Starsky & Hutch (season 1) as Detective David Starsky, David Soul as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson, Bernie Hamilton as Captain Harold Dobey, and Antonio Fargas as confidential informant "Huggy Bear". <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Starsky & Hutch (season 1) The first season of "Starsky & Hutch", a 1970s American cop thriller television series, consisted of 23 episodes that aired between April 30, 1975 and April 21, 1976. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975, and May 15, 1979, on the ABC network. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television in the United States and, originally, Metromedia Producers
Starsky & Hutch William Blinn first used the name Huggy Bear on-screen for a character, also a confidential informant, in an episode penned by Blinn for the TV series "The Rookies", during the 1973 second season, "Prayers Unanswered Prayers Unheard", there played by actor Johnny Brown. In contrast to police characters on U.S. TV in prior years, Starsky and Hutch were open with physical gestures of friendly/brotherly affection toward one another, often declaring that they trusted only each other (in an "us against the world"–type sense). While likely "normal" by the social standards of 1990s-and-later America, such body language conflicted with 1970s norms