Starsky and Hutch : Synopsis, Pictures, Photos, Trivia, Filming Locations

A police series featuring Paul Michael Glaser, playing the Detective Starsky, and David Soul, personifying the detective Hutchinson. Starsky is hardened and Hutch is educated. Together, they attack drug traffickers and thieves.

They travel the city with the help of their 1974 Ford Torino and they are helped by informing them Huggy Bear. They are both singles and that feeds the scenarios a lot throughout the series.

The two characters are well defined psychologically and form a most complementary tandem. The first has everything of the showers, the not very ingenious suburbs that spends his savings and his time pampering his tomato red car tenderly. The second did not recover from Woodstco and is part of the "Peace and Love" generation. It is a cool baba with vaguely ecological concerns that spends his time testing new decoctions in order to live healthy.

The only thing that differentiates Starsky from Hutch is the physical. Because the two men are born, police officers a little suicide bid on the edges and characters of cool temperament. Starsky comes from a modest background but it is he who has the formidable red Torino Ford…

Hutch Ken Hutchinson dit Hutch is not a street child, and received a good education. But nothing helps: what he likes is action and adrenaline, even if he is a little more gifted for the discussion. Finally, it is the most blond of the two.

Captain Dobey as of course, the two cops make the misfortune of their superior and Captain Harold Dobey does not deprive himself to tell them. Even if he appreciates the character of his 2 men, he knows how to be heard when things get bodied. It is the brainstone of all!

Huggy Indic 'par excellence, Huggy The good pipes remains above all a superb "Fashion Victim" of the 70s. Disguised as a pimp, his nonchalant approach actually hides his lack of insurance and he remains the closest to the two detectives. It is the most badly dressed (therefore the funniest) of all!

Starsky and Hutch is an American television series which was broadcast between 1975 and 1979. The series follows the adventures of two detectives from the Bay City police, David Starsky and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson, while working together to solve crimes in the city.

The two characters are very different from each other: Starsky is impulsive and passionate, while Hutch is quieter and thoughtful. Despite their differences, they form an infallible duo and are capable of resolving the most difficult affairs thanks to their intelligence, their perseverance and their unwavering friendship.

Their work leads them to face a variety of criminals, from gangsters to serial killers, including crooks and drug traffickers. They also have to face corruptions within the police, and personal tensions that sometimes threaten to separate them.

With his relaxed style and endearing characters, Starsky and Hutch has become a cult series in the United States and was greeted for his unique approach to police comedy. The series was adapted in several films and spin-offs, including a cinematographic version in 2004 with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the titles roles.

The characters are inspired by New York police officers who have re -existed and over -repeated Batman and Robin by the press.

P. M. Glasser hated the Ford Torino because it was a very hard car to drive, very heavy, moreover when turns it fell on D. Soul.

David Soul was chosen thanks to a role he played in the film "Magnum Force" alongside Clint Eastwood.

During the filming of "the target" ("Class in Crime"), David Soul injured on the back, and had to wear a corset and a cane. He then found himself still outside the camera to facilitate his trips from one plate to another, which explains that in season 4 he wears large clothes and that he no longer makes as many waterfalls. It should also be noted that the Episode "A La Belle Equipe" ("Partnersé) was filmed to limit the movement of David Soul

The concept (Thanks to www.lequotidiendinma.com)

At the origin of the series, we find the screenwriter and future producer William Blinn. Blinn, who had already worked on "Les Invasseurs" (1967/1968) and who later collaborated in "Hunter" (1977) before experiencing a great success with "Fame" (1982/1988). In this mid -1970s, Blinn was interested in writing a detective series with two very specific axes in mind: first, not to design a new police series featuring uniform cops (success "Kojak" and "Columbo" showing him that this typical aspect of American production is then a little dated); Then stage a duo of young cops with totally opposite characters. For the brown, Blinn borrows the nickname of a football player he knew at university, Starsky. For the second, and it is much more difficult, Blinn manages to consult the alphabet and stops at the letter H to design the name of Hutch, adding to the latter the first name of Kenneth which gives the whole a "Average bourgeoisie" pace to which Blinn is attached as opposed to much more modest social extraction stars. Thus, Starsky and Hutch were born on paper during spring 1974.

Blinn then goes to the production stage and meets Leonard Goldberg who will contribute to developing each of the two characters based in particular on press articles relating the exploits of a couple of police dressed like street people and working at night. From this journalistic sum, Goldberg insists that Starsky and Hutch will have to behave like blood brothers in the upcoming TV movie. The first title given to the telefilm project is: "Nightwork".

The project draws the attention of Fred Silverman, one of the big bosses of the ABC network. Silverman knows that at the time, the ABC network appears to be a poor parent in the American television landscape, still classified far behind the other two national, CBS and NBC networks. However, under its leadership, the chain has changed policy and programmed series which immediately obtained better audience scores. Thus, when the production of the show is definitively launched, ABC will program, in the same evening, on Wednesday evening at 9 p.m. and at 10 p.m., the two series "Baretta" (1974/1978) interpreted by Robert Blake followed by " Starsky and Hutch ". However, after reading the scenario of "Nightwork", Silverman objects to William Blinn and Leonard Goldberg that this TV movie imposes a night shoot, which can quickly turn into a nightmare for the whole team. A rewriting is therefore necessary while another personality will be grafted on the future series: Jospeh T. Naar. The latter will develop relations between the two police officers in order to constitute a real duo.

Finally, we cannot be completely precise without mentioning the role played by Aaron Spelling which, too, quickly detects the potential contained in this story. Aaron Spelling was, in 1975, one of the major Hollywood producers, who was able to impose a real trademark on these different programs such as "the new team" (whose heroes were young and sometimes dressed as hippies. Condemned to be forgiven for their errors of youth, they had to devote themselves to the fight against crime. The impact with the public was at the rendering leading to the broadcast of 124 episodes on the ABC network, from September 24, 1968 to 23 August 1973), or "S.W.A.T." which, from 1976, will present the actions of the intervention units without forgetting the "funny ladies", are female cops. Ultimately, Spelling quickly realizes that with this new concept, there is an idea able to seduce adolescents from the 1970s.

In the first episode it is not Bernie Hamilton who plays the role of the captain but actor Richard Ward, he will be replaced fairly quickly.

In fact if David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser were chosen for the roles that have known is because their at their end of testing (this is the scene of the interrogation that we see in the 'Episode 1, with the man with a phone), they were the only ones to have done so "cool" without attacking man, the producer saw that there are potential between these two men and the took. (learned in the file on the series of the 80s broadcast on M6).

The series was a considerable success at its beginnings but, in 1977, a campaign against violence on American television shakes this success. The writers are forced to cut action scenes in favor of more romantic or comical scenes. The spirit of the series is no longer there and in 1979, Starsky and Hutch definitely returned their famous car to the garage so as not to bring it out.

In France, the series owes a share of its success to the voices of Jacques Balutin (Starsky) and Francis Lax (Hutch) and the credits of the credits which was written and composed by Haïm Saban. Balutin and Lax had fun modifying or adding comic reflections giving the impression to French viewers than humor was much more present than it was in the original version.

In 1977, episode 2-20 (no luck Huggy) in which Starsky & Hutch were replaced by Huggy and his Turkey friend who became private detectives, was to launch Antonio Fargas in his own series Huggy Bear but the episode was a failure and his series canceled. (In this episode learned that the name of Huggy and Huggy Jackson).

Paul Michael Glaser produced five episodes and David Soul produced three episodes.

Filming locations:

• Los Angeles (California, USA)

• Creation date: 2003/07/01 by stals
• Last Update: 2008/03/02 by franckenstein