Line #3 Trivia/TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco


1	* BackedByThePentagon: The San Francisco Police Department took a liking to Karl Malden and Creator/MichaelDouglas and gave the show official support.
2	* CaliforniaDoubling: Usually averted, but the first scene in "Flags Of Terror" takes place in Tokyo, so...Similarly, "Till Death Do Us Part" starts of the other side of the USA before arriving in San Francisco.
3	* 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 via their former owners, Taft Broadcasting). It also aired on Creator/{{NBC}}; the original run aired on Creator/{{ABC}}.
4	* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/MichaelDouglas has fond memories of this show and working with Creator/KarlMalden. He also greatly appreciates how the production released him from his contract to allow him to pursue a film career.
5	* TheDanza: Creator/VicMorrow as Vic Tomlin in "The Twenty-Four Karat Plague".
6	** Lazaro Perez as Jerry Perez in "In Case of Madness".
7	* DawsonCasting: Usually averted - in "No Minor Vices" Cindy states she's 18; she's played by Maureen [=McCormick=], who was 19 at the time of filming - but played straight in "One Last Trick," when a callgirl called Sheila (played by Deirdre Berthrong, around 24 when the episode was shot) says she's 17. Played hilariously straight in "Innocent No More" when Stone tells his daughter he's 55. (At the time Karl Malden was in his mid-sixties, and he looked it...)
8	** 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''.
9	* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/MichaelDouglas went behind the camera for the only time to date with "Spooks For Sale."
10	* 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.
11	** Creator/DavidSoul, of Norwegian descent, played Inspector Jimmy Martin (born Martinez) in the episode "Hall of Mirrors". His shame at growing up Puerto Rican and poor hinders Stone and Keller in their search for a Hispanic murder suspect.
12	** In "One Chance To Live", Irish Edward Mulhare plays a Canadian diplomat.
13	* NonSingingVoice: In "Mask Of Death", When female impersonator Ken Scott (played by John Davidson) does Creator/CarolChanning it's real-life female impersonator Craig Russell doing the singing.
14	* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The episode "The Runaways" has nothing to do with the pioneering female punk rock band, nor is it related to the later series from QM Productions.
15	** The 1975 TV-movie ''Crossfire'', which was a QM Production, has absolutely no relation to the episode "Crossfire".
16	* TheOtherDarrin: Roy Devitt is played by Tim O'Connor in "The Thirty-Year Pin," "Trail Of The Serpent" and "Endgame"; in "The Thrill Killers" and "Hang Tough" he's played by Ward Costello.
17	* PlayingAgainstType:
18	** Have you ever wanted to see Creator/BillBixby as a ruthless assassin? "Target: Red" is for you.
19	** Music/RickyNelson as a murderous pimp in "Harem".
20	** 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. On the other hand, in the same episode this trope is very much averted with Creator/HenrySilva playing the BigBad.
21	** In many of his appearances on crime dramas, Creator/JonathanGoldsmith usually played one of the guys who would break you into little pieces if you didn't have the money you owed his boss. In "The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague", he's playing the guy who owes a lot in gambling debts and can't afford to pay, and thusly finds himself at the receiving end of a goon's punches, until he pulls out the gun he stole from his brother-in-law and puts a slug in the goon's belly. Afterwards, he throws the gun in a trash can in the city park where the fatal encounter took place, thus setting the stage for all the tragic events that the gun is involved in.
22	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/MichaelDouglas's mother Diana Douglas guest-starred in the episode "Chapel of the Damned".
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
24	** 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]].
25	** ''Creator/TomSelleck'' and ''Creator/DonJohnson'' were in the running to replace Creator/MichaelDouglas. Richard Hatch won the role.
26	** Creator/MichaelDouglas would have liked to have appeared in the reunion movie, but scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheGame1997'' prevented that from happening.
27	* YouLookFamiliar: It's a Quinn Martin show, so there are quite a few examples. These examples are from the pilot film and first ten episodes alone...
28	** Andrew Duggan in the pilot film and "Target: Red".
29	** Tom Bosley in the pilot film, "Going Home" and "Dead Or Alive".
30	** Creator/JohnRubinstein in the pilot film and "Once a Con".
31	** Tim O'Connor in "The 30-Year Pin", "The Trail of the Serpent", "Endgame" and "The Cannibals". In the first three, he played Lt. (later Capt.) Roy Devitt.
32	** James Olson in "The First Day of Forever", "Asylum" and "No Minor Vices".
33	** Creator/WilliamWindom in "Forty-Five Minutes From Home", "Letters From the Grave" and "Requiem For Murder".
34	** Jacqueline Scott in "Forty-Five Minutes From Home" and "One Last Shot".
35	** Jo Ann Harris in "Forty-Five Minutes From Home" and "The Victims".
36	** Stephen Oliver in "Forty-Five Minutes From Home", "Chapel of the Damned" and "...Till Death Do Us Part".
37	** Dick Van Patten in "Forty-Five Minutes From Home", "Clown of Death" and "The Thrill Killers".
38	** Creator/RobertHogan in "Forty-Five Minutes From Home" and "Flags of Terror".
39	** Linda Marsh in "Whose Little Boy Are You?", "Target: Red" and "Once a Con".
40	** Richard O'Brien in "Whose Little Boy Are You?" and "Merchants of Death".
41	** Edward Mulhare in "Tower Beyond Tragedy" and "One Chance to Live".
42	** Stefanie Powers in "Tower Beyond Tragedy" and "No Place to Hide".
43	** A Martinez in "Hall of Mirrors", "False Witness" and "Alien Country".
44	** Shelly Novack in "Hall of Mirrors", "Labyrinth" and "The Honorable Profession".
45	** Peter Strauss in "Timelock", "For the Love of God" and "Letters From the Grave".
46	** Felice Orlandi in "Timelock" and "Labyrinth".
47	** Creator/RobertFoxworth in "In the Midst of Strangers" and "Shield of Honor".
48	** Creator/HaroldGould in "The Takers" and "Death and the Favored Few".
49	** Creator/ChristopherStone in "The Year of the Locusts", "Bird of Prey" and "Police Buff".

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