Customer Reviews

Highly recommended buy. - By: , 19 Jan 2006
This is an excellent TV show with well written episodes & superb acting. I have enjoyed all the episodesin this season 3 DVD box set. There is more comedy between the two cops Starsky & Hutch this season but there are still serious episodes.

I'm impressed with the picture quality & all episodes have been digitally remastered & cleaned up of dirt & dust.

I thoroughly recommend this Season 3 DVD box set & am looking forward to the Starsky & Hutch season 4 DVD box set.

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When brown was the new black - By: MORTEN AASTAD, 09 Mar 2005
Starsky & Hutch will always hold a special placein the history of me. Backin the 1970's I lived a fairly straight forward kiddie lifein one of the safest & then whitest countries on the planet, Norway. I'm not entirely sure when Starsky & hutch ran over here, if it was on Norwegian or Swedish tv, or both. But I must have been around 7 or 8 when I first watched it. It was the first cop show I can remember really. Sure, we did have lots of detective shows on Norwegian tv, friday nights are still legendary as 'detektimen' night. There were german detective 'Derrick', Charlies Angels, british quality stuff & loads of other american shows like Barney Miller, Kojack, Columbo & so on. But Starsky & Hutch stuckin mind. Why ? Probably the car for one, the fact that these guys seemed like such good buddies. Here were a friendship you hoped you would have when you grew up I suppose. And there was action & scary dudes & it was brown & grimey, just like the 70's themselves.

Seeing Starsky & hutch back on dvd over the past year or so has been a joy (the movie wasn't such a big joy, I didn't like the way they chose to turn the characters around & rappers shouldin my mind stay away from, well, everything). These guys are so likeable, the car is so retro cool & Huggy bear is actualy kind of a sweet guy (and not a spaced out weed head like Snoop, whatever the name is this week, is), I've run through the episode like i was adicted, & I've seen them all again all over again after that. And since I like a lot of music from the time period & a lot of my favorite movies were made back then, it fits into my... well, like Rob saidin High Fidelity, it's my personal fettish.

The third season is a bit more drama, a bit more characters & toned down action. This was not because ratings were failing, but because a lot of conserned parents & busy bodiesin the late 70's thought shows like this spawned violent behaviourin children & so on (what they would have done if they saw todays the Shield i don't know, probably have a stroke). So the third season might seem a little on the lackluster side compared to the previous two, but the humour is still good, & the guys, allthough a bit more serious & sad at times, are still the only Starsky & Hutch you'll ever need.