I'll say right off the bat that I'm not really into occult type of entertainment. It's not really my thing. To this day I still haven't seen "The Exorcist", which was a famous occult movie from 1973. Everybody saw it but me. But I do like Starsky and Hutch and have the entire series on DVD. So I'm sitting home bored today and decided to watch this episode because it's...well...next on the list. So this is my reaction to this episode now, which I did see a long, long time ago.
Starsky and Hutch go on 4-day weekend and rent a cabin out in the wilderness. They hope to commune with Mother Nature, but instead run into the Devil himself, or at least Devil worshipers, basically a dangerous and psychotic cult.
When they get to the cabin and the nearby town, which is very tiny, everybody is hostile toward them except a woman that runs the small local supply store. That night they see in the distance the cult doing one of their rituals and don't realize what they are seeing and assume that it's just college kids "having a bash".
The next day, while Starsky is sleeping late, Hutch goes fishing in the "lake" which is really a pond and looks a lot like a toxic waste dump, but I guess that was the only shooting location that was available to the production team. Hutch doesn't seem to notice. That's good acting!
So Hutch runs into some of the bad guys and things get really tense. They almost beat the crap out of Hutch, but the cult leader stops it and warns Hutch not to come back. He swears that he will be back. He doesn't tell them that he's a cop. Personally, I would have told them. Just to make them think twice about killing me.
I don't want to get into spoilers so I'll stop right there. Basically, I enjoyed this episode to a degree. It's okay, but like I said I'm not really into occult entertainment. And some of the humor seems really forced in this episode, something I normally enjoy in S&H.