History Trivia / TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco

** The 1975 TV-movie Crossfire, which was a QM Production, has absolutely no relation to the episode "Crossfire".

** The show's only two-parter "The Thrill Killers" was originally planned to air as a [[ExtraLongEpisode two-hour season premiere]] (which is why Part 2 has Acts V-VIII), but Fred Silverman [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted that it be split in two]] so that the second part could go up against the season premiere of fellow QM Production ''Series/BarnabyJones'' on CBS and hopefully beat it in the ratings. (It didn't work. Plus it turned out to be the final season for ''The Streets of San Francisco'', whereas ''Barnaby Jones'' ran until 1980.) [[Series/{{Supertrain}} Still. Silverman made bigger mistakes in the '70s]].

** The show's only two-parter "The Thrill Killers" was originally planned to air as a [[ExtraLongEpisode two-hour season premiere]] (which is why Part 2 has Acts V-VIII), but Fred Silverman [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted that it be split in two]] so that the second part could go up against the season premiere of fellow QM Production ''Series/BarnabyJones'' on CBS and hopefully beat it in the ratings. (It didn't work. Plus it turned out to be the final season for ''The Streets of San Francisco'', whereas ''Barnaby Jones'' ran until 1980.) [[/Series/{{Supertrain}} Still Silverman made bigger mistakes in the '70s]].

** The show's only two-parter "The Thrill Killers" was originally planned to air as a [[ExtraLongEpisode two-hour season premiere]] (which is why Part 2 has Acts V-VIII), but Fred Silverman [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted that it be split in two]] so that the second part could go up against the season premiere of fellow QM Production ''Series/BarnabyJones'' on CBS and hopefully beat it in the ratings. (It didn't work. Plus it turned out to be the final season for ''The Streets of San Francisco'', whereas ''Barnaby Jones'' ran until 1980.)

** Barbara Stanger, who was 26 at the time, as a pregnant high-school girl in "School of Fear". This is odd, as a year and a half before, she played Creator/NickNolte's WIFE in an episode of another Quinn Martin series, Series/BarnabyJones.

** Christopher Stone in "The Year of the Locusts", "Bird of Prey" and "Police Buff".

** Barbara Stanger, who was 26 at the time, as a pregnant high-school girl in "School of Terror". This is odd, as a year and a half before, she played Creator/NickNolte's WIFE in an episode of another Quinn Martin series, Series/BarnabyJones.

* NamesTheSame: Larry Wilcox played George Morgan in "The Runaways". I doubt that he could croon a country song as well as the country singer of the same name.
** In the episode "Asylum", Belinda J. Montgomery played Susan Howard (also the name of an actress best-known for her roles in Series/{{Petrocelli}} and Series/{{Dallas}}), Michael Anderson, Jr. played Paul Pierce (same name as an NBA great who played for the Boston Celtics and other teams) and Robert Walker played Gene Watson (same name as a country singer).

** Rick Nelson as a murderous pimp in "Harem".

** John Rubinstein in the pilot film and "Once a Con".

* FakeNationality: Jerusalem-born Creator/NehemiahPersoff played Kampacalas, a Greek winery owner in "Bitter Wine". One of his sons in the episode was played by Creator/PaulMichaelGlaser, who is also Jewish. His other son is played by Scott Marlowe (real name Ronald DeMeo), who is Italian.

** Robert Foxworth in "In the Midst of Strangers" and "Shield of Honor".
** Harold Gould in "The Takers" and "Death and the Favored Few".

** The show's only two-parter "The Thrill Killers" was originally planned to air as a two-hour season premiere (which is why Part 2 has Acts V-VIII), but Fred Silverman [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted that it be split in two]] so that the second part could go up against the season premiere of fellow QM Production ''Series/BarnabyJones'' on CBS and hopefully beat it in the ratings. (It didn't work. Plus it turned out to be the final season for ''The Streets of San Francisco'', whereas ''Barnaby Jones'' ran until 1980.)

** RealLifeRelative: Creator/MichaelDouglas's mother Diana Douglas guest-starred in the episode "Chapel of the Damned".

** Ever wanted to see Creator/BillBixby as a ruthless assassin? "Target: Red" is for you.

** In "The Victims" QM regular Jo Ann Harris plays Keller's GirlOfTheWeek, a liberal journalist. For once she plays a HairOfGoldHeartOfGold type as opposed to someone with the FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon. And the other hand in the same episode this trope is very much averted with Creator/HenrySilva playing the BigBad.

* ChannelHop: ''Back to the Streets of San Francisco'' was made by [[Creator/AaronSpelling Spelling Television]] as [=QM=] Productions was defunct by 1992 (by that time Spelling Entertainment owned Worldvision Enterprises, which owned a lot of the Quinn Martin catalogue).

* FakeNationality: Jerusalem-born Creator/NehemiahPersoff played Kampacalas, a Greek winery owner in "Bitter Wine". One of his sons in the episode was played by Creator/PaulMichaelGlaser, who is also Jewish.