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Starsky & Hutch
1975 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by William Blinn
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Although I probably had not watched it for more than a decade before I actually emigrated from the UK to the USA in 1989, I have never been able to shake the feeling that the original TV show "Starsky & Hutch" played an outsize [0] role in my conception of America and my reasons to want to be here.
[0] not sole or even primary, just outsize.
When I was growing up, we didn't have a television until partway through junior high. (One of the best moves my parents made.) I kept hearing these conversations in the hallway: "Did you see Starsky & Hutch last night?" (Yes, I really am that old...) I felt a bit left out based on that.
But I felt left out because of a lot of things. I wasn't a member of the dominant religion. I came into that school knowing nobody, because I didn't attend one of the elementary schools that fed into it. I didn't live in the neighborhood (my parents got me to go to that school rather than the one I was geographically supposed to attend because it had fewer knife fights.) And, I was a nerd.
So the actual amount I was "left out of things" because of not having a TV and therefore being unable to effectively culturally participate was... pretty small.
That was in junior high. Today, it's even less relevant to me. There's a conversation about a movie I didn't see? "Nope, didn't see it." If they are uncaring enough to keep having the conversation about that for the next 20 minutes, well, I'll just do something else. Or I'll listen, learn a bit about a movie I didn't see, go to Wikipedia and read about the plot, and save about two hours and $7.