Watching the programme now, there are episodes where the car barely features, the titular characters more concerned with adopting risible foreign accents and carrying off some ill-advised comic routine. As a kid, it was all about the car - the mythical Ford Torino aka the Striped Tomato - and it's tempting to remember it as one long action sequence. And while it still has kitsch nostalgic appeal, it's not exactly how we remember it.
These days of course, anyone with Channel Five can watch the show, which is replete with pimps, hoes, drug dealers and violent shootouts. Suffice to say, it was arguably the most exciting thing on earth, and staying up late to watch it was one of the greatest thrills imaginable. Depressingly, there will be people reading this who weren't even born when Starsky & Hutch was being transmitted to a generation of enraptured youngsters.
