Episode
Starsky & Hutch: Birds of a Feather
Overview
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
Details
- Series
- Starsky & Hutch
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1979-01-30
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Birds of a Feather is Episode 15 in Season 4 of Starsky & Hutch. It aired on 1979-01-30. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 14: Ballad for a Blue Lady
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.
Episode 16: Ninety Pounds of Trouble
When a contract is put out to kill a top union official, Starsky and Hutch go undercover as hit men to protect him. But while Hutch rehearses his performance as a trigger man, Starsky is plagued by a young admirer who may compromise his cover.
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Episode 12: Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)
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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 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 19: Targets Without a Badge (2)
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Episode 10: The Groupie
Hutch takes the guise of a bumbling swimwear buyer and Starsky poses as an eccentric photographer, as the Detective duo enter the fashion world to stitch up a garment-business racketeering ring. But as they look into the case, they receive an unusual offer of help from a woman eager to get in on the action – unfortunately, she only serves to compromise the undercover investigation...
Episode 20: Targets Without a Badge (3)
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 21: Starsky vs. Hutch
Competing for the affections of a policewoman, Starsky and Hutch neglect their investigation of the murder of a dance-hall girl.