6.5/1096 votesLoading...#1 - 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
6.6/1099 votesLoading...#2 - 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
6.6/10102 votesLoading...#3 - 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
6.7/1092 votesLoading...#4 - 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
6.8/10209 votesLoading...#5 - Hall of Mirrors
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1972
Keller, temporarily partnered with a hotshot detective, sets out to discover why his new partner seems to be absolutely convinced of a murder suspect's guilt for no apparent reason.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Writer: N/A
6.9/10150 votesLoading...#6 - Shattered Image
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/22/1973
Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
7.0/10216 votesLoading...#7 - Whose Little Boy Are You?
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1972
A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
7.0/10222 votesLoading...#8 - Tower Beyond Tragedy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1972
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
7.0/1094 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.0/10197 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.1/10276 votesLoading...#11 - The Thirty-Year Pin
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1972
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
7.1/10175 votesLoading...#12 - Timelock
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1972
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
7.1/10191 votesLoading...#13 - In the Midst of Strangers
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1972
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
7.1/10182 votesLoading...#14 - The Year of the Locusts
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1972
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
7.1/10184 votesLoading...#15 - A Trout in the Milk
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1973
Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: N/A
7.1/10159 votesLoading...#16 - Deadline
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1973
Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: David Friedkin
7.1/10138 votesLoading...#17 - The Unicorn
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/5/1973
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
7.1/1086 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.1/1086 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.1/1085 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.1/1085 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.2/10144 votesLoading...#22 - The Runaways
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1973
The oldest of a set of three young sibling runaways is suspected of the murder of a drugstore owner. His animosity towards authority doesn't do him any favors.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: N/A
7.2/1093 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.3/10242 votesLoading...#24 - The First Day of Forever
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1972
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
7.3/10163 votesLoading...#25 - Deathwatch
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1973
Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco
Every episode of The Streets of San Francisco ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Streets of San Francisco!
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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Castle of Fear" is the worst rated episode of "The Streets of San Francisco". It scored 6.5/10 based on 96 votes. Directed by Allen Reisner and written by N/A, it aired on 12/23/1976. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Superstar".