The Streets of San Francisco
A pair of plainclothes homicide detectives, Lieutenant Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller, cruise the streets of San Francisco, California solving a variety of crimes, usually involving murder. Stone is the street-smart twenty-year veteran cop, and Keller is the college-educated rookie. Much of the series' success was due to the friendly by-play and relationship between the two leads.
- 1972-1977
- 5 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-G
A pair of plainclothes homicide detectives, Lieutenant Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller, cruise the streets of San Francisco, California solving a variety of crimes, usually involving murder. Stone is the street-smart twenty-year veteran cop, and Keller is the college-educated rookie. Much of the series' success was due to the friendly by-play and relationship between the two leads.
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1976 - 1977
Episode 1
The Thrill Killers: Part I
Thu, Sep 30, 1976 60 mins
Four killers kidnap the jury of a man they admire. They threaten to kill the jurors if their demands are not met.
Episode 2
The Thrill Killers: Part II
Thu, Oct 7, 1976 60 mins
It's a race against time to find the hostages before the kidnappers kill them. Stone thinks they might be held up in an old freighter somewhere in the bay.
Episode 3
Dead or Alive
Thu, Oct 21, 1976 60 mins
A man offers a $1,000,000 reward for the capture - dead or alive - of the man who raped and murdered his daughter on a public tennis court, throwing the city into greed-fueled chaos.
Episode 4
The Drop
Thu, Oct 28, 1976 60 mins
A wealthy teen is abducted and his girlfriend is murdered. The killers demand a ransom but they also demand that Lt. Stone deliver the ransom payment.
Episode 5
No Minor Vices
Thu, Nov 4, 1976 60 mins
A young girl transforms from modeling to prostitution and finding this an easy living. Her angry father swears to "clean the impurities" by killing those who hire her.
Episode 6
In Case of Madness
Thu, Nov 11, 1976 60 mins
A rising rock band has an abusive agent who is found murdered. An eye witness is murdered later and the lead singer who has seizures is the prime suspect.
Episode 7
"Till Death Do Us Part"
Thu, Nov 18, 1976 60 mins
A couple is caught by the mob for laundering money. When the husband is abducted and believed killed, Stone and Robins must protect the wife because she is the prime witness.
Episode 8
Child of Anger
Thu, Dec 2, 1976 60 mins
A teenage girl is frustrated by her mother's condescending ways. When a man she sees strike her mother is killed by the mob the girl is a witness. She claims responsibility to damage her family reputation hoping her mother feels degraded.
Episode 9
Hot Dog
Thu, Dec 9, 1976 60 mins
Don Johnson is a motorcycle cop who doesn't always use procedure. Instead he zeros on the point and rushes to it sometimes lacking caution. Stone is frustrated by the rambunctious officer, who happens also to be dating his daughter.
Episode 10
Castle of Fear
Thu, Dec 23, 1976 60 mins
After receiving crank calls, a paranoid man fences in his home and keeps his wife and daughter sheltered. When he panics and shoots a cop who was guarding the house he covers by identifying an ex con. The paranoia now becomes real.
Episode 11
One Last Trick
Thu, Jan 6, 1977 60 mins
A former prostitute works undercover for Stone and Robbins by going back to work for the pimp who is responsible for the death of her friend and a police detective.
Episode 12
Monkey Is Back
Thu, Jan 13, 1977 60 mins
An ex-con is out for vengeance against the high school gang whose initiation ritual led to his 20-year sentence.
Episode 13
The Cannibals
Thu, Jan 20, 1977 60 mins
A crime kingpin's son steals from his father by killing a cash courier. On the run, he turns state's evidence and comes under federal protection. Stone and Robbins want him for murder, while his father's hit man just wants him murdered.
Episode 14
'Who Killed Helen French?'
Thu, Feb 3, 1977 60 mins
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.
Episode 15
'A Good Cop... But'
Thu, Feb 10, 1977 60 mins
A drug kingpin guns down a cop. To ensure a conviction, a narcotics officer who witnessed the murder will have to reveal in court a closely guarded personal secret that could cost him friendships and his standing in the department.
Episode 16
Hang Tough
Thu, Feb 17, 1977 60 mins
Eddie Boggs and Stan Michaels are on the scene at an apartment, Eddie is months from retiring. A tip has lead to a dead 15 year old girl OD on heroin. Found nearby was Spider. Boggs has lost it and subsequently beats Spider down. To cover up the situation, Boggs plants a knife on him. A man with a cowboy attire, walks out of the same apartment complex.
Episode 17
Innocent No More
Thu, Feb 24, 1977 60 mins
A juvenile gang has caused a history of trouble for a San Francisco neighborhood. A recent robbery by the gang lead to the death of a victim. Billy Wilson claims his innocence on the whole affair. Evidence mounts and Billy's previous history of violence surfaces, as the judicial systems decides on his fate.
Episode 18
Once a Con
Thu, Mar 3, 1977 60 mins
While waiting for a bus, a college coed who doubles as a model is slashed with a knife, and one wound goes straight to the heart. A convict at San Quentin, who's a student at the same college learning a trade for when he is released, is scheduled to board the same bus. Instead, he runs like hell. The convict is caught soon afterward and assumed to be the killer, but he doesn't seem to have a motive. Stone wonders if one of the woman's fellow students might have had a grudge against her.
Episode 19
Interlude
Thu, Apr 28, 1977 60 mins
Carolyn, the unfaithful wife of a city prosecutor, witnesses a murder after meeting her paramour in a hotel. She cannot identify him, but the killer, an escapee from a mental institution, befriends and begins stalking her.
Episode 20
Dead Lift
Thu, May 5, 1977 60 mins
A champion bodybuilder visits San Francisco for a competition. A drug has made him incredibly buff and muscled, but has also left him extremely hypersensitive to criticism and with no control over his anger. When he shows off his poses for a young woman, he becomes enraged and unwittingly chokes her to death. He's taken in by a couple and entered into the bodybuilding contest, but broods when he finishes only second. Stone and company suspect him in the death of the woman, and fear he may kill again if provoked.
Episode 21
Breakup
Thu, May 12, 1977 60 mins
Stone and Robbins cross paths with two men pushed to their breaking points: an ex-con nursing a grudge against the former assistant district attorney who put him in prison and a struggling small businessman with a hot temper.
Episode 22
'Let's Pretend We're Strangers'
Thu, May 19, 1977 60 mins
Robbins falls for a public defender representing a psycho, who is trying to eliminate witnesses to a murder.
Episode 23
Time Out
Thu, Jun 2, 1977 60 mins
Four convicts, Washington, Telson, Kraft and Kimberly are going to a high school to speak to the students. Kraft sees a man with a gun, he takes it and uses the guards with them as shields. Later one of the guards tries to take them but is shot. Stone and Robbins arrive and learn that Washington and Telson only had a year or two left to serve while Kraft and Kimberly have longer sentences. Later the car is found and the other guard, Sgt. Mack is found. He tells them that Kraft and Kimberly are probably working together because Kimberly has some money stashed out of the country and Kraft is out to get the one who's responsible for his arrest and conviction. Washington is a druggie who's going to try to score. And Telson is going to locate his wife who stopped visiting him and answering his mail. Mack offers to help but Stone says they can handle it. But Mack feeling that they used him to escape sets out to find them himself. He finds Washington who runs and gets hurt. Stone warns Mack to back off. But when Kraft goes to the man who turned him in, Mack again shows up and shots are fired and one of them escapes.
Episode 24
The Canine Collar
Thu, Jun 9, 1977 60 mins
A cruise ship is docked in San Francisco. A known embezzler is aboard the ship and had hid the jewels on a dog collar.