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 a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" is "Castle of Fear", rated 6.4/10 from 93 user votes. It was directed by Allen Reisner and written by N/A. "Castle of Fear" aired on 12/23/1976 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Superstar".
6.4/10 93 votes#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
6.6/10 96 votes#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
6.6/10 100 votes#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
6.7/10 91 votes#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
6.8/10 204 votes#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
6.9/10 147 votes#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
7.0/10 211 votes#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
7.0/10 213 votes#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
7.0/10 93 votes#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
7.0/10 82 votes#10 - 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
7.0/10 84 votes#11 - 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
7.0/10 193 votes#12 - 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
7.1/10 268 votes#13 - 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
7.1/10 172 votes#14 - 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
7.1/10 190 votes#15 - 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
7.1/10 181 votes#16 - 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
7.1/10 182 votes#17 - 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
7.1/10 157 votes#18 - 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
7.1/10 137 votes#19 - 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
7.1/10 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
7.1/10 83 votes#21 - 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
7.2/10 131 votes#22 - No Badge For Benjy
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1973
A black police informant is murdered, but the police seem more concerned with the death of a white business man. His flinty daughter forces the police to go after his killers.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: George Bellak
7.2/10 142 votes#23 - 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
7.2/10 91 votes#24 - 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
7.3/10 236 votes#25 - 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