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The Streets of San Francisco
1972 - 1977 6.9 (92 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Crime Drama Action & Adventure
Networks
ABC
Created By
Edward Hume

The Streets of San Francisco

Rugged drama of the city and its people.

Overview

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1972)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Thirty-Year Pin
1972-09-23

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 2: The First Day of Forever
1972-09-30

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 3: 45 Minutes from Home
1972-10-07

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 4: Whose Little Boy Are You?
1972-10-14

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 5: Tower Beyond Tragedy
1972-10-28

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 6: Hall of Mirrors
1972-11-04

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 7: Timelock
1972-11-11

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 8: In the Midst of Strangers
1972-11-25

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 9: The Takers
1972-12-02

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 10: The Year of the Locusts
1972-12-09

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 11: The Bullet
1972-12-16

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 12: Bitter Wine
1972-12-23

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 13: A Trout in the Milk
1973-01-06

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 14: Deathwatch
1973-01-13

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 15: Act of Duty
1973-01-18

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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 16: The Set-Up
1973-01-25

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 17: A Collection of Eagles
1973-02-01

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 18: A Room With a View
1973-02-08

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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 19: Deadline
1973-02-15

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 20: Trail of the Serpent
1973-02-22

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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 21: The House on Hyde Street
1973-03-01

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 22: Beyond Vengeance
1973-03-08

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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 23: The Albatross
1973-03-15

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 24: Shattered Image
1973-03-22

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 25: The Unicorn
1973-04-05

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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 26: Legion of the Lost
1973-04-12

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

Runtime: 51 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1973)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Wrongful Death
1973-09-13

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Betrayed
1973-09-20

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: For the Love of God
1973-09-27

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Before I Die
1973-10-04

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Going Home
1973-10-11

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Stamp of Death
1973-10-18

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Harem
1973-10-25

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: No Badge For Benjy
1973-11-01

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Twenty-Four Karat Plague
1973-11-08

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Shield of Honor
1973-11-15

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Victims
1973-11-29

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Runaways
1973-12-06

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Winterkill
1973-12-13

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Most Feared in the Jungle
1973-12-20

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Commitment
1974-01-03

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Chapel of the Damned
1974-01-17

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Blockade
1974-01-24

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Crossfire
1974-01-31

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: A String of Puppets
1974-02-07

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Inferno
1974-02-14

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Hard Breed
1974-02-21

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Rampage
1974-02-28

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Death and the Favored Few
1974-03-14

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

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1974)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: One Last Shot
1974-09-12

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Most Deadly Species
1974-09-19

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...

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Target: Red
1974-09-26

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Mask of Death
1974-10-03

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."

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
1974-10-10

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: One Chance to Live
1974-10-17

An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Jacob's Boy
1974-10-24

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?...

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Flags of Terror
1974-10-31

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Cry Help!
1974-11-07

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: For Good or Evil
1974-11-14

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Bird of Prey
1974-11-21

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: License to Kill
1974-12-05

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
1974-12-12

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Mister Nobody
1974-12-19

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: False Witness
1975-01-09

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Letters from the Grave
1975-01-16

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Endgame
1975-01-23

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Ten Dollar Murder
1975-01-30

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Programming of Charlie Blake
1975-02-06

A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: River of Fear
1975-02-13

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Asylum
1975-02-20

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Labyrinth
1975-02-27

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Solitaire
1975-03-13

While Keller recovers from a gunshot wound, Stone is forced to team with hippie-haired narcotics officer Al Walczinsky. Together they try to break up a narcotics ring that's gone murderous -- until Stone suspects that Walczinsky's in on the racket.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1975)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Poisoned Snow
1975-09-11

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Glass Dart Board
1975-09-18

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: No Place to Hide
1975-09-25

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Men Will Die
1975-10-02

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: School of Fear
1975-10-09

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Deadly Silence
1975-10-16

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Murder by Proxy
1975-10-23

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Trail of Terror
1975-10-30

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Web of Lies
1975-11-06

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Dead Air
1975-11-13

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Merchants of Death
1975-11-20

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Cat's Paw
1975-12-04

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Spooks for Sale
1975-12-11

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Most Likely to Succeed
1975-12-18

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Police Buff
1976-01-08

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Honorable Profession
1976-01-15

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Requiem for Murder
1976-01-22

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Underground
1976-01-29

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Judgment Day
1976-02-19

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Clown of Death
1976-02-26

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Superstar
1976-03-04

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Alien Country
1976-03-11

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Runaway
1976-03-18

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

Runtime: 60 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1976)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Thrill Killers (1)
1976-09-30

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Thrill Killers (2)
1976-10-07

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Dead or Alive
1976-10-21

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Drop
1976-10-28

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: No Minor Vices
1976-11-04

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: In Case of Madness
1976-11-11

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Till Death Do Us Part
1976-11-18

Stone must protect a former book keeper'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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Child of Anger
1976-12-02

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Hot Dog
1976-12-09

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Castle of Fear
1976-12-23

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...

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: One Last Trick
1977-01-06

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Monkey is Back
1977-01-13

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Cannibals
1977-01-20

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Who Killed Helen French?
1977-02-03

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: A Good Cop...But
1977-02-10

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Hang Tough
1977-02-17

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Innocent No More
1977-02-24

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Once a Con
1977-03-03

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Interlude
1977-04-28

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Dead Lift
1977-05-05

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Breakup
1977-05-12

An episode where there are two parallel stories: 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Let's Pretend We're Strangers
1977-05-19

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Time Out
1977-06-02

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Canine Collar
1977-06-09

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

Runtime: 60 min

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