The Streets of San Francisco

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.

10/7/1972

A salesman attending a convention wrongly believes that he is responsible for the death of an attractive female hitchhiker who had lured him to her houseboat.

10/14/1972

A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

12/2/1972

The murders of a flight attendant and a nurse who were rooming together lead Stone and Keller to suspect a jewelry salesman and his wife.

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.

12/16/1972

A college professor, shot accidentally while trying to pay off a blackmailer, refuses to co-operate with Stone's investigation for fear that the publicity will lose him an upcoming promotion.

12/23/1972

A man who served 12 years in prison to protect his brother gets out only to find that the brother never told their father, a Greek restaurant owner, the truth about who should have gone to jail.

1/6/1973

Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.

1/13/1973

Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.

1/18/1973

After a female detective is killed by the rapist she had been bait for, her roommate (played by Brenda Vaccaro) goes on the warpath to catch him. After Mike Stone kicks her off the case, she continues on her own, hurtling headlong into peril.

1/25/1973

A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.

2/1/1973

A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.

2/8/1973

One witness in a racketeering trial is killed with a booby-trapped car, and Stone worries that the remaining witness, Roy Chaffee, will be picked off by a hit man if he surfaces.

2/15/1973

Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.

2/22/1973

A gang takes Mike Stone hostage after killing a policeman in an attempt to flee from a grocery store robbery. They want to trade Stone in for their leader, Buddy Sims.

3/1/1973

When a boy disappears after school, suspicion falls on the neighborhood recluse, who is popularly known as a pedophile, although never convicted.

3/8/1973

After spending a "lousy" 12 years in prison for a brutal sexual assault and murder, a young punk returns to San Francisco to seek revenge against Mike Stone (who was the arresting officer). And he's not picky about how he'll take that revenge -- or on who.

3/15/1973

A father finds out that the man who murdered his deaf son is released on a technicality.

3/22/1973

Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.

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.

4/12/1973

Stone goes undercover as a bum to investigate the beating death of three homeless men.