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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- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes aired
- 119
- Latest aired
- S05E24
- Total runtime
- 4d 19h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1972 – April 1973 26 episodes
- Season 2 September 1973 – March 1974 23 episodes
- Season 3 September 1974 – March 1975 23 episodes
- Season 4 September 1975 – March 1976 23 episodes
- Season 5 September 1976 – June 1977 24 episodes
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S03E01 One Last Shot
September 12 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E02 The Most Deadly Species
September 19 · 60min find the promo
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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...
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S03E03 Target: Red
September 26 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E04 Mask of Death
October 3 · 60min find the promo
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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."
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S03E05 I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
October 10 · 60min find the promo
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Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.
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S03E06 One Chance to Live
October 17 · 60min find the promo
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An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.
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S03E07 Jacob's Boy
October 24 · 60min find the promo
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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?...
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S03E08 Flags of Terror
October 31 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E09 Cry Help!
November 7 · 60min find the promo
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A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.
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S03E10 For Good or Evil
November 14 · 60min find the promo
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A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.
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S03E11 Bird of Prey
November 21 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E12 License to Kill
December 5 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E13 The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
December 12 · 60min find the promo
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A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.
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S03E14 Mister Nobody
December 19 · 60min find the promo
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A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.
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S03E15 False Witness
January 9 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E16 Letters from the Grave
January 16 · 60min find the promo
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A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.
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S03E17 Endgame
January 23 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E18 Ten Dollar Murder
January 30 · 60min find the promo
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A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.
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S03E19 The Programming of Charlie Blake
February 6 · 60min find the promo
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A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.
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S03E20 River of Fear
February 13 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E21 Asylum
February 20 · 60min find the promo
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Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.
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S03E22 Labyrinth
February 27 · 60min find the promo
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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.
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S03E23 Solitaire
March 13 · 60min find the promo
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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.