The Streets of San Francisco
Rugged drama of the city and its people.
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.
Seasons
1. The Thirty-Year Pin
Air Date: 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.
2. The First Day of Forever
Air Date: 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.
3. 45 Minutes from Home
Air Date: 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.
4. Whose Little Boy Are You?
Air Date: 1972-10-14
A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.
5. Tower Beyond Tragedy
Air Date: 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.
6. Hall of Mirrors
Air Date: 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.
7. Timelock
Air Date: 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.
8. In the Midst of Strangers
Air Date: 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.
9. The Takers
Air Date: 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.
10. The Year of the Locusts
Air Date: 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.
11. The Bullet
Air Date: 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.
12. Bitter Wine
Air Date: 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.
13. A Trout in the Milk
Air Date: 1973-01-06
Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.
14. Deathwatch
Air Date: 1973-01-13
Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.
15. Act of Duty
Air Date: 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.
16. The Set-Up
Air Date: 1973-01-25
A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.
17. A Collection of Eagles
Air Date: 1973-02-01
A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.
18. A Room With a View
Air Date: 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.
19. Deadline
Air Date: 1973-02-15
Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.
20. Trail of the Serpent
Air Date: 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.
21. The House on Hyde Street
Air Date: 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.
22. Beyond Vengeance
Air Date: 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.
23. The Albatross
Air Date: 1973-03-15
A father finds out that the man who murdered his deaf son is released on a technicality.
24. Shattered Image
Air Date: 1973-03-22
Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.
25. The Unicorn
Air Date: 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.
26. Legion of the Lost
Air Date: 1973-04-12
Stone goes undercover as a bum to investigate the beating death of three homeless men.
1. A Wrongful Death
Air Date: 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.
2. Betrayed
Air Date: 1973-09-20
One of the girlfriends of a young charmer recognizes her boyfriend as the man who stuck up her bank.
3. For the Love of God
Air Date: 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.
4. Before I Die
Air Date: 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.
5. Going Home
Air Date: 1973-10-11
A small-time crook accidentally heists a fantastic sum from a small store that is actually a Syndicate front.
6. The Stamp of Death
Air Date: 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.
7. Harem
Air Date: 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.
8. No Badge For Benjy
Air Date: 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.
9. The Twenty-Four Karat Plague
Air Date: 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.
10. Shield of Honor
Air Date: 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.
11. The Victims
Air Date: 1973-11-29
A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see.
12. The Runaways
Air Date: 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.
13. Winterkill
Air Date: 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.
14. Most Feared in the Jungle
Air Date: 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.
15. Commitment
Air Date: 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.
16. Chapel of the Damned
Air Date: 1974-01-17
Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.
17. Blockade
Air Date: 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.
18. Crossfire
Air Date: 1974-01-31
A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus.
19. A String of Puppets
Air Date: 1974-02-07
Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.
20. Inferno
Air Date: 1974-02-14
Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen.
21. The Hard Breed
Air Date: 1974-02-21
A cowboy was trampled to death by a bull; his mates suspected it to be murder.
22. Rampage
Air Date: 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.
23. Death and the Favored Few
Air Date: 1974-03-14
San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered.
1. One Last Shot
Air Date: 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.
2. The Most Deadly Species
Air Date: 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...
3. Target: Red
Air Date: 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.
4. Mask of Death
Air Date: 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."
5. I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Air Date: 1974-10-10
Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.
6. One Chance to Live
Air Date: 1974-10-17
An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.
7. Jacob's Boy
Air Date: 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?...
8. Flags of Terror
Air Date: 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.
9. Cry Help!
Air Date: 1974-11-07
A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.
10. For Good or Evil
Air Date: 1974-11-14
A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.
11. Bird of Prey
Air Date: 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.
12. License to Kill
Air Date: 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.
13. The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
Air Date: 1974-12-12
A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.
14. Mister Nobody
Air Date: 1974-12-19
A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.
15. False Witness
Air Date: 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.
16. Letters from the Grave
Air Date: 1975-01-16
A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.
17. Endgame
Air Date: 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.
18. Ten Dollar Murder
Air Date: 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.
19. The Programming of Charlie Blake
Air Date: 1975-02-06
A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.
20. River of Fear
Air Date: 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.
21. Asylum
Air Date: 1975-02-20
Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.
22. Labyrinth
Air Date: 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.
23. Solitaire
Air Date: 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.
1. Poisoned Snow
Air Date: 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.
2. The Glass Dart Board
Air Date: 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.
3. No Place to Hide
Air Date: 1975-09-25
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't.
4. Men Will Die
Air Date: 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.
5. School of Fear
Air Date: 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.
6. Deadly Silence
Air Date: 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.
7. Murder by Proxy
Air Date: 1975-10-23
Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer.
8. Trail of Terror
Air Date: 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.
9. Web of Lies
Air Date: 1975-11-06
Keller and Stone's sole witness in a jewel robbery turns out to be a compulsive liar.
10. Dead Air
Air Date: 1975-11-13
A sleazy radio host is accused of murder when a former girlfriend, who was pregnant, is shot.
11. Merchants of Death
Air Date: 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.
12. The Cat's Paw
Air Date: 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.
13. Spooks for Sale
Air Date: 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.
14. Most Likely to Succeed
Air Date: 1975-12-18
A teacher is murdered at an exclusive all-boys prep school.
15. Police Buff
Air Date: 1976-01-08
A vigilante is methodically and savagely wiping out criminals who have managed to slip through the fingers of the legal system.
16. The Honorable Profession
Air Date: 1976-01-15
Stone and Keller search for the only eyewitness to a shooting -- a self-proclaimed doctor who gave them a false name.
17. Requiem for Murder
Air Date: 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.
18. Underground
Air Date: 1976-01-29
A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.
19. Judgment Day
Air Date: 1976-02-19
Four judges have been murdered, and in each case an obsolete pamphlet on disbarrment proceedings is found near the body...
20. Clown of Death
Air Date: 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.
21. Superstar
Air Date: 1976-03-04
Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer.
22. Alien Country
Air Date: 1976-03-11
When an Immigration raid goes wrong and a security guard is killed, the prime suspect becomes one of the illegal immigrants.
23. Runaway
Air Date: 1976-03-18
Stone searches for a fugitive, and is dogged by the fugitive's innocent and naive daughter.
1. The Thrill Killers (1)
Air Date: 1976-09-30
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.
2. The Thrill Killers (2)
Air Date: 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.
3. Dead or Alive
Air Date: 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.
4. The Drop
Air Date: 1976-10-28
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.
5. No Minor Vices
Air Date: 1976-11-04
A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.
6. In Case of Madness
Air Date: 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.
7. Till Death Do Us Part
Air Date: 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.
8. Child of Anger
Air Date: 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.
9. Hot Dog
Air Date: 1976-12-09
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.
10. Castle of Fear
Air Date: 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...
11. One Last Trick
Air Date: 1977-01-06
A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.
12. Monkey is Back
Air Date: 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.
13. The Cannibals
Air Date: 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.
14. Who Killed Helen French?
Air Date: 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.
15. A Good Cop...But
Air Date: 1977-02-10
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.
16. Hang Tough
Air Date: 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.
17. Innocent No More
Air Date: 1977-02-24
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.
18. Once a Con
Air Date: 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.
19. Interlude
Air Date: 1977-04-28
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.
20. Dead Lift
Air Date: 1977-05-05
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.
21. Breakup
Air Date: 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.
22. Let's Pretend We're Strangers
Air Date: 1977-05-19
A public defender is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.
23. Time Out
Air Date: 1977-06-02
A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.
24. The Canine Collar
Air Date: 1977-06-09
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.
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Rating
7.0/10
Release Date
1972-09-23
Episodes
119 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Quinn Martin Productions (QM)
Warner Bros. Television