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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
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: 644 minutes
Sales Rank: 6847
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.System Requirements:Run Time: 644 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361227542 Manufacturer No: 122754
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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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Stills from The Streets of San Francisco: Season 1, Vol. 1 (click for larger image)
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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 here for years. My all time favourite cop show. Having been to SF, it's nice to see some of the landmarks again.
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I'll let others describe the episodes. Presumably, you are here because you already know something about this maverick 1970's cop TV drama, and my rating reflects you are that type of person. If your idea of good TV is I Survived A Japanese Game Show, this may not be for you. In addition to Hawaii Five-0, another good series of this era now on DVD is The Rookies.
What I noticed immediately was the sound and video transfer to DVD was excellent. It's almost creepy to see SOSF in such ... Read More
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"The Streets of San Francisco" was one of the best cop shows of the 1970s and its wonderful that it is finally available on DVD. The formula was similar to other cops shows, but seemed to have more realistic story lines. This release marks the first time the Pilot has been seen in many years. When the episodes re-air on TV, the pilot is usually not shown since it was 98 minutes long, so it was a definite treat to see how the show started and what made the show so interesting.
I think the ... Read More
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Agreeing with nearly every reviewer here about the quality of the show and the greediness of Paramount to not have the whole first season on these discs for the price you'd normally pay for a complete season, I have to add alittle about the show's appeal to someone who wasn't aloive at the time of its airing. I grew up in the 80s, but the residual culture of the 70s was quite strong in my neighborhood and childhood television experience. Watching this show brings me right back to all that was well with ... Read More
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Classic Drama. Sleek, everything you expect from a cop show. Douglas and Malden in fine form and a feast of fine guest stars.
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