The BEST episodes of The Streets of San Francisco season 5
Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Streets of San Francisco season 5!
A veteran cop with more than twenty years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco, California.
#1 - Till Death Do Us Part
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1976
Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife (Jessica Walter), in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.
#2 - The Drop
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1976
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.
#3 - Hot Dog
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/1976
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make there get away.
#4 - Dead Lift
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1977
A bodybuilder's short temper causes murder.
#5 - One Last Trick
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1977
A former prostitute (Purcell) goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.
#6 - Who Killed Helen French?
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1977
The police learn that a victim of spousal abuse has been leading a double life.
#7 - The Thrill Killers (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1976
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt ""movement leaders"" are being tried for murder.
#8 - Monkey is Back
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1977
As a dare to try to win a spot among a gang of high school thugs in the 1950's, Charley Belasco commits a crime that sends him to prison for 20 years. Upon his release, he goes on a murderous rampage to hunt down the the high school thugs who spurned him.
#9 - Let's Pretend We're Strangers
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1977
A public defender (Linda Kelsey) is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.
#10 - The Thrill Killers (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1976
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.
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#11 - Castle of Fear
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/1976
Paranoia leads to someone shooting a cop skulking on their property.
#12 - A Good Cop...But
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1977
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.
#13 - Child of Anger
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/1976
A clothing designer (Dorothy Malone) finds herself on the front page news after her daughter (Leslie Ackerman) confesses to the murder of her latest fling. Later, Lt. Stone and Inspector Robbins investigate her daughter's claim only to realize that she's really a witness and not a murderer, but will it be too late now that one of the murders (Jerry Douglas) decides that she may be able to identify him?
#14 - In Case of Madness
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1976
A songwriter-singer (Arnaz Jr.) is a suspect in the murder of his producer (Janis).
#15 - Dead or Alive
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1976
A millionaire's (Duff) daughter (Eilbacher) is raped and murdered at a public tennis court. He finds a suspect and sends handbills over the city, posting a $1 million dead or alive reward for the suspect (Gail). The SFPD has to spend an extraordinary amount of time and manpower on this case when the greed of ""human nature"" takes over, causing innocents to be injured or killed in the process of trying to collect the reward.
#16 - Once a Con
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/1977
The main suspect in the murder of a coed is a prison inmate enrolled in a special program.
#17 - Breakup
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1977
An episode where there are two parallel stories: A small business owner (Roberts) is going through divorce proceedings while his business is in financial straits. His wife's lawyer (Pressman) just happens to also be hunted by a revenge-seeking ex-con (Murdock).
#18 - The Cannibals
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1977
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.
#19 - Interlude
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1977
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.
#20 - Innocent No More
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/24/1977
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.
#21 - No Minor Vices
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1976
The father of a 16-year old girl murders her ""johns"" one by one, unbeknownst to her.
#22 - Hang Tough
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/1977
A narcotics cop (Beatty) who has only four months to go till retirement, roughs up a drug pusher (Campos) and plants a knife on him. In the cop's efforts to cover this up, blackmail and murder ensue. A parallel story has to do with uncovering the ""Tucson connection"", a major drug ring operating in San Francisco.
#23 - 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.
#24 - The Canine Collar
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/9/1977
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds