Writer:	Robert I. Holt
Director:	William Crain
Star:	Paul Michael Glaser (Detective Sergeant David "Dave" Michael Starsky),  Antonio Fargas ("Huggy Bear" Brown),  Bernie Hamilton (Captain Harold C. Dobey),  David Soul (Detective Sergeant Kenneth "Ken Hutch" Hutchinson)
Guest Star:	Anthony Charnota (Coney),  Gino Conforti (Mickey),  Leigh Christian (Jeanie Waldon),  Geoffrey Lewis (Allen "Monk" Philos),  Robert Loggia (Ben Forest),  Macon McCalman (Officer Bernie Glassman)

When the series was originally shown in the United Kingdom, on BBC 1, this episode was actually "banned", due to it's graphic portrayal of Hutch being injected with and hooked on drugs (despite the series originally being broadcast after the 9 p.m. watershed). Also absent from re-runs for many years, it was never broadcast on British terrestrial television until many years later, as part of Channel 4's one-off 'Starsky & Hutch Night', on Saturday 31st May 1999. Rather interestingly, with the 2003 Channel Five run of the series (the basis for the majority of this episode guide), they included the episode - at it's usual time-slot of 10 a.m., on Thursday 10th January 2003, although the actual scene of Hutch being graphically injected with Heroin was cut right down. (edit)

Starsky: You okay?
Hutch: Yeah.
Starsky: Wanna drive my car? (edit) Dobey: (finally realizing Hutch is in trouble) What do you want to do about it?
Starsky: Missing Persons?
Dobey: You mean 'missing officer'.
Starsky No, I mean missing partner. (edit) Starsky: Hutch wouldn't visit his mother without his gun! (edit)

When Starsky talks on the police radio in his Torino, the handset is a black telephone-style microphone. In most episodes, it is a white, regular-style police radio microphone. (This is most probably down to the several models of the Torino used for filming). (edit) As Starsky is rescuing Hutch in the alley, he has a shootout with Monk, who puts two bullets through the Torino's windshield, and shatters the passenger side window glass with another shot.
Immediatly following this scene, Starsky and Hutch are seen arriving at Ben Forrest's home, obviously having come directly there from the shootout in the alley. Somehow, the windshield on the Torino has repaired itself, and the passenger door has 'grown' a brand new side glass! (edit) When Hutch shows up to meet Mickey at the bar, he enters through the front door off the street. When Forest's thug drags him out, they go out the same door Hutch just entered by, but in the next shot they are coming out the back door onto an alley. (edit) When they grab Hutch, his jacket is thrown on the bed in a heap and his belt is on top of it. Later, when Starsky goes looking for him, the jacket is neatly laid out and the belt along side. (edit)

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