Starsky & Hutch film and a video game. The series' protagonists were two Southern California police detectives: David Michael Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser), the dark-haired, Brooklyn transplant and U.S. Army veteran, with a street-wise manner and intense, sometimes childlike moodiness; and Kenneth Richard "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul), the divorced, blond, Duluth, Minnesota, native with a more reserved and intellectual approach. Under the radio call sign "Zebra Three", they were known for usually tearing around the streets of fictional Bay City, California. The vehicle of choice was Starsky's two-door Ford Gran Torino, which was bright red, with a large white vector stripe on both
1970s in television "Police Story". (The latter was a one-hour anthology series with no real regulars.) Among 1970s TV producers, however, it was Aaron Spelling who would go on to be perhaps, according to an article written by Michael Idato for "The Sydney Morning Herald", "the most prolific producer in TV history." Like Quinn Martin, Spelling was known for producing crime dramas ("S.W.A.T.", "Starsky & Hutch"). However, Spelling also produced more escapist fare as represented by the likes of "The Love Boat", "Fantasy Island", and even the private-eye opus "Charlie's Angels". There was also "Family", a socially relevant hour-long series which would win