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Ironside - Episode Guide

Season 1

Ironside

Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Mar 28, 1967 (120 min)

Ironside

San Francisco's Chief of Detectives, taking his first vacation in 25 years, is shot by an unknown assailant. He emerges from a coma to find that he is paralyzed from the waist down, but convinces the authorities to allow him to continue his police work as an unsalaried consultant, working with two officers. On clearing the first suspect of his attempted assassination, he is so impressed that he hires the man as his personal assistant and driver. He and his new 3-person team then get on the trail of the real assassin.

The Taker

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1967

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Season 2

Shell Game

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1968

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Reprise

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1968

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Puzzlelock

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1969

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Season 3

L'Chayim

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1969

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Dora

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1970

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Ransom

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1970

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Season 4

The Lonely Way to Go

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1970

The Lonely Way to Go

Jason Banning, the police pension fund's investment manager, confesses to the murder of his secretary. However, Ironside suspects that there's more to the story.

Check, Mate; and Murder (Part 1)

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1970

Check, Mate; and Murder (Part 1)

French separatists attack a police convention in Quebec, and the lead bomber is the son of Ironside's former lover.

Too Many Victims

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1970

Too Many Victims

A drug dealer is targeting kids, and the daughter of a friend is injured while under the inflkuence.

The Man on the Inside

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1970

The Man on the Inside

Ed ends up investigating Ironside when the police suspect that Ironside tipped off criminals targeted by a police raid.

Backfire

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1970

Backfire

For his law school class, Mark ends up reviewing the case of a convicted man who may be innocent... and who was put away based on Ed's investigation.

The Laying on of Hands

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1970

The Laying on of Hands

Pablito Esteban, a nine-year-old boy with miraculous healing powers, heals a friend of Ironside's and the team set out to determine if the boy's powers are real.

This Could Blow Your Mind

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1970

This Could Blow Your Mind

A mob hitman abducts the family of a hypnotist to keep the man from testifying against him.

Blackout

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1970

Blackout

Ironside has Mark take him for a visit to his old precinct house. When a blackout hits the area, Ironside ends up in charge and working with his old parnter, Dave Spangler.

The Quincunx

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1971

The Quincunx

Ironside and his team get drawn into the investigation of a murder involving a band… and Eve gets involved with one of the members.

From Hruska, with Love

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1971

From Hruska, with Love

The team gets involved with international espionage when they take a refugee to Mexico to exchange for an American scientist. However, someone blows their cover and comes after them.

The Target

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1971

The Target

A militant group abducts Sonny Brokaw to force his father, ex-convict Gordy Brokaw, to steal explosives from his construction site for them.

A Killing at the Track

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1971

A Killing at the Track

While investigating a race-fixing scandal at the track, Eve gets involved with an old lover.

Escape

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1971

Escape

Ed and Eve go to Mexico to help out Lonnie Burnett, who is facing a murder charge like the one that Eve cleared him of years earlier.

Love, Peace Brotherhood, and Murder

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1971

Love, Peace Brotherhood, and Murder

After an actor dies of a drug OD during a stage rehearsal of a controversial show, Ironside and the team investigate.

The Riddle in Room Six

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1971

The Riddle in Room Six

Ironside tries to figure out which juror on a mobster's trial is being bribed to deadlock the case.

The Summer Soldier

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1971

The Summer Soldier

Two men blackmail their uncle Arschag into lacing the tobacco he sells with PCP.

Accident

Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1971

Accident

Mark befriends an old woman who he accidentally hit with the van.

Lesson in Terror

Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1971

Lesson in Terror

A son of a prominent lawyer is apparently connected to an underground terrorist group, but Ironside has his doubts as to whether the connection is willing.

Grandmother's House

Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1971

Grandmother's House

Ironside is called in to investigate a purse-snatching. The victim: Margaret Brainard, the widow of the former Police Commissioner. The theft: $200,000 worth of jewelry.

Walls Are Waiting

Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1971

Walls Are Waiting

Ironside tries to track down the shooter of a parole officer with numerous enemies.

Season 5

Contract: Kill Ironside

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1971

Contract: Kill Ironside

A hitman who never misses is hired to kill Ironside.

The Professionals

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1971

The Professionals

Ironside and his team investigate crooks who use a phony cab to deliver men to a motel, drug them unconscious, and steal their credit cards.

The Gambling Game

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1971

The Gambling Game

Ironside takes on a gambling ring that has an inside man on the force. Meanwhile, new policewoman Fran Belding goes after the ring because they supposedly killed her father.

Ring of Prayer

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1971

Ring of Prayer

Ironside investigates a woman apparently responsible for his friend's change of mind concerning a convict's parole.

In the Line of Duty

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1971

In the Line of Duty

Ironsijde tries to figure out why a widow who testified to the death of her policeman husband at the hands of someone he previously busted might be lying.

Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1971

Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells

Ironside's Korean foster daughter Chong Lee comes to America to marry her fiance, and the team discovers that he's in debt to two loan sharks.

Murder Impromptu

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1971

Murder Impromptu

Ironside attends an improvisation show and witnesses a murder. Now he has to find out who did it.

Dear Fran...

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1971

Dear Fran...

The team looks into the apparent suicide of Fran's cousin.

Good Samaritan

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1971

Good Samaritan

Ironside and his team help out a soldier who has been framed for a drug ring being run inside the military.

Gentle Oaks

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1971

Gentle Oaks

When residents turn up dead at a nursing home, Ironside goes undercover to investigate.

License to Kill

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1971

License to Kill

A killer freed due to a hung jury frames the dead man's police officer partner.

Class of '57

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1971

Class of '57

Ed investigates a former classmate on the run from an assault charge, and links up with his high school sweetheart.

No Motive for Murder

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1971

No Motive for Murder

Ironside travels to Tokyo to help an old friend, wheelchair-bound and apparently a target for murder.

But When She Was Bad,...

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1971

But When She Was Bad,...

A stalker goes after Shelly Kingman, but seems to have no motive. However, Shelly's connection to a cop killer may be the key.

Unreasonable Facsimile

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1972

Unreasonable Facsimile

A former bank robber, paroled on Ironside's recommendation, is apparently up to his old tricks. Or is he?

Find a Victim

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1972

Find a Victim

A series of break-ins seemed to be based out of a halfway home for ex-cons... but noithing is stolen.

And Then There Was One

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1972

And Then There Was One

Sometimes tries to kill two Vietnam vets, and Ironside uses Ed as bait to try and catch the killer.

Death by the Numbers

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1972

Death by the Numbers

To discover who is killing parole board members, Ironside goes undercover as an irascible artist.

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1972

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder

A young girl believes that she cursed a man to die, and the team sets out to prove someone all too non-supernatural was responsible.

Achilles' Heel

Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1972

Achilles' Heel

A judge's son is framed for murder, or so Ironside suspects.

His Fiddlers Three

Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1972

His Fiddlers Three

Ironside tries to solve the murder of a music teacher, who left a piece of music to identify his killer.

A Man Named Arno

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1972

A Man Named Arno

An old friend of Ironside's pays him a visit, and he soon figures that it's no coincidence that he's tracking down a heroin dealer at the same time.

Season 6

Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (1)

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Sep 14, 1972

Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (1)

In this crossover with The Bold Ones, Ed is shot and then falls from a balcony while in LA testifying against a gangster. His ability to walk against is threatened unless the doctors can perform a risky experimental surgery.

The Savage Sentry

Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1972

The Savage Sentry

Ireonside tries to figure out how a thief bypassed the guard dogs protecting the thief's targets.

Programmed for Panic

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1972

Programmed for Panic

Ironside tries to get a murderer to expose himself by discussing the case on-air.

Down Two Roads

Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1972

Down Two Roads

Mark graduates from law school and takes on the case of a janitor accused of theft. Meanwhile, Ironside contemplates life without his trusted aide.

Riddle Me Death

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1972

Riddle Me Death

A woman convinces Ironside to investigate the accidental death of her father... which may have been no accident.

Nightmare Trip

Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1972

Nightmare Trip

During a prisoner transfer to LA, Ed is mugged and left without an ID... and taken to jail.

Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?

Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1972 (120 min)

Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?

Ironside goes up against a District Attorney that deliberately framed an innocent man.

The Countdown

Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1972

The Countdown

A man rigs a scientist with an explosive belt to force the government to release three terrorists.

The Deadly Gamesmen

Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1972

The Deadly Gamesmen

Ironside squares off against two young men who have decided to make a game out of crime.

Who'll Cry for My Baby?

Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1972

Who'll Cry for My Baby?

Ironside tries to track down the killer of a young woman, but finds himself becoming emotionally involved.

Cold Hard Cash

Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1972

Cold Hard Cash

To stop the kidnapping of a movie star's daughter, Ed goes undercover.

Shadow Soldiers

Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1972

Shadow Soldiers

While in London, Ed witnesses an assassination... and becomes the killer's next target.

Ollinger's Last Case

Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1973

Ollinger's Last Case

Ed looks into the suspicious death of a retired cop, and discovers the locals less than helpful.

The Caller

Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1973

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A Game of Showdown

Episode: 6x24 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1973

A Game of Showdown

Ed takes the Chief on a fishing trip and they stay at a remote hunting lodge... where a murder occurs.

Season 7

Confessions: From a Lady of the Night

Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Sep 13, 1973

Confessions: From a Lady of the Night

Ironside's reputation is impugned when a tabloid prints a story from a female escort claiming that she slept with Ironside and it hurt the case he was working on.

Murder by One

Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1973

Murder by One

The team investigates the apparent suicide of the son of Fran's friend. However, the clues soon lead to murder.

In the Forests of the Night

Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1973

In the Forests of the Night

Ironside's old flame returns to San Francisco, and Ironside suspects that she has more than romance in mind.

Fragile is the House of Cards

Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1973

Fragile is the House of Cards

A defense attorney comes to Ironside foir help when he's beaten and left with amnesia of the incident.

The Armageddon Gang

Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1973

The Armageddon Gang

A member of a think tank group goes missing after they start working on military projects.

House of Terror

Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1973

House of Terror

While investigating a couple's disappearance in a supposedly haunted house, Ironside disappears as well.

The Helping Hand

Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1973

The Helping Hand

A maid service uses illegal immigrants, but then one of the company employees is stabbed to death. The team has to work out if an immigrant was responsible or a fellow employee.

Downhill All the Way

Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1973 (120 min)

Downhill All the Way

Ironside goes undercover as a bum to find a police leak after a young boy witnesses the murder of a campaign manager.

Mind for Murder

Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1973

Mind for Murder

Nightclub psychic Arthur Damien is suspiciously well-informed about a series of related arsons, and offers to help Ironside on the case.

The Hidden Man

Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1973

The Hidden Man

Ironside gets involved when a decorated police officer and former military man is spotted at the airport by the man's son... even though the man has been dead for years.

Season 8

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