Starsky And Hutch: The Complete Second Season

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The entire second season of the coolest cop show on television during the Seventies (which one did you like, Starsky or Hutch?). Streetwise undercover cops Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser in that cardigan) and Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (David Soul, the blond one) cruise the streets in a red and white Gran Turino, calling in favours from their street snitch Huggy Bear (Antonio Fargas, the coolest of the cool), and directed by their boss Captain Dobey (Bernie Hamilton). The episodes are: 'The Las Vegas Strangler 1', 'The Las Vegas Strangler 2', 'Murder at Sea 1', 'Murder at Sea 2', 'Gillian', 'Bust Amboy', 'The Vampire', 'The Specialist', 'Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart', 'Vendetta', 'Nightmare', 'Iron Mike', 'Little Girl Lost', 'Bloodbath', 'The Psychic', 'The Set-Up 1', 'The Set-Up 2', 'Survival', 'Starsky's Lady', 'Huggy Bear and the Turkey', 'The Committee', 'The Velvet Jungle', 'Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road', 'Murder on Stage 17' and 'Starsky and Hutch are Guilty'.

AMAZON REVIEW
Starsky & Hutch: The Complete Second Season proves the 1970s series, in its sophomore year, both codified its earliest strengths while continuing to evolve into a sharper, wittier and often darker show. Contributing to those improvements were the stars themselves: David Soul (who plays maverick police detective, intellectual and health nut Ken Hutchinson) and Paul Michael Glaser (as Hutch's more impulsive, junk-food-junkie partner Dave Starsky), each of whom directed exemplary episodes in the second series. The series' creators also struck a more entertaining balance between the comic and dramatic possibilities inherent in Starsky and Hutch's bluntly honest, fraternal relationship. A number of stories placed the guys in intentionally funny undercover situations: as garish gamblers in the two-part opener "The Las Vegas Strangler"; entertainment directors (named Hack and Zack) on a luxury cruise ship in "Murder at Sea"; gigolo-like dance aficionados in the playfully-titled "Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts"; and, most amusingly, stunt men in "Murder on Stage 17".

Those are all good shows, and the duo often bicker within them, to great comic effect, like an old married couple. But it's the relentlessly tougher episodes that prove each character's mettle and demonstrate the depth of Starsky and Hutch's mutual trust. Among these is the powerful "Gillian", in which Starsky discovers Hutch's classy new girlfriend is a prostitute and breaks the news to his shattered friend. Somewhat lighter but just as revealing is "Little Girl Lost", starring a young Kristy McNichol as an orphaned street urchin whom Hutch, lately in a misanthropic, anti-Christmas mood, takes into his home. Glaser's directorial debut, the harrowing "Bloodbath", gives Soul a lot of room for an intensely physical and psychological performance as Hutch scurries to find his kidnapped partner. Soul returns the favour with "Survival", in which Starsky desperately seeks his missing pal, trapped and slowly dying beneath a car wreck. All in all, a very good series, with (of course) Antonio Fargas still sharp as sidekick Huggy Bear. --Tom Keogh

Audio Languages: English

Number of Discs: 5

Subtitle Languages: Dutch, English

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