List of The Streets of San Francisco episodes

SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they investigate a girl (Kim Darby) found dead in the bay, with ties to a lawyer (Robert Wagner) she knew as the primary suspect.

With Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley, John Rubinstein, Carmen Mathews, Edward Andrews, and Lawrence Dobkin.

The pilot was originally a made-for-TV movie, and was split into two parts for syndication.

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. With Edmond O'Brien, Tim O'Connor, David Opatoshu, and Eileen Heckart.

A would-be Jack the Ripper stalks the city, slashing prostitutes to death. Stone assigns a reluctant Keller with protecting a prostitute who has been threatened. With Janice Rule and James Olson.

A salesman from Los Angeles attending a convention wrongly feels responsible for the death of a female hitchhiker. (The title refers to the time it takes to fly from LA to San Francisco.) With William Windom and Dick van Patten.

A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen. With James Stacy and Linda Marsh.

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. With Stefanie Powers, Edward Mulhare, and Vic Tayback.

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. Martin's prejudice threatens the investigation. With David Soul and A Martinez.

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. With Peter Strauss, Bernie Casey, and Elaine Giftos.

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. With David Wayne, Ramon Bieri, and Robert Foxworth.

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." With Harold Gould, Michael Lerner, and Vic Tayback.

A band of modern-day Gypsies descends on San Francisco, its aging patriarch unaware that the younger generation has moved on from the traditional flim-flam to million-dollar heists and murder. With George Voskovec and Michael Ansara.

A college professor, shot accidentally while trying to pay off a blackmailer, refuses to cooperate with Stone's investigation for fear that the publicity will lose him an upcoming promotion. With Carl Betz and Geraldine Brooks.

A man who served twelve 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. With Paul Michael Glaser, Scott Marlowe, and Nehemiah Persoff.

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. With Roscoe Lee Browne and Brenda Sykes.

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. With Nicholas Colasanto, Anthony Caruso, and Victor French.

In her zeal to capture a serial rapist, a rookie cop flouts Stone's orders, jeopardizing not only Stone and Keller's carefully choreographed stakeout but her own life. With Brenda Vaccaro and Michael Burns.

A hit man living a new life with a family in France is lured out of retirement by his former employer, a crime kingpin determined to rub out every witness to a murder he committed. With Stuart Whitman, Jack Albertson, Jason Evers, and Claudine Longet.

A greed-consumed coin collector plots to switch a wealthy collector's gold double eagle coins with counterfeits, using and abusing his trusting accomplices along the way. With Joseph Cotten, John Saxon, and Belinda Montgomery. Jamie Farr appears in the first act as a courier for the collector.

A war among gambling bosses is being waged. Stone and Keller attempt to protect a witness from a hit man who has charmed his way into a lonely teacher's apartment to secure a clear shot at his victim. With Steve Forrest, Shirley Knight, Richard Anderson, and Michael Strong.

A newspaper columnist and longtime friend of Stone's accidentally kills his young, two-timing mistress and then attempts to pin the rap on a young actor she was seeing. With Barry Sullivan, Geoffrey Deuel, Greg Mullavey, and Tommy Kirk.

After killing a policeman while fleeing from a grocery store robbery, a gang called the Cobras takes Stone hostage. They want to trade him for their captured leader. With Tim O'Connor, Cal Bellini, and Brian Tochi.

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, rumored by neighbors to stay away because they believed him to be a child molester, and because of a murder that took place 30 years earlier at the house. What they find leads to suspicion when one of the boys is trapped inside the house with a person the old man has locked up in his room. With Lew Ayres, Albert Salmi, Clint Howard, and Joyce Van Patten.

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. With Joe Don Baker and Darlene Carr.

A child is murdered in a bungled burglary and the killer is set free on a legal technicality. Despite Stone's strenuous objections, the grieving father is determined to take justice into his own hands. With Ed Nelson, Kaz Garas, and John Kerr.

Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident. With Barbara Rush, Jim Davis, and Dick Sargent.

A priest won't tell Stone where a murderer is hiding. Meantime, drug smugglers look for a stolen shipment of heroin. With Richard Egan and Charles Aidman.

After three winos are brutally beaten to death, Stone goes undercover as a homeless man. With Leslie Nielsen and Dean Stockwell.

The father of a robbery suspect killed by Keller insists his boy was unarmed. With Ina Balin and Michael Constantine.

One of the girlfriends of a young charmer learns that he has robbed a bank. With Martin Sheen.

In order to stop a psychotic priest-killer, Lt. Stone goes undercover as a Roman Catholic priest. The victims were all clergymen who studied at the same seminary. With Leif Erickson.

A cop who finds out that he has a terminal illness sets out to kill a racketeer who's been his quarry for the last year and a half. With Leslie Nielsen and Ray Danton.

An operation run by the syndicate is burgled by a small-time crook. With Sheree North and Tom Bosley.

A rich man is murdered over a stamp collection which turns out to be an insurance scam. With Jessica Walter and Earl Holliman.

A flute-playing "Pied Piper" talks teenage girls into prostitution. He promises to take care of them; he's actually a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to protect himself. With Ricky Nelson and Kay Lenz.

Two very different victims are murdered: one a very rich foreign businessman found knifed; the other a poor black police informant found shot in a phone booth. Meanwhile, a Japanese industrialist is also found dead.

Hijackers steal more than they bargained for, not knowing the gold they took is mixed with deadly uranium. With Vic Morrow and Anthony Zerbe.

Stone and Keller investigate how a contract killer obtained inside information about a mob witness. With Mariette Hartley.

A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see. With Henry Silva.

Kidnapping and murder are laid at the feet of a boy stealing medicine for his ailing sister. With Jeanette Nolan, Barry Livingston and Larry Wilcox. (This episode is unrelated to the later QM Productions series of the same name.)

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. With Denver Pyle and Paul Fix.

Believing her baby was kidnapped, not stillborn as people claim, a mother embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth.

An undercover cop is murdered with Stone's gun, and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone. With Tyne Daly.

A wealthy woman, whose daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, has more faith in a female psychic than in Stone and Keller. With Diana Douglas.

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. With Ida Lupino. (KBAY, which was pictured as an all-news radio station in this episode and played an integral part in its plot, was an actual Bay Area radio station, but it carried an easy listening format at the time this episode was produced and broadcast.)

A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus. With Nick Nolte and Celeste Holm.

Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees. With Claude Akins and Lola Falana.

Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen. With Glenn Corbett.

Two Gunsmoke writers teamed on this modern-day Western set at a rodeo in San Francisco's Cow Palace, where a cowboy was trampled to death by a bull; his mates suspected it to be murder. With Sam Elliott, Noah Beery, Lane Bradbury and Jim Davis. Keith Jackson appears as himself, covering the rodeo for ABC's Wide World of Sports.

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. With Robert Hooks and Joe Santos.

San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered. With Rosemary Murphy. (Writer Gene L. Coon died July 8, 1973, several months before this episode aired.)

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. With Leslie Nielsen and Susan Strasberg.

When a high-ranking hoodlum's son is found murdered he brings in the help of Sydney, a hit woman who's assigned to murder the three thugs responsible. As part of her mission, she seduces Keller for information. With Brenda Vaccaro.

A meticulous and ruthless assassin and former government agent is hired by a right-wing cabal to murder a visiting Chinese diplomat. With Bill Bixby and Andrew Duggan.

A professional female impersonator (John Davidson) whose intense identification with one of the women he mimics -- a fictitious 1930s movie star -- creates an uncontrollable split personality and eventually leads to murder. With Marianne McAndrew, Herb Edelman, John Fiedler and Bernie Kopell.

Keller infiltrates a group of Vietnam War protesters, hoping to find who murdered an AWOL marine who had returned to the United States after living in exile in Canada. With Don Stroud and Michael Burns. (Note: A voiceover at the start of Act I mentioned that the events in this episode took place before President Gerald Ford's clemency of draft dodgers who had left the United States, which was announced September 16, 1974.)

A woman conceals an affair with a married diplomat, whose wife threatens to kill her. With Pippa Scott and Edward Mulhare.

An innocent man isn't worried about a new murder charge against him, but he is afraid that once the police process his fingerprints, they will learn that he is a fugitive from a 25-year-old homicide investigation. With Brock Peters and Dabney Coleman.

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. With Carl Franklin.

A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather. With Mariette Hartley and Clint Howard.

A killer ends up working with a witness to the crime. With Hari Rhodes.

Keller goes undercover as a USAF officer to investigate a woman's murder that might involve an Air Force colonel. With Dennis Cole.

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. With Murray Hamilton.

A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend, as it was involved in three, otherwise-unrelated crimes. With Robert Webber.

A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend. With Sam Jaffe.

Officer Jimmy Vega's personal vendetta against a local drug dealer threatens to ruin both his and Keller's careers.

A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s. With William Windom.

After Steve is injured in a fray with a gangster, Mike is demoted to walking a beat for insubordinately insisting on taking revenge, after receiving news that Steve sustained brain damage. But things are not as they seem when there was suspicion that someone within the police department was working with the gangster, with Mike's daughter Jeannie knowing the real extent of Steve's injuries.

A policewoman's son holds up taxicabs for a hobby that eventually results in the murder of an undercover cop.

A supposedly reformed sex offender is being brainwashed by his psychiatrist into believing he has committed murder. With Dean Stockwell and Dee Wallace.

A 12-year-old girl knows her stepfather murdered her mother, but her attempts to unmask him only impede the police's investigation. With Kim Richards.

Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths. With Robert Walker Jr.

Stone and Keller investigate the death of a mob hitman tossed out of a window by his intended victim, a boxer who didn't throw a fight. With Julie Adams and Don Gordon.

Stone is teamed with independent-minded narc Al Walczinsky while Keller recovers from a gunshot wound. Together they try to break up a narcotics ring — and Stone suspects Walczinsky's in on the racket. With Tony Lo Bianco and Sabrina Scharf.

A narcotics cop laces a batch of cocaine with cyanide and puts it on the street. With Clu Gulager and Mark Hamill.

A psychopathic killer uses people living in San Francisco's high-rises for target practice. With Patrick O'Neal.

Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs. With Stefanie Powers. During the epilogue, Stone and Keller stood across the street from the studios of KBHK-TV 44, an actual San Francisco independent station.

An organization of angry rape victims helps a friend of Stone's daughter pursue the man who raped her. With Vera Miles.

Upon learning that a teacher was killed during a student scuffle at a school where he once taught, a retired history teacher takes it upon himself to hold students hostage. With Maurice Evans and Geoffrey Lewis.

Stone is hit by a van, and has to undergo surgery to have his hearing restored. With Meredith Baxter.

Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer. With Bradford Dillman and John Ritter.

Keller is pursued by killers as he transports a prisoner to jail. With James Woods.

Keller and Stone must rely on a compulsive liar while investigating a jewel robbery. With Pat Hingle.

A radio host is accused of murder when a woman who claimed to be carrying his baby dies. With Larry Hagman and Arlene Golonka.

Two rival gangs start a turf war with a youth worker caught in the middle. With Greg Morris.

Stone conducts a murder/robbery investigation with Inspector Irene Martin. With Diane Baker.

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. With Fritz Weaver and Tom Selleck. (This is Michael Douglas's only directorial effort to date.)

Stone and Keller investigate a murder at an all-boys prep school. With Charles Aidman and Kristoffer Tabori.

A man who likes to follow the police scanner wants to be a cop. He takes the law into his own hands when a suspected cop-killer is set free. With Bill Bixby.

Stone and Keller look to find out why a passer-by who tried to help a mortally wounded officer gave a false name for himself. With Robert Reed.

A bishop is shot after receiving a crank letter, and he tries to protect the person who shot him. With Richard Basehart.

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

The son of a disbarred lawyer targets "bleeding heart liberal" judges who ruined his father's career. With Jean Hagen.

Two retired brothers, riggers for circuses many years before, are found murdered while a circus happens to be performing in San Francisco at the Cow Palace. With David Birney.

Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer. This was the pilot for the short-lived spinoff series Bert D'Angelo/Superstar -- which actually ended up premiering two weeks before this episode aired! With Paul Sorvino.

An illegal immigrant gets a job in San Francisco, but moments later there is a raid by the Immigration Service and an officer is killed.

Stone searches for a fugitive and is dogged by a runaway girl who is the fugitive's daughter.

Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder. With Patty Duke.

Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals. Steve leaves the police force. With Richard Hatch, Doris Roberts and Susan Dey.

Note: The show's only two-part story was originally planned to be shown as a two-hour episode - which is why Part 2 features Acts V to VIII rather than I to IV - but Fred Silverman mandated the episode be split in half, so that Part 2 could go head to head with the fifth season premiere of rival Quinn Martin show Barnaby Jones on CBS (Keller's departure lost out to J.R. Jones's arrival in the ratings).

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. With Howard Duff and Max Gail.

Note: Starting with this episode, weekly stories would be broken into Acts I-V with Epilog. (Up to this point, episodes were broken into Acts I-IV with Epilog.)

Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money. With Dabney Coleman.

The father of a 16-year-old girl murders her "johns" one by one, unbeknownst to her. With Maureen McCormick.

A songwriter-singer is a suspect in the murder of his producer. With Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Stone must protect a former bookkeeper'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. With Jessica Walter.

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. With Dorothy Malone.

Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motorcycles to make their getaway. With Don Johnson.

Paranoia leads to someone shooting a cop skulking on their property. With Pat Hingle.

A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute. With Lee Purcell and Sherry Jackson.

An ex-con is out for vengeance against the high school gang whose initiation ritual led to his 20-year sentence. With Gary Lockwood.

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. With Andrew Robinson and Len Birman.

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. With Marlyn Mason.

A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer. With Barry Primus.

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. With Ned Beatty.

Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults. With Christopher Atkins and Mark Hamill.

The main suspect in the murder of a student is a prison inmate enrolled in a special program. With John Rubinstein.

Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her. With Lois Nettleton.

A bodybuilder's short temper causes murder. With Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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. With Pernell Roberts.

Robbins falls for a public defender representing a psycho, who is trying to eliminate witnesses to a murder. With Linda Kelsey.

A San Quentin prison guard must hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard. With Cliff Gorman.

Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds. With George Dzundza.

Captain Mike Stone is trying to find out who killed his long-time partner Steve Keller. Also, Stone must decide which of two inspectors to recommend for the position of Lieutenant: a woman (Debrah Farentino) with "Dirty Harry" tendencies, or a man (Conor O'Farrell) who reminds him of Keller.