The Streets of San Francisco: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
The Thrill Killers (1)
Sep 30, 1976 · 60 min
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.
The Thrill Killers (2)
Oct 7, 1976 · 60 min
Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.
Dead or Alive
Oct 21, 1976 · 60 min
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.
The Drop
Oct 28, 1976 · 60 min
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.
No Minor Vices
Nov 4, 1976 · 60 min
A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.
In Case of Madness
Nov 11, 1976 · 60 min
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.
Till Death Do Us Part
Nov 18, 1976 · 60 min
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.
Child of Anger
Dec 2, 1976 · 60 min
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
Hot Dog
Dec 9, 1976 · 60 min
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.
Castle of Fear
Dec 23, 1976 · 60 min
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
One Last Trick
Jan 6, 1977 · 60 min
A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.
Monkey is Back
Jan 13, 1977 · 60 min
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
The Cannibals
Jan 20, 1977 · 60 min
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.
Who Killed Helen French?
Feb 3, 1977 · 60 min
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
A Good Cop...But
Feb 10, 1977 · 60 min
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.
Hang Tough
Feb 17, 1977 · 60 min
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,"
Innocent No More
Feb 24, 1977 · 60 min
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.
Once a Con
Mar 3, 1977 · 60 min
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.
Interlude
Apr 28, 1977 · 60 min
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.
Dead Lift
May 5, 1977 · 60 min
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.
Breakup
May 12, 1977 · 60 min
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 hap
Let's Pretend We're Strangers
May 19, 1977 · 60 min
A public defender is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.
Time Out
Jun 2, 1977 · 60 min
A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.
The Canine Collar
Jun 9, 1977 · 60 min
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.