The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Streets of San Francisco Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
A Wrongful Death
Sep 13, 1973 · 60 min
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.
Betrayed
Sep 20, 1973 · 60 min
One of the girlfriends of a young charmer recognizes her boyfriend as the man who stuck up her bank.
For the Love of God
Sep 27, 1973 · 60 min
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.
Before I Die
Oct 4, 1973 · 60 min
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.
Going Home
Oct 11, 1973 · 60 min
A small-time crook accidentally heists a fantastic sum from a small store that is actually a Syndicate front.
The Stamp of Death
Oct 18, 1973 · 60 min
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.
Harem
Oct 25, 1973 · 60 min
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 br
No Badge For Benjy
Nov 1, 1973 · 60 min
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.
The Twenty-Four Karat Plague
Nov 8, 1973 · 60 min
Crooks heist a truck filled with gold, not knowing that the gold is the irradiated byproduct of a power plant experiment and extremely toxic.
Shield of Honor
Nov 15, 1973 · 60 min
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 suspici
The Victims
Nov 29, 1973 · 60 min
A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see.
The Runaways
Dec 6, 1973 · 60 min
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.
Winterkill
Dec 13, 1973 · 60 min
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.
Most Feared in the Jungle
Dec 20, 1973 · 60 min
Believing her baby was kidnapped, not stillborn as people claim, a deranged new mother embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth.
Commitment
Jan 3, 1974 · 60 min
An undercover cop is murdered with Stone's gun, and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.
Chapel of the Damned
Jan 17, 1974 · 60 min
Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.
Blockade
Jan 24, 1974 · 60 min
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.
Crossfire
Jan 31, 1974 · 60 min
A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus.
A String of Puppets
Feb 7, 1974 · 60 min
Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.
Inferno
Feb 14, 1974 · 60 min
Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen.
The Hard Breed
Feb 21, 1974 · 60 min
A cowboy was trampled to death by a bull; his mates suspected it to be murder.
Rampage
Feb 28, 1974 · 60 min
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 kil
Death and the Favored Few
Mar 14, 1974 · 60 min
San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered.