8.1/10126 votes#1 - The Thrill Killers (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1976
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10106 votes#2 - The Thrill Killers (2)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1976
Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10100 votes#3 - Dead or Alive
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Burton Armus
7.6/1091 votes#4 - The Drop
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1976
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: Norman Lessing
7.8/10102 votes#5 - No Minor Vices
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1976
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
7.0/1084 votes#6 - In Case of Madness
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1976
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
Writer: N/A
7.7/1087 votes#7 - Till Death Do Us Part
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1976
Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife (Jessica Walter), 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
Writer: N/A
7.1/1084 votes#8 - Child of Anger
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/1976
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Charles Larson
7.9/1093 votes#9 - Hot Dog
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/1976
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1094 votes#10 - Castle of Fear
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/1976
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
Writer: N/A
7.5/1094 votes#11 - One Last Trick
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1977
A former prostitute (Purcell) goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack B. Sowards
7.1/1085 votes#12 - Monkey is Back
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1977
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
Writer: N/A
7.3/1082 votes#13 - The Cannibals
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1977
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
Writer: N/A
7.9/1093 votes#14 - Who Killed Helen French?
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1977
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
Writer: N/A
7.7/1088 votes#15 - A Good Cop...But
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1977
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: Charles Larson
7.7/1090 votes#16 - Hang Tough
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/1977
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Norman Lessing
7.6/1096 votes#17 - Innocent No More
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/24/1977
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1085 votes#18 - Once a Con
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/1977
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
Writer: N/A
7.6/1084 votes#19 - Interlude
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1977
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: N/A
7.0/10197 votes#20 - Dead Lift
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1977
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
7.9/1097 votes#21 - Breakup
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1977
An episode where there are two parallel stories: A small business owner (Roberts) is going through divorce proceedings while his business is in financial straits. His wife's lawyer (Pressman) just happens to also be hunted by a revenge-seeking ex-con (Murdock).
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
7.4/1094 votes#22 - Let's Pretend We're Strangers
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1977
A public defender (Linda Kelsey) is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Carol Saraceno
7.4/1091 votes#23 - Time Out
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 6/2/1977
A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1085 votes#24 - The Canine Collar
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 6/9/1977
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 5
Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco Season 5!
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 5 Ratings Summary
"The Thrill Killers (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" season 5. It scored 8.1/10 based on 126 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1976. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Thrill Killers (2)".