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The Streets of San Francisco - Season One, Vol. 1

starring: Karl Malden

: The Streets of San Francisco - Season One, Vol. 1
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361227542
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Full Screen
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 8893
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1972



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Twenty year veteran Detective Lt. Mike Stone is partnered with young, college educated Inspector Steve Keller who has a lot to learn about being a police detective on the Streets of San Francisco.

Amazon.com:
More career-making than groundbreaking TV, The Streets of San Francisco is an efficiently entertaining old-school cop show from Quinn Martin, master of the four-acts-and-an-epilogue hour drama (The Untouchables, The Fugitive). Old Hollywood meets new with the casting of Oscar-winning character actor Karl Malden (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront) and, in the role that put him on the map, future Oscar-winner Michael Douglas (Wall Street) as partners in San Francisco's Bureau of Inspectors. Malden is 23-year-veteran Lt. Mike Stone. Douglas is Inspector Steve Keller, whose 'fancy degrees in criminology' don't impress Stone. The generational conflict is more pronounced in the pilot episode. When Keller questions whether a deceased woman found floating in the bay is a suicide, Stone derisively responds, 'If you were born in this town, you'd know that the current under the bridge flows out to sea and not in.' Though the t wo have their differences (Stone, a self-described 'slob,' wears the classic trench coat, while Keller is 'the best dressed cop on poverty row'), Stone is a more patient mentor in the 1972 series' first 14 episodes (13 plus the pilot) that are contained in this set's four discs.

One of this series' retro-TV delights is the veteran/rookie casting dynamic that extends to the series' guest stars. The pilot episode features Robert Wagner as a slick and initially suspect lawyer, and a pre-Happy Days Tom Bosley as the victim's landlord. The future Starsky & Hutch show up, albeit in separate episodes. David Soul is a racist cop with a surprising genealogy in 'Hall of Mirrors' and in 'Bitter Wine,' Paul Michael Glaser stars as a man who spent 12 years in San Quentin for his brother's crime. Other familiar faces from TV Land include Vic Tayback (Alice), Victor French (Little House on the Prairie), Edward Mulhare (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir), and Di ck Van Patten (Eight Is Enough). But perhaps this serie s' real star is San Francisco, an offbeat location for a cop show. Ghirardelli Square, the Golden Gate Bridge, and other landmarks are intriguing backdrops as the gruff but compassionate Stone and the more hotheaded Keller pursue criminals and killers, some of whom are as deeply twisted as Lombard Street. Throw in a vintage show-launch interview with Malden and Douglas conducted by former Hollywood columnist and Oscars red-carpet emcee Army Archerd, and you have a set that's a real San Francisco treat. --Donald Liebenson



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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A real classic
After watching the whole first season and half of the second, I now realize why I don't care for the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - We like it in the UK too!
Excellent to see this out at last on DVD, even if I do have to buy an import. It hasn't been on TV over ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - What would you do without this show? What WOULD you do?
I'll let others describe the episodes. Presumably, you are here because you already know something about ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the Best Cop Shows of All Time
"The Streets of San Francisco" was one of the best cop shows of the 1970s and its wonderful that it is finally ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great series, but not all of season one!
Agreeing with nearly every reviewer here about the quality of the show and the greediness of Paramount to not have ... Read More

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