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 a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" is "The Programming of Charlie Blake", rated 8.3/10 from 119 user votes. It was directed by Nicholas Colasanto and written by N/A. "The Programming of Charlie Blake" aired on 2/6/1975 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Police Buff".
8.3/10 119 votes#1 - 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
8.3/10 99 votes#2 - 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
8.2/10 102 votes#3 - 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
8.2/10 93 votes#4 - 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
8.2/10 123 votes#5 - 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
8.1/10 124 votes#6 - 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
8.1/10 123 votes#7 - 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
8.1/10 111 votes#8 - 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
8.1/10 118 votes#9 - 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
8.1/10 102 votes#10 - 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
8.1/10 125 votes#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
8.0/10 117 votes#12 - 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
8.0/10 111 votes#13 - 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
8.0/10 105 votes#14 - 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
7.9/10 111 votes#15 - 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
7.9/10 114 votes#16 - 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
7.9/10 102 votes#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
7.9/10 105 votes#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
7.9/10 99 votes#19 - No Minor Vices
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1976
A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Arthur Bernard Lewis
7.9/10 90 votes#20 - 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
7.9/10 90 votes#21 - 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
7.9/10 96 votes#22 - 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
7.8/10 139 votes#23 - 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
7.8/10 120 votes#24 - 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
7.8/10 131 votes#25 - 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