Susan Dey on The Streets of San Francisco

In the fall of 1976, Susan Dey guest starred on two-part episode of The Streets of San Francisco, which served as the opening of the 5th and final season of the show. Titled 'The Thrill Killers', the double episode was also last to feature star Michael Douglas. In 'The Thrill Killers', Susan day portrays Barbara 'Barbie' Ross, a good girl turned radical. Inspired partially by the Patty Hearst story, the episode deals with an underground revolutionary group which kidnaps an entire jury after they come back with an unfavorable verdict in a case involving members of their group. It's worth watching just to see Susan Dey wielding a gun!

The Streets of San Francisco was done by Quinn Martin Productions, also the producers of her next television guest spot on Barnaby Jones. Also, this TV guest appearance by Susan Dey first aired just six days after the original broadcast of the premiere of The Quest.


Here are some pics of Susan Dey appearing on The Streets of San Francisco:

Susan Dey on The Quest

Susan Dey spent the latter half of 1975 and all of 1976 doing guest appearances on hour-long TV dramas. One of the shows she was featured on was the premiere episode The Quest, a western which starred Tim Matheson and Kurt Russell. The show was about two brothers who were searching the wild west for their sister, who had been kidnapped by Indians. In the debut episode, entitled 'The Captive', Susan Dey starred as Charlotte Ross, a woman who had been captured by a tribe and subsequently began living amongst them, having a son with a member of the tribe. While seeking their sister, Quentin Beaudine (Tim Matheson) and Morgan Beaudine (Kurt Russell) come across Susan Dey instead and rescue her (against her will). When they take her back into town, she is shunned because she has a half-breed son and people are generally suspicious of her because she has been living amongst the Indians. Eventually, after learning that she has no relatives to go back to, she begins working in a brothel. Only the help of the Beaudine brothers and the love a kind-hearted soldier can save her....

When this originally aired it was 90 minutes in length, as is often the norm for pilot films. I think it may have been shortened to 60 minutes for some subsequent airings. This was released on videocassette at some point under the title The Captive: The Longest Drive 2.

Promotional photo of Susan Dey for The Quest

Here are two newspaper clippings about The Quest and Susan Dey's appearance on the show:

Milwaukee Journal (September 22, 1976)

Lodi News-Sentinel (August 10, 1976)

Here are some images of Susan Dey on The Quest (click to see the pics full size):

Susan Dey in I Love You Perfect (post #2)

There following are promotional photos from I Love You Perfect, a 1989 TV movie starring Susan Dey. It also featured Anthony John Denison, Tim Scott, Alley Mills and Kevin McNulty.

Make sure to look at the previous post about I Love You Perfect.