Commitment

Episode aired Jan 3, 1974
TV-PG
1h

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

140

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Tyne Daly and Geoffrey Deuel in Commitment (1974)

Action Crime Drama Mystery

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

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

140

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Stone's personal car is a Ford Galaxy too.

Goofs
At approximately 48:00 a stray toddler dressed in overalls walks un-escorted through the scene and past the building doors as Michael Douglas and Geoffrey Deuel walk out to finish the Epilogue scene with Karl Malden on the lower sidewalk. Douglas notices the child and looks in his direction as the toddler continues walking past. Then a secondary camera cuts to a close-up of Malden and then back to the full shot of Douglas, Malden, and Deuel continuing their walk down the sidewalk at which time an extra in a red jacket walks in their direction and then on up the stairs the actors had just walked down. She calmly walks past them and moves to the left of camera, then at 50:03 the woman in the red jacket suddenly breaks into a full-on sprint in the direction the toddler had been heading; this happens all the while the three actors are continuing their closing summations of this "crime". The woman can barely been seen above on the terrace with the toddler in her arms.

Just as the three men stand at the bottom of the hill to finish their dialogue, two men, apparently not extras, seem caught off-guard at noticing the actors and the cameras. The two men are quite excited but manage to gain control of themselves and the scene plays out.

Connections
References Dirty Harry (1971)

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Featured review

5/10

The Set-Up

***SPOILERS*** A bit confusing "Streets of San Francisco" episode with Det. Let. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, framed in the murder of undercover cop Gino Carlimo played by son of Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller Jr. with a very obvious and cheap clip-on beard to disguise himself. Told to meet him on the docks by hit-man Mickey Sims, William Smith, in regard to a 12 year old unsolved murder that he was at the time investigating Stone gets clobbered in the head with his gun used to knock-off the unconscious Carlino and make it look like Stone did it. As ridicules as it looked the SFPD took the murder of Gino Carlino by Det. Let. Stone seriously and had him put on desk duty until the facts, of Carlino's murder, proved otherwise.

It turned out that mobster Al Lyman, Don Michaelian, set the whole thing up to get the nose sniffing hound-dog like Det. Let. Stone off his back who's been making things hot for him and his shake-down or protection racket. It's now up to Let. Det. Stone's partner Insp. Steve Keller, Michael Douglas, to get to the truth of Carlino's murder but he's hampered by the gong-ho and by the book Inspt.Glenn Decker, Groffery Devel, who's been put on the confusing murder case.

***SPOILERS*** Inspt. Keller starts to uncover police corruption in the police department that together with mobster Lyman had Det. Let. Stone framed for Carlino's murder. It was the incompetence of hit-man Sims and his bumbling partner and wheel-man Denny Miller that broke the case wide open. That instead of going underground and waiting for the heat to cool off Sims tried to knock off Insp. Keller when he was getting too close to the truth in Lyman's involvement in Carlino's murder. And not only that in him about to find the mole in the police department who's been working with Lyman in setting Det. Let. Stone up while at the same time working on the murder case that he's being framed for.