The BEST episodes of The Streets of San Francisco
Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Streets of San Francisco!
A veteran cop with more than twenty years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco, California.
#1 - Most Likely to Succeed
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1975
Lt. Michael Stone and Inspector Steven Keller investigate a murder committed at an all-boys prep school.
#2 - Time Out
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/2/1977
A San Quentin prison guard must hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.
#3 - The Glass Dart Board
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1975
A psycopathic killer uses San Francisco High-rises as target practice.
#4 - The Honorable Profession
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1976
Robert Reed plays a fictitious doctor. During Act IV he packs up to leave town. The well-written episode begs the question whether Reed's character did more good than harm posing as a doctor.
#5 - No Place to Hide
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1975
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't. An episode with exceptionally good dialogue.
#6 - Men Will Die
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1975
After Jeannie's friend Nancy kills one of her rapists, Jeannie is furious at the way the justice system works. She becomes involved with an aggressive rape crisis group headed by crusading attorney Catherine Wyatt. Rapist Jack Marlin becomes a target of their efforts.
#7 - School of Fear
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1975
Upon learning that a teacher was shot and killed during a student scuffle at a school he once taught at, a retired history teacher (played by Maurice Evans) takes it upon himself to corral a group of his former students and hold them hostage in an empty, condemned school. There, at gunpoint, he proceeds to teach them the finer points of history.
#8 - Deadly Silence
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1975
Stone is hit by a van, and has to undergo surgery to have his hearing restored.
#9 - Murder by Proxy
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1975
Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer. With Bradford Dillman and John Ritter.
#10 - Trail of Terror
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1975
Keller is pursued by killers as he transports a prisoner to jail.
#11 - Web of Lies
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1975
Keller and Stone must rely on a compulsive liar while investigating a jewel robbery.
#12 - Dead Air
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1975
A radio host is accused of murder when a woman who threatened him dies.
#13 - Merchants of Death
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1975
Two rival gangs start a turf war with a youth worker (played by Greg Morris) caught in the middle.
#14 - The Cat's Paw
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1975
Stone conducts a murder/robbery investigation with Inspector Irene Martin.
#15 - Spooks for Sale
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1975
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.
#16 - Police Buff
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1976
A suspected murderer of a police officer is tried and set free -- and then killed by a vigilante.
#17 - For Good or Evil
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1974
After a young man witnesses a gangland murder, he starts working with the killer to gain favor with the gang.
#18 - Poisoned Snow
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1975
Stone and Keller investigate the death of a cop who dies during a drug sting -- and tries to prevent the cop's partner from doing more damage.
#19 - Solitaire
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/13/1975
Against his will, Stone gets a new partner while Keller recovers from a gunshot wound. Hippie-haired narc Al Walczinsky isn't too happy about having Stone as a partner either. Together they try to break up a narcotics ring that's gone murderous -- until Stone suspects that Walczinsky's in on the racket.
#20 - Labyrinth
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1975
Set in a midtown hotel, "Labyrinth" tells the story of a prizefighter who was supposed to throw a fight but didn't. Some representatives from the mob meet him to "discuss the matter" in his hotel room. He ends up beating up one of the men and throws him out the window. He beats up the other two and is shot in the process, but not fatally. He runs from the room and holding the gun he hides in another room with an adulterous couple. Stone and Keller are called in to investigate the hit man's death. The race is on: who will find the prizefighter first--the cops or the hired muscle? Included in the cast of characters is a traumatized ex-cop who quit the force and became the hotel's head of security.
#21 - Asylum
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1975
Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.
#22 - River of Fear
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1975
A twelve-year-old girl sets out to prove that he stepfather killer her mother.
#23 - The Programming of Charlie Blake
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1975
Stone and Keller's murder investigation is complicated by an ambitious psychiatrist easer to exploit his patient, a reformed ex-con.
#24 - Ten Dollar Murder
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1975
Taxis across town are being robbed by a cop's son. But when one hold-up results in the murder of an undercover officer, the young man's joy ride is over.
#25 - Endgame
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1975
When Keller is injured by a gangster, Stone's thirst for vengeance results in his demotion to a beat cop.