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
Starsky & Hutch & Hutch" was moved to Saturday night for the second season and was up against tough competition on CBS with the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" followed by "The Bob Newhart Show". NBC had the NBC "Saturday Night Movie". Although the show lost some of their viewers from the move from the Wednesday night time slot from the previous season, "Starsky & Hutch" held its own, finishing #34 with a 19.6 rating in the Nielsens. In 1977, a rising concern in America about violence on TV, along with Glaser's own concerns about the level of violence in the series, forced the