On numerous occasions, Paul Michael Glaser has talked about how much he hated the car, as well as playing Starsky, and that he had campaigned to be released from his contract. He said, at the time, that he would have eventually refused to continue with the TV series if it had not been canceled. Like many TV actors at the time, he wanted to become a film director; however, his attempts at directing five episodes of Starsky und Hutch (1975) were unfruitful due to too many artsy shots that did not fit in tune with the way that it had originally been conceived.
There is a missing and unaired episode of the TV series titled "Honeytrap"; it guest-starred Donna Mills. She played a wife named Cathy who lured single men into making love with her and then her jealous husband shot them dead.
Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson was a health food "nut", often seen concocting himself smoothies of almond milk, wheat germ and raw honey or eating muesli for breakfast. In contrast, Dave Starsky was a junk food "addict", favoring pizza, burgers and hot dogs galore. The actors' real life food preferences were actually quite the opposite.
The TV series' popularity in France was due mainly to the dubbing. It included a lot of ad-libbing and very funny, often absurd, colloquialisms unique to French culture, which often had very little to do with the American dialogue. Because of that, the French version of it has more of a comic element. The French actors who provided the dubbing for it added their impressive talent, but the French people hardly know dub artists --- or that there is such a drastic difference with the original material --- and simply recognize the American actors instead.
The 1974 red Ford Special Edition Gran Torino with a white stripe that was used in Starsky und Hutch (1975) also appeared in the pilot episode of Ein Duke kommt selten allein (1979).