The Streets of San Francisco Season 2, Episode 19: A String of Puppets

1

A Wrongful Death

Keller returns fire during a chase in a dark shopping center, killing a kid, but the body comes up unarmed. The boy's father insists Keller is a murderer.

60 min

2

Betrayed

One of the girlfriends of a young charmer recognizes her boyfriend as the man who stuck up her bank.

60 min

3

For the Love of God

In order to stop a psychotic priest-killer, Stone goes undercover as a Roman Catholic priest. The victims were all clergymen who studied at the same seminary.

60 min

4

Before I Die

A cop (Nielsen) who finds out that he has a terminal illness, sets out to kill a racketeer (Danton) who had been his quarry for the last year and a half.

60 min

5

Going Home

A small-time crook accidentally heists a fantastic sum from a small store that is actually a Syndicate front.

60 min

6

The Stamp of Death

Lieutenant Stone and Inspector Keller go after two insurance agents involved in the counterfeiting of an 1850 2-cent purple Guyana stamp which had a value of $250,000.

60 min

7

Harem

A flute-playing "Pied Piper" (played by Ricky Nelson) talks teenage girls into prostitution, then disposes of them when they are no longer convenient. Stone's daughter helps him break up this murderous prostitution ring.

60 min

8

No Badge For Benjy

A black police informant is murdered, but the police seem more concerned with the death of a white business man. His flinty daughter forces the police to go after his killers.

60 min

9

The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

Crooks heist a truck filled with gold, not knowing that the gold is the irradiated byproduct of a power plant experiment and extremely toxic.

60 min

10

Shield of Honor

Internal affairs suspects that something is amiss when a witness under police protection is killed. Someone in the Department is a Syndicate informer--and everyone is under suspicion, even Stone and Keller.

60 min

11

The Victims

A trio of violent prison escapees leaves a trail of blood by murdering or crippling everyone they see.

60 min

12

The Runaways

The oldest of a set of three young sibling runaways is suspected of the murder of a drugstore owner. His animosity towards authority doesn't do him any favors.

60 min

13

Winterkill

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.

60 min

14

Most Feared in the Jungle

Believing her baby was kidnapped, not stillborn as people claim, a deranged new mother embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth.

60 min

15

Commitment

An undercover cop is murdered with Stone's gun, and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.

60 min

16

Chapel of the Damned

Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.

60 min

17

Blockade

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.

60 min

18

Crossfire

A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus.

60 min

19

A String of Puppets

Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.

60 min

20

Inferno

Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen.

60 min

21

The Hard Breed

A cowboy was trampled to death by a bull; his mates suspected it to be murder.

60 min

22

Rampage

A team of angry fathers, who are fed up with crime in their neighborhood, take a vigilante approach at solving the problem. During one of their rampages, a police informant is killed.

60 min

23

Death and the Favored Few

San Francisco's social elite are suspects when a publisher who blackmailed them is found murdered.

60 min