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 the violence ejected and more of a focus on the friendship of the two leads, viewership remained steady during the season. From September to December 1977, the show stayed in its Saturday night time slot, now up against "The Jeffersons" and "The Tony Randall Show" on CBS and the "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies". In January 1978, the show moved back to it original Wednesday night time slot of 10 p.m. The ratings dropped a little bit, however "Starsky & Hutch" finished #33 (tied with ABC's "Lucan") with a 19.2 Nielsen rating. Glaser again voiced his desires to leave