San Francisco Detective

This episode presents a documentary about police work in San Francisco. The central figure is Inspector George Asdrubale, a veteran of 16 years with the San Francisco Police Dept., 10 of them as homicide specialist. The program follows him to a cheap hotel room in which an 18-year-old woman is found strangled, to skid row to serve a subpoena on a witness, to a shabby rooming house searching for a suspect in an assault case, to the morgue where police seek identification of a murder victim, and on a coffee break. The show also includes scenes of a line-up, the interrogation of witnesses and the work of the crime lab.