Line #15 Trivia/StarskyAndHutch


1	!!TV Series
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3	* TheCastShowoff: Creator/DavidSoul is a professional musician; Hutch therefore is given opportunity to sing and play guitar in a number of episodes.
4	* CreatorCouple: In "Gillian," Hutch's GirlOfTheWeek is played by Creator/DavidSoul's ex-wife Karen Carlson.
5	* TheDanza:
6	** Linda Scruggs-Bogart plays the rape victim Linda Mascelli in "[=JoJo=]."
7	** Beulah Quo plays Dr. Quo in "Starsky's Lady."
8	** In "Manchild on the Streets," petty criminal Maurice is played by Maurice Sneed.
9	* DevelopmentGag: "Murder on Stage 17" was titled after ABC Stage 17, where the main sets were.
10	* DirectedByCastMember: Chances to direct were part of the deal to get Creator/PaulMichaelGlaser to come back to the show. He directed five, Creator/DavidSoul directed three.
11	* EnforcedMethodActing: In "A Coffin for Starsky", Starsky and Hutch are racing against the clock to find a criminal that injected Starsky with a deadly poison that's slowly killing him. In one scene Starsky collapses in a fit of pain. While this was scripted, Paul intentionally fell earlier than what was rehearsed, and Hutch's shocked reaction is genuine.
12	* FakeRussian: Anna Akhanatova, the Russian ballerina in "A Body Worth Guarding", is played by Dutch actress Creator/MoniqueVanDeVen.
13	* FriendshipOnTheSet: Creator/DavidSoul and Creator/PaulMichaelGlaser became best friends while making the series.
14	* MethodActing: In "The Fix", Hutch becomes forcibly addicted to heroin after gangsters kidnap him. Creator/DavidSoul prepared for the episode by depriving himself of sleep, food, and even bathing and isolated himself from the cast and crew. It got to the point where they began to genuinely worry about his mental health.
15	* MissingEpisode: There is a missing unaired episode called "Honeytrap," it guest starred Donna Mills. She played wife Cathy who lures single men and her jealous husband shoots them dead.
16	* ThePeteBest: In the pilot, Captain Dobey was played by Richard Ward; the role was then recast with Bernie Hamilton.
17	* RecycledScript: "The Game" was recycled from the ''Series/ISpy'' episode "Bet Me a Dollar", in which the partners set up a large-scale game of hide-and-seek that turns abruptly serious when it's revealed that the hiding partner has been poisoned.
18	* TheRedStapler: At the height of the show's popularity, Ford Motor Company marketed an exact copy of Starsky's Torino, white stripe and all.
19	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
20	** The producer actually wanted to use a green and white Camaro instead of the red and white Ford Torino, but General Motors were unable to help them.
21	** Huggy Bear was so popular that he almost got a SpinOff.
22	* WrittenByCastMember: "Ballad for a Blue Lady" was co-written by Paul Michael Glaser (as well as directing the episode).
23	* YouLookFamiliar: [[http://starskyhutchfiles.net/compendium/page96/page96.html All over the place.]]
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25	!!Film
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27	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/VinceVaughn was originally set to play Hutch.
28	* TheCastShowoff: Creator/OwenWilson gets to show off his singing talent, which also provides an {{homage}} to the original Hutch as that particular number was written by Creator/DavidSoul, who portrayed him in the series.
29	* InMemoriam: The film was dedicated to Elliott Marks, the Still Photographer, who died on the last day of principal photography.
30	* ThrowItIn: When Creator/VinceVaughn slapped Music/SnoopDogg during the golfing scene, it was unexpected the first time. Creator/ToddPhillips said, "Snoop went on with the scene, and then when it ended he said, 'What the hell was that?'"
31	* UncreditedRole: Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant did uncredited work on the screenplay.
32	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
33	** Creator/DonCheadle and Creator/ChrisRock were considered for Huggy Bear.
34	** Creator/BradleyCooper auditioned for the role of Kevin Jutsum.
35	** Antonio Fargas was asked to make a RemakeCameo, but for some reason, he didn't appear.

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