 DATE: When Starsky visits Willis in the hospital, the boy is  watching "The Jeffersons" on TV in the daytime. The movie is set in  1975 according to its own internal evidence (Huggy Bear has an  advance model of a 1976 car thats due to go on the market "next  year"), the same year the series began its run; it couldnt have  been on in the afternoons at that point in time.