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SEASON ONE

0. Pilot
We are introduced to Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller as they hunt for the murderer of a girl found dead in the water. While the lawyer that saw her last seems a likely suspect, a revelation concerning her brother and an unrelated case throws light on another possibility.
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1. The Thirty Year Pin
When Mike's old partner gets shot and ends up critically ill in hospital, Keller is forced to start tracking his partner to save him from himself. An excellent episode for character development, as Stone pushes Keller away and goes for revenge. Keller dogs his partner and desperately tries to break through Mike's anger to ensure the case gets seen through properly.
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2. The First Day of Forever
Our partners work to guard the survivor of a series of brutal knifing murders that have targeted prostitues. Initially a very tough situation, Steve and their protected witness eventually form some mutual understanding and a friendship. Thier interaction is well done, and not only makes the episode both more tense and melancholy, but also gives us some limited information about how Steve sees the world and why he became a cop.
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3. 45 Minutes from Home
This episode feels like it hardly features our two main cop characters at all, with most of the focus being put on a convention-goer who is led to believe he has murdered a young girl. William Windom plays the desperation and grief excellently, and it's a very affecting story.
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4. Whose Little Boy Are You?
Mike and Steve are stonewalled by the parents of a boy whose bedroom was broken into. Their job to catch the criminal who has an apparent interest in the kid is slowed by the parents desperation that they not delve into their past. An unremarkable but decent episode, with sympathetic portrayal of a AWOL Vietnam vet and a climax where Mike attempts to get through to him verbally.
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5. Tower Beyond Tragedy
Edward Mulhare takes a very creepy turn as the ageing aristocrat who cannot cope with the approach of old-age and death. Steve and Mike follow his trail as he fixates on young girls and recreates them into his wife as she was when they were younger.

6. Hall of Mirrors
Some interesting characteristics of our guys are confronted in this episode. Jim Martin, an apparently very prejudiced cop, works with Mike until Mike hurts his foot and is forced to take sick leave for a while. Steve pairs with Martin, and we see him struggling to maintain decorum in the face of his temporary partners obvious racial hatred. What with Steve talking the lead and fighting to keep the case on the rails, and Mike failing miserably to stay at home and not get involved, this one is fun to watch!

7. Timelock
8. In The Midst of Strangers
9. The Takers
10. The Year of The Locusts
11. The Bullet
12. Bitter Wine
13. A Trout in The Milk
14. Deathwatch
15. Act of Duty

16. The Set-up
Again, a little more focus on the main guest character in this episode, and again, it's done very well. A hit-man returns from Europe, recalled for one last hit. Appearances can be deceptive however, and we find out that this man's life has changed, and the mobster who called him back may not have the motivations he claims. Steve and Mike work the case, but we as viewers get a lot more insight than they into the hitman's character and situation.

17. A Collection of Eagles
18. A Room With a View
19. Deadline
20. Trail of The Serpent
21. The House on Hyde Street

22. Beyond Vengeance
Mike is off-balance, scared and angry when a man he convicted over ten years ago gets out of prison and poses a serious threat to him and his daughter Joanie. The rest of the force and Steve back him up as he attempts to pin anything on a killer that has had 12 years to plot his revenge.

23. The Albatross
24. Shattered Image
25. The Unicorn
26. Legion of The Lost

SEASON TWO

1. A Wrongful Death
2. Betrayed
3. For The Love of God
4. Before I Die
5. Going Home
6. The Stamp of Death
7. Harem
8. No Badge For Benjy
9. The Twenty-four Karet Plague
10. Sheild of Honor

11. The Victims
Three escaped convicts of the worst sort rampage around killing innocent folks. Steve has woman-trouble, and Mike stands perilously close to full-out interfering in said troubles. In the end though, he manages to contain his distracted partner, chastise the crazy girlfriend for basically calling Steve 'heartless' (because he doesn't cry at crime scenes!), and solve the case all in one go.

12. The Runaways
13. Winterkill
14. Most Feared in The Jungle
15. Commitment
16. Chapel of The Damned

17. Blockade
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18. Crossfire
19. A String of Puppets
20. Inferno
21. The Hard Breed
22. Rampage
23. Death And The Favored Few

SEASON THREE

1. One Last Shot
2. The Most Deadly Species
3. Traget: Red
4. Mask of Death
5. I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
6. One Chance to Live
7. Jacob's Boy

8. Flags of Terror
An excellent episode, with Mike and the police frozen in a standoff against a group of political protestors holding Steve and three other civilians hostage on a boat at the docks. With a bomb at their disposal and demands for a sea-plane, they're holding all the cards. I love both Steve's cool handling of the situation, as he uses Psychology against the bad guys, and Mike's clear distress and worry even as he hatches some pretty cool plans for cracking the situation. And plus, this episode wins for mentioning Buck Rogers!
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9. Cry Help!
10. For Good or Evil
11. Bird of Prey
12. License to Kill
13. The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
14. Mister Nobody
15. False Witness
16. Letters From The Grave
17. Endgame
18. Ten Dollar Murder
19. The Programming of Charlie Blake
20. River of Fear
21. Asylum
22. Labyrinth
23. Solitaire

SEASON FOUR

1. Poisoned Snow
2. The Glass Dart-Board
3. No Place to Hide
4. Men Will Die
5. School of Fear
6. Deadly Silence
7. Murder By Proxy

8. Trail of Terror
Witness to a murder flees the scene and heads for the country, with four murderous sailors and our 81 team after her. The actions kicks in when Steve finds her, and together they head back to the city, with the sailors fully armed and tracking them through the woods. For that reason, the second half of this ep is more interesting, and the woman is a good strong character to play off Steve.

9. Web of Lies
10. Dead Air
11. Merchants of Death
12. The Cat's Paw
13. Spooks For Sale
14. Most Likely to Succeed
15. Police Buff
16. The Honorable Profession
17. Requiem for Murder
18. Underground
19. Judgement Day
20. Clown of Death
21. Superstar
22. Alien Country
23. Runaway

SEASON FIVE

1. The Thrill Killers (1)
2. The Thrill Killers (2)
3. Dead or Alive
4. The Drop
5. No Minor Vices
6. In Case of Madness
7. Til Death Do Us Part
8. Child of Anger
9. Hot Dog
10. Castle of Fear
11. One Last Trick
12. Monkey is Back
13. The Cannibals
14. Who Killed Helen French?
15. A Good Cop.. But
16. Hang Tough
17. Innocent No More
18. Once A Con
19. Interlude
20. Dead Lift
21. Breakup
22. Let's Pretend We're Strangers
23. Time Out
24. The Canine Collar

MOVIES

1922: Back to The Streets of San Francisco