An announcement - In celebration of the fifth anniversary of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, I will be having a Know Your LGBT History marathon of six posts on a Saturday in September. These posts will feature the good, bad, and ugly portrayals of the gay community in movies and television. Some will piss you off, others will make you cheer. But they will all be new entries. More info later. For now, tell me what you think of the idea.
Starsky and Hutch was a popular cop drama in the 1970s starring David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser as two unorthodox policemen fighting crime in California. Antonio Fargas also starred and stole the show a lot of times with his character of HuggyBear.
I think it's safe to say that
Starsky and Hutch, while popular during the four seasons it was on (1975-1979) wasn't necessarily groundbreaking.
However, the action was awesome, the chemistry between Soul and Glaser was tight, and the plots were original.
Such as the plot to the episode
Death in a Different Place. In this episode, a policeman an old friend of Starsky's is found murdered in a sleazy motel. As they investigate the crime, Starsky and Hutch find out that the man was involved in gay relationships. And the question has to be did that have anything to do with his murder?
Careful about what you think so far. The episodes takes many twists and terms, showing both infuriating ignorance about the gay community and some of the characters are sleazy as hell. However the episode does show a bit of sensitivity - particularly with the murdered man's wife who knew of his encounters but loved him anyway.
So was Starky's friend murdered because he was gay? Find out for yourself via this mini version of the episode. And just in case you are wondering, yes that is legendary drag queen Charles Pierce featured in this episode:
6 comments:
YAY!!!
I was massively in lust with Paul Michael Glaser, especially after he did the Houdini movie.
"...fighting crime in New York City."
From wikipedia, "they were known for usually tearing around the streets of fictional "Bay City, California"."
whoops. change made anonymous. thank you for that ;p
Charles would have slapped you silly for calling him a "drag queen," and in his best Joan Crawford voice, would have told you, "I am NOT a drag queen, I AM a male actress."
I was acquainted with Charles and he hated, absolutely hated, being called a "drag queen."
LOL. So true Tom. By the way, I did a tribute to him in a past post. It's listed in the archives.
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