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"The Streets of San Francisco" (1972) More at IMDbPro »

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Year: 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 0: Pilot

16 September 1972
Gritty crime drama set in San Francisco, featuring an older, veteran cop and his younger, less experienced partner.

Season 1, Episode 1: The Thirty-Year Pin

23 September 1972
A thirty-year veteran beat cop and longtime friend of Stone's is shot during an attempted robbery. Stone sets off with a vendetta to get the gunman, blurring the line between professional and personal.

Season 1, Episode 2: The First Day of Forever

30 September 1972
A would-be Jack The Ripper stalks the city, slashing to death prostitutes. Stone assigns a resistant Keller with protecting a prostitute who has been threatened.

Season 1, Episode 3: 45 Minutes from Home

7 October 1972
A businessman who flew in from Los Angeles (the time it takes to fly from L.A. to S.F. is the source of the title) for a convention meets a woman at the convention center and agrees to join her on her houseboat in nearby Sausalito. They get into an argument and he winds up striking her on the head and fleeing. The woman's boyfriend gets home, gets into an argument with her and again bashes her on the head, killing her. The businessman is the prime suspect in the murder because he was seen arriving at and then fleeing the crime scene.

Season 1, Episode 4: Whose Little Boy Are You?

14 October 1972
Stone and Keller contend with an AWOL Vietnam War soldier determined to abduct a five-year-old child.

Season 1, Episode 5: Tower Beyond Tragedy

28 October 1972
Stone and Keller uncover the seedy world of escort services when their suspect is a cultured art collector with a Pygmalion complex who hires escorts determined to create in them his idealized woman.

Season 1, Episode 6: Hall of Mirrors

4 November 1972
Stone is sidelined with a broken ankle, so Keller teams up with hot-headed Inspector Jim Martin to track down a young Mexican suspected of murder. But Martin's prejudice against Mexicans threatens the investigation's success.

Season 1, Episode 7: Timelock

11 November 1972
When a parolee whom Stone once coached in the Police Athletic League is accused of murdering another ex-con, Stone, Keller and a caring social worker rally to his defense.

Season 1, Episode 8: In the Midst of Strangers

25 November 1972
A city official is murdered in a botched mugging by a gang of three sophisticated criminals unaware of his high profile. The mayor, convinced it was a political assassination, orders Stone and Keller to crack the case.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Takers

2 December 1972
Two young women are found murdered in a swinging singles apartment complex. As Stone and Keller investigate, they uncover multiple suspects with a motive to murder the two gold-digging, teasing "takers."

Season 1, Episode 10: The Year of the Locusts

9 December 1972
A band of modern-day Gypsies descends on San Francisco, its aging patriarch unaware that the younger generation has moved on from the traditional flim-flam to million-dollar heists and murder.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Bullet

16 December 1972
An ex-con college professor takes a bullet to the shoulder when a hit-man murders a blackmailer. But the professor refuses to have the bullet removed, and the hit-man is hot on his trail to recover the incriminating bullet.

Season 1, Episode 12: Bitter Wine

23 December 1972
Stone oversteps his authority when he entrusts to a traditional Greek patriarch his ex-con son just released from San Quentin. When the son is implicated in a suspicious fire, Stone and Keller's investigation uncovers ugly family secrets.

Season 1, Episode 13: A Trout in the Milk

6 January 1973
An artist is thrown to his death from his apartment window. Stone and Keller's investigation centers on the daughter of a renowned eccentric poet, who sets to spinning a web of deception to deflect the dogged detectives from her trail.

Season 1, Episode 14: Deathwatch

13 January 1973
Two crusty fishermen at sea stumble upon an illegal alien smuggling ring. The smugglers murder one of the fishermen and pressure the second into silence, stymieing Stone and Keller's investigation.

Season 1, Episode 15: Act of Duty

18 January 1973
In her zeal to capture a serial rapist, a rookie cop flouts Stone's orders, jeopardizing not only Stone and Keller's carefully choreographed stake out but her own life.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Set-Up

25 January 1973
A hit man living a new life with a family in France is lured out of retirement by his former employer, a crime kingpin determined to rub out every witness to a murder he committed.

Season 1, Episode 17: A Collection of Eagles

1 February 1973
A greed-consumed numismatist plots to switch a wealthy collector's gold double-eagle coins with counterfeits, using and abusing his trusting accomplices along the way.

Season 1, Episode 18: A Room with a View

8 February 1973
A war among gambling bosses is being waged. Stone and Keller attempt to locate and protect a vital witness from a hit man who has charmed his way into a lonely schoolteacher's apartment in order to secure a clear shot at his victim.

Season 1, Episode 19: Deadline

15 February 1973
A veteran newspaper columnist and longtime friend of Stone's accidentally kills his young, two-timing mistress and then attempts to pin the rap on the young stage actor she was seeing.

Season 1, Episode 20: Trail of the Serpent

22 February 1973
Stone is held hostage by the Cobras street-gang, which demands an exchange for its wounded leader who was captured in a bungled robbery. Keller and Devitt scour the city's seamy underside in their search for their friend and colleague.

Season 1, Episode 21: The House on Hyde Street

1 March 1973
Three young boys open a Pandora's Box when they sneak into an eccentric old man's home, a mysterious house rumored by their parents to contain a million-dollar treasure.

Season 1, Episode 22: Beyond Vengeance

8 March 1973
A homicidal rapist that Stone had put away twelve years earlier is released and begins waging psychological warfare on Stone by stalking his daughter Jeannie.

Season 1, Episode 23: The Albatross

15 March 1973
A child is murdered in a bungled burglary and the killer is set free on a legal technicality. Despite Stone's strenuous objections, the grieving father is determined to take justice into his own hands.

Season 1, Episode 24: Shattered Image

22 March 1973
A high-powered Commerce Dept. official is harpooned on a pleasure boat. Stone and Keller sift through the suspects, among whom are a senator, a boat builder and the grieving widow, who is an old friend of Stone's from the Potrero.

Season 1, Episode 25: The Unicorn

5 April 1973
Grand theft cobra venom? That is what seems to be the charge, along with murder, when a robbery attempt of an Asian ship goes wrong and leads to a wild gunfight. A longshoreman is killed and another one is wounded, but steals his assailant's gun, kills him and makes off with a large shipment box supposedly full of cobra venom to be used in research. The wounded man goes into hiding on the docks with the gun and the case, believing he has actually stolen a shipment of much greater value. He meets secretly with a priest and refuses to turn himself in. Meanwhile, Stone and Keller have traced the dead robber to a Mafia unit in San Francisco, and learn on their own that hired guns are coming in to find the longshoreman and finish the theft -- which turns out to be a multimillion-dollar shipment of heroin.

Season 1, Episode 26: Legion of the Lost

12 April 1973
After three winos are brutally beaten to death, Stone goes undercover as a bum to crack the case.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: A Wrongful Death

13 September 1973
An angry father swears vengeance against Keller, who shot and killed his youngest son while trying to stop a robbery - but the truth is even more devastating.

Season 2, Episode 2: Betrayed

20 September 1973
A young executive stole money from his company, he then robs a bank to replace it. The robbery goes wrong and a security guard is killer and his live in client happens to be working at the bank that day as a part time teller.

Season 2, Episode 3: For the Love of God

27 September 1973
A religious man is killing clergy. Lt Stone and Inspector Keller race to find a connection between the clergymen to each other and to the killer. When they figure out who the next victim is Mike Stone puts on the collar.

Season 2, Episode 4: Before I Die

4 October 1973
Stone and Keller are forced to defend a mob boss from an inspector with a terminal illness and nothing to lose.

Season 2, Episode 5: Going Home

11 October 1973
A small timer robs a hardware store and after smacking the owner finds the safe open with two bags of money inside. He think he's hit the big time until he finds "the book". Running from both the mob and the police he runs to Alcatraz.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Stamp of Death

18 October 1973
A rich man is murdered over a stamp collection which turns out to be an insurance scam.

Season 2, Episode 7: Harem

25 October 1973
Rick Nelson stars as a flute playing "Pied Piper" talking teenage girls into prostitution. He convinces them he loves them and will take care of them. He actually is a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to protect himself.

Season 2, Episode 8: No Badge for Benjy

1 November 1973
A street informer is shot while trying to pass information on a big bust. While in the hospital they try to kill him again. What does he know?

Season 2, Episode 9: The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

8 November 1973
Four men plan to heist radioactive gold over a poker game. Then find out that it is mixed with Uranium.The man smelting and forming the planchets gets radiation poisoning and it goes down hill for them fast.

Season 2, Episode 10: Shield of Honor

15 November 1973
Detectives Stone and Keller investigate how a contract killer obtained inside information on the movement of a mob witness.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Victims

29 November 1973

Season 2, Episode 12: The Runaways

6 December 1973
Three runaways from Oregon, George, Jack and Sharon Morgan are squatting in an abandoned house. Sharon is very sick, but money is very limited. George decided to break into a local pharmacy after hours to obtain some medicine.

Season 2, Episode 13: Winterkill

13 December 1973
Angered by the rising cost of health care, an old man tries to pay his friend's bills by threatening a businessman with the bombing of his buildings.

Season 2, Episode 14: Most Feared in the Jungle

20 December 1973
A single girl named Barbara has a baby and is then told the baby was stillborn. However, she thinks it is alive and starts asking questions at the unwed mothers home where she lived.

Season 2, Episode 15: Commitment

3 January 1974
An undercover cop is murdered with Mike Stone's gun and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.

Season 2, Episode 16: Chapel of the Damned

17 January 1974
A wealthy woman, whose daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, has more faith in a female psychic than Stone and Keller.

Season 2, Episode 17: Blockade

24 January 1974
A woman who has dedicated her life to a prominent family fails to see her neglected son has fallen in with a psycho - and may have helped him kill a woman.

Season 2, Episode 18: Crossfire

31 January 1974
Stone and Keller suspect there is more to a string of college campus shootings than meets the eye.

Season 2, Episode 19: A String of Puppets

7 February 1974
Det. Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.

Season 2, Episode 20: Inferno

14 February 1974
Two firemen are killed in a warehouse fire, one of them Stone's friend, and he and Keller are drawn into an arson investigation.

Season 2, Episode 21: The Hard Breed

21 February 1974
Two "Gunsmoke" writers teamed on this modern-day Western set at a rodeo in San Francisco's Cow Palace. A bronc rider dies in what appears to be an accident. A rodeo clown looks around the scene after the police leave and discovers the rider's rope -- which was cut almost halfway through before it broke, leaving the bronc free to throw him. The police come back to investigate the scene, and before long the chief suspect is also murdered in another "accident."

Season 2, Episode 22: Rampage

28 February 1974
An old college friend of Steve's is now a father - and part of a vigilante group fed up with the rampant crime in their neighborhood. Their latest crackdown, however, leaves a police informer dead.

Season 2, Episode 23: Death and the Favored Few

14 March 1974
Stone and Keller investigate the murder of a society publisher whose method was to coerce subscriptions from wealthy clients by blackmailing them. The investigation leads the detective to a wealthy woman and her daughter, who were among the ones being blackmailed and who still have secrets to hide.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: One Last Shot

12 September 1974
Alcoholic Off. Joe Landers accidentally gets his partner killed and clumsily tries to cover it up as Stone and Keller work their way to the truth.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Most Deadly Species

19 September 1974
A traveling hit-woman seduces Inspector Keller, gaining valuable intelligence for her San Francisco assignments. A mob hired her to help win a gang war, which Keller is investigating. Keller's superior Lt. Mike Stone hears wedding bells, but death knells are more likely as she's living in a bay-side apartment next to the younger, love-struck Keller.

Season 3, Episode 3: Target: Red

26 September 1974
Stone and Keller have less than 48 hours to prevent a politically motivated assassination by a mentally unstable, but very accurate, marksman.

Season 3, Episode 4: Mask of Death

3 October 1974
John Davidson's best acting performance (in the eyes of nearly everyone associated with the show) comes when he plays a nightclub entertainer who dresses up as a famous female torch singer. Unfortunately he is schizophrenic, and becomes her and him -- at the same time. Even worse, "she" is a psychotic killer. Watch for a chilling scene where "he" talks to "her" in a mirror.

Season 3, Episode 5: I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

10 October 1974
Keller goes undercover as a draft dodger to investigate an AWOL Marine's murder.

Season 3, Episode 6: One Chance to Live

17 October 1974

Season 3, Episode 7: Jacob's Boy

24 October 1974
Jacob Willis, a trusted employee of a local businessman, pays money to a skid-row drifter who was blackmailing him. After Jacob leaves him the drifter is accidentally killed in a scuffle with two other hobos. One of them tells the police that Jacob killed the man. After talking to Jacob, Stone has doubts that he could be a killer, but then he finds out what the drifter knew about Jacob: that he escaped from an Alabama prison 25 years ago. Jacob believes he killed a guard during the escape, and thinks he must run away or face imprisonment. His employer's young son trusts Jacob and wants to run away with him.

Season 3, Episode 8: Flags of Terror

31 October 1974
Domestic terrorists take several people hostage, including Keller. Stone has to deal with not only the terrorists but a right-wing journalist and a vengeful father whose daughter was killed.

Season 3, Episode 9: Cry Help!

7 November 1974

Season 3, Episode 10: For Good or Evil

14 November 1974

Season 3, Episode 11: Bird of Prey

21 November 1974
Keller goes undercover as a USAF officer to investigate a woman's murder that might involve a USAF Colonel.

Season 3, Episode 12: License to Kill

5 December 1974

Season 3, Episode 13: The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague

12 December 1974
Drama follows a 25-caliber gun over a week-end and the various lives with which it comes into contact.

Season 3, Episode 14: Mister Nobody

19 December 1974

Season 3, Episode 15: False Witness

9 January 1975
Officer Jimmy Vega's personal vendetta against a local drug dealer threatens to ruin both his and Inspector Keller's careers.

Season 3, Episode 16: Letters from the Grave

16 January 1975
The remains of an inmate at the Alcatraz Federal Prison was recently discovered between a wall during some repairs. It was thought that the inmate Lou Kovic escaped, but had been dead for approx 20 years in 1955.

Season 3, Episode 17: Endgame

23 January 1975

Season 3, Episode 18: Ten Dollar Murder

30 January 1975

Season 3, Episode 19: The Programming of Charlie Blake

6 February 1975
A supposedly reformed sex offender is being brainwashed by his psychiatrist into believing he has committed murder.

Season 3, Episode 20: River of Fear

13 February 1975
A 12-year-old girl knows her stepfather murdered her mother. But her attempts to unmask him only impede the police's investigation.

Season 3, Episode 21: Asylum

20 February 1975

Season 3, Episode 22: Labyrinth

27 February 1975

Season 3, Episode 23: Solitaire

13 March 1975
Stone has to work with a rather independent undercover cop after Keller gets shot in the leg during a bust.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Poisoned Snow

11 September 1975
A narcotics cop driven over the edge laces a batch of cocaine with cyanide and sets it loose on the streets.

Season 4, Episode 2: The Glass Dart Board

18 September 1975

Season 4, Episode 3: No Place to Hide

25 September 1975

Season 4, Episode 4: Men Will Die

2 October 1975
After Jeannie's friend Nancy kills one of her rapists, Jeannie is furious at the way the justice system works. She becomes involved with an aggressive rape crisis group headed by crusading attorney Catherine Wyatt. Rapist Jack Marlin becomes a target of their efforts.

Season 4, Episode 5: School of Fear

9 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 6: Deadly Silence

16 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 7: Murder by Proxy

23 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 8: Trail of Terror

30 October 1975
James Woods plays the perfect homely US Navy sailor in dress blues with a bad temper, along with his Navy buddies they are looking for a jeweler that closed his store a few days before they hit town. There course leads to murder, anchors aweigh.

Season 4, Episode 9: Web of Lies

6 November 1975
Three band members have the perfect racket, a diamond heist. But one guy sees the driver and then makes that known on public TV.

Season 4, Episode 10: Dead Air

13 November 1975
The murder of a pregnant girl leads Stone and Keller to arrogant radio host Terry Vine, who has a large female fanbase. The dead girl claimed to be pregnant with Vine's baby, giving him a motive for murder, and after her blackmailing roommate also turns up dead, Keller is convinced Vine is the killer.

Season 4, Episode 11: Merchants of Death

20 November 1975

Season 4, Episode 12: The Cat's Paw

4 December 1975

Season 4, Episode 13: Spooks for Sale

11 December 1975
Surveillance is the game here. But a break-in ends up with the night watchman dead of a heart attack. Tom Selleck although not in the opening credits, he plays a major role. During the lunch scene they are eating at Sinbad's Resturant at Pier 2 in San Francisco, which is still there even today. I had my wedding reception there in 1984, great place.

Season 4, Episode 14: Most Likely to Succeed

18 December 1975

Season 4, Episode 15: Police Buff

8 January 1976
Bill Bixby places a guy who like to follow the police scanner. He wants to be a cop, but cannot hack it, and ends up taking the law into his own hands. And a good cop gets blamed.

Season 4, Episode 16: The Honorable Profession

15 January 1976

Season 4, Episode 17: Requiem for Murder

22 January 1976
A Bishop gets shot after receiving a crank letter.

Season 4, Episode 18: Underground

29 January 1976

Season 4, Episode 19: Judgment Day

19 February 1976

Season 4, Episode 20: Clown of Death

26 February 1976

Season 4, Episode 21: Superstar

4 March 1976
This pilot for the series "Bert D'Angelo Superstar" (which had started its regular run two weeks earlier, and was a total bomb in the ratings) gives Mira Sorvino's dad a role to match his weight and ego: he plays a New York City detective who comes to San Francisco in search of a back-home cop killer, and decides to stay when the villain is caught.

Season 4, Episode 22: Alien Country

11 March 1976
A field worker tries to get a job in San Francisco, and he does, but moments later there is a raid by the immigration service and officer is killed.

Season 4, Episode 23: Runaway

18 March 1976

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: The Thrill Killers: Part 1

30 September 1976
Four killers kidnap the jury of a man they admire. They threaten to kill the jurors if their demands are not met.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Thrill Killers: Part 2

7 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 3: Dead or Alive

21 October 1976
A man offers a $1,000,000 reward for the capture - dead or alive - of the man who raped and murdered his daughter on a public tennis court, throwing the city into greed-fueled chaos.

Season 5, Episode 4: The Drop

28 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 5: No Minor Vices

4 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 6: In Case of Madness

11 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 7: Till Death Do Us Part

18 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 8: Child of Anger

2 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 9: Hot Dog

9 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 10: Castle of Fear

23 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 11: One Last Trick

6 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 12: Monkey Is Back

13 January 1977
An ex-con is out for vengeance against the high school gang whose initiation ritual led to his 20-year sentence.

Season 5, Episode 13: The Cannibals

20 January 1977
A crime kingpin's son steals from his father by killing a cash courier. On the run, he turns state's evidence and comes under federal protection. Stone and Robbins want him for murder, while his father's hit man just wants him murdered.

Season 5, Episode 14: Who Killed Helen French?

3 February 1977
An abused wife vanishes after a vicious attack by her drunken husband and all clues point to murder with the husband as the prime suspect, but he can't remember if he did it or not.

Season 5, Episode 15: A Good Cop... But

10 February 1977
A drug kingpin guns down a cop. To ensure a conviction, a narcotics officer who witnessed the murder will have to reveal in court a closely guarded personal secret that could cost him friendships and his standing in the department.

Season 5, Episode 16: Hang Tough

17 February 1977
Eddie Boggs and Stan Michaels are on the scene at an apartment, Eddie is months from retiring. A tip has lead to a dead 15 year old girl OD on heroin. Found nearby was Spider. Boggs has lost it and subsequently beats Spider down. To cover up the situation, Boggs plants a knife on him. A man with a cowboy attire, walks out of the same apartment complex.

Season 5, Episode 17: Innocent No More

24 February 1977
A juvenile gang has caused a history of trouble for a San Francisco neighborhood. A recent robbery by the gang lead to the death of a victim. Billy Wilson claims his innocence on the whole affair. Evidence mounts and Billy's previous history of violence surfaces, as the judicial systems decides on his fate.

Season 5, Episode 18: Once a Con

3 March 1977
The last episode to air before ABC turned over much of its Thursday night lineup to spring-tryout series ("Streets of San Francisco" was replaced by "Westside Medical," which lasted 13 weeks; "The Tony Randall Show" was replaced by "Three's Company") is a mystery set on a college campus. While waiting for a bus, a college coed who doubles as a model is slashed with a knife, and one wound goes straight to the heart. A convict at San Quentin, who's a student at the same college learning a trade for when he is released, is scheduled to board the same bus. Instead, he runs like hell. The convict is caught soon afterward and assumed to be the killer, but he doesn't seem to have a motive. Stone wonders if one of the woman's fellow students might have had a grudge against her.

Season 5, Episode 19: Interlude

28 April 1977
Carolyn, the unfaithful wife of a city prosecutor, witnesses a murder after meeting her paramour in a hotel. She cannot identify him, but the killer, an escapee from a mental institution, befriends and begins stalking her.

Season 5, Episode 20: Dead Lift

5 May 1977
Ah-nold, long before his movie stardom, made his TV-acting debut as a champion bodybuilder (which he was at the time) visiting San Francisco for a competition. Something (it's not made clear what) has made him incredibly buff and muscled, but has also left him extremely hypersensitive to criticism and with no control over his anger. When he shows off his poses for a young woman, he becomes enraged and unwittingly chokes her to death. He's taken in by a couple and entered into the bodybuilding contest, but broods when he finishes only second. Stone and company suspect him in the death of the woman, and fear he may kill again if provoked.

Season 5, Episode 21: Breakup

12 May 1977
Stone and Robbins cross paths with two men pushed to their breaking points: an ex-con nursing a grudge against the former assistant district attorney who put him in prison and a struggling small businessman with a hot temper.

Season 5, Episode 22: Let's Pretend We're Strangers

19 May 1977
Robbins falls for a public defender representing a psycho, who is trying to eliminate witnesses to a murder.

Season 5, Episode 23: Time Out

2 June 1977
Four cons escape and their longtime prison guard dedicates himself to bringing them back personally, frustrating Stone and Robbins who are perpetually one step behind the man who knows his prisoners' every probable move.

Season 5, Episode 24: The Canine Collar

9 June 1977
A cruise ship is docked in San Francisco. A known embezzler is aboard the ship and had hid the jewels on a dog collar.