The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) The Year of the Locusts (1972) User Reviews

Well okay!

[mm-39 · 6/10 · 19 May 2022]

Starts out strong with a high tech, for the 70's burglary which goes wrong. The second story has a family band of crook coming into town, with various cons and rip offs. Great start, but The Year of the Locusts turns into a family squabble that slows the pace for the episode. Entreating, but formulated with usually by the number 1970's endings. Not strong or a bad episodes. 6 stars.

One of the better Episodes

[lchadbou-326-26592 · 6/10 · 24 August 2019]

The Year of the Locusts, despite an attitude toward the traveling Gypsy community as inherently criminal that would not be considered politically correct today, is one of the best Streets of San Francisco episodes I,ve seen so far.The reasons include a fast moving script by Tv writer/director/actir and later cult filmmaker (The President,s Analyst) Theodore Flicker and clever use of Frisco locales especially in a sequence toward the end where the family patriarch, played by George Voskovec, puts Malden and Douglas through a game where they have to drive around town and stop every ten minutes in different places.