Episode
Starsky & Hutch: The Bait
Overview
Dressed as flashy hustlers and using a beautiful blonde as a bait Starsky and Hutch pose as a pair of high rolling heroin dealers, climbing up the underworld ladder to nail the city's top dope distributors
Details
- Series
- Starsky & Hutch
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1975-11-05
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Bait is Episode 9 in Season 1 of Starsky & Hutch. It aired on 1975-11-05. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 8: Kill Huggy Bear
Big pimping confidant Huggy Bear is marked for death after being robbed of a fortune owed to a ruthless racketeer. Starsky and Hutch must locate the stolen loot before their friend winds up murdered by the mob.
Episode 10: Lady Blue
A former girlfriend of Starsky's is found brutally murdered, with the body bizarrely wrapped in radio antenna wire. As the detective duo investigate, it emerges that the girl had been working undercover as a cocktail waitress while tracking down a psychotic killer. But there are several suspects as to the murderer's identity... are Starsky and Hutch on the right track?
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Episode 12: Terror on the Docks
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Episode 5: The Fix
Hutch is dating a girl who was formerly associated with a big-time mobster. But Hutch is abducted by the jealous mobster, who forcibly gets him hooked on heroin, in order to find out where the girl is.
Episode 13: The Deadly Impostor
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Episode 4: Snowstorm
Starsky and Hutch, along with three other Detectives, are involved in a large drug bust, where pure cocaine with a street value three million dollars is seized. But following the successful raid, the detective duo come under suspicion when $1m worth of the drugs disappear. They have 48 hours to clear their names.
Episode 14: Shootout
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Episode 15: The Hostages
When Starsky offers for himself and Hutch to check on a waitress's missing friend, they find the man dead, leading them to stumble across a plot to rob an armoured car by a gang that are holding the driver's pregnant wife hostage, forcing the driver to go along with the plan.