The Streets of San Francisco: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Poisoned Snow
Sep 11, 1975 · 60 min
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.
The Glass Dart Board
Sep 18, 1975 · 60 min
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.
No Place to Hide
Sep 25, 1975 · 60 min
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't.
Men Will Die
Oct 2, 1975 · 60 min
A rapist targets Stone's daughter and her friend; a radical feminist organization encourages them to take matters into their own hands.
School of Fear
Oct 9, 1975 · 60 min
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 proc
Deadly Silence
Oct 16, 1975 · 60 min
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 hi
Murder by Proxy
Oct 23, 1975 · 60 min
Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer.
Trail of Terror
Oct 30, 1975 · 60 min
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.
Web of Lies
Nov 6, 1975 · 60 min
Keller and Stone's sole witness in a jewel robbery turns out to be a compulsive liar.
Dead Air
Nov 13, 1975 · 60 min
A sleazy radio host is accused of murder when a former girlfriend, who was pregnant, is shot.
Merchants of Death
Nov 20, 1975 · 60 min
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.
The Cat's Paw
Dec 4, 1975 · 60 min
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 hi
Spooks for Sale
Dec 11, 1975 · 60 min
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.
Most Likely to Succeed
Dec 18, 1975 · 60 min
A teacher is murdered at an exclusive all-boys prep school.
Police Buff
Jan 8, 1976 · 60 min
A vigilante is methodically and savagely wiping out criminals who have managed to slip through the fingers of the legal system.
The Honorable Profession
Jan 15, 1976 · 60 min
Stone and Keller search for the only eyewitness to a shooting -- a self-proclaimed doctor who gave them a false name.
Requiem for Murder
Jan 22, 1976 · 60 min
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 e
Underground
Jan 29, 1976 · 60 min
A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.
Judgment Day
Feb 19, 1976 · 60 min
Four judges have been murdered, and in each case an obsolete pamphlet on disbarrment proceedings is found near the body...
Clown of Death
Feb 26, 1976 · 60 min
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.
Superstar
Mar 4, 1976 · 60 min
Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer.
Alien Country
Mar 11, 1976 · 60 min
When an Immigration raid goes wrong and a security guard is killed, the prime suspect becomes one of the illegal immigrants.
Runaway
Mar 18, 1976 · 60 min
Stone searches for a fugitive, and is dogged by the fugitive's innocent and naive daughter.