntley. She has lost fifty thousand dollars to him over ten years, she and her husband’s life savings. Then she runs up another twelve thousand dollars during the last three months. Reuban has her sign a contract stipulating the payback terms. When Doris’ husband, Luke, finds out about the loan, he goes to get the money back. He makes a deal with Reuban, trading the money for letting Reuban kill Palmer, a man who is going to be a witness in a trial against Reuban. Reuben’s thug, Jimmy Lucas, kills Palmer. Reuban tells Lucas to kill Huntley, but Lucas fails. Luke blackmails Reuban, and they make a meet at a warehouse. Luke means to kill Reuban but Starsky and Hutch stop him. Reuban has a secretary named Gloria. He asks her to go buy his uncle a briefcase as a birthday present - Reuben’s, Anthony uncle (Birds of a Feather) mentioned
Reuban sends his secretary out to buy a briefcase for his uncle’s birthday. - Reynaldo (The Groupie) Glaser, Paul Michael
Reynaldo is Starsky’s undercover character. Reynaldo is a fashion photographer. - Reynolds, Steve (The Set-Up) Wood, Gary
Reynolds is a man who runs into Terry Nash as he comes out of the gun shop. He calls him Buddy Griggs, recognizing him as a fellow soldier from the Third Battalion in the year 1966 at Khe Sanh. Nash says he doesn’t know Reynolds. - Rhoda (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) mentioned
Betty Lou, Rhonda, and Rhoda are the three names Starsky and Hutch tell Officer O’Reilly the Torino goes by. - Rhonda (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3) mentioned
Betty Lou, Rhonda, and Rhoda are the three names Starsky and Hutch tell Officer O’Reilly the Torino goes by. - Rich, D.A. Arnold (Strange Justice) Eney, Woody
Rich talks to Starsky and Hutch about what charges he should go for with Lenny Biggs. He says it might be better to go for assault rather than rape charges. Hutch quotes some dismal statistics, and Rich says he will try to do what he can. - Richards, Allen (Class in Crime) mentioned
Richards is an employee of “The House That Jack Built,” a business that sells very expensive cars. Richards went to school with his boss, Jack Morgan. They were both in Professor Gage’s class and interested in mime. Richards was a better student than Morgan. He had a B+ average. Richards and Morgan blackmail Gage, knowing he is a killer. Gage’s girlfriend, Mickie Marra, shoots Richards as he watches a mime show. - Richards, Officer (Cover Girl) Byers, Bo
Richards is the officer who was protecting Lindsay and escorting him to court. He and Lindsay hear a baby crying in a baby carriage. Richards crabs about lazy mothers and goes over to the carriage. The carriage is rigged by a bomb. Lindsay is killed, and Richards survives. Starsky goes to the hospital to sit with his family. - Richfield, Dr. (Black and Blue) mentioned
His or her name is heard over the hospital P.A. He or she is asked to call his office. - Ritchie (Starsky vs. Hutch) Craig, Garrett
Ritchie is Arlene’s husband. Arlene is a dancer at the “Golden Lady Ballroom.” Ritchie works early in the morning and drives a truck. He picks Arlene up after work. - Ridgeway, Dr. (Dandruff) mentioned
His name is heard on the hospital P.A. He is asked to go to Pediatrics. - Rigger, Jamie (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1 + 2) Hobbs, Heather
Jamie is Lionel and Mardean Rigger’s daughter. She calls Huggy, “Uncle Huggy.” - Rigger, Lionel (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3) Neely, Ted
Lionel is one of Huggy’s friends. His wife is Mardean, and their daughter is Jamie. Huggy introduces Lionel to Starsky and Hutch, telling them Lionel is a snitch with some information. Lionel says he wants to reduce the charges against him in return for information about Judge McClellan’s drug trafficking. Starsky and Hutch promise Lionel that he will not have to testify, something they end up not being able to accomplish. Starsky and Hutch go into hiding with Lionel, but a hit man manages to kill Lionel anyway. Lionel tells Starsky he doesn’t like television. Lionel was a drum player. - Rigger, Mardean (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3) Hayes, Troas
Mardean is Lionel’s wife. Their daughter’s name is Jamie. Mardean is a photographer, and sometimes Lionel helps her in the darkroom. When Lionel agrees to testify against McClellan, Mardean goes to Dobey and tells him of her fears for her husband’s safety. After Lionel is killed, Hutch sees her in The Pits. They have a strained conversation. - Rigger, Mardean’s sister (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) mentioned
Lionel tells Starsky and Hutch that his wife and daughter have gone to stay with her sister. - Rile, Bo (The Bounty Hunter) Bieri, Ramon
Rile works with Lola Turkel at the bail bonds business. He and Turkel use their clients to steal for them, and then later blackmail them. When Jerry Konig threatens to go to the police with what he knows, Turkel kills him. Rile dumps Konig’s body at the Mission Ice House. Worried that Konig may have shared his plans with his girlfriend, Denise Gerard, Rile attempts to kill her in her apartment. Starsky and Hutch thwart him. Rile sets some businesses on fire and shoots Officer Nedloe in an attempt to make people think Konig is still alive and up to his arsonist ways. Rile pretends to be Konig on the phone and lures Gerard to a paint factory. He plans to kill Eddie Hoyle, dressed in Konig’s clothes, and then kill Gerard. Starsky and Hutch stop this plan when Konig’s body is found. - Ringo, (The Psychic) Peterson, Chris
Ringo and his buddy, Cha Cha, try to steal Starsky’s tires. Ringo is the white one. - Rita (Discomania) Chaffin, Deb-E
Rita is a dancer at “Fever” disco. - Ritlin, Harvey (Lady Blue) Borkan, Gene
Ritlin is one of Solenko’s thugs. - Rizzo, Laurie (The Heroes) mentioned
Laurie dies from a heroin overdose. Her brother Paul uses her death as his motivation for lacing heroin with strychnine. - Rizzo, Paul (The Heroes) Ziman, Jerrold
Paul’s sister, Laurie, dies from a heroin overdose. After her death, Paul spends some time in mental institutions. Paul decides to lace heroin with strychnine as revenge. One of the people he kills is Roxy. Chris Phelps begs Starsky and Hutch to shoot him when she is his prisoner, but Starsky talks him down instead. - Roarke, Captain (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) mentioned
Starsky and Hutch tell Dobey Roarke ordered the watch on Dobey’s house. - Robbins, Mike (The Deadly Imposter) Hindle, Art
Robbins is the name Colby uses when he was in Miami. He tells people there he is an investment counselor from New York. It is implied he kills Jackie’s boss and the boss’s whole family before he disappears. . - Roberts, Terry (Starsky’s Lady) Hubley, Season
She is Starsky’s girlfriend. Roberts works at the “Marshal Center for Exceptional Children.” She often tells Starsky she loves him. Prudholm shoots Roberts in a revenge plan. Her doctor can’t remove the bullet and tells her she will die within the year. Roberts decides to go on living her life. She tells Starsky and Hutch she used to want to skate in a derby. Starsky asks her to marry him, but she doesn’t answer him. After she dies, she tells Starsky and Hutch to have a memorial service for her two weeks later. She leaves Hutch her teddy bear and Starsky a Monopoly book. - Rodell (Satan’s Witches) Ruskin, Joseph
Rodell is the leader of a satanic group that takes up camp in Pine Lake. He has kidnapped Lizzie Tyce, the sheriff’s daughter, using her as leverage to keep the townspeople quiet. He intends to kill her in a sacrifice on the third day. Hutch refers to him as “Mad Merlin.” - Rodgers (Snowstorm) Mason, Eric
He is one of Stryker’s thugs. He is supposed to shoot Starsky and Hutch from the rooftop across from Crandell’s hotel, but misses. He and Freddie kidnap Huggy Bear and lure Starsky and Hutch to The Pits. Starsky and Hutch threaten Rodgers, and he tells them what he knows about Stryker and Elmo Jackson’s death. - Rodriguez (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Andes, Danny
Rodriguez is one of the card players at Washington’s poker game. - Roger (The Avenger) DeLano, Michael
Roger is Monique Travers’ third victim. He works in finance and brags about his job. After having sex with Travers, he bitches to himself about the aggravation he endures for “one night with one woman.” - Roger, Officer (The Vampire)
Roger works in R & I. Hutch calls him and asks him to get information about anyone released from a prison or psychiatric facility in the last two years who have committed crimes against women. Roger hassles Hutch and jokes around, not unlike Bigelow. - Rogers, Charlotte (Murder on Stage 17) Herdt, Sandy
Rogers is the leading lady in Steve Hanson’s movie. Stone lures Hanson to Roger’s trailer and sets it on fire. - Rogers, Melinda (The Groupie) Kaye, Caren
Rogers is a police groupie. She likes to sleep with cops. She is thirty years old and has a dog name Fosdick. Rogers sleeps with Harold, makes him late for his shift, and steals a bullet he needs later. Rogers works in the fashion industry for Jack Parker. The company is called “Ann Lock Fashions.” Hutch goes undercover as Jack Ives and has lunch with Rogers and her friend, a model named Barbara. Rogers guesses Hutch is a cop and sleeps with him. She helps Starsky and Hutch in their attempts to bust Parker. Roy Sears and Parker capture her and tie her to a chair. After they escape, Hutch hands her his gun and tells her to keep an eye on Sears. She says she is half Sicilian. Later at The Pits, Hutch tries to talk her out of sleeping with cops. She dates Starsky instead. - Rogers, Nancy (Gillian) Canova, Diana
Rogers is Starsky’s girlfriend. She doesn’t bowl very well. She gets the gang cokes and beers. Rogers calls Starsky “Red” and a strike “Bingo.” - Rogier (Bust Amboy) Etienne, Roger
Rogier is the headwaiter that works at Amboy’s restaurant. - Rondell, Lieutenant (Pilot) mentioned
His name is seen on the door next to Dobey’s office. - Ronstan, Eric (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Keefer, Don
Eric is the owner of the biggest law firm on the west coast. His son is charged with obscenity charges. Sharon Freemont blackmails Eric, telling him she will get his son off the charges if he will make her a partner in his law firm. Eric eventually tells Captain Ryan about Freemont’s deal. - Ronstan, Eric’s son (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) mentioned
He has been arrested several times for indecent exposure. His father makes a deal with Sharon Freemont to have the charges dropped. Eric Ronstan’s son wants to run for public office. - Roper (The Plague) Ruscio, Al
Roper is a mob boss. He is moving in on Stern’s territory. Sterns has hired Thomas Callendar to kill Roper. Starsky goes to Roper for help in roping Callendar in, but Roper refuses. Roper plays chess and offers Starsky anisette. Callendar shoots and wounds Roper when Roper tries to kill him at the hospital. - Rose, Officer (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) not credited
Dobey asks her to call Edith and warn her about the dynamite under the house. - Ross, Edith (Cover Girl) mentioned
Edith Ross is Stewart’s mother. She spanks Stewart after she catches him in the cookie jar. Stewart calls the police department to complain. - Ross, Stewart (Cover Girl) mentioned
Stewart is a young boy who calls the police station to complain about his mother spanking him. He gets Hutch on the phone. Hutch doesn’t have a lot of sympathy. Hutch tells him to stay out of the cookie jar. - Roxy (Moonshine) mentioned
Roxy is Starsky’s date. They are going to go to a dance contest after he told her he was the West Coast Disco Champion. Starsky had had too much to drink at the time. Hutch describes her as having “almond eyes with killer lashes, long, sexy legs, and an Ava Gardner mouth.” When Starsky injures his foot in the moonshine bust, Hutch moves in and makes a date with her instead. Starsky gripes, saying Hutch doesn’t even know how to fox trot. - Roxy (The Heroes) Bordon, Lynn
Roxy is a junkie, a drug pusher and a prostitute. She rents a room above O’Riley’s Bar and works for Al, the bartender. She hasn’t been doing very good business and tries to steal money from the cash register. When Starsky and Hutch question her and Hutch gives her money, she offers Hutch a freebie. It embarrasses him in front of Chris Phelps. Paul Rizzo supplies her with heroin laced with strychnine, and she dies a terrible death. Ginny Simpson examines her body. Phelps tells Hutch Roxy may not have died if he had not given her money. - Roy (Little Girl Lost) Sidwell, Ken
Roy is the bartender where Flent, Duran, and Edwards meet. When Starsky and Hutch question him, he tries to hit them with a baseball bat. Starsky cuffs him to his bar. - Roy (Huggy Can’t Go Home) mentioned
Roy is a character on “The Disenchanted,” the show Big Red McGee watches. Other characters are Phil, Marcy, Sean, Rebecca, and Mary. - Rudy (Moonshine) Fischer, Bruce M.
Rudy is the bartender at the Smoky Mountain Inn. He sells the Iver’s bootleg whiskey. He tells Starsky and Hutch what he knows about Dolly. Hutch gives him their card, but Rudy throws it away after they walk out. - Ruskin, Mo (The Game) mentioned
His name is heard on the radio. The trial concerning his May 8th slaying is coming up. - Russo, Harvey (The Deadly Impostor) Anderson, Luke
Russo works with Nate Garvin in his drug business. John Colby murders him by sticking a knife in his spine as he makes a phone call. Russo was going to testify against Garvin in an upcoming trial and Garvin wanted him out of the way. - Ruskin, Dr. (Strange Justice) mentioned
His name is mentioned on the television show the sorority women are watching. - Rusz, Anton (Death Notice) Francis, Ivor
Rusz is an immigrant who hopes to become a citizen. His wife has been dead a little over a year. Rusz is a handyman and fixes things like radios and mannequins. He overhears plans for a murder and tries to warn the victims. Instead, Starsky and Hutch arrest him for the killings. He is invited to a party at Hutch’s place after the case is solved. He makes goulash and makes Huggy try some of it. He has a crescent-shaped scar on his left cheek, is one hundred fifty pounds, 5’8”, and has “weird, little eyes.” - Rusz, Anton’s wife (Death Notice) mentioned
Anton says she’s recently passed away. - Ryan, Billy (Vendetta) Jabara, Paul
Ryan used to work with Solkin’s young crowd. Starsky and Hutch go to question him at the fish place where he works. Ryan reluctantly tells them about Tommy Marlowe. He says they were all sniffing and drinking red wine when Marlowe told them about murdering his whole family in Indiana. Ryan says he moved out the next day. He says he doesn’t do illegal stuff anymore. - Ryan, Captain (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Avery, Val
Ryan is the Chief of the Detectives and Dobey’s boss. He doesn’t like Starsky and Hutch. He thinks they are punks. He is angry about the speech Starsky told at the Police Academy graduation. Ryan thinks Starsky and Hutch beat up Oscar Newton and Nikki, are taking bribes, and harassed Judith Coppett. Starsky thinks Ryan is trying to frame them. He had Starsky break into his office, with Dobey’s approval, and try to find evidence of Ryan’s guilt. Ryan catches him and together they realize Freemont is the real villain.
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“I don’t like mixing with all those people that smell like they been sleeping on lilacs.”
(The Groupie)
If you are looking for Starsky’s relatives, see Inner Circle Relatives.
- Salidas, Hector (Deckwatch) Baseleon, Michael
Salidas has been a Merchant Marine for ten years. He works in the boiler room. Nine months of the year, he is out on a ship. When he gets into a port, he picks up a woman and kills her. Salidas finds Madeleine in a bar. He lights her cigarette, offers to buy her dinner, rapes, and kills her. She shoots him in the leg before she dies. Salidas, wounded, goes into hiding. At first he hides under a bridge. When Chicky finds him, he tells the kid he had been hit by a car. When Chicky says he’s going to go call an ambulance, Salidas forces his way in to the Kanen house. He takes both women hostage. He sends Laura out for supplies, and she goes to the police first. Hutch goes undercover as Laura’s brother and tells Salidas he is a paramedic. Hutch stalls for time while Starsky gets in place. Together they take Salidas down, with Starsky firing the killing shot. Salidas tells Hannah Kanen that he prefers the name Harry to Hector. It may have something to do with his father. - Sally (Starsky’s Lady) McClelland, Angela
Sally is a student at the Marshal Center for Exceptional Children. She is shy. She and Terry shake pom-poms at the school basketball game. Terry tells Starsky that she is glad Sally is becoming less shy and asks for Starsky’s help in keeping Sally “out of her shell.” - Sam (Kill Huggy Bear) Peters, Don
Sam is one of the thugs that trashes The Pits and threatens Huggy. He’s one of Malinda’s main thugs, along with Jerry, Tom, and Bill. - Sam the Greek (Nightmare) mentioned
Sam the Greek is a used car salesman. He is also a fence. Sam agrees to tell Starsky and Hutch when Manning and Lewis come to him to sell stolen goods. Sam is disgusted by what they did to Lisa. Sam asks that he get “arrested” as well in order to protect his reputation. Sam communicates with Starsky and Hutch through Huggy. - Sample, Harry (Shootout) Welles, Danny
Starsky and Hutch are playing good cop/bad cop as they question Sample. They are trying to make Sample admit to beating up a woman while stoned and leaving her in a coma. Sample believes he was Maharaja Jeru in an effort to distance him from the crime. Sample is afraid of Starsky and admits to the crime. - Samuels, Ray (The Game) Ging, Jack
Samuels is the fake name on the plane ticket Gina buys for Ray Pardee. - Sanders, Carol (Discomania) mentioned
Sanders lived with her little sister and mother. Sanders often went to the disco, “Fever.” She disappeared one night, and her body was found three weeks later. It had an ankle bracelet with the name Sharon on it. Her killer is Tony Mariposa. - Sandy the Dog (Losing Streak) as himself
He belongs to Orange. Hutch slips some money under his collar. - Sarah, Officer (The Vampire, The Specialist, Bloodbath) not credited
In “Vampire,” she is working in the office. Hutch asks her to get him a cup of coffee, calling her by name. In “Specialist,” Starsky slaps her butt with a file. She is not mentioned by name, but it is the same woman as in “Vampire.” In “Bloodbath,” she is seen in the squad room. - Saunders (The Bait) Scott, Ken
He is the Detective who interrogates O’Brien, Rafferty, and Eddie Moore. - Sawyer, Officer (Iron Mike) mentioned
He is one of the officers at the Darcy Department Store bust. He is there with Iron Mike, Starsky, Hutch, Bowerman, Platt, and Nelson. - Schiller, Avery (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Richman, Peter
Schiller runs “Schiller Imports” down on the docks. He is a mob figure and into number running. One of his thugs is Lenny Torkel. Torkel snitches to the cops about Schiller in return for a reduced sentence. Schiller is arranging to have Harry McArthur, an important union official, killed. Schiller has hired the hit man Eddie Carlyle. Hutch poses as Carlyle after he and Starsky put the hit man in the hospital. Hutch manages to fool Schiller up until Sid Archer is brought to the warehouse. - Schneider (Sweet Revenge) Felder, Lou
Schneider is one of Gunther’s employees. He reports on South Africa and their successful business there. - Schneider (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) mentioned
Charlotte Connery tells Starsky and Hutch to meet Schneider, a pilot, at the airport at the tip of the island. - Schultz (Iron Mike) not credited
Schultz owns one of the bars Johnny Lonigan collects money from. When Starsky and Hutch go to the bar to get Lonigan to snitch on Coyle, they tell Schultz to leave. - Schwab, Harv (Murder at Sea) Begley Jr., Ed
Schwab is Kitty’s boyfriend. They are both members of the Bayside Singles Club. Schwab knows his girlfriend sleeps around and is jealous. Starsky hits Schwab on the butt with a tennis racket. Schwab beats up Derek Stafford when he thinks Stafford slept with Kitty. - Scobie, Lou (Survival) Silver, Johnny
Scobie is a snitch. Hutch knows him. Vic Humphries hires Scobie to call Hutch and lure him to “Barnaby’s Tavern.” Roy Slater is supposed to kill Hutch as he drives to the bar. Hutch crabs at Scobie, telling him his last tip took two weeks to thaw out. Scobie tells Hutch he doesn’t trust Starsky. - Scorchy (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Cook, Carole
Scorchy is the older woman at The Pits. She tells Huggy and Turk about the Foxy Brown case. She puts money in her bra. - Sean (Huggy Can’t Go Home) mentioned
Sean is a character on “The Disenchanted,” the show Big Red McGee watches. Other characters are Roy, Marcy, Phil, Rebecca, and Mary. - Sears, Roy (The Groupie) Ashton, John
Sears is Jack Parker’s thug. Sears and Parker are stealing high-end furs. Melinda Rogers tries to get information out of him. When Sears overhears Rogers call Dobey, he kidnaps her. Sears and Parker threaten Rogers, find out about Hutch, and kidnap Hutch, too. After Rogers and Hutch escape, Rogers holds a gun on Sears. At one point Sears tells Rogers, he doesn’t “like “mixing with people that smell like they have been sleeping on lilacs.” - Seeds (The Vampire) Bailey, G.W.
Seeds’ real name is Slade, and he owns “Slade’s Cave.” He also is the leader of a demonic ritual group, one that uses what he pretends is human blood. Two members of his group were Rene and Maria Nadasy. He tells Starsky and Hutch his bank account is six figures. Linda Offenbecker appears to be his girlfriend. - Seims, Dr. (The Las Vegas Strangler) Browning, Rod
Seims is the doctor who treats Jack Mitchell while Mitchell is in Las Vegas. He tells Hutch about Mitchell’s brain tumor. - Shane (The Velvet Jungle) not credited
Lou tells him, “”on the platform.” - Shannon, Jimmy (Vendetta) Elliot, Gregory
Shannon was one of Solkin’s boys. He was an Irish kid from Cleveland. Tommy Marlowe is directed by Solkin to attack him and injure him, but accidentally kills him instead. Shannon was seventeen years old. - Shannon, Jimmy’s mother (Vendetta) mentioned
Solkin tells Starsky she lives in Cleveland. - Sharon (Blindfold) Pringle, Joan
Sharon is apparently Emily Harrison’s only friend. The two women live next door to each other. Sharon sits in the hospital, along with Starsky, waiting for news on Harrison’s condition. Sharon is hostile towards Starsky, but she doesn’t tell Harrison who he really is. In the end, it is Sharon who tells Starsky and Hutch about Don Widdicombe and his plans. - Sharon (Discomania) not credited
Sharon is apparently someone who rejected Tony Mariposa in the past. He uses it as a reason to kill the other women, putting an ankle bracelet with her name on his victims. She is seen in a photo. - Shasha (Dandruff) Britton, Layne
Shasha is a hairdresser Hilda Zuckerman employs. Mrs. Zuckerman tells him “Number three please.” - Shaughnessy, Mrs. (Fatal Charm) mentioned
She is Officer Baylor’s landlord. Harmon tells her she’s Baylor’s kid sister from Boston. - Shecky, Zack (Murder at Sea) Glaser, Paul Michael
Shecky is Starsky’s undercover name. Shecky is the entertainment director. - Shehan, D. (Murder Ward) mentioned
It is one of the reporters who wrote the article about Charlie Deek. The name is seen on the newspaper clipping. - Shelby, Ray (I Love You, Rosey Malone) Dullaghan, John
Shelby runs a numbers clearing house. He is one of Malone’s competitors. Goodson and Chambers get involved in the plan to make Shelby believe Malone is cooperating with the police. They also tell him about Starsky’s real job, and in turn, Shelby tells Malone. Starsky and Hutch bust Shelby’s business. When Shelby confronts Malone, they realize both of them are being set up by the Justice Department. Malone figures Shelby will inherit his business when Malone disappears. - Shelley, Officer (The Specialist) not credited
Hutch asks him to keep on eye on Mr. McDermott, Sr. after the explosion. - Sherwood, Miss (Death in a Different Place) not credited
She is the young woman Huggy is registering to vote. Huggy asks her to tell all her friends to register, too. - Shockley (The Bait) Cass, Dave
Shockley is Danner’s thug. Hutch remembers arresting him years ago when he was in uniform. Knowing that Shockley can identify him, Starsky and Hutch arrange for him to be picked up for unpaid parking tickets. When Danner’s lawyer sees him in the hall, Shockley is bailed out sooner than expected. He goes to the bust and identifies Hutch. - Sid, Officer (Snowstorm) mentioned
He finds the bullet in the crate and traces it to Crown’s gun. - Sid, Officer (Little Girl Lost) not credited
Starsky pats him on the butt after the bust. Sid takes Duran away. Starsky wishes him a “Merry Christmas.” - Sills, Diane (Savage Sunday, The Fix, Texas Longhorn, The Bait, The Deadly Imposter, Death Ride) Mitchell, Bobbie
Huggy introduces Diane to Starsky and Hutch in “Savage Sunday.” Huggy tells her he is all for women’s lib and he allows Diane a “little thievery” as long as she doesn’t put money in the sink. In “Texas Longhorn,” “Deadly Imposter,” and “Death Ride,” she is a seen in the background as a bartender. In the “Fix,” Huggy asks her to watch the bar, and her answer is heard. In the “The Bait,” Huggy sends her to the Chinese restaurant to get wonton soup for Dobey. - Silky (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Ford, Anitra
Silky works at the Playboy Hotel. She escorts Starsky and Hutch to the steam room, impressed with their clearance. Silky listens in on the bugged spa. She hears Janice Regan tell Starsky and Hutch about her mission to find her father. Silky calls Philippe and tells him what she has heard, blowing Starsky and Hutch’s cover as Night and Day. - Silvers, Ernie (The Game) Sicari, Joseph R.
Silvers runs the “Hotel California,” the place where Hutch goes when he is hiding from Starsky. Silvers brags to Hutch about how he lies to Starsky and Hutch, saying Hutch is the “stupid one.” He offers drugs to Hutch for his cold. Hutch pays Silvers to go to talk to Anita to try to find out if Starsky’s shooting was real. Silvers tells Starsky about the phone call Hutch made to the cab company. Starsky refers to Silvers as a “pet rattlesnake.” - Simmons (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) Whitman, Kipp
Simmons is the man hired to impersonate Starsky. Fremont hired him, threatening him with prison due to past arrests. - Simmons (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) mentioned
Rupert Jones, one of Starsky and Hutch’s snitches, is injured two days before he was to testify in the Simmons case. - Simmons, Detective (The Game) O’Neill, C.J.
Simmons is Babcock’s partner. Simmons and Babcock help Starsky plan the fake shooting. Both detectives stake out the hospital hall, watching for Hutch. - Simon, Marty (Murder at Sea) not credited
Simon is a syndicate leader. He is part of a group of mob bosses on the Amapola taking part in the meeting with Joey Fortune. He is able to identify Starsky and Hutch as they arrested him a few years ago. - Simon, Officer (Iron Mike) mentioned
Simon is one of the officers in the Darcy Department store bust. He is there with Platt, Ferguson, Starsky, Hutch, Nelson, Bowerman, and Sawyer. - Simonetti, Officer (Hutchinson for Murder One) Courtney, Alex
Simonetti works in Internal Affairs. His partner is Dryden. The two of them are the investigating officers in Vanessa’s death. Simonetti is determined to prove Hutch killed her, while his partner is more willing to look at other possibilities. While Simonetti and Dryden don’t do anything illegal, they are sloppy and combative. After Simonetti insults Hutch by saying he’s either “lying, delinquent, or just plain stupid,” Starsky punches him. Simonetti and Dryden find Vanessa’s diamond in Hutch’s car. They theorize that Hutch and Vanessa were in on the heist two years ago while Starsky was in the hospital. Simonetti and Dryden make Dobey suspend Hutch. They get a warrant for Hutch’s arrest. - Simpson, Medical Examiner Ginny (The Velvet Jungle, Death in a Different Place, The Heroes) Balaski, Belinda, Royce, Adrien
Simpson appears three times and portrayed by two different actresses. In “Velvet Jungle,” she talks to Starsky and Hutch about Helena’s body. The have their meeting in the morgue. She gives them a photo of the body and speculates on Helena’s murder. In “Heroes,” she is on the scene with Roxy’s body. She explains the details of Roxy’s death. In “Death in a Different Place,” she is examining John Blaine’s body in his hotel room. She knew Blaine and commiserates with Starsky. - Sims, D.A. Jason (Nightmare) Knapp, David
Sims is the lawyer in charge of Nick Manning and Robert Loomis, the two thugs who attacked Lisa Graham. Sims is more concerned with his political career and doesn’t want to take on what he thinks is a weak case. In court, he calls Lisa “’mentally deficient,” and suggests the sex was consensual. Starsky has to be held back from slugging him. Starsky and Hutch go to his boss and tell them what they think. Sims’ boss appears to have his own suspicions and has a meeting with Sims. - Sireen, Charlie (The Psychic) Anderson, Sylvia
She is a Julio Gutierrez’s former girlfriend. Starsky and Hutch interview her. Charlie works as a mechanic. She is tall and black and teases Starsky and Hutch about how she is also a mathematician and a basketball player in drag. She knows Julio was a good guy that ran with a bad crowd. She says Julio owed money to Su Long. - Sister Magda (The Plague) Peters, Tiffany
Sister Magda is a prostitute. Starsky and Hutch track her down through Donner’s book. Her blood tests positive for the plague. Starsky makes a joke about her doing business at the hospital. Knowing how fast the plague kills, she most likely dies. - Skyler, Hans (Terror on the Docks) Hourigan, James
Skyler is vice president of the jewelry company, “Van der Meer and Bruin” out of Antwerp. He and Ezra Beam have cooked up a deal involving the diamonds he is delivering for his company. Billy Desmond and his thugs are supposed to rob him, absolving him of the crime. Instead, Desmond shoots him. Skyler tells Hutch a clue, the word devil, and it makes Hutch think of Beam. - Skyler, Rudy (Murder Ward) Glaser, Paul Michael
Skyler is the undercover name Starsky uses. Freddie Lyle also calls him Mac Ferrino. - Slade (The Vampire) Bailey, G.W.
See Seeds - Slate, Leslie (Strange Justice) Crosby, Mary
Leslie is a college student at Weldon College. Her father, Dan, is a cop. Her mother appears to be deceased. A man named Lenny Biggs rapes Leslie in her sorority house. Leslie’s friend, Lori, brings her to the police station to make her report. Leslie is in shock and doesn’t talk. Her father’s reaction upon seeing her doesn’t help things. Later, Dan visits Leslie at the hospital. Cassie, one of Leslie’s sorority sisters, tells Starsky and Hutch that Leslie isn’t doing well. She’ll probably take a turn for the worse when she realizes her father is going to prison. - Slate, Lieutenant Daniel E. (Strange Justice) McMillan, Kenneth
Dan has been a cop for twenty years. His wife appears to be deceased. His daughter, Leslie, is a college student at Weldon College. Leslie is raped. Dan sees her in the squad room when Leslie is brought in to make her statement. In the hallway, Dan sees Lenny Biggs, her attacker. Dan shoots him. Dan, out on the bail put up by the union, contacts his snitch, Marcellus Cobb. Dan gets Cobb to get him a gun. He also has Cobb bail Biggs out of jail. Slate kidnaps Biggs and calls the police, pretending Biggs has kidnapped him. He tricks Officer Dobson into shooting Biggs. Hutch, disillusioned, bawls Dan out as he is arrested. - Slate, Mrs. (Strange Justice) mentioned
She appears to be deceased. Dan Slate tells Leslie he’s glad her mother isn’t there to face the pain, probably the last thing Leslie needed to hear. - Slater, Roy (Survival) Sutton, Robert Raymond
Slater is a hit man. He is from Tucson, Arizona. Slater likes jobs where he gets to hurt women. James Balford hires him to kill Hutch, keeping Hutch from testifying against Vic Humphries. Slater waits on a canyon road for Hutch to drive by, lured by a call from a snitch. Slater runs Hutch’s car off the road. Starsky locates Slater through his girlfriend, a prostitute named Carla Iverson. Starsky promises Iverson, who is afraid of Slater, that Slater will never bother her again. This is a promise Starsky can keep; in a gun battle and chase with Starsky, Slater falls off the roof of a building and dies - Sloan, Sally Ann (Savage Sunday) Somers, Suzanne
Sally dances at the “Princess Discothèque,” a place where the patrons aren’t into quality. Starsky and Hutch go to the disco to question her. She says she used to be married to Wilbur Sloan for a short time, but left him because all he could think about was sports. Sally’s cousin is Ted and they came to Bay City via Denver about six months ago. Sally has a therapist, and tells Starsky and Hutch more than they wanted to know about the Sloan’s sex life. - Sloan, Wilbur (Savage Sunday) Walsh, Edward
Sloan and his partner, Morton, steal a car and rob businesses. Sloan is a complete sports nut. He was married to Sally Ann, but she divorced him because sports took the place of sex. Sloan owes bookies money, and they say he pays up. Sloan and Morton do not know the car they’ve stolen is rigged with dynamite. Starsky and Hutch track them down and apprehend them. - Sloan, Sally Ann’s therapist (Savage Sunday) mentioned
He uses the Socratic method. - Slow, John (Lady Blue) Karron, Richard
Slow is one of Ruby Solenko’s thugs. He tries to keep Starsky and Hutch out of the “Mellow Yellow.” Starsky hits him with a door. - Smith (Birds of a Feather) mentioned
Luke Huntley checks into the hotel under the name of Smith. - Smith, Dr. (The Plague) mentioned
His or her name is heard over the hospital PA. Smith is asked to call his or her office. - Smithers, Agent (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) Herd, Richard
Smithers is a FBI agent. Waldheim is his partner. Both men used to work with, and are friends with, Judge McClellan. They help him harass Starsky and Hutch. Their boss, Dodds, has no idea they are doing illegal things. Starsky and Hutch confront Waldheim and Smithers, allowing Dodds to hear of their activities. - Smitty (Running) Kray, Charles M.
Smitty is a janitor at the police department. He steals Starsky’s logbook from his office. He plans to sell it to Vern DuBois and Ella. He goes to the Western Hotel where they are staying. Instead of paying him money, they kill Smitty. Ella is contemptuous of the meager belongings in Smitty’s pocket. Starsky and Hutch discover Smitty’s body, find the logbook and realize Sharman Crane is in danger. - Smitty (Survival) not credited
Smitty comes to Captain Dobey’s office once a week to shine his shoes. Smitty is hard of hearing. - Smitty (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty) mentioned
Smitty is one of the members of the Wildcat Bowling League. - Smitty, Officer (Terror on the Docks) not credited
Smitty is working surveillance on the docks. He watches from the rooftop. - Smitty, Officer (Discomania) not credited
Officer Smitty dusts Lizzie Thorpe’s car for fingerprints. - Sneaky Pete (Lady Blue) mentioned
When Hutch can’t get his car club to come and fix his car, he asks Huggy if Sneaky Pete can do the repairs. Huggy says yes. - Sneaky Regan (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) mentioned
Starsky says he’s that “coke freak that used to snitch for us.” He’s dead. It is also possible his name is “Sleepy Regan.” - Snow, Eric (Murder at Sea) Himes, Timothy
Snow is the Amapola’s purser. He is a drug dealer and uses the ship for his dealing. Commander Atwater doesn’t like Snow. He says Snow is popular with women, has been arrested three times for drug possession and has no home address, the last being an abnormality. Snow is murdered on the docks as he waits for a connection. Helen Carnoffsky witnesses the killing. - Soldier (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) Tessier, Robert
Soldier is a hired thug. Soldier kills Lionel rigger, blows up Hutch’s car, kills Frank May, kills Raymond McClellan, and kidnaps Allison. He is killed in a shootout at the amusement park - Solenko, Ruby (Lady Blue) Argo, Victor
Solenko owns the “Mellow Yellow.” He orders Cindy, a dancer there, attacked. Helen Davisson, an undercover cop who was a dancer there, was investigating him. She was dating Solenko. Solenko is a jewelry thief. After Starsky and Hutch bust him, it becomes apparent he doesn’t know anything about Davisson’s job. - Solkin, Arthur Finegal (Artie) (Vendetta) Gierasch, Stefan
According to his police record, Artie is fifty-three years old, is 5’9”, one hundred seventy-two pounds, has contributed to the delinquency of minors (four of whom he’s been arrested for), and lives at the Hotel Bremen. Artie takes in young runaways and has them commit crimes for him. Tommy Marlowe is a boy who Artie is having beat up people. Artie, who is especially hostile towards Hutch, has Marlowe throw a brick through Hutch’s window and put a dead rat in his refrigerator. Artie also has Marlowe rig up an explosion in Hutch’s trunk and attack his girlfriend. Starsky refers to Artie as “Captain of the Belles.” Hutch refers to Artie as “America’s answer to ‘Fagin‘ and his “artful dodgers.“ - Sonia (Death Notice) Keaton, Roseanne
Sonia is a stripper at the “Panama Club.” She is from Detroit. She was hoping Jack Thorn was going to call her. Lou Posey kills her. His boss, Delano, thinks Sonia is the woman blackmailing him. - Sour Joe (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Tari, Le
Sour Joe and his buddy, Fingers, know Huggy from when he lived in the neighborhood. They hassle Huggy when he returns. Sour Joe uses a cane. - Spaceman Sam Carter (Losing Streak) mentioned
See Carter, Spaceman Sam - Spears, Sergeant (The Game) not credited
He answers the phone when Gina calls the switchboard. She hangs up on him. - Spenser, James (The Heavyweight) Lockwood, Gary
James is a heavyweight boxer. His ex-wife is named Lillian, and their son is named Stevie. Stevie lives with Lillian. Spenser works the docks where Starsky and Hutch go undercover to solve the Marchetti murder. When they find out Spenser is a boxer, Starsky and Hutch go to one of his fights. James refuses to throw a fight for his mob angel, Gavin. Starsky and Hutch suspect trouble after the fight and help Spenser fight off his locker-room attackers. Spenser tells them he witnessed Marchetti’s murder. He refuses to testify, worrying Gavin will come after his family. Jeeter, Spenser’s best friend, turns him into Gavin out of fear. In the end, Spenser helps capture the bad guys. He and Lillian get back together again. They plan to move to Oregon. - Spenser, Lillian (The Heavyweight) Adams, Laurel
Lillian is James Spenser’s wife. They’ve been separated for two years. She left him because she couldn’t stand his violent life as a boxer. Their son is named Stevie. When Starsky and Hutch go to her house to ask about James, she worries Stevie is in trouble. She won’t help find James. In the end, she and James decide to get back together again. James quits boxing and the docks and they plan to move to Oregon. - Spenser, Stevie (The Heavyweight) Miller, J.R.
Stevie lives with his mom, Lillian. His dad, James, and his mom are separated. He sneaks off and goes to watch his father at a boxing match. It is Stevie’s plea that make James decide to get up and not throw the fight. Hutch asks Sharon, Starsky’s date, to drive Stevie home. At the end, Stevie’s parents decide to get together again. Starsky regales Stevie with tales of his father’s bravery. - Springer, Mr. (Foxy Lady) mentioned
Lisa Kendrick calls Springer from Starsky’s apartment. She makes a deal with him, telling him she will turn over the million dollars she has for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That was the same deal Mackey had with him. Springer is Clay Zachary’s rival. - Squire Fox (Bust Amboy) not credited
Starsky and Hutch recognize Squire Fox at Amboy’s. He smuggles liquor and cigarettes and is a small time thug. Amboy uses Fox to distract Starsky and Hutch from Amboy’s activities. Starsky and Hutch capture Goose and Fox as they chase down the Amboy Catering van. - Stafford, Derek (Murder at Sea) Moody, Ron
Stafford is the Amapola’s First Officer. He warns Starsky and Hutch that they’d better behave. Stafford tells them the captain wants to see them. Stafford gets beat up when Harvey Schwab thinks he has slept with Kitty. Stafford finds Captain La Rue’s body. He also helps hold off the crooks with a gun. Later, Stafford is made the Amapola’s captain. - St. Jacques, Kingston (Quadromania) Thomas, Philip Michael
St. Jacques has a thick Jamaican accent. He is the dispatcher at “Metro Cab Company” and has worked there for at least four years. St. Jacques is also a radio disc jockey, broadcasting out of the office. Hutch questions him about the cabbie murders. St. Jacques tells Hutch about Benson’s accident with the “dog.” He also helps Hutch use the map and the amount of the cab fare to pinpoint where the victims were picked up - Stan (Pilot) Manetti, Larry
Stan is the young man in the car with Patricia. Henderson blackmails him with his criminal past, making Stan steal the car and take Patricia to an agreed upon place. Stan doesn’t know Henderson sets them both up to be killed by Zane and Cannell. - Stanley (Class in Crime) Girard, Robert
Stanley is a student in Professor Joshua Gage’s “Philosophy of Crime” class at Jameson College. When the class is questioned about the blackmail note, he says it “implies threat.” - Stanton, Deputy D.A. (Ballad for a Blue Lady) Karlen, John
Stanton is the lawyer in charge of the Grand Jury trial Joseph Fitch is to appear before. Both of Stanton’s witnesses, Charles Baron and Benny Paycheck, are murdered. Stanton and Hutch have angry words about Hutch’s progress in his undercover role with Marianne Owens. - Starger, Carl (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Bookwalter, Devren
Starger is a dance teacher at “Ginger Evans Dance Studio.” He, Marsha Stearns, and A.C. Chambers run a blackmail scheme. Starger sleeps with wealthy patrons, records the action, and gives the tape to Chambers. One woman Starger sleeps with is Mrs. Dodsman. Starger tries to kill Starsky and Hutch on the docks after their cover is blown. - Starsky
For Starsky’s relatives, see Before They Were Cops - Stern, Mr. (The Hostages) mentioned
- Stearns, Marsha (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Currie, Sondra
Stearns is a dance instructor at “Ginger Evans Dance Studio.” Stearns is in on the dance studio-blackmailing scheme. She works with A.C. Chambers and Carl Starger. Stearns has sex with rich patrons, tape records the proceedings, and turns the tape over to her partners. Stearns sleeps with Hutch while he is undercover. She tapes the encounter and Hutch is threatened. Stearns recognizes Marianne Tustin as Teddy’s sister. This blows Starsky’s cover as well, as it was he who introduced Tustin. Stearns and Chambers kidnap Tustin and put her in the trunk of Chamber’s car. - Steele, Lieutenant (Pilot) Billet, Don
Steele works in Internal Affairs. He and Henderson tell Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey they think Tallman is trying to kill the two detectives. Steele isn’t in on the crime, simply Henderson’s dupe. Huggy tells Starsky and Hutch that Steele’s a “pretty bad cat, man, I mean, he’s very fond of a few working girls in the district. And let me tell you, he don’t care for you two guys at all.” - Steele, Mr. (The Plague) Rocco, Alex
Steele is the name Callendar uses to rent the room. Mrs. Yeager calls him Mr. Steele. - Steen, Mr. (Hutchinson for Murder One) mentioned
Vanessa calls Amsterdam and talks to Mr. Steen. They bargain over re-cutting the diamond and the price. It is implied Vanessa is flying to Amsterdam in a few hours to deliver the diamond. - Stegner, George (The Set-Up) Roche, Eugene
Stegner is a member of a secret organization that brainwashes people and makes them commit crimes. Stegner poses as Terry Nash’s brother-in-law. He is Nash’s doctor when Nash is in the “hospital.” Stegner (certainly not his real name) tells Nash about him and his sister’s father’s murder. He tells Nash about Joe Durniak. - Steinmetz (A Body Worth Guarding) O’Leary, John
Steinmetz is a member of the Fascist Party of America. He writes threatening letters about Anna Akhanatova and sends them to the newspaper. Steinmetz hires Miller to kill Akhanatova. Steinmetz doesn’t think too much of Miller, and at one point, slaps his face. - Stella (Jojo) Ryan, Fran
Stella runs a restaurant that Starsky frequents. Stella is a waitress at a restaurant Starsky likes. He takes Hutch there when they harass Jojo. Stella is gruff and to the point. She won’t bring Hutch the kind of pie and coffee he wants. Starsky orders the meatloaf, which Hutch deems inedible. Hutch says the lemon meringue pie is the worst he’s ever eaten. - Stella (The Golden Angel) Victor, Paula
Stella runs a thrift shop. She is a loan shark, too. Starsky questions her about Buzzy Boone, who owes Stella eighteen hundred dollars. She says he is no trouble and pays on his loan regularly. Starsky hassles her about a number of zoning rules she is breaking. She calls Starsky, “Curly” and “Clown.” - Sterling, Officer (The Velvet Jungle) McGuire, Biff
Sterling is the officer in charge of Bay City’s Federal Immigration Department. Harry Wheeling smuggles illegal workers in from Mexico, and Sterling lets him do it. Sterling has an affair with Helena, a worker in Wheeling’s factory. Wheeling kills Helena when she blackmails the two men. Sterling tries to get Starsky, Hutch, and Paco Ortega off the case. When Wheeling is cornered at Andrea and Helena’s apartment hallway, Sterling kills him. Ortega calls Sterling and pretends to have the information Helena had. Sterling agrees to meet Ortega to pay him off. He plans on killing Ortega instead. Sterling shoots Ortega in the leg before Starsky and Hutch can catch him. - Sterns (The Plague) mentioned
Stern is a mob boss. He hires Thomas Callander to kill Roper, another mob boss that Stern feels is moving into his territory. Stern is visiting Naples, Italy at the time Callander is supposed to kill Roper. - Sternwood (Murder Ward) mentioned
Freddie Lyle asks Starsky about what he knows about the Sternwood case. - Steve (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) Vaughn, James
Steve is a high school football player. He is captain of the team. Joey Carston bails out of a date with Starsky to watch Steve practice. She tells Steve Starsky and Hutch are her uncles, signaling the end of her crush on Starsky. - Steve (Ballad for a Blue Lady) A., Bobby
He is the bartender at Fitch’s bar. - Steve (Terror on the Docks) mentioned
He is a name, along with Vince, in the newspaper article Hutch reads to Starsky. - Stevens, Laura (The Velvet Jungle) Lauritsen, Shelia
Stevens is a model. Stevens comes out of a warehouse’s door and knocks Starsky into a dumpster. She laughs at him and kids him about his ratty clothes. Starsky sees her again at the fashion show rehearsal. She asks him to hold her clothes and tells him they are going to go on a date. Starsky takes Stevens to a nice restaurant, but she complains about his tennis shoes, noting Starsky embarrassed her in front of a fashion editor. - Stiles, Diana R.N. (Murder Ward) mentioned
This is the name on the tag Jane Hutton wears at the birthday party. - Stinger, Mickey (Gillian) not credited
Stinger owns the “Le Sex Shoppe.” Grossman wants to take over Stinger’s business. Stinger is seen being taken away in an ambulance and is suffering from a concussion. He is one of the men beaten by Grossman’s thugs. - Stockwood, Frances Bacon (Bust Amboy) Deer, Richard
Stockwood is Amboy’s lawyer. He comes to Dobey’s office to tell Starsky and Hutch to leave his client alone. Stockwood collects the money in the paper sack. He tells Starsky and Hutch their case against Amboy won’t rest, as the warrant doesn’t take into account they crossed county lines. - Stockwood, Joanne (The Bait) seen in photo
Stockwood is Cheryl’s friend. Both she and Cheryl fell in love with Billy Harkness. He had both women run drugs for them. Harkness hooked Stockwood on heroin. She was one of Harkness’ prostitutes. Cheryl tells Starsky and Hutch that Stockwood was quitting the business and weaning herself off the drugs. She also says Stockwood has been missing for four weeks. She is afraid Harkness has had her killed. Cheryl gives a photo of Stockwood to Starsky and Hutch, and they agree to ask around. They find out later Stockwood washed up on the beach, an apparent victim of a drug overdose. Cheryl identifies her body at the morgue. In the end, Cheryl leaves Bay City to go stay with Stockwood’s parents. - Stockwood, Joanne’s parents (The Bait) mentioned
Cheryl goes to stay with them in Philadelphia at the end of the episode. - Stoltz, Officer Carl (The Specialist) Twain, Michael
He is Officer Mack McDermott’s partner. Carl, McDermott, Starsky, and Hutch were all involved in the accidental shooting of Janice Drew. After Alex Drew kills McDermott, he pretends to buddy up to Carl in the bar, “Gigi’s.” Carl is there, bemoaning the rookie he has just been teamed up with. Drew poisons Carl’s drink, and Carl dies after their Bicentennial toast. - Stone, Wally (Murder on Stage 17) McCann, Chuck
Stone is an actor in old movies. He was one of the members of the “Wolf Pack.” He and other Wolf Pack members were at a party. Everyone was drunk. Stone went into a bedroom with Pete Elexy’s wife. She fell out a window and died. After that, Stone’s career was over. He supposedly died in a car accident in Mexico. In reality, he is alive and killing off the other members of the pack. Stone uses a variety of disguises while murdering. He kills Steve’s dog, Friendly, because Friendly recognized him as the waterman. Stone, dressed as a cop, lures Hanson to Charlotte Roger’s trailer and tries to kill him by setting it on fire. Stone kidnaps Julie West and uses her as bait. Stone shoots and wounds Hanson. Starsky talks Stone down in the end, reminding him of his great movies. There is one line in the episode that suggests Stone didn’t have anything to do with Elexy’s death, that he took the fall for them all. - Stovall, Johnny (Moonshine) Soul, David
Stovall is the undercover character Hutch uses. Stovall is musician. - Stroud, Elaine (Jojo) Bain, Sherry
Stroud is not her real name. She used to be an actress in porn films. Huggy recognizes her from “Teddy’s Paris Bar.” Stroud has spent two years in jail on drug charges. She gets out and comes after her old boyfriend, Nick Dombarris. Dombarris has Jojo rape and kill Stroud. - Strokes (Manchild on the Streets) not credited
Strokes is playing pool at the bar Maurice goes into. Maurice tells him, “I didn’t know they let niggers out of jail nowadays.” Both men laugh. - Stryker (Snowstorm) Green, Gilbert
Stryker is a big drug dealer and probable mob boss. He is the man responsible for Dobey’s partner’s murder. Stryker had Elmo Jackson killed and hung on a meat hook. Stryker sets up a drug deal with his thugs, Edward Crown, Rodgers, Freddie, and Marty Crandell. The cops bust up the bust, snitched on by Crandell. In the confusion, a quarter of the cocaine disappears. Stryker thinks Starsky and Hutch have it and threaten them. After Corman and Burke kill Crandell, Stryker thinks Starsky and Hutch did the hit. Stryker tries to have Rodgers shoot Starsky and Hutch. He misses, and Freddie and Rodgers kidnap Huggy instead, using him to lure Starsky and Hutch to The Pits. After Rodgers and Freddie are caught, Rodgers tells Starsky and Hutch everything he knows, including proof about Jackson’s killer. - Stryker, Frank (Starsky’s Brother) Ponzini, Antony
Stryker is a mob boss in Bay City. He has some east coast connections as well. He knows Tony Markeno, who recommends he hire Nick Starsky. Stryker and his thugs are setting up a counterfeit scheme. He has the special paper and is waiting for the plates. He is aware the F.B.I. is watching him. Stryker orders the building blown up, killing one agent. Stryker hires Nick to pick up the engraving plates. He also gives him marijuana to sell. Stryker kidnaps the younger Starsky and plans on killing the older one. - Stryker, Frank’s nephew (Starsky’s Brother) mentioned
Stryker instructs his thugs to kill Nick Starsky but save Nick’s jacket. Stryker wants to give it to his own nephew. - Stuffy, Herbert (Murder at Sea) Hack, Richard
Stuffy tells Starsky and Hutch he is taking his mother, now ashes in an urn, on her thirty-fifth cruise. Later, Stuffy does bird calls at the talent show. - Stuffy, Mrs. (Murder at Sea) mentioned
She is Herbert’s mother. She is dead, and Herbert has her ashes in the urn he carries. The Amapola will be her thirty-fifth cruise. She asked her son to bring her on this last one. When she passes Ensenada, she will “become Admiral of the Fleet.” - Sugar (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Dammett, Blackie
Sugar’s partner is Milo. Sugar, Milo, Walter T. Baker, and Foxy Baker steal money from Dad Watson. Huggy and Turkey apprehend Sugar and Milo at an amusement park, hoisting them up in a caged ride. - Sugar (Death in a Different Place) Pierce, Charles
Sugar’s full name is “Sugar Plum.” He works at the “Green Parrot” bar as a female impersonator. Starsky and Hutch question Sugar about Nick Hunter. Later, they question Nick Hunter at Sugar’s apartment. All four of them, along with Huggy, set up a trap to get Alec Corday. Corday takes Sugar hostage at the “Green Parrot.” - Sulko (Jojo) Stewart, Brad
Sulko is one of Dombarris’ henchmen. He and Dixie take Jojo over to kill Elaine Stroud. Then Sulko kills Jojo, making it appear that Linda Mascelli did it. Starsky pretends to be a pizza guy to lure Sulko and Dixie out of the trailer where he lives. The trailer park is behind Merle the Earl’s place and is called the “Tennessee Trailer Park.” Starsky remembers Sulko’s car, a “chopped, channeled 1955 Nomad wagon.” Merle describes Sulko as 6’5”, about forty years old, and is “a cat with medium brown hair.” - Supergnat (The Vampire) Corsentino, Frank
Supergnat shows up at the station. He is a little guy, dressed in a cape. He tells Starsky he is the killer. Supergnat offers up an overwrought story about how he attacks women. Starsky asks him to jump over a chair. Running into the door Dobey opens precedes his probable failure. - Susan (Starsky vs. Hutch) Miller, Susan
Susan is blonde and a dancer at the “Golden Lady Ballroom.” Starsky and Hutch guard her. - Sutton, Miss (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) not credited
Sutton is a talk show host for Channel Six. She visits Dobey in the Darkroom, and they talk about Isaac Douglas. Later, she interviews Dobey on her show about the Douglas case. - Swayder, Mrs. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) Page, Lawanda
Swayder is the woman Huggy visits in his undercover role as a mortgage salesman. She tells him she’s been having money trouble and has already refinanced through another company, Capricorn. - Swayder, Mr. (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) mentioned
Mrs. Swayder mentions her husband when Huggy goes to her house to ask about mortgage companies. She asks Huggy if her “husband’s name is at the top of the list.” - Sweeny, Officer (Starsky’s Brother) Jares, Jill
Hutch asks her to book Mrs. Krupp. - Sweet Alice (The Hostages, A Coffin for Starsky) Bellflower, Nellie
In “Hostages,” Starsky and Hutch meet Sweet Alice, a prostitute, at the bar, “The Brig.” She is ordering a scotch at three in the afternoon. Sweet Alice is happy to see the detectives, especially Hutch. She calls him “Handsome Hutch.” Starsky and Hutch ask her about Belle Kates. Sweet Alice says that while she used to work for Kates, she doesn’t anymore. She tells Starsky and Hutch what she knows about Kates. Hutch chides her about going straight, and Sweet Alice says she just might one day, suggesting she’d do it for him. In a “Coffin for Starsky,” Starsky and Hutch question Sweet Alice at her apartment. They chase off her john. She tells them Janos Martini’s address. She says she only mildly hates his guts. - Switek (Murder Ward) York, Ned
Switek is a nurse at Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. He knows about Dr. Matwick’s past and is blackmailing him. He makes Matwick give him lithium carbonate, a drug he sells on the street. Switek drugs Jane Hutton after he discovers she was snooping. Charlie Deek kills Switek and puts the body in Starsky’s bathroom. Matwick uses this as the reason to arrange for Starsky’s surgery.
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“Just the thought of my going to the slammer gives me the screaming meemies.”
(Savage Sunday)
- Tabor, Jerry (Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road) Bryant, Josh
Tabor is harassing Sue Ann Grainger. He used to run a one-man radio station in Pittsville, North Carolina. He played Grainger’s records a lot and felt he added to her popularity. Tabor was stabbed in the throat in a bar fight while defending her record. The injury caused him to lose his voice and his job. Now he stalks her and has started to try to blackmail her. When he finds out the police are involved, he kills a wino in an alley. He calls Grainger and tells her it was her fault. Then he kills John Kellim as he is out walking his dog, blaming her for that murder as well. He sneaks into her recording studio after her crew has gone out for supper and frightens her. Starsky and Hutch set up a trap to catch him, but the plan fails. Grainger makes a secret plan to meet him and pay him the ten thousand dollars he wants. Even after she brings him the money, he still isn’t happy and threatens to kill her. - Taffy (The Las Vegas Strangler) Zerby, Katie Hopkins
Taffy is a dancer in Las Vegas. She tells Starsky and Hutch when Iris Thayer left and where she was going. - Taft, Al (Omaha Tiger) Irwin, Wynn
Taft is Eddie Bell’s business manager. Mack Johnson accuses him of using Bell and guys like him. Taft is killed in the shower, a hit planned by Felton. - Taft, Officer (Pariah) Frank, Leo
He is never mentioned by name. - Taggert, Detective (The Avenger) not credited
Taggert is in the squad room late at night. Hutch hassles him about the bad coffee. - Taggert (Strange Justice) mentioned
Dobey takes Starsky and Hutch off of the Taggert case so they can work on the Dan Slate case. - Takahashi, Clint (Murder at Sea) Sung, Richard Lee
Takahashi and his wife are passengers on the Amapola. Starsky consistently pronounces his name wrong. He tells Starsky and Hutch he is a red-blooded American from Texas. He sleeps with Kitty. He sings “My Wild Irish Rose” at the talent show. - Talbert, Patricia (Pilot) Lamm, Karen
Talbert is a college student. She is nineteen years old and majoring in pre-law. She wants to marry a lawyer because she will be rich. Her roommate is Gretchen Knebel. Talbert is pregnant from an affair with Henderson, a district attorney who is a guest lecturer. She refuses to terminate the pregnancy. Henderson sets up her murder by having her shot while sitting in a car with a guy. - Tallman, Frank (Pilot) Green, Gilbert
Frank Tallman is a mob boss. Starsky and Hutch meet with him in his steam room. They are there to question Tallman about the hit against Starsky. Starsky and Hutch are scheduled to testify against Tallman in court in a few days. Tallman is accused of eight counts of bribery. He admits he is guilty, but that it is all a moot point as he expects to die young like his father did. He tells Starsky and Hutch he isn’t the one who ordered the hit. Tallman alludes to Zane and Cannell, saying if they were sent to kill him, they wouldn’t have missed. Later, he confirms their names over the phone. - Tallman, Frank’s father. (Pilot) mentioned
Frank Tallman mentions his father. He says his dad died at age fifty-eight. Frank Tallman, citing his high blood pressure, cites this as a reason he isn’t going to live long and will be found guilty two years after his death. - Taylor, Lawrence (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2) Fargas, Antonio
Lawrence Taylor is the name Huggy uses when he canvasses a neighborhood looking for information. He is disguised as an employee of the Companion Mortgage Company and talks to Mrs. Swayder. - Taylor, Sam (Satan’s Witches) mentioned
It was Taylor’s goat that was killed as a sacrifice by Rodell’s cult. The goat’s blood was used on the front door of Dobey’s cabin. - Ted (Savage Sunday) Oliver, Louis James
He works at “Ted’s Body Shop.” Sally Ann Sloan is his cousin. They came up from Denver together. Wilbur and Gregg bring the stolen car to Ted to have it repainted and for new license plates. Starsky and Hutch threaten Ted later and he tells them what he knows. - Ted, Officer (A Coffin for Starsky) not credited
Ted is the uniformed officer in the squad room when Mrs. Haberman comes in. Hutch, in the middle of a sensitive moment with Starsky, tells Ted to show Haberman the mug shots. - Terrible Tessie (Omaha Tiger) Catlett, Mary Jo
Tessie is a wrestler. Her boyfriend is Iggy the Mummy. She flirts with other men to keep him guessing. When she flirts with Starsky, Starsky gets nervous. Tessie tells Starsky and Hutch about Mack Johnson’s death. Tessie takes Iggy up on his marriage proposal, telling Starsky if she didn’t, Iggy would kill him. - Texas Kid (Running) Plumley, Don
Huggy sends Hutch to question the Texas Kid in lock-up. The Kid tells Hutch he is in jail on a misunderstanding; he wasn’t trying to rob the bar, he tried to stop the crime. He hopes Hutch will get him a reduced sentence. The Kid tells Hutch what he knows about Vern DuBois. - Thayer, Iris (The Las Vegas Strangler) Kelly, Roz
Thayer is a dancer in Las Vegas. She works at the “Thunderbird“ with Vicky. Pruitt lures Thayer to “Circus Circus“ with the offer of a fake job. He tries to kill her. - Theodore Bear (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) as itself
Theodore Bear is the name of Jamie Rigger’s teddy bear. - Theresa-Margaret, Sister (The Collector) mentioned
She is a nun at the Sisters of Hope convent in San Francisco. Jack Cunningham says he grew up there. He tells Heather O’Brien the nun was abusive to him. - Thistleman (The Set-Up) Zwerling, Darryl
Thistleman manages the bank where Terry Nash says he has an account. Thistleman and the teller say they don’t recognize Nash. Starsky, Hutch, and Nash go back to the bank. They make Thistleman show them the security camera tapes. The cigarette burn time shows the film has been tampered with. Starsky and Hutch force Thistleman to a ratty hotel and make him call the bank to say he is sick. Then they make Thistleman tell them the truth. - Thomas (Sweet Revenge) Davis, Herb
Thomas is James Gunther’s butler. He brings Gunther a tray of tea. - Thorn, Jack (Death Notice) mentioned
Thorn was at a party with David Delano and some of the women who dance at the Panama Club. He asks for Sonia’s telephone number, but he never calls her. This is because he is dead. DeLano kills him with a rock. DeLano and Posey make it look like Thorn was killed in a car accident on the way to Las Vegas. Kathi Carmer saw the crime and tells her boyfriend. The two of them use their knowledge of Thorn’s death to blackmail Delano. - Thorne, William McKenzie (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) Allan, Lane
Thorne was a multi-millionaire. Walter Healey tells Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey that if all of Thorne’s corporations were put together, it would have more money than all but six countries. Thorne owned Voodoo Island. Healey sends Starsky and Hutch there to find out why those closest to Thorne are dying and if Thorne himself is in any danger. What Healey doesn’t know is that Throne, paralyzed three years ago, is dead. Charlotte Connery, Papa Theodore, Little Philippe, and an unknown number of women who work at the hotel are hiding his death. A man named Bert Regan has been put under a spell and has taken Thorne’s place. Connery plans to marry “Thorne” and kill him, taking over his businesses. - Thorne’s lawyer (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island) mentioned
Thorne was not only a lawyer, but also a crack pilot and the inventor of a foolproof navigational device. He was killed when his small plane ran into a mountain in broad daylight. It is assumed later that his death was a murder. - Thorpe, Detective Lizzie (Discomania) McBroom, Amanda
Detective 3rd class for Vice. She went undercover at the dance club “Fever“ but found nothing. She is re-assigned after two dead and one missing girl is found to have the club in common. According to Hutch she has “an eight year old daughter and a eight foot tall husband.” She dances with Marty Decker and wins the dance contest, while being courted by Tony Mariposa. Marty is arrested and charged with the murders. Tony Mariposa drugs Lizzie’s drink and hides out in her car. She is able to tear “MER” into her upholstery to let others know a Mercedes was involved. She tries to keep Tony talking to buy time, and later is saved by Starsky and Hutch. - Thorpe, Detective Lizzie’s Husband (Discomania) mentioned
Hutch speculates he’s eight feet tall. Hutch talks to him on the phone and finds out Lizzie didn’t come home on time. - Thorpe, Detective Lizzie’s Daughter (Discomania) mentioned
She is eight years old. - Tidings, Stewart (Pariah) Fletcher, Jay
Tidings was a witness in Lonnie’s shooting. He accuses Starsky of an unjustifiable shooting. Later at the trial, Tidings says he was mistaken, that Lonnie wasn’t trying to surrender; he was going to shoot Starsky. Tidings apologizes to Lonnie’s mom. Later, he attends the gathering at the Craig house. - Tiger (Pilot) as himself
Tiger is a large dog wearing a raincoat. His owner takes him out to pee. Tiger pees on Hutch as he’s hiding in the bushes. - Tiger (The Fix) not credited
He is the man in the suit Starsky has arrested. Tiger watches Starsky hit the vending machine. Starsky also calls him Fancy Pants. - Tina (Murder at Sea) Bunch, Marianne
Tina is the woman who comes onto Starsky after the game Simon Says. Hutch messes up Starsky’s action. - Tinker, Officer Dan (Pariah) not credited
Tinker is the first cop George Prudholm kills. Tinker and his partner respond to a false 459 call at a warehouse. Prudholm shoots him from the roof of the building across the street. - Tishaun, Dr. Jonas (The Plague) mentioned
Dr. Meredith and Dr. Kaufman tells Starsky and Hutch that Tishaun was a doctor in Morocco who had studied outbreaks of the plague. Tishaun died in a plane crash. Hutch looks at the book that is about, or was written by, Tishaun. - Tito (The Deadly Imposter) LeBell, Gene
Tito is the guy John Colby whales the tar out of at “Frankie’s Gym.” - Toby (Losing Streak) Gayle, Rozelle
Toby is a jazz pianist at “G.W.’s Jazz Club.” Toby knows Vic and invites him to play a tune. Toby “lays down a few yards of autumn leaves.” He also finishes off Vic’s drink. - Tobin (The Hostages) Madison, Arnold
Tobin is one of Conrad’s thugs, along with Gibson. - Todesco, Detective Mike (The Collector, Class in Crime) Rodriguez, Roberto
In the “Collector,” he is the homicide detective who calls Starsky and Hutch to the Joe Garras murder scene. He tells Hutch he interrupted their three-day weekend because the murder took place in Hutch’s neighborhood. Tedesco tells Starsky and Hutch about the girly magazines in Garras’ room and about the maid who found the body. In “Class in Crime,” it is Tedesco who talks to Starsky and Hutch about Allen Richards’ murder. The three men meet in the apartment where the murder weapon is found. Tedesco tells Starsky and Hutch about the gun and about Richards’ body. Later, he gives Dobey a tape recording he finds in Richards’ apartment. On it is evidence of Richards and Morgan’s blackmail plan. Tedesco tells Hutch his wife sends him her regards. When Starsky expresses his fondness for leather, Hutch says he and Tedesco ought to write a book together. - Todesco, Mrs. (Class in Crime) mentioned
Todesco tells Starsky and Hutch (though the emphasis seems to be on Hutch) that his wife sends her regards. - Tom (Kill Huggy Bear) Shreeve, Craig
Tom is one of Malinda’s main thugs. His partners are Sam, Jerry, and Bill. - Tom, Assistant Coroner (Texas Longhorn) Morgan, Stafford
Hutch asks him to get a photograph of Tyler’s body and of the tire tracks at the crime scene. - Tom (The Fix) not credited
Tom and Coney are Monk’s two thugs. Monk is the only person who calls him by name, though it is somewhat unclear if he says, “Do it to him,” or “Do it, Tom.” Closed captioning says it’s Tom. Tom is the thug who hits Hutch, who has a meal with Monk at the restaurant, and who deals with Mickey. - Tommy (Nightmare) Marcus, Sparky
Tommy is a little boy who harasses Starsky about playing with trains at the toyshop. He complains to his mommy about Starsky. - Tommy’s Mom (Nightmare) not credited
Tommy calls out to her and tells her Starsky won’t let him take a turn with the toy train. She gives Starsky an evil look. - Tony (The Heroes) Wright, Patrick
Tony is a butcher. Starsky, Hutch, and Phelps go to see him in the their case regarding the tampered heroin. Starsky and Hutch ask him about his former employee, Jimmy Wells. Starsky and Hutch threaten to call the health inspector about flies if Tony doesn’t talk to them. Tony says he fired Wells because Wells was messing with drugs. Tony listens to horse races on the radio. He smokes; the ashes from his cigarette hang over the raw meat. - Tony (Savage Sunday) Vitte, Tony
Tony and his pal, Huey, play basketball at Jackson High School. Starsky and Hutch play against them to get information. When Hutch comments on his height, Tony says, when told he is short, “We eats our full rations of chitlins every day.” - Tony (Running) mentioned
Tony was Sharman Crane’s second husband. He committed suicide after he was caught stealing money from his employer. - Torkel, Lenny (Ninety Pounds of Trouble) mentioned
AKA ’Lenny the Torch.’ He is a safe cracker who also runs numbers for Avery Schiller. He has been arrested and is giving information to the police about a future hit in order to get a reduced sentence. - Tory (The Action) Victoria Ann Berry
She is the bartender aboard the semi. - Touhy (Lady Blue) Gosa, Jim
He is a jewelry thief who works with Ruby Solenko and Harvey Ritlin. They rob houses by knocking on the door, breaking in and roughing up the occupants. Their legit job is running the “Mellow Yellow Go-Go Club.” He takes care of Cindy by giving her a drug ’highball’ that puts her in the hospital. - Tracy (The Las Vegas Strangler) not credited
Tracy was Vicky’s best friend. Tracy told Vicky that she had the oddest feeling that someone had been watching her while she slept. She found a window screen tampered with but never told the police. - Train (Manchild on the Streets) Haze, Stan
Maurice tries to steal a beer from the bar cooler. Train, the bartender, stops him. - Train, Lionel (Black and Blue) Levant, Rene
Train heads up a bunch of teenagers. He makes them commit robberies for him. Vivian doesn’t tell him she shot a cop in the latest robbery. When Train finds out, he bawls her out and tells her to leave. When Joan Meredith goes undercover as a teenager, Train believes her and almost buys a television from her. Vivian warns Train of the set up. Train orders Vivian to kill Meredith and Starsky. - Trainer, Gus (Murder at Sea) not credited
Trainer is one of the mob leaders on the Amapola for a meeting with Joey Fortune. - Tramaine, Joseph (Pariah) Rozakis, Gregory
Tramaine is a hype and a crook. He and Lonnie rob a liquor store. Lonnie is accidentally killed. Huggy helps Starsky and Hutch find Tramaine by describing his drugged up ways; Tramaine has been at The Pits, eating chocolate, acting twitchy, and stealing women’s purses out of the bathroom. Starsky and Hutch apprehend Tramaine at a grocery store. They question him about Lonnie. Tramaine tells them Lonnie is a runner. - Trask, Harry (Survival) Emhardt, Robert
Trask owns the pawnshop. He fences the stuff Lance and his partner steal from Hutch, as Hutch lies injured in the canyon. Hoping to get a reward, he calls Vic Humphries and tells him Hutch is still alive. Trask is shown petting a white, stuffed owl. - Travers, Bobbie (The Avenger) Brooks, Hildy
Bobbie is Monique’s sister. She knows Monique’s bar habits and is worried about her. Bobbie is very religious. She attends Mass at St. Matthew’s every night. She helps Hutch identify the picture he puts together. The two of them go to Monique’s house to rescue Starsky. - Travers, Monique (The Avenger) Cassidy, Joanna
Monique is mentally ill. She picks up man named Phil at a bar. After having sex at her place, a strange man kills Phil, citing Monique’s evil ways. She tells Starsky and Hutch the same thing happened in San Francisco six months ago. The killer’s name is Harry Ashford, and he is jealous of the men she sleeps with. She met Harry after she broke up with her fiancée. Harry leaves a threatening note in one of her books. Shortly after Phil is killed, Monique picks up a guy named Roger. Harry kills him, too. Dobey assigns Starsky to act as bait. Harry doesn’t make a move on Starsky because Starsky isn’t personally interested in Monique. Starsky starts asking too many questions, and Harry tells Monique to drug him with tea, and then kill him. Hutch and Bobbie show up in time to save Starsky. Harry Ashford is really Monique’s second personality. - Trayman (The Trap) Ponzini, Antony
Trayman and Delano are Johnny Bagely’s thugs. He hires them to help him kill Starsky and Hutch in the barn. Starsky subdues him. - Treasure Chest, Miss (Death Ride) not credited
Huggy introduces Miss Chest to Starsky and Hutch at The Pits. He says Miss Treasure Chest is going to help him win the Bet Your Treasure giveaway show. Prizes on the show include “lots of loot. Cash money, refrigerator/freezer, and a trip to the Bahamas, TV set.” In the end, Huggy flubs the answer, and Miss Treasure Chest goes off with someone else. - Trish (Starsky’s Brother) not credited
Trish is a waitress at “The Velvet Slide,” the disco where Nick Starsky meets Stryker. - Tuppleworth, Hank (Murder at Sea) Soul, David
Tuppleworth is Hutch’s undercover character. Tuppleworth is the entertainment director. - Turkel, Lola (The Bounty Hunter) Albright, Lola
Turkel is Leo Moon’s girlfriend. She has waited for him to be released from prison and complains about it. She used to work at Ethel’s massage parlor. Turkel and Moon plan to fly to South America after Dobey’s family is killed. Starsky and Hutch find her at the warehouse and scare her into telling what she knows. - Turner, R. C. (Silence) Bernard, Jason
Turner is Larry Horvath’s friend. They own a printing business together. Turner is deaf, his hearing destroyed when a policeman hit him in the head with a billy club. Turner is a reluctant helper in Starsky and Hutch’s search for Horvath. - Turquet, J.D. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Robinette, Dale
His nickname is “Turkey.” He and Huggy set up a private investigation company. Foxy Baker hires them to find her husband. Huggy takes Turquet to Blind Bessie’s house, and tells Turquet he has to sound like a black man. Turquet and Huggy get called to Dad Watson’s office. Watson threatens them. Turquet and Huggy solve the case, along with the help of Huggy’s cousin, Leotis. Starsky tries to help Huggy and Turquet’s business by referring a burglary case to them. - Tustin, Marianne (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) Hamel, Veronica
Marianne comes to Bay City to identify her brother, Teddy’s, body. She meets Starsky, Hutch, and Dobey in the morgue. She is impatient about the pace of the investigation, citing Teddy’s importance. She tells the detectives about Teddy’s temper and his predilection for affairs. Without permission, Marianne goes undercover at the dance studio. She uses the name Millicent Forbes, a friend of hers in Oklahoma whose husband will verify her story. Marsha Stearns recognizes Marianne from a family photograph. Chambers and Stearns kidnap Marianne and put her in the trunk of their car - Tustin, Teddy (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) mentioned
Tustin was a dance student at “Ginger Evan’s Dance Studio.” He was one of Sterns, Chambers, and Starger’s blackmail victims. They killed him, and his sister, Marianne, comes to Bay City to identify his body. She says Teddy loved his wife and children, but “liked to play,” and he had a temper. Marianne points out that Teddy was an important man and is unhappy more is not being done to find his killer. - Tustin, Mrs. Teddy (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) mentioned
Marianne Tustin says her sister-in-law loved her brother. Mrs. Tustin has at least two children. - Tustin, Teddy’s Children (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart) mentioned
The Tustins had at least two children. Marianne says Teddy loved his kids, but that he had a bad temper. - Tyce, Lizzie (Satan’s Witches) Geib, Lark
Lizzie is sixteen years old. Her parents are Joe and Rachel. Rodell and his cult kidnap Lizzie and threaten her parents, as well as the whole town, telling them if they cooperate, Lizzie will be released unharmed. Starsky and Hutch find Lizzie on the night of the sacrifice. Lizzie is in charge of turning the lights off and on to confuse the cultists. - Tyce, Rachel (Satan’s Witches) Wilson Patricia
She runs the general store in Pine Lake. Rachel sells Hutch groceries. When he tells her where he and Starsky are staying, she gets nervous. Her husband’s name is Joe. He is Pine Lake’s sheriff. Their daughter, Lizzie, has been kidnapped by Rodell’s cult. The Tyces are told if they cooperate, Lizzie will be released unharmed. - Tyce, Sheriff Joe (Satan’s Witches) Napier, Charles
Joe is Pine Lake’s sheriff. His wife runs the general store. Their daughter, Lizzie, has been kidnapped by Rodell’s cult. The Tyces are told if they cooperate, Lizzie will be released unharmed. Joe does his best to keep Starsky and Hutch away from Dobey’s cabin. He finally arrests them, hoping to keep them out of the way until the cult leaves. - Tyler, Emma Lou (Texas Longhorn) Christopher, Alta
Emma Lou is raped and killed when her husband stops the car to help two men who pretend to have car trouble. Her killers are Little Chaco and John Harris. They steal her squash blossom necklace, something they pawn with Fat Rolly. - Tyler, Zack (Texas Longhorn) Flory, Med
Zack owns a used car lot. His wife’s name is Emma Lou. He stops his car to help two guys who flag him down. Zack looks at their supposedly stalled car and tells them what’s wrong with. The two men, Little Chaco and John Harris, knock Zack out. Then they rape and kill Emma Lou. Starsky and Hutch question Zack about the incident. He tells them about Emma Lou’s squash blossom necklace and how she looked so cute in it. He comes down to the station to ask about the investigation’s progress. Zack tells Starsky and Hutch he’s going to sell everything he owns and move. Hutch asks him if that is a good idea and Zack says he isn’t sure. Zack refuses to identify Little Chaco in the interrogation room. When Chaco is released, Zack kills him. Then he goes after Harris. Harris shoots Zack. As Zack is dying he tells Starsky and Hutch a story about frogs and scorpions. - Tyrone, Mr. (Dandruff) Glaser, Paul Michael
Tyrone, or Ty-Ty, is Starsky’s undercover name. - Tyrone, Mr. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Soul, David
Tyrone is Hutch’s undercover name.
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“And I’m just a scared little girl when it comes to the…”
(Hutchinson for Murder One)
- Uncle Elmo (Nightmare, The Crying Child) mentioned
Starsky tells Hutch about Uncle Elmo, a man who ran a neighborhood toy store when Starsky was a kid. Starsky said all the kids looked up to Uncle Elmo. Starsky and Hutch go there to buy a birthday present but find out the toy store has been gone for twenty years. Starsky and Hutch respond to a call about a robbery at a laundromat several blocks away. Hutch points out the store across the street. It is “Uncle Elmo’s Adult Toy Store.” The same pre-tag is used in both episodes. - Van Dam (Dandruff) Rodine, Alex
Van Dam is the diamond bidder from Holland. He bids five million dollars and is the auction winner. His symbol to hotel security is a pair of glasses. He tells Starsky and Hutch, “tot ziens,” Dutch for “goodbye.” - Van Kleef (Murder Ward) mentioned
Hutch, as Hansen, tells Dr. Matwick he studied the Van Kleef syndrome in med school. Matwick replies Van Kleef “was very gifted for his time.” - Vanessa (Hutchinson for Murder One) Hamel, Veronica
Vanessa is Hutch’s ex-wife. She and Hutch have been divorced, by her recollection, four years, six months and twelve days. She calls him from the airport and wants to meet him. They meet at The Pits and have a fight. Hutch leaves, but she follows, asking him if she can stay at his place that night. She tells him she is going to the hospital in the morning for a biopsy. He reluctantly says yes. Vanessa hides a stolen diamond in his car. She tries to seduce him, but it doesn’t work. She tells him she is in the international jewelry market and tries to get him to be her partner. While Hutch goes for his morning run, her boss’ thugs kill her. They use Hutch’s gun, and Hutch is arrested for her murder. Vanessa’s favorite drink is a Brandy Alexander. She says she never darned Hutch’s socks. Vanessa may be Hutch’s first or second ex-wife, depending on how one interprets Nancy, the woman he mentions in the “Pilot.” - Vicky (The Las Vegas Strangler) Carter, Lynda
Vicky works as a showgirl in Las Vegas at the “Thunderbird Hotel.” She has a young daughter named Cary. Cary has a leg brace. Cary lives with Vicky’s mother in Boulder City while Vicky works two jobs to pay for Cary’s operations. Vicky is divorced. Her ex-husband’s name is Lloyd. Lloyd becomes physically abusive when he drinks. Vicky meets Starsky and Hutch in her dressing room. She invites them to a party at her apartment. Lloyd attacks her as she is walking by the pool and Starsky saves her, with help from Hutch. Vicky is a friend with Jack Mitchell. Vicky knew one of the victims. She tells Starsky the victim felt like there was someone in her room shortly before she was killed. Starsky goes to buy nylons with her and figures out the drug store is a big clue. Meanwhile, Jack Mitchell gets into her car and begs her to help him. He is confused and is convinced Hutch is trying to kill him. She takes him to her apartment but Pruitt attacks them both. Pruitt slams her against a wall, giving her a severe concussion. Starsky and Hutch send all their Las Vegas winnings to her so she can pay for her debts and her daughter’s operations. - Vicky’s Mom (The Las Vegas Strangler) mentioned
She lives in Boulder City and cares for Cary, Vicky’s daughter. - Vicky’s Daughter, Cary (The Las Vegas Strangler) Ryan, Natasha
Cary lives with her grandma in Boulder City. She has a crippled leg. - Vicky’s Ex-Husband, Lloyd (The Las Vegas Strangler) not credited
He comes after Vicky when he has too much to drink. Starsky and Hutch take him down in the pool, thinking they have caught the strangler. - Victor (Murder Ward) DeFazio, Sam
Victor is a patient at Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. He plays cards with Starsky and some other patients. He quotes morbid poetry. - Victor, Gerold (Starsky’s Brother) O’Leary, John Gerry
Gerold is Frank Stryker’s lawyer. He and Styker are printing up counterfeit money to pass off in Europe. Starsky locates Nick by figuring out Gerold owns the print shop. - Vince (Running) mentioned
He went to junior high with Starsky. He wrote, “From North to South, East to West, you’re a nice guy, but you’re sure a mess” in Starsky’s yearbook. - Vince (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
After the movie’s screening, Hanson thanks Vince “for the sound.” - Vince (Terror on the Docks) mentioned
He is a name, along with Steve, in the newspaper article Hutch reads to Starsky. - Vinnie (The Deadly Imposter) Jump, Gordon
Vinnie runs “Frankie’s Gym.” Vinnie phones Hutch up at work and tells him John Colby is there. Hutch tells Vinnie that he and Starsky will be down to see Colby as soon as their shift ends. In the “Pilot,” Vinnie is called Frankie. - Virgil (Moonshine) Fimple, Dennis
Virgil is originally from Kentucky. His brother’s name is Frank. He and Frank are stealing sugar from a warehouse. They have both been drinking bad moonshine. It has been cut with wood alcohol. Starsky and Hutch chase after them while they are driving away. Both Frank and Virgil die the next day in the hospital. Dobey refers to them as plowboys. The Ivers, their bosses, ship their bodies back to Kentucky to be buried. - Vivian (Black and Blue) Bowen, Candace
Vivian is about seventeen-years old. She works for Lionel Train’s gang. Train employs minors to rob houses. Vivian and her partner, Bruce, are robbing a house when Starsky and Hutch arrive. Vivian pulls a gun on Hutch. He pulls his gun, too, but freezes when he realizes how young she is. Vivian shoots Hutch and escapes in a car, leaving Bruce to be captured by Starsky. Vivian thinks she has killed Hutch. She brings the loot back to Train but doesn’t tell him she shot a cop. After Bruce is released on bail, he tells Train about Hutch. Hutch yells at Vivian, and he tells her to leave. She sees Starsky and figures out he and Meredith are cops. Vivian gets Starsky’s gun and brings him to Train, exposing Meredith. Train orders her to shoot both cops as they are tied to chairs. Before she decides whether or not to do it, Hutch and Dobey bust in and save the day. It is mentioned that she is sent to a foster home. - Vivian (Dandruff) Hamilton, Leigh
Vivian calls the beauty parlor downstairs and requests someone to come up. Mrs. Zuckerman sends Hutch, as Mr. Marlene. Vivian is aggressive sexually with Hutch, rolling him underneath the coffee table. She wants to have sex with him while she plays a “vivacious saleslady.” Her husband, Harry, comes out of the bedroom, sees his wife with Hutch and doesn’t have much of a reaction. - Vorhees, Monty (The Bounty Hunter) Ross, Stan
Vorhees is good friends with Jerry Konig. They were in prison together. Konig is staying at the Palm Crest Hotel where Vorhees works. Vorhees used to a circus geek, something Starsky is please to share with Hutch. Starsky and Hutch offer protection to Vorhees, but Bo Rile tricks him with a phone call. Rile kills Vorhees. Vorhees likes peanuts.
W-X-Y-Z
“You two boys ever want to get together and just kinda have a couple of laughs sometime? I make some absolutely beautiful lasagna.”
(Photo Finish)
- Wachman, Dr. Hank (The Set-Up) Hardin, Jerry
Wachman is a doctor Starsky and Hutch know. They ask him to examine Terry Nash. Wachman discovers that Nash has had his fingerprints surgically removed. Wachman says it is possible Nash has been brainwashed. - Wade, Carol (The Crying Child) Wallace, Dee
Wade is third grade teacher. She notices that someone is abusing one of her students, Guy Mayer. When Starsky and Hutch come to the school to rehearse their comedy routine, Wade asks Starsky and Hutch to investigate. She says Mayer had marks on his back two weeks ago as well, and but this is the first time she is doing anything about it. Wade is worried that her accusations will get her in trouble at her job. After the confrontation at the Mayer house, Wade takes Guy and his sister home with her. Thinking the abuser is the children’s father, she lets them go home with their mother. - Waite, Cheryl (The Bait) Marta, Lynne
Cheryl is from Philadelphia. She came out to California wanting to “be someone.” She fell for Billy Harkness, a local thug who works for Danner. Harkness asked her to make a delivery for him. It turned out to be drugs, and Cheryl was caught. She agrees to work with Starsky and Hutch to bust Danner in exchange for dropping the charges. She also wants Starsky and Hutch to help find her friend, Joanne Stockwood, who fell for the same trick. Stockwood has been missing for four weeks. Cheryl helps Starsky and Hutch but is beaten up by Billy Harkness. After the attack, she wants to back out of the agreement, telling them she’d rather go to jail. After Joanne is found dead, Cheryl thinks of something that will bring Danner out into the open. She mentions he is a stamp freak. In the end, Starsky and Hutch help her pack for a trip to stay with Joanne’s parents. - Waldheim (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2 + 3) not credited
Waldheim is a FBI agent. Smithers is his partner. Both men used to work with, and are friends with, Judge McClellan. They help him harass Starsky and Hutch. Their boss, Dodds, has no idea they are doing illegal things. Starsky and Hutch confront Waldheim and Smithers, allowing Dodds to hear of their activities. - Walker, Mr. (The Hostages) Hollom, Chuck
He is the manager of a Von’s. He turns some bags of money over to Starsky and Hutch for them to give to Tom. Starsky pats him on the butt. - Wallenby, Officer (Sweet Revenge) mentioned
He works in the Computing Center. Hutch asks him to put information, specifically about Jenny Brown, into the computer, the information that provides Hutch with the incriminating printout. - Wally (Lady Blue) Ballen, Tony
Wally is Fifth Avenue’s brother. He is a used car salesman and has bad breath. He calls Hutch “Baby Blue.” Starsky and Hutch pretend to test drive one of his cars to get Wally to reveal Fifth Avenue’s contact information. Hutch wrecks up Wally’s to scare him. Wally is a peeping tom. - Wally (Terror on the Docks) Zacha, W.T.
Wally is a part of the dock gang headed up by Rick Hauser. The rest of the gang is Billy Desmond, Ted Banks, and Jerry. Billy tells Wally the take from the upcoming heist will keep Wally in beer and girly magazines for the rest of his life. - Walt (Discomania) Scott, Bruce
Walt is the disc jockey at the disco place, “Fever.” He judges the dance contest. Walt tells Hutch all the patrons at “Fever” look alike to him. - Walters (Iron Mike) not credited
Walters is one of Matt Coyle’s drug buyers. Coyle, after turning over Johnny Lonigan, personally goes to meet Walters for a two hundred and fifty thousand drug deal. Starsky and Hutch arrest Walters and Coyle. - Walters, Federal Agent Bill (The Groupie) Knapp, David
Walter’s new partner is Ed Ohlin. Both men work for the FBI. They warn Starsky and Hutch to back off in their investigation of Jack Parker. Starsky and Hutch have had prior interaction with him. - Walters, Jackson (Manchild on the Streets) Saunders, J. Jay
Walters is Starsky and Hutch’s friend, though he appears to know Starsky longer and better. He is a widow and raising his son with the help of his mom. Walters drives a bus on the night shift. Walters asks Starsky to talk to his son about the pills that fell out of his son’s pocket during a basketball game. Walter’s friend, Dewey, comes to pick him up for work. Dewey has been drinking. When cops think Dewey is a thief and start to chase him, Dewey tries to get away. Walters is killed in the confrontation as he is trying to protect his friend. - Walters, Jackson Jr. (Manchild on the Streets) Whitley, Brian
Jackson lives with his dad and grandmother. His mother is deceased. He plays basketball with Starsky, Hutch, and his dad. Starsky talks to Jackson after pills fall out of his pocket. Jackson has been hanging out with some bad folks, but denies using drugs. He tells Starsky he doesn’t want to be treated like a little kid. After his dad is killed, Jackson decides to run away. He hits up Maurice for money and together they rob the hospital pharmacy. Starsky and Hutch talk Jackson out of more trouble after Maurice takes Dr. Sammy Mason hostage. The hospital decides not to press charges. Jackson has a paper route. - Walters, Mrs. (Manchild on the Streets) Meyer, Dorothy
Walters is Jackson Walters Sr.’s mom and Jackson Walters Jr.’s grandmother. All three of them live together, along with Dr. Sammy Mason, an intern who rents a room. Walters is a good cook and sings in the choir. Starsky comforts her after her son is killed. - Walton, Jeannie (The Fix) Christian, Leigh
Walton is Ben Forest’s former girlfriend. Two months ago, she ran away from Forest, and Hutch has been hiding her. Hutch gets her a waitress job at The Pits for her, a job she leaves suddenly when she thinks someone recognizes her. She calls Hutch from a beach house, a place where Hutch has hidden her. Walton asks Hutch to come see her but to not tell anyone, not even Starsky. After Forest strings Hutch out on heroin, Hutch reveals her location. Forest allows her to see Hutch one more time, and then promises to let him go. Starsky and Hutch arrest Forest, and Walton decides to break it off with Hutch. - Wang (Iron Mike) Fong, Harold
Wang is a waiter at “Gung Ho.” Ferguson and Coyle ask him what the commotion in the kitchen was about, and Wang tells them. Wang’s reply is in Chinese, and neither man understands him. - Ward, Ellie (Satan’s Witches) Gatewood, Bess
Ellie is Hank’s daughter. She pumps gas for Starsky after her father refuses to do it. She apologizes to Starsky for her father’s reaction. - Ward, Hank (Satan’s Witches) Lacher, Taylor
Hank Ward owns the general store and gas station in Pine Lake. He is also Joe Tyce’s deputy. His daughter’s name is Ellie. He is hostile to the detectives. After Sheriff Tyce arrests Starsky and Hutch to protect his daughter, Lizzie, Ward explains the situation. He brings Starsky and Hutch dinner in jail. Starsky and Hutch talk Hank into letting them out to rescue Lizzie Tyce. - Warrick (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky tells Hutch about Warrick, a black kid Starsky played against on the opposing football team in high school. Starsky says Warrick “played end,” and that he ran the “100 in 9.9.” Starsky says there was no way Starsky could keep up with him, so he had to develop another strategy. He learned to listen to the sound the crowd made so he could tell when the ball was in the air. - Warwick, Captain (The Bait) not credited
He appears to be the guy who interrogates Rafferty and O’Brien. His name is seen on the door. - Washington, Julius T. (Huggy Can’t Go Home) Ward, Richard
Washington is Huggy’s old friend and mentor. They hung out together in the old neighborhood. Washington has eighty busts for hustling with cards. Washington is mentoring a new kid, Junior. Washington is in a big poker game, one that is robbed by Big Red McGee and Dolphin. Washington calls Huggy to be his alibi and to get the money back. Washington reminds Huggy of all that Huggy owes him. After retrieving the money, Washington retires and buys a dry cleaning business. - Watson, Dad (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Armstrong, R.G.
Watson is a loan shark and all around bad guy. He works out of the Westhaven Cemetery building. His son is named Sonny. Sonny helps in enforcing his father’s illegal activities. Watson doesn’t know it, but his son has stolen money from him. Watson threatens Huggy and Turkey and tells them to find Walter T. Baker, the man who has the cash. Watson reveals Huggy’s last name. It is Brown. - Watson, Sonny (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) Romanus, Richard
Sonny’s father is Dad Watson, a loan shark and mob boss in the area. Sonny is one of his father’s enforcers. Sonny schemes with Foxy Baker, Walter T. Baker, Milo, and Sugar to steal three hundred thousand dollars from his father. Foxy and Sonny plan to take the money and dump the rest of the gang. After Walter takes the money, he has Foxy hire Huggy and Turkey to find Walter. - Wayne, Booker (The Heavyweight) Cumbuka, Shaka
Wayne is a boxer. He and Spenser have a fight, and he loses. Wayne won’t help Starsky and Hutch find Spenser, telling them it’s every man for himself. After he finds out the fight was fixed, he confronts Gavin, the mob boss. Gavin tells him to be grateful for the support. After he listens to Jeeter turn Spenser over to Gavin, Wayne tells Hutch about the warehouse confrontation. - Webster, Detective (Birds of a Feather) Cyphers, Charles
Webster is the detective at the scene after Palmer is killed. He suspects something is up, telling Starsky and Hutch a seasoned veteran like Huntley should have done better job. He and Hutch clash. Webster orders the crime scene crew around. - Webster, Joseph (Starsky vs. Hutch) Lynch, Richard
Webster is a disabled Vietnam veteran. He gets a fifty percent disability check every month. He hangs out at the “Golden Lady Ballroom.” He appears harmless, but he is actually mentally ill. Webster thinks all blond women are out to get him, and he kills several. Webster pulls a pin on a hand grenade and tries to blow up the whole place. Kira comforts him after he is captured. - Webster, Nurse (The Plague) mentioned
He or she is asked to report to Dr. Badham in Surgery. His or her name is heard over the hospital P.A. - Wedell, Albert J. (A Coffin for Starsky) not credited
Wedell is one of three suspects in Starsky’s poisoning. He was arrested with six kilos of heroin. He knows some things about chemistry. Wedell vowed to kill Starsky and Hutch. Dobey tells Starsky and Hutch Wedell is no longer a suspect, as he died of a heart attack four days ago. - Weeze (Murder Ward) Schiavelli, Vincent
Weeze is a patient at Cabrillo State Mental Hospital. He plays cards with the rest of the group. - Weldon, FBI. Frank (Starsky’s Brother) Grover, Stanley
Weldon is the FBI agent who is keeping an eye on Frank Stryker. Nick Starsky makes him suspicious, and he confronts Starsky about him. Weldon puts a tail on Nick. - Welles, Jonathan (Sweet Revenge) Griffin, Sean
Welles is a lawyer with Welles, Kelly, and Hodson. He represents Gunther’s companies. Hutch goes to question him. Welles keeps answering the phone while Hutch is talking. Hutch calls Welles a high-priced prostitute. It is Welles that bails Jenny Brown out of jail. - Wells, Jimmy (The Heroes) mentioned
He was one of Paul Rizzo’s victims from strychnine-laced heroin. He used to work for Tony the butcher. Tony tells Starsky and Hutch he fired Wells two or three months ago. - Wells, Joanne (Death Ride) Miller, Kathleen, Mahoney, Trish
She is Andrew Mello’s daughter. He says she has been raised in Europe. He will only testify if he can be sure his daughter is safe. Starsky and Hutch think they are escorting Wells, but she turns out to be a decoy. Wells is visiting her father at the hospital when Starsky and Hutch bring the decoy. Detective Williams escorts Wells to Paris. Kathleen Miller portrays Williams. Trish Mahoney portrays the real Joanne Wells. - West, Julie (Murder on Stage 17) Cotton, Susan
She works with Steve Hanson as a script supervisor. He took her in and raised her after her father was killed. Her father was a member of the Wolf Pack. Wally Stone killed her father. Stone kidnaps her and tries to use her as bait to kill Hanson. - West, Julie’s father (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
He is a victim of Wally Stone. He was a member of the Wolf Pack. He is a stunt man who dies from a fall from a building. After West’s death, Steve Hanson takes care of his daughter. - What’s Her Name (Pilot) mentioned
Starsky asks if Hutch is still seeing her. Hutch says he is, but it isn’t that serious. - Wheeler (Hutchinson For Murder One) Darden, Severn
Wheeler is an international jewel fence. Two of his thugs are Boyle and Cardwell. Wheeler employs Vanessa as a mule. Wheeler orders Cardwell and Boyle to retrieve the diamond from Vanessa. They kill her after discovering Hutch is a cop. Wheeler discovers the diamond is a fake and sends his thugs to search Hutch’s place. After Hutch is blamed for Vanessa’s murder, Starsky goes to visit Wheeler. He says he will trade the real diamond for money so he and Hutch can leave town. Starsky and Hutch set Wheeler up by having Huggy tape record the deal. Wheeler tries to steal the diamond, but Huggy knocks him out. - Wheeling, Harry (The Velvet Jungle) Osmond, Cliff
Wheeling owns “Wheeling Wear,” a clothing factory. He employs illegal workers. One of his employees, Helena, gathers enough evidence to blackmail Wheeling. Wheeling kills her and Helena’s cousin catches him moving the body. Sterling shoots and kills Wheeling as Sterling is taken into custody. - White, Garth (Losing Streak) Roberts, Arthur
White owns “G.W.’s Jazz Club.” He employed Vic Rankin but he didn’t pay him. Rankin steals his money back from White. The money is counterfeit, and White is going to launder it. White sends his thugs after Rankin. - Whitelaw, Peter (Death in a Different Place) Chester, Colby
Whitelaw used to be a teacher. He and John Blaine were lovers for some time. They met at a room at the St. Francis Hotel. Blaine’s wife knew of the affair. Starsky and Hutch question him about Blaine. Whitelaw is running for public office. His political slogan is, “A gay candidate for a straight deal.” - Widdicombe, Donald (Blindfold) Wood, Gary
Donald’s little brother is named Kenny. The two of them are crooks. They steal five thousand dollars worth of jewelry, using Emily Harrison as their lookout. Starsky and Hutch arrest both men, but they get out on bail. Donald tries to get Emily to marry him so she can’t testify against him. - Widdicombe, Kenny (Blindfold) Strand, Robin
Kenny’s big brother is Donald. The two of them are crooks. They steal five thousand dollars worth of jewelry, using Emily Harrison as their lookout. Starsky and Hutch arrest both men, but they get out on bail. Hutch threatens Kenny in a bar and tries to get him to squeal on his brother. - Wilkins, Andy (Terror on the Docks) Tobey, Kenneth
Wilkins is head of security for the Port Authority. Nancy Blake is his secretary. Starsky and Hutch go to him in their investigation of the dock thefts. - Williams (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1) mentioned
Gesslin brings up three preceding cases that make Hutch’s informant stance moot. The cases are the People vs. Castille, the People vs. Garcia, and the People vs. Williams. - Williams, Belinda (Losing Streak) Rhue, Madlyn
Williams used to sing with Vic Rankin. Evelyn Rankin steers Starsky and Hutch to Williams, saying she is one of the few people that would help Vic. Williams became a drug addict seven or eight years ago. Vic goes to her and asks her to hide him. Williams is desperate for money, and she turns Vic into Garth White for the reward. Starsky and Hutch visit her after Vic is shot and runs away. Hutch gives her money, knowing she is going to use it on drugs. Starsky calls her “Queen of the May.” - Williams, Honey (The Vampire) not credited
Williams was a dancer at “Slade’s Cave.” She was Nadasy’s student and his second victim. Nadasy says she was a promising dancer, dedicated, and a genuinely good person. - Williams, Mrs. (Little Girl Lost) Wilson, Patricia
Williams is Molly/Pete’s foster mother. Molly/Pete doesn’t like her overly sweet ways. Starsky and Hutch drop Molly/Pete off at the Williams’ house the day before Christmas. Duran, dressed as a priest, tricks the inept Williams into letting Molly/Pete go with him. - Williams, Officer (The Committee) Young, Tony
Williams’ partner is Officer Knight. Both are members of the vigilante group, “The Committee.” - Williams, Officer Linda (Death Ride) Miller, Kathleen
Williams is a detective from San Francisco. She impersonates Joanne Wells, acting as a decoy. Starsky and Hutch accompany her from Bryland to Bay City. Her identity is revealed in Mello’s hospital room. Williams is shot in the arm in the hospital shootout, but is still able to accompany Joanne Wells to Paris - Willits, Paul H. (The Committee) Ashton, John
Starsky and Hutch capture Willits as he and his partner, Ward Billings, try to rape a woman in a warehouse. Billings escapes. Samuel Garner bails out Willits. Garner and Willits taunt Starsky and Hutch in the hallway outside the courtroom. Starsky and Hutch tail Willits. When he tries to jump bail, they chase him. In a firefight, Starsky wounds Willits. Starsky and Hutch decide to pretend Willits is dead so that “The Committee” will contact Starsky. In reality, Willits is hidden at Hutch’s place. - Willoughby, Ruth (Murder on Stage 17) Lamond, Toni
Willoughby is Wally Stone’s sister. She used to write some of his material. She still works on stuff for him, even though she thinks he’s dead. Starsky and Hutch question her. She and Hutch have a little moment about aphids. - Willoughby, Ruth’s Husband (Murder on Stage 17) mentioned
Hanson mentions that Ruth was married. - Willy (The Set-Up) not credited
Willy is the cook at “Jeb’s Restaurant.” Starsky and Hutch stop there to eat while undercover as truck drivers. - Wilson, Barbara (The Groupie) Bunch, Marianne
Wilson is a model. She is a Melinda Roger’s friend. She and Rogers have lunch with Jack Ives. - Wilson, FBI Agent (The Set-Up) Duncan, Angus
Wilson is the FBI agent who was supposed to protect Joe Durniak while Durniak is waiting to testify. Wilson accuses Starsky and Hutch, and perhaps Dobey, of taking a pay-off that allowed Durniak to get shot. Wilson doesn’t believe Starsky and Hutch when they tell him about the agent named Oliver. Wilson gets a search warrant and finds a gun and ten thousand dollars sewn into Starsky’s couch. Williams issues an arrest warrant for Starsky, Hutch, and Terry Nash. - Wilson, Henny (Savage Sunday) Peterson, Arthur
Henny is Sarah’s husband. Fed up with the living conditions at the Eastside Home for the Aged, they decide to put fifty sticks of dynamite in the trunk of their car and park it at a government building as a protest. Gregg Morton and Wilbur Sloan steal their car from a coffee shop parking lot. Starsky and Hutch question them, and they tell them the truth. Dobey holds them at the station for a while and then releases them. - Wilson, Sarah (Savage Sunday) Summers, Hope
Sarah is Henny’s wife. Fed up with the living conditions at the Eastside Home for the Aged, they decide to put fifty sticks of dynamite in the trunk of their car and park it at a government building as a protest. Gregg Morton and Wilbur Sloan steal their car from a coffee shop parking lot. Starsky and Hutch question them, and they tell them the truth. Dobey holds them at the station for a while and then releases them. Sarah chooses the black-eyed peas and ham hocks at the lunch with Congressman Brown. - Wilson, Sarah and Henny’s lawyer (Savage Sunday) mentioned
He gets the Wilsons released. - Winston, Sir (Murder at Sea) mentioned
Sir Winston is Lord Harry, the tattooist’s kitty. The screeching car tires at the murder scene frighten the cat. - Withers, Detective (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) mentioned
Withers is a detective who works in Robbery. Starsky directs a man to him about the robbery of a gold coin. - Woodfield, C.J. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead) Rawlins, Lester
Woodfield is the president of “Woodfield Corporation.” He has messed around in the City Finance Department. Woodfield had Isaac Douglas killed. Dobey goes on television to talk about the investigation. Woodfield helps Leo Moon escape from prison so Moon can kill Dobey and his family. - Woods, Rex (Bloodbath) mentioned
Woods and his partner, Stony Black, used to cook up junk for Simon Marcus. Marcus had them both killed in the desert. Woods and Black’s names are two clues Marcus uses in his puzzle for Hutch. - Woody, the Magic Man (Starsky’s Lady) Smith, Sandy
Woody is one of Prudholm’s thugs. He takes part in Terry’s shooting and in the threats against Freddy the snitch. Prudholm accidentally calls Woody by his son’s name. - Wofford, Officer (Bloodbath, Survival) not credited
In “Bloodbath,” Wofford is an officer on the scene after the bomb goes off in the barn. Dobey yells at him as they investigate the van. In “Survival,” Dobey gets after him in the squad room for not working hard enough, asking him, “What are you doing? Drawing pictures?” - Wren, Greta (Photo Finish) Kirkland, Sally
Wren is one of the aliases the hit woman Basil Monk uses. It is the name of a real person, a famous fashion designer for a woman’s magazine in New York City. Monk hires her to kill Troy Braddock. She uses the name Dora Chester to rent an apartment. She uses the name Dora Pruitt to be a waitress at the Monk party. She kills Troy Braddock and then goes after John Reinhart, thinking he has the negative she wants. She also tries to kill Fletcher to get the negative after her offer to buy it fails. Starsky and Hutch trick her into thinking Monk has bought the negative. She goes to his house to retrieve it and is captured. - Wrightwood, James March (Lady Blue) Keach, James
Wrightwood is mentally ill. He was institutionalized for a time. His doctor deems him cured and released him three weeks ago. Wrightwood believe waves from outer space are hurting him. He acts on this paranoia by killing cocktail waitress and wrapping their bodies in antenna wire. He kills Helen Davisson and another woman. Starsky and Hutch question him at his job, but don’t take him seriously. After Hutch figures out the clue on the car radio, they trace Wrightwood to KLOW’s radio tower. He has abducted another woman, Karen, and is going to kill her. Starsky and Hutch get Karen away and follow Wrightwood up a radio tower. Wrightwood slips and falls as Starsky is trying to talk him down. Wrightwood’s nickname is “Commander Jim.” - Yank (Huggy Bear and the Turkey) La Due, Joe
Yank and Moon are two of Dad Watson’s thugs. - Yager, Judge Arlen B. (Bloodbath) Bowers, William
He is the judge who is going to sentence Simon Marcus. - Yeager, Helen (The Plague) Allison, Jean
Helen is a single mother. She is raising her son, Ritchie. They live out in the country. She tells Starsky her husband went to Canada and never came back. Helen rents out a room to Thomas Callandar. She doesn’t know he is a hit man. She thinks he is a writer named Steele. She doesn’t want Callendar getting too close to her son as she thinks he will just leave and disappoint him. After Ritchie gets the plague, she pleads on television for Callendar to come in to the hospital to donate his blood. - Yeager, Ritchie (The Plague) Laborteaux, Patrick
Ritchie’s mom’s name is Helen. She is raising Ritchie alone. Ritchie becomes friendly with the man staying in their rented room. Callendar gives Ritchie money for new shoes. Ritchie helps take care of Callendar when he gets sick. After Ritchie contracts the plague, Callendar decides to give himself up. - Yeager, Mr. (The Plague) mentioned
Helen Yeager says he went to Canada and never came back. - Yost, Detective (The Heroes) mentioned
It is widely known he bought a run-down house, fixed it up, and sold it for a profit. Dobey suggest Starsky and Hutch talk to him about real estate. - Yvonne (Birds of a Feather) Ramsey, Anne
Yvonne’s other name is Gertrude. She has been caught spying on a naked Mr. Kramer. She tells Starsky about Kramer’s scar. Minnie books and charges her with Voyeurism, Public Nuisance, and Peeping Tom. - Yram, Madame (The Hostages) Peretz, Susan
Yram is Mary’s Polanski’s name as a fortuneteller. She takes this name, as Polanski doesn’t sound like a name a fortuneteller would have. She lives at 411 Baldwin Blvd., a house that Belle Kates used to work out of. Yram flirts with Starsky. She tells Starsky and Hutch the name of the moving company that moved Kates out. - Zachary, Clay (Foxy Lady) Woodward, Morgan
Zachary is from San Francisco. He is a mobster. He and his partner, John Carelli, robbed a bank and got two million dollars. Their runner, Kevin Mackey steals the money. Carelli shoots Mackey and takes half of the money. They discover that Mackey’s girlfriend has the other half of the money. Zachary and Carelli follow and kidnap Lisa Kendrick. They set up a ransom with Hutch as the bait. - Zane (Pilot) Lynch, Richard
Zane is a hit man imported from out-of-town. His partner is Cannell. They have a reputation for never missing their mark. Zane likes to read and quote books. District Attorney Henderson hires them to kill Patricia and the young man she is with. He wants them dead, but for the murder to look like Starsky was the intended target. Fat Rolly is the go-between for the hit men and Henderson. Cannell and Zane make a second “attempt” on Starsky and Hutch’s life, pretending to shoot them in the pool. They end up killing the drug runner instead. Frank Tallman and Huggy both emphasize that Cannell and Zane never miss their mark. - Zancuk, Jane (The Specialist) mentioned
She is listed on Flashy Floyd’s arrest record as one of his accomplices. The other accomplice is Gary Anderson. - Zelinka, Bertha (Murder at Sea) White, Carole Ita
Bertha is traveling with her mom, Edna. They are both from Akron, Ohio. Bertha does a dance number for the Amapola’s talent show. Edna is always trying to get Bertha a date with a guy. Bertha is Huggy’s assistant in his magic trick. It is suggested he sticks a sword through her. - Zelinka, Edna (Murder at Sea) Medford, Kay
Edna is traveling with her daughter. They are both from Akron Ohio. Edna bosses her daughter around and is always trying to get a date for her. Edna sings a number from the opera “Carmen” for the Amapola’s talent show. She is convinced Hutch is Polish. - Zucker, Tony (The Groupie) Loggia, Robert
Zucker is Jack Parker’s real name. He has mob connections on the east coast. After he became a federal witness, he disappeared. Zucker is Roger’s boss at “Ann Lock Fashions.” Zucker and his thug, Roy Sears, are stealing from high fashion companies, focusing on expensive furs. Hutch, undercover as Jack Ives, does some business with him. When Zucker finds out Rogers is snitching on him, he kidnaps her and Ives. Zucker is taken down by Hutch in a shootout at the ship’s pool. - Zuckerman, Hilda (Dandruff) Meadows, Audrey
Zuckerman owns a beauty parlor at an expensive hotel. She has agreed to allow Starsky and Hutch to pose as hairdressers in order to catch a jewel thief.