The Streets of San Francisco: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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 3 Progress Shield
One Last Shot
Sep 12, 1974 · 60 min
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.
The Most Deadly Species
Sep 19, 1974 · 60 min
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 poli
Target: Red
Sep 26, 1974 · 60 min
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.
Mask of Death
Oct 3, 1974 · 60 min
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 m
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Oct 10, 1974 · 60 min
Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.
One Chance to Live
Oct 17, 1974 · 60 min
An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.
Jacob's Boy
Oct 24, 1974 · 60 min
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
Flags of Terror
Oct 31, 1974 · 60 min
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 w
Cry Help!
Nov 7, 1974 · 60 min
A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.
For Good or Evil
Nov 14, 1974 · 60 min
A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.
Bird of Prey
Nov 21, 1974 · 60 min
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 infil
License to Kill
Dec 5, 1974 · 60 min
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.
The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
Dec 12, 1974 · 60 min
A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.
Mister Nobody
Dec 19, 1974 · 60 min
A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.
False Witness
Jan 9, 1975 · 60 min
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.
Letters from the Grave
Jan 16, 1975 · 60 min
A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.
Endgame
Jan 23, 1975 · 60 min
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.
Ten Dollar Murder
Jan 30, 1975 · 60 min
A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.
The Programming of Charlie Blake
Feb 6, 1975 · 60 min
A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.
River of Fear
Feb 13, 1975 · 60 min
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 t
Asylum
Feb 20, 1975 · 60 min
Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.
Labyrinth
Feb 27, 1975 · 60 min
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.
Solitaire
Mar 13, 1975 · 60 min
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 m