Ironside

Ironside

1967 - 1975Crime, Drama, MysteryTV-PG8 Seasons191 Episodes

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

Watch Now

Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

29 Episodes • 1967

Season 2

Season 2

25 Episodes • 1968

Season 3

Season 3

25 Episodes • 1969

Season 4

Season 4

26 Episodes • 1970

Season 5

Season 5

24 Episodes • 1971

Season 6

Season 6

23 Episodes • 1972

Season 7

Season 7

23 Episodes • 1973

Season 8

Season 8

16 Episodes • 1974

Episodes - Season 1

Ironside

1. Ironside

60m

While on vacation, Chief of Detectives Robert Ironside of the San Francisco police force is shot by an unknown assailant and paralyzed from the waist down. Fearing he will be forced to retire he convinces the powers that be to to make him a Special Consultant to the Commisioner of Police, who is an old friend. With his team, consisting of police detective Ed Brown, police woman Eve Whitfield, and reformed Juvenile offender Mark Sanger. he tries to find the gunman who put him in a wheelchair.

Message from Beyond

2. Message from Beyond

60m

A substantial sum of money is stolen from a race-track, whilst Ironside and his team are present, and the Chief is determined to crack the case. The only clue is a car, crashed by the inside man, but if it has a secret to tell it is not going to give it up easily.

The Leaf in the Forest

3. The Leaf in the Forest

60m

Lonely old women are being strangled, and Chief Ironside believes that there is more to it than just a serial killer at work. Setting Eve up as a potential victim requires a little ingenuity, but it might just prove to be worth the effort.

Dead Man's Tale

4. Dead Man's Tale

60m

A notorious gangster is preparing to turn State's evidence when he is murdered, but Ironside pretends that the man is still alive, and ready to talk, in order to catch the killer and nail a major criminal.

Eat, Drink and Be Buried

5. Eat, Drink and Be Buried

60m

When TV personality Francesca Kirby starts to receive death threats, her old friend Robert T. Ironside is soon on the case. When the threats become attempts on her life, he begins to delve deeper. Will he like what he finds?

The Taker

6. The Taker

60m

A policeman known to Ironside for some years is shot dead whilst on an investigation. The evidence points to him being crooked, but the Chief is determined to prove otherwise.

An Inside Job

7. An Inside Job

60m

Two killers break out of their cell in the precinct and hold Ironside and Eve Whitfield hostage, forcing the Chief to come up with a fool-proof plan for their escape. As always Ironside has a trick or two of his own up his sleeve.

Tagged for Murder

8. Tagged for Murder

60m

An apparently accidental death occurs, but Ed risks his shield on the certainty that it was murder. When Ironside gets on the case a murky tale of murdered ex-servicemen and an old robbery is soon uncovered.

Let My Brother Go

9. Let My Brother Go

60m

Ironside is having problems keeping a group of local kids on the straight and narrow, and enlists the help of football star Bat Masterson, an old friend of Mark's. Bat's brother Joe, however, is a rather less savoury character, and Bat has to choose which side he is on.

Light at the End of the Journey

10. Light at the End of the Journey

60m

A recently blinded woman is witness to a murder, and not knowing that she couldn't see him the murderer attempts to silence her. Ironside is on hand to protect her, and also to help her to come to terms with her new way of life.

Created by: Collier Young

Top Cast

Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr

Robert Ironside

Don Galloway

Don Galloway

Ed Brown

Don Mitchell

Don Mitchell

Mark Sanger

Barbara Anderson

Barbara Anderson

Eve Whitfield

Elizabeth Baur

Fran Belding

Available on: NBC

More Like This

Baretta

Baretta

Monk

Monk

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip

Barnaby Jones

Barnaby Jones

The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files

Grace

Grace

Blackshore

Blackshore

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

A Nero Wolfe Mystery