Season 1

"Starsky and Hutch" is a dynamic new police drama series about a pair of young plainclothes cops. David Soul stars as the soft-spoken Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson and Paul Michael Glaser is the irrepressible Dave Starsky. Bernie Hamilton also stars as quick-tempered Captain Harold Dobey and Antonio Fargas is Huggy Bear, friend and confidante of the two cops. In the first episode, ""Savage Sunday"", Starsky and Hutch discover that a car used as the getaway vehicle in a hold-up belongs to Sarah and Henny Wilson, an elderly couple living in a retirement home. The Wilsons didn’t report the car stolen because it is rigged with 200 pounds of dynamite, set to explode at 5.00 pm. They wanted to blow it up outside the courthouse to call attention to the poor living conditions of older people. Meanwhile, two homicidal robbers repaint the car to use on a Sunday afternoon crime spree. Huggy Bear helps the cops find the location of the car, but it is hidden among thousands parked at an amphitheatre."

Detectives Starsky and Hutch spend a frenzied Sunday afternoon in pursuit of two homicidal robbers who don't know their stolen car contains a powerful time bomb set to explode later that day.

When the beautiful, young wife of a rich, automobile dealer is assaulted and slain by a pair of drug addicts, Starsky and Hutch find themselves moving at breakneck speed to locate and arrest the killers before the agonized widower takes the law into his own hands in "Texas Longhorn." Driving late at night with his wife, Emma Lou, Texas-born used car tycoon Zack Taylor stops to help two male occupants of a disabled vehicle. Zack is knocked unconscious after getting a look at the men, Chaco and Harris, who assault Emma Lou before taking her life. Investigating the crime, Starsky and Hutch dig through society's lowest elements for clues. They learn that one of the suspects is heavily tattooed and that both are heroin addicts. But the bereaved Zack is also on the trail of the killers and Starsky and Hutch fear the big Texan may lose his own life trying to avenge his beloved Emma Lou.

Driving from San Francisco with the daughter of a crime czar, who has agreed to tell all he knows when the girl arrives safely, Starsky and Hutch are pursued by killers who will stop at nothing to prevent the girl and her es-corts from surviving the journey in "Death Ride." Mobster Andrew Mello has agreed to testify before a Senate committee, but fears for the life of: his daughter, Joanne. After having survived one attempted assassination, Millo refuses to talk until Joanne is brought safely to him. After pledging total secrecy, Captain Dobey sends his "best men" to fetch Joanne, but Starsky and Hutch soon realize their "secret mission" has become a "top contract" in the underworld.

A million dollars worth of pure cocaine is missing after an enormous narcotics bust and detectives Starsky and Hutch are accused of "going into business" by the powerful leader of a drug ring and by certain members of the police department in "Snow Storm." Facing a charge of drug dealing, Marty Crandall directs police to a huge cache of cocaine in return for "special consideration." Starsky, Hutch and three veteran cops named Corman, Burke and Kalowitz make the bust and turn in three million dollars worth of confiscated "coke." When word comes down from king-pin Julius Stryker that police took four million bucks worth of "snow" from his supply, Starsky and Hutch find themselves being hassled by officers Corman, Burke and Kalowitz, along with Stryker himself. Starsky and Hutch return to Crandall in hopes of finding the missing narcotic and find him murdered. The duo launch their own investigation of the crimes to clear their names.

Hutch is abducted and forcibly "strung out" on heroin by a jealous mobster whose ex-girl friend has become romantically involved with Hutch in "The Fix." When hoodlum Ben Forest learns that Jeannie Walden has become Hutch's girl-friend, he goes into a rage and sends one of his men to find the girl. But Hutch has found a hideaway for Jeannie's protection. Forest sends a henchman named Monk to abduct Hutch and hold him captive. He gives Hutch regular injections of heroin until the addicted young cop is willing to surrender Jeannie for another "fix."