Episode
Starsky & Hutch: Death in a Different Place
Overview
The intreptid Detective partners investigate when a colleague – an old friend of Starsky's – is found dead in a sleazy red-light district hotel, and are shocked to uncover that the married murdered Lieutenant was a closet homosexual with a history of gay relationships. But just who is behind his death, and why?...
Details
- Series
- Starsky & Hutch
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1977-10-15
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Death in a Different Place is Episode 6 in Season 3 of Starsky & Hutch. It aired on 1977-10-15. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 5: Murder Ward
The intrepid cops go undercover at a mental hospital, with Starsky as a patient and Hutch as an orderly, to investigate a number of mysterious patient deaths that have occurred at the asylum. With a female journalist, also undercover as a patient, they uncover that someone in the hospital is illegally using patients as human guinea-pigs for the testing of behaviour modification drugs...
Episode 7: The Crying Child
A school teacher, fearing loosing her job if her concerns are unfounded, asks Starsky and Hutch to look into a suspected case of child abuse surrounding a continually bruised six-year-old boy in her class. The pair are drawn into a disturbing case of domestic violence, but they most prove their concerns if they are to save the young boy from further abuse...
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