

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.
Cast

Karl Malden
Mike Stone

Michael Douglas
Steve Keller

Richard Hatch
Dan Robbins
Seasons

E1The Thirty-Year Pin
Sep 23, 1972
When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.

E2The First Day of Forever
Sep 30, 1972
Stone and Keller finally get a lead on a serial killer who has been knifing prostitutes when one of the victims survives the attack.

E345 Minutes from Home
Oct 7, 1972
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.

E4Whose Little Boy Are You?
Oct 14, 1972
A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.

E5Tower Beyond Tragedy
Oct 28, 1972
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.

E6Hall of Mirrors
Nov 4, 1972
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.

E7Timelock
Nov 11, 1972
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.

E8In the Midst of Strangers
Nov 25, 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.

E9The Takers
Dec 2, 1972
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.

E10The Year of the Locusts
Dec 9, 1972
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.

E11The Bullet
Dec 16, 1972
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.

E12Bitter Wine
Dec 23, 1972
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.

E13A Trout in the Milk
Jan 6, 1973
Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.

E14Deathwatch
Jan 13, 1973
Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.

E15Act of Duty
Jan 18, 1973
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.

E16The Set-Up
Jan 25, 1973
A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.

E17A Collection of Eagles
Feb 1, 1973
A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.

E18A Room With a View
Feb 8, 1973
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.

E19Deadline
Feb 15, 1973
Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.

E20Trail of the Serpent
Feb 22, 1973
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.

E21The House on Hyde Street
Mar 1, 1973
When a boy disappears after school, suspicion falls on the neighborhood recluse, who is popularly known as a pedophile, although never convicted.

E22Beyond Vengeance
Mar 8, 1973
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.

E23The Albatross
Mar 15, 1973
A father finds out that the man who murdered his deaf son is released on a technicality.

E24Shattered Image
Mar 22, 1973
Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.

E25The Unicorn
Apr 5, 1973
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.

E26Legion of the Lost
Apr 12, 1973
Stone goes undercover as a bum to investigate the beating death of three homeless men.

E1A Wrongful Death
Sep 13, 1973
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.

E2Betrayed
Sep 20, 1973
One of the girlfriends of a young charmer recognizes her boyfriend as the man who stuck up her bank.

E3For the Love of God
Sep 27, 1973
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.

E4Before I Die
Oct 4, 1973
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.

E5Going Home
Oct 11, 1973
A small-time crook accidentally heists a fantastic sum from a small store that is actually a Syndicate front.

E6The Stamp of Death
Oct 18, 1973
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.

E7Harem
Oct 25, 1973
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.

E8No Badge For Benjy
Nov 1, 1973
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.

E9The Twenty-Four Karat Plague
Nov 8, 1973
Crooks heist a truck filled with gold, not knowing that the gold is the irradiated byproduct of a power plant experiment and extremely toxic.

E10Shield of Honor
Nov 15, 1973
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.

E11The Victims
Nov 29, 1973
A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see.

E12The Runaways
Dec 6, 1973
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.

E13Winterkill
Dec 13, 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.

E14Most Feared in the Jungle
Dec 20, 1973
Believing her baby was kidnapped, not stillborn as people claim, a deranged new mother embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth.

E15Commitment
Jan 3, 1974
An undercover cop is murdered with Stone's gun, and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.

E16Chapel of the Damned
Jan 17, 1974
Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.

E17Blockade
Jan 24, 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.

E18Crossfire
Jan 31, 1974
A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus.

E19A String of Puppets
Feb 7, 1974
Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.

E20Inferno
Feb 14, 1974
Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen.

E21The Hard Breed
Feb 21, 1974
A cowboy was trampled to death by a bull; his mates suspected it to be murder.

E22Rampage
Feb 28, 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.

E23Death and the Favored Few
Mar 14, 1974
San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered.

E1One Last Shot
Sep 12, 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.

E2The Most Deadly Species
Sep 19, 1974
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...

E3Target: Red
Sep 26, 1974
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.

E4Mask of Death
Oct 3, 1974
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."

E5I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Oct 10, 1974
Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.

E6One Chance to Live
Oct 17, 1974
An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.

E7Jacob's Boy
Oct 24, 1974
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?...

E8Flags of Terror
Oct 31, 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.

E9Cry Help!
Nov 7, 1974
A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.

E10For Good or Evil
Nov 14, 1974
A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.

E11Bird of Prey
Nov 21, 1974
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.

E12License to Kill
Dec 5, 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.

E13The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
Dec 12, 1974
A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.

E14Mister Nobody
Dec 19, 1974
A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.

E15False Witness
Jan 9, 1975
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.

E16Letters from the Grave
Jan 16, 1975
A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.

E17Endgame
Jan 23, 1975
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.

E18Ten Dollar Murder
Jan 30, 1975
A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.

E19The Programming of Charlie Blake
Feb 6, 1975
A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.

E20River of Fear
Feb 13, 1975
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.

E21Asylum
Feb 20, 1975
Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.

E22Labyrinth
Feb 27, 1975
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.

E23Solitaire
Mar 13, 1975
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.

E1Poisoned Snow
Sep 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.

E2The Glass Dart Board
Sep 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.

E3No Place to Hide
Sep 25, 1975
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't.

E4Men Will Die
Oct 2, 1975
A rapist targets Stone's daughter and her friend; a radical feminist organization encourages them to take matters into their own hands.

E5School of Fear
Oct 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.

E6Deadly Silence
Oct 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.

E7Murder by Proxy
Oct 23, 1975
Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer.

E8Trail of Terror
Oct 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.

E9Web of Lies
Nov 6, 1975
Keller and Stone's sole witness in a jewel robbery turns out to be a compulsive liar.

E10Dead Air
Nov 13, 1975
A sleazy radio host is accused of murder when a former girlfriend, who was pregnant, is shot.

E11Merchants of Death
Nov 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.

E12The Cat's Paw
Dec 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.

E13Spooks for Sale
Dec 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.

E14Most Likely to Succeed
Dec 18, 1975
A teacher is murdered at an exclusive all-boys prep school.

E15Police Buff
Jan 8, 1976
A vigilante is methodically and savagely wiping out criminals who have managed to slip through the fingers of the legal system.

E16The Honorable Profession
Jan 15, 1976
Stone and Keller search for the only eyewitness to a shooting -- a self-proclaimed doctor who gave them a false name.

E17Requiem for Murder
Jan 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.

E18Underground
Jan 29, 1976
A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.

E19Judgment Day
Feb 19, 1976
Four judges have been murdered, and in each case an obsolete pamphlet on disbarrment proceedings is found near the body...

E20Clown of Death
Feb 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.

E21Superstar
Mar 4, 1976
Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer.

E22Alien Country
Mar 11, 1976
When an Immigration raid goes wrong and a security guard is killed, the prime suspect becomes one of the illegal immigrants.

E23Runaway
Mar 18, 1976
Stone searches for a fugitive, and is dogged by the fugitive's innocent and naive daughter.

E1The Thrill Killers (1)
Sep 30, 1976
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.

E2The Thrill Killers (2)
Oct 7, 1976
Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.

E3Dead or Alive
Oct 21, 1976
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.

E4The Drop
Oct 28, 1976
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.

E5No Minor Vices
Nov 4, 1976
A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.

E6In Case of Madness
Nov 11, 1976
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.

E7Till Death Do Us Part
Nov 18, 1976
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.

E8Child of Anger
Dec 2, 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.

E9Hot Dog
Dec 9, 1976
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.

E10Castle of Fear
Dec 23, 1976
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...

E11One Last Trick
Jan 6, 1977
A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.

E12Monkey is Back
Jan 13, 1977
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.

E13The Cannibals
Jan 20, 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.

E14Who Killed Helen French?
Feb 3, 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.

E15A Good Cop...But
Feb 10, 1977
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.

E16Hang Tough
Feb 17, 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.

E17Innocent No More
Feb 24, 1977
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.

E18Once a Con
Mar 3, 1977
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.

E19Interlude
Apr 28, 1977
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.

E20Dead Lift
May 5, 1977
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.

E21Breakup
May 12, 1977
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.

E22Let's Pretend We're Strangers
May 19, 1977
A public defender is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.

E23Time Out
Jun 2, 1977
A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.

E24The Canine Collar
Jun 9, 1977
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.
Storyline
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.























