Starsky and Hutch is before my time i'm from 87 but when i saw the dvd box i had to buy it i heard nothing but good things about this not a simple cop show but one of the best old cop shows that existed

I really like this series. I still watch it in reruns. I like the make-up of the series. It was not just car chases, gun fights and screeching tires. The chemistry between every one until the end of the series. They actually did police work and did deductive reasoning. At the beginning of the series everything was smooth sailing. That is until David soul had a hit record. He grew hi hair long, with a mustache. Hutch became very arrogant. Just watch an episode. He actually insults starsky. He keeps saying he is the brains of the pair. He spits out psychology, t.m. . In early episodes he was a health nut: carrot juice, wheat germ, fasting, etc. . They really overstuffed his character. It still is a fun series to watch. Even the later episodes.

With that Gran Torino that it seemed always that David Soul was in the driver's seat and Paul Michael Glaser rode shotgun, Starsky and Hutch looked hip, dressed hip and even had a black friend who was also their chief snitch.Starsky And Hutch set a new standard for detectives. Even through the Sixties, police plainclothes detectives were always in suits with gray fedoras. David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson were looking groovy in those bell bottoms. They both had some snappy dialog showing they were quite wise to the scene.The two other regulars on the show were both black, but lived in different worlds. Glaser and Soul worked for Captain Dobey played by Bernie Hamilton and I really liked his character. Even being black this man worked his way up the police ladder and was respected by the guys even if they aggravated him a lot. It was kind of like the way Marshal McCloud did things to annoy Chief Clifford, but always got the job done. Captain Dobey was a thoroughgoing professional.Antonio Fargas was a pimp and had his own place always with a few women from his stable around. No doubt this guy had a license to operate within reason. But I remember one time when Huggy Bear called Starsky And Hutch 'honorary soul brothers'. That was unbelievably stupid and condescending.But the show did have style aplenty.

Watching archived episodes of Starsky and Hutch on hulutv has been a real treat lately, especially since I was a regular viewer when the original series started in 1975.I noticed that producer/director/writer Michael Mann, ala Miami Vice, wrote the first 4 episodes on Season 1.The episodes had good plots, a variety of fine character actors that played some of the bad guys, foxy girls, funky music background, an original opening theme written by Lalo Schifrin and many other elements that contributed it the show's success.Fans of the show will always remember Starsky's leather jacket that must have been worn by an ace WW11 fighter pilot and passed down from generation until he probably found it cheap at the local thrift store and Hutch's plaid shirts, khaki pants, the shoulder holsters that held those 6 shooter cannon revolvers, the 2 cars and of course their sometimes pimp but harmless snitch Huggy Bear.I miss shows in today's TV cable world that's sporting almost 500 channels like the old days of dramatic, sometimes comedic cop shows like S&H. I really had no desire to see the recent movie.Watching episodes through the online link is really bringing back some memories of decades past.