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The Streets of San Francisco

  • TV-PG
  • 1972–1977
  • 5 seasons
  • Crime, Drama
  • 7.1

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.

Episodes

23 episodes
  1. 1Poisoned Snow

    60 minSep 11, 1975

    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. 2The Glass Dart Board

    60 minSep 18, 1975

    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. 3No Place to Hide

    60 minSep 25, 1975

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

  4. 4Men Will Die

    60 minOct 2, 1975

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

  5. 5School of Fear

    60 minOct 9, 1975

    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. 6Deadly Silence

    60 minOct 16, 1975

    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. 7Murder by Proxy

    60 minOct 23, 1975

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

  8. 8Trail of Terror

    60 minOct 30, 1975

    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. 9Web of Lies

    60 minNov 6, 1975

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

  10. 10Dead Air

    60 minNov 13, 1975

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

  11. 11Merchants of Death

    60 minNov 20, 1975

    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. 12The Cat's Paw

    60 minDec 4, 1975

    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. 13Spooks for Sale

    60 minDec 11, 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.

  14. 14Most Likely to Succeed

    60 minDec 18, 1975

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

  15. 15Police Buff

    60 minJan 8, 1976

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

  16. 16The Honorable Profession

    60 minJan 15, 1976

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

  17. 17Requiem for Murder

    60 minJan 22, 1976

    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. 18Underground

    60 minJan 29, 1976

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

  19. 19Judgment Day

    60 minFeb 19, 1976

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

  20. 20Clown of Death

    60 minFeb 26, 1976

    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. 21Superstar

    60 minMar 4, 1976

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

  22. 22Alien Country

    60 minMar 11, 1976

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

  23. 23Runaway

    60 minMar 18, 1976

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

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Series cast

Karl MaldenMike Stone119 episodes
Michael DouglasSteve Keller119 episodes
Richard HatchDan Robbins24 episodes
Darleen CarrJeannie Stone11 episodes
Fred Sadoff8 episodes
John Kerr7 episodes
Hari RhodesHarry Gates6 episodes
Barry SullivanChris 'Ace' Bane5 episodes
Eric Server4 episodes
Gene Nelson4 episodes
Michael Strong4 episodes
Tim O'Connor4 episodes
Norman Alden4 episodes
Dick Van PattenThurman Barber4 episodes
Vince HowardCharlie Johnson4 episodes
Lenore Kasdorf3 episodes
Christopher Stone3 episodes
Ward Costello3 episodes

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