Episode
The Streets of San Francisco: The Set-Up
Overview
A retired hit man returns to San Francisco, not knowing that he will be the target of a hit.
Details
- Series
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1973-01-25
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
The Set-Up is Episode 16 in Season 1 of The Streets of San Francisco. It aired on 1973-01-25. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 15: Act of Duty
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.
Episode 17: A Collection of Eagles
A murder brings to light a coin dealer's plan to substitute fakes for the rare coins in a collection.
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: Deathwatch
Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.
Episode 18: A Room With a View
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.
Episode 13: A Trout in the Milk
Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.
Episode 19: Deadline
Stone discovers that a murdered woman was involved with both a famous newspaper reporter and his son.
Episode 12: Bitter Wine
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.
Episode 20: Trail of the Serpent
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.
Episode 11: The Bullet
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.
Episode 21: The House on Hyde Street
When a boy disappears after school, suspicion falls on the neighborhood recluse, who is popularly known as a pedophile, although never convicted.
Episode 10: The Year of the Locusts
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.
Episode 22: Beyond Vengeance
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.