The Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 1

After a female detective is killed by the rapist she had been bait for, her roommate (played by Brenda Vaccaro) goes on the warpath to catch him. After Mike Stone kicks her off the case, she continues on her own, hurtling headlong into peril.

Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Writer: N/A

When a boy disappears after school, suspicion falls on the neighborhood recluse, who is popularly known as a pedophile, although never convicted.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

After spending a "lousy" 12 years in prison for a brutal sexual assault and murder, a young punk returns to San Francisco to seek revenge against Mike Stone (who was the arresting officer). And he's not picky about how he'll take that revenge -- or on who.

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A college professor, shot accidentally while trying to pay off a blackmailer, refuses to co-operate with Stone's investigation for fear that the publicity will lose him an upcoming promotion.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

A gang takes Mike Stone hostage after killing a policeman in an attempt to flee from a grocery store robbery. They want to trade Stone in for their leader, Buddy Sims.

Director: John Badham

Writer: N/A

A father finds out that the man who murdered his deaf son is released on a technicality.

Director: Robert Day

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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.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

The murders of a flight attendant and a nurse who were rooming together lead Stone and Keller to suspect a jewelry salesman and his wife.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

Writer: N/A

A man who served 12 years in prison to protect his brother gets out only to find that the brother never told their father, a Greek restaurant owner, the truth about who should have gone to jail.

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: N/A

A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.

Director: George McCowan

Writer: N/A

Stone goes undercover as a bum to investigate the beating death of three homeless men.

Director: Robert Douglas

Writer: N/A

Stone and Keller finally get a lead on a serial killer who has been knifing prostitutes when one of the victims survives the attack.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

One witness in a racketeering trial is killed with a booby-trapped car, and Stone worries that the remaining witness, Roy Chaffee, will be picked off by a hit man if he surfaces.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Robert Lewin

Stone appears to be the only one willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a convict who is accused of a murder while out of prison on a 36-hour pass.

Director: Robert Douglas

Writer: N/A

When a corner newspaper vendor goes after the muggers who stole his life savings, Stone and Keller discover that the crime is linked to the murder of a housing commissioner.

Director: Robert Douglas

Writer: N/A

In their attempt to bring down a family of con artists who victimize entire neighborhoods, Stone and Keller are aided by dissension among the gang members.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

Writer: Theodore J. Flicker

Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.

Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Writer: N/A

Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: David Friedkin

A priest (Fr. Scarne) won't tell Stone where a murderer (Abel Hoffman) is hiding. Stakes are raised by drug smugglers looking for a stolen shipment of heroin.

Director: N/A

Writer: Morton S. Fine

A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

Stone and Keller face off against Gilliam, a wealthy executive who transforms women into his own special image of perfection, then kills them when they inevitably fail to live up to every demented standard of his.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy

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