Season 3

September 12, 1974

Alcoholic officer Joe Landers accidentally gets his partner killed and clumsily tries to cover it up as Stone and Keller work their way to the truth.

September 19, 1974

A high-ranking hoodlum hires the androgynously-named "Sidney"--a hitwoman who's assigned to murder the three thugs responsible for the death of his son. She decides to let the police do her digging for her and moves in next door to Keller...

September 26, 1974

Bill Bixby plays a former CIA hitman who is hired by some kooky generals to assassinate a Red Chinese envoy on a state visit to San Francisco.

October 3, 1974

A professional female impersonator, whose headline act is a perfect imitation of 1930s movie star Carol Marlowe, is overwhelmed with an alternate personality -- and murdering any man who is unlucky enough to be attracted to "Carol."

October 10, 1974

Steve Keller goes undercover as a draft-dodger to discover who killed a young Vietnam war deserter.

October 17, 1974

An average older woman is concealing an affair with a married diplomat and believes she is targeted for death.

October 24, 1974

A bum blackmails a black guy. The bum's friends roll him for the money and attempt to pin his death on the black guy, who is the lovable and successful nanny to a young kid. What's the black guy hiding?...

October 31, 1974

Domestic terrorists take several people hostage, including Keller. Stone has to deal with not only the terrorists but a right-wing journalist and a vengeful father whose daughter was killed.

November 7, 1974

A troubled teen from a broken home is suspected of shooting a friend's stepfather.

November 14, 1974

A boy who saw the slaying of a mob chief is torn between telling Stone and joining the syndicate.

November 21, 1974

Women keep turning up in hotel rooms strangled; the only lead is a witness who thinks he saw an air force Colonel's uniform. Keller goes undercover as an air force officer to infiltrate the base.

December 5, 1974

Mike's former partner returns to San Francisco, but not because of any longing for the good old days. He's back in town to kill the hired gunman who murdered his son years before.

December 12, 1974

A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.

December 19, 1974

A retired cobbler takes the rap for a shooting to protect the real killer, the grandson of his best friend.

January 9, 1975

When a patrolman and personal friend of Keller has his arrestee turned loose on insufficient evidence, he goes on the warpath, endangering both of their careers.

January 16, 1975

A skeleton discovered on Alcatraz is that of a convict who'd supposedly escaped in the 1950s.

January 23, 1975

While investigating a lead, Steve is run over by a car and rendered a vegetable. Mike insists on taking revenge, and is demoted to walking a beat.

January 30, 1975

A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.

February 6, 1975

A supposedly reformed sex offender believes he is going insane.

February 13, 1975

A man seduces the widow of a bank robber. The money he stole was never found. When she tells him where it is, he kills her and sets out to take the money from her children out in the country.

February 20, 1975

Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.

February 27, 1975

A prizefighter refuses to throw a fight, instead opting to throw the gangsters out the window of his hotel room. Injured, he hides in the hotel as both the police and mob close in.

March 13, 1975

While Keller recovers from a gunshot wound, Stone is forced to team with hippie-haired narcotics officer Al Walczinsky. Together they try to break up a narcotics ring that's gone murderous -- until Stone suspects that Walczinsky's in on the racket.