S and H (Starsky and Hutch letterzine)/Issues 01-05

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Sneak preview: The letterzine starts off with a burst of energy and hope: 'let us not fall into the divisiveness of other letterzines' (Interstat) is referenced numerous times as a cautionary tale). However, fans quickly dive into two controversial topics - reviewing zines and m/m (zine reviews are a hot topic from the earliest issues, it takes m/m at least two issues to get traction). More notable is that the letterzine was launched shortly after the show went off the air which gives the commentators relatively fresh canon to discuss. Finally, the first Zebracon ad appears.
==S and H 1 (June/July 1979)==
* contains 12 pages
*edited by Diana Barbour
* "This first issue is free, to anyone and everyone, for a SASE. Starting with #2, I will accept as much as $1.00 in advance for two issues, and money already received will go for #2 and on."
* a filk about Starsky & Hutch, zines and love
* there is a call for a letter-writing campaign, complete with directions, to bring the show back for a fifth season
* a review of the zine Promises to Keep who mostly liked the story, but thought it was too long, that the medical aspects were unrealistic, wished it had a preface from the author and thought that "One long story, with huge margins and lots of white spaces, that came out to only 76 pages, is a mite skimpy for $3.25." See that page for more.
* a review of Promises to Keep by an English teacher who loved it for the story, for the lack of grammatical mistakes and that "the opening hangover scene is a delight to my teen-aged students and anyone who has ever had difficulty waking up, as well as though who have shared the morning-after experience." See that page for more.
* a review of Zebra Three #4, see that page
* a review of Copkiller from someone who liked it way better than Promises to Keep, see that page.
* an ad for the first Zebra Con
* a list of episodes and synopsis which mistakenly refers to the episodes "Give Huntley My Regards" (Birds of a Feather), "Starsky and Hutch on Pleasure Island" (Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island), "Revenge" (Starsky's Lady), "The Monster" (Vendetta), "Nightlight" (Bust Amboy), and "Huggy Can't Go Home No More" (Huggy Can't Go Home)
* a fan speculates on what will happen when the show ends: 
* even as early as 1979, fans were complaining about the same stories being written over and over again; a writer that notes: 
* there was a letter from a zine editor who thought there were too many h/c and get'em stories written. She goes on to say the next issue of Zebra Three, though, will have plenty of h/c as "requested.": 
* a reader writes in and asks where all the "lay-Hutch" and "lay-Starsky" stories are: 
* a zine editor says she likes to get LoCs about her zine, but that the unrelenting theme of how marvelous the zine was is getting boring: 
 
Image:sh1inside.jpg| from issue #1, artist unknown
==S and H 2 (August/September 1979)==
*contains 16 pages
* edited by Diana Barbour, assistant editor Franny Moore-Kyle
* an apology that recipients had to pay the postal delivery person an extra 13 cents
* Question(s) of the Month: "What are the six plots?" and "How, where, and under what circumstances did Starsky and Hutch meet?"
* there are letters talking about the bad reputation Starsky & Hutch has for containing excessive violence
* a letter complains of all the rain in Bay City fiction and how this isn't realistic for Southern California
* a review of the zine Currents, see that page
* two reviews of the zine The Pits, see that page
* a review of the zine Me and Thee, see that page
* two reviews of Copkiller, see that page
* a review of Zebra Three #4, see that page
* this issue contains the very first use of the term "/" as it relates to m/m in a published SH zine. A fan, Lizabeth Tucker, writes: 
* a reader comments she likes the lack of lay-Starsky and lay-Hutch stories: 
* there are more comments about the explicit sex stories that all say those stories are in people's drawers at home, one fan speculated that these stories are unwritten: 
* a letter by a writer and []zine publisher]] in both Star Trek and Starsky and Hutch fandom says: 
* a letter that says: 
* a letter that thought the zine reviews in the previous issue were either too snippy or too nice: 
* a writer speculates: 
* a writer says that the biggest problem facing S&H fandom now that the series has ended is the isolation of being a fan: 
* a fan wrote: 
 Image:sandh7davis.jpg| from issue #2 by Jane Davis
==S and H 3 (October 1979 )==
* contains 20 pages
* edited by Diana Barbour, assistant editor Franny Moore-Kyle
* art by Connie Faddis, Signe Landon and Betty de Gabriele
* the editor thanks folks for sending her some extra stamps
* the editor says she's going to try to put the letterzine out monthly
* one fan writes that writing a lay story reminds her of the eye-candy, frivolous roles women had, specifically in the episode "Partners" and that such fiction "brought the characters down."
* fan comments on the show dubbed in French and that losing Starsky's accent takes away a huge part of the character
* many con reports for Zebra Con, including comments that the VTR was continuously showing episodes
* some fans in Australia, unable to attend Zebra Con, had their own little con. It was 14 people in a house, a book of clippings to browse, two episodes on video cassettes, and six sound tapes of various episodes; they remarked that like fans in the UK, they hadn't seen season four yet and were being "driven white-haired" with frustration with the hints in the letterzine; some fans slept in the caravan in the back yard, and they sat around singing into the night: "You Needed Me" (which they thought fit the episode "The Fix") and "Sometimes When We Touch" ("whose chorus belongs in that scene in Wilderness"). 
* a review of Crossfire, see that page
* a listing of available and proposed zines
* the show had aired its last episode a four months ago; a fan has seen the flyer for L.A. Vespers and comments on the number of Kira-stories, that fiction about her has already started Ironically, the number of Kira-stories are really not that many 
* fans are starting to speculate if Starsky would be able to fully recover from the assassination attempt and what his future would be: 
* a fan pleads for civility in any possible discussion of m/m: 
* a fan writes: 
* one writer apologizes a bit for her previous review of Promises to Keep: 
* a strictly gen writer comments that there are lay stories out there, but they are m/m: 
* a fan comments: 
* from a letter: 
* fan writes: 
 Image:sh3inside1.jpg| from issue #3, Signe Landon 
 Image:sh3inside2.jpg| from issue #3, The Torino by an unknown artist 
==S and H 4 (November 1979)==
* contains 24 pages
* art by Connie Faddis, Signe Landon, Ruth Kurz, Cheryl Newsome and Betty De Gabriele
* Question of the Month: "Is there any justification in aired S&H for Starsky being Jewish?"
* much, much civil discussion on S&H and S/H, almost all prefaced with how painful and fractious the subject became in Star Trek and how no one wants the same for the Starsky and Hutch fandom 
* fans discuss: does food-sharing indicate m/m?
* a reader says she doesn't have a VCR but does have "all the sound tapes"
* a reader says Aaron Spelling is thinking of making a show sort of like "Starsky and Hutch" called "B.A.D. Cats" but "this time with actors he can control."
* there is more discussion of the difference between pornography and erotica
* ads from fans who wanted "RCA videotapes of S&H episodes" and "audio tape cassettes of S&H episodes"
* much more discussion on KTLA's editing the shows to fit the slot and to perhaps quell the censors who complain of violence, there is much analysis of which scenes were cut or shortened Note: the episodes seen today are not complete, the original footage long lost.
* a fan offers to send a copy of a UK zine called Starsky and Hutch Appreciation Society
* more discussion of whether Starsky is Jewish:
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* a reader comments that: 
* a reader comments on the acceptability of the S/H relationship: 
* one writer says: 
* a fan who goes on to write many m/m comments: 
* about Mary Sues: 
* a zine editor writes: 
* a fan says she understands why some writers don't send their stories to zines so that other readers can pick them to bits:
* a reader comments: 
* on Mary Sue: 
* more on Mary Sue, writing a good story with strong women is not easy: 
* the editor says: 
* a zine publisher asks for donations toward the purchase of an Electro-stencil cutter, a machine that cuts art stencils for mimeo-zines: 
* a reader from the UK says she would never attempt to write a S&H story as US police procedure is too different: 
 Image:sh4inside2.jpg| from issue #4 by Signe Landon
 Image:sh4inside.jpg| from issue #4 by Cheryl Newsome
==S and H 5 (December 1979)==
* contains 36 pages
* Question of the month: "A reader puts a call out for a new way to close letters. "LL&P' has had a long and serviceable life in the closing of letters to people who, though you may not love, respect, or address sincerely, you nevertheless hold in all good wishes. S&H need their own variation. I, myself, have been using 'CH&S' (Clutch Hutch and Starsky). Let's hear some suggestions."
* art by Signe Landon (cover), Connie Faddis, Cheryl Newsome, Betty de Gabriele, Trish, Jan Lindner (back cover)
* a writer says she can see S&H in a sexual relationship far easier than Kirk and Spock, but that such a relationship would be fleeting. She also says she's so desperate for fiction, she'll read some Mary Sues
* a fan goes into great detail in how she has watched the characters sign their names to reports in many episodes and that by the way their hands move, they are signing the characters' names not the actors' names. She's also determined that Hutch has a middle name with "a swooping, flowing letter," probably an "L, S, or G."
* a writer says, despite what most others think, she loves the episode "Partners," and feels Hutch was such a bastard because he knew it would keep Starsky from blaming himself for the accident. "He sure knows Starsky a lot better than some of us!" She goes on to say that she sees S&H's relationship not so much sexual, but sensual.
* several fans are looking for a copy of Currents, including Striped Tomato Press who wants to "include it in R&I #1." The editor of the latter also requests several pieces of art, "zinish art as well as S&H would be appropriate." 
* a con report for ZebraCon
* a list of available zines: Zebra Three #1, #3, #4 and Crossfire
* a list of sold out zines: The Pits #1, Zebra Three #2, Dirtball Dispatch, Blond Blintz Bulletin, Currents #1, Me and Thee #1, Promises to Keep, Copkiller, Syndizine #1
* a list of forthcoming zines: The Pits #2, "Assignment: Dave Starsky" ("a great new Starsky and Hutch novel by Shirley Ann Cowden which involves Starsky falling in love once more, but this time with a deadly hit lady whose new assignment just happens to be DAVE!!") [never published], Partners, Bird of Paradise, Then We Can Be Heroes, Hopscotch, L.A. Vespers #1, One Shot, Zebra Three #5, R&I
* much, much more discussion about S&H vs S/H
* many fans who are watching butchered, edited reruns are asking other fans to tell them what happened in vast "missing scenes"
* another S&H salutation suggestion like LL&P: "POP, or Partners or Perish."
* much discussion on whether a serious love interest with a "special lady" and marriage for either character would destroy or hinder Starsky and Hutch's close partnership: some fans felt it would, some felt it would but not if Terri had lived, some felt S&H would have been fine "but that doesn't mean I want to read thousands of stories based on that plot line."
* a fan says she can't really see S&H having a sexual relationship, but "go ahead and write S/H stories, I'll read it, and I might even love it."
* a reader writes: is Starsky Jewish? "All you have to do is take a look at that face" and complains that the actor that portrayed Nicky looked too Italian. She figures Hutch is Episcopalian.
* a fan would like to see the official sign-off/salutation in S&H be "Heavenly Polaris"
* there is more discussion on what kind of gun Starsky uses
* a British fan has just returned from a Star Trek convention and says fans there either hate or love S&H but don't like the fourth season... "The stories certainly seem sillier than the early ones, perhaps we haven't see the good ones yet."
* a fan says that her local television station is airing episodes, which is super, as she doesn't have a "video viewer yet" and that the episodes, especially "The Fix" are edited terribly
* a fan says her copy of a script for "Starsky's Lady" has two titles of "Revenge" and "Snowball." The snowball reference is in this script. The tag has this tag (rather than the classic Monopoly on the kitchen floor): 
* a Canadian fan asks for a "Sweet Revenge" story: 
* a writer writes: 
* a comment from the editor of The Pits: 
* a reader cites a Church of England survey that touched on love, loneliness and friendship in modern society... but said: 
* writer says about "the homosexuality issue: 
* a fan comments on a "continuity book": 
*a fan responds, along with others, about her five favorite and five least favorite episodes. Of her least favorite: 
* a fan soothes another: 
* a fan weighs in on the m/m thing, saying she believes it could happen: 
* a fan quotes some statistics as she writes that the actors were aware of the possibilities that their characters might have a sexual relationship with each other: 
* a fan disputes another's comment that Starsky would have a sexual relationship with Hutch: 
* a fan comments to an editor about her personal desire to keep her zine "straight.": 
* a letter from one fan that said she wasn't interested in a S&H "homo relationship": 
 Image:sh5insidetrish.jpg| from issue #5's last page, Starsky and Hutch take on the group that is cutting/editing the show for reruns in California, pretty much butchering the show's continuity and storytelling 
 Image:Sandh5inside.png| from issue #5 by Connie Faddis of Huggy Bear 
 Image:sandh7torinoruth.jpg| from #7, The Torino by Ruth Kurz 
== References ==
Category:1979 Zines
Category:Starsky & Hutch Zines