Savage Sunday
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Savage Sunday is actually the second episode of Starsky and Hutch, which is actually directed by Jack Starrett. The second episode also featured Three's Company's Suzanne Somers, The Andy Griffith Shows Hope Summers, Erik Kilpatrick, and Tony Roberts. The first appearance by Bernie Hamilton, replacing Richard Ward as Captain Harold C. Dobey.
Plot
The shows opens on a beautiful Sunday morning, with a senior citizen married couple, who are now in their 70's, living inside a senior citizen assistant living home together with terrible service, by the names of Sarah Wilson (Hope Summers) and her husband Henry Wilson (Arthur Peterson) driving out for breakfast, inside a beautiful white 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne, with a bomb inside the trunk, set to go off at 5:00 p.m. in the evening, when they plan to drive through the Municipal County Courthouse together.
Once they arrive at a restaurant, they decide to sit down, and order their usual breakfast together for the last time as husband and wife, before they kill themselves, now overhearing the gambler sports addicted fanatic Wilbur Sloan (Edward Walsh) and his rock and roll fan buddy Gregg Morton (Bob Delegall), plan on stealing the couple's car today for transportation.
After Wilbur and Gregg finish eating there morning breakfasts, they now leave the restaurant, and walk outside they decide to take off, by stealing the senior citizen couples car anyways for transportation, to commit their daily armed robberies, and pay there bookies.
Sarah and Henry now have call the police immediately, to report their white 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne was stolen by two convicted felons by a Caucasian named Wilbur and an African-American named Gregg.
Both Starsky and Hutch are driving inside, Starsky's brand new red/white souped up 1976 Ford Torino, which is there new unmarked police car, to go have their daily morning breakfasts, and takes some of their morning calls for daily duties, and cases.
Wilbur and Gregg now decide to get money by stopping to commit armed robbery inside a liquor store, Wilbur now decides to kill the clerk (Tony Roberts), and Gregg decides to knock out another liquor store clerk by the name of Huey (Erik Kilpatrick), for trying to call the police on them for armed robbery today.
Starsky is now running after Geoffrey (Dave Shelley), who is now trying to resist arrest by trying to run away, Geoffrey is now stop by Hutch with the car, and is arrested. After arresting Geoffrey, they receive a call from the police radio, about a white 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne being stolen, and the two men matching descriptions of two convicted felons, by the names of Wilbur Sloan and Gregg Morton, committed armed robbery at a liquor store.
After putting Geoffrey in Starsky's car, and spotting Wilbur and Gregg driving inside a stolen 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne, they give a very short police chase, after losing them, and knocking out Geoffrey temporary. After arriving on the spot of the crime at liquor store, Starsky is now eating a free chocolate candybar, taking with Huey for some answers about the suspects, Hutch now comes insides, and asks Starsky to come outside to meet a witness (Don Rickles) who was buying a gift for his wife, and more answers on suspects, now to loan Starsky a pen to write down information about their stolen car.
Starsky and Hutch now arrive at the assistant living home to talk with Sarah and Henry Wilson about their stolen car, they now find out there was bomb planted inside the trunk of the 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne, is actually set to go off at 5:00 p.m. in the evening, when plan to kill themselves. Hutch now calls headquarters to report a section code, when there's a bomb set 5:00 p.m. inside the trunk of the stolen white 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne.