This is an excellent episode. The original S&H personalities we loved, team work and a surprise plot twist, that we didn't see coming back in the 70s. Even another nice surprise courtesy of an unusually jovial Captain Dobey at the end.
Although I strongly dislike that good cops doing their job are considered "dirty" and I, myself, would support those kinds of cops or be one of them if I were a cop, which I'm not, I'm not judging the episode by my personal politics. But let's just say I'd take a 70s "dirty cop" playing judge and executioner to prevent repeat offenses perpetrated upon you and me, than a 2020 dirty cop, who can't be bothered to show up when you call (if dispatch even puts the call through that is!) and who, when they do show up, blames the victim and threatens to arrest you for "bothering them" as they disgustingly take the perp's side, when they aren't busy killing said victims and other innocent citizens, of course!
I'm however removing 1 star because it was a bit slow at times, and I had to turn on the TV while Hutch strolls away from Starsky's car and spends, it seems, some 5 min on a phone call we aren't privy to, while we watch Starsky look at him and the cars pass by behind the phone booth. Why didn't a director tell the editor to chop that off by 75%??
In fact, it starts a bit slow. I guess in the 70s they didn't have to worry about short attention span and viewers cruising the internet while the boring scenes droned on. That said, I don't know what that cranky one reviewer we find at all episodes here, is so uptight about? Only 7/10 with her glowing review? With fans like that, who needs detractors, huh? Anyway, great episode, wish they were all of this caliber.