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This scene from Captain Dobey, You're Dead always interested me visually.
A massage parlor in this show is never just a massage parlor. The viewer can assume the women playing chess are prostitutes. But I'm never 100% sure if they're biologically female. The blond in particular strikes me as Hutch in drag. They're playing chess-a classic partner activity, and one that S & H engage in themselves. However, neither of them moves a piece. They just stare from the board to each other like they're in some avant garde homoerotic film. The way the shot is set up with them couched into Starsky and Hutch is very suggestive to me, almost as if they're ghosts of the female aspects of S & H. Starsky and Hutch never acknowledge them in any way.