The show revolved around two police officers who investigated homicides in San Francisco. The center of the series was a veteran cop and widower, Lt Mike Stone (Karl Malden), who had more than 20 years of police experience and was now assigned to the Homicide Detail of SFPD's Bureau of Inspectors. He was partnered with a young, energetic partner, Assistant Inspector Steve Keller (Michael Douglas), a college graduate, age 28, who had no police experience. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
Gritty crime drama set in San Francisco, featuring an older, veteran cop and his younger, less experienced partner.
A thirty-year veteran beat cop and longtime friend of Stone's is shot during an attempted robbery. Stone sets off with a vendetta to get the gunman, blurring the line between professional and personal.
A would-be Jack The Ripper stalks the city, slashing to death prostitutes. Stone assigns a resistant Keller with protecting a prostitute who has been threatened.
A salesman attending a convention wrongly believes that he is responsible for the death of an attractive female hitchhiker who had lured him to her houseboat.
Stone and Keller contend with an AWOL Vietnam War soldier determined to abduct a five-year-old child.
Stone and Keller uncover the seedy world of escort services when their suspect is a cultured art collector with a Pygmalion complex who hires escorts determined to create in them his idealized woman.
Stone is sidelined with a broken ankle, so Keller teams up with hot-headed Inspector Jim Martin to track down a young Mexican suspected of murder. But Martin's prejudice against Mexicans threatens the investigation's success.
When a parolee whom Stone once coached in the Police Athletic League is accused of murdering another ex-con, Stone, Keller and a caring social worker rally to his defense.
A city official is murdered in a botched mugging by a gang of three sophisticated criminals unaware of his high profile. The mayor, convinced it was a political assassination, orders Stone and Keller to crack the case.
Two young women are found murdered in a swinging singles apartment complex. As Stone and Keller investigate, they uncover multiple suspects with a motive to murder the two gold-digging, teasing "takers."
A band of modern-day Gypsies descends on San Francisco, its aging patriarch unaware that the younger generation has moved on from the traditional flim-flam to million-dollar heists and murder.
An ex-con college professor takes a bullet to the shoulder when a hit-man murders a blackmailer. But the professor refuses to have the bullet removed, and the hit-man is hot on his trail to recover the incriminating bullet.
Stone oversteps his authority when he entrusts to a traditional Greek patriarch his ex-con son just released from San Quentin. When the son is implicated in a suspicious fire, Stone and Keller's investigation uncovers ugly family secrets.
An artist is thrown to his death from his apartment window. Stone and Keller's investigation centers on the daughter of a renowned eccentric poet, who sets to spinning a web of deception to deflect the dogged detectives from her trail.
Two crusty fishermen at sea stumble upon an illegal alien smuggling ring. The smugglers murder one of the fishermen and pressure the second into silence, stymieing Stone and Keller's investigation.
In her zeal to capture a serial rapist, a rookie cop flouts Stone's orders, jeopardizing not only Stone and Keller's carefully choreographed stake out but her own life.
A hit man living a new life with a family in France is lured out of retirement by his former employer, a crime kingpin determined to rub out every witness to a murder he committed.
A greed-consumed numismatist plots to switch a wealthy collector's gold double-eagle coins with counterfeits, using and abusing his trusting accomplices along the way.
A war among gambling bosses is being waged. Stone and Keller attempt to locate and protect a vital witness from a hit man who has charmed his way into a lonely schoolteacher's apartment in order to secure a clear shot at his victim.
A veteran newspaper columnist and longtime friend of Stone's accidentally kills his young, two-timing mistress and then attempts to pin the rap on the young stage actor she was seeing.
Stone is held hostage by the Cobras street-gang, which demands an exchange for its wounded leader who was captured in a bungled robbery. Keller and Devitt scour the city's seamy underside in their search for their friend and colleague.
Three young boys open a Pandora's Box when they sneak into an eccentric old man's home, a mysterious house rumored by their parents to contain a million-dollar treasure.
A homicidal rapist that Stone had put away twelve years earlier is released and begins waging psychological warfare on Stone by stalking his daughter Jeannie.
A child is murdered in a bungled burglary and the killer is set free on a legal technicality. Despite Stone's strenuous objections, the grieving father is determined to take justice into his own hands.
A high-powered Commerce Dept. official is harpooned on a pleasure boat. Stone and Keller sift through the suspects, among whom are a senator, a boat builder and the grieving widow, who is an old friend of Stone's from the Potrero.
Grand theft cobra venom? That is what seems to be the charge, along with murder, when a robbery attempt of an Asian ship goes wrong and leads to a wild gunfight.
After three winos are brutally beaten to death, Stone goes undercover as a bum to crack the case.
An angry father swears vengeance against Keller, who shot and killed his youngest son while trying to stop a robbery - but the truth is even more devastating.
A young executive stole money from his company, he then robs a bank to replace it. The robbery goes wrong and a security guard is killer and his live in client happens to be working at the bank that day as a part time teller.
A religious man is killing clergy. Lt Stone and Inspector Keller race to find a connection between the clergymen to each other and to the killer. When they figure out who the next victim is Mike Stone puts on the collar.
Alcoholic Off. Joe Landers accidentally gets his partner killed and clumsily tries to cover it up as Stone and Keller work their way to the truth.
A traveling hit-woman seduces Inspector Keller, gaining valuable intelligence for her San Francisco assignments. A mob hired her to help win a gang war, which Keller is investigating. Keller's superior Lt. Mike Stone hears wedding bells, but death knells are more likely as she's living in a bay-side apartment next to the younger, love-struck Keller.
Stone and Keller have less than 48 hours to prevent a politically motivated assassination by a mentally unstable, but very accurate, marksman.
A narcotics cop driven over the edge laces a batch of cocaine with cyanide and sets it loose on the streets.
A sniper is randomly shooting people in a high-rise building and threatens to continue doing it until he is paid a million dollars. Stone and Keller try to identify and stop the assailant, but Stone believes the methods of the acting captain in charge of the investigation are wrong for the situation.
The wife of a prison inmate is shot and killed in a laundromat in what looks like a professional hit. Stone and Keller determine that it was the work of a prison gang that is using outside enforcers to force inmates' wives to help them smuggle drugs into the prison. Another wife of a prisoner is now targeted to be made to do what the murdered woman would not.
Four killers kidnap the jury of a man they admire. They threaten to kill the jurors if their demands are not met.
It's a race against time to find the hostages before the kidnappers kill them. Stone thinks they might be held up in an old freighter somewhere in the bay.
A man offers a $1,000,000 reward for the capture - dead or alive - of the man who raped and murdered his daughter on a public tennis court, throwing the city into greed-fueled chaos.
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Stone and Keller are forced to defend a mob boss from an inspector with a terminal illness and nothing to lose.
A small timer robs a hardware store and after smacking the owner finds the safe open with two bags of money inside. He think he's hit the big time until he finds "the book". Running from both the mob and the police he runs to Alcatraz.
A rich man is murdered over a stamp collection which turns out to be an insurance scam.
Rick Nelson stars as a flute playing "Pied Piper" talking teenage girls into prostitution. He convinces them he loves them and will take care of them. He actually is a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to protect himself.
A street informer is shot while trying to pass information on a big bust. While in the hospital they try to kill him again. What does he know?
Four men plan to heist radioactive gold over a poker game. Then find out that it is mixed with Uranium.The man smelting and forming the planchets gets radiation poisoning and it goes down hill for them fast.
Detectives Stone and Keller investigate how a contract killer obtained inside information on the movement of a mob witness.
Three escaped convicts leave a path of destruction behind them as well as causing friction between Keller and his girlfriend, Connie.
Three runaways from Oregon, George, Jack and Sharon Morgan are squatting in an abandoned house. Sharon is very sick, but money is very limited. George decided to break into a local pharmacy after hours to obtain some medicine.
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.
A single girl named Barbara has a baby and is then told the baby was stillborn. However, she thinks it is alive and starts asking questions at the unwed mothers home where she lived.
An undercover cop is murdered with Mike Stone's gun and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.
A wealthy woman, whose daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, has more faith in a female psychic than Stone and Keller.
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.
Stone and Keller suspect there is more to a string of college campus shootings than meets the eye.
Det. Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.
Two firemen are killed in a warehouse fire, one of them Stone's friend, and he and Keller are drawn into an arson investigation.
Two "Gunsmoke" writers teamed on this modern-day Western set at a rodeo in San Francisco's Cow Palace. A bronc rider dies in what appears to be an accident. A rodeo clown looks around the scene after the police leave and discovers the rider's rope -- which was cut almost halfway through before it broke, leaving the bronc free to throw him. The police come back to investigate the scene, and before long the chief suspect is also murdered in another "accident."
An old college friend of Steve's is now a father - and part of a vigilante group fed up with the rampant crime in their neighborhood. Their latest crackdown, however, leaves a police informer dead.
Stone and Keller investigate the murder of a society publisher whose method was to coerce subscriptions from wealthy clients by blackmailing them. The investigation leads the detective to a wealthy woman and her daughter, who were among the ones being blackmailed and who still have secrets to hide.
John Davidson's best acting performance (in the eyes of nearly everyone associated with the show) comes when he plays a nightclub entertainer who dresses up as a famous female torch singer. Unfortunately he is schizophrenic, and becomes her and him -- at the same time. Even worse, "she" is a psychotic killer. Watch for a chilling scene where "he" talks to "her" in a mirror.
Keller goes undercover as a draft dodger to investigate an AWOL Marine's murder.
A lonely maiden woman in her mid 40s is stalked and targeted by a psychotic drifter. Meanwhile she has a long term affair with a Canadian political leader. Stone and Keller need to solve several mysteries.
The prime suspect in a murder case may be innocent of this crime, but he fears Stone and Keller will discover he got away with murder once before... 25 years ago.
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.
An abusive step father is murdered. The boy's mother attempts to blame a neighborhood kid. The abused boy knows the truth but is afraid that he he will incriminate someone close to him no matter what he tells the police.
Young Paul is torn between Lt Stones efforts to take him off the streets and go to college and his brother, part of a street gang. One day he witnesses the head of the gang committing a murder on an rivaling street gang boss. His brother convinces him in joining the gang and to kill Mike Stone, who has started to investigate on the murder case in the scene.
Keller goes undercover as a USAF officer to investigate a woman's murder that might involve a USAF Colonel.
Mike's old partner returns to town looking for the hit man that killed his son.
Drama follows a 25-caliber gun over a week-end and the various lives with which it comes into contact.
When a humble shoe repairman confesses to murder, Stone and Keller suspect that he's taking the fall for the real killer.
Officer Jimmy Vega's personal vendetta against a local drug dealer threatens to ruin both his and Inspector Keller's careers.
The remains of an inmate at the Alcatraz Federal Prison was discovered between a wall during some repairs. It was thought that the inmate Lou Kovic escaped 20 years earlier, but Mike and Steve believe he was murdered.
After Steve gets hit by a car, Mike is demoted to patrolman for disobeying orders and threatening a mob boss.
A string of taxi caps are robbed and and the brains behind the robberies is an 18 year old high school senior. His mother and deceased father were both robbery detectives.
A supposedly reformed sex offender is being brainwashed by his psychiatrist into believing he has committed murder.
A 12-year-old girl knows her stepfather murdered her mother. But her attempts to unmask him only impede the police's investigation.
A young patient from a psychiatric home tells the police that an elderly patient at the facility was murdered. After the young man is found dead himself, Steve decides to feign mental illness to gain admittance to the place, fearing that someone may be killing patients.
After a mob enforcer, still wearing his brass knuckles, falls to death from a high-rise hotel window, the police seal off the hotel and hunt for two other mobsters and the down-and-out boxer who was their planned target.
Stone has to work with a rather independent undercover cop after Keller gets shot in the leg during a bust.
After Jeannie's friend Nancy kills one of her rapists, Jeannie is furious at the way the justice system works. She becomes involved with an aggressive rape crisis group headed by crusading attorney Catherine Wyatt. Rapist Jack Marlin becomes a target of their efforts.
After one of his fellow teachers is killed on the schoolyard during a fight between two students, a veteran former teacher kidnaps four troublesome students and holds them in an abandoned private school, where he chains them while he forces them to read history lessons.
Stone is hit by a getaway van after a robbery, but manages to shoot one of the robbers. When the man dies, his wife and accomplice vows revenge against Stone.
An old neighborhood has suddenly seen a huge upsurge in violent crime committed against its homeowners, including murder. Keller and Stone find that it may be tied to the fact that all the people in the neighborhood had been approached by a real estate agent making substantially high offers to buy their properties, and that the agent is working for a major corporation.
James Woods plays the perfect homely US Navy sailor in dress blues with a bad temper, along with his Navy buddies they are looking for a jeweler that closed his store a few days before they hit town. There course leads to murder, anchors aweigh.
Three band members have the perfect racket, a diamond heist. But one guy sees the driver and then makes that known on public TV.
The murder of a pregnant girl leads Stone and Keller to arrogant radio host Terry Vine, who has a large female fanbase. The dead girl claimed to be pregnant with Vine's baby, giving him a motive for murder, and after her blackmailing roommate also turns up dead, Keller is convinced Vine is the killer.
When a gang member is killed, it signals a turf war between two rival street gangs. Meanwhile, two youths locate a missing crate of guns and decide to sell them to the gang members.
Stone is assigned to partner on a cat burglary case with an inspector he has become romantically involved with and even proposed to. But when a woman is apparently murdered by the burglar, Stone's relationship with his new partner is strained as he believes the burglar is the killer, and she does not believe the murder fits the burglar's pattern.
Surveillance is the game here. But a break-in ends up with the night watchman dead of a heart attack. Tom Selleck although not in the opening credits, he plays a major role. During the lunch scene they are eating at Sinbad's Resturant at Pier 2 in San Francisco, which is still there even today. I had my wedding reception there in 1984, great place.
A student at a prestigious boys' school, under pressure by his father to get into Harvard, kills a professor when he will not change the failing grade he was going to give him in one class.
Bill Bixby places a guy who like to follow the police scanner. He wants to be a cop, but cannot hack it, and ends up taking the law into his own hands. And a good cop gets blamed.
After being shot by robbers who were holding up a store, a young police officer is treated by a doctor who was on the scene. Unfortunately, the officer later dies, and the doctor becomes the only one who can identify the robbers. But when Stone and Keller try to call him, they find that he had to be using a phony name. The man has been practicing using the name of several different doctors.
A Bishop gets shot after receiving a crank letter.
When the brother of a cop is killed along with the mobster he was working for, the young officer is assigned to work undercover as a bookie to find out who ordered the hit. Stone, who is ordered to tell no one else about the man's assignment. is concerned that the officer is too concerned with revenge to handle the job effectively.
Two judges and two attorneys have been murdered, with a book about disbarment procedures found nearby. The detectives find that the killer is a disbarred attorney's son, who is executing those he blames for destroying his father.
A terminally ill circus rigger is killed in his hospital bed by someone made up as a clown. At first, the detectives suspect the victim's brother may have done it as a mercy killing, but when the brother is murdered as well, suspicion shifts to the nephew of the two men.
This pilot for the series "Bert D'Angelo Superstar" (which had started its regular run two weeks earlier, and was a total bomb in the ratings) gives Mira Sorvino's dad a role to match his weight and ego: he plays a New York City detective who comes to San Francisco in search of a back-home cop killer, and decides to stay when the villain is caught.
A field worker tries to get a job in San Francisco, and he does, but moments later there is a raid by the immigration service and officer is killed.
A 15-year-old runaway girl comes to the apartment of the father she hasn't seen in years, only to find a man dead inside. When she finds out her father is not the dead man but possibly the killer, she still continues to search for him, not knowing that he is also being hunted by the brother of the dead man, who plans to kill him.
A wealthy teen is abducted and his girlfriend is murdered. The killers demand a ransom but they also demand that Lt. Stone deliver the ransom payment.
A young girl transforms from modeling to prostitution and finding this an easy living. Her angry father swears to "clean the impurities" by killing those who hire her.
A rising rock band has an abusive agent who is found murdered. An eye witness is murdered later and the lead singer who has seizures is the prime suspect.
A couple is caught by the mob for laundering money. When the husband is abducted and believed killed, Stone and Robins must protect the wife because she is the prime witness.
A teenage girl is frustrated by her mother's condescending ways. When a man she sees strike her mother is killed by the mob the girl is a witness. She claims responsibility to damage her family reputation hoping her mother feels degraded.
Larry Wilson is a motorcycle cop who doesn't always use procedure. Instead he zeros on the point and rushes to it sometimes lacking caution. Stone is frustrated by the rambunctious officer, who happens also to be dating his daughter.
After receiving crank calls, a paranoid man fences in his home and keeps his wife and daughter sheltered. When he panics and shoots a cop who was guarding the house he covers by identifying an ex con. The paranoia now becomes real.
A former prostitute works undercover for Stone and Robbins by going back to work for the pimp who is responsible for the death of her friend and a police detective.
An ex-con is out for vengeance against the high school gang whose initiation ritual led to his 20-year sentence.
A crime kingpin's son steals from his father by killing a cash courier. On the run, he turns state's evidence and comes under federal protection. Stone and Robbins want him for murder, while his father's hit man just wants him murdered.
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 drug kingpin guns down a cop. To ensure a conviction, a narcotics officer who witnessed the murder will have to reveal in court a closely guarded personal secret that could cost him friendships and his standing in the department.
Eddie Boggs and Stan Michaels are on the scene at an apartment, Eddie is months from retiring. A tip has lead to a dead 15 year old girl OD on heroin. Found nearby was Spider. Boggs has lost it and subsequently beats Spider down. To cover up the situation, Boggs plants a knife on him. A man with a cowboy attire, walks out of the same apartment complex.
A juvenile gang has caused a history of trouble for a San Francisco neighborhood. A recent robbery by the gang lead to the death of a victim. Billy Wilson claims his innocence on the whole affair. Evidence mounts and Billy's previous history of violence surfaces, as the judicial systems decides on his fate.
The main suspect in the murder of a coed is a prison inmate enrolled in a special program.
Carolyn, the unfaithful wife of a city prosecutor, witnesses a murder after meeting her paramour in a hotel. She cannot identify him, but the killer, an escapee from a mental institution, befriends and begins stalking her.
Ah-nold, long before his movie stardom, made his TV-acting debut as a champion bodybuilder (which he was at the time) visiting San Francisco for a competition. Something (it's not made clear what) has made him incredibly buff and muscled, but has also left him extremely hypersensitive to criticism and with no control over his anger. When he shows off his poses for a young woman, he becomes enraged and unwittingly chokes her to death. He's taken in by a couple and entered into the bodybuilding contest, but broods when he finishes only second.
Stone and Robbins cross paths with two men pushed to their breaking points: an ex-con nursing a grudge against the former assistant district attorney who put him in prison and a struggling small businessman with a hot temper.
Robbins falls for a public defender representing a psycho, who is trying to eliminate witnesses to a murder.
Four cons escape and their longtime prison guard dedicates himself to bringing them back personally, frustrating Stone and Robbins who are perpetually one step behind the man who knows his prisoners' every probable move.
A cruise ship is docked in San Francisco. A known embezzler is aboard the ship and had hid the jewels on a dog collar.