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The Streets of San Francisco Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
27 Episodes 1972 - 1973
Episode 0
Pilot
Sat, Sep 16, 197298 mins
Gritty crime drama set in San Francisco, featuring an older, veteran cop and his younger, less experienced partner.
Episode 1
The Thirty-Year Pin
Sat, Sep 23, 197260 mins
A thirty-year veteran beat cop and longtime friend of Stone's is shot during an attempted robbery. Stone sets off with a vendetta to get the gunman, blurring the line between professional and personal.
Episode 2
The First Day of Forever
Sat, Sep 30, 197260 mins
A would-be Jack The Ripper stalks the city, slashing to death prostitutes. Stone assigns a resistant Keller with protecting a prostitute who has been threatened.
Episode 3
45 Minutes from Home
Sat, Oct 7, 197260 mins
A businessman who flew in from Los Angeles (the time it takes to fly from L.A. to S.F. is the source of the title) for a convention meets a woman at the convention center and agrees to join her on her houseboat in nearby Sausalito. They get into an argument and he winds up striking her on the head and fleeing. The woman's boyfriend gets home, gets into an argument with her and again bashes her on the head, killing her. The businessman is the prime suspect in the murder because he was seen arriving at and then fleeing the crime scene.
Episode 4
Whose Little Boy Are You?
Sat, Oct 14, 197260 mins
Stone and Keller contend with an AWOL Vietnam War soldier determined to abduct a five-year-old child.
Episode 5
Tower Beyond Tragedy
Sat, Oct 28, 197260 mins
Stone and Keller uncover the seedy world of escort services when their suspect is a cultured art collector with a Pygmalion complex who hires escorts determined to create in them his idealized woman.
Episode 6
Hall of Mirrors
Sat, Nov 4, 197260 mins
Stone is sidelined with a broken ankle, so Keller teams up with hot-headed Inspector Jim Martin to track down a young Mexican suspected of murder. But Martin's prejudice against Mexicans threatens the investigation's success.
Episode 7
Timelock
Sat, Nov 11, 197260 mins
When a parolee whom Stone once coached in the Police Athletic League is accused of murdering another ex-con, Stone, Keller and a caring social worker rally to his defense.
Episode 8
In the Midst of Strangers
Sat, Nov 25, 197260 mins
A city official is murdered in a botched mugging by a gang of three sophisticated criminals unaware of his high profile. The mayor, convinced it was a political assassination, orders Stone and Keller to crack the case.
Episode 9
The Takers
Sat, Dec 2, 197260 mins
Two young women are found murdered in a swinging singles apartment complex. As Stone and Keller investigate, they uncover multiple suspects with a motive to murder the two gold-digging, teasing "takers."
Episode 10
The Year of the Locusts
Sat, Dec 9, 197260 mins
A guard gets killed during a 500,000 dollar heist at the headquarters of the Imperial Jade Company. Mike Stone and Steve Keller are in charge of the investigation. Mike suspects the Ferguson clan. Yet the members of this family who live on scams have never resorted to violence yet...
Episode 11
The Bullet
Sat, Dec 16, 197260 mins
An ex-con college professor takes a bullet to the shoulder when a hit-man murders a blackmailer. But the professor refuses to have the bullet removed, and the hit-man is hot on his trail to recover the incriminating bullet.
Episode 12
Bitter Wine
Sat, Dec 23, 197260 mins
Stone oversteps his authority when he entrusts to a traditional Greek patriarch his ex-con son just released from San Quentin. When the son is implicated in a suspicious fire, Stone and Keller's investigation uncovers ugly family secrets.
Episode 13
A Trout in the Milk
Sat, Jan 6, 197360 mins
An artist is thrown to his death from his apartment window. Stone and Keller's investigation centers on the daughter of a renowned eccentric poet, who sets to spinning a web of deception to deflect the dogged detectives from her trail.
Episode 14
Deathwatch
Sat, Jan 13, 197360 mins
Two crusty fishermen at sea stumble upon an illegal alien smuggling ring. The smugglers murder one of the fishermen and pressure the second into silence, stymieing Stone and Keller's investigation.
Episode 15
Act of Duty
Thu, Jan 18, 197360 mins
In her zeal to capture a serial rapist, a rookie cop flouts Stone's orders, jeopardizing not only Stone and Keller's carefully choreographed stake out but her own life.
Episode 16
The Set-Up
Thu, Jan 25, 197360 mins
Nick Carl, a former killer who had retired in France, comes back to the United States at the request of Johnny Harmon, another gangster. Mike Stone and Steve Keller soon learn the news and immediately start on his track. Meanwhile Nick Karl is attacked by two gunmen in the hotel where he stays...
Episode 17
A Collection of Eagles
Thu, Feb 1, 197360 mins
Following the apparently accidental death of a man inside a hotel on fire, Mike Stone and Steve Keller engage in a difficult investigation. It takes them a long search before they manage to identify the victim and to establish that Ernie Walter was about to counterfeit money. They decide as a result to consult an expert, Vince Hagopian...
Episode 18
A Room with a View
Thu, Feb 8, 197360 mins
A war among gambling bosses is being waged. Stone and Keller attempt to locate and protect a vital witness from a hit man who has charmed his way into a lonely schoolteacher's apartment in order to secure a clear shot at his victim.
Episode 19
Deadline
Thu, Feb 15, 197360 mins
Chris Bain, an ace reporter And good friend of Lieutenant Mike Stone accidentally kills his cheating lover in a fit of anger. To cover his tracks he then insulates himself into the investigation to frame the man she was seeing with her murder
Episode 20
Trail of the Serpent
Thu, Feb 22, 197360 mins
Stone is held hostage by the Cobras street-gang, which demands an exchange for its wounded leader who was captured in a bungled robbery. Keller and Devitt scour the city's seamy underside in their search for their friend and colleague.
Episode 21
The House on Hyde Street
Thu, Mar 1, 197360 mins
Three young boys open a Pandora's Box when they sneak into an eccentric old man's home, a mysterious house rumored by their parents to contain a million-dollar treasure.
Episode 22
Beyond Vengeance
Thu, Mar 8, 197360 mins
A homicidal rapist that Stone had put away twelve years earlier is released and begins waging psychological warfare on Stone by stalking his daughter Jeannie.
Episode 23
The Albatross
Thu, Mar 15, 197360 mins
A child is killed in a bungled burglary and the perpetrator is set free on a legal technicality. The bereft father is determined to take justice into his own hands, despite Stone's strenuous objections.
Episode 24
Shattered Image
Thu, Mar 22, 197360 mins
A high-powered Commerce Dept. official is harpooned on a pleasure boat. Stone and Keller sift through the suspects, among whom are a senator, a boat builder and the grieving widow, who is an old friend of Stone's from the Potrero.
Episode 25
The Unicorn
Thu, Apr 5, 197360 mins
Grand theft cobra venom? That is what seems to be the charge, along with murder, when a robbery attempt of an Asian ship goes wrong and leads to a wild gunfight. A longshoreman is killed and another one is wounded, but steals his assailant's gun, kills him and makes off with a large shipment box supposedly full of cobra venom to be used in research. The wounded man goes into hiding on the docks with the gun and the case, believing he has actually stolen a shipment of much greater value. He meets secretly with a priest and refuses to turn himself in. Meanwhile, Stone and Keller have traced the dead robber to a Mafia unit in San Francisco, and learn on their own that hired guns are coming in to find the longshoreman and finish the theft -- which turns out to be a multimillion-dollar shipment of heroin.
Episode 26
Legion of the Lost
Thu, Apr 12, 197360 mins
Within less than two weeks, three men have been found murdered. The common point between them is that they were all bums. Mike Stone decides to go undercover as a bum in a strange community of alcoholics. Little by little, Stone learns the tough rules and laws of his new environment.
