1. Ironside 28/3/1967 Whereas he rests in a detached
house, Robert T. Ironside, chief of the San Francisco police, is
seriously wounded by bullet. Condemned to live in wheelchair, he
obtains from his friend the Commissioner Dennis Randall a post of
Consultant as well as a completely devoted team: the sergeant Ed Brown,
officer Eve Whitfield and Marc Sanger. With them, he will inquire into
his own attempted murder…
Writing by Don Mr. Mankiewicz Directed by James Goldstone Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Geraldine Brooks (Honor Thompson), Wally Cox (chief of the scouts), Kim Darby (Ellen Welles), David Sheiner (neurologist), Lilia Skala (Sister Agatha), Joel Fabiani (Dr. Schley), Avilene Gibbons (Peggy Marvel), Terrence 0' Flaherty (presenter), Eddie Firestone (Wheels Montana). |
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2. Message from beyond 14/9/1967 A substantial sum of money is
flown on a hippodrome for a race, while Ironside and his team are
present. The Chief is determined to resolve this matter, so much
more than the responsable of the security of the hippodrome is a
disnonest former policeman. The only index for this robbery is a
car, injured by the pilot, unfortunately dead in the accident. Ironside
decides to use the vehicle as bait in order to attract the thief but Ed
and Eve lose the car in question...
Writing by Don Mr. Mankiewicz Directed by Michael Caffey Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Gene Evans (Al Hayes), James Gregory (Herb Jarman), George Chandler (George Bently), Ken Lynch (Russ Quinn), Madlyn Rhue (Margaret Blackwell), Kathleen Freeman (Helga), Kent McCord (Kellogg), Larry J Blake (appraiser), Alma Platt (Martha Bently), Bill DuFrene (officer of the communications), Jimmy Joyce (1st dealer), John R. McKee (2nd dealer), Lou Straley (2nd man), Dick Russell (3rd man), Dallas Mitchell (the sergeant). |
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3. The leaf in the forest 21/9/1967 An old woman, only living, is
rediscovered strangled. This is not the first victim and all door
to believe that this new crime is the work of the same man; but the
Chief Ironside notes some differences disrupting. In charge of
doing the light on the latter murder, Ironside wants to do to endorse
to Eve the role of victim potentielle: that will necessitate a little
ingenuity, but the game is worth the candle...
Writing by Don Mr. Mankiewicz Directed by Leo Penn Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), John Larch (Pierre Dupont), Edward Andrews (Mason Baylis), Barbara Barrie (Myra Dupont), Bert Freed (Detective Keeley), Henry Beckman (Orateur), Lillian Bronson (Esther Garrison), Joe Finnegan (1st to defer), Vernon Scott (2nd to defer), Robert Ellenstein (Marty), Sean Kennedy (1st hippie), John Rubinstein (2nd hippie). |
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4. Dead Man's Tale 28/9/1967 A notorious gangster gets ready
to book of precious information to Ironside concerning his associate,
John Trask. But before he made a decision to speak with the
Chief, he is murdered. With the complicity of the fiancée of the
death, Ironside claims that the latter always is in life, injured and
cared for to the hospital. His goal is to force Trask to commit
an error that will be for him fatal.
Writing by Don Mr. Mankiewicz and Donald A. Brinkley Directed by Don Weis Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Simon Scott (Warren Stuart), Jack Lord (John Trask), Susanne Cramer (Tina Masson), Ben Wright (Dr. Leon Chaffee), Byron Morrow (Mr. Gregory), Frank Gerstle (Eddie Burns), John Goddard (Ernie Greco), Stuart Nisbet (Luther Carson), Robert Turnbull (Beeker). |
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5. Eat, drink and be buried 5/10/1967 When a personality of the
television, Francesca Kirby, receives threats of death, his old friend
Robert Ironside puts himself on the affair. When the threats
become of the attained to his life, he begins searching more deeply to
find that would benefit by to eliminate Francesca. Several
suspicious ones, of which the husband of this last one, have of
excellent motive but Ironside begins glimpsing a very different
scenario for this strange affair.
Writing by Tony Barrett Directed by William Graham Guest star: Richard Anderson
(Darren Sanford), Lee Grant (Francesca Kirby), Farley Granger (Mitch
Kirby), Quincy Jones (Appleton), Joanne Medley (Annie Royer), Susanne
Benton (Model), Maria Lennard (Keller Dory).
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6. The taker 12/10/1967 Andy Anderson, policeman known
of long one date back to Ironside, is killed while he investigates on
the murder of the wife of Daryll Frazer. Proofs indicate that he
was dishonest but Ironside, convinced of the opposite, is decided to
prove his innocence and, by the same occasion, to rediscover his
murderer. Persuaded that all is linked to the affair Frazer, he
resumes the investigation and obtains the intimate conviction that the
husband is guilty, although the latter is a perfect alibi. Ironside
decides to jostle a little the two witnesses having furnished the alibi
in question, employees of Frazer, and he is persuaded to be on the good
track when the one of them is murdered. But stretched Eve of him
to let a different opinion divide, based on a simple intuition.
Writing by Irving Gaynor Neiman and Winston Miller Directed by Don Weis Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Gail Bonney (1st secretary), Peter Mark Richman (Daryll Frazer), Robert Alda (Johnny Utrecht), William Schallert (Simon Arkoff), Jan Shepard (Adrienne May), Cyril Delevanti (Commandant Wallace), Ernest Anderson (Butler), Bebe Louie (officer weather), Barbara Bell Wright (2nd secretary), Virgil Frye (Andy Anderson). |
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7. An inside job 19/10/1967 Two murderers, escaped of the
cells of detention of the commissionership, rediscover themselves
constrained to take in hostage the Chief Ironside in his office and,
having discovered the identity of the latter, they want to force him to
help them to run away. Ironside refuses all net one, putting the two
men in a unfortunate position, but the arrival of Eve modifies the
situation: the Chief is obliged to accept the blackmail of the
criminals. Clever, he reaches anyway to warn Ed and perfects an
audacious plan to put unable to harm his cluttering visitors...
Writing by Sy Salkowitz Directed by Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Gift Stroud (Bains), Robert Karnes (3rd police officer), John Saxon (Carter), Eileen Wesson (girl), Cal Bartlett (1st officer), John Alvin (clerk), Ken Renard (cleaning), Tyler McVey (journalist), Michael Harris (Charlie), Will J White (Moose), Ben Hammer (Flagg), Jim Drum (Willis), Harry Hickox (lieutenant Gold), Norman Fell (captain Lauren). |
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8. Tagged for murder 26/10/1967 A man electrocutes himself by
his swimming pool while handling a television set. Everythings leads to
believe that it is an affair of a banal accident but Ed is not
convinced, some details appearing for him suspicious. While doing
his report to Ironside, he succeeds in rally him in his opinion and the
Chief takes the matter in hands: he discovers quickly that of former
military officers, living all to San Francisco and having served
together in Italy, were murdered and he wants to understand why...
Writing by Art Weingarten Directed by Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Bruce Lee (Leon Soo), Antoinette Bower (Andra Bellingham), Arthur Adams (doctor), Roger De Koven (general), Bert Freed (sergeant Cable), Lenore Kingston (Maid), Marjorie Bennett (employed hotel), Jack Kelly (Corman), Gene Nelson (Sheldon). |
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9. Let my brother go 2/11/1967 Despite all his efforts,
Ironside has problems to maintain a group of young ones in the right
way. Decided to succeed in his ends, the Chief changes tactics
and enlists the star of American Football Bat Masterson, an old friend
of Marc, to help him. But Joe, the brother of Bat, is not very
honest and his numerous gaps finish poorly: he kills a man
during a game of poker. Bat, present at the time of the crime,
decides of all to take on him to protect his brother. But, thanks to
Ironside, he discovers quickly that he did not do the good choice...
Writing by Donn Mullally Directed by Don Weis Guest star: Gift Marshall (Joe Masterson), Ivan Dixon (Charles "Bat" Masterson), Ena Hartman (Betty Masterson), Peter Mamakos (Georgie Main), Maidie Norman (Natalie Masterson), Kirk Kirksey (Ernie), James Sane (Ralph), John Sebastian (Ed Harris), Robert Pearson (Bake). |
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10. Light at the end of the journey 9/11/1967 Ted Bartlett, private detective
to Los Angeles, is at San Francisco for an affair and he wants to
profit to return visits to his old friend and former colleague, Robert
Ironside. Unfortunately, he is murdered in his hotel and the only
witness is a young blind woman. The murderer is unaware of this
detail and he wants to reduce her to the silence. Ironside wants to
protect her but he wishes also to stop the murderer of his friend and,
for this to do, he organizes a press conference in which he declares
that the witness will elaborate a portrait robot of the man that she
saw. The fiance of the young woman is not agreed and stretched to
subtract her to the influence of Ironside; but this last one, that
leans on him since that she became blind, discovers that a handicap can
be approached otherwise.
Writing by Robert Van Scoyk and Sy Salkovitz Directed by Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Bill Fletcher (Gilroy), Jason Wingreen (Bell Captain), Katherine Crawford (Jill), Robert Reed (Pierson), Steve Dunne (Ted Bartlett), Bill Leslie (Waring), Jeanne Baird (Joan Waring), Arthur Adams (medical examiner), Lauren Gilbert (sergeant of criminal). |
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11. The monster of Comus Towers 16/11/1967 An ingenious robbery takes
place at the Museum of Art of the Comus Towers, during which the
central panel of a tryptique in origin of Rome is
robbed. Unfortunately, a guard is murdered in the operation,
stabbed to death in the back. Enzo Rossi, that made use of his
influence to send for the fine tryptique, calls upon his friend Robert
Ironside to resolve this mysterious affair. In fact, the thief was
not able to introduce himself that by a window, situated at the top of
the Towers, but the wind and the panel weight were not able to allow
for him to go through this exit to take back down. Ironside thinks
therefore that the thief had an accomplice inside the museum, see that
himself there works. The lieutenant Fitch, officially responsible
of the affair, thinks all otherwise and when Enzo Rossi dies after the
arsenic absorption, he is persuaded that it is an affair of a
suicide. But the Chief is of another opinion and leans for a
murder.
Writing by Stanford Whitmore and A. J. Russell Directed by Don Weis Guest star: Jeff Malloy (guard), Harper Flaherty (Herbert Chapman), Jim Creech (detective Bloch), Evi Marandi (Stella Rossi), Renzo Cesana (Enzo Rossi), Joan Huntington (Amanda Stillman), David Hartman (lieutenant Fitch), Warren Stevens (Howard Comus), Donald Buka (Vincent Longo), Michael Forest (James Edmond), Kevin Hagen (Owen Simmons). |
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12. The man who believed 23/11/1967 Samantha Dain, recognized
singer and in the future particularly promising, has just committed
suicide while throwing herself top of the Golden Gate. Ironside does
not believe in this version and hears well to prove that it is an
affair of a murder. His motivation: while he was at the hospital,
the young woman wrote him a letter for him to say that the suicide
would appear for him certainly a good solution but that, in reality,
life was worth the penalty to be lived, even as infirm. Quickly,
several persons of the entourage of the singer appear as of suspicious
perfect ones, as his to manage or the cabaret owner where she
began. The discovery of a band where figures a dispute between the
singer and an unknown man becomes the only piece to conviction of
Dacier. On this last one, the guilty one pronounces only a single
word, with difficulty audible, but the Chief wants to let the assassin
believe that the science can allow the identification of his
voice...
Writing by Stephen Kandel Directed by Anton Mr. Leader Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Sharon Harvey (girl), June C Ellis (nurse), Bill Welsh (advertiser), Alex Gerry (Dr. Maurice Zelman), Johnny Silver (John Brenner), Arthur Adams (Dr. Gwynne), Cliff Potts (dan Peabody), George Furth (Ray Harrison), Michael Constantine (Harry Brancusi), Guy Stockwell (Bridger), Barbara Rhoades (Bonnie Lloyd), Marcia Strassman (Samantha Dain). |
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13. A very cool hot car 30/11/1967 Since that the lieutenant Adams
took the direction of the service of the stolen cars, the yield of the
work of the policemen knows an unprecedented decrease, of less in less
than vehicles being rediscovered. The commissioner Randall loads
therefore Ironside to oversee the activity of the service and, if the
latter starts with to refuse, he changes opinion in front of the
insistence of the lieutenant Adams; conscious to be in a bad posture.
His predecessor, that had broken his teeth on this affair -and that,
fact, was put in early retirement- is persuaded that Adams touches
bribe from the car thieves. This idea, that he proclaims high and
strong, does his way in the commissionership of police and even Randall
is or not insensitive. Marc, persuaded that Adams is innocent,
wants to imply himself in the affair and does himself to engage in a
work-site of breaks automobile that Ironside suspects to be the plate
turning traffic.
Writing by Luther Davis Directed by James Sheldon Guest star: Gail Bonney (secretary), K.L. Smith (Rafaël), Alice Frost (Mrs. Muldoon), Michael Fox (technician), Peter Helm (Alfred Dunne), Pamela Dunlap (Rosemary Dunne), Bernie Hamilton (lieutenant William Adams), Arch Johnson (sergeant John Breen), Jay C. Flippen (sergeant). |
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14. The past is prologue 7/12/1967 Wally Stowe, a friend of
Ironside, celebrate the success of his son Tom that soon will integrate
the NASA. But the police comes to arrest him in the middle of
festivities for Wally is looked for for murder to New York. During
nineteen years, he lived to San Francisco under a false identity,
fearing to every instant to be recognized. This is finally the
woman of his victim that, in visionary his photo in a newspaper, warned
the police. The mayor is determined to extradite him for that is
applied the pronounced sentence nineteen years earlier: the death.
Ironside, him, wants to all price to save him for he considers that
Wally does not deserve this sad one goes out. He counts first of all on
the widow of the victim but, very quickly, it appears that this last
one always is lived of a desire of vengeance. Considering that the
investigation was rushed, Ironside resumes all to zero and obtains the
conviction that Wally is innocent. But there is an incoherence in
the deposition of the latter: it lacks an hour in the sequence of his
activities. Although this incoherence designates him as guilty
ideal, Wally does not let go any his version of the facts.
Writing by Paul Mason Directed by Don Weis Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), John Zaremba (Dr. Michaels), Gail Bonney (secretary), Victor Jory (Wally Stowe), Jill Donohue (Phyllis Chase), John Hoyt (Malcolm Henderson), Jean Inness (Dee Stowe), June Vincent (Mrs. Chase), Walter Coy (the chief of police Paul Wilson), Bartlett Robinson (the Whittier prosecutor), Chester Jones (Butler), Harrison Ford (Tom Stowe). |
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15. Girl in the night 21/12/1967 In trip to Las Vegas, Ed goes
in a cabaret where he meets a young singer, Elaine Moreau.
Together, they go diner to the restaurant then finish the evening with
Elaine. On the spot, the young woman abandons abruptly Ed to leave the
house the back way and, when the policeman goes out to attempt to
recover her, he is knocked senseless by two men. The next day, the
team remainder arrives to Las Vegas but Ed refuses to leave the city
before having clarifyes this mystery. First reluctant, the Chief
accepts starting an investigation and decides to start with the house
of the young woman. There, the team meets another woman that claims not
to know Elaine Moreau and to have passed the evening at her
place. But, in the garden, Ed rediscovers the shrub in which he
collapsed and that carries again the brands of his
fall. Intrigued, Ironside decides to follow more before and ends
up to discover than the disappearance of the young Elaine could have a
report with the murder of a notable one city, Jim Cardoff.
Writing by True Boardman Directed by Ralph Senensky Guest star: Simon Scott (Jim Cardoff), Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Joan Staley (Millie O'Neil), Donnelly Rhodos (Joe Varona), Sarah Marshall (Jan Merlin), Steve Carlson (Foster), Oscar Beregi Jr (Stefan), Laurie Mitchell (Carol Phillips), Craig Huebing (Dr. Evans), Dead Mills (Mike Hennessey), George Keymas (Stulka), Holy Susan James (Elaine Moreau). |
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16. The fourteenth runner 28/12/1967 Yuri Azneyeff, Soviet and true
athlete hero in his country, is visiting at San francisco to
participate in a bottom race. During this last one, he disappears
mysterious after behaving in a strange way. In front of position
delicacy, the commissioner Randall confides the affair to the Chief
Ironside, hoping thus a quick and happy result. Quickly, the
police rediscovers the clothes of Yuri at the top of a cliff with a
letter announcing his suicide. Zarkov, Russian responsible citizen
"to attend" the Chief, does not there believe and suspects the
Americans to have climb one present out of nothing. Ironside, for his
part, learns that Yuri was a traitor to his country and that he worked
for the American secret services. He comes some immediately to wonder
if the athlete was not discovered...
Writing by Donn Mullally Directed by Don Weis Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Steve Ihnat (Zarkov), Lee Miller (Bartender), Ollie O'Toole (mortician), Ingrid Pitt (Irene Novas), Philip Chapin (Yuri Alexeyovich Azneyeff), Edward Asner (Davis), John Van Dreelen (Varinyi). |
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17. Force of arms 4/1/1968 Marcus Weathers, very rich and
well established businessman to San Francisco, decided to leave at war
against the crime. Considering that the local police does not
dispose or means or of the men in sufficient quantity, he sets up a
militia to attempt to clean the streets of his city. When Buck
Denison, the person in charge of his organization, is murdered,
Weathers is convinced that it is an affair there of a maneuver of his
enemies to prevent it from set up his ideas and destroy "the second
police". Randall entrusts the affair with Ironside, which arranges
nothing, for the Chief does not hide his animosity towards Weathers and
this one is besides persuaded that the former policeman, that he
considers as a vulgar infirm one, wants all simply to take advantage of
the murder of Denison for "to flow" his organization.
Writing by Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts and Warren Duff Directed by Anton Mr. Leader Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), George Murdock (Victor Cramer), Harold J Stone (Jim Connolly), Gene Raymond (Marcus Weathers), Linden Chiles (Jeff Hanson), William Lucking (Thomas Flagg), Cliff Norton (Henry Brink), Arthur Adams (Dr. Gwynne), Frank Gerstle (Buck Denison), Ron Russell (Albie), Diane Brewster (Susan Weathers). |
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18. Memory of an ice cream stick 11/1/1968 A member of the local
Underworld is murdered by two non identified individuals and the
commissioner Randall fears that this act provokes bloody reprisals. He
entrusts the affair to the Chief Ironside and, during the questioning
of the persons having a link with the victim, Marc meets Sam Noble, a
man that he did not review for ten years. Sam lived in the same
street that Marc and, uniformly, he offered him a cream
stick. Since this beautiful era, Sam well changed and did several
stays in prison. Ironside, that would like to protect his friend,
stretched of him to do to understand that the man that he knew no
longer exists than in his memories, but Marc remains persuaded that Sam
amended himself. The friendship between the two men suffers
quickly of the position and, when a second murder is committed, Marc
takes the bad decision, putting thus his life in peril...
Writing by Sy Salkowitz Directed by Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Will J White (2nd Detective), Victor Bozeman (1st Detective), Mel Scott (Sam Noble), Jackie Russell (Kathy), Jim Creech (detective Garber), Francine York (June), Jack Kruschen (Busch), Ena Hartman (Millie Roberts). |
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19. To kill a cop 25/1/1968 A night, Ed comes to the aid of
two policemen in patrol for mastery a drunk man that attackes
them. This does, the sergent accompanies his colleagues to the
commissionership where the man, Frank Vincent, promises to avenge
himself. Some hours later, while he has just been liberated under
guarantee, the one of the policemen is murdered of two bullets in the
back, in front of his residence. Ed immediately thinks about Vincent
and will apprehend him to question him. Once more, the man debates
himself and must be handcuffed. His wife, scene witness, engage a
lawyer to defend him and, by lacks proofs, the police must relax
Vincent. When the second policeman that stopped Frank dies in the
explosion of his car, Ed is persuaded to know the guilty one and will
find Vincent to his restaurant where, because of the fit of anger of
the latter, he passes next to a catastrophe. The lawyer of the
restaurant owner easily obtains a criticism for Ed and fifteen days of
forced vacation. With the assistance of the Chief, the sergent will
attempt to prove that he has reason, before Vincent have not get
him...
Writing by Donn Mullally Directed by Anton Mr. Leader Guest star: Robert Karnes (sergeant of reserve), Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Richard Van Vleet (Briggs), Bing Russell (Cal Bristold), Olive Sturgess (Mary Connell), Hal Needham (Connell), Ruta Lee (Marian), Parley Baer (Everett Brandt), Anne Whitfield (Helen), Pernell Roberts (Frank Vincent). |
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20. The lonely hostage 1/2/1968 Fred Hickman, sergent of honest
police and worker, is submerged by personal and financial
problems. Employed to part-time in a bank, he ends up to yield to
the temptation and robs a strong sum of money. Unfortunately,
while he leaves the bank, he falls on a young policeman in patrol that,
hearing the alarms, unsheathes his weapon. Fred does not hesitate
and pulls for him over, the injured seriously. The facts doing the
first page of the newspapers, Randall decides to entrust the affair to
Ironside but, at the end of a week, the latter has no result. Fred
contacts him then by telephones and declares being ready to go, but
only if the Chief moves himself only, with Marc. Ironside accepts and
goes to the appointment fixed by Fred. Previously, he believes that the
policeman effectively will go but, in reality, this appointment was a
trap and he meet again hostage, as well as Marc. When Fred takes them
in a house of a small village, where his wife awaits him, Ironside
understands that this is there that the policeman counts to execute
them, him and his friend. The stretched Chief then to convince the
woman of Fred of not to follow blindly his husband.
Writing by Norman Katkov Directed by Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Mike Mahoney (Crandall), Fabian Dean (Glodder), William Fawcett (Sam Layton), Charles Brewer (Larry Reilly), Robert Lansing (Fred Hickman), Kathie Browne (Jane Hickman). |
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21. The challenge 8/2/1968 An evening, Ironside is with a
friend psychiatrist for a game chess. This one finished, the
doctor challenges to the policeman: he shows him a piece where are
spread the works of several artists of San Francisco that participate
in a study launched by the psychiatrist. According to him, the one
of these artists is an assassin in power and he asks Ironside to guess
which. The Chief does not appreciate hardly and would wish that
his friend delivers simply the name of the man, in order to warn an
eventual crime. On the instant, the psychiatrist refuses and, two
days later, he is murdered at his home. All naturally, Ironside
undertake himself with the investigation and starts his investigations
on the artists of which he saw the works. Quickly, the one of them
becomes the suspicious ideal, so much more than he already has judicial
antecedents for an aggression with white weapon. But, when he is
rediscovered dead, Ironside understands that he was involved himself on
the bad way and envisions an all other scenario.
Writing by John McGreevey Directed by Anton Mr. Leader Guest star: Tom Simcox (Brian Turner), Nicholas Colasanto (Mike Sellino), Coleen Gray (Anne Kingsley), Cec Linder (Carl Anderson), Virginia Grey (Mrs. Meacham), Noah Keen (Dr. Paul Bragen), Known Ass Langdon (Rhea Prentiss). |
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22. All in a day's work 15/2/1968 Ironside and his assistants go
out of a meeting of shortened movie and, while Ed and Marc will look
for the van, the Chief and Eve see thieves to leave a jewelry store on
the other side street. Eve screams for them to stop themself and the
two men unsheathe their weapons, done fire in their direction before
fleeing. Eve launch themselves to their pursuit and, after an
exchange of several gunshots, kills the one of the thieves. This
is with horror that the young woman notices herself that she has just
cut down a boy of 17 years and, quickly, she comes up against anger and
the hate of those that knew the victim; the latter hanging up
themselves to the idea that he was a "good boy". Eve does not reach to
overcome the position and her teammates are not therefore hardly
astonished to learn his desire to resign of the police. The Chief,
that does not want to lose Eve, announces for her that she will have
first to finish the investigation in course, to know to rediscover the
accomplice of Bill, the young killed man. He will go even until to risk
his life to force the young woman to resume the over.
Writing by Evan Hunter Directed by Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Lorraine Gary (Nancy Lewin), Clyde Howdy (police), Harry Swoger (Raynold), Don Hanmer (Artie Waring), Jerry Hausner (Mr. Edwards), Walter Burke (Smiley), Jeanette Nolan (Mrs. Matling). |
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23. Something for nothing 22/2/1968 Tommy Cusack, young singer and
promising musician, is also a compulsive one and strongly in debt
player with Roy Faber, a member of the local Underworld: he has for him
32,000 $. Unfortunately, Tommy is in the inability to reimburse and
Faber wants to profit from it. In exchange for the suppression of
his debt, he asks Tommy of him to return a service, an illegal act,
well heard. Verna, the wife of Tommy, understands that his husband
has boredoms and goes immediately about it to speak with
Ironside. The Chief, that wants to jam Faber since of long years,
asks Tommy to execute the service in question for next to be able to
testify in front of the court against the crook. Tommy, first
reluctant, accept and learns that he will have to participate in the
attack of a bank. The police is present to stretch a trap to the
crooks but, unfortunately, the accomplices of Tommy smell the trap and
flees before to have committed a too violent act. Faber, furious, does
all possible sound to poison the existence of Tommy, doing for him to
lose his work, hoping to be able to convince him of come back to of
better feelings when he will present him the position of his dreams.
Ironside feels that Tommy will yield and does for him to meet a new
time Faber, so that he realizes the mediocrity of the personage.
Writing by Anthony Terpiloff and Stephen Kandel Directed by Robert Butler Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Jan Merlin (Luther Zahn), Laurie Main (Harris), Paul Mantee (Assistant of the district attorney Corey), Vincent Gardenia (Roy Faber), James Farentino (Tommy Cusack), Susan Saint James (Verna Cusack), Leonard Stone (Hermann). |
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24. Barbara who 29/2/1968 Barbara Jones, nursing
auxiliary for to the hospital where the Chief was admitted after his
aggression, comes to find the latter for him to ask his assistance: a
road hog attempted to crush her and she fears for her life.
Unfortunately, Barbara is incapable in advance a motive that could push
someone to want to kill her, for she is amnesiac, her first ones
remember being old of only a year. The Chief begins his
investigation while questioning those that met Barbara after the
aggression that had lost for him the memory: doctors, policemen,
journalists... The task announces itself difficult, so much more than
the time presses: the mysterious aggressor of Barbara remakes an
attempt, aborted by Marc, and the chief decides to install his
girlfriend with Eve. Ironside, that hopes to start a durable relation
with Barbara, is conscious that his discoveries risk ruining his
sentimental projects; but to discover the passed young woman is the
only solution to know the identity of his aggressor.
Writing by Sy Salkowitz Directed by James Sheldon Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Johnny Seven (officer Petrizzi), Mark Roberts (Jim Hennessy), John Pickard (Ned Morris), Robert Patten (Dr. Carl Banks), Kiel Martin (Billy Meeker), Phil Carey (Dick Richards), Paul Bryar (2nd driver), Albert Popwell (1st driver), Alan Baxter (Sheriff), Glenn Mr. Weber (Mike Petrizzi), Michael Barbera (Johnny Petrizzi), Marion Ross (Mrs. Petrizzi), Vera Miles (Barbara Jones/Lois Richards) |
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25. Perfect crime 7/3/1968 At the time of a criminology
lecture in a local university, the chief see himself to put back by the
most oldest person an anonymous letter announcing for him that, in
contrast to what he claims, the perfect crime exists. The moment
he regains his vehicle, a gunshot bursts and a student, that discussed
with him, collapses. The young man draws from his living but
Ironside understands that it is only a beginning and he starts
immediately his investigation, targeting his investigations on the some
present students to his lecture. Soon, this is Eve that is victim
of the killer one and Ironside have only more decided to arrest him
before he does not commit actually a murder; so much more than he knows
than this will be him the victim. The one of the students, Roger
Simmons, is quickly the object of all the attentions for several
indices render suspicious him and, while the commissioner Randall is
persuaded to hold the guilty one, Ironside envisions an all other
hypothesis.
Writing by Norman Katkov Directed by Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Vernon Scott (Frank), Shelly Novack (Roger Simmons), David Lewis (Dean Adam Gabriel), Paul Hough (Byron Shelley Crawford III), Brenda Scott (Peggy), Pete Duel (Jonathan Dix), Kitty Malone (girl), Ron Russell (guard), Bill Baldwin (George). |
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26. Officer Bobby 14/3/1968 The Chief must go to a congress
of three days organized by the police to Los Angeles. While he patient
with his assistants in an expectation room, he attends the preparation
of his airplane that, suddenly, explodes. Quickly, the police
experts discover the remainders of a bomb to bases of destroys and the
speculations go good train on the identity of the aimed person: the
chief or a fleeting other? To the fallen night, the policemen
leave the airport and Marc discovers a baby, abandoned in the van of
the Chief with this simple message on the windshield: keep my child
until... Ironside takes the nourrisson at his home while Ed goes with a
suspected woman to be accomplice of the poser of bomb. But, when
he arrives at her home, the sergent discovers that the apartment was
searched and that the baby is the son of this woman, May Evans.
Ironside thinks that she is the target of the fanatic of destroys it
and stretched to force her to contact him while publishing a false item
on Bobby, the baby, in the newspapers. May cannot prevent herself
to come to find the Chief and, the direction by the nerve crisis,
Ironside decides to leave her to leave while asking Ed to follow
her. But the bomb poser, him also, read the newspaper...
Writing by Brett Halliday and Bill S. Ballinger Directed by James Sheldon Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Ron Pinkard (journalist), Paul Carr (Harry Higdon), Sidney Clute (police), Russ Conway (L.A. Laserman), Jon Lormer (Tommy), Nancy Malone (May Evans), Jeanne Cooper (Myra Brinker). |
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27. Trip to Hashbury 21/3/1968 An evening, Ed and Eve go with
Freddie, a hippie one known to welcome young women and suspected to
furnish for them drug. They look for a childlike one of 15 years,
running away, and circulate in the house of Freddie with his
photo. To search the floor, they separate themselves and Eve, that
has just found the young one running away one, is sudden warned by
cries. She arrives just on time to see a girl to debate herself in
the arms of Ed. Eve helps her colleague but it seems quickly that the
girl savagely was beaten. To the hospital, Ironside discovers the
identity of the victim: Barbara Chase, the girl of an eminent
lawyer, Eldon Chase. Before falling in the case, she accuses Ed to
have beaten her and, before to have been able to be questioned by the
police, dies of her injuries. Eldon is persuaded guilt of the
sergent and wants his head but, summoned by Ironside, he learns from
the mouth of the young one running away one found by Eve that this was
not the first time that Barbara went with Freddie. Eldon envisions
while his girl lied for him and leaves the Chief to do his
investigation but, when the boyfriend of Barbara corroborates the
history that she had related for him, he feels guilty to have doubted
and folds back himself again on Ed. Ironside, him, envision another
hypothesis...
Writing by Norman Jolley Directed by Anton Mr. Leader Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Judy Brown (Terry), Cliff Osmond (Freddie), Susan O'Connell (Barbara Chase), Kres Mersky (Purple), Victor Creatore (Doctor), Stacey Gregg (Patty Larsen), David Macklin (David Wilson), Monica Lewis (Partridge Miss), Cynthia Hull (Kathy), Allan Hunt (Gary), Michael Ford (Tag), Jerry Davis (Jeff Harmon), William Windom (Eldon Chase). |
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28. Due process of the law 28/3/1968 Marc goes to an evening
organized by a friend recently demobilized soldier with Helen, a young
woman that he frequents since little. During the party, the Chief
calls him and asks for him to return to accompany him with the Mayor of
all urgency. Marc, that wants first gone home Helen at her place,
leaves himself to convince to leave her with his friend during his
absence. Unfortunately, the meeting with the Mayor lasts a long time
and, when the Chief finished some, he learns him the death of Helen,
rediscovered dead in the Park of Golden Gate. Immediately, Marc
decides to do his clean investigation and, when he discovers that Helen
left with a certain Joe Fenway, he is persuaded to hold the guilty
one. Disobeying Ironside, he goes with Joe and forces the door of
his apartment to search it: he discovers syringes
hypodermiques. As Helen is dead overdose, that reinforces his
conviction but, to the arrival of Ed, Marc learns that the proofs that
he has just found no longer have value since he entered by breaking and
entering. Furious, Marc goes until to hit Fenway when this one is
questioned by Ironside. Later, the man being free, Marc goes at
his home to have an explanation: he discovers dead Joe. When
Connie, the girlfriend of Joe, penetrate in the apartment, she sees
Marc arms it crime to the hand. The assistant of ironside meet
again then accused murder and the Chief wants that he draws from it a
lesson.
Writing by Donald A. Brinkley Directed by Richard Colla Guest star: Ron Pinkard (Jimmy Bracken), Barry Cahill (sergeant Miller), Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Ray Ballard (the shipper), Roy Glenn (Mr. Tobom), Janee Michelle (Helen Tobin), Carol Booth (Connie Goshen), Burr DeBenning (Joe Fenway), Parley Baer (Everett Brandt), David Carradine (Pogo Weems), Dwayne Hickman (Archie Bass). |
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29. Return of the hero 4/4/1968 The captain David Larkin is
condemned to death for the murder of his wife and of his lover, thanks
to the testimonies of two eyewitnesses and to the investigation
conducted by Ironside, that rediscovered the weapon of the captain on
the crime places. To the verdict announcement, the men of the captain
leave to burst their anger and promise to avenge themselves. Soon,
Ironside receives threats of death, as well as the two witnesses to the
process of Larkin. The Chief, always persuaded innocence of David,
that formerly worked under his orders, stretched to find new likely
elements to provoke a process revision. When the judge of Larkin
is murdered, Ironside understands that the time plays against him for
someone decided to eliminate all those that, according to him, are
responsible of the condemnation of Larkin. The one of the
witnesses dies to his turn and the other escapes from little to the
death. While analyzing the different indices at his disposal, Ironside
does to take an all other way to his investigation...
Writing by Robert Pirosh Directed by Ralph Senensky Guest star: Ned Romero (Kali), Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Elizabeth Germaine (receptionist), Joe Turkel (district attorney), Charles Wood (Mace), Dennis McCarthy (Carlisle judge), Gavin MacLeod (Daniel Gerber), Hank Brandt (Paul J. Rutledge), Gary Collins (captain David Larkin). |