Corgi Toys Show" were also issued in 1980. These included "Kermit's" car (2030), "Fozzie Bear's truck" (2031), "Miss Piggy's Sports Coupe" (2032) and "Animal's Percussionmobile" (2033). By the mid-1970s some of the most popular series shown on British television were American police dramas, and Corgi decided to model several of the vehicles featured in these shows. In 1976 the Buick Regal (296) from the series "Kojak" was issued, complete with figures of 'Lieutenant Kojak' and 'Detective Crocker' shooting from the rear seat, and a year later the Ford Gran Torino from "Starsky & Hutch" (292) was released also with figures of "David
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