Looks like the vast majority of fans suppose Hutch was raised Lutheran, like David Soul, although nothing definite is said about it in the show. The one thing we do know for sure is that Hutch is not Catholic: in the tag of "Terror on the Docks", Nancy's mother says it out loud after hearing Hutch lie to Nancy about her fiance's motives: "You can ( Read more... )

There are probably many examples of pieces from Hutch's art collection first showing up elsewhere (at least three others spring to mind) but this one is just too funny and it allows me to point and snicker at other things, too. (What better way to celebrate my first SH anniversary: it was exactly one year ago that I watched my first ever episode, ( Read more... )

Towards the end of the show, Hutch acquires a new framed poster, one of a girl in a blue dress, here behind him in Targets Without a Badge, Part 3:


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If some object breaks and you really love it and want to keep it, you will fix it, right?

I've spotted two objects that Hutch apparently fixes, behind the scenes.

Left, the statuette of a girl, after losing her head, in "Fatal Charm" (S03E02); right, with her head back on in "Targets without a Badge", Part 3 (S04E20):


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This first poster one can truly call a blink-and-you-miss-it item. Not 100% certain, but I think we only ever see it in one scene, for a few seconds, through a door that opens and closes. This brief appearance is in the tag of "Shootout", which is such a lamentably stupid epilogue to a brilliant episode that you may not have watched it very closely ( Read more... )

Here's another art nouveau poster we see at Hutch's place (through S1-S3), most prominently in "Fatal Charm". It's always in the same place in the bathroom (both in Canal Cottage and Venice Place):


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I just learned the bicycle turns 200 next year, which is a good excuse to make a post about a historical bicycle poster.

Hutch has some strange attachment to bicycle posters: there's that turn-of-the-century French poster ( here), the more recent Japanese one ( here) and then, an old Scottish one - uh, well, technically, this one's a tricycle poster ( Read more... )

Sometimes finding out this stuff is too easy: after a great vintage bicycle poster at Hutch's place caught my eye, I just googled "bicycle poster red blue", and there it was, first thing in the image search results.

It's the 70th anniversary poster for Miyata Bicycles, by Hiroshi Ohchi (1958). It can be seen in several Season 1 episodes on the ( Read more... )

So far, the most adorable item I've spotted chez Hutch is that black-and-white photo of a baby lion, visible here just behind the blond blintz's head.

I wish I could see what the photo below the lion cub is. Someone holds something tiny (another baby animal?) in their hand?


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In “Running”, we get a good look at Starsky’s place. Hutch gets a lot of laughs (from fans) for his kitchy angel statuette, but whatever is that bird thing in this picture? The shiny car sculpture on the wall was later seen in "Class in Crime" in the first murder victim's apartment.


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