‘Starsky & Hutch’: The Cars! The Clothes! The Bear! The Bromance!

They patrolled the streets of fictional Bay City for just four seasons, but studly buddy cops David Starsky and Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson still bromanced their way into television history.

The brainchild of TV visionary Aaron Spelling — who hoped to “hip” up the cop-show genre — Starsky & Hutch bowed in 1975 and parlayed the broad appeal of its stars Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul, their easygoing on- and offscreen bond, proudly multicultural casting and, of course, that iconic, tomato red Ford Gran Torino into an ABC hit.