The BEST episodes of The Streets of San Francisco season 2

Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Streets of San Francisco season 2!

A veteran cop with more than twenty years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco, California.

Last Updated: 12/9/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Chapel of the Damned
star
8.45
11 votes

#1 - Chapel of the Damned

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1974

Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.

Directors: George McCowan
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The Hard Breed
star
8.23
13 votes

#2 - The Hard Breed

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1974

Two "Gunsmoke" writers teamed on this modern-day Western set at a rodeo in San Francisco's Cow Palace. A bronc rider dies in what appears to be an accident. A rodeo clown looks around the scene after the police leave and discovers the rider's rope -- which was cut almost halfway through before it broke, leaving the bronc free to throw him. The police come back to investigate the scene, and before long the chief suspect is also murdered in another "accident."

Directors: Virgil Vogel
Writer: Ron Bishop
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Death and the Favored Few
star
8.21
14 votes

#3 - Death and the Favored Few

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1974

Stone and Keller investigate the murder of a society publisher whose method was to coerce subscriptions from wealthy clients by blackmailing them. The investigation leads the detective to a wealthy woman and her daughter, who were among the ones being blackmailed and who still have secrets to hide.

Directors: Virgil Vogel
Writer: Gene L. Coon
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Shield of Honor
star
8.14
14 votes

#4 - Shield of Honor

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1973

Detectives Stone and Keller investigate how a contract killer obtained inside information on the movement of a mob witness.

Directors: Eric Till
Writer: D.C. Fontana
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Commitment
star
8.08
13 votes

#5 - Commitment

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1974

accidental or intentional? the killing of a cop by another cop is the theme as one of our "81" investigators finds himself being investigated by his own department.

Directors: Richard Donner
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Blockade
star
8.08
13 votes

#6 - Blockade

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1974

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.

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The Runaways
star
8.00
11 votes

#7 - The Runaways

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1973

Three runaways from Oregon, George, Jack and Sharon Morgan are squatting in an abandoned house. Sharon is very sick, but money is very limited. George decided to break into a local pharmacy after hours to obtain some medicine.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
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Inferno
star
8.00
13 votes

#8 - Inferno

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1974

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

Directors: Virgil Vogel
Writer: James Miller
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Rampage
star
7.92
12 votes

#9 - Rampage

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1974

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 and the murder is blamed on the group. The murder leads to a narcotics ring and Stone and Keller have to try to link the crimes together.

Directors: John Wilder
Writer: Albert Ruben
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Harem
star
7.89
19 votes

#10 - Harem

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1973

Stone's daughter helps him break up a murderous prostitution ring. An unusual episode because of the appearance of Darleen Carr, who plays Stone's daughter, Jeannie.

Directors: Virgil Vogel
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A String of Puppets
star
7.88
16 votes

#11 - A String of Puppets

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1974

Det. Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.

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The Victims
star
7.86
14 votes

#12 - The Victims

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1973

Three escaped convicts leave a path of destruction behind them as well as causing friction between Keller and his girlfriend, Connie.

Directors: George McCowan
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Winterkill
star
7.85
13 votes

#13 - Winterkill

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1973

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.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
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Most Feared in the Jungle
star
7.85
13 votes

#14 - Most Feared in the Jungle

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1973

A single girl named Barbara has a baby and is then told the baby was stillborn. However, she thinks it is alive and starts asking questions at the unwed mothers home where she lived.

Directors: Robert Day
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The Stamp of Death
star
7.79
19 votes

#15 - The Stamp of Death

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1973

Lieutenant Stone and Inspector Keller go after two insurance agents involved in the counterfeiting of an 1850 2 cent purple Guyana stamp which had a value of $250,000 ($1,000,000) in today's market.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Robert Holt
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For the Love of God
star
7.71
21 votes

#16 - For the Love of God

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1973

In order to stop a psychotic priest killer. Lt. Michael Stone goes undercover as a Roman Catholic Priest. The victims were all Clergymen who studied at the same seminary.

Directors: Virgil Vogel
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Going Home
star
7.68
19 votes

#17 - Going Home

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1973

A small timer robs a hardware store and after smacking the owner finds the safe open with two bags of money inside. He think he's hit the big time until he finds "the book". Running from both the mob and the police he runs to Alcatraz.

Directors: Robert Day
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Before I Die
star
7.67
18 votes

#18 - Before I Die

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1973

A cop (Nielsen) who finds out that he has a terminal illness, sets out to kill a racketeer (Danton) who had been his quarry for the last year and a half.

Directors: William Hale
Writer: Albert Ruben
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A Wrongful Death
star
7.64
25 votes

#19 - A Wrongful Death

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1973

An angry father swears vengeance against Keller, who shot and killed his youngest son while trying to stop a robbery - but the truth is even more devastating.

Directors: Don Medford
Crossfire
star
7.62
13 votes

#20 - Crossfire

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1974

Stone and Keller suspect there is more to a string of college campus shootings than meets the eye.

Directors: William Hale
No Badge for Benjy
star
7.53
19 votes

#21 - No Badge for Benjy

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1973

A police informant is murdered, and his flinty daughter forces the police to go after his killers.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
Betrayed
star
7.33
21 votes

#22 - Betrayed

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1973

A young executive stole money from his company, he then robs a bank to replace it. The robbery goes wrong and a security guard is killer and his live in client happens to be working at the bank that day as a part time teller.

Directors: William Hale
The Twenty-Four Karat Plague
star
7.08
13 votes

#23 - The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1973

Four men plan to heist radioactive gold over a poker game. Then find out that it is mixed with Uranium. The man smelting and forming the planchets gets radiation poisoning and it goes down hill for them fast.