When Does Starsky & Hutch Season 5 Come Out? Is It Renewed?
“Me and Thee”
Starsky & Hutch ended after Season 4.
IMDb
7.0/10
Seasons
4
Episodes
92
Diagnostics
- Network
- ABC
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime
- First aired
- 1975-09-10
- Last aired
- 1979-05-15
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Rated
- TV-14
Awards 5 wins & 6 nominations total
Predictive Logic Analysis
Starsky & Hutch has concluded its run. Production records list the series as ended, meaning the story has been brought to a planned close rather than left open. Barring a revival, there is no Season 5 in development.
What is Starsky & Hutch about?
Starsky & Hutch works because it understood something simple: the chemistry between two cops matters more than what crime they're solving on any given Tuesday night. David Starsky is the hot-blooded street detective in a loud car, Kenneth Hutchinson is the measured thinker who reads books, and together they chase down muggers and drug dealers across a fictionalized Bay City with a rhythm that feels lived-in rather than manufactured. The show's appeal isn't mysterious. It's a buddy cop drama built on actual comedy, the kind that emerges from watching two people who genuinely like and provoke each other do their jobs.
The tone sits somewhere between procedural earnestness and knowing humor. Starsky & Hutch never winks at the audience, but it doesn't take itself so seriously that a scene of Hutch deadpanning his way through interrogation or Starsky's car nearly getting destroyed for the hundredth time can't land a laugh. Antonio Fargas as Huggy Bear, their street informant, adds a layer of wit and vernacular freshness that TV crime shows hadn't quite figured out yet. The show moves fast, with action sequences that feel relatively brisk for the era, and it's unafraid to let episodes be lightweight and fun instead of portentous.
Audiences embraced it immediately, and the show held strong through four seasons on ABC. Critics have treated it kindly in retrospect, recognizing that it created a template for buddy cop entertainment that television has never really abandoned. The chemistry between Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul is the whole thing, and it survives decades of rewatching without embarrassment.
What makes Starsky & Hutch remain watchable while plenty of shows from its era feel like museum pieces is that it prioritized character detail over plot machinery. You believe these men have worked together for years. You see it in how they move around each other, how they finish each other's thoughts, how they get annoyed and then move on. That relationship is the show, and everything else is just what they do while having it.
Created by William Blinn
Themes
Is Starsky & Hutch renewed or cancelled?
Working against it
The series is listed as ended
Starsky & Hutch Season 5 Release Date
No new season is expected. Starsky & Hutch has ended, so there is no upcoming release to anticipate unless a revival is announced.
Best & worst episodes
Starsky & Hutch seasons
Season 11975 · 22 ep
- 1. Savage Sunday1975-09-10 · ★ 8.0
- 2. Texas Longhorn1975-09-17 · ★ 10.0
- 3. Death Ride1975-09-24 · ★ 10.0
- 4. Snowstorm1975-10-01 · ★ 10.0
- 5. The Fix1975-10-08 · ★ 5.5
- 6. Death Notice1975-10-15
- 7. Pariah1975-10-22 · ★ 8.0
- 8. Kill Huggy Bear1975-10-29 · ★ 10.0
- 9. The Bait1975-11-05 · ★ 10.0
- 10. Lady Blue1975-11-12
- 11. Captain Dobey, You're Dead!1975-11-19
- 12. Terror on the Docks1975-11-26
- 13. The Deadly Impostor1975-12-10
- 14. Shootout1975-12-17
- 15. The Hostages1976-01-07
- 16. Losing Streak1976-01-14
- 17. Silence1976-01-21
- 18. The Omaha Tiger1976-01-28 · ★ 10.0
- 19. Jojo1976-02-18
- 20. Running1976-02-25
- 21. A Coffin for Starsky1976-03-03 · ★ 1.0
- 22. Bounty Hunter1976-04-21
Season 21976 · 25 ep
- 1. The Las Vegas Strangler (1)1976-09-25
- 2. The Las Vegas Strangler (2)1976-09-25
- 3. Murder at Sea (1)1976-10-02
- 4. Murder at Sea (2)1976-10-02
- 5. Gillian1976-10-16
- 6. Bust Amboy (a.k.a. Nightlight)1976-10-23
- 7. The Vampire1976-10-30 · ★ 7.0
- 8. The Specialist1976-11-06 · ★ 7.0
- 9. Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts1976-11-20 · ★ 7.0
- 10. Vendetta (a.k.a. The Monster)1976-11-27
- 11. Nightmare1976-11-28 · ★ 7.0
- 12. Iron Mike1976-12-18
- 13. Little Girl Lost1976-12-25 · ★ 10.0
- 14. Bloodbath1977-01-01
- 15. The Psychic1977-01-15
- 16. The Set-Up (1)1977-01-22
- 17. The Set-Up (2)1977-01-29
- 18. Survival1977-02-05
- 19. Starsky's Lady (a.k.a. Revenge; a.k.a. Snowball)1977-02-12
- 20. Huggy Bear and the Turkey1977-02-19
- 21. The Committee1977-02-26
- 22. The Velvet Jungle1977-03-05
- 23. Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road1977-03-12
- 24. Murder on Stage 171977-03-19
- 25. Starsky and Hutch are Guilty1977-04-16
Season 31977 · 23 ep
- 1. Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (1)1977-09-17 · ★ 10.0
- 2. Starsky & Hutch on Playboy Island (a.k.a. Murder on Voodoo Island) (2)1977-09-17 · ★ 10.0
- 3. Fatal Charm1977-09-24
- 4. I Love You, Rosey Malone1977-10-01
- 5. Murder Ward1977-10-08
- 6. Death in a Different Place1977-10-15
- 7. The Crying Child1977-10-22
- 8. The Heroes1977-10-29 · ★ 5.0
- 9. The Plague (1)1977-11-19 · ★ 7.0
- 10. The Plague (2)1977-11-26 · ★ 7.0
- 11. The Collector1977-12-03
- 12. Manchild on the Streets1977-12-10
- 13. The Action1978-01-07
- 14. The Heavyweight1978-01-14
- 15. A Body Worth Guarding1978-01-25
- 16. The Trap1978-02-01
- 17. Satan's Witches1978-02-08 · ★ 6.5
- 18. Class in Crime1978-02-15
- 19. Hutchinson: Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One)1978-02-22
- 20. Foxy Lady1978-03-01
- 21. Partners1978-05-03
- 22. Quadromania1978-05-10
- 23. Deckwatch1978-05-17
Season 41978 · 22 ep
- 1. Discomania1978-09-12
- 2. The Game1978-09-19
- 3. Blindfold1978-09-26
- 4. Photo Finish1978-10-10
- 5. Moonshine1978-10-17
- 6. Strange Justice1978-10-24
- 7. The Avenger1978-10-31
- 8. Dandruff1978-11-14
- 9. Black and Blue1978-11-21
- 10. The Groupie1978-11-28
- 11. Cover Girl (a.k.a. No Deposit, No Return)1978-12-12
- 12. Starsky's Brother (a.k.a. Starsky's Little Brother)1978-12-19
- 13. The Golden Angel1979-01-16
- 14. Ballad for a Blue Lady1979-01-23
- 15. Birds of a Feather1979-01-30
- 16. Ninety Pounds of Trouble1979-02-06
- 17. Huggy Can't Go Home (a.k.a. Huggy Can't Go Back)1979-02-13
- 18. Targets Without a Badge (a.k.a. The Snitch) (1)1979-03-06
- 19. Targets Without a Badge (2)1979-03-11
- 20. Targets Without a Badge (3)1979-03-11
- 21. Starsky vs. Hutch1979-05-08
- 22. Sweet Revenge1979-05-15 · ★ 10.0
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Starsky & Hutch cast
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David Soul
Kenneth Hutchinson
Paul Michael Glaser
David Starsky
Antonio Fargas
Huggy Bear Brown
Bernie Hamilton
Harold Dobey
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Frequently asked
- When does Starsky & Hutch Season 5 come out?
- Starsky & Hutch ended after Season 4.
- Is Starsky & Hutch renewed or cancelled?
- Starsky & Hutch has ended. Its final season has already aired and no further seasons are expected.
- How many seasons of Starsky & Hutch are there?
- Starsky & Hutch has aired 4 seasons so far.
- How many episodes of Starsky & Hutch are there?
- There are 92 episodes of Starsky & Hutch across 4 seasons.
- Who created Starsky & Hutch?
- Starsky & Hutch was created by William Blinn.
- Where can I watch Starsky & Hutch?
- Starsky & Hutch is available to stream on fuboTV, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store and Google Play Movies.
- What is Starsky & Hutch's IMDb rating?
- Starsky & Hutch holds an IMDb rating of 7/10 from 11,738 votes.