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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...

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  1. Background image for Police Buff
    8.3/10(106 votes)

    #1 - Police Buff

    S4:E15

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Programming of Charlie Blake
    8.1/10(127 votes)

    #2 - The Programming of Charlie Blake

    S3:E19

    A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.

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    8.1/10(109 votes)

    #3 - Dead Air

    S4:E10

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Honorable Profession
    8.1/10(100 votes)

    #4 - The Honorable Profession

    S4:E16

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

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    8.1/10(136 votes)

    #5 - The Thrill Killers (1)

    S5:E1

    Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Flags of Terror
    8.0/10(129 votes)

    #6 - Flags of Terror

    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Letters from the Grave
    8.0/10(130 votes)

    #7 - Letters from the Grave

    S3:E16

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Glass Dart Board
    8.0/10(109 votes)

    #8 - The Glass Dart Board

    S4:E2

    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.

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    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Trail of Terror
    8.0/10(132 votes)

    #9 - Trail of Terror

    S4:E8

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Asylum
    7.9/10(118 votes)

    #10 - Asylum

    S3:E21

    Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.

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    7.9/10(121 votes)

    #11 - Labyrinth

    S3:E22

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Thrill Killers (2)
    7.9/10(116 votes)

    #12 - The Thrill Killers (2)

    S5:E2

    Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for No Minor Vices
    7.9/10(108 votes)

    #13 - No Minor Vices

    S5:E5

    A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.

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  15. Background image for Who Killed Helen French?
    7.9/10(96 votes)

    #14 - Who Killed Helen French?

    S5:E14

    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.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Blockade
    7.8/10(144 votes)

    #15 - Blockade

    S2:E17

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Most Deadly Species
    7.8/10(140 votes)

    #16 - The Most Deadly Species

    S3:E2

    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...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for License to Kill
    7.8/10(118 votes)

    #17 - License to Kill

    S3:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
    7.8/10(125 votes)

    #18 - The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague

    S3:E13

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Endgame
    7.8/10(121 votes)

    #19 - Endgame

    S3:E17

    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.

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    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Ten Dollar Murder
    7.8/10(123 votes)

    #20 - Ten Dollar Murder

    S3:E18

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

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for Poisoned Snow
    7.8/10(128 votes)

    #21 - Poisoned Snow

    S4:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  23. Background image for Murder by Proxy
    7.8/10(110 votes)

    #22 - Murder by Proxy

    S4:E7

    Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Most Likely to Succeed
    7.8/10(115 votes)

    #23 - Most Likely to Succeed

    S4:E14

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.8/10(102 votes)

    #24 - Judgment Day

    S4:E19

    Four judges have been murdered, and in each case an obsolete pamphlet on disbarrment proceedings is found near the body...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Till Death Do Us Part
    7.8/10(93 votes)

    #25 - Till Death Do Us Part

    S5:E7

    Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife, in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.

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    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Police Buff" is the best rated episode of "The Streets of San Francisco". It scored 8.3/10 based on 106 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/8/1976. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Programming of Charlie Blake".