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Do you remember this series!?
What catches your spying-eye radar!?

“Starsky & Hutch” is a cop thriller series, which debuted as a 70-minute pilot movie aired as a ‘Movie Of The Week’ entry & had 92 50-minute episodes across its run from 04/30/1975 to 05/15/1979 on ABC. Created by William Blinn, this show was produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions & originally distributed by Columbia Pictures Television. For some, the cars were the stars of the show, including the famously-painted Ford Torino, which ranged in model years, 1974-1976, thanks to the unchanged body style. Binn envisioned Starsky driving a Camaro convertible because he fondly remembered a green & white one he owned; however, since Ford was the lease supplier for Spelling-Goldberg, the Torino was chosen … a choice not liked by Paul Michael Glaser (“Starsky”) who thought the car was “big, ugly & childish-looking” & the idea of 2 undercover cops driving a car with an “outlandish appearance” was “ludicrous”. It was Glaser’s nickname of the car, “striped tomato”, that found its way into the show as what “Hutch” (David Soul), who drove an LTD, called the car. When you see Starsky running the car into the curbs to stop, that was just 1 way he mistreated the cars since he didn’t like them. During S&H’s last season, “The Dukes Of Hazzard” premiered, with 1 of the “striped tomato” factory replicas used in the 1st episode driven by Cooter (Ben Jones).