More than Friends.....

'Paul Michael Glaser thinks “Starsky and Hutch” could have been more than friends.'

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I wasn't even born when Starsky & Hutch premiered back in 1975, and I've never seen a single episode.  I was however, intrigued when I saw this series of promotional shots posted on Twitter by Danny Deraney (Emmy winning entertainment publicist) Danny often posts throwback images and videos from the 1970's and 80's, 

I loved the fun actors David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser seemed to be having, including a little mutual butt cheek cupping.  Although I'd never seen the show, nor the 2004 film, I had heard of both actors.  I'd read quite a bit about Paul Michael and his late wife Elizabeth.  I was especially interested in her story and her advocacy for education and research focused on HIV and AIDS in children.

After seeing the images on Danny's Twitter, I went down a bit of rabbit hole looking for info and images on the men, especially of course, out of uniform.  I loved reading how open Paul was in a PageSix interview about the homoerotism in the show and the relationship between Starsky & Hutch.

'I think it’s important to understand that yeah, there’s homoerotic elements. … I think the reality is David and I are for the most part — if you have to define oneself — as straight. But you have to be able to recognize there’s a part of all of us that is homoerotic.'

Paul Michael Glaser

When looking for images, there were plenty of shirtless shots of the crime fighting partners.   After checking out a few sites, I found that many came from the shows pilot.  In addition to finding the pilot, and skimming through to cap the shirtless shots, I also found that both Paul and David each had one nude scene on screen.  They were a little hard to locate, but see what I did find on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

A few moments from Starsky & Hutch