Episode
Starsky & Hutch: The Velvet Jungle
Overview
An illegal immigrant witnesses the murder of a co-worker who was threatening to expose the illegal activities of crooked Immigration officials, and is forced to hide out in fear as she too is now hunted by the killer. The Detective duo step in to investigate and uncover an illegal-alien smuggling operation...
Details
- Series
- Starsky & Hutch
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 22
- Air date
- 1977-03-05
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Velvet Jungle is Episode 22 in Season 2 of Starsky & Hutch. It aired on 1977-03-05. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 21: The Committee
After the streetwise Detectives capture a rapist, they are outraged when the thug is let off with a lenient court sentence. Starsky openly vents his disgust at such light punishment - attracting the interests of a vigilante Police 'death squad.’
Episode 23: Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road
The dashing Detectives try to catch the deranged stalker who is hounding a successful country singer, and will only stop if she pays him $10,000.
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Episode 20: Huggy Bear and the Turkey
Huggy Bear has linked up with his friend, former Sheriff "Turkey" Turquet, to set up their own Private Detective Agency. Their first case sees them hired to find a woman's missing husband, and while trying to find him, they find themselves pursued by several undesirable parties who have various concerns with the elusive man in question...
Episode 24: Murder on Stage 17
The dare-devil Detectives work undercover as stunt-men on the set of a new Western movie, in order to investigate a series of suspicious, fatal "accidents" that have befallen several members of a long-standing group of actors known as the 'Wolf Pack', with the head of the group and star of the film fearing that he'll be next.
Episode 19: Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)
Crazed killer Prudholm returns to extract his revenge on Starsky, who he blames for the death of his son while in Police custody.
Episode 25: Starsky and Hutch are Guilty
When a Police informant is brutally beaten, witnesses point the finger at Starsky and Hutch. As the vicious assaults continue, the Detective partners are dropped increasingly deeper in hot water as they realise they are being framed.
Episode 18: Survival
After Hutch plays the key part in a successful undercover operation to nail a wanted racketeer, the captured felon hires a hit-man to prevent Hutch from testifying in court.
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.
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 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 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 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.