Episode
Starsky & Hutch: Ballad for a Blue Lady
Overview
The detectives are called when a witness is found dead before he can testify against a notorious racketeer. Hutch begins to suspect that his girfriend's brother may be involved.
Details
- Series
- Starsky & Hutch
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1979-01-23
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Ballad for a Blue Lady is Episode 14 in Season 4 of Starsky & Hutch. It aired on 1979-01-23. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 15: Birds of a Feather
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
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Episode 12: Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)
Starsky's younger brother Nick arrives in the city to visit to his elder sibling. But the older Starsky soon has cause for concern that Nick is mixed up in criminal activities, when he is spotted entering a restaurant at the centre of a Federal stake-out that's trying to nail a counterfeiting scam...
Episode 16: Ninety Pounds of Trouble
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Episode 11: Cover Girl (a.k.a. No Deposit, No Return)
When a leading model – an old flame of Hutch's – is told that she is terminally ill with Cancer, she arranges for a hit-man to end her life before the disease can take it's toll on her body. Then her doctors discover that she is in remission – but her contact with the genius hit-man has been severed, and she must go to old friend Hutch for help to prevent the hit from taking place...
Episode 17: Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back)
An illegal poker game puts Huggy Bear in a tight spot - holding a dead man's hand and facing a choice between covering for a friend or obeying the law.
Episode 10: The Groupie
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Episode 18: Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)
A friend of Huggy's offers to finger a judge who is supplying drugs but is killed before he can testify. The case looks lost, and the cops lose Huggy's friendship.
Episode 9: Black and Blue
When the partners in crime-busting respond to a reported burglary, Hutch is shot by one of the teenage robbers, leaving him critically ill in hospital. Starsky is paired with a dynamic new partner, black Policewoman Joan Meredith, to track down the thieves, and they find themselves on the trail of an operation that is using ghetto youths to commit burglaries, and then selling their hauls on the black market...
Episode 19: Targets Without a Badge (2)
Starsky and Hutch have retired voluntarily but become involved in a blackmail case.
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