Season 1

Episodes • 1972

Karl Malden
Michael Douglas
The Thirty-Year Pin

1. The Thirty-Year Pin

49 min

When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.

Watch Episode
The First Day of Forever

2. The First Day of Forever

51 min

Stone and Keller finally get a lead on a serial killer who has been knifing prostitutes when one of the victims survives the attack.

Watch Episode
45 Minutes from Home

3. 45 Minutes from Home

50 min

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.

Watch Episode
Whose Little Boy Are You?

4. Whose Little Boy Are You?

50 min

A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.

Watch Episode
Tower Beyond Tragedy

5. Tower Beyond Tragedy

51 min

Stone and Keller face off against Gilliam, a wealthy executive who transforms women into his own special image of perfection, then kills them when they inevitably fail to live up to every demented standard of his.

Watch Episode
Hall of Mirrors

6. Hall of Mirrors

51 min

Keller, temporarily partnered with a hotshot detective, sets out to discover why his new partner seems to be absolutely convinced of a murder suspect's guilt for no apparent reason.

Watch Episode
Timelock

7. Timelock

51 min

Stone appears to be the only one willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a convict who is accused of a murder while out of prison on a 36-hour pass.

Watch Episode
In the Midst of Strangers

8. In the Midst of Strangers

50 min

When a corner newspaper vendor goes after the muggers who stole his life savings, Stone and Keller discover that the crime is linked to the murder of a housing commissioner.

Watch Episode
The Takers

9. The Takers

51 min

The murders of a flight attendant and a nurse who were rooming together lead Stone and Keller to suspect a jewelry salesman and his wife.

Watch Episode
The Year of the Locusts

10. The Year of the Locusts

51 min

In their attempt to bring down a family of con artists who victimize entire neighborhoods, Stone and Keller are aided by dissension among the gang members.

Watch Episode
The Bullet

11. The Bullet

51 min

A college professor, shot accidentally while trying to pay off a blackmailer, refuses to co-operate with Stone's investigation for fear that the publicity will lose him an upcoming promotion.

Watch Episode
Bitter Wine

12. Bitter Wine

51 min

A man who served 12 years in prison to protect his brother gets out only to find that the brother never told their father, a Greek restaurant owner, the truth about who should have gone to jail.

Watch Episode
A Trout in the Milk

13. A Trout in the Milk

51 min

Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.

Watch Episode
Deathwatch

14. Deathwatch

51 min

Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.

Watch Episode
Act of Duty

15. Act of Duty

52 min

After a female detective is killed by the rapist she had been bait for, her roommate (played by Brenda Vaccaro) goes on the warpath to catch him. After Mike Stone kicks her off the case, she continues on her own, hurtling headlong into peril.

Watch Episode
The Set-Up

16. The Set-Up

51 min

A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.

Watch Episode
A Collection of Eagles

17. A Collection of Eagles

51 min

A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.

Watch Episode
A Room With a View

18. A Room With a View

52 min

One witness in a racketeering trial is killed with a booby-trapped car, and Stone worries that the remaining witness, Roy Chaffee, will be picked off by a hit man if he surfaces.

Watch Episode
Deadline

19. Deadline

52 min

Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.

Watch Episode
Trail of the Serpent

20. Trail of the Serpent

52 min

A gang takes Mike Stone hostage after killing a policeman in an attempt to flee from a grocery store robbery. They want to trade Stone in for their leader, Buddy Sims.

Watch Episode
The House on Hyde Street

21. The House on Hyde Street

52 min

When a boy disappears after school, suspicion falls on the neighborhood recluse, who is popularly known as a pedophile, although never convicted.

Watch Episode
Beyond Vengeance

22. Beyond Vengeance

52 min

After spending a "lousy" 12 years in prison for a brutal sexual assault and murder, a young punk returns to San Francisco to seek revenge against Mike Stone (who was the arresting officer). And he's not picky about how he'll take that revenge -- or on who.

Watch Episode
The Albatross

23. The Albatross

52 min

A father finds out that the man who murdered his deaf son is released on a technicality.

Watch Episode
Shattered Image

24. Shattered Image

52 min

Mike Stone has reason to believe that the death of a politician is no accident.

Watch Episode
The Unicorn

25. The Unicorn

52 min

A priest (Fr. Scarne) won't tell Stone where a murderer (Abel Hoffman) is hiding. Stakes are raised by drug smugglers looking for a stolen shipment of heroin.

Watch Episode
Legion of the Lost

26. Legion of the Lost

51 min

Stone goes undercover as a bum to investigate the beating death of three homeless men.

Watch Episode