Highly recommended buy.
This is an excellent TV show with well written episodes and superb acting. I have enjoyed all the episodes in this season 3 DVD box set. There is more comedy between the two cops Starsky and Hutch this season but there are still serious episodes.

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

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

When brown was the new black
Starsky & Hutch will always hold a special place in the history of me. Back in the 1970's I lived a fairly straight forward kiddie life in one of the safest and 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 and loads of other american shows like Barney Miller, Kojack, Columbo and so on. But Starsky & Hutch stuck in 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 and scary dudes and it was brown and 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 and rappers should in my mind stay away from, well, everything). These guys are so likeable, the car is so retro cool and 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, and I've seen them all again all over again after that. And since I like a lot of music from the time period and a lot of my favorite movies were made back then, it fits into my... well, like Rob said in High Fidelity, it's my personal fettish.

The third season is a bit more drama, a bit more characters and toned down action. This was not because ratings were failing, but because a lot of conserned parents and busy bodies in the late 70's thought shows like this spawned violent behaviour in children and 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, and the guys, allthough a bit more serious and sad at times, are still the only Starsky & Hutch you'll ever need.

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