7.6/10141 votes#1 - One Last Shot
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1974
Alcoholic officer Joe Landers (Leslie Nielsen) accidentally gets his partner killed and clumsily tries to cover it up as Stone and Keller work their way to the truth.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack B. Sowards
7.8/10134 votes#2 - 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
7.7/10137 votes#3 - Target: Red
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1974
Bill Bixby plays a former CIA hitman who is hired by some kooky generals to assassinate a Red Chinese envoy on a state visit to San Francisco.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: N/A
7.7/10143 votes#4 - Mask of Death
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1974
A professional female impersonator, whose headline act is a perfect imitation of 1930s movie star Carol Marlowe, is overwhelmed with an alternate personality -- and murdering any man who is unlucky enough to be attracted to "Carol."
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: N/A
7.6/10128 votes#5 - I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1974
Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: N/A
7.3/10130 votes#6 - One Chance to Live
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1974
An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: David Friedkin
7.7/10125 votes#7 - Jacob's Boy
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1974
A bum blackmails a black guy. The bum's friends roll him for the money and attempt to pin his death on the black guy, who is the lovable and successful nanny to a young kid. What's the black guy hiding?...
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: Paul Savage
8.1/10126 votes#8 - 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
7.7/10129 votes#9 - Cry Help!
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1974
A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: Leonardo Bercovici, Larry Brody
7.5/10115 votes#10 - For Good or Evil
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1974
A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10122 votes#11 - Bird of Prey
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1974
Women keep turning up in hotel rooms strangled; the only lead is a witness who thinks he saw an air force Colonel's uniform. Keller goes undercover as an air force officer to infiltrate the base.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10116 votes#12 - 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
7.9/10121 votes#13 - 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
7.3/10121 votes#14 - Mister Nobody
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1974
A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: N/A
7.5/10105 votes#15 - False Witness
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1975
When a patrolman and personal friend of Keller has his arrestee turned loose on insufficient evidence, he goes on the warpath, endangering both of their careers.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: N/A
8.1/10126 votes#16 - 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
7.8/10118 votes#17 - 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
7.9/10116 votes#18 - 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
8.3/10122 votes#19 - 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
7.8/10116 votes#20 - River of Fear
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1975
A man seduces the widow of a bank robber. The money he stole was never found. When she tells him where it is, he kills her and sets out to take the money from her children out in the country.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10114 votes#21 - 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
8.0/10116 votes#22 - 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
7.5/10109 votes#23 - Solitaire
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/13/1975
While Keller recovers from a gunshot wound, Stone is forced to team with hippie-haired narcotics officer Al Walczinsky. Together they try to break up a narcotics ring that's gone murderous -- until Stone suspects that Walczinsky's in on the racket.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 3
Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 3!
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
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"One Last Shot" is the best rated episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" season 3. It scored 7.6/10 based on 141 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Jack B. Sowards, it aired on 9/12/1974. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Most Deadly Species".