The Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 5

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

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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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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

An episode where there are two parallel stories: A small business owner is going through divorce proceedings while his business is in financial straits. His wife's lawyer just happens to also be hunted by a revenge-seeking ex-con.

Director: Harry Falk

Writer: Anthony Lawrence

Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.

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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

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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.

Director: William Wiard

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A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.

Director: Harry Falk

Writer: Charles Larson

Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.

Director: Harry Falk

Writer: Norman Lessing

A narcotics cop who has only four months to go 'til retirement roughs up a drug pusher and plants a knife on him. Meanwhile, an operation begins to uncover the "Tucson connection," a major drug ring operating in San Francisco.

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Writer: Norman Lessing

Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.

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When a female college student is killed on campus, suspicion falls on a prison inmate allowed temporary release to work in the college's print-shop.

Director: Richard Lang

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Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.

Director: Harry Falk

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A man offers a $1,000,000 reward for the capture -- dead or alive -- of the man who raped and murdered his daughter, throwing the city into greed-fueled chaos.

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Writer: Burton Armus

A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.

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Writer: Jack B. Sowards

A public defender is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Carol Saraceno

A mobster's son steals loot from his father and seeks protection from federal authorities in exchange for being a material witness against his father.

Director: Walter Grauman

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A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.

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Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.

Director: Harry Falk

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A clothing designer finds herself on the front page after her daughter confesses to the murder of her latest fling. Stone and Robbins realize the girl's really a witness and not a murderer.

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Writer: Charles Larson

A music producer turns up dead; a popular singer he was producing an album for is convinced that he is going insane and killed the producer, but the truth is stranger.

Director: Barry Shear

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As a dare to try to win a spot among a gang of high school thugs in the 1950's, Charley Belasco commits a crime that sends him to prison for 20 years. Upon his release, he goes on a murderous rampage to hunt down the the high school thugs who spurned him.

Director: Richard Lang

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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.

Director: Michael Preece

Writer: Larry Brody

A man who has been tormented by mysterious, threatening phone calls believes that his stalker has entered his property, and shoots him. Unfortunately for the man, his victim was a totally innocent cop...

Director: Allen Reisner

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