The color description may be guesswork here. Might be black instead of blue.
Starsky wears it in:
04-18 Targets Without a Badge, Part 1
04-21 Starsky vs. Hutch
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Category: wardrobe (Starsky)
Starsky wears it in:
04-14 Ballad for a Blue Lady
Starsky wears it in:
04-14 Ballad for a Blue Lady
Starsky wears it in:
04-01 Discomania
04-20 Targets Without a Badge, Part 3
Starsky only ever wears this shirt when undercover, but I included this one in my plaid statistics, since at least the jacket he’s wearing on this mission is from his personal wardrobe.
Starsky wears it in:
03-22 Quadromania
Along with the purple one, this is a Starsky favorite plaid, worn in 4 episodes.
Starsky wears it in:
03-20 Foxy Lady
03-23 Deckwatch
04-02 The Game
04-03 Blindfold
Starsky wears it in:
03-17 Satan’s Witches
03-18 Class in Crime
Starsky wears it in:
03-10 Plague, Part 2
Starsky wears it in:
03-09 Plague, Part 1
Starsky wears it in:
03-08 The Heroes
Statistically, this is one of Starsky’s favorite plaids (worn in four episodes, like the brown one from S3-S4).
Starsky wears it in:
03-04 I Love You, Rosey Malone
03-09 Plague, Part 1
03-11 Collector
03-16 The Trap
Starsky wears it in:
03-03 Fatal Charm
03-04 I Love You, Rosey Malone
03-15 A Body Worth Guarding
03-19 Hutchinson for Murder One
04-11 Cover Girl
04-16 Ninety Pounds of Trouble
This plaid shirt first appears as part of Starsky’s undercover costume in the Western movie, so surely it comes from the movie company’s wardrobe. Did Starsky steal it as a memento?
Starsky wears it in:
02-24 Murder on Stage 17
03-03 Fatal Charm
Starsky wears it in:
02-22 The Velvet Jungle
03-06 Death in a Different Place
Starsky wears it in:
02-08 The Specialist
This one needs no introductions: it’s the one that ends up with bullet holes in the back. It is as much part of Starsky as the Torino, and probably his favorite garment in the show. Enthusiasts mention it is a “Dockworker” jacket by the California-based sportswear label Golden Bear.
A quick count tells me Starsky wore the jacket in over a third of all episodes, of which all but one were in S2-S3. The exception, of course, is Sweet Revenge. It’d be easier to list the S2-S3 episodes in which he didn’t wear it, but for the sake of completeness, here goes:
Starsky wears it in:
02-01 Murder at Sea, Part 1
02-05 Gillian
02-06 Bust Amboy
02-07 The Vampire
02-08 The Specialist
02-09 Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts
02-11 Nightmare
02-12 Iron Mike
02-13 Little Girl Lost
02-14 Bloodbath
02-15 The Psychic
02-16 The Set-Up, Part 1
02-17 The Set-Up, Part 2
02-18 Survival
02-19 Starsky’s Lady
02-20 Huggy Bear and The Turkey
02-21 The Committee
02-22 The Velvet Jungle
02-24 Murder on Stage 17
02-25 Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty
03-01 Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island, Part 1
03-03 Fatal Charm
03-04 I Love You, Rosey Malone
03-07 The Crying Child
03-08 The Heroes
03-09 The Plague, Part 1
03-10 The Plague, Part 2
03-12 Manchild on the Streets
03-13 The Action
03-14 The Heavyweight
03-15 A Body Worth Guarding
03-17 Satan’s Witches
03-18 Class in Crime
03-19 Hutchinson for Murder One
03-22 Quadromania
04-22 Sweet Revenge
PS. Here’s the jacket when Paul finally sold it in a charity auction in the 2000s. There are three bullet holes in the back, but also one on the side, and I’ve been told there was a fifth hole somewhere, possibly on the sleeve.
I leave it to you to decide if this blue jacket with white details really belongs to Starsky or if he snatched it for temporary personal use from the endlessly outrageous Metro undercover garment stash: he first wears it in his undercover role as the ship’s entertainer in “Murder at Sea, Part 1”, but the second and last time he sports it (again with the memorable cut-off jeans) in his free time in the opening scene of “Vendetta”. It’s a pity it’s only seen in these two episodes – the strangely cross-eyed Donald Duck emblem on the breast somehow makes it perfect Starsky-wear – childish but worn with such attitude that you don’t mess with this guy just because he chooses to wear silly clothes. The long white drawstrings hanging from the hem perfect the goofy look.
EDIT: Not cross-eyed after all:
Starsky wears it in:
02-03 Murder at Sea, Part 1 (undercover)
02-10 Vendetta
Starsky and Hutch share a few items over the course of the series. The most famous example is this red sweater. It is what I call “tag wear”, a garment only seen in tags.
Starsky/Hutch wears it in:
01-21 A Coffin for Starsky (Hutch)
02-18 Survival (Starsky)
02-19 Starsky’s Lady (Starsky)
02-24 Murder on Stage 17 (Starsky)
Starsky wore this jacket regularly in Season 1 and occasionally in Season 2. It was part of one of his classic looks: blue Adidas, blue jeans, blue t-shirt/light blue shirt, and blue jacket. That outfit remains a cosplay favorite.
Some details for replica-seekers: the jacket is almost blackish blue, very simple cut with moderately sized collar, elastic in the cuffs, and two vertical pockets outside and probably two breast pockets inside (e.g. Hutch checks and Starsky himself pats both sides looking for a pencil in “Savage Sunday”). The tops of the seven metal snaps are slightly brighter blue than the fabric. Starsky usually closes only the two bottom snaps.
Starsky wears it in:
01-01 Savage Sunday
01-02 Death Ride
01-03 Texas Longhorn
01-04 Snowstorm
01-05 The Fix
01-06 Death Notice
01-07 Pariah
01-08 Kill Huggy Bear
01-11 Captain Dobey, You’re Dead
01-12 Terror on the Docks
01-15 Hostages
01-19 Jo-Jo
02-01 The Las Vegas Strangler, Part 1
02-07 Vampire
02-11 Nightmare
02-12 Iron Mike
02-19 Survival
03-07 The Crying Child (the opening scene recycled from Nightmare)
Starsky wears two rings in his left pinky all through the show, one golden with some kind of knot, and another a braided silver band.
The rings are Paul’s – he wore them outside the show, as well as in other projects before and after “Starsky and Hutch”. To my knowledge, Paul has never told where the rings came from or what they signified to him. According to dedicated PMG fans, he stopped wearing them sometime after marrying Elizabeth.
In fanon, there’s rather wide agreement that the rings belonged to Starsky’s father, but nothing is ever said about their history in the show.
When using stunt guys/doubles, they rarely bothered to add this detail to the Starsky costume, so when you see Starsky in action without his rings, or close-up of his hand without them, it’s almost certainly a stunt guy/double. Sometimes, like in “The Action” when he switches the dice, you do see a close-up of “Starsky’s hand” with a different ring on it.
There is a small curiosity about the look of the rings in S4 (see the pictures below). In previous seasons, the silver and gold bands sit closely together, but in S4 (maybe already in late S3) there almost always seems to be a wider gap between the rings that doesn’t seem to be just shadows. I’ll keep looking for clearer close-ups before making any definite claims, but an additional ring, maybe a narrow bronze braid, wouldn’t be impossible.
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