Paul Michael Glaser

Paul Michael Glaser is Det. David Starsky on Starsky & Hutch, the striped-car half of a 1970s ABC buddy-cop brand. Street fashion, chases, a partner, Huggy Bear as translator. Glaser sells the undercover job as friendship with a light bar — four seasons of hair and tire screech that later mismatched-partner pitches still copy. The postcard is the car; the pulse is the pair.

On TV Flash he is catalog cop-show voltage. We file Starsky with the hours that made a Torino a silhouette. Watch the partnership. Glaser is why the series photographs as a duet, not a chase reel. Heavy hair, yes — and a face the siren still belongs to.

Glaser still photographs as Det. David Starsky on Starsky & Hutch at s01e01. Savage Sunday opens the undercover postcard. Glaser and Soul already make partnership a street-fashion chase; the Gran Torino is the third lead ABC would brand for four seasons. Keep s02e25 for the hour after the series has learned its habits: Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty is the title putting the partners on trial. Mismatched-partner pitches still copy this heat: friendship as the case, tire screech as punctuation. 1970s craft, listed, pressable.

Glaser keeps showing up as Det. David Starsky until the room believes it. Not the marquee. Det. David Starsky is the furniture that keeps Starsky & Hutch from becoming a lead’s monologue. s01e01 is position; s02e25 is the later weather. ABC, 1975–1979: press play inside that fence.

If s01e08 is on the list, it is because Glaser still has to play Det. David Starsky after Starsky & Hutch already knows its own joke. Kill Huggy Bear is the translator in the crosshairs. Antonio Fargas as the series' street interpreter: buddy-cop branding that still needs a third voice between badge and block.