1975 Karl Malden TV Guide Interview online
Finally, the media page was supplemented by another original five-page TV Guide interview with Karl Malden depicting the advances in the production of the show and kind of a review of Malden's work over the three years before. The interview was published in TV Guide issue of March 22, 1975.
I am still trying to locate more interview articles, so stay tuned. Anyone having original interviews on file, please do not hesitate to let me know! :)
Screencaps for Ep 2.02 added
I have just added the screencaps for Betrayed to the episodes' page. Following a bank robbery during which a veteran security officer is killed, and a 40-year-old female teller, Kate Evans, is injured, Mike and Steve are running down the tapes of the surveillance camera in order to indentify additional details. Steve smells an inconsistency in Evans' testimony as he is convinced she actually knew the culprit for a certain detail. In the meantime, we learn that the bank robber, Dean Knox, is a young and smart stock exchange broker, living the life of a man-about-town who lost a lot of money which he had taken took from the brokerage company. It becomes obvious that his liaison with ingenuous Kate Evans is earmarked with just a single intention: getting information on the savings of the bank she is working for. However, following the bungled robbery he smells he has to keep her calm. When Evans discovers Knox' committed relationship to the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, she tries to concuss her lover. Stone and Keller need to hurry before Knox eliminates her as a witness.
The opening sequence starts in a cab running down California Street, with Martin Sheen sitting in the rear. He gets off at a newspaper stand in front of 580 California Street ('The Howard Hotel'), enters that hotel and leaves it through a side-entrance on Spring Street a few moments later; the robbery takes place in the building right across that street ('Bay National Bank'). Steve interviews Kate Evans in San Francisco General Hospital, and her apartment is located in Cow Hollow, on Union Street. Mike and Steve are using a telephone booth at the north-eastern corner of Montgomery and Bush Streets, whereas the office building across the street ('Fox, Crane & Gorman'), in which Dean Knox was working, is completely rebuilt now. Our two cops are tracing the other suspect, Binx Taylor, in his apartment at 2019 23rd Street; we are also taken south to Atherton, where Knox's wealthy girl friend is living. In the final sequences of this episode, Knox and Evans are leaving for Sausalito where the crew filmed at the first class Alta Mira Hotel & Restaurant on Bulkley Avenue (now closed), whereas the climax is taking us to Battery Spencer (which, today, is another well-known lookout point right above the nothern end of the Golden Gate Bridge and part of the Golden Gate National Parks). I got in touch with Don of the oursausalito.com community who was kind enough to provide a current photo of the famous Alta Mira entrance and gateway area which will be added to the locations page soon; he also added info on this episode's filming to his website.
Improvements installed!
As announced in my Easter greetings blog, I have implemented a couple of improvements to the site in order to provide easier accessability to the contents.
The characters page, for example, was supplemented by a headline menue (as you are familiar with from the media and new media pages). On the episodes page, I have added a direct link for each episode to the extended summary and filming locations information given in the respected blog post. I will have to revise the blog posts for the first four episodes of season one as these were done before I took over, so there aren't any filming locations included yet. This work will be done step by step within the next few weeks; may be I will do some additional/alternate screen capturing for these episodes too.
Meanwhile, the screencaps, extended summary, and filming locations for the next due episode, 'Betrayed', are in the works already. Stay tuned! :)
Screencaps for Ep 2.01 added
I have just added the screencaps for A Wrongful Death to the episodes' page. Being on duty at night, Mike and Steve are responding to an emergency call of a police patrol at a shopping center at Fishermans Wharf. A group a youngsters is committing a burglary, snitching electronic devices. Two of the boys are keeping cave, while the older guys are collecting cameras and other kind of electronics. When Mike and Steve arrive on the scene, they find one of the police officers wounded in his car. Steve soon chases two of the youths through the gloomey shopping complex and, following a warning to freeze, shoots at the one who just turned to him with a gun in his hand. Both of the boys can make it into a corner with Steve being on their trail. When he arrives, he finds one of the suspects dead on the ground, the other one disappeared - just like the gun did. Although Mike appeals to his conscience, the situation leaves Steve with doubts about what he actually saw and did. The testimony of the other young boy - who had been seized just hours later - as well as the wounded officer are fuelling Steve's doubts. The grieving father, Al Davies, calls for vengeance, being convinced that his son, Spencer, would have never been involved in a robbery or anything illegal at all. We soon learn there is a certain dissension in the family, the mother deceased several years back, and the older son and brother of the killed boy, Jack, is not that much of an honest kid. Steve is temporarily exempted from duty, with police and District Attorney Gerry O'Brian trying to solve the case. Mike soon investigates among the friends and families of the boys, and a particular observation made by the wounded officer provides a decisive lead.
This episode takes us from Fishermans Wharf and Downtown San Francisco up to Potrero and Dolores Heights. The nightly robbery was committed at the Cannery, still a famous shopping center at Fishermans Wharf. Al Davies' bar, 'Pastine's Dugout', was located on Kearny Street (close to Market), and the Davies house can be found on Noe Street, close to the intersection with 21st Street. Mike and Steve return to the Cannery Courtyard when Steve, dismissed from duty, is trying to find the gun himself. Mike investigates at the Downtown High School on Potrero Hill, and accidently comes across suspect Lonnie Carter, whose mother is questioned in front of their appartment on Southern Heights Avenue. Mike chases Carter at famous Ripley's Believe It or Not on Jefferson Street (still existing) and finally detains him at Old San Francisco (now closed) which used to be located next to Ripley's. Also on Jefferson Street at Fishermans Wharf, Jack Davies is trying to exchange the money made from the robbery for drugs. The final scene was filmed at the historical Hyde Street Pier.
Seasonal Greetings & Updates ahead
Before leaving for a three-week Easter holiday, I would like to wish you all a beautiful and happy Easter.
Furthermore, I can tell you there are some interesting updates in the works already. First, I am about to incorporate some improvements to the website's structure (such as anchors and updated contents) to provide better access to particular contents. Second, fellow fan Liz from the Bay Area kindly offered assistance with additional location photography for this website. I visited San Francisco six times over the past years and was lucky enough to get a certain impression and knowledge of the city's streets, districts and architecture which was quite helpful for identifying the original filming locations of the show (either still existing or already demolished). However, my trips were also meant to be 'holidays', so I would not spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week riding from one point to the other taking location photos. So, as I just completed season one concerning the episodes' extended summaries and screen captures, we worked out a first to-do list based upon my filming locations catalog, and hopefully you will see some interesting new filming location pictures added to the respected locations page soon.
In the meantime, enjoy your Easter holidays.
