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.
Air date: 1974-09-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1974-09-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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...
Air date: 1974-09-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1974-10-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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."
Air date: 1974-10-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.
Air date: 1974-10-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.
Air date: 1974-10-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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?...
Air date: 1974-10-31
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1974-11-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.
Air date: 1974-11-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.
Air date: 1974-11-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1974-12-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1974-12-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.
Air date: 1974-12-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.
Air date: 1975-01-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-01-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.
Air date: 1975-01-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-01-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.
Air date: 1975-02-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.
Air date: 1975-02-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-02-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.
Air date: 1975-02-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-03-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
