List of The Streets of San Francisco episodes
This is a list of episodes for the television series The Streets of San Francisco, which ran from 1972 to 1977; a TV-movie sequel aired in 1992.
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Premiered: | Ended: | |
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Pilot | 1 | 1972.09.16 | ||
1 | 26 | 1972.09.23 | 1973.04.12 | |
2 | 23 | 1973.09.13 | 1974.03.14 | |
3 | 23 | 1974.09.12 | 1975.03.13 | |
4 | 23 | 1975.09.11 | 1976.03.18 | |
5 | 24 | 1976.09.30 | 1977.06.09 | |
TV-movie | 1 | 1992.01.27 |
DVD releases
As of 9 December 2016, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.[1]
DVD set | Episodes | Release date | |
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The Streets of San Francisco: Season 1, Volume 1 | 14 | 2007.04.10 | |
The Streets of San Francisco: Season 1, Volume 2 | 13 | 2007.09.25 | |
The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2, Volume 1 | 11 | 2008.07.01 | |
The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2, Volume 2 | 12 | 2008.11.11 | |
The Streets of San Francisco: Season 3, Volume 1 | 12 | 2012.07.03 | |
The Streets of San Francisco: Season 3, Volume 2 | 11 | 2012.07.03 |
Pilot
"The Streets of San Francisco" (2 hrs) / Original air date: 16 September 1972
SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they investigate a girl found dead in the water with a lawyer she knew as the primary suspect.
Directed by Walter Grauman; Written by Edward Hume. Guest stars: Robert Wagner, Kim Darby.
Episodes
- No = Overall episode number
- Ep = Episode number by season
Season 1: 1972–73
No | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "The Thirty Year Pin" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Robert Lewin | 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. With Edmond O'Brien and Eileen Heckart. | |||||
2 | 2 | "The First Day of Forever" | Walter Grauman | Robert W. Lenski | 30 September 1972 |
A would-be Jack the Ripper stalks the city, slashing prostitutes to death. Stone assigns a reluctant Keller with protecting a prostitute who has been threatened. With Janice Rule and James Olson. | |||||
3 | 3 | "45 Minutes from Home" | Walter Grauman | Robert I. Holt | 7 October 1972 |
A salesman from Los Angeles attending a convention wrongly feels responsible for the death of a female hitchhiker. (The title refers to the time it takes to fly from LA to San Francisco.) With William Windom and Dick van Patten. | |||||
4 | 4 | "Whose Little Boy Are You?" | Walter Grauman | Teleplay: Cliff Gould Story: Donn Mullally | 14 October 1972 |
A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen. With James Stacy. | |||||
5 | 5 | "Tower Beyond Tragedy" | Walter Grauman | Morton S. Fine | 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. With Stefanie Powers. | |||||
6 | 6 | "Hall of Mirrors" | Arthur H. Nadel | Walter Black | 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. Martin's prejudice threatens the investigation. With David Soul. | |||||
7 | 7 | "Timelock" | Robert Douglas | Teleplay: Charles McDaniel, Cliff Gould and John Wilder Story: Charles McDaniel | 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. With Peter Strauss. | |||||
8 | 8 | "In the Midst of Strangers" | Robert Douglas | Del Reisman | 25 November 1972 |
When a corner newspaper vendor goes after the muggers who stole his life savings, Stone and Keller discover that the crime is linked to the murder of a housing commissioner. With David Wayne. | |||||
9 | 9 | "The Takers" | Arthur H. Nadel | Guerdon Trueblood, Cliff Gould and John Wilder | 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." With Harold Gould. | |||||
10 | 10 | "The Year of the Locusts" | Arthur H. Nadel | Theodore J. Flicker | 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. With George Voskovec. | |||||
11 | 11 | "The Bullet" | Walter Grauman | Teleplay:Barry Trivers, Cliff Gould and John Wilder Story: Barry Trivers | 16 December 1972 |
A college professor, shot accidentally while trying to pay off a blackmailer, refuses to cooperate with Stone's investigation for fear that the publicity will lose him an upcoming promotion. With Carl Betz. | |||||
12 | 12 | "Bitter Wine" | Christian Nyby | Teleplay:Hal Sitowitz and John Wilder Story: Hal Sitowitz | 23 December 1972 |
A man who served twelve years in prison to protect his brother gets out only to find that the brother never told their father, a Greek restaurant owner, the truth about who should have gone to jail. With Paul Michael Glaser. | |||||
13 | 13 | "A Trout in the Milk" | Lawrence Dobkin | Robert M. Young | 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. With Roscoe Lee Browne. | |||||
14 | 14 | "Deathwatch" | Walter Grauman | Teleplay:Harry Kronman, John Groves and Cliff Gould Story: Harry Kronman | 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. With Nicholas Colasanto. | |||||
15 | 15 | "Act of Duty" | Lawrence Dobkin | Robert M. Young | 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 stakeout but her own life. With Brenda Vaccaro. | |||||
16 | 16 | "The Set-up" | George McCowan | Douglas Roberts | 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. With Stuart Whitman and Claudine Longet. | |||||
17 | 17 | "A Collection of Eagles" | Walter Grauman | Robert I. Holt | 1 February 1973 |
A greed-consumed coin collector plots to switch a wealthy collector's gold double-eagle coins with counterfeits, using and abusing his trusting accomplices along the way. With Joseph Cotten and John Saxon. | |||||
18 | 18 | "A Room With a View" | Walter Grauman | Del Reisman | 8 February 1973 |
A war among gambling bosses is being waged. Stone and Keller attempt to protect a witness from a hit man who has charmed his way into a lonely teacher's apartment to secure a clear shot at his victim. With Steve Forrest and Shirley Knight. | |||||
19 | 19 | "Deadline" | Seymour Robbie | David Friedkin | 15 February 1973 |
A newspaper columnist and longtime friend of Stone's accidentally kills his young, two-timing mistress and then attempts to pin the rap on a young actor she was seeing. With Barry Sullivan and Tommy Kirk. | |||||
20 | 20 | "Trail of the Serpent" | John Badham | Cliff Gould and John Wilder | 22 February 1973 |
After killing a policeman while fleeing from a grocery store robbery, a gang called the Cobras takes Stone hostage. They want to trade him for their captured leader. With Tim O'Connor. | |||||
21 | 21 | "The House on Hyde Street" | Walter Grauman | Teleplay:John Wilder Story: Cliff Osmond | 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, rumored by neighbors to stay away because they believed him to be a child molester, and because of a murder that took place 30 years earlier at the house. What they find leads to suspicion when one of the boys is trapped inside the house with a person the old man has locked up in his room. With Lew Ayres and Joyce Van Patten. | |||||
22 | 22 | "Beyond Vengeance" | Virgil W. Vogel | Robert M. Young | 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. With Joe Don Baker and Darlene Carr. | |||||
23 | 23 | "The Albatross" | Robert Day | Teleplay:Cliff Gould and John Wilder Story:Cliff Gould | 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. With John Kerr. | |||||
24 | 24 | "Shattered Image" | Michael O'Herlihy | Teleplay:Guerdon Trueblood Story:Roland Wolpert and Jack Guss | 22 March 1973 |
Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident. With Barbara Rush and Dick Sargent. | |||||
25 | 25 | "The Unicorn" | Virgil W. Vogel | Teleplay:Jerry Ziegman and Mort Fine Story:Jerry Ziegman | 5 April 1973 |
A priest won't tell Stone where a murderer is hiding. Meantime, drug smugglers look for a stolen shipment of heroin. With Richard Egan. | |||||
26 | 26 | "Legion of the Lost" | Robert Douglas | Calvin Clements Jr. | 12 April 1973 |
After three winos are brutally beaten to death, Stone goes undercover as a homeless man. With Leslie Nielsen and Dean Stockwell. |
Season 2: 1973–74
No | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date |
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27 | 1 | "A Wrongful Death" | Don Medford | Edward DeBlasio | 13 September 1973 |
The father of a robbery suspect killed by Keller insists his boy was unarmed. With Ina Balin and Michael Constantine. | |||||
28 | 2 | "Betrayed" | William Hale | Mark Weingart | 20 September 1973 |
One of the girlfriends of a young charmer learns that he has robbed a bank. With Martin Sheen. | |||||
29 | 3 | "For the Love of God" | Virgil W. Vogel | Rick Husky | 27 September 1973 |
In order to stop a psychotic priest-killer, Lt. Stone goes undercover as a Roman Catholic priest. The victims were all clergymen who studied at the same seminary. With Leif Erickson. | |||||
30 | 4 | "Before I Die" | William Hale | Albert Ruben | 4 October 1973 |
A cop who finds out that he has a terminal illness sets out to kill a racketeer who's been his quarry for the last year and a half. With Leslie Nielsen and Ray Danton. | |||||
31 | 5 | "Going Home" | Robert Day | Jack B. Sowards | 11 October 1973 |
An operation run by the syndicate is burgled by a small-time crook. With Sheree North and Tom Bosley. | |||||
32 | 6 | "The Stamp of Death" | Seymour Robbie | Robert I. Holt | 18 October 1973 |
A rich man is murdered over a stamp collection which turns out to be an insurance scam. With Jessica Walter and Earl Holliman. | |||||
33 | 7 | "Harem" | Virgil W. Vogel | John D.F. Black | 25 October 1973 |
A flute-playing "Pied Piper" talks teenage girls into prostitution. He promises to take care of them; he's actually a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to protect himself. With Ricky Nelson and Kay Lenz. | |||||
34 | 8 | "No Badge for Benjy" | Seymour Robbie | George Bellak | 1 November 1973 |
Two very different victims are murdered: one a very rich foreign businessman found knifed; the other a poor black police informant found shot in a phone booth. Meanwhile, a Japanese industrialist is also found dead. | |||||
35 | 9 | "The Twenty-Four Karat Plague" | Don Medford | Robert Malcolm Young (teleplay), Robert Sherman (story) | 8 November 1973 |
Hijackers steal more than they bargained for, not knowing the gold they took is mixed with deadly uranium. With Vic Morrow. | |||||
36 | 10 | "Shield of Honor" | Eric Till | D.C. Fontana | 15 November 1973 |
Stone and Keller investigate how a contract killer obtained inside information about a mob witness. With Mariette Hartley. | |||||
37 | 11 | "The Victims" | George McCowan | Jerome Coopersmith | 29 November 1973 |
A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see. With Henry Silva. | |||||
38 | 12 | "The Runaways" | Seymour Robbie | Robert Malcolm Young | 6 December 1973 |
Kidnapping and murder are laid at the feet of a boy stealing medicine for his ailing sister. With Jeanette Nolan. (This episode is unrelated to the later QM Productions series of the same name.) | |||||
39 | 13 | "Winterkill" | Seymour Robbie | Jack B. Sowards | 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. With Denver Pyle. | |||||
40 | 14 | "Most Feared in the Jungle" | Robert Day | Jerome Coopersmith | 20 December 1973 |
Believing her baby was kidnapped, not stillborn as people claim, a mother embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth. | |||||
41 | 15 | "Commitment" | Richard Donner | John D.F. Black | 3 January 1974 |
An undercover cop is murdered with Stone's gun, and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone. With Tyne Daly. | |||||
42 | 16 | "Chapel of the Damned" | George McCowan | Robert Schlitt | 17 January 1974 |
A wealthy woman, whose daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, has more faith in a female psychic than in Stone and Keller. With Diana Douglas. | |||||
43 | 17 | "Blockade" | Virgil W. Vogel | James Menzies (teleplay), Jack Morton (story) | 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. With Ida Lupino. | |||||
44 | 18 | "Crossfire" | William Hale | Jerry McNeely | 31 January 1974 |
A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus. With Nick Nolte and Celeste Holm. | |||||
45 | 19 | "A String of Puppets" | Richard Donner | Mark Weingart (teleplay), James Schmerer (story) | 7 February 1974 |
Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees. With Claude Akins and Lola Falana. | |||||
46 | 20 | "Inferno" | Virgil W. Vogel | James M. Miller | 14 February 1974 |
Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen. With Glenn Corbett. | |||||
47 | 21 | "The Hard Breed" | Virgil W. Vogel | Jim Byrnes (teleplay), Ron Bishop (story) | 21 February 1974 |
Two Gunsmoke writers teamed on this modern-day Western set at a rodeo in San Francisco's Cow Palace. With Sam Elliott, Noah Beery and Jim Davis. | |||||
48 | 22 | "Rampage" | John Wilder | Albert Ruben | 28 February 1974 |
A team of angry fathers, who are fed up with crime in their neighborhood, take a vigilante approach at solving the problem. During one of their rampages, a police informant is killed. With Robert Hooks and Joe Santos. | |||||
49 | 23 | "Death and the Favored Few" | Virgil W. Vogel | Gene L. Coon | 14 March 1974 |
San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered. With Rosemary Murphy. |
Season 3: 1974–75
No | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date |
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50 | 1 | "One Last Shot" | William Hale | Jack B. Sowards | 12 September 1974 |
Alcoholic officer Joe Landers accidentally gets his partner killed and clumsily tries to cover it up as Stone and Keller work their way to the truth. With Leslie Nielsen and Susan Strasberg. | |||||
51 | 2 | "The Most Deadly Species" | Virgil W. Vogel | Hesper Anderson | 19 September 1974 |
When a high-ranking hoodlum's son is found murdered he brings in the help of Sydney, a hit woman who's assigned to murder the three thugs responsible. As part of her mission, she seduces Keller for information. With Brenda Vaccaro. | |||||
52 | 3 | "Target: Red" | Barry Crane | Rick Husky | 26 September 1974 |
A meticulous and ruthless assassin and former government agent is hired by a right-wing cabal to murder a visiting Chinese diplomat. With Bill Bixby. | |||||
53 | 4 | "Mask of Death" | Harry Falk | Robert Malcolm Young | 3 October 1974 |
A professional female impersonator (John Davidson) whose intense identification with one of the women he mimics -- a fictitious 1930s movie star -- creates an uncontrollable split personality and eventually leads to murder. With Marianne McAndrew. | |||||
54 | 5 | "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" | Paul Stanley | Albert Ruben | 10 October 1974 |
Keller infiltrates a group of Vietnam War protesters, hoping to find who murdered an AWOL marine. With Don Stroud. | |||||
55 | 6 | "One Chance to Live" | Seymour Robbie | David Friedkin | 17 October 1974 |
A woman conceals an affair with a married diplomat, whose wife threatens to kill her. With Pippa Scott and Edward Mulhare. | |||||
56 | 7 | "Jacob's Boy" | Harry Falk | Paul Savage | 24 October 1974 |
An innocent man isn't worried about a new murder charge against him, but he is afraid that once the police process his fingerprints, they will learn that he is a fugitive from a 25-year-old homicide investigation. With Brock Peters and Dabney Coleman. | |||||
57 | 8 | "Flags of Terror" | Virgil W. Vogel | Jerry Ziegman | 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. With Carl Franklin. | |||||
58 | 9 | "Cry Help!" | Corey Allen | Larry Brody and Leonardo Bercovici (teleplay), Leonardo Bercovici (story) | 7 November 1974 |
A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather. With Clint Howard. | |||||
59 | 10 | "For Good or Evil" | Michael Caffey | Mort Fine | 14 November 1974 |
A killer ends up working with a witness to the crime. With Hari Rhodes. | |||||
60 | 11 | "Bird of Prey" | Virgil W. Vogel | Guerdon Trueblood | 21 November 1974 |
Keller goes undercover as a USAF officer to investigate a woman's murder that might involve an Air Force colonel. With Dennis Cole. | |||||
61 | 12 | "License to Kill" | Virgil W. Vogel | Don Balluck (teleplay), Robert Keith (story) | 5 December 1974 |
Mike's former partner returns to San Francisco, but not because of any longing for the good old days. He's back in town to kill the hired gunman who murdered his son years before. With Murray Hamilton. | |||||
62 | 13 | "The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague" | Virgil W. Vogel | Tony Kayden and Michael Russnow | 12 December 1974 |
A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend. With Robert Webber. | |||||
63 | 14 | "Mister Nobody" | Corey Allen | Robert Sherman | 19 December 1974 |
A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend. With Sam Jaffe. | |||||
64 | 15 | "False Witness" | Paul Stanley | Mort Fine | 9 January 1975 |
Officer Jimmy Vega's personal vendetta against a local drug dealer threatens to ruin both his and Keller's careers. | |||||
65 | 16 | "Letters from the Grave" | Virgil W. Vogel | Tom Cannan | 16 January 1975 |
A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s. With William Windom. | |||||
66 | 17 | "Endgame" | Jerry Jameson | Albert Ruben | 23 January 1975 |
After Steve is injured in a fray with a gangster, Mike is demoted to walking a beat for insubordinately insisting on taking revenge. | |||||
67 | 18 | "Ten Dollar Murder" | William Hale | D.C. Fontana | 30 January 1975 |
A policewoman's son holds up taxicabs for a hobby that eventually results in the murder of an undercover cop. | |||||
68 | 19 | "The Programming of Charlie Blake" | Nicholas Colasanto | Rick Blaine | 6 February 1975 |
A supposedly reformed sex offender is being brainwashed by his psychiatrist into believing he has committed murder. With Dean Stockwell and Dee Wallace. | |||||
69 | 20 | "River of Fear" | Michael Caffey | Robert Malcolm Young | 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. With Kim Richards. | |||||
70 | 21 | "Asylum" | Robert Douglas | Larry Brody | 20 February 1975 |
Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths. With Robert Walker, Jr. | |||||
71 | 22 | "Labyrinth" | William Hale | Del Reisman | 27 February 1975 |
Stone and Keller investigate the death of a mob hitman tossed out of a window by his intended victim, a boxer who didn't throw a fight. With Julie Adams and Don Gordon. | |||||
72 | 23 | "Solitaire" | Seymour Robbie | D.C. Fontana | 13 March 1975 |
Stone is teamed with independent-minded narc Al Walczinsky while Keller recovers from a gunshot wound. Together they try to break up a narcotics ring — and Stone suspects Walczinsky's in on the racket. With Tony Lo Bianco. |
Season 4: 1975–76
No | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date |
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73 | 1 | "Poisoned Snow" | William Hale | Paul Savage | 11 September 1975 |
A narcotics cop laces a batch of cocaine with cyanide and puts it on the street. With Clu Gulager and Mark Hamill. | |||||
74 | 2 | "The Glass Dart Board" | Harry Falk | Sean Baine | 18 September 1975 |
A psychopathic killer uses people living in San Francisco's high-rises for target practice. With Patrick O'Neal. | |||||
75 | 3 | "No Place to Hide" | Virgil W. Vogel | Robert Malcolm Young | 25 September 1975 |
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs. With Stefanie Powers. | |||||
76 | 4 | "Men Will Die" | William Hale | Shirl Hendryx | 2 October 1975 |
An organization of angry rape victims helps a friend of Stone's daughter pursue the man who raped her. With Vera Miles. | |||||
77 | 5 | "School of Fear" | William Hale | Brad Radnitz (teleplay), Gordon Basichis and Marcia Hammond Basichis (story) | 9 October 1975 |
Upon learning that a teacher was killed during a student scuffle at a school where he once taught, a retired history teacher takes it upon himself to hold students hostage. With Maurice Evans and Geoffrey Lewis. | |||||
78 | 6 | "Deadly Silence" | Virgil W. Vogel | John W. Bloch | 16 October 1975 |
Stone is hit by a van, and has to undergo surgery to have his hearing restored. With Meredith Baxter. | |||||
79 | 7 | "Murder by Proxy" | Virgil W. Vogel | Eugene Price | 23 October 1975 |
Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer. With Bradford Dillman and John Ritter. | |||||
80 | 8 | "Trail of Terror" | Michael Preece | Jim Byrnes | 30 October 1975 |
Keller is pursued by killers as he transports a prisoner to jail. With James Woods. | |||||
81 | 9 | "Web of Lies" | Virgil W. Vogel | Leonard Kantor | 6 November 1975 |
Keller and Stone must rely on a compulsive liar while investigating a jewel robbery. With Pat Hingle. | |||||
82 | 10 | "Dead Air" | Virgil W. Vogel | Marvin Kupfer | 13 November 1975 |
A radio host is accused of murder when a woman who claimed to be carrying his baby dies. With Larry Hagman and Arlene Golonka. | |||||
83 | 11 | "Merchants of Death" | Virgil W. Vogel | Joseph Polizzi | 20 November 1975 |
Two rival gangs start a turf war with a youth worker caught in the middle. With Greg Morris. | |||||
84 | 12 | "The Cat's Paw" | Virgil W. Vogel | D.C. Fontana | 4 December 1975 |
Stone conducts a murder/robbery investigation with Inspector Irene Martin. With Diane Baker and Gary Busey. | |||||
85 | 13 | "Spooks for Sale" | Michael Douglas | Albert Ruben | 11 December 1975 |
The death of a night watchman during a burglary puts Stone and Keller into the midst of a spy-vs.-spy conflict between high-tech industrial espionage firms. With Fritz Weaver and Tom Selleck. (This is Michael Douglas's only directorial effort to date.) | |||||
86 | 14 | "Most Likely to Succeed" | William Hale | John D. Hess | 18 December 1975 |
Stone and Keller investigate a murder at an all-boys prep school. | |||||
87 | 15 | "Police Buff" | Virgil W. Vogel | Guerdon Trueblood (teleplay), Walter Bloch (story) | 8 January 1976 |
A man who likes to follow the police scanner wants to be a cop. He takes the law into his own hands when a suspected cop-killer is set free. With Bill Bixby. | |||||
88 | 16 | "The Honorable Profession" | Harry Falk | Paul Robert Coyle | 15 January 1976 |
Stone and Keller look to find out why a passer-by who tried to help a mortally wounded officer gave a false name for himself. With Robert Reed. | |||||
89 | 17 | "Requiem for Murder" | Harry Falk | James Johnson Sweeney | 22 January 1976 |
A bishop is shot after receiving a crank letter, and he tries to protect the person who shot him. With Richard Basehart. | |||||
90 | 18 | "Underground" | Paul Stanley | Sean Baine (teleplay), Philip Saltzman (story) | 29 January 1976 |
A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation. With Claudia Jennings. | |||||
91 | 19 | "Judgement Day" | Virgil W. Vogel | Ron Buck | 19 February 1976 |
The son of a disbarred lawyer targets "bleeding heart liberal" judges who ruined his father's career. With Jean Hagen. | |||||
92 | 20 | "Clown of Death" | Virgil W. Vogel | Arthur Rowe | 26 February 1976 |
Two retired brothers, riggers for circuses many years before, are found murdered while a circus happens to be performing in San Francisco at the Cow Palace. With David Birney. | |||||
93 | 21 | "Superstar" | Virgil W. Vogel | Mort. Fine | 4 March 1976 |
Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer. This was the pilot for the short-lived spinoff series Bert D'Angelo/Superstar. With Paul Sorvino. | |||||
94 | 22 | "Alien Country" | Virgil W. Vogel | Larry Brody | 11 March 1976 |
An illegal immigrant gets a job in San Francisco, but moments later there is a raid by the Immigration Service and an officer is killed. | |||||
95 | 23 | "Runaway" | Harry Falk | Paul Savage | 18 March 1976 |
Stone searches for a fugitive and is dogged by a runaway girl who is the fugitive's daughter. |
Season 5: 1976–77
No | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Original air date |
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96 | 1 | "The Thrill Killers: Part 1" | Virgil W. Vogel | Cliff Gould | 30 September 1976 |
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder. To be continued... With Patty Duke. | |||||
97 | 2 | "The Thrill Killers: Part 2" | Virgil W. Vogel | Cliff Gould | 7 October 1976 |
Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals. Steve leaves the police force. With Richard Hatch, Doris Roberts and Susan Dey. Note: The show's only two-part story was originally planned to be shown as a two-hour episode - which is why Part 2 features Acts V to VIII rather than I to IV - but Fred Silverman mandated the episode be split in half, so that Part 2 could go head to head with the fifth season premiere of rival Quinn Martin show Barnaby Jones on CBS (Keller's departure lost out to J.R. Jones's arrival in the ratings). | |||||
98 | 3 | "Dead or Alive" | Michael Caffey | Burton Armus | 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. With Howard Duff and Max Gail. | |||||
99 | 4 | "The Drop" | Harry Falk | Norman Lessing (teleplay), Norman Lessing and Robert Malcolm Young (story) | 28 October 1976 |
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money. With Dabney Coleman. | |||||
100 | 5 | "No Minor Vices" | William Wiard | Arthur Bernard Lewis | 4 November 1976 |
The father of a 16-year-old girl murders her "johns" one by one, unbeknownst to her. With Maureen McCormick. | |||||
101 | 6 | "In Case of Madness" | Barry Shear | John W. Bloch | 11 November 1976 |
A songwriter-singer is a suspect in the murder of his producer. With Desi Arnaz, Jr. | |||||
102 | 7 | "Til Death Do Us Part" | William Wiard | John D.F. Black | 18 November 1976 |
Stone must protect a former bookkeeper's wife in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them. With Jessica Walter. | |||||
103 | 8 | "Child of Anger" | David Whorf | Charles Larson | 2 December 1976 |
A clothing designer finds herself on the front page after her daughter confesses to the murder of her latest fling. Stone and Robbins realize the girl's really a witness and not a murderer. With Dorothy Malone. | |||||
104 | 9 | "Hot Dog" | Virgil W. Vogel | Guerdon Trueblood | 9 December 1976 |
Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motorcycles to make their getaway. With Don Johnson. | |||||
105 | 10 | "Castle of Fear" | Allen Reisner | James Menzies | 23 December 1976 |
Paranoia leads to someone shooting a cop skulking on their property. With Pat Hingle. | |||||
106 | 11 | "One Last Trick" | Kenneth Gilbert | Chris Kazan, Gloria Goldsmith and Jack B. Sowards (teleplay), Chris Kazan (story) | 6 January 1977 |
A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute. With Lee Purcell and Sherry Jackson. | |||||
107 | 12 | "Monkey Is Back" | Richard Lang | Sean Baine | 13 January 1977 |
An ex-con is out for vengeance against the high school gang whose initiation ritual led to his 20-year sentence. With Gary Lockwood. | |||||
108 | 13 | "The Cannibals" | Walter Grauman | Glen Olson and Rod Baker | 20 January 1977 |
A mobster's son steals loot from his father and seeks protection from federal authorities in exchange for being a material witness against his father. With Andrew Robinson and Len Birman. | |||||
109 | 14 | "Who Killed Helen French?" | Allen Reisner | Robert W. Lenski | 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. With Marlyn Mason. | |||||
110 | 15 | "A Good Cop... But" | Harry Falk | Charles Larson | 10 February 1977 |
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer. With Barry Primus. | |||||
111 | 16 | "Hang Tough" | William Hale | Norman Lessing | 17 February 1977 |
A narcotics cop who has only four months to go 'til retirement roughs up a drug pusher and plants a knife on him. Meanwhile, an operation begins to uncover the "Tucson connection," a major drug ring operating in San Francisco. With Ned Beatty. | |||||
112 | 17 | "Innocent No More" | Kenneth Gilbert | William Robert Yates | 24 February 1977 |
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults. With Christopher Atkins and Mark Hamill. | |||||
113 | 18 | "Once a Con" | Richard Lang | Robert Dellinger and Michael Seims (teleplay), Robert Dellinger (story) | 3 March 1977 |
The main suspect in the murder of a coed is a prison inmate enrolled in a special program. With John Rubinstein. | |||||
114 | 19 | "Interlude" | Harry Falk | Larry Alexander | 28 April 1977 |
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her. With Lois Nettleton. | |||||
115 | 20 | "Dead Lift" | Michael Preece | Larry Brody | 5 May 1977 |
A bodybuilder's short temper causes murder. With Arnold Schwarzenegger. | |||||
116 | 21 | "Breakup" | Harry Falk | Anthony Lawrence | 12 May 1977 |
A small business owner is going through divorce proceedings while his business is in financial straits. His wife's lawyer just happens to also be hunted by a revenge-seeking ex-con. With Pernell Roberts. | |||||
117 | 22 | "Let's Pretend We're Strangers" | Walter Grauman | Carol Saraceno | 19 May 1977 |
Robbins falls for a public defender representing a psycho, who is trying to eliminate witnesses to a murder. With Linda Kelsey. | |||||
118 | 23 | "Time Out" | Kenneth Gilbert | Robert Heverly | 2 June 1977 |
A San Quentin prison guard must hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard. With Cliff Gorman. | |||||
119 | 24 | "The Canine Collar" | Harry Falk | Robert Malcolm Young | 9 June 1977 |
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds. With George Dzundza. |
TV-movie
Back to the Streets of San Francisco (2 hrs) / Original air date: 27 January 1992
Captain Mike Stone is trying to find out who killed his long-time partner Steve Keller. Also, Stone must decide which of two inspectors to recommend for the position of Lieutenant: a woman (Debrah Farentino) with "Dirty Harry" tendencies, or a man (Conor O'Farrell) who reminds him of Keller.
Directed by Mel Damski; written by William Yates.[2]