Sue, she of "The Android's Dungeon", wrote a story in a fandom called "The Bill" by the name of "Blue Movie" in 1995. 2003, a so-called writer by the pen name of "Cappristar" or "Debs" uploaded a "Starsky & Hutch" story called "In Through the Out Door" to the Me and Thee Archive that not only contains the main storyline of Sue's, but also a lot of passages that were taken almost without any change from the original.

For proof of extremely shameless stealing, see
"Blue Movie"
"In Through The Out Door".

I've told Sue; whatever happens now is up to her. She's mainly laughing, I think, and wants to slay the "author" via sarcasm. *eg*

Let's just say that the original is very well written (like all of Sue's fiction), while the copy is pretty much OOC for S&H. Embarrassing, really; if I stole a story, I'd at least steal a better fitting one, or I'd have re-written more of it, but then, that would have required sufficient editor work to make stealing unprovitable in the first place. ;-)

Yes, I think we already had a mini-worship circle for Sue... and wasn't it even you who recommended "The First Duty" to me? (For which I'm still totally in your debt. *g*)

As for the distant vs. in-each-other's-pockets part... that was the main reason the story didn't work for me, even before I recognized the similarities to Sue's novel. The "author" evidently tried to explain that away by saying that it was set before the pilot. Considering that it is canon that Starsky and Hutch were best friends already in the Academy, that "explanation" is more than weak.

Sue believes that more of Cappristar's stories may have been stolen out of old zines, and having skimmed over several of them I'm inclined to agree. The protagonists never feel like S&H, but rather like distant strangers.

*is still shaking her head about Cappristar's idiocy*