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****SPOILERS*** Mind shattering and heart felt performance by Pernell Roberts as the against the wall and facing economic ruin fabric manufacture small businessman Charley "Mickey" Finn who besides all his other troubles is now accused of assault and later murder in the punch out, a devastating punch that knocked him clear out of of his office, of heartless divorce lawyer Larry Drake, Lawrence Pressman, who in representing his old lady Ethel, Sharon Acker, was squeezing him for every cent he had to his name. It was in fact ex-convict Harlan Betts, George Murdock, Who Drake as a D.A sent up the river and was almost killed in prison who was really planning to do Drake in. But it was th luckless Charley Finn who beat him to it.

Willing to take his punishment for assault Finn is later hit with a murder charge when Drake unexpectedly expired in the hospital. Not because of the punch, that could have knocked out both Mohammed Ali and George Foreman at the same time, he took right in the kisser from Finn but in Betts sneaking into his hospital room and suffocating him to death! It's now up to SFPD Det. Let. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, and his partner Inspector Dan Robbins, Richard Hatch, to solve this confusing murder case and thus prevent poor Charley Finn from ending up paying for a crime, the murder of Larry Drake, that he didn't commit!

If it wasn't for Pernell Roberts' explosive performance as a man on the edge of sanity and about to commit suicide, by driving off a cliff into San Francisco Bay, this episode of "Streets of San Francisco" would have been long forgotten. Instead it's one of of the finest moments on television wordy of an Emmy and Academy Award, even though it wasn't released in the theaters, put together. Just watching Roberts as Charley Finn going what he's put through divorce bankruptcy suicide and, if he survived, a possible long jail sentence and how he handles it is more then worth the price of admission or better yet, being on TV, your time!

Break up is not bad but you can tell the series is running out of steam! Starts out exciting enough with a murder/revenge on a former D A! Then the investigation with a plot twist. The breakup divorce side story causes a drag on the show. Formulated side story and character development. Usual revenge motivated murder story. Breakup was not a bad story, but repeated in various forms during the series 5 years. Looks like someone else did the crime main story with a dramatic ending for the framed man or woman. Break up is Sappy, formulated and by the numbers. Some how, I still liked it! Usual the final season of a series any show starts to repeats itself. The story writers just ran out of ideas. Maybe Mike saw the ending of the series a year early? I give Breakup 6 stars.