Ironside
Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside battles the bad guys on the streets of San Francisco.
Cast:Raymond Burr , Don Galloway , Don Mitchell , Barbara Anderson , Elizabeth Baur , Gene Lyons , Johnny Seven , Lee Miller , Barry Cahill , Joan Pringle , Lorraine Gary , George Murdock , Dennis McCarthy , Dane Clark , Michael Bell , Don 'Red' Barry , Ann Doran , Bill Quinn
S1.E1 ∙ Message from Beyond
A security guard is implicated in the theft of $175,000 from a horse-racing track. Even after the suspect dies in a car crash, Ironside is sure he left clues about where to find the money - and who ordered him to steal it.
S1.E2 ∙ The Leaf in the Forest
The smothering death of an elderly woman is blamed on an at-large serial killer, but Ironside notices enough differences in this case to see if a second murderer was trying to give that impression.
S1.E3 ∙ Dead Man's Tale
Warren Stuart, number two man in a big crime syndicate in San Francisco, wants to leave the criminal world and start a new life. He has tried to contact Ironside several times, to reveal important information about the criminal organization. When he is killed by a sniper, Ironside is quite sure that John Trask, the number one man, ordered the assassination. Ironside is since a long time clear about who the leaders of the crime syndicate are. The problem is that he cannot find any evidence against them. Now he sees a chance to catch the leaders, by arranging a trap for them. If they believe that Stuart isn't dead, but only unconscious, they get nervous about what will happen when he wakes up, and may start some actions that can prove their criminality. Stuart died almost immediately of the bullets, but Ironside spreads the false news, through media, that Stuart is still alive, but kept in a secret and guarded place at the hospital. To increase the pressure on Trask, he arrests the other leaders of the syndicate, thus giving the impression that Stuart has woken up and started to talk.
S1.E4 ∙ Eat, Drink and Be Buried
A fabulously successful advice columnist escapes serious injury from abduction, poisoning, and gunshots. Ironside sets out to find the person responsible for the writer's brushes with death.
S1.E5 ∙ The Taker
A policeman that Ironside has known for some years is on an investigation and gets shot and killed. The evidence seems to look like the policeman is crooked, Ironside is determined to prove that this is not the case.
S1.E6 ∙ An Inside Job
Ironside and Eve are held hostage at police headquarters by escaping criminals Carter and Baines. The criminals give Ironside a way to survive, He must become a "criminal" and come up with a plan for them to escape.
S1.E7 ∙ Tagged for Murder
Ironside investigates an accidental electrocution that Ed thinks is a murder and finds a pattern of murder and greed over a Swiss bank account in which a group of WWII veterans have stored loot from a bank heist during the war.
S1.E8 ∙ Let My Brother Go
Mark's boyhood pal, now a pro football star, refuses Ironside's request to start a sports program for inner-city youths. The gridiron hero then discovers his recently-paroled younger brother has been working for illegal bookmakers.
S1.E9 ∙ Light at the End of the Journey
An old friend of Ironside's, now a P.I., is murdered. The only "witness" is a woman who happens to be blind. Ironside takes a calculated risk that the killer doesn't realize this and sets a trap to catch him when he comes back to kill her.
S1.E10 ∙ The Monster of Comus Towers
A heavy center piece of a priceless artwork is stolen from an upper story high rise office building and the apparent entrance and exit is through a broken window on the floor.
S1.E11 ∙ The Man Who Believed
When a rising folk-singer's body is found in the water under the Golden Gate Bridge, suicide is suspected, but Ironside has reasons to suspect something else.
S1.E12 ∙ A Very Cool Hot Car
Mark goes undercover at a scrapyard to assist Ironside in the investigation of a sharp increase in auto thefts, and a corresponding decrease in vehicle recoveries.
S1.E13 ∙ The Past Is Prologue
A hard-working carpenter is about to be extradited to the state of New York and executed for a murder he was convicted of committing 19 years earlier. Ironside races against time to prove the man's innocence.
S1.E14 ∙ Girl in the Night
In Las Vegas on police business, Ed meets a pretty singer, takes her to dinner and later to her home, where she abruptly leaves and Ed is assaulted. Ironside investigates the connection between Ed's assailants and the mysterious young lady.
S1.E15 ∙ The Fourteenth Runner
A Soviet athlete has been kidnapped! Or has he? Ironside must work with Soviet agents to find out what happened to the man.
S1.E16 ∙ Force of Arms
The chief of staff for a millionaire's citizen vigilance group is found dead in his wrecked car. Ironside looks into a theory that the murderer was an organization insider trying to set up the victim as a martyr.
S1.E17 ∙ Memory of an Ice Cream Stick
Ironside knows a man Mark ran errands for as a child is a convicted robber who may be involved in the murder of a gangland racketeer. Mark, however, defies a warning to stay away from his old acquaintance.
S1.E18 ∙ To Kill a Cop
Ed helps two patrol officers arrest a restaurant owner who vows revenge upon his release. Both of the policemen are murdered a few days later. Convinced that the restaurateur is the killer, Ed pursues him against Ironside's orders.
S1.E19 ∙ The Lonely Hostage
A detective working part-time as a bank guard shoots a patrolman who catches him robbing the bank. After a week in hiding and unable to leave the city, he meets with Ironside to turn himself in, but kidnaps him instead and forces Mark to drive them north out of the city. His wife and son are waiting at a cabin in Tahoe where a chartered plane is coming to fly the family to Mexico.
S1.E20 ∙ The Challenge
A psychiatrist is murdered two days after asking his friend Ironside if he could tell which of five patients was a potential killer by looking at their artwork.
S1.E21 ∙ All in a Day's Work
Eve shoots and kills one of the two men involved in a jewelry store robbery. Stunned when she finds out he was only seventeen years old and everyone that knew him says he was a fine young man, she questions her commitment to police work. After she tells Ironside she is quitting, he convinces her to finish the case and finds a way to help her regain her confidence.
S1.E22 ∙ Something for Nothing
Ironside wants a singer to testify in court against the influential crime lord who forced him to participate in a bank robbery as payment for gambling debts.
S1.E23 ∙ Barbara Who
A woman is found beaten and suffering from permanent amnesia. After recovery from her injuries, she asks Ironside to help her find her past.
S1.E24 ∙ Perfect Crime
In an informal talk at a local college, Ironside says all criminal plots are flawed. An anonymous student challenges that statement by wounding several people - including Eve - with long-range rifle shots.
S1.E25 ∙ Officer Bobby
The plane Ironside was about to board is bombed, and a baby is left in his van! Ironside takes the infant boy home to wait for his mother and her ex-husband, the only people from the plane's passenger list who are unaccounted for.
S1.E26 ∙ Trip to Hashbury
A teenage runaway claims Ed assaulted her while trying to remove her from a house full of hippies. Ironside investigates the possibility that someone else attacked the girl before Ed arrived.
S1.E27 ∙ Due Process of Law
After Mark's girlfriend is found dead he becomes obsessed with finding the responsible person, even if it means ignoring the law.
S1.E28 ∙ Return of the Hero
Ironside's former colleague is found guilty of fatally shooting his wife and her lover. When the judge, district attorney, and witnesses from the trial are threatened or killed by bombs, Ironside believes two separate forces are at work.
S2.E1 ∙ Shell Game
A charming thief arrives in San Francisco with murderous plans to steal a priceless jewel collection. Ironside's assignment: to make sure the jewelry is transported into and out of a museum without incident.
S2.E2 ∙ Split Second to an Epitaph: Part 1
Ironside agrees to undergo exploratory surgery that could restore his ability to walk - or kill him. At that hospital, a masked assailant escapes with stolen drugs after murdering a security guard.
S2.E3 ∙ Split Second to an Epitaph: Part 2
Just before his spinal surgery, Ironside asks the public to help find the person who stole drugs from the hospital and killed a guard. The chief does not know that the same man has been planning for Ironside to die on the operating table.
S2.E4 ∙ The Sacrifice
Mark's eyewitness account casts suspicion of murder on a veteran police detective. When his alibi is disproved by Ironside, the sergeant stops at nothing to find someone who will confess to the crime.
S2.E5 ∙ Robert Phillips vs. the Man
The police commissioner asks Ironside to prove that an angry young African-American activist did not stab a racist shopkeeper to death during a riot.
S2.E6 ∙ Desperate Encounter
On vacation in the mountains, Ironside tries to find a former hunting buddy. The chief is then kidnapped by a wealthy rancher and his son, who have been plotting to steal the land belonging to Ironside's old friend.
S2.E7 ∙ I, the People
A notorious TV muckraker, now running for public office, is receiving death threats. Ironside, who can't stand the man or his tactics, is forced to investigate.
S2.E8 ∙ Price Tag: Death
A former detective, now living on the streets, alerts Ironside about the death of another homeless man. He joins Ironside on the case and discovers the death is connected to someone passing bogus checks.
S2.E9 ∙ An Obvious Case of Guilt
Numerous bits of evidence indicate Ironside's former girlfriend shot and killed her husband, but the chief wants all of the facts before an arrest is made. Ironside also thinks the "victim" might still be alive.
S2.E10 ∙ Reprise
Officer Whitfield is shot and critically wounded in a pawn-shop holdup. As Ironside works to solve the crime, he recalls how he first met Eve several years earlier while he was still walking and she was a rich society girl.
S2.E11 ∙ The Macabre Mr. Micawber
A millionaire is murdered, his chauffeur is severely beaten, and a smoke bomb is shot into Ironside's office - all in the presence of a talking mynah bird. Ironside and his team try to find out what the bird knows.
S2.E12 ∙ Side Pocket
Ironside writes a letter of recommendation for a pool hustler who plans to attend college. When the young man changes his mind and agrees to a high-stakes game against a legendary billiards champion, the chief wants to know why.
S2.E13 ∙ Sergeant Mike
A fierce but well-trained dog found at a murder scene did not belong to the victim. Ironside takes the German shepherd to his office; he wants to see if its owner can help identify the killer.
S2.E14 ∙ In Search of an Artist
After spotting a previously undiscovered portrait for sale, Ironside scours Mexico to find its presumed-dead painter and clear him of a murder charge.
S2.E15 ∙ Up, Down and Even
Eve's teenage niece faces reform school after her second arrest for possession of illegal drugs. As Ironside tries to find the source of supply, the girl escapes from Eve's home and disappears.
S2.E16 ∙ Why the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met on Thursday
Ironside's Aunt Victoria suspects foul play when one of her card-playing friends vanishes. Despite her nephew's admonitions, Victoria and her bridge partners shadow their missing friend's husband, who insists his wife left him.
S2.E17 ∙ Rundown on a Bum Rap
A friend of Mark is found drunk and bending over an assault victim. Even though his night-school law teacher and Ironside lend assistance, Mark becomes frustrated with the legal process as he tries to help his friend gain an acquittal.
S2.E18 ∙ The Prophecy
A society widow makes ominous predictions about Ironside and his assistants. Her visions start coming true as the team tries to recover a two-million-dollar painting being held for ransom.
S2.E19 ∙ A World of Jackals
A one-time movie star is missing, and the people who know her can't say where she went. Ironside and his assistants encounter forgery, extortion, and attempted murder in their efforts to find the young actress.
S2.E20 ∙ And Be My Love
Eve becomes romantically involved with a writer who seems to be living beyond his means. Ironside traces a theft ring to a telephone answering service used by Eve's boyfriend, who becomes the prime suspect in a series of home burglaries.
S2.E21 ∙ Moonlight Means Money
Ed Brown runs into officer Ray Leonard, an old friend moonlighting as a cab driver and finds a package of drugs in his taxi. Returning to find the previous fare, Leonard shoots the man three times, killing him. Suspected of drug trafficking, both policemen are promptly suspended pending an investigation. Ironside and his team also investigate to clear Ed.
S2.E22 ∙ A Drug on the Market
Stakeholders in a pharmaceutical company try to gain approval for a dangerous anti-rejection medicine just before a lucrative merger. Ironside thinks the owner knows who has been frightening her with accidents and strange voices.
S2.E23 ∙ Puzzlelock
Ex-cop Mel Grayson kills his wife and carries out an elaborate plan to mislead police and establish an alibi for himself. Mrs. Grayson appears to have been killed while he was dining with his old friend Ironside. Chief Ironside suspects Grayson immediately, explaining to Ed that her murder while her husband was with him is just too convenient.
S2.E24 ∙ The Tormentor
Ed's friend, a major-league baseball player, receives a series of threatening letters. He then claims an object was thrown at him in the outfield during a game. Ironside must find the culprit before the attacks become more deadly.
S2.E25 ∙ A Matter of Love and Death
A young woman is found dead from internal bleeding after an abortion. Using previous cases and clues provided by Ironside, Eve goes undercover to track down an abortionist who has had several other patients die.
S2.E26 ∙ Not with a Whimper, But a Bang
Ironside and his team, along with a U.S. Army bomb-disposal unit, respond to threats on a college campus. Although the devices found are relatively harmless, the chief believes that might change.
S3.E1 ∙ Alias Mr. Braithwaite
Mark's Aunt Ruby loses her life savings to a distinguished-looking con artist. In an effort to recover the money, Ironside sets up Ed and Eve as a wealthy couple in a resort so the thief can be caught trying another scam.
S3.E2 ∙ Goodbye to Yesterday
Ironside gets an unexpected call from Barbara Richards, the woman he once helped reclaim her life after she had lost her memory. Her daughter has been kidnapped and he agrees to help despite the fact he's still in love with her.
S3.E3 ∙ Poole's Paradise
Ed is captured by a convict who claims small-town sheriff Harvey Poole let him escape so he could be killed. Eve and Mark deal with some brutal deputies to help Ironside see if any prisoners died while in Poole's custody.
S3.E4 ∙ Eye of the Hurricane
Ironside and Mark are lured to the prison to become hostages in an escape attempt by three convicted armored-car thieves.
S3.E5 ∙ A Bullet for Mark
Mark is seriously wounded by a hired killer who was apparently targeting the chief. Ironside finds out otherwise as he follows the clues to a narcotics-smuggling ring.
S3.E6 ∙ Love My Enemy
In charge of security for Americans at a diplomatic conference, Ironside is asked by his stubborn Chinese counterpart to find out why the leader of the latter's delegation is dying. The chief suspects airborne poison, but who released it?
S3.E7 ∙ Seeing Is Believing
Five witnesses identify Ed as the winner of a fatal bar fight. Lacking an alibi for the sergeant, Ironside checks every possible lead including the victim's pregnant girlfriend.
S3.E8 ∙ The Machismo Bag
Ironside is asked to investigate the crimes of a violently angry Mexican-American student. Instead, at Mark's urging, the chief works to keep the young man out of jail.
S3.E9 ∙ Programmed for Danger
Ironside discovers three young blonde female assault victims all used the same computer dating service. Eve joins the club in an effort to catch the attacker.
S3.E10 ∙ Five Miles High
Any one of forty passengers could be trying to kill a reluctant witness Ironside and his team are escorting on a flight from Honolulu to San Francisco.
S3.E11 ∙ L'Chayim
Ironside goes into action when a Hebrew school is vandalized. The rabbi, an acquaintance of the chief, is most concerned about a missing Torah. The sacred scroll, it turns out, is being held for ransom.
S3.E12 ∙ Beyond a Shadow
A wealthy widow tries to commit suicide after a jury fails to convict her of murdering her husband. Ironside hopes to clear her name since he once saved her life.
S3.E13 ∙ Stolen on Demand
Part of a play sheet found in a warehouse shows a theft ring includes one of the school-age basketball players coached by Mark. He asks Ironside to let him find out who it is.
S3.E14 ∙ Dora
On Ironside's advice, produce-company owner Dora Copeland refuses a loan from a man with ties to organized crime. The man retaliates by trying to frame Dora's son, a struggling lawyer, for attempted rape of a young woman.
S3.E15 ∙ Beware the Wiles of the Stranger
A group of gambling-house robbers needs a dead body for their plan to work. Their accomplice has second thoughts about the scheme when she meets Mark.
S3.E16 ∙ Eden Is the Place We Leave
A tormented Samoan boxer accidentally kills an opponent in the ring and goes into hiding. His sponsor Ironside tries to persuade the fighter's family leader to let the young man give up the sport.
S3.E17 ∙ The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place
Ed becomes close to a new movie star who may have been given the key to a safe-deposit box by a criminal moments before he was killed. Ironside searches for the dead man's cohorts before they can harm the girl.
S3.E18 ∙ Return to Fiji
The chief's vacation is disrupted when his host, a World War II buddy, goes missing. Ironside allows himself to be kidnapped as well so he can find his ailing friend and foil a plot to steal two million dollars' worth of gold.
S3.E19 ∙ Ransom
Eve is kidnapped along with her friend, who is being held for $50,000 by a group of hippies. When the friend's husband takes back the money, Ironside wonders who masterminded the plot. Eve, meanwhile, looks for a way to escape.
S3.E20 ∙ One Hour to Kill
With his assistants away, the chief receives a phone call telling him to expect a deadly visitor within sixty minutes. Ironside spends the remaining time improvising self defense without weapons - and trying to identify the caller.
S3.E21 ∙ Warrior's Return
A Native American parolee for whom Ironside arranged a job in a jewelry store is suspected of burglarizing it. He was last seen with his cousin, who had just dropped out of school. Ironside and Mark search for both men.
S3.E22 ∙ Little Jerry Jessup
Jerry, an adolescent boy, goes into shock after his mother is murdered. Ironside looks after him and tries to convince his vengeful father not to escape from prison.
S3.E23 ∙ Good Will Tour
When the crown prince of an Eastern European country slips out of his consulate, Eve stays with him. Ed is assigned to keep an eye on them, but someone gave his car two flat tires. Ironside follows to make sure the prince is safe.
S3.E24 ∙ Little Dog, Gone
As a favor to the dog's owner, Commissioner Randall asks Ironside to locate a missing hound. When the team investigates, they find two dognappers are capturing numerous canines and demanding huge rewards.
S3.E25 ∙ Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us
Dayton, who was convicted of causing the death of Ed's fiancée seven years ago, is paroled. Although Tom personally asks him for forgiveness, Sergeant Brown broods over the possibility that Dayton will strike again.
S4.E1 ∙ A Killing Will Occur
Ironside is told by an anonymous caller that he is about to commit murder. Multiple calls from the same person give the chief details about the potential shooting - and time to prevent it.
S4.E2 ∙ No Game for Amateurs
A key witness is gunned down by a young man trying to evade the military draft. The shooter's pregnant, widowed girlfriend may be the only clue to his whereabouts as Ironside strives to catch him before he flees to Canada.
S4.E3 ∙ The Happy Dreams of Hollow Men
An overnight snowstorm strands Ironside in a mountain cabin with an architect who is addicted to heroin. The chief tries to help his friend through withdrawal while working to keep both of them alive.
S4.E4 ∙ The People Against Judge McIntire
Leland McIntyre asks Ironside to find out who is trying to kill him. Eve finds several students connected with the eight-year-old murder case the judge is reenacting in Mark's law class. Ed sits in so he can be a bodyguard for McIntyre.
S4.E5 ∙ Noel's Gonna Fly
Mid-life crisis: businessman Noel Seymour fails to appear in court and vanishes after taking $5,000 out of his bank account. Ironside tries to catch up to Noel before he hurts himself or someone else.
S4.E6 ∙ The Lonely Way to Go
The investment manager for the police pension fund is charged with murdering his secretary. The man says he did it, but Ironside is puzzled by gaps in his confession and by large amounts of money the secretary had collected.
S4.E7 ∙ Check, Mate and Murder: Part 1
While in Quebec for a police convention, Mark is nearly killed by French separatists. Ironside's involvement in the case is complicated when the man arrested as the bomber is the son of a former lover.
S4.E8 ∙ Check, Mate, and Murder: Part 2
Now fully involved in the bombing case by the French Canadian separatists, Ed goes undercover while the rest try to stop an impending bombing of a holiday parade.
S4.E9 ∙ Too Many Victims
The daughter of a close friend is injured in a traffic accident. After discovering she was under the influence of drugs, Ironside's group works to uncover the drug ring supplying kids with drugs.
S4.E10 ∙ The Man on the Inside
When it becomes clear a police raid was tipped off, the evidence begins to show that Ironside may have been responsible. Ed joins the internal investigation that will either clear - or convict - Ironside.
S4.E11 ∙ Backfire
As a law school project Mark takes on a review of the possible conviction of an innocent man. The convict claims he was framed by the police Sergeant leading the investigation: Ed Brown.
S4.E12 ∙ The Laying on of Hands
Pablo Esteban, a young faith healer from a small Mexican village, lays hands upon the willing in big cities across 1970 America. Pablo lays hands upon a friend of Ironside who convalesced with him and was similarly disabled in San Francisco. When she regains her ability to walk, Ironside, Ed and Mark attempt to investigate whether a miracle or human avarice is responsible.
S4.E13 ∙ This Could Blow Your Mind
Ironside in a battle of psychological wits against a mob hit man who has the wife and kids of a hypnotist he thinks can finger him.
S4.E14 ∙ Blackout
One evening, Chief Ironside and Mark Sanger visit a precinct where the Chief worked as a young officer. Initially, the precinct Captain, played by 70's NFL hero, Roman Gabriel, greets the Chief formally, as if he thinks Ironside is there to meddle. In contrast, Ironside's old partner, played by veteran actor, Jack Albertson, is happy to see Ironside. Suddenly, there is a city-wide blackout; now, the young Captain is relieved to have Ironside on site and even provides him an office. There is a rush to organize and institute emergency protocol but the Chief remains unfazed. With the help of his old partner, Ironside and team investigate events occurring inside of the precinct. They find information that may connect events inside with the blackout outside.
S4.E15 ∙ The Quincunx
The team goes to see Eve's friend perform at a local bar where she is performing in a trio. After a delay in starting time, the two male trio members who are brothers announce to the audience that the friend will not be able to perform that night. When she can't get in touch with her friend and the body of a young murder victim that may be related to the band is discovered, Eve becomes involved with one of the brothers.
S4.E16 ∙ From Hrûska, with Love
Ironside and his team have to escort a Czechoslovakian refuge to Mexico where she is to be traded for an American scientist. But it appears that someone has blown their cover and that a third party is now involved.
S4.E17 ∙ The Target
Ironside and crew assist an ex-convict whose son has been kidnapped by a militant group so the ex-convict will supply them with explosives from the construction company at which the man has been employed.
S4.E18 ∙ A Killing at the Track
Ironside is asked by the Commisioner to investigate a possible race fixing scandal at the racetrack. As part of the investigation Eve has to rekindle a romance with a former lover.
S4.E19 ∙ Escape
Ed and Eve go south of the border to interview Lonnie Burnett, someone Eve helped clear of a murder charge in the US but now faces a similar charge in a foreign country. A muckraking reporter also shows up and complicates their situation.
S4.E20 ∙ Love, Peace, Brotherhood and Murder
Ironside, who has invested money in a controversial stage show, brings his team to a rehearsal when it's discovered one of its performers has died mysteriously from a drug overdose. With such a large cast there are any number of suspects.
S4.E21 ∙ The Riddle in Room Six
When a jury on a mobster's trial becomes hopelessly deadlocked, Ironside tries to find out if the one holdout has been bribed. But before they can start they must determine just who the holdout is.
S4.E22 ∙ The Summer Soldier
An elderly Armenian tobacconist is being blackmailed by two nephews who are using his shop to manufacture cigarettes laced with PCP.
S4.E23 ∙ Accident
Mark, who has been up for three nights on an extended stakeout, accidentally hits an elderly woman. Mark befriends her and gradually uncovers her secret past. Meanwhile Ed works on a separate jewel heist case.
S4.E24 ∙ Lesson in Terror
An underground terrorist group breaks a member out of jail. The son of a prominent lawyer appears to have a connection to the group but Ironside isn't sure if he is a willing participant in their schemes.
S4.E25 ∙ Grandmother's House
Ironside investigates a purse-snatching, but not just the usual petty crime: the victim is the widow of the former head of the Police Commission, and the purse contained a little cash . . . and $200,000 in jewelry.
S4.E26 ∙ Walls Are Waiting
After a parole officer is shot at, Ironside finds the list of possible suspects is quite long. A drug pusher may be responsible since he is especially hard on them after his sister was confined to an institution after a bad drug experience.
S5.E1 ∙ The Priest Killer
A police chief who is confined to a wheelchair and a former cop who is now a priest team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests.
S5.E2 ∙ Contract: Kill Ironside
A hit man is given the job of killing Ironside before he can testify before the Grand Jury, and the hit man has well-deserved the reputation of never missing his mark.
S5.E3 ∙ The Professionals
After one of those delivered dies from a reaction to a drug, Ironside investigates a ring that uses a phony cab to deliver men to a sham party at motels where the men are drugged and their credit cards stolen
S5.E4 ∙ The Gambling Game
Ironside is trying to take down an illegal gambling operation. But when there's a raid the people in charge somehow find out and clean it out. Ironside suspects that someone in the department is tipping them off. And he has to deal with Fran Belding, a policewoman who is determined to take them down because she thinks that someone in the operation killed her father a cop. And Ironside is feeling weak, so he sees his doctor who tells him that he has a condition which needs to be treated and will require a long recuperation so he puts it off.
S5.E5 ∙ Ring of Prayer
After a friend of Ironside's suddenly changes his mind on the parole of a convict, Ironside suspects something is wrong and starts to investigate the woman he is often seen with.
S5.E6 ∙ In the Line of Duty
Inconsistencies in the story of a widow of a policemen murdered by a man the policeman formerly arrested for drug possession suggests the widow might know more about the murder than she is revealing.
S5.E7 ∙ Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells
Ironside and his team receive a surprise visit from his Korean foster daughter who came to San Francisco to marry the young man she loves. But no one knows that the groom-to-be is in debt to a pair of local loan sharks.
S5.E8 ∙ Murder Impromptu
Ironside attends an improvisation theatre show. During the show, one of the actors is murdered.
S5.E9 ∙ Dear Fran...
Officer Fran Belding mourns the death of her cousin, who took his own life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge - or did he?
S5.E10 ∙ If a Body See a Body
Ed tosses the football with Mark during a picnic at Bayview Park when they meet Craig Carlton, a wide-eyed 8-year-old with freckles and a flash camera. Picnicking nearby with his parents, Ted and Sally, who have modern ideas on child rearing, Craig snaps lots of photographs. He is an earnest boy who wants to be a Cub Scout and does not believe in telling lies. While looking for the football, Ed stumbles upon a green Hefty bag, red blanket and dead Caucasian male. Before Ed can blink, Craig snaps a photograph of Ed and the corpse. Ed identifies himself as a police detective and swears his impressionable young "partner" to secrecy, but Craig is agog with fantasies about spies and secret agents. Later, after debrief at HQ, the only fantasy is the dead body. Homicide Sgt. Larry Carr, cannot find a dead body at the park. The Chief relates facts regarding a kidnapping and Ed believes it is tied to the elusive corpse. Ed receives a package w containing a Ken doll wearing a suit and wrapped in green plastic and Sgt. Carr sings 'Bring Back My Body to Me' (to the tune of an old standard) to tease one very unamused detective. Ironside is tasked with solving these various issues before Sgt. Brown can force Sgt. Carr to eat the doll, "arm by arm and leg by leg". In the absence of Fran, an all-male team works with considerable participation by Craig, to prevent further mayhem.
S5.E11 ∙ Good Samaritan
After an AWOL soldier saves Brown from a gun battle and gives first aid for Brown's leg wound, Ironside's crew helps exonerate the soldier for a murder for which he has been framed by a drug ring operating inside the military.
S5.E12 ∙ Gentle Oaks
Ironside goes undercover at a nursing home where patients are turning up dead.
S5.E13 ∙ License to Kill
After a killer of a policeman receives a hung jury, the policeman's partner is setup by the head of the killer's loan shark ring to have the policeman's partner look like he has killed the policeman's killer in cold blood.
S5.E14 ∙ Class of '57
An old classmate of Ed's is on the run after assaulting another man. Ed's investigation into the case leads him to reconnect with old classmates, including an old girlfriend who may know where he's hiding.
S5.E15 ∙ No Motive for Murder
The son of an old friend, fearing that his father's life is in danger, asks the Chief to go to Tokyo. Once there Ironside finds his old friend wheelchair-bound as a result of an accident, and begins to work on his own theory about who might have hired a hitman to kill such a respected old man.
S5.E16 ∙ But When She Was Bad, ...
A woman appears to be the target of a stalker who has no apparent motive for attacking her. The stalker may be just a ruse due to her connection to a former cop killer recently released from prison.
S5.E17 ∙ Unreasonable Facsimile
Ironside must determine whether a former bank robber he recommended for parole is back in the business or if there is a copycat out there trying to frame the parolee.
S5.E18 ∙ Find a Victim
A series of break-ins are reported without anything being stolen and the evidence seems to point to a halfway house being run by an ex-con.
S5.E19 ∙ And Then There Was One
Two Vietnam veterans are attacked using a fragmentation grenade, killing one, and an attempt is made on a third. Ironside decides to use Ed as bait to catch the assailant.
S5.E20 ∙ Death by the Numbers
One by one members of a parole board are being murdered. On the assumption that the remaining ones will be next, Ironside goes undercover and pretends to be an artist, whom he finds to be an eccentric and irascible man.
S5.E21 ∙ Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder
A highly impressionable 9-year-old girl (Jodie Foster) thinks she has cast a spell which caused a mean man to fall and suffer a fatal skull fracture. She is even more upset when a huge, bald, man with severe mental problems (Lee Paul) says he shoved the victim to the ground because 'he made me mad'. Ironside and his team work to prove that neither the girl or the bald man killed the victim - and he finds that someone came upon the victim after he fell and finished him off with a blow from a blunt instrument.
S5.E22 ∙ Achilles' Heel
The son of a prominent judge is framed in the murder of a young woman.
S5.E23 ∙ His Fiddlers Three
A music teacher is murdered and, suspecting that he might be a victim of foul play, left a clue to the killer's identity in a mysterious code contained in a piece of recorded music.
S5.E24 ∙ A Man Named Arno
Ironside is on the trail of mysterious, illusive high level heroin dealer while trying to discover the reasons for an apparent urgent, clandestine visit from an old friend and discovers that there might be a link between two investigations.
S6.E1 ∙ Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown
While in Los Angeles to testify for a trial against gangster Frank Harmon, Ed is shot and falls off the balcony of his hotel room. He is then taken to the Craig Institute where he undergoes emergency surgery. Although the bullet wounds were non-life threatening, Ed suffers a broken back in the fall and some damage to his spine. The scarring leaves him paralyzed and only an experimental surgical procedure is the only option to regaining his mobility. Also, even though all the evidence points to Harmon, Ironside has doubts that he was the person responsible for the attempted hit. Also, the chief begins having flashbacks to the night he was shot and paralyzed.
S6.E2 ∙ The Savage Sentry
A thief has managed to steal from the most secure locations, even those guarded by vicious guard dogs. Ironside has to figure out how he has managed to subdue the dogs.
S6.E3 ∙ Programmed for Panic
After the savage murder of a young woman, Ironside takes to the airwaves to openly discuss the shocking case, hoping it will drive the murderer out into the open.
S6.E4 ∙ Down Two Roads
Mark finally graduates from law school. He takes an interest in a janitor from the school who finds himself in jail accused of grand theft. Meanwhile Ironside struggles with the reality that Mark may eventually leave for his new career.
S6.E5 ∙ Camera... Action... Murder!
Ironside keeps receiving 8mm films in the mail. Someone is filming the murders of random women and then brazenly mailing them to Ironside.
S6.E6 ∙ Riddle Me Death
A young woman convinces Ironside that her father's d death was not just an accident. Someone was following him and very interested in the package he was carrying.
S6.E7 ∙ Nightmare Trip
While in Los Angeles for a prisoner exchange, Ed gets mugged by a couple of thugs and thrown down a hillside. With no I.D. the local cops throw him into jail.
S6.E8 ∙ Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?
Ironside seeks to exonerate a man wrongfully convicted of murder by slowly breaking apart a web of lies and possible misconduct by the District Attorney.
S6.E9 ∙ The Countdown
An anonymous man forces a government scientist to wear a belt rigged with explosives with a demand that three terrorists be released from prison in exchange for the key to remove the belt.
S6.E10 ∙ The Deadly Gamesmen
Two rich, bored ne'er-do-wells try to outdo each other in a series of escalating crimes. The pattern of the crimes make no sense until Ironside connects them to another game of strategy.
S6.E11 ∙ Who'll Cry for My Baby
After witnessing a distraught father's anguished plight, Ironside investigates the death of the man's daughter and finds himself becoming too emotionally involved in finding her killer.
S6.E12 ∙ Cold Hard Cash
Ed goes undercover as a kidnapper when Ironside learns of a scheme to kidnap the daughter of a movie star.
S6.E13 ∙ Shadow Soldiers
While in London for a conference, Ed witnesses the murder of the next Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. Ed then becomes the assassin's next target.
S6.E14 ∙ Ollinger's Last Case
Ed goes to a small coastal fishing town to investigate the death of an old friend, a retired police officer, and finds the hostile locals very reluctant to help him.
S6.E15 ∙ A Special Person
While attending a party to set up a magazine interview, Ironside witnesses the near murder of it's playboy publisher.
S6.E16 ∙ The Caller
After Fran temporarily moves into a friend's apartment to house sit, she starts getting threatening phone calls.
S6.E17 ∙ Love Me in December
Small-town bias against a May-December romance is blocking Ironside's attempt to clear a murder suspect.
S6.E18 ∙ The Ghost of the Dancing Doll
A friend of Ed's invites him to go fishing but when he arrives at the dock the friend is not only late, he appears to have completely vanished.
S6.E19 ∙ All About Andrea
A controversial feminist author is nearly shot after one of her appearances. Fran is assigned to protect her while the others search for the shooter.
S6.E20 ∙ Another Shell Game
An old adversary of Ironside, newly released from prison, plans to get back at Ironside by planning an elaborate art heist, with an unusual twist.
S6.E21 ∙ All Honorable Men
On a Monday morning a bank manager discovers that they were robbed. As difficult as it is to figure out how the thief got into the vault, they also have to determine how the thief got out.
S6.E22 ∙ The Best Laid Plans
While at a bank to discuss his portfolio, Ironside finds himself right in the middle of a bank heist as three men wait for an armored truck to arrive.
S6.E23 ∙ A Game of Showdown
While staying at a remote lodge during a fishing trip Ironside and Ed become involved in a murder investigation.
S7.E1 ∙ Confessions: From a Lady of the Night
Ironside becomes embroiled in a scandal, both personal and professional, when a scandal rag prints a story by a lady of the evening claiming he had slept with her and that he failed to properly work a case.
S7.E2 ∙ Murder by One
A friend of Fran's finds her only son dead in his locked room. The death is initially presumed a suicide, but assorted clues make his death look more like murder.
S7.E3 ∙ In the Forests of the Night
An old love of Ironside comes back to town after a number of years. Ironside is sure he knows why she's back and it may involve the theft of a valuable piece of art.
S7.E4 ∙ Fragile Is the House of Cards
A lawyer, who often locks horns with Ironside, shows up at his office after having been beaten up and with no memory of what happened.
S7.E5 ∙ The Armageddon Gang
A think tank group has been working on military assignments. A member who was having second thoughts about working on military projects becomes missing. Is he a spy or a defector? Only Ironside can solve the mystery.
S7.E6 ∙ House of Terror
A couple vanishes after spending the night in a haunted house. Then Ironside suddenly disappears. Can the rest of the gang figure out what happened and who did it?
S7.E7 ∙ The Helping Hand
Fran discovers that her maid is an illegal immigrant. The maid's sister dies because of the organization controlling the illegal workers. The organization wants to kill the maid before she contacts the police. Then a member of the organization is stabbed to death. Did the maid kill the man for revenge of her sister's death? Will the illegal group treating immigrants like slaves be shut down? Only Ironside will get to the bottom of it.
S7.E8 ∙ Downhill All the Way
Two part episode. A boy witnesses a murder of a campaign manager for a politician just before an election. There is a leak inside the police department. Ironside retires from his job and poses as a drunk and a bum. Ironside meets new "friends" and one of them tries to poison Ironside before he can find the leak in the police department.
S7.E9 ∙ Mind for Murder
A psychic performing in a nightclub knows suspiciously specific details about a string of arson fires. He insists he's innocent of the crimes and wants only to help capture the real arsonist. Can he overcome Ironside's ironclad skepticism?
S7.E10 ∙ The Hidden Man
A returning POW from Vietnam believes he saw his father at the airport. The man is supposed to be dead and since he was a decorated police officer, Ironside decides to investigate.
S7.E11 ∙ Double-Edged Corner
When two men are killed in a robbery, Ironside reluctantly turns to a long dormant informant. His involvement not only threatens his life but also his wife's and daughter's.
S7.E12 ∙ The Last Payment
Mark's friend owes money to a loan shark. Mark goes undercover to catch the loan shark and help his friend.
S7.E13 ∙ Friend or Foe
After a slam dunk case goes bad in court Ironside discovers a package of heroin critical to the case has gone missing. Lt. Reese and his partner become suspects and when his partner suddenly dies, Reese becomes the main suspect.
S7.E14 ∙ Two Hundred Large
After Ironside helps thwart a botched bank robbery, he decides to help one of the robbers when he discovers the secret motive for his involvement.
S7.E15 ∙ Once More for Joey
What originally began as an investigation into musical piracy turns gruesome when one of the pirated musicians is electrocuted.
S7.E16 ∙ Terror on Grant Avenue
Ironside investigates when the son of an old friend is accused of murdering a Chinatown businessman.
S7.E17 ∙ Class of '40
When Ironside returns to his home town for his class reunion, he is drawn into solving the murder of his former classmate but soon the murderer targets Ironside.
S7.E18 ∙ The Taste of Ashes
An old friend of Ironside's must deal with the sudden reappearance of a long lost daughter that everyone had believed was dead.
S7.E19 ∙ A Death in Academe
A college coed kills herself and many people blame her philosophy professor and his existential teachings.
S7.E20 ∙ Close to the Heart
While driving his van Ironside is struck by a woman while she is having a mild heart attack. Once in the hospital they discover her problem was caused by a bullet but she has no memory of being shot.
S7.E21 ∙ Come Eleven, Come Twelve
While Ed is escorting a prisoner back to San Francisco the plane has to detour to another airfield. It gets even worse when he realizes there's a killer after them.
S7.E22 ∙ Riddle at 24,000
A doctor is suspicious of the in-flight death of a private pilot. The quirky doctor, who likes to mix up various home-brewed alcoholic beverages such as green bourbon, and Ironside make a good team as they try to figure out what would cause the pilot's heart attack at the controls (his wife brought the plane down with much difficulty). The only major clue is a thermos with a glass inside, which shattered while the plane was still in the air.
S7.E23 ∙ Amy Prentiss: Part 1
Universal TV was at the height of its love affair with police procedurals in 1974, introducing Amy Prentiss as new police series with its two-part pilot "bottled" in the veteran police series Ironside. In this Part 1 series premiere, a very pre-TJ Hooker William Shatner plays Det. Lieutenant Parkins, in charge of the S.F.P.D. Narcotics Squad, and becomes the subject of an internal investigation for blowing a critical operation. This causes the narcotics probe aimed at nabbing top kingpin Zino Bates to be temporarily stalled. In the meantime, an ailing Chief of Police is forced into retirement, creating a vacancy; and now Lieutenant Amy Prentiss (Jessica Walter) is faced with making a decision which will alter the trajectory of her career forever. Raymond Burr and the Ironside cast are in the mix supporting the new cast; the would-be regulars included a pre-Barney Miller Jack Soo and a pre-Police Academy Art Metrano.
S8.E2 ∙ Raise the Devil: Part 2
A psychic says only exorcism can save a slain woman's daughter.
S8.E3 ∙ What's New with Mark?
Mark passes the Bar and takes on his first case. Unfortunately, Mark's defense of his client may impinge on Ironside's investigation of a hood's extortion racket. Meanwhile Mark and Diana decide to get married.
S8.E4 ∙ Trial by Terror
A woman reluctantly turns to Ironside for protection after she witnesses the murder of her father, a man who was set to testify in the trial of a drug kingpin.
S8.E5 ∙ Cross Doublecross
Fran's boyfriend, a San Francisco police detective, is accused of killing an unarmed man that was supposedly trying to kill him.
S8.E6 ∙ Setup: Danger!
Ed, Mark, and Fran arrive at the office and find the Chief missing, the apparent victim of a kidnapping. Incredibly, the kidnapper asks Ironside for a favor.
S8.E7 ∙ The Last Cotillion
A wealthy socialite is the main suspect in the murder of two of her former beaus but Ironside suspects she is actually innocent.
S8.E8 ∙ Run Scared
A young runaway named Peggy is working as part of a mime act in a department store window with her boyfriend, a small time criminal named Jamie. While she is performing she witnesses a murder and calls her godfather, who happens to be Ironside. However, just before she talks to him her boyfriend hangs the phone up and the two immediately go on the run with the killer hot on their trail. Ironside then tracks them to Los Angeles and before he gets them into protective custody Jamie is killed. It now is a race against time to find Peggy and arrest the killer, who has a connection to her.
S8.E9 ∙ Act of Vengeance
While trying to set up a home for children of incarcerated felons, Ironside has to deal with a potential gang war.
S8.E10 ∙ The Far Side of the Fence
Ironside meets with a snitch about a planned heist and the corrupt undercover cop who's providing information to the gang. When they're fired upon, Ironside fires back, hitting one of the gang, who is killed. But when the autopsy comes back, it's revealed that the slug went all the way through the man -- far too powerful for Ironside's .38 Police Special) and came from a different angle (Ironside was facing the man and the slug came from the side). To catch the gang and find out who the corrupt cop is, Ed Brown volunteers to go undercover, complete with fake mustache, and meets the gang leader -- who carries a gargantuan Magnum. To avenge the death of the gang member, who is also the corrupt cop's brother, Ed is given a rifle and told to assassinate Ironside through his apartment window. But Ironside has a trick up his sleeve . . .
S8.E11 ∙ The Over-the-Hill Blues
A police detective wants to pin a recent jewelry heist on a notorious burglar in hopes of making Lieutenant. But Ironside isn't so sure he's responsible.
S8.E12 ∙ Speak No Evil
One of Ed's friends, a priest that works with at-risk kids, becomes the target of a killer, presumably because someone admitted to committing a murder during a confession.
S8.E13 ∙ Fall of an Angel
An ex-con leaves his six year-old son in Ironside's van and goes into hiding after he kills the son of an underworld assassin in self-defense.
S8.E14 ∙ The Visiting Fireman
A Scotland Yard police inspector (who is an old chess-playing buddy to Ironside) comes to San Francisco - ostensibly to investigate a link between Americans there and a series of bank robberies in London. Actually, he is the leader of the robbery gang, and he also has a serious heart condition.
S8.E15 ∙ The Return of Eleanor Rogers
A judge trying a case is the subject of a series of death threats. His wife, who has a shady past, may have something to do with it.
S8.E16 ∙ The Faded Image
Fran is going to night-school art classes. Returning to the classroom to pick something up, she sees a clay model of a woman's face horribly mangled by a set of fingernails. Fran leaves again and is immediately set upon by someone who beats her comatose and leaves her for dead. Fran recovers enough to tell about what she saw, and Ironside's crew tries to figure out the motive. The clay sculpture was apparently of a now-murdered woman and her killer attacked Fran, but nobody saw the attack and Ironside must question everyone in the art class to find a psychotic.
S8.E17 ∙ The Organizer
A mobster from New York arrives in California offering to organize local gangsters for a piece of their action. Ironside's team goes undercover to stop him.
S8.E18 ∙ The Rolling Y
A rancher's son, just off of probation and often helped by Ironside, is accused of cattle rustling and murder. Ironside goes to help and butts heads with the local police and the boy's father.
S8.E19 ∙ A Matter of Life or Death
When Ironside's friend for whom Ironside was a rival for the man's wife is accidentally killed by the man's past lover, a corrupt lawyer tells the woman to avoid reporting it despite an destitute innocent man is on trial for the murder.
