Production Stills Gallery supplemented!
Another five original production stills were added to the respected gallery on the media page, making up a total of 20 pictures in this section right now. These now comprise another portrait of Mike and Steve as well as of Steve and Dan saying good-bye in 'The Thrill Killers'. In addition, there's a street scene where Mike holds up his gun, and a production shot with Mike and Steve arriving on Alcatraz Island with that orange chopper in 'Going Home'.
Enjoy! :)
Screencaps for Ep 2.17 added
I have added the screencaps for Blockade to the episodes' page. Mike and Steve are investigating rape and murder of a young and attractive waitress whose body is found dead in the Golden Gate Park. Her car, that was left behind at the Great Highway along Ocean Beach, as well as witnesses' statements soon lead them to a suspicious guy, Chet Barrow, who is working for an aviation maintenance company. They do not know yet that Barrow had teamed-up with a young and naïve guy, Russell Jamison, who was not aware of his friend's real intention and tendency to violance before. The whole case gets even tougher when Barrow seeks to hide-out at Russ' home by taking his buddy as well as Mrs. Jamison and the daughter of a judge hostage. Our two cops literally smell the rat after interrogating Russell at his home but need to work out a good and safe plan to set the hostages free. This episode also has a sociocritical aspect which augmented in the early 1970's when old-style conservative parents lost touch with their growing-up children. Here we learn that Mrs. Jamison has dedicated all her life to the family of a judge but fails to see her neglected son has fallen with the psycho Chet Barrow and actually helped him kill their victim.
Talking about this episode's crime scene, we are taken to famous Cliff House where Chet Barrow and Russ Jamison are setting the trap for waitress Susan Ellen Morley by manipulating her car's fuel system; Susan's dead body is found in the Golden Gate Park, in Stow Lake precisely, the next day. The Jamison's house in located in Potrero Hill, at 553 Wisconsin Street, and Mike meets Susan's father down at Fisherman's Wharf. During their investigation, Mike and Steve are also going to San Quentin Penitentiar as well as to the Industiral Harbour around Pier 70 (notice that orange 'Boats, Beer, Bait' sign in background),and the general aviation field of San Francisco International Airport. Following Barrow's motorcycle escape at the airport, the plot centers onto the Jamison's house in Potrero Hill (with police operations based at 20th and Wisconsin Streets).
DVD Release: No Season 3 plans for Europe!
Following a misleading news alert on Amazon UK in March, suggesting that season 3 of The Streets of San Francisco is scheduled for the European market soon, both Paramount UK as well as Paramount Germany confirmed to thestreetsofsanfrancisco.net there are currently no plans to release seasons 3 thru 5 of the series in the European DVD regional code format.
As we recall, both - seasons 1 and 2 - were released in the US back in 2007 and 2008, followed by Europe in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Now that seasons 3, 4, and 5 were released in the US almost three years ago (mid to late 2012), there's little hope we will ever see them in the European format.
Screencaps for Ep 2.16 added
I have added the screencaps for Chapel of the Damned to the episodes' page. In this episode, Mike and Steve are confronted with a tough case and even tougher circumstances. A wealthy woman, Mrs. Adele Sloan, whose daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, has more faith in a female psychic than in Mike's and Steve's investigation work. In the very beginning, Mrs. Sloane's prejudices and early evidence are pointing at the daughter's boyfriend, Mark Dillon, who is everything but a perfect gentlemen and, furthermore, cannot provide an airtight alibi. Nonetheless, a broken contact lens the crime lab specialists found in the get-away car as well as a stuttering phone call by one of the kidnappers lead our two cops to a perfidious fraud and the brain behind the scene.
Locations of this episode include the apartment complex where Mrs. Sloane's daughter is kidnapped and many scenes filmed right in front of the building as well as inside her aparment at 2000 Broadway. Mark Dillon is working at the National Cold Ice Storage facility located at the northern edge of Potrero Hill at Alameda & Rhode Island (now demolished), whereas his apartment is found on Waller Street in the Upper Haight district. Carlos Rubiro's hotel room was located in the 'Hotel Atlanta' at 92 7th Street, south of Market, an area that has been completely re-built over the past two decades. Mrs. Vasiliev's 'Chapel of the Mind' is at 1083 Dolores Street, and she kills her stuttering henchman in John McLaren Park. The ransom handover sequence takes place at San Francisco International Airport, in the SF Helicopters terminal building, and the final act is supposed to be SF General Hospital (according to the short exterior view at the beginning, with no acting) but, as far as I can say, it rather looks like California Pacific Medical Center's Davies Campus in Duboce Triangle (interior acting scenes with Mike, Steve and Mrs. Sloane).
Director Walter E. Grauman dies at 93!
As The Hollywood Reporter and other sources confirmed yesterday, famous TV director Walter E. Grauman died at the age of 93 of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. Grauman often worked with producer Quinn Martin and directed several TV pilot movies - including 'The Streets of San Francisco' - and was director of several episodes of the series. He also helmed more than 50 episodes of Angela Lansbury's 'Murder, She Wrote' as well as multiple episodes of the crime shows 'Barnaby Jones' and 'The Untouchables' during his five-decade career.
