A psychic running a diner helps Starsky and Hutch when the schoolgirl daughter of a wealthy football team owner is kidnapped.A psychic running a diner helps Starsky and Hutch when the schoolgirl daughter of a wealthy football team owner is kidnapped.A psychic running a diner helps Starsky and Hutch when the schoolgirl daughter of a wealthy football team owner is kidnapped.
Edward James Olmos
- Julio Gutierez
- (as Edward Jamesl Olmos)
Dianne Kay
- Joanna Haymes
- (as Diane Kay)
Steve Vandeman
- Man
- (as Steve Vanderman)
David Armstrong
- Detective
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThis episode involves a foot chase from phone booth to phone booth and a kidnapped girl being threatened to be killed if money is not delivered in time. Which is some of the same plot elements that was also used in the film Dirty Harry. And the Mel Gibson film where he yells "Gimme back my son" in the trailer. And later spoof by The Nanny when Max yells "Give me back my nanny!" and he has to run too and he even dives in a pool.
- GoofsThe opening car chase is an exact copy of the same scene in "The Omaha Tiger". Apparently, the director was a bit lazy and they put in that same scene(time filler?).
- Crazy creditsEdward James Olmos is incorrectly credited as Edward Jamesl Olmos.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Starsky and Hutch: Partners (1978)
Featured review
Save the Girl, oh Psychic !
This episode did haunt me many years, especially that a girl was abandonned by its kidnappers and trapped inside a car, about to be crushed in a scrap yard.
However, the story is quite well done: Starsky and Hutch meet a psychic (who prefers to forget about it) who forsees a murdered man in an amusement park. However, a much more prior case happens when the daughter of a rich football team is kidnapped, and ransom is required by 5pm, no police involvement or the girl dies. It happens that it is linked with the murdered guy who happened to have a gambling debt, but was eliminated by his cronies (its chief, a heartless con named "Moo-Moo", prefers abandonning the girl in the scrapped car, in despair of his accomplice who better shut up).
With all the dots connected and finally a goof-off from the colleagues while Hutch races desperately from phone to phone brings the duo for one last chance to save the girl from the pressure clutches of a car press...
And the duo rewards the former psychic now a cook with the help of Huggy Bear !
Great episode and brings you to the edge of your seat, litteraly to the end...
However, the story is quite well done: Starsky and Hutch meet a psychic (who prefers to forget about it) who forsees a murdered man in an amusement park. However, a much more prior case happens when the daughter of a rich football team is kidnapped, and ransom is required by 5pm, no police involvement or the girl dies. It happens that it is linked with the murdered guy who happened to have a gambling debt, but was eliminated by his cronies (its chief, a heartless con named "Moo-Moo", prefers abandonning the girl in the scrapped car, in despair of his accomplice who better shut up).
With all the dots connected and finally a goof-off from the colleagues while Hutch races desperately from phone to phone brings the duo for one last chance to save the girl from the pressure clutches of a car press...
And the duo rewards the former psychic now a cook with the help of Huggy Bear !
Great episode and brings you to the edge of your seat, litteraly to the end...
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- Oct 29, 2020
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- 1930 Century Park West, 3H4J+R6 Los Angeles, California, United States(It was the bank where the teller pretends not to recognize the man.)
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