The WORST episodes of The Streets of San Francisco
Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Underground
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1976
A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.
#2 - 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
#3 - Runaway
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1976
Stone searches for a fugitive and is dogged by a runaway girl who is the fugitive's daughter.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Whose Little Boy Are You?
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1972
A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.
#10 - 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).
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Tower Beyond Tragedy
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1972
Investigating a young woman's death, Stone ends up saving another from murder at the hands of the same mentally-unbalanced man.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 45 Minutes from Home
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1972
A salesman attending a convention wrongly believes that he is responsible for the death of an attractive female hitchhiker who had lured him to her houseboat.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Streets of San Francisco
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1972
Detectives Stone and Keller try to reconstruct the final days of a murdered young woman in order to find clues to identify her killer.
#21 - 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.
#22 - The Thirty-Year Pin
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1972
When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Alien Country
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1976
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.