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Summary: Return Of The Red Tomato
Review: Of course this latest DVD release just had to come out around the time the movie is due to be released, and really this is one of those cop shows that stuck to my mind as i was growing up. There is one thing that I remember the most about this show, and of course it is the infamous "Red Tomato" or more importantly that Red Torino with the huge white stripe on the side that this show was known for. I can recall doing several rendtions of this car in my notebooks at school, and this DVD release looks really appealing to me. Lets hope the rest of the years come out later.
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Summary: Like an old pair of favorite jeans
Review: It sure is good to climb in to my time machine, sit back and get sent all the way back to a time when television was meant to be fun and entertaining.
This production is truly 1st class. As a graphic artist I can only imagine what fun the designers must have had in putting the packaging together. Creative! Strong layout! I'm jealous big time.
As a whole some one thought this entire thing out. This collection is put together solid and I am more than jazzed with the fact it was released as a complete season with the pilot movie. I loved the 1st season the best. I still remember the first time I saw the movie. I thought, "these two dudes are so cool!". Even though I was only about 12 or so I remember thinking this show was some how different. That it was special.
The access menus are enhanced by the best theme song of all 4 seasons. I could never figure out why they changed it. Lalo Shiffrin's work is mememorable, pure classic 70's t.v and movie sountrack. Although he is only given credit for the theme song I can catch hints of Enter the Dragon type pieces throughout the entire show. I'm not sure how decisions are made when it comes to putting these collections together but it seems to me that all the right ones were made here. The special features are too few but at least they exist. I like them all except the upcoming movie tie in. I think that it will eventually detract from the collection if the film ends being a flop. I do like the fact that both David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser are actually shown interacting with their movie versions. How often do you get to see that? My favorite feature is found on disc 5; the featurette called "Harder than it looks"; classic, "don't take TV too serious" type bloopers, with a twist. To tell the truth there were a lot more bloopers that could have been added to the feature, I caught a few myself. But, I don't think that these bloopers make the show bad or detract from it. Times were different back then. Television was innocent. It wasn't all wrapped up in technical advisors and stuff like that. Television and movies nowadays have it made. With all the technological advancements that have been made in equipment, production and special effects. With the amount of knowledge available today actors nowadays have all of this technical and tactical training available to play a part but many times the one thing that lacks is the ability to act. Too much is spent on flash and not enough on substance. Starsky and Hutch was a show unto itself. After sitting through all 23 episodes I still feel the connection with the characters, even after all these years. Like I know them and I guess that is what attracted me to the show back then. The acting was very solid. The characters original. Raw and edgy, funny and real, not just another copy of a copy.It was a show that shaped a generation. Not the other way around.
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Summary: Starsky and Hutch-The Complete First Season DVD
Review: Great job, throughout the DVD package. 20 hours of Starsky and Hutch has me rewinding my memory of when I was seven years old and watching the cops catch the bad guys. Twenty three episodes from 1975. The original pilot with Richard Ward playing Captain Dobey. Richard Ward played the father in Steve Martin's The Jerk, but I remember him most in Brubaker, the Redford movie where he played a prisoner that had served too much time and coffin maker for the previous warden. Gordon Jump also is in the pilot as a gym owner, before his jobs at WKRP and the Maytag repairman. It has interviews of the creater William Blinn, Antonio Fargas, David Soul, and Paul Michael Glazer. It even has a fan, who purchased one of the Torino's used for the show. I didn't know the Gran Torino had a 460 engine. Also, it has the tv promo spots telling about the next show. That isn't done like it used to be, with the stars from the show teasing you about the next show. Thanks to Amazon for delivering fast and with no problems. Starsky and Hutch fans this is it, you are gonna love this set. Now, it is time to start pressing for The Six Million Dollar Man set. Where's Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman, and Lindsey Wagner? An astronaut barely alive, we have the technology to rebuild him, better, faster, stronger.......Where else could you see an astronaunt fighting Bigfoot!!
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Summary: I've waited almost 30 years for this
Review: Starsky and Hutch is perhaps one of the best cop shows of the '70s (there was a lot of competition then), and easily one of the best ever. It's about time that it's finally received the digital treatment it has so long deserved.This was probably the first police drama that showed that cops could also be close friends and actually hang out together and have social lives. All cop shows previously were of the Quinn Martin/Jack Webb/Hawaii 5-0 variety, where everything was done by the book and the principals--although professional--were somewhat cold and very one-dimensional and superficial. This was also the first cop drama that showed that sometimes the rules have to be bent a little bit (and arms and god-knows-what-else broken!) in order to get the job done. Hey, it was rough out there on the mean streets of the 1970s. This DVD set is a little piece of history. The first season is generally considered the best of the four, so this is the one to get. Lots of extras too, including an in-depth look at the Gran Torino that STILL has to be the coolest car ever telecast.
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Summary: Popular series, good chase scenes.
Review: I remember enjoying this series with the highlight on Starsky's and Hutch's friendship and some great chase scenes. I couldn't find out much about the DVD set from Columbia's website. (I am writing this prior to release.) They did say that the set is 1173 minutes long. Here is an episode guide which I hope will be helpful. I listed any guest stars whose names I recognized. However, they may have had a small part in the episode. Here is an episode guide for Season 1, with a tiny description:
1.Pilot: Two teenagers in a car matching Starsky's are killed. A local crime lord awaiting trial is suspected.
2. Savage Sunday: An elderly couple's car is stolen. The thieves don't know that the car trunk is rigged with dymanite and a timer. Guest star: Suzanne Somers
3. Texas Longhorn: A wealthy man's young wife is raped and murdered. The bereaved man wants his own revenge.
4. Death Ride: The daughter of a crime boss who's ratting on his friends needs police protection. Starsky and Hutch don't know that they have been tricked. Guest star: Jeff Corey
5. Snowstorm: Starsky and Hutch are suspected of stealing a million dollars worth of cocaine after a drug raid.
6. The Fix: Hutch is kidnapped by a jealous mobster who gets him addicted to heroin.
7. Death Notice: Starsky and Hutch are bodyguards to a group of strippers who have received death threats.
8. Pariah: After a man arrested by Starsky dies in jail, the bereaved father begins killing police officers and demands that Starsky be punished.
9. Kill Huggy Bear: Huggy Bear, a police informant, ends up with some mob money and gets into trouble with the "owners".
10. The Bait: Starsky and Hutch pose as dealers to trap a drug supplier. They ask a woman arrested for drug possession for help.
11. Lady Blue: Starsky's ex-girlfriend is murdered while working undercover as a go-go dancer.
12. Captain Dobey, You're Dead: Captain Dobey's family is threatened.
13. Terror on the Docks: Starsky and Hutch try to solve the murder of an undercover police officer investigating waterfront heists.
14. Deadly Imposter: An old friend from the acadamy tells them he was a POW and wants to find his ex-wife.
15. Shootout: This episode is considered by some to be one of the series best, with the action occuring in real time. Hit men after a mobster take over a diner where Starsky and Hutch are eating dinner. Guest star: Albert Paulsen
16. The Hostages: The pregnant wife of an armored car driver is kidnapped. The driver is blackmailed into helping rob the businesses on his route. Guest stars: John Ritter, Kristy McNichol
17. Losing Streak: A musician takes money from a club owner that owes him back pay. However, the money turns out to be counterfeit.
18. Silence: A mute parolee who is the resident of a halfway house is suspected of a crime spree.
19. The Omaha Tiger: The murder of a concessioneer sends Starsky and Hutch undercover into the wrestling world.
20. JoJo: Starsky and Hutc nab a rapist. However, the feds want to use the rapist to take down a drug ring.
21. Running: Starsky tries to solve a homicide while helping an old friend in trouble.
22. A Coffin for Starsky: Starsky is injected with a slow-acting poison.
23. Bounty Hunter: Starsky and Hutch are not the only ones searching for a bail-jumper suspected of killing a police officer.
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Summary: Eager Indeed
Review: The first season of Starsky and Hutch was the best one. This season had incorporated some humor (in the form of Huggy Bear) and was a fair buddy-cop show. Later seasons lost the humor and the stars both wanted to not be buddy-buddy, and so the show developed into something less than what it was originally. In any case, the first season DVD is something worth purchasing and has my recommendation.
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Summary: THERE ARE EXCELENT REASONS TO BUY THIS COLLECTION
Review: Namely, this is the only really good season Starsky & Hutch had to offer.
I love this show, it was my favorite around the time I was in Middle school. I used to think Starsky's car was the coolest car in history (!!!!!), still, I feel that from the first show of the second season on, this series went down the tubes in a hurry.
I can't believe people used to say this was the most violent show ever, it looks so tame in every respect for today's standards.
I highly recommend the first season, there's lots of action and truly funny humor.
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Summary: Best Show on TV
Review: Finally is right!
Starsky & Hutch was the best Cop & Buddy show on TV in the 70's.
Finally the fans will get good quality and uncut episodes of the first season. (Which many fans say is the best of all 4 seasons)
Looking forward to seeing the remaining 3 seasons on DVD! A classic TV show restored!
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Summary: ITS ABOUT TIME....
Review: Its about time someone woke up and put one of, if not the greatest cop shows of all time on dvd format. I heard the first season 5 dvd set will include the Pilot episode. Cant get any better then that. A while back, I purchased S&H on VHS thru Colombia House. They are great, but nothing beats seeing the candy apple red Ford Grand Torino tearing up the streets in digital format. Awesome, cant wait. I have been waiting a long time for this. Finally....
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Summary: Corny, but still touching after all these years
Review: The friendship, baby. That's what I'm talking about. Sure, nowadays the plot lines are drab and predictable, but the way the boys handled it was pure class. I enjoyed "Snow Storm", "The Fix" (for obvious hurt/comfort scenes between the guys) and "Coffin For Starsky" (ibid). It was a series that was comical in many aspects (as season 4 portrayed), so the movie is, in all fairness, simply a take off from that perspective. I enjoyed the movie and have seen it twice. I believe they rewrote the characters to give them more appeal to today's audience (and as the audience has laughed throughout the movie both times I've seen it, it seems to be working), but the basic premise of the friendship is the same. There's even a real touching moment when Hutch goes off and gets drunk after he and Starsky have a falling out. I found myself going, "Awww" both times. The series on DVD is what I've been waiting over 20 years for. Uncensored, non-homophobic full length episodes. Uncut. Beautiful. Let the guys and buddies touch, dog-gone it, it's not like they're gonna get married! Then again... Sorry, had to say it. And when the movie comes out on DVD, I'll be the first to pre-order it. For me, as a fan of the series, it's a must have in my collection. Here's hoping the other 3 seasons of S and H come out on DVD soon. I've already finished this one and am raring to go on the others. Thanks ever so much!!
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