MENTAL STATES

“All right, what’s buggin’ ya?” (Pilot)

Starsky and Hutch’s comments regarding each other’s moods and mental states due to body observation
• Hutch says to Starsky “You know, you’re pretty scary when you get angry.” (Shootout)
• Hutch says to Starsky that the women’s clothes on his arm “doesn’t go with your eyes,” in a tease about his interest in Laura Stevens. (Velvet Jungle)
• Hutch says to Starsky, “Don’t look at me like that. I’m not the enemy. “ (Rosey Malone)
• Hutch says to Starsky, “Something did happen. I can see that (gestures to his face). How come you’re not telling me?” (Rosey Malone)
• Hutch sees Starsky’s face says, “Don’t get angry with me,” as Starsky discovers his clothes are wet in the wash. (Crying Child, Nightmare)
• Hutch asks Starsky, “All right, what’s buggin’ ya?” (Pilot)
• Hutch tells Starsky, “Get that smirk off of your face.” (Strange Justice)
• Hutch tells Starsky, “You look lousy.” (Blindfold)
• Starsky to Hutch “Hey, do you have any idea how beautiful your eyes become when you are angry?” (Bounty Hunter)
• Starsky asks Hutch, “What happened to you?” when he sees Hutch’s battered face. (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• Starsky says to Hutch “You know, your eyes flash when you get angry.” (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “Don’t look so ill. It’s not everyday you get to buy your best buddy a meal.” (Sweet Revenge)
• "The underlying hostility that triggers a burst of temper like that is usually associated with immaturity." (Psychic)

Starsky and Hutch personal comments about getting along with each other and personal failings
• “Sometimes I think there is something really wrong with the way you think,” Starsky tells Hutch, about Hutch’s explanation of heights. (Death Notice)
• Hutch asks Dobey if he thinks Starsky’s left-handedness makes “him a little strange.” (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Hutch comments, “You know something, Starsk? Sometimes you have the most irritating quality.” (Terror on the Docks)
• Hutch comments a lot of people would doubt Starsky would get to heaven. (Death Notice)
• Hutch teases Starsky, "There will be a lot of people surprised if you even make it to heaven." (Death Notice)
• Hutch explains to trucker about Starsky, “He can be a little obnoxious from time to time.” (Set-Up)
• Hutch says to Starsky, “You know what one of your problems is? You have no romanticism about the sea.” (Murder at Sea)
• Hutch says, “I’m beginning to think that everybody in this town is crazy except you and me.” Starsky answers, “Funny, I was beginning to have serious doubts about you.” (Texas Longhorn)
• Hutch says, “Starsky, have you ever considered that your priorities in life are all screwed up?” after Starsky complains about his shoulder. (Terror on the Docks)
• Hutch tells Starsky, "You know what your problem is, boy? Lookin' rich makes you nervous." (Bait)
• Hutch tells Starsky he is “qualified to do nothing but commit yourself” (Black and Blue)
• Hutch tells Starsky he isn’t “playing with a full deck.” Starsky agrees. (Targets 1)
• Starsky asks Hutch, “Anybody ever tell you are a regular shaft of sunlight?” (Shootout)
• Starsky comments Hutch is “very hard to get along with sometimes.” (Committee)
• Starsky comments, “I keep hanging around this group, I’m going to get paranoid.” (Discomania)
• Starsky tells Huggy, “You’re as weird as he (Hutch) is.” (Game)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “The problem with you, Hutch, is you have the notion that something has to taste rotten in order for it to make you feel good.” (Pariah)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “You know what your problem is? You believe all this malarkey.” (Avenger)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “You really have a cruel steak, don’t you?” when Hutch tricks him about seeing Dobey in the hall. (Little Girl Lost)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “You’re acting very strange lately.” (Body Worth Guarding)
• Starsky complains about Novocain making him feel like he's lost the left side of his face. Hutch tells him, "Well, it would be an improvement." (Cover Girl)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “You’re heartless,” regarding Hutch’s breakfast offerings to Molly/Pete. (Little Girl Lost)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “You’re mean, you’re really mean,” when Hutch won’t let him have all the money to gamble. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Starsky tells Hutch, “You’re very weird, you know that?” (Body Worth Guarding)
• Starsky tells the nurse, “We are weird and getting weirder by the minute.” (Partners)
• Starsky tells Hutch, "You know what your problem is?...Not only are you jealous...You're also some kind of dilettante." (Omaha Tiger)

Starsky and Hutch’s fear of heights
• Hutch says he is afraid of heights. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Hutch says heights only “bother him” when “he can’t see down.” (Death Notice)
• Starsky says “he doesn’t mind the climbing up, it’s the falling down that worries me.” (Death Notice)
• Starsky says he is afraid of heights. (Las Vegas Strangler)

Claustrophobia
• Starsky mentions his claustrophobia. (Plague)

Starsky’s opinions about water
• “You know how much I hate the water,” he reminds Hutch while he is on the couch. (Terror on the Docks)
• Starsky says he doesn’t like the water when he and Hutch cross the river. (Playboy Island)
• Starsky tells Gail, “I really like being in deep water...It really loosens things up,” regarding the tub and the rope. (Bloodbath)

Wrong person in for the crime and mental imbalance, instability, loneliness
• Anton is thought an insane murderer and is arrested. He is the wrong man. (Death Notice)
• Supergnat brings himself in and admits to killing women he didn’t kill. (Vampire)
• Mr. Lantz is very patriotic and very nuts. He admits to crimes he didn’t do. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Mrs. McMillan admits to crimes she didn’t commit. (Deadly Imposter)

Starsky is a self-aware worrier
• Starsky asks, “Mind if I worry, just a little?” (Action)
• Starsky says, “I’d rather worry.” (Death Ride)

There for you, buddy, but…
• Hutch is all ears when Starsky asks him to promise something. When he hears it’s about Starsky’s sore tooth, he loses all sympathy. (Losing Streak)
• Starsky likes Hutch’s idea of dressing as Angel, but wants to change his mind after hearing Buzzy talk. (Golden Angel)
• Starsky promises to like Hutch’s idea because they are buddies. After hearing Hutch’s plan, he says he doesn’t like it after all. (Velvet Jungle)

Maternal instincts regarding Starsky and Hutch
• Dr. Kaufman says Hutch looks like a little boy when he sleeps. (Plague)
• Ginger/Alice comments on her maternal instincts regarding Starsky. (Committee)

Starsky runs from Hutch
• After Hutch’s car interior is covered in fake fur. (Bloodbath)
• After Starsky embarrasses Hutch by singing too loud. (Long Walk)

Hutch loses consciousness
• Hutch is drugged and knocked out. (Fix)
• Hutch is drugged. (Murder Ward)
• Hutch is drugged. (Playboy Island)
• Hutch is knocked out by thugs at his apartment. (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• John Colby "puts him out." (Deadly Imposter)
• Hutch is knocked out by thugs at his apartment. (Foxy Lady)
• Hutch is knocked out in a hallway fight at the hospital. (Sweet Revenge )
• Hutch is knocked out when a bomb destroys his car. (Targets 1)
• Hutch loses consciousness due to food poisoning. (Game)
• Hutch is shot and passes out. (Black and Blue)
• Hutch lis knocked out in a car crash. (Partners)
• Hutch is knocked out in a car crash. Survival)

Starsky loses consciousness
• “Rosey Malone, you knock me out.” (Rosey Malone)
• Starsky is drugged and knocked out. (Bloodbath)
• Starsky is drugged by tea. (Avenger)
• Starsky is drugged by Bellamy. (A Coffin For Starsky)
• Stasrky is drugged during Voodoo ceremony. (Playboy Island)
• Starsky is sedated several times. (Murder Ward)
• Starsky is knocked out. (Murder at Sea)
• Starsky loses consciousness in a car crash. (Partners)
• Starsky is knocked out by his "female" passenger. (Quadromania)

Starsky cries, has watering eyes
• He cries at Terry Roberts’ bedside when she dies. (Starsky’s Lady)
• He cries at Terry Roberts’ Monopoly Memorial with Hutch. (Starsky’s Lady)
• He cries when Dr. Quo gives him the bad news. (Starsky’s Lady)
• He cries when Emily says she can see. (Blindfold)
• He cries when he and Hutch sit outside Pathology. (Lady Blue)
• He cries when he comforts Hutch after her body is found. (Gillian)
• He cries when he comforts Hutch, “You big lummox.” (Fix)
• He cries when he finds Hutch trapped. (Survival)
• He cries when he is rescued by Hutch. (Bloodbath)
• He cries when Hutch struggles to breath in the hospital. (Plague)
• He cries when Jackson dies. (Manchild on the Streets)
• He has watering eyes after Huggy tells him about Roy Slater’s mission. (Survival)
• He cries when Rosey Malone finds out about him and throws him out. (Rosey Malone)
• He when Rosey Malone leaves to go with her pop. (Rosey Malone)
• He cries when at the Galleria and trying to explain himself. (Rosey Malone)
• Starsky says, “I laughed so hard I almost cried,” to Wally Stone. (Murder on Stage 17)

Hutch cries, has watering eyes
• He cries at Starsky’s bedside. (Sweet Revenge)
• He cries at Terry’s memorial. (Starsky’s Lady)
• He cries in bed, during the last story. (Partners)
• He cries in elevator. (Sweet Revenge)
• He cries when he finds Gillian’s body. (Gillian)
• He cries in the dark on the couch listening to Molly / Pete cry. (Little Girl Lost)
• He cries when he finds Starsky. (Bloodbath)
• He cries when Jackson dies. (Manchild on the Streets)

Dobey cries, has watering eyes
• He is on the verge of tears when he is yelling at Starsky and Hutch after they tell him about Mike’s black book. (Iron Mike)
• He has watering eyes when he is comforting Edith, “The family’s together and he can’t hurt us now.” (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)

Giddy Hutch
• He giggles with Nellie after Dirty Nellie’s biting pet rock remark. (Committee)
• Hutch laughs after he discovers Starsky’s garlic clove. (Vampire)
• He chuckles after scaring Starsky by touching his back in car. (Satan’s Witches)
• Hutch giggles after Starsky and Huggy explain the word “geek.” (Bounty Hunter)
• He laughs after Starsky tells Coyle to put an ad in the paper for an assistant. (Iron Mike)
• He giggles in bed with Starsky at hospital in bed. (Sweet Revenge)
• He has an out and out laugh as Sharon tells Starsky she is hooking back up with George. (Heavyweight)
• He has a little giggle listening to Starsky say he could tell Rosey Malone liked him. (Rosey Malone)
• Hutch giggles when Huggy suggests to Starsky that he buy a dental clinic. (Losing Streak)

Giddy Starsky, often accompanied by that cute, little chin-tuck-shoulder thing
• after 3-way phone call to Dobey (Death Notice)
• after Hutch comments on porn actress in theater, Starsky laughs and tells him to “shush” (Pilot)
• after Hutch complains about not having the time to get into character (Snowstorm)
• after Hutch says “What’s Her Name” is not that serious (Pilot)
• after Hutch’s remark about leaving Chicago “pretty much as we found it” (Bait)
• after Frankie comments on Hutch’s dented car (Pilot)
• after Minnie tells him his name is probably on the Miscellaneous Weirdo File. (Cover Girl)
• in bed with Hutch at hospital (Sweet Revenge)
• when driving by Hutch’s overheating car in back of Huggy Bear’s (Lady Blue)
• when Hutch is reading aloud from Chris’ second article (Heroes)
• when Hutch suggests that Dobey might want 2000 Dingle Dolls, same laugh as in theater in the Pilot, (my favorite one) (Hostage)
• after he chases Larry the Fall Guy’s audience away (Heroes)
• after he steals Julie away from Hutch and Hutch tells him to have a good time. “I will,” and then the chin tuck. (Action)

Suicide
• Sharman tries to slit her wrists. (Running)
• Sharman’s second husband killed himself. (Running)
• A sport’s hack calls Tommy Reese and asks if Buzzy was trying to commit suicide. (Golden Angel)
• Two of the four deaths at Cabrillo are supposedly suicides by hanging, though this is later debated. (Murder Ward)
• Evelyn Rankin says Vic is committing it “an inch at a time.” (Losing Streak)
• Huggy tells Starsky regarding the lack of snitch information, “nobody is interested in committing double-suicide.” (Plague)
• Hutch says for Starsky to meet Prudholm alone “is suicide.” (Pariah)
• Woodfield is possibly contemplating as police come up his drive. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Allison is worried her dad will commit it. (Targets 2)
• Allison’s dad’s death is made to look like suicide. (Targets 2)
• Gage asks his class if “being killed by an assassin’s gun any less a suicide than jumping off a twenty story building?” (Class in Crime)
• Reuben wants to set up Huntley’s death to look like a suicide. (Birds of a Feather)
• Hutch tells Starsky, "You're just not the kind of man a woman's going to kill herself over." (Lady Blue)