Starsky & Hutch
Savage Sunday
TV Flash files “Savage Sunday” as a desk essential hour — Starsky & Hutch (1975–1979) on ABC, season 1, episode 1, aired 1975-09-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 92 in the Starsky & Hutch guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1975-09-10 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Texas Longhorn” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Savage Sunday”. 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.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Starsky and Hutch pursue two thieves who don't know their stolen car contains a powerful time bomb set to explode.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Savage Sunday sit in the Starsky & Hutch guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 92 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Starsky & Hutch S01E01 air?
Savage Sunday aired 1975-09-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the Torino years as a complete buddy unit: Glaser, Soul, and Fargas's Huggy Bear. Case-of-the-week structure does not require a serialized map.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul make undercover partnership a Gran Torino postcard: street fashion, chases, Huggy Bear as translator. Four seasons of ABC buddy-cop branding that later mismatched-partner pitches still quietly copy. Light bar, heavy hair, tire screech as friendship.
ABC put two undercover detectives in a red-and-white Ford Gran Torino and branded male friendship as a four-season action window. Starsky & Hutch (1975–1979) ran 92 episodes — not an eleven-year mountain. Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul made the buddy-cop postcard of the decade. William Blinn mixed street fashion with procedural cases; Antonio Fargas's Huggy Bear translated the underworld; Bernie Hamilton's Captain Dobey held the precinct. The car became a co-star; the theme became playground soundtrack. Light…
Filed against
- Paul Michael Glaser as Det. David Starsky
Paul Michael Glaser made Det. David Starsky a Gran Torino postcard on Starsky & Hutch — 1970s ABC buddy-cop branding with David Soul, street fashion, chases, Huggy Bear as translator. Four seasons of light bar, heavy hair, tire screech as…
- David Soul as Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson
David Soul’s Det. Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson made Starsky & Hutch a Gran Torino postcard — Paul Michael Glaser partnership, street fashion, chases, Huggy Bear as translator. Four seasons of ABC buddy-cop branding later pitches still copy. TV…
- Antonio Fargas as Huggy Bear
Antonio Fargas’s Huggy Bear translated Starsky & Hutch’s street into a Gran Torino postcard — Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul as undercover partnership, chases, fashion, four seasons of ABC buddy-cop branding later mismatched-partner…
- Bernie Hamilton as Capt. Harold Dobey
Bernie Hamilton’s Capt. Harold Dobey tried to keep Starsky & Hutch’s Gran Torino from eating the precinct — Glaser and Soul as undercover partnership, street fashion, chases, Huggy as translator, four seasons of ABC buddy-cop branding.…