Episode
Starsky & Hutch: Nightmare
Overview
A gang of rapists who attacked a 19-year-old girl may go free because an ambitious district attorney thinks that the victim's testimony may be worthless in court.
Details
- Series
- Starsky & Hutch
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1976-11-28
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Nightmare is Episode 11 in Season 2 of Starsky & Hutch. It aired on 1976-11-28. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 10: Vendetta (a.k.a. The Monster)
The Detective duo are on the case as criminals and public alike are endangered when Solkin, a Fagin-like felon, uses an imbalanced teenager to commit crimes - including brutal assaults and murder - for his own nefarious purposes.
Episode 12: Iron Mike
The crime-busting pair's suspicions are aroused when they spot highly respected Police Captain "Iron Mike" Ferguson accepting an envelope from an underworld kingpin.
More episodes from this season
Episode 9: Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts
Dedicated Detectives Starsky and Hutch are working undercover at a plush Hollywood dance studio, as a dance teacher and student respectively, to investigate an extortion racket operating from the club that lures members into compromising situations, and then bribes the victims for large amounts of money...
Episode 13: Little Girl Lost
It's the Christmas season, and while Starsky is happily getting into the festivities, Hutch is far more sceptical about people's sudden goodwill over the period. Responding to a call of petty shop-lifting, the pair meet Molly, a twelve-year-old tomboy, who lives with her father, a recently released convict turned alcoholic.
Episode 8: The Specialist
Starsky, Hutch, and two other officers respond to an armed robbery at a jeweler's, only for a woman to accidentally get shot dead from one of the lawmen. The dead woman's husband is a Special Agent, paranoid after being retired from the service, and convinced that the officers were really hit-men after him, and sets about extracting his revenge.
Episode 14: Bloodbath
On the day of trial of Simon Marcus, a murderous cult leader that Starsky and Hutch arrested, Starsky is snatched away by the cult leader's followers just before judgement is passed.
Episode 7: The Vampire
When a dancer is murdered in bizarre circumstances, with marks resembling fang bites on her neck and an unusually large quantity of blood missing from her body, Starsky and Hutch delve into the underworld of occcult worshippers as they investigate what appears to be the work of a vampire...
Episode 15: The Psychic
Huggy introduces the Detective duo to a friend of his, opening up a new café, who unwittingly has clairvoyant visions. Starsky is sceptical of such psychic ability, Hutch more willing to believe.
Episode 6: Bust Amboy (a.k.a. Nightlight)
The Detective pair are determined to nail the wealthy Amboy, a crafty narcotics dealer who is supplying young prostitutes, and always avoids Police arrest with legal loop-holes...
Episode 16: The Set-Up (1)
First episode of a two-part story. The tough Detective partners are working incognito as truckers, in an operation to safely transport Joe Durniak - a man with Mob connections whom Starsky knows from his childhood - who is promised protection and a new identity in return for giving testimony as a key state witness.
Episode 5: Gillian
The Detective duo investigate a killing that is latest in a string of crimes in the red-light district. Off duty, Hutch is getting serious with his new girl-friend, the classy Gillian, but as the intreptid Detectives investigate the killing, Starsky by chance finds that Hutch's new love is a prostitute.
Episode 17: The Set-Up (2)
Conclusion of this two-part story. The duo try to uncover the truth behind Terry Nash - the well-intentioned gun-man out to avenge the murder of his wife and who, until recently, didn't seem to even exist - but in doing so, they are framed and wind up suspended from duty and becoming fugitives.