Writer:	Edward J. Lakso
Director:	George McCowan
Star:	Paul Michael Glaser (Detective Sergeant David "Dave" Michael Starsky),  David Soul (Detective Sergeant Kenneth "Ken Hutch" Hutchinson),  Bernie Hamilton (Captain Harold C. Dobey),  Antonio Fargas ("Huggy Bear" Brown)
Guest Star:	Susan Peretz (Mary Polanski),  Kristy McNichol (Meg),  Mellisa Newman (Amy),  Clay Tanner (Conrad),  Richard Foronjy (Gibson),  Madison Arnold (Tobin),  Art Burns (Miller),  Chris Forbes (Girl),  Nellie Bellflower (Sweet Alice),  Jean Hagen (Belle Kates),  John Ritter (Tom Cole),  Linda Kelsey (Ellie Cole),  Will Hare (Ames),  Chuck Hollom (Manager)

During the fight scene at the end of this episode it is clearly obvious when Starsky's stunt man (Chuck Picerni) is on screen. (edit) In the United Kingdom, a 1984 repeat of this episode was the series' most watched episode of that year, clocking up 9.1 million viewers when it was shown on Tuesday 2nd August, 9:55 p.m., BBC 1. (edit) Nellie Bellflower makes her first appearance as Sweet Alice, a southern-accented prostitute with a lust for Hutch. She is seen again later in the season, in 'A Coffin For Starsky'. (edit)

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In this episode, we hear, almost in a throw-away line, that Huggy Bear has given up his restaurant business. From this point on, we usually see Huggy in a different job or racket each episode (here he is selling motorised children's dolls on the street), until mid-third season, where we see him opening new bar "The Pits" in The Collector. (edit) Sub-plot (running gag through-out the episode): Starsky's interest in horoscopes. (edit) Huggy's racket: Selling "Dingle Dolls" – motorised toys. (edit) It is illegal for anyone, including a police officer to posses or use a silencer! So how is it that Starsky 'just happens' to be prepared with one to shoot out the tire on the armored car? [Editor note: According to the California Penal Code sec. 53a-211 part b: "(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons, firms, corporations or museums licensed or otherwise permitted by federal or state law to possess, control or own sawed-off shotguns or silencers." Whether or not the provision applies to a police officer in the performance of his duty is unknown by me. If anyone has additional information, do please submit it.] (edit) When Starsky and Hutch go to see 'Madam Yram' the medium, the shot of Starsky's car parked outside the house is a stock shot taken from a few episodes earlier, in Terror On The Docks. (edit)

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