Tough, impulsive Starsky and more reserved, sensible Hutch are plainclothes detectives working the roughest beat in the city, aided by their red 1974 Ford Torino and their street-smart informant, Huggy Bear.
Despite their differences, the streetwise Dave Starsky and his soft-spoken, intellectual partner Ken Hutchinson are the perfect undercover team for fictional Bay City’s toughest beats. With help from their streetsmart informant Huggy Bear, their boss Captain Harold Dobey and a souped-up red muscle car, they race against the clock to solve crimes and save the day. Relying on their very different perspectives in their pursuit to clean up Bay City’s crime-infested streets, Starsky & Hutch take on powerful racketeers, big time drug dealers and people from the wrong side of the track. They face cold blooded assassins and cop killers, powerful discriminators and even down-on-their-luck average Joes forced into crime just to make ends meet.