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The Streets of San Francisco

★ 7.0 · 1972-09-23 · 5 Seasons · PG · Crime, Drama
The Streets of San Francisco

Cast

Karl Malden

Karl Malden

Mike Stone

Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas

Steve Keller

Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch

Dan Robbins

Episodes

1 The Thirty-Year Pin

The Thirty-Year Pin

When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.

95m
2 The First Day of Forever

The First Day of Forever

Stone and Keller finally get a lead on a serial killer who has been knifing prostitutes when one of the victims survives the attack.

48m
3 45 Minutes from Home

45 Minutes from Home

A salesman attending a convention wrongly believes that he is responsible for the death of an attractive female hitchhiker who had lured him to her houseboat.

49m
4 Whose Little Boy Are You?

Whose Little Boy Are You?

A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.

49m
5 Tower Beyond Tragedy

Tower Beyond Tragedy

Stone and Keller face off against Gilliam, a wealthy executive who transforms women into his own special image of perfection, then kills them when they inevitably fail to live up to every demented standard of his.

49m
6 Hall of Mirrors

Hall of Mirrors

Keller, temporarily partnered with a hotshot detective, sets out to discover why his new partner seems to be absolutely convinced of a murder suspect's guilt for no apparent reason.

50m
7 Timelock

Timelock

Stone appears to be the only one willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a convict who is accused of a murder while out of prison on a 36-hour pass.

49m
8 In the Midst of Strangers

In the Midst of Strangers

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.

50m
9 The Takers

The Takers

The murders of a flight attendant and a nurse who were rooming together lead Stone and Keller to suspect a jewelry salesman and his wife.

49m
10 The Year of the Locusts

The Year of the Locusts

In their attempt to bring down a family of con artists who victimize entire neighborhoods, Stone and Keller are aided by dissension among the gang members.

50m
11 The Bullet

The Bullet

A college professor, shot accidentally while trying to pay off a blackmailer, refuses to co-operate with Stone's investigation for fear that the publicity will lose him an upcoming promotion.

49m
12 Bitter Wine

Bitter Wine

A man who served 12 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.

50m
13 A Trout in the Milk

A Trout in the Milk

Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.

49m
14 Deathwatch

Deathwatch

Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.

50m
15 Act of Duty

Act of Duty

After a female detective is killed by the rapist she had been bait for, her roommate (played by Brenda Vaccaro) goes on the warpath to catch him. After Mike Stone kicks her off the case, she continues on her own, hurtling headlong into peril.

49m
16 The Set-Up

The Set-Up

A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.

50m
17 A Collection of Eagles

A Collection of Eagles

A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.

50m
18 A Room With a View

A Room With a View

One witness in a racketeering trial is killed with a booby-trapped car, and Stone worries that the remaining witness, Roy Chaffee, will be picked off by a hit man if he surfaces.

50m
19 Deadline

Deadline

Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.

50m
20 Trail of the Serpent

Trail of the Serpent

A gang takes Mike Stone hostage after killing a policeman in an attempt to flee from a grocery store robbery. They want to trade Stone in for their leader, Buddy Sims.

50m
21 The House on Hyde Street

The House on Hyde Street

When a boy disappears after school, suspicion falls on the neighborhood recluse, who is popularly known as a pedophile, although never convicted.

50m
22 Beyond Vengeance

Beyond Vengeance

After spending a "lousy" 12 years in prison for a brutal sexual assault and murder, a young punk returns to San Francisco to seek revenge against Mike Stone (who was the arresting officer). And he's not picky about how he'll take that revenge -- or on who.

50m
23 The Albatross

The Albatross

A father finds out that the man who murdered his deaf son is released on a technicality.

50m
24 Shattered Image

Shattered Image

Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.

50m
25 The Unicorn

The Unicorn

A priest (Fr. Scarne) won't tell Stone where a murderer (Abel Hoffman) is hiding. Stakes are raised by drug smugglers looking for a stolen shipment of heroin.

50m
26 Legion of the Lost

Legion of the Lost

Stone goes undercover as a bum to investigate the beating death of three homeless men.

50m
27

27

49m
1 A Wrongful Death

A Wrongful Death

Keller returns fire during a chase in a dark shopping center, killing a kid, but the body comes up unarmed. The boy's father insists Keller is a murderer.

50m
2 Betrayed

Betrayed

One of the girlfriends of a young charmer recognizes her boyfriend as the man who stuck up her bank.

50m
3 For the Love of God

For the Love of God

In order to stop a psychotic priest-killer, Stone goes undercover as a Roman Catholic priest. The victims were all clergymen who studied at the same seminary.

49m
4 Before I Die

Before I Die

A cop (Nielsen) who finds out that he has a terminal illness, sets out to kill a racketeer (Danton) who had been his quarry for the last year and a half.

49m
5 Going Home

Going Home

A small-time crook accidentally heists a fantastic sum from a small store that is actually a Syndicate front.

49m
6 The Stamp of Death

The Stamp of Death

Lieutenant Stone and Inspector Keller go after two insurance agents involved in the counterfeiting of an 1850 2-cent purple Guyana stamp which had a value of $250,000.

50m
7 Harem

Harem

A flute-playing "Pied Piper" (played by Ricky Nelson) talks teenage girls into prostitution, then disposes of them when they are no longer convenient. Stone's daughter helps him break up this murderous prostitution ring.

50m
8 No Badge For Benjy

No Badge For Benjy

A black police informant is murdered, but the police seem more concerned with the death of a white business man. His flinty daughter forces the police to go after his killers.

50m
9 The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

Crooks heist a truck filled with gold, not knowing that the gold is the irradiated byproduct of a power plant experiment and extremely toxic.

50m
10 Shield of Honor

Shield of Honor

Internal affairs suspects that something is amiss when a witness under police protection is killed. Someone in the Department is a Syndicate informer--and everyone is under suspicion, even Stone and Keller.

50m
11 The Victims

The Victims

A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see.

50m
12 The Runaways

The Runaways

The oldest of a set of three young sibling runaways is suspected of the murder of a drugstore owner. His animosity towards authority doesn't do him any favors.

50m
13 Winterkill

Winterkill

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.

50m
14 Most Feared in the Jungle

Most Feared in the Jungle

Believing her baby was kidnapped, not stillborn as people claim, a deranged new mother embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth.

49m
15 Commitment

Commitment

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

50m
16 Chapel of the Damned

Chapel of the Damned

Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.

50m
17 Blockade

Blockade

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.

49m
18 Crossfire

Crossfire

A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus.

50m
19 A String of Puppets

A String of Puppets

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

50m
20 Inferno

Inferno

Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen.

50m
21 The Hard Breed

The Hard Breed

A cowboy was trampled to death by a bull; his mates suspected it to be murder.

49m
22 Rampage

Rampage

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.

50m
23 Death and the Favored Few

Death and the Favored Few

San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered.

50m
1 One Last Shot

One Last Shot

Alcoholic officer Joe Landers (Leslie Nielsen) accidentally gets his partner killed and clumsily tries to cover it up as Stone and Keller work their way to the truth.

51m
2 The Most Deadly Species

The Most Deadly Species

A high-ranking hoodlum hires the androgynously-named "Sidney"--a hitwoman who's assigned to murder the three thugs responsible for the death of his son. She decides to let the police do her digging for her and moves in next door to Keller...

52m
3 Target: Red

Target: Red

Bill Bixby plays a former CIA hitman who is hired by some kooky generals to assassinate a Red Chinese envoy on a state visit to San Francisco.

52m
4 Mask of Death

Mask of Death

A professional female impersonator, whose headline act is a perfect imitation of 1930s movie star Carol Marlowe, is overwhelmed with an alternate personality -- and murdering any man who is unlucky enough to be attracted to "Carol."

52m
5 I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.

6 One Chance to Live

One Chance to Live

An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat, whose wife hires an unbalanced youth to kill her.

52m
7 Jacob's Boy

Jacob's Boy

A bum blackmails a black guy. The bum's friends roll him for the money and attempt to pin his death on the black guy, who is the lovable and successful nanny to a young kid. What's the black guy hiding?...

52m
8 Flags of Terror

Flags of Terror

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.

52m
9

Cry Help!

A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.

51m
10

For Good or Evil

A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.

52m
11

Bird of Prey

Women keep turning up in hotel rooms strangled; the only lead is a witness who thinks he saw an air force Colonel's uniform. Keller goes undercover as an air force officer to infiltrate the base.

51m
12

License to Kill

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.

51m
13

The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague

A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.

51m
14

Mister Nobody

A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.

51m
15

False Witness

When a patrolman and personal friend of Keller has his arrestee turned loose on insufficient evidence, he goes on the warpath, endangering both of their careers.

16

Letters from the Grave

A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.

51m
17

Endgame

While investigating a lead, Steve is run over by a car and rendered a vegetable. Mike insists on taking revenge, and is demoted to walking a beat.

51m
18

Ten Dollar Murder

A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.

51m
19

The Programming of Charlie Blake

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

51m
20

River of Fear

A man seduces the widow of a bank robber. The money he stole was never found. When she tells him where it is, he kills her and sets out to take the money from her children out in the country.

52m
21

Asylum

Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.

51m
22

Labyrinth

A prizefighter refuses to throw a fight, instead opting to throw the gangsters out the window of his hotel room. Injured, he hides in the hotel as both the police and mob close in.

51m
1

Poisoned Snow

When a lady cop is killed in a drug sting gone wrong, her boyfriend cop decides to take matters into his own hands. Stone and Keller try to stop him.

50m
2 The Glass Dart Board

The Glass Dart Board

While a psychopathic killer uses San Francisco hi-rises as target practice, Stone and Keller have to contend with a new Captain who immediately countermands everything they do.

50m
3

No Place to Hide

Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't.

50m
4

Men Will Die

A rapist targets Stone's daughter and her friend; a radical feminist organization encourages them to take matters into their own hands.

50m
5

School of Fear

A retired history teacher goes off the deep end and takes it upon himself to take a group of his former students hostage in an empty, condemned school. There, at gunpoint, he proceeds to teach them the finer points of history.

50m
6

Deadly Silence

After Stone is hit by a van and suffers an inner ear injury, he considers changing to a desk job. Meanwhile, the vengeful wife of a man he killed stalks and tries to kill him in his half-deaf state.

51m
7

Murder by Proxy

Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer.

51m
8

Trail of Terror

When a gang of smuggling sailors kills a jeweler, they realize they have to eliminate his girlfriend for being a witness, and Keller, who is transporting the girlfriend to jail.

51m
9

Web of Lies

Keller and Stone's sole witness in a jewel robbery turns out to be a compulsive liar.

51m
10

Dead Air

A sleazy radio host is accused of murder when a former girlfriend, who was pregnant, is shot.

51m
11

Merchants of Death

A youth-center worker is caught in a war between two teenaged street gangs, a war that really has the heat turned up when one of the gangs obtains automatic rifles.

50m
12

The Cat's Paw

Lieutenant Stone is placed in the awkward position of investigating a burglary with Irene Martin, a lady cop -- who is also his girlfriend who he's just proposed to. She resents his intrusion into 'her' case and their relationship unravels.

51m
13

Spooks for Sale

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.

51m
14

Most Likely to Succeed

A teacher is murdered at an exclusive all-boys prep school.

51m
15

Police Buff

A vigilante is methodically and savagely wiping out criminals who have managed to slip through the fingers of the legal system.

51m
16

The Honorable Profession

Stone and Keller search for the only eyewitness to a shooting -- a self-proclaimed doctor who gave them a false name.

50m
17

Requiem for Murder

A bishop (Mike's friend) tries to protect the person who shot him, but revelations in the course of the investigation start to shed suspicion on the bishop's accounting of events entirely.

51m
18

Underground

A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.

51m
19

Judgment Day

Four judges have been murdered, and in each case an obsolete pamphlet on disbarrment proceedings is found near the body...

51m
20

Clown of Death

Two retired brothers, both having worked as riggers for circuses many years before, are found murdered while a circus happens to be performing in San Francisco at the Cow Palace.

51m
21

Superstar

Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer.

51m
22

Alien Country

When an Immigration raid goes wrong and a security guard is killed, the prime suspect becomes one of the illegal immigrants.

51m
23

Runaway

Stone searches for a fugitive, and is dogged by the fugitive's innocent and naive daughter.

51m
1

The Thrill Killers (1)

Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.

50m
2

The Thrill Killers (2)

Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.

48m
3

Dead or Alive

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

50m
4

The Drop

Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.

50m
5

No Minor Vices

A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.

50m
6

In Case of Madness

A music producer turns up dead; a popular singer he was producing an album for is convinced that he is going insane and killed the producer, but the truth is stranger.

50m
7

Till Death Do Us Part

Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife (Jessica Walter), in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.

50m
8

Child of Anger

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.

50m
9

Hot Dog

Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.

49m
10

Castle of Fear

A man who has been tormented by mysterious, threatening phone calls believes that his stalker has entered his property, and shoots him. Unfortunately for the man, his victim was a totally innocent cop...

50m
11

One Last Trick

A former prostitute (Purcell) goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.

50m
12

Monkey is Back

As a dare to try to win a spot among a gang of high school thugs in the 1950's, Charley Belasco commits a crime that sends him to prison for 20 years. Upon his release, he goes on a murderous rampage to hunt down the the high school thugs who spurned him.

49m
13

The Cannibals

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.

50m
14

Who Killed Helen French?

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.

50m
15

A Good Cop...But

A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.

50m
16

Hang Tough

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.

50m
17

Innocent No More

Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.

50m
18

Once a Con

When a female college student is killed on campus, suspicion falls on a prison inmate allowed temporary release to work in the college's print-shop.

50m
19

Interlude

Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.

50m
20

Dead Lift

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.

50m
21

Breakup

An episode where there are two parallel stories: A small business owner (Roberts) is going through divorce proceedings while his business is in financial straits. His wife's lawyer (Pressman) just happens to also be hunted by a revenge-seeking ex-con (Murdock).

49m
22

Let's Pretend We're Strangers

A public defender (Linda Kelsey) is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.

50m
23

Time Out

A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.

50m
24

The Canine Collar

Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.

50m

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