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The Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 4

Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 4!

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.

Genres:CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
Network:ABC

Season 4 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" season 4 is "Poisoned Snow", rated 8.1/10 from 118 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Paul Savage. "Poisoned Snow" aired on 9/11/1975 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Glass Dart Board".

  • Poisoned Snow
    8.1/10 118 votes

    #1 - 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

  • The Glass Dart Board
    8.1/10 102 votes

    #2 - 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

  • No Place to Hide
    7.6/10 105 votes

    #3 - No Place to Hide

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1975

    Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Men Will Die
    7.7/10 103 votes

    #4 - Men Will Die

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1975

    A rapist targets Stone's daughter and her friend; a radical feminist organization encourages them to take matters into their own hands.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • School of Fear
    7.7/10 105 votes

    #5 - School of Fear

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1975

    A retired history teacher goes off the deep end and takes it upon himself to take a group of his former students hostage in an empty, condemned school. There, at gunpoint, he proceeds to teach them the finer points of history.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Deadly Silence
    7.6/10 98 votes

    #6 - Deadly Silence

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1975

    After Stone is hit by a van and suffers an inner ear injury, he considers changing to a desk job. Meanwhile, the vengeful wife of a man he killed stalks and tries to kill him in his half-deaf state.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Murder by Proxy
    7.9/10 102 votes

    #7 - 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

  • Trail of Terror
    8.1/10 125 votes

    #8 - 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

  • Web of Lies
    7.6/10 101 votes

    #9 - Web of Lies

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1975

    Keller and Stone's sole witness in a jewel robbery turns out to be a compulsive liar.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Air
    8.2/10 102 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Merchants of Death
    7.2/10 91 votes

    #11 - Merchants of Death

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1975

    A youth-center worker is caught in a war between two teenaged street gangs, a war that really has the heat turned up when one of the gangs obtains automatic rifles.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cat's Paw
    7.3/10 91 votes

    #12 - The Cat's Paw

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1975

    Lieutenant Stone is placed in the awkward position of investigating a burglary with Irene Martin, a lady cop -- who is also his girlfriend who he's just proposed to. She resents his intrusion into 'her' case and their relationship unravels.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Spooks for Sale
    7.8/10 101 votes

    #13 - Spooks for Sale

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1975

    The death of a night-watchman during a burglary puts Stone and Keller into the midst of a spy-vs.-spy conflict between high-tech industrial espionage firms.

    Director: Michael Douglas

    Writer: N/A

  • Most Likely to Succeed
    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

  • Police Buff
    8.3/10 99 votes

    #15 - 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

  • The Honorable Profession
    8.2/10 93 votes

    #16 - 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

  • Requiem for Murder
    6.7/10 91 votes

    #17 - Requiem for Murder

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1976

    A bishop (Mike's friend) tries to protect the person who shot him, but revelations in the course of the investigation start to shed suspicion on the bishop's accounting of events entirely.

    Director: Harry Falk

    Writer: N/A

  • Underground
    7.0/10 93 votes

    #18 - Underground

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1976

    A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • Judgment Day
    7.8/10 96 votes

    #19 - Judgment Day

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/19/1976

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Clown of Death
    7.1/10 85 votes

    #20 - Clown of Death

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1976

    Two retired brothers, both having worked as riggers for circuses many years before, are found murdered while a circus happens to be performing in San Francisco at the Cow Palace.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Superstar
    6.6/10 96 votes

    #21 - Superstar

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1976

    Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Alien Country
    7.4/10 94 votes

    #22 - Alien Country

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1976

    When an Immigration raid goes wrong and a security guard is killed, the prime suspect becomes one of the illegal immigrants.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Larry Brody

  • Runaway
    6.6/10 100 votes

    #23 - Runaway

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1976

    Stone searches for a fugitive, and is dogged by the fugitive's innocent and naive daughter.

    Director: Harry Falk

    Writer: Paul Savage