PAUL: Do I get to read it?

host: You do if you hold it to the camera.

PAUL: "David Soul" (laughter all around) Holy moley, I'm you're pal. This is "Julie Keen" (holds it to camera)

host: It's a date with Mr. Glaser and 10,000lbs. You can have one or the other. Which one would you like.

co-host: Yes, which would she go for?

host: 10,000lbs to give away. (commercial)

host: Just had a little chat on the side, talking about competition. (Antonio, David and Paul talking in background)

PAUL: Can I put one in my pocket?

host: Antonio Fargas, welcome to the show, David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser. I can't believe we have all three together. when I found this out...

co-host: It was not an easy thing to do.

Antonio: It's amazing!

host: You go around doing little tours in the states or is this the first time in 35 years?

Antonio: No, no, will this is the first time they've done a movie about this, this, little thing we did years ago.

host: Yeah, it's about time. Just a little thing. How long did this little thing last, Paul?

Antonio: Yeah, well...

PAUL: (looking at David and Antonio) I can't believe it. How long did this little thing last?

DAVID: We did 4 years, 4 years.

PAUL: 4 years.

co-host: It's amazing, it's, it's actually quite a short amount of time. It was such a huge event, certainly for me and a little 8 year old being very, very excited about the whole thing.

PAUL: yeah.

host (to co-host): You want to share that now?

co-host: I do. I used to get dressed up, it was my David, in my mom's nightie, peach, on a Saturday night, put lipstick on and pretend I was going on a date with you. did you not think about it..

DAVID: No, really?

co-host: ..and my dad would say "What is she doing? She's only 8."

PAUL: Do we have a clip, do we have a clip of that?

co-host: No, I feel strangely flushed having revealed that (fans herself) in your presence. (laughter all around)

PAUL: well, thanks to all the makeup, you don't have to worry about that.

co-host: Exactly.

host: Glad I'm sitting here. There's a hurdle between him and you.

co-host: I'm quite scared.

co-host: Let's have a look at what got us so excited

Host: It's retro.

(clip from theme shown)

co-host: Paul's claiming he still has that towel in the shower scene.

DAVID: Fell into that one.

PAUL: Oh man, oh man, it's too early in the morning!

 

Host: Doesn't matter, doesn't matter

PAUL: It's alright.

co-host: It was so stylish and there was a lot of humor. I think that's what got everybody going, which was different from a lot of previous detective series of that time.

PAUL: Yeah, yeah, there was a fair amount of humor. We were lucky we got to just play with all the color, you know, we got to do a little bit of drama, a little bit of comedy, a little bit of silliness.

Host: Did you know what was going on while you were making the show? Did you know how successful it was being at the time.

PAUL: No, not from the beginning. In the beginning we didn't have a clue.

DAVID: Clustered away, 16 - 18 hours a day, you know, and all of a sudden the thing hits, the thing hits..

PAUL: Never would have guessed that, ah, that, ah, all these years latter it would have maintained ah, a following as you were saying (co-host), only 4 years of shooting, but, ah,ah...

Host: Well, they only made twelve "Fawlty Towers", you know, but if it's quality, it hits the right note, it hits..

PAUL: You, you like "Fawlty Towers"?

Host: I do like that, you gotta like that too, didn't you?

DAVID: (to Paul) You didn't like "Fawlty Towers'? You better say you did, man, cause...

Host: You're in England now. We've got the tower two or three miles from here.

PAUL: It's falling!

DAVID: You loved it, it's your favorite show. Just nod your head.

PAUL: (nodding repeatedly) Ok, yeah, yeah, it was good. (laughter)

Host: Chemistry on set between all three? Was it important at the time?

PAUL: Well, fans in practice, kind of looked down on three of us, but two of us...

DAVID: Well, chemistry is a by product isn't it? It's respect, it's trust, it's enjoying each other and out of that, you get chemistry.

ANTONIO: And if it serves the material, if it serves the characters and then it all comes too. You had 3 individuals, 4 individuals who, you know, enjoyed each other and who enjoyed working in the....

Host: But what a stereotype you were, you know, jive talking. kind of streetwise..

ANTONIO: That's even before we stereos came out..

co-host: That's what's interesting.

PAUL: Oh, boy..

DAVID: We like him (reaching over to Antonio

c0-host: Because, I mean, it did become a stereotype, but it wasn't then was it. It was kind of taking a character which a lot of people haven't seen before.

ANTONIO: yeah, I mean that's the, the make-up of the palette of things cause I grew up in New York City, I've seen Huggy Bear kind of guys and all of that and to take that kind of person and to put him on, you know, television a few nights or once a week or whatever, then try to be true to the character as much as possible. I guess got people interested.

co-host: My brother, a white middle class boy form Oxfordshire, wanted to be Huggy Bear. He was never going to it, to be honest.

Host: Now that's a make-up job I want to see!

(commercial)

Co-host: We have the stars, the legendary stars of that show with us this morning ahead of tonight's premiere, David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser and Antonio Fargas. (To the boys) Now, you going along to the premiere?

PAUL: Yes

DAVID: Yes, afraid so.

Host: Are you going to have a great time?

PAUL: We're going to have a wonderful time. we're gonna have a marvelous time.

ANTONIO: A, a good party afterwards.

co-host: I can imagine, cause you two (paul & David) are in it..

PAUL: um, hmm..

host: why weren't you then, Antonio?

ANTONIO: Ah, ah, I have no idea!

DAVID: Tell the truth,..tell the truth.

ANTONIO: ..I held out cause I want to be in the sequel! (laughter all around)

co-host: Clever.

ANTONIO: Build it up, build it up, build it up!

It's interesting that these two gentlemen created something that I was very pleased to be, be a part of and thanks to the audience, UK particularly to the audience in the UK, I had the opportunity to go to the premier in LA, but I turned it down because I wanted to come to this one because of the love affair between myself and the audience here and this whole show made this a special trip for me. That's why I'm here.

co-host: Shall we have a look at at the new film.

(clip of Owen Wilson singing "Don't give up on us, baby")

Host: That is david's favorite clip, I have to tell you! The bird was magnificent there. Does it have enough respect ....

PAUL: Oh yes.

Host: ... for what you were doing in the series?

PAUL: Oh yes.

DAVID: You know, Hutch didn't record that song..

Host: No.

DAVID: David Soul did. (laughs)

Host: That means there's a fee, right?

DAVID: No, no, no only if I'd written the song. That's written by Tony Macauly.

Host: I'm glad he didn't try to copy. I'm glad your the guy, it would have been a shame if it had just gone straight for some sort of serious drama thing. A spoof is better in this.

PAUL: No, it was right up, no, I wouldn't even call it a spoof. It's kind of a 2004 sensibility, a tip of the hat. It's quite a compliment that they made this show to begin with. Ben does a great job playing me and Owen is excellent, you know, it's a great ride.

Host: That was funny.

PAUL: The film is really, they acknowledge elements of what we did in Starsky and Hutch in the seventies which I don;t think would probably go over the same way today. You know, we really allowed ourselves to play around.

Host: If you had been directing it, you would have been pleased with the way this one came out?

PAUL: I thought this one came out very well. Todd Philips, the director, did a great job. It's a , it's a, we enjoyed it. We went to the premiere in Los Angeles, we laughed.

Host: Cause you had a little cameo role, how does that work?

DAVID: (makes a gesture)

PAUL: We had a little cameo at the end, they unfortunately had to cut it down a little because two of the other characters were taken out, so it didn't make any sense to have, but we're still there.

DAVID: Sort of pass the torch in a way.

HOST: Did anybody keep the, keep the Gran Torino?

ANTONIO: Didn't they make some more for the film?

DAVID: They made some new ones, I don't know. Who knows! (Looking at Antonio) We had problems with that Gran Torino, didn't we!

ANTONIO: Umm, hmmm.

DAVID: Yes, It gets more mail than any of us!

Host: Nice, nice talking with you this morning.

PAUL: Oh, is, is this a wrap?

Host: Yeah, you're done.

DAVID: Is this your way of saying good bye?

Host: Yes, is that smooth?

Antonio: We'll see you tonight at the square?

Host: I don't have an invite.

ANTONIO: Oh, well, we'll make it work out

PAUL: Can I take this hat?

Host: Ok, thanks guys.