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Episode Summary
First episode of a two-part story.
The tough Detective partners are working incognito as truckers, in an operation to safely transport Joe Durniak a man with Mob connections who Starsky knows from his childhood who is promised protection and a new identity in return for giving testimony as a key state witness. But when Durniak is shot dead by a lone gunman convinced that Durniak was behind the murder of his wife, Starsky and Hutch find themselves uncovering a complex plot of bizarre deception.
But as they investigate, they themselves come under suspicion for being involved with Durniak's murder..moreless
The tough Detective partners are working incognito as truckers, in an operation to safely transport Joe Durniak a man with Mob connections who Starsky knows from his childhood who is promised protection and a new identity in return for giving testimony as a key state witness. But when Durniak is shot dead by a lone gunman convinced that Durniak was behind the murder of his wife, Starsky and Hutch find themselves uncovering a complex plot of bizarre deception.
But as they investigate, they themselves come under suspicion for being involved with Durniak's murder..moreless
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Paul Michael Glaser
Detective Sergeant David "Dave" Michael Starsky
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David Soul
Detective Sergeant Kenneth "Ken Hutch" Hutchinson
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Bernie Hamilton
Captain Harold C. Dobey
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ADD TRIVIA- In the final scene of this half of the story, when Dr. Stegner is showing the brain-washed Debra the pictures of Hutch, Starsky and Nash on the projector, watch as the shot pans across the room – the projector images are a matte added in post-production, and as the shot pans across, the images don't look quite right; as the shot pans to the right, the edges of the shot supposedly shown on the projector wander back and forth slightly. Edit
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ADD NOTES- Starsky knows Durniak from childhood and Durniak mentions that Starsky's father was murdered but he never comes right out and says Starsky's dad was a cop. Though the 'fact' is assumed by many fans as canon for the show. Edit
- Hutch is heard to sing and whistle 'Black Bean Soup', a song written by David Soul, which he and Starsky had previously sung in the first season's 'Death Notice'. Edit
- Although the feature-length 'The Last Vegas Strangler' and 'Murder At Sea' (and probably the Pilot too) also exist in two-part versions, this was the first story of the series to be originally broadcast as a two-parter. It likely also exists in feature-length format. Edit
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