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Season 5 - Episode Guide

Episodes

The Thrill Killers (1)

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1976

The Thrill Killers (1)

Four killers kidnap the jury of a man they admire. They threaten to kill the jurors if their demands are not met.

The Thrill Killers (2)

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1976

The Thrill Killers (2)

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.

Dead or Alive

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1976

Dead or Alive

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.

The Drop

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1976

The Drop

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.

No Minor Vices

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1976

No Minor Vices

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.

In Case of Madness

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1976

In Case of Madness

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.

Till Death Do Us Part

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1976

Till Death Do Us Part

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.

Child of Anger

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1976

Child of Anger

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.

Hot Dog

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1976

Hot Dog

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.

Castle of Fear

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1976

Castle of Fear

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.

One Last Trick

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1977

One Last Trick

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.

Monkey is Back

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1977

Monkey is Back

An ex-con is out for vengeance against the high school gang whose initiation ritual led to his 20-year sentence.

The Cannibals

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1977

The Cannibals

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.

Who Killed Helen French?

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1977

Who Killed Helen French?

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

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1977

A Good Cop...But

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.

Hang Tough

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1977

Hang Tough

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.

Innocent No More

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1977

Innocent No More

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.

Once a Con

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1977

Once a Con

The main suspect in the murder of a coed is a prison inmate enrolled in a special program.

Interlude

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1977

Interlude

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.

Dead Lift

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: May 5, 1977

Dead Lift

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.

Breakup

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: May 12, 1977

Breakup

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.

Let's Pretend We're Strangers

Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: May 19, 1977

Let's Pretend We're Strangers

Robbins falls for a public defender representing a psycho, who is trying to eliminate witnesses to a murder.

Time Out

Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Jun 2, 1977

Time Out

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.

The Canine Collar

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Jun 9, 1977

The Canine Collar

A cruise ship is docked in San Francisco. A known embezzler is aboard the ship and had hid the jewels on a dog collar.

Back to the Streets of San Francisco

Episode: S05 Special | Airdate: Jan 27, 1992 (120 min)

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Now a captain, Mike Stone investigates the disappearance of his old partner Steve Keller.

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