The Streets of San Francisco Episode Guide

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Episode Guide

The Streets of San Francisco: Season 5 (1976 - 1977)

  • Season 5 Episode 24: Canine Collar

    A jewel-studded dog collar proves to be more than just a decorative piece. American drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 23: Time Out

    Four convicts escape during a university forum visit, and a San Quentin prison guard helps to track them down. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 22: Let's Pretend We're Strangers

    A public defender almost pays with her life for clearing a suspect of murder despite compelling evidence of his guilt. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 21: Breakup

    Mike and Dan rush to stop a guilt-ridden murder suspect from killing himself. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 20: Dead Lift

    A pre-fame Arnold Schwarzenegger guest stars as a bodybuilder with an uncontrollably violent temper. When teased about his physique once too often, he loses control, resulting in murder

  • Season 5 Episode 19: Interlude

    A murder takes place in a hotel room, while next door, an affair comes to an end - what is the link between these seemingly unconnected events? Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 5 Episode 18: Once a Con

    A prisoner refuses to fight for his innocence even after new evidence appears to clear him; guest John Rubinstein.

  • Season 5 Episode 17: Innocent No More

    Mike vows to bring a teenage gang to justice after an old lady dies of a heart attack during a violent robbery. Vintage American crime drama, guest starring Mark Hamill

  • Season 5 Episode 16: Hang Tough

    Mike Stone's latest murder investigation is hampered by a member of the narcotics division. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Ned Beatty

  • Season 5 Episode 15: A Good Cop ... But

    A murderer seeking vengeance against a narcotics officer exposes the man's homosexuality; guest Barry Primus.

  • Season 5 Episode 14: Who Killed Helen French?

    An abused wife disappears : has her husband killed her? Crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 13: The Cannibals

    A mobster's son who has robbed his father seeks protection from federal authorities - in exchange for being a material witness against his father. Karl Malden stars

  • Season 5 Episode 12: Monkey is Back

    Veteran detective Mike Stone tries to get to the bottom of several mysterious murders linked by the word 'monkey'. Crime drama, with Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 11: One Last Trick

    Mike and Dan enlist the help of a former prostitute to track down her friend's killer, but will her return to the streets lure her back into her old way of life?

  • Season 5 Episode 10: Castle of Fear

    Mike has the task of protecting innocent people from a man who is psychologically disturbed. American police drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 9: Hot Dog

    Mike and Dan investigate a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their getaway. Don Johnson guest stars

  • Season 5 Episode 8: Child of Anger

    The daughter of a fashion designer confesses to murdering her mother's boyfriend, but Stone discovers she was only an innocent bystander at the killing, and is in danger from the real murderer's wish to eliminate a witness

  • Season 5 Episode 7: Till Death Do Us Part

    A woman fears her life is in danger from mobsters, and offers information in exchange for protection. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 6: In Case of Madness

    A singer-songwriter who suffers severe blackouts confesses to the murder of his producer, but Mike Stone doubts he is the real killer. American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 5: No Minor Vices

    Mike and Dan investigate two execution-style murders, but with no suspects, it is the ballistics work which prompts the pair to hunt for the lone killer responsible. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 5 Episode 4: The Drop

    A kidnapping victim is safely released. However, when it turns out that the supposedly blindfolded hostage got a good look at his abductors' faces, they decide to kill him before he can identify them. American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 3: Dead or Alive

    The SFPD are faced with the greed of human nature after a millionaire's daughter is raped and murdered at a public tennis court, and notices are placed all over the city, offering a $1 million reward for the suspect - dead or alive. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 5 Episode 2: The Thrill Killers

    The police try to find a kidnapped jury before its members are slain; guests Gary Frank, Dick Van Patten.

  • Season 5 Episode 1: The Thrill Killers

    A 'family' of terrorists takes a jury hostage; guests Patty Duke Astin, Susan Dey, Doris Roberts.

The Streets of San Francisco: Season 4 (1975 - 1976)

  • Season 4 Episode 22: Alien Country

    Mike and Steve resolve to clear an illegal immigrant wrongly accused of murder but have trouble tracking down the real killer. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 21: Superstar

    Mike and Steve find their hunt for a killer hampered by the interference of a visiting New York officer. American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 4 Episode 20: Clown of Death

    Two retired brothers, who both worked as circus riggers many years before, are found murdered. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 4 Episode 19: Judgement Day

    Stone and Keller intercept the murderer of five lawyers who plans to kill another; guest Lynette Mettey.

  • Season 4 Episode 18: Underground

    Personal tragedy motivates an officer to go undercover in a bid to expose a major illegal gambling operation. Vintage police drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 17: Requiem for a Murder

    A bishop is shot dead in church while kneeling in prayer but Mike finds few clues to help trace the culprit. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 4 Episode 16: The Honorable Profession

    Mike pulls out all the stops to find missing medic Dr Holtfield, the star witness to a robbery that resulted in the death of a police officer. Vintage drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 15: Police Buff

    Mike Stone discovers his life is in danger after a man proved innocent of murdering a police officer is killed by a vigilante. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Bill Bixby

  • Season 4 Episode 14: Most Likely to Succeed

    Steve and Mike investigate the suspicious death of a chemistry teacher. American crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 13: Spooks for Sale

    The death of a night-watchman during a burglary throws the detectives into the midst of a conflict between hi-tech industrial espionage firms. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 12: The Cat's Paw

    Irene Martin steps up her three-month hunt for a cat burglar when he strikes again, killing his latest victim. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden, Michael Douglas and Diane Baker

  • Season 4 Episode 11: Merchants of Death

    Rival street gangs declare war on each other following the murder of one of their number. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 4 Episode 10: Dead Air

    A radio DJ is accused of a woman's murder after it becomes clear the victim was blackmailing him. Karl Malden and Michael Douglas star

  • Season 4 Episode 9: Web of Lies

    A robbery and murder take place at the Diamond Exchange, sending Stone and Keller on the hunt for the perpetrators. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 8: Trail of Terror

    Steve risks his life to escort a prisoner who is being pursued by a quartet of desperate killers. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 4 Episode 7: Murder by Proxy

    The detective duo try to find out what prompted a sudden violent crimewave in a normally peaceful neighbourhood. Vintage crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 6: Deadly Silence

    Mike undergoes an operation to restore his hearing after a call-out to a liquor store hold-up leaves him partially deaf. Detective drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 4 Episode 5: School of Fear

    Steve unwillingly goes undercover as a high school student to investigate the disappearance of four pupils of a deranged teacher. Vintage detective drama, starring Michael Douglas and Karl Malden

  • Season 4 Episode 4: Men Will Die

    A distraught rape victim turns on one of her attackers and shoots him dead : only to find herself facing a charge of first-degree murder. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 4 Episode 3: No Place to Hide

    A prison gang force an unwilling convict and his wife to act as drug runners. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as detective Mike Stone

  • Season 4 Episode 2: The Glass Dart Board

    Mike sets out to catch a killer, but finds himself thwarted at every turn by a new superior whose obsession with efficiency makes him more of a hindrance than a help. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 4 Episode 1: Poisoned Snow

    Personal tragedy leads a narcotics officer to seek retribution; guests Clu Gulager, Mark Hamill, Anthony Geary.

The Streets of San Francisco: Season 3 (1974 - 1975)

  • Season 3 Episode 23: Solitaire

    Keller is wounded in the line of duty and takes time off the recuperate, forcing Mike to team up with a new partner : long-haired narcotics officer Al Walczinsky, who shares his dislike of the arrangement. Detective drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 3 Episode 22: Labyrinth

    Mike and Steve conduct a manhunt in a city-centre hotel, where mobsters are out to nail a boxer who failed to throw a fight for them. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 3 Episode 21: Asylum

    Steve takes on a challenging role as he goes undercover in a mental hospital to investigate a series of suspicious deaths. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 20: River of Fear

    A newlywed bride returns from honeymoon in Hawaii and settles down to a life of domestic bliss, unaware her outwardly devoted husband is actually planning to murder her. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 3 Episode 19: The Programming of Charlie Blake

    An unscrupulous psychiatrist kills his wife and compounds the felony by hypnotising an innocent patient into taking the blame. Vintage detective drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 3 Episode 18: Ten Dollar Murder

    A pair of high-school delinquents embark on a crime spree robbing taxis, but things get out of hand when an undercover police officer is killed. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 17: Endgame

    Mike's daughter nearly causes him to walk straight into a trap. American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 3 Episode 16: Letters from the Grave

    A wall crumbles during a tour at Alcatraz prison, revealing a human skeleton : and subsequent investigations show it is linked to a 20-year-old murder. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 15: False Witness

    A frustrated police officer resorts to planting incriminating evidence in a desperate bid to put a notorious drug pusher behind bars. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 14: Mister Nobody

    An elderly cobbler makes a false confession, admitting to having committed a murder in a bid to protect the identity of the true killer : his grandson. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 13: The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague

    A single gun brings tragedy into the lives of several people over a 24-hour period. Classic American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 12: License to Kill

    Mike's loyalty to an old friend almost costs him his life. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 11: Bird of Prey

    Detectives Stone and Keller embark on a desperate hunt for a girl's killer, with only one clue to his identity : an air force uniform. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 3 Episode 10: For Good or Evil

    A man from the ghetto witnesses the murder of a high-ranking underworld criminal, and ponders whether to tell the police or join the syndicate responsible. Karl Malden stars

  • Season 3 Episode 9: Cry Help

    A troubled, emotionally vulnerable teenager from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 3 Episode 8: Flags of Terror

    A group of would-be revolutionaries are caught trying to smuggle a bomb through customs and react by taking several hostages : including Steve, who has the misfortune to be in the vicinity. Michael Douglas and Karl Malden star

  • Season 3 Episode 7: Jacob's Boy

    Stone and Keller manage to clear an innocent man of a murder charge : only to discover he's being blackmailed for a 25-year-old crime. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 3 Episode 6: One Chance to Live

    A female harassment victim conceals vital personal information from Mike and Steve : but her lack of candour almost has fatal consequences. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 3 Episode 5: I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

    Steve goes undercover to join a group of Army deserters living on a farm in the hope of locating the murderer of another runaway. Vintage American crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 3 Episode 4: Mask of Death

    Mike and Steve try to track down a murderous drag queen known only as Carol, who dates older men and kills them using a hatpin to the heart. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 3 Episode 3: Target Red

    Veteran detective Mike Stone uncovers a plot by a CIA hitman and a maverick army general to assassinate communist Chinese delegates at a trade fair. Drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 3 Episode 2: The Most Deadly Species

    Steve falls for his new neighbour, unaware she is a hit-woman who has been hired by a crime-lord to track down and eliminate the three thugs responsible for murdering his son. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 3 Episode 1: One Last Shot

    Mike probes the fatal shooting of a veteran officer, focusing his investigation on the dead man's partner : an alcoholic suspected of being drunk at the time. Action-packed crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2 (1973 - 1976)

  • Season 2 Episode 23: Death and the Favored Few

    The investigation into the shooting of a society magazine editor leads the detectives to the doorstep of a seemingly respectable, wealthy widow. Could she really be the murderer? Crime drama, starring Michael Douglas and Karl Malden

  • Season 2 Episode 22: Rampage

    A vigilante group come a cropper while pounding their beat, discovering the hard way that cleaning up the neighbourhood is a job best left to the police. Action-packed crime drama, starring Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone

  • Season 2 Episode 21: Hard Breed

    A rodeo rider is killed in the ring : could his jealous younger brother have had something to do with the tragic death? Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 20: Inferno

    Mike Stone pulls out all the stops to catch an arsonist who started a fire in which two firemen were burned to death. Action-packed crime drama, starring Karl Malden as the veteran detective

  • Season 2 Episode 19: A String of Puppets

    The death of an ex-con leads Mike to suspect a parole officer is trying to push his charges back into a life of crime. Action-packed police drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 18: Crossfire

    Mike Stone is called in to investigate the murder of a student and a professor on the same campus. Are the two crimes linked? Nick Nolte guest stars

  • Season 2 Episode 17: Blockade

    Mike and Steve investigate the rape and murder of a waitress, but have only the slenderest of leads to help them catch the culprit. Cheryl Ladd, Ida Lupino, Don Stroud and former big-screen Tarzan Jock Mahoney guest

  • Season 2 Episode 16: Chapel of the Damned

    A woman with extra-sensory perception seems to know a little too much about a girl's abduction. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 16: Chapel of the Damned

    Stone and Keller probe the kidnapping of a child, but their investigation is hampered by an alleged psychic on friendly terms with the victim's mother. Karl Malden and Michael Douglas star

  • Season 2 Episode 15: Commitment

    Mike Stone is framed by a devious fellow cop with an axe to grind, and finds himself accused of taking bribes. Vintage crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, with guest Tyne Daly

  • Season 2 Episode 14: Most Feared in the Jungle

    The crime-fighting duo investigate a spate of illegal adoptions while helping a desperate mother trace her child. Action-packed detective drama, starring Karl Malden, Michael Douglas and Darleen Carr

  • Season 2 Episode 13: Winterkill

    A hard-up senior citizen decides he has no option but to turn to crime as a way of supporting himself in his declining years. Vintage drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 12: Runaway

    The detective duo offer to help a 15-year-old girl searching for her father : who's wanted by the police. Karl Malden and Michael Douglas star

  • Season 2 Episode 12: The Runaways

    A group of runaway children hold a judge to ransom in a bid to raise funds for a needy friend who is in hospital. Detective drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 2 Episode 11: The Victims

    Stone and Keller pursue a trio of escaped convicts who have embarked on an orgy of rape and murder, leaving dead and traumatised victims in their wake. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 10: Shield of Honor

    A mobster sees the error of his ways and agrees to help the police, only to be killed shortly afterwards, convincing Mike that the force has a traitor in its ranks. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 9: The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

    Mike Stone tries to stop a shipment of radioactive gold leaving the country. Vintage crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 2 Episode 8: No Badge for Benjy

    The bereaved daughter of a murdered police informant accuses detectives of dragging their feet over investigating the case. Vintage drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 7: Harem

    Mike's daughter Jeannie proves she's a chip off the old block by helping him track down a pimp and smash a murderous prostitution ring. Darlene Carr and Karl Malden star

  • Season 2 Episode 6: The Stamp of Death

    Mike Stone hunts a thief who stole a priceless rare stamp with the intention of forging it. Action-packed crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 2 Episode 5: Going Home

    A small-time con-man gets lucky, only to find himself in it up to his neck with both the police and the Mob. Action-packed crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 2 Episode 4: Before I Die

    A veteran police officer learns his days are numbered and decides to do the world a favour by bumping off a notorious crime boss before he dies. Drama, guest starring Leslie Nielsen and Ray Danton

  • Season 2 Episode 3: For the Love of God

    Stone goes undercover in a last-ditch effort to track down a murderer who's been targeting priests in the city, while Keller struggles to find a lead. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

  • Season 2 Episode 2: Betrayed

    Mike Stone tries to prevent a ruthless bank robber silencing the witness to his latest heist. Crime drama, starring Karl Malden

  • Season 2 Episode 1: A Wrongful Death

    Veteran cop Mike Stone pulls out all the stops to clear young partner Steve of wrongfully killing an unarmed man while pursuing a suspect. Drama, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas

The Streets of San Francisco: Season 1 (1972 - 1973)