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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.
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Episodes
5 seasons · 119 episodesSeason 126 ep. · 1972–1973
Episode 1: The Thirty-Year Pin
Sep 23, 1972 · 49 min
When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.
Episode 2: The First Day of Forever
Sep 30, 1972 · 51 min
Stone and Keller finally get a lead on a serial killer who has been knifing prostitutes when one of the victims survives the attack.
Episode 3: 45 Minutes from Home
Oct 7, 1972 · 50 min
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.
Episode 4: Whose Little Boy Are You?
Oct 14, 1972 · 50 min
A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.
Episode 5: Tower Beyond Tragedy
Oct 28, 1972 · 51 min
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.
Episode 6: Hall of Mirrors
Nov 4, 1972 · 51 min
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.
Episode 7: Timelock
Nov 11, 1972 · 51 min
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.
Episode 8: In the Midst of Strangers
Nov 25, 1972 · 50 min
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.
Episode 9: The Takers
Dec 2, 1972 · 51 min
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.
Episode 10: The Year of the Locusts
Dec 9, 1972 · 51 min
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.
Episode 11: The Bullet
Dec 16, 1972 · 51 min
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.
Episode 12: Bitter Wine
Dec 23, 1972 · 51 min
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.
Episode 13: A Trout in the Milk
Jan 6, 1973 · 51 min
Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.
Episode 14: Deathwatch
Jan 13, 1973 · 51 min
Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.
Episode 15: Act of Duty
Jan 18, 1973 · 52 min
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.
Episode 16: The Set-Up
Jan 25, 1973 · 51 min
A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.
Episode 17: A Collection of Eagles
Feb 1, 1973 · 51 min
A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.
Episode 18: A Room With a View
Feb 8, 1973 · 52 min
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.
Episode 19: Deadline
Feb 15, 1973 · 52 min
Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.
Episode 20: Trail of the Serpent
Feb 22, 1973 · 52 min
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.
Episode 21: The House on Hyde Street
Mar 1, 1973 · 52 min
When a boy disappears after school, suspicion falls on the neighborhood recluse, who is popularly known as a pedophile, although never convicted.
Episode 22: Beyond Vengeance
Mar 8, 1973 · 52 min
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.
Episode 23: The Albatross
Mar 15, 1973 · 52 min
A father finds out that the man who murdered his deaf son is released on a technicality.
Episode 24: Shattered Image
Mar 22, 1973 · 52 min
Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.
Episode 25: The Unicorn
Apr 5, 1973 · 52 min
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.
Episode 26: Legion of the Lost
Apr 12, 1973 · 51 min
Stone goes undercover as a bum to investigate the beating death of three homeless men.
Season 223 ep. · 1973–1974
Episode 1: A Wrongful Death
Sep 13, 1973 · 1h
Keller returns fire during a chase in a dark shopping center, killing a kid, but the body comes up unarmed. The boy's father insists Keller is a murderer.
Episode 2: Betrayed
Sep 20, 1973 · 1h
One of the girlfriends of a young charmer recognizes her boyfriend as the man who stuck up her bank.
Episode 3: For the Love of God
Sep 27, 1973 · 1h
In order to stop a psychotic priest-killer, Stone goes undercover as a Roman Catholic priest. The victims were all clergymen who studied at the same seminary.
Episode 4: Before I Die
Oct 4, 1973 · 1h
A cop (Nielsen) who finds out that he has a terminal illness, sets out to kill a racketeer (Danton) who had been his quarry for the last year and a half.
Episode 5: Going Home
Oct 11, 1973 · 1h
A small-time crook accidentally heists a fantastic sum from a small store that is actually a Syndicate front.
Episode 6: The Stamp of Death
Oct 18, 1973 · 1h
Lieutenant Stone and Inspector Keller go after two insurance agents involved in the counterfeiting of an 1850 2-cent purple Guyana stamp which had a value of $250,000.
Episode 7: Harem
Oct 25, 1973 · 1h
A flute-playing "Pied Piper" (played by Ricky Nelson) talks teenage girls into prostitution, then disposes of them when they are no longer convenient. Stone's daughter helps him break up this murderous prostitution ring.
Episode 8: No Badge For Benjy
Nov 1, 1973 · 1h
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.
Episode 9: The Twenty-Four Karat Plague
Nov 8, 1973 · 1h
Crooks heist a truck filled with gold, not knowing that the gold is the irradiated byproduct of a power plant experiment and extremely toxic.
Episode 10: Shield of Honor
Nov 15, 1973 · 1h
Internal affairs suspects that something is amiss when a witness under police protection is killed. Someone in the Department is a Syndicate informer--and everyone is under suspicion, even Stone and Keller.
Episode 11: The Victims
Nov 29, 1973 · 1h
A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see.
Episode 12: The Runaways
Dec 6, 1973 · 1h
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.
Episode 13: Winterkill
Dec 13, 1973 · 1h
Angered by the rising cost of health care, an old man tries to pay his friend's bills by threatening a businessman with the bombing of his buildings.
Episode 14: Most Feared in the Jungle
Dec 20, 1973 · 1h
Believing her baby was kidnapped, not stillborn as people claim, a deranged new mother embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth.
Episode 15: Commitment
Jan 3, 1974 · 1h
An undercover cop is murdered with Stone's gun, and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.
Episode 16: Chapel of the Damned
Jan 17, 1974 · 1h
Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.
Episode 17: Blockade
Jan 24, 1974 · 1h
A woman who has dedicated her life to a prominent family fails to see her neglected son has fallen in with a psycho—and may have helped him kill a woman.
Episode 18: Crossfire
Jan 31, 1974 · 1h
A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus.
Episode 19: A String of Puppets
Feb 7, 1974 · 1h
Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.
Episode 20: Inferno
Feb 14, 1974 · 1h
Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen.
Episode 21: The Hard Breed
Feb 21, 1974 · 1h
A cowboy was trampled to death by a bull; his mates suspected it to be murder.
Episode 22: Rampage
Feb 28, 1974 · 1h
A team of angry fathers, who are fed up with crime in their neighborhood, take a vigilante approach at solving the problem. During one of their rampages, a police informant is killed.
Episode 23: Death and the Favored Few
Mar 14, 1974 · 1h
San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered.
Season 323 ep. · 1974–1975
Episode 1: One Last Shot
Sep 12, 1974 · 1h
Alcoholic officer Joe Landers accidentally gets his partner killed and clumsily tries to cover it up as Stone and Keller work their way to the truth.
Episode 2: The Most Deadly Species
Sep 19, 1974 · 1h
A high-ranking hoodlum hires the androgynously-named "Sidney"--a hitwoman who's assigned to murder the three thugs responsible for the death of his son. She decides to let the police do her digging for her and moves in next door to Keller...
Episode 3: Target: Red
Sep 26, 1974 · 1h
Bill Bixby plays a former CIA hitman who is hired by some kooky generals to assassinate a Red Chinese envoy on a state visit to San Francisco.
Episode 4: Mask of Death
Oct 3, 1974 · 1h
A professional female impersonator, whose headline act is a perfect imitation of 1930s movie star Carol Marlowe, is overwhelmed with an alternate personality -- and murdering any man who is unlucky enough to be attracted to "Carol."
Episode 5: I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Oct 10, 1974 · 1h
Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.
Episode 6: One Chance to Live
Oct 17, 1974 · 1h
An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.
Episode 7: Jacob's Boy
Oct 24, 1974 · 1h
A bum blackmails a black guy. The bum's friends roll him for the money and attempt to pin his death on the black guy, who is the lovable and successful nanny to a young kid. What's the black guy hiding?...
Episode 8: Flags of Terror
Oct 31, 1974 · 1h
Domestic terrorists take several people hostage, including Keller. Stone has to deal with not only the terrorists but a right-wing journalist and a vengeful father whose daughter was killed.
Episode 9: Cry Help!
Nov 7, 1974 · 1h
A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.
Episode 10: For Good or Evil
Nov 14, 1974 · 1h
A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.
Episode 11: Bird of Prey
Nov 21, 1974 · 1h
Women keep turning up in hotel rooms strangled; the only lead is a witness who thinks he saw an air force Colonel's uniform. Keller goes undercover as an air force officer to infiltrate the base.
Episode 12: License to Kill
Dec 5, 1974 · 1h
Mike's former partner returns to San Francisco, but not because of any longing for the good old days. He's back in town to kill the hired gunman who murdered his son years before.
Episode 13: The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
Dec 12, 1974 · 1h
A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.
Episode 14: Mister Nobody
Dec 19, 1974 · 1h
A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.
Episode 15: False Witness
Jan 9, 1975 · 1h
When a patrolman and personal friend of Keller has his arrestee turned loose on insufficient evidence, he goes on the warpath, endangering both of their careers.
Episode 16: Letters from the Grave
Jan 16, 1975 · 1h
A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.
Episode 17: Endgame
Jan 23, 1975 · 1h
While investigating a lead, Steve is run over by a car and rendered a vegetable. Mike insists on taking revenge, and is demoted to walking a beat.
Episode 18: Ten Dollar Murder
Jan 30, 1975 · 1h
A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.
Episode 19: The Programming of Charlie Blake
Feb 6, 1975 · 1h
A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.
Episode 20: River of Fear
Feb 13, 1975 · 1h
A man seduces the widow of a bank robber. The money he stole was never found. When she tells him where it is, he kills her and sets out to take the money from her children out in the country.
Episode 21: Asylum
Feb 20, 1975 · 1h
Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.
Episode 22: Labyrinth
Feb 27, 1975 · 1h
A prizefighter refuses to throw a fight, instead opting to throw the gangsters out the window of his hotel room. Injured, he hides in the hotel as both the police and mob close in.
Episode 23: Solitaire
Mar 13, 1975 · 1h
While Keller recovers from a gunshot wound, Stone is forced to team with hippie-haired narcotics officer Al Walczinsky. Together they try to break up a narcotics ring that's gone murderous -- until Stone suspects that Walczinsky's in on the racket.
Season 423 ep. · 1975–1976
Episode 1: Poisoned Snow
Sep 11, 1975 · 1h
When a lady cop is killed in a drug sting gone wrong, her boyfriend cop decides to take matters into his own hands. Stone and Keller try to stop him.
Episode 2: The Glass Dart Board
Sep 18, 1975 · 1h
While a psychopathic killer uses San Francisco hi-rises as target practice, Stone and Keller have to contend with a new Captain who immediately countermands everything they do.
Episode 3: No Place to Hide
Sep 25, 1975 · 1h
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't.
Episode 4: Men Will Die
Oct 2, 1975 · 1h
A rapist targets Stone's daughter and her friend; a radical feminist organization encourages them to take matters into their own hands.
Episode 5: School of Fear
Oct 9, 1975 · 1h
A retired history teacher goes off the deep end and takes it upon himself to take a group of his former students hostage in an empty, condemned school. There, at gunpoint, he proceeds to teach them the finer points of history.
Episode 6: Deadly Silence
Oct 16, 1975 · 1h
After Stone is hit by a van and suffers an inner ear injury, he considers changing to a desk job. Meanwhile, the vengeful wife of a man he killed stalks and tries to kill him in his half-deaf state.
Episode 7: Murder by Proxy
Oct 23, 1975 · 1h
Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer.
Episode 8: Trail of Terror
Oct 30, 1975 · 1h
When a gang of smuggling sailors kills a jeweler, they realize they have to eliminate his girlfriend for being a witness, and Keller, who is transporting the girlfriend to jail.
Episode 9: Web of Lies
Nov 6, 1975 · 1h
Keller and Stone's sole witness in a jewel robbery turns out to be a compulsive liar.
Episode 10: Dead Air
Nov 13, 1975 · 1h
A sleazy radio host is accused of murder when a former girlfriend, who was pregnant, is shot.
Episode 11: Merchants of Death
Nov 20, 1975 · 1h
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.
Episode 12: The Cat's Paw
Dec 4, 1975 · 1h
Lieutenant Stone is placed in the awkward position of investigating a burglary with Irene Martin, a lady cop -- who is also his girlfriend who he's just proposed to. She resents his intrusion into 'her' case and their relationship unravels.
Episode 13: Spooks for Sale
Dec 11, 1975 · 1h
The death of a night-watchman during a burglary puts Stone and Keller into the midst of a spy-vs.-spy conflict between high-tech industrial espionage firms.
Episode 14: Most Likely to Succeed
Dec 18, 1975 · 1h
A teacher is murdered at an exclusive all-boys prep school.
Episode 15: Police Buff
Jan 8, 1976 · 1h
A vigilante is methodically and savagely wiping out criminals who have managed to slip through the fingers of the legal system.
Episode 16: The Honorable Profession
Jan 15, 1976 · 1h
Stone and Keller search for the only eyewitness to a shooting -- a self-proclaimed doctor who gave them a false name.
Episode 17: Requiem for Murder
Jan 22, 1976 · 1h
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.
Episode 18: Underground
Jan 29, 1976 · 1h
A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.
Episode 19: Judgment Day
Feb 19, 1976 · 1h
Four judges have been murdered, and in each case an obsolete pamphlet on disbarrment proceedings is found near the body...
Episode 20: Clown of Death
Feb 26, 1976 · 1h
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.
Episode 21: Superstar
Mar 4, 1976 · 1h
Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer.
Episode 22: Alien Country
Mar 11, 1976 · 1h
When an Immigration raid goes wrong and a security guard is killed, the prime suspect becomes one of the illegal immigrants.
Episode 23: Runaway
Mar 18, 1976 · 1h
Stone searches for a fugitive, and is dogged by the fugitive's innocent and naive daughter.
Season 524 ep. · 1976–1977
Episode 1: The Thrill Killers (1)
Sep 30, 1976 · 1h
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.
Episode 2: The Thrill Killers (2)
Oct 7, 1976 · 1h
Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.
Episode 3: Dead or Alive
Oct 21, 1976 · 1h
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.
Episode 4: The Drop
Oct 28, 1976 · 1h
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.
Episode 5: No Minor Vices
Nov 4, 1976 · 1h
A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.
Episode 6: In Case of Madness
Nov 11, 1976 · 1h
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.
Episode 7: Till Death Do Us Part
Nov 18, 1976 · 1h
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.
Episode 8: Child of Anger
Dec 2, 1976 · 1h
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.
Episode 9: Hot Dog
Dec 9, 1976 · 1h
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.
Episode 10: Castle of Fear
Dec 23, 1976 · 1h
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...
Episode 11: One Last Trick
Jan 6, 1977 · 1h
A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.
Episode 12: Monkey is Back
Jan 13, 1977 · 1h
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.
Episode 13: The Cannibals
Jan 20, 1977 · 1h
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.
Episode 14: Who Killed Helen French?
Feb 3, 1977 · 1h
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.
Episode 15: A Good Cop...But
Feb 10, 1977 · 1h
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.
Episode 16: Hang Tough
Feb 17, 1977 · 1h
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.
Episode 17: Innocent No More
Feb 24, 1977 · 1h
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.
Episode 18: Once a Con
Mar 3, 1977 · 1h
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.
Episode 19: Interlude
Apr 28, 1977 · 1h
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.
Episode 20: Dead Lift
May 5, 1977 · 1h
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.
Episode 21: Breakup
May 12, 1977 · 1h
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.
Episode 22: Let's Pretend We're Strangers
May 19, 1977 · 1h
A public defender is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.
Episode 23: Time Out
Jun 2, 1977 · 1h
A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.
Episode 24: The Canine Collar
Jun 9, 1977 · 1h
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.




















