Ironside: Season 1
The first season of Ironside follows former chief of detectives Robert T. Ironside, who is left permanently wheelchair‑bound after an assassin’s bullet ends his career. The series depicts Ironside working as a consultant to the San Francisco police department. He is assisted by Detective Sergeant Ed Brown, policewoman Eve Whitfield, and former convict Mark Sanger, who together examine a broad spectrum of criminal act
Season overview
The first season of Ironside follows former chief of detectives Robert T. Ironside, who is left permanently wheelchair‑bound after an assassin’s bullet ends his career. The series depicts Ironside working as a consultant to the San Francisco police department. He is assisted by Detective Sergeant Ed Brown, policewoman Eve Whitfield, and former convict Mark Sanger, who together examine a broad spectrum of criminal activity. Throughout the season the team investigates murders, kidnappings, robberies and cases of espionage. In addition to conventional crime solving, the episodes address contemporary social concerns, including racism, sexism and drug abuse. The show presents these investigations within a crime‑drama and mystery framework, emphasizing Ironside’s analytical methods despite his physical limitations. The season establishes the core ensemble and the procedural format that would define the series during its eight‑year run on NBC.
Episodes
Ironside
Mar 28, 1967 · 60 min
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 force
Message from Beyond
Sep 14, 1967 · 60 min
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 Leaf in the Forest
Sep 21, 1967 · 60 min
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
Dead Man's Tale
Sep 28, 1967 · 60 min
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 a
Eat, Drink and Be Buried
Oct 5, 1967 · 60 min
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
The Taker
Oct 12, 1967 · 60 min
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
Oct 19, 1967 · 60 min
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 Iro
Tagged for Murder
Oct 26, 1967 · 60 min
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
Let My Brother Go
Nov 2, 1967 · 60 min
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 Jo
Light at the End of the Journey
Nov 9, 1967 · 60 min
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 hel
The Monster of Comus Towers
Nov 16, 1967 · 60 min
An ingenious art theft takes place at Comus Towers Art Museum, and a guard is murdered in the process. Chief Ironside takes the case, but another death is to follow; this time the
The Man Who Believed
Nov 23, 1967 · 60 min
A woman who wrote a cheering letter to Ironside when he was recovering from being shot, dies in an apparent suicide. Convinced that it was murder Ironside investigates, and uncover
A Very Cool Hot Car
Nov 30, 1967 · 60 min
Cars are being stolen in worryingly high numbers, and with the numbers recovered falling dramatically, the signs point to a crooked cop somewhere in the department. Mark is convinc
The Past Is Prologue
Dec 7, 1967 · 60 min
A friend of the Chief's turns out to have been living under an assumed identity for the last nineteen years, and is wanted in New York for murder. The mayor is determined to have h
Girl in the Night
Dec 21, 1967 · 60 min
Ed falls for a girl he meets after hearing her playing the piano in a bar in Las Vegas. While they are out together Ed is knocked unconscious and the girl disappears. Ed, Ironside
The Fourteenth Runner
Dec 28, 1967 · 60 min
A visiting Soviet athlete vanishes during a practice run, and Ironside is placed on the case. It soon turns out that the 'trustworthy Soviet hero' is anything but, and that the ath
Force of Arms
Jan 4, 1968 · 60 min
A local businessman sets up an organized vigilante force to try to clean up San Francisco. When a key member is murdered, it becomes clear that the "Second Force" has got severely
Memory of an Ice Cream Stick
Jan 11, 1968 · 60 min
An old friend of Mark's is a suspect in a murder investigation, but Mark refuses to accept that the man may be bad. Ironside tries to convince him otherwise, but in the process ris
To Kill a Cop
Jan 25, 1968 · 60 min
When Ed and two colleagues arrest a violent man they don't take his threats seriously, but when the other two officers are murdered, Ed is convinced that he knows who the killer is
The Lonely Hostage
Feb 1, 1968 · 60 min
A cop goes bad and shoots a fellow officer, then offers to give himself up to Chief Ironside. Instead, he takes the Chief and Mark hostage, and plans to kill them as soon as his es
The Challenge
Feb 8, 1968 · 60 min
A psychiatrist friend of Ironside's is murdered, and the only clues are his collection of artworks. Is one of the artists the murderer? And if so, which one?
All in a Day's Work
Feb 15, 1968 · 60 min
During a night on the town, Eve Whitfield kills an armed robber who tries to shoot her. When he turns out to be a boy just turned seventeen, she doubts her abilities as a police of
Something for Nothing
Feb 22, 1968 · 60 min
A compulsive (and unlucky) gambler is in debt to a local mobster for $32,000. Ironside wants to put the mobster away, but only can if the gambler is prepared to turn state's eviden
Barbara Who
Feb 29, 1968 · 60 min
A friend of Ironside's turns out to be an amnesiac victim without a past. The need to discover who she really is comes to the forefront when somebody tries to kill her, and it beco
Perfect Crime
Mar 7, 1968 · 60 min
Lecturing on a law course at a local college, the Chief finds that one of the students is planning to prove that the perfect crime can be committed. The person responsible appears
Officer Bobby
Mar 14, 1968 · 60 min
A baby is found abandoned in the Chief's van, following an explosion at an airport. The Chief suspects that the child's mother was the intended victim of the attack, and plans to m
Trip to Hashbury
Mar 21, 1968 · 60 min
Ed is charged with police brutality following a raid on a hippie drug den. As always, of course, things are far from being as they seem, and the trail leads to a group of apparentl
Due Process of the Law
Mar 28, 1968 · 60 min
Mark's date is found murdered in Golden Gate Park, and he is determined to catch the man responsible, with or without Ironside's help. When he decides to take the law into his own
Return of the Hero
Apr 4, 1968 · 60 min
A decorated Vietnam war hero is found guilty of murder, but the Chief, amongst others, does not believe that he is guilty. Whilst he is trying to find out the truth, somebody else