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The Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco

Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco!

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become...
Genres:CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"Police Buff" is the best rated episode of "The Streets of San Francisco". It scored 8.3/10 based on 101 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/8/1976. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dead Air".

  • Police Buff
    8.3/10101 votes
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    #1 - Police Buff

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1976

    A vigilante is methodically and savagely wiping out criminals who have managed to slip through the fingers of the legal system.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Air
    8.2/10103 votes
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    #2 - Dead Air

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1975

    A sleazy radio host is accused of murder when a former girlfriend, who was pregnant, is shot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Honorable Profession
    8.2/1096 votes
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    #3 - The Honorable Profession

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1976

    Stone and Keller search for the only eyewitness to a shooting -- a self-proclaimed doctor who gave them a false name.

    Director: Harry Falk

    Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

  • Flags of Terror
    8.1/10126 votes
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    #4 - Flags of Terror

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1974

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Letters from the Grave
    8.1/10126 votes
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    #5 - Letters from the Grave

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1975

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Programming of Charlie Blake
    8.1/10123 votes
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    #6 - The Programming of Charlie Blake

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1975

    A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.

    Director: Nicholas Colasanto

    Writer: N/A

  • The Glass Dart Board
    8.1/10103 votes
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    #7 - The Glass Dart Board

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1975

    While a psychopathic killer uses San Francisco hi-rises as target practice, Stone and Keller have to contend with a new Captain who immediately countermands everything they do.

    Director: Harry Falk

    Writer: N/A

  • The Thrill Killers (1)
    8.1/10126 votes
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    #8 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Asylum
    8.0/10114 votes
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    #9 - 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.

    Director: Robert Douglas

    Writer: Larry Brody

  • Labyrinth
    8.0/10116 votes
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    #10 - Labyrinth

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1975

    A prizefighter refuses to throw a fight, instead opting to throw the gangsters out the window of his hotel room. Injured, he hides in the hotel as both the police and mob close in.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Trail of Terror
    8.0/10128 votes
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    #11 - Trail of Terror

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1975

    When a gang of smuggling sailors kills a jeweler, they realize they have to eliminate his girlfriend for being a witness, and Keller, who is transporting the girlfriend to jail.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

  • Most Likely to Succeed
    8.0/10106 votes
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    #12 - Most Likely to Succeed

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1975

    A teacher is murdered at an exclusive all-boys prep school.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • License to Kill
    7.9/10116 votes
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    #13 - License to Kill

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1974

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
    7.9/10121 votes
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    #14 - The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1974

    A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ten Dollar Murder
    7.9/10117 votes
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    #15 - Ten Dollar Murder

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1975

    A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: D.C. Fontana

  • Poisoned Snow
    7.9/10123 votes
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    #16 - Poisoned Snow

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1975

    When a lady cop is killed in a drug sting gone wrong, her boyfriend cop decides to take matters into his own hands. Stone and Keller try to stop him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Paul Savage

  • Murder by Proxy
    7.9/10103 votes
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    #17 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Thrill Killers (2)
    7.9/10106 votes
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    #18 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hot Dog
    7.9/1093 votes
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    #19 - 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 their get away.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Killed Helen French?
    7.9/1093 votes
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    #20 - Who Killed Helen French?

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1977

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • Breakup
    7.9/1097 votes
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    #21 - 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).

    Director: Harry Falk

    Writer: Anthony Lawrence

  • Blockade
    7.8/10140 votes
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    #22 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rampage
    7.8/10120 votes
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    #23 - 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.

    Director: John Wilder

    Writer: N/A

  • The Most Deadly Species
    7.8/10134 votes
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    #24 - The Most Deadly Species

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1974

    A high-ranking hoodlum hires the androgynously-named "Sidney"--a hitwoman who's assigned to murder the three thugs responsible for the death of his son. She decides to let the police do her digging for her and moves in next door to Keller...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Endgame
    7.8/10118 votes
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    #25 - Endgame

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1975

    While investigating a lead, Steve is run over by a car and rendered a vegetable. Mike insists on taking revenge, and is demoted to walking a beat.

    Director: Jerry Jameson

    Writer: N/A