Partners

Season 3, Episode 21, Aired
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Starsky's reckless driving in pursuit of two robbers lands both himself and Hutch in hospital, with Hutch seemingly suffering from amnesia, unable to remember his partner or anything about their jobs. Starsky reminds him of some of their past adventures in an attempt to revive his memorymoreless
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  • Good episode for the series finale.

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    By bgabbard, Aug 15, 2007 Report Abuse
    Starsky and Hutch are in pursuit of robbers. Great opening chase scene. When Starsky crashes the torino in a construction area Hutch is thrown headfirst into the windshield. In the hospital we find out Hutch has amnesia.
    Starsky recollects from past episodes in an effort to jog Hutch's memory. Through comments Hutch makes we figure out that he is faking the amnesia. Starsky finally finds out Hutch is faking and goes off on him and asks why he did that. Hutch replies how else would he hear all those great stories. Funny moments when they are faking the amnesia to Dobey cracking on him. Should have been the series final episode at the end of season 4.moreless

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  • Starsky and Hutch are in an acciddent, and Hutch loses his memory.

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    By HarrisonRocks, Aug 02, 2006 Report Abuse
    Starsky and Hutch are chasing this car until Starsky crashes the Torino, and puts both of them in the hospital. Starsky cames out of it okay with only a scratch above his eye. On the other hand Hutch didn't get to be so lucky as Starsky. In fact he got amnesia, and can't remember anything at all. So Starsky tries to help Hutch remember by telling him stories about his life. In the end when Starsky was talking about Terry giving him that book on how to win Monopoly he said he didn't know why Terry gave him that book, and Hutch said because you sick at the game. Starsky starts getting excited thinking that Hutch is getting back his memory only to learn that Hutch was faking amnesia the whole time.
    I thought this was a pretty good episode. I thought it was really funny when Hutch and Starsky were still trying to trick Dobey into thinking Hutch still had amnesia until the nurse made the comment about him faking the amnesia, and Dobey asigning them the traffic control.moreless

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    • Pleasingly, the actors seen in the flashback sections are credited under 'Memory Sequences Guest Stars' on the closing credits of this episode, and in order of appearance at that (in many a "clip show", performers seen in flashbacks are usually uncredited). However, there are two discrepancies – Macon McCalman (Officer Glassman) from the first season's 'The Fix' is uncredited, even though he features prominently in that flashback; and Burr De Benning is credited as Jensen, from the second season's feature-length / two-part 'Murder At Sea' – yet he is not seen in the flashback footage from that episode! Edit
    • Starsky has a plaster to the left of his forehead, yet when the Doctor and Nurse lower Hutch into his hospital bed and leave the room, in two shots of Starsky looking over at him, the plaster has suddenly jumped to being on the right! (These shots were actually reversed "back-to-front" – originally he was filmed looking the other way, and they were flipped to make it seem that he was looking across at Hutch). Edit
    • Nit-pick: Hutch tells Starsky off for running a red light while in pursuit – since when has it been illegal for the Police to do this?! Edit

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    • This episode is a "clip show" – a favourite, budget saving formula utilized by countless TV shows over the years, allowing for footage from previous stories to take up much of the screen time, with inexpensive linking material between them. Moments recollected in this story, are (with season of episode in brackets): Hutch complaining about call-signs, from 'Lady Blue (1); Starsky and a Policeman finding Hutch drugged up with heroin, from 'The Fix' (1); Hutch desperately dashing across town, followed by Starsky on a motorcycle, from 'The Psychic' (2), chasing bad buys in a dune buggy, from the feature-length 'Murder At Sea' (part two when in two-part version) (2); faking a fight, from 'The Committee' (2); finding Gillian dead, from 'Gillian' (2), and drunk after the death of Starsky's girl-friend Terry, from 'Starsky's Lady' (2). In several cases, background music from the original sequences has been replaced with alternative pieces, more in keeping with this season's theme tune. Edit
    • [SPOILER] – Many synopsis briefs for this episode give away the fact that Hutch is only faking amnesia to teach Starsky a lesson. Although it's hinted at throughout the story, we only find out, along with Starsky, that this is the case at the end of the episode. Edit
    • Pleasingly, the actors seen in the flashback sections are credited under 'Memory Sequences Guest Stars' on the closing credits of this episode, and in order of appearance at that (in many a "clip show", performers seen in flashbacks are usually uncredited). However, there are two discrepancies – Macon McCalman (Officer Glassman) from 'The Fix' is uncredited, even though he features prominently in that flashback; and Burr De Benning is credited as Jensen, from 'Murder At Sea' – yet he is not seen in the flashback footage from that episode! Edit

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    • Hutch is making the most of his "amnesia", by insulting Captain Dobey and Huggy Bear:
      Hutch (referring to Huggy): "...This character over here. ...He the Chief of Police?" (Huggy laughs)
      Dobey: "I don't see anything funny about that."
      Huggy: "Hey. Hey Hutch, look, I'm no character; I'm Huggy Bear. We go back further than Louis and Clark."
      Hutch: "Well, you'd think that somebody who dresses the way that you do, I wouldn't forget." Edit

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