This episode and the continuation was filmed in late 1977. To Glaser it was just another episode, notable in that it was a two-parter. These two episodes, called "The Plague," dealt with an illness that was highly contagious and killed quickly. That was just a script, but four years later, sadly it all became too real as AIDS struck this nation and the world. Just as sadly, Glaser ended up on the front lines in this fight against AIDS as his wife and then his daughter contracted and later passed from this horrible disease. Do you think that Glaser thought about the episodes as he was involved in his battle with this disease? Could he have ever known?
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Did Bill Gates watch this as a kid?
imdb-2528826 December 2020
Cos therein lies all the ideas for the plandemic he unleashed upon us. On the menu: no social distancing, no masks, the nurse gets in the sick patient's face within half a foot or less, everybody that got in contact with the sick people (nurse, mother, partner etc.) is released into the greater population...what gives? I'm starting to think why am I quarantined and socially distancing??
KIDDING! I already knew this is all bogus. So this show is pretty interesting considering. Starsky has a weird accent. Is he supposed to be Brooklyn? Cos his accent isn't NYC at all. And why is it always Hutch who gets sick while Starsky runs around being the hero, yet again and again?! I wonder how David Soul felt, knowing he had to, once again, play the guy's who lying in bed with his hair all stuck together and looking sweaty and sick while PMG gets all the glory? Not cool!
Anyway a pretty good episode. And there's the kid from Little House on the Prairie. I wonder why didn't Gates throw a couple billion COZI-TV's way to prevent them from airing this now? !
KIDDING! I already knew this is all bogus. So this show is pretty interesting considering. Starsky has a weird accent. Is he supposed to be Brooklyn? Cos his accent isn't NYC at all. And why is it always Hutch who gets sick while Starsky runs around being the hero, yet again and again?! I wonder how David Soul felt, knowing he had to, once again, play the guy's who lying in bed with his hair all stuck together and looking sweaty and sick while PMG gets all the glory? Not cool!
Anyway a pretty good episode. And there's the kid from Little House on the Prairie. I wonder why didn't Gates throw a couple billion COZI-TV's way to prevent them from airing this now? !
Melodrama
monomerd27 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This story had some potential, but it failed to live up to it. Instead of being an exciting race against time, it plodded along slowly with a lot of meetings and yelling.
Starsky and Hutch start out trying to track down people who were exposed to a cop who died from the plague. Right away they mess up the time line in the dialog, because supposedly Starsky and Hutch spend 72 hours in isolation because of their exposure to the cop. But when they then go out on the street, following up on people the cop busted, they go around saying they were people the cop busted "yesterday". The guy's been dead at least three days. The doctors spend a lot of time, in numerous scenes, telling us about this virus and incubation times and how it was going to be spread and how people would be exposed, and then they seemed to break every one of their rules when it came to who got what when. How does Hutch, who got isolated for 72 hours and never gets exposed again, suddenly have it at the end of Part 1? And how come they then don't have to track down everyone HE contacted in the last 72 hours? It's stuff like that that makes the story ring so false that you can't get too excited about it.
It gets somewhat dramatic when the guys track down Patient A, the first guy with the virus (who is also an international hit-man). They cleverly do this by discovering and staking out the guy's target. But they lose him. This is about the last excitement we get from this two-part episode. On to Part 2, for even less exciting developments.
Starsky and Hutch start out trying to track down people who were exposed to a cop who died from the plague. Right away they mess up the time line in the dialog, because supposedly Starsky and Hutch spend 72 hours in isolation because of their exposure to the cop. But when they then go out on the street, following up on people the cop busted, they go around saying they were people the cop busted "yesterday". The guy's been dead at least three days. The doctors spend a lot of time, in numerous scenes, telling us about this virus and incubation times and how it was going to be spread and how people would be exposed, and then they seemed to break every one of their rules when it came to who got what when. How does Hutch, who got isolated for 72 hours and never gets exposed again, suddenly have it at the end of Part 1? And how come they then don't have to track down everyone HE contacted in the last 72 hours? It's stuff like that that makes the story ring so false that you can't get too excited about it.
It gets somewhat dramatic when the guys track down Patient A, the first guy with the virus (who is also an international hit-man). They cleverly do this by discovering and staking out the guy's target. But they lose him. This is about the last excitement we get from this two-part episode. On to Part 2, for even less exciting developments.
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