George Gerbner (1919-2005) was a communications perfesser who was very interested in violence on TV.

(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gerbner)

He was particularly interested in Starsky and Hutch, according to one WWW page!

There is an archive of Gerbner's writings, and this page breaks down things he wrote by year.

http://web.asc.upenn.edu/gerbner/arc...x?sectionID=39

You might find something of interest there.

The H50 episode "Nightmare in Blue" provoked an op-ed in The New York Times about violence. You can read it included with my review:

http://fiveohomepage.com/5-0log6.htm#141