30. Shell Game 19/09/1968 A notorious robber of
jewels named Justin arrives downtown at the same time as a loading
of famous jewels intended for an exposure in a local museum. Ironside
must keep the robber with the eye to avoid the robbery of the
jewels but his adversary is very intelligent and, moreover, he is
helped by an accomplice infiltrated with the museum.
Writing
by: Sy Salkowitz
Directed by: Anton Mr. Leader Guest star: Johnny Seven (Dean), Simon Scott (Waltham), Sorrell Booke (Justin), Robert Christopher (Mechanic), John Holland (Jenkins), John Dennis (Bliss Detective), Robert DoQui (Marty), Lisa Todd (Gloria), Charles Aidman (Glass). |
31. Split second to an Epitaph
(1) 26/09/1968 Ironside and Marc leave
the hospital where the Chief comes to make his usual tests. They hear a
shot and Marc precipitates towards his origin. He discovers the body of
a guard and, before to have been able to react, is made strike by a
masked unknown. The man leaves the building while running and runs up
against Ironside which manages to uncover him and to see his face. The
next morning, the Chief complains about pains to the legs, which is
very unusual and the conduit at the hospital for examinations. His
doctor then proposes an exploratory surgical operation to him which
could enable him to recover the use of his legs… or to lead him to the
mortuary. But Ironside wants to wedge the murderer of the guard of the
hospital and pushes back the operation…
Writing by: Sy Salkowitz, Gift
Mr. Mankiewicz
Directed by: Leonard Horn Guest star: Gift Stroud (Albee), Lorraine Gary (nurse Green), Lilia Skala (Sister Agatha), Amentha Dymally (Ann Fellows), Mel Scott (Ralph Fellows), Brenda Scott (Carol Dillon), Troy Donahue (Father Dugan), David Sheiner (doctor), Joseph Cotten (Stern), Eileen Wesson (nurse Evans), Linda Chandler (nurse Kane), Frank Arno (portraitist of the police), Andrew Prine (Ernie). |
32. Split second to an Epitaph
(2) 27/09/1968 The murderer of the guard is
determined to eliminate the only witness from his crime and, as
the Chief finally decided to enter to the hospital to be operated, from
the occasions go to present himself to him. Helped by his mistress, he
initially tries to poison Ironside but, because of his obstinacy,
fails. He then decides to choose a more radical solution by poisoning
the Chief directly with the block, during the operation. Eve, Ed and
Marc try to untie the situation to save Ironside…
Writing by: Sy
Salkowitz, Gift Mr. Mankiewicz
Directed by: Leonard Horn Guest star: Gift Stroud (Albee), Lorraine Gary (nurse Green), Joseph Cotten (Stern), Linda Chandler (nurse Kane), Amentha Dymally (Ann Fellows), Margaret O'Brien (Sister Louise Prescott), Troy Donahue (Father Dugan), Mel Scott (Ralph Fellows), Eileen Wesson (nurse Evans), Brenda Scott (Carol Dillon), David Sheiner (doctor), Andrew Prine (Ernie), Frank Arno (portraitist of the police), Lilia Skala (Sister Agatha). |
33. The sacrifice 03/10/1968 Marc returns visit to a man
whom he knew in prison and, arrived at his apartment, discovers him
dead. In the darkness, he is struck by an unknown from which he
distinguishes only two things: his shoes and his revolver with white
stick. Ironside and his team go to the site and, when sergeant Al
Serventes join them, Marc identifies him at once with these two
details. The Commissioner Randall decides to entrust the case to
Ironside while suspending Servantes of his functions and, in spite of
the friendship that he is binds him to the Chief, this last is hardly
shown co-operative, trying to solve the case only. Believing initially
that his acts by pride, Ironside arrives soon at another conclusion: Al
wants to be sacrificed.
Writing
by: Gerald Sanford
Directed by: Abner Biberman Guest star: Argentina Brunetti (aunt of Rita), Poupée Bocar (Rita), Vincent Van Lynn (Thomas Scott), Rafael Campos (Kid Valdez), John Sebastian (Sam), Elena Verdugo (Liz Cervantes), Priscilla Ann (Maria Cervantes), Phillip Pine (Ortega), Johnny Aladdin (Vic Cervantes), Blaisdell Makee (Romeo Sangria), Ricardo Montalban (sergeant Al Servantes), Robert Alda (F.A. Hobarth). |
34. Robert Philips vs. the man 10/10/1968 An activist militant for the
rights of the blacks is stopped for murder and the black community
of San Francisco threatens to go down in the streets to protest. The
Commissioner Randall asks the Chief to undertake the investigation
to try to prove the innocence of Phillip; but certain citizens do
not seem to want to cooperate.
Writing by: Sy
Salkowitz
Directed by: Nicholas Colasanto Guest star: Paul Winfield (Robert Phillips), Diane Shalet (Mrs. Shavely), Davis Roberts (Attorney Peters), Ben Hammer (Fleming), John Rayner (Larry Drake), Gloria Edwards (Mrs. Adams), Morris D. Erby (Mr. Adams), Fabian Dean (lieutenant Porter), Jack Collins (Corning), Donna Anders (Lottie Collins), Jack Hogan (Ed Barnard), Arnold Williams (the man), Dick Anthony Williams (voice off), Diane Ladd (Peggy Barnard). |
35. Desperate encounter 24/10/1968 A friend of the Chief invites
him to come to spend a few days of holidays at his home, in mountain.
The man, called Franklin, had just had an accident of hunting during
which he received a bullet. When Ironside and Marc arrive in the small
city close to Franklin, they note that this last enjoys a bad
reputation and that he never came downtown. The Chief will see the
sheriff Douglas and asks him to go to warn Franklin of his arrival, the
access to the mountain not being easy to him. Douglas is recalcitrant
and supports that Franklin should not be at his home but left in
ramble: he agrees nevertheless to send somebody. Later, he comes to
inform Ironside which he had reason and asks him to set out again. The
Chief does not take account of it to and takes the risk of going to the
hut of his friend, whom he finds in a deplorable state. Noting that the
wood heap was moved, Ironside suspects a murder at once and sends Marc
to seek the sheriff. When the two men return, Ironside disappeared.
With his great surprise, Marc is stopped and understands rather
quickly that Doublas hopes to put a crime to him on the back, a crime
which does not have yet took place: the murder of Ironside.
Writing by: Donn
Mullally
Directed by: Richard Stuck Guest star: Ron Beam (Douglas Sheriff), Gene Raymond (Charles Huff), Tom Simcox (George Huff). |
36. I, the people 31/10/1968 Ross Howard, an odious
organizer of talk-show called "the voice of the people", starts to
receive death threats by mail and the Commissioner Randall decides
to entrust the case to the Chief Ironside, asking him to ensure his
protection. In spite of his aversion for the character, the Chief
starts a deepened investigation, excavating the past of Howard like
that of his close relations. When this last collapses with the studio
after having eaten chocolates, it appears obvious that the threats do
not have anything a joke. Having introduced little poison, Howard
leaves indemne there and, later, he is victim of a new attempt on
behalf of a shirker gunner. The organizer has many enemies, among whom
the captain of police Walter Finch, a friend of Ironside, and the
Chief has thus extremely to make. When the wife of Howard dies in the
explosion of the car of her husband, everyone thinks at once of an
error of target but Ironside starts to erect scaffolding a very least
macabre assumption.
Writing
by: Milton Berle and Stephen Lord
Directed by: Barry Shear Guest star: Jason Wingreen (the man), George Murdock (captain Walter Finch), Dane Clark (Phil Manning), Parley Baer (commander Stevens), Jean Howell (the woman), Bill Welsh (journalist), Abraham Sofaer (Maharishi Rabbu), William Keene (professor), Lee Miller (odd-job man), Julie Adams (Norma Howard), Patricia Barry (Martha Webb), Milton Berle (Ross Howard). |
37. Price tag - death 07/11/1968 The Chief is called on the spot
of the murder of a homeless person by a ex-cop living now in the
street. This last, knowing Ironside, wishes that he take care of the
investigation, estimating that the life of a tramp is worth that of no
matter whom well. The Chief accepts and, soon, makes the bringing
together between the death of the tramp and a burgling during which the
necessary one to manufacture forged cheques was stolen. The robber
being a man very unstable and beginning in the field from the crime,
Ironside goes up his track rather easily. He wants to benefit from this
investigation to oblige the ex-police officer become tramp to face his
past to start again a more decent life.
Writing
by: Robert Earll
Directed by: Richard Stuck Guest star: Ben Freedman (Bum), Gil Peterson (officer), Victor Rogers (salesman of clothing), George Carey (the man), Bob Gravage (Red Emery), Erin O'Reilly (Cindy), Ralph Smiley (Mr. Sterns), Marcelle Fortier (salesman of books), John Mitchum (Slim), Jim Malinda (Ben), Peggy Ann Garner (ex-wife of Jack), Ralph Meeker (Rafe), Clu Gulager (Jack Tyler). |
38. An obvious case of guilt 14/11/1968 Carolyn White, a friend of the
Chief, suspected murder of her husband, although no body was
discovered. District Attorney is based on a recording of an argument
ending in a shot and traces of blood in the residence of the victim to
support his theory. Ironside, convinced of the innocence of Carolyn,
decides to take in hand the investigation and is not long in
discovering a corpse: that of a mannequin, mistress of the victim.
Carolyn is initially shown of this second murder but Ironside manages
to establish her innocence and, soon, clears her completely, proving
that her husband must always be in life and that he is him which
assembled all this history. Whereas all seems finished, from the small
details will foresee another possibility with the Chief, who will be
vis-a-vis a painful choice.
Writing
by: Brad Radnitz
Directed by: Abner Biberman Guest star: Anne Baxter (Carolyn White), Joan Tompkins (Miss Denny), Warren Stevens (district attorney Layton), Art Hern (John Bellows), Bing Russell (sheriff of Monterey), Allen Emerson (Cunningham), Bebe Louie (working), Lloyd Kino (grocer 2), Harry Harvey, Sr. (grocer 1), Eve McVeagh (manager), Paul Micale (trading), Florida Friebus (the woman between two ages). |
39. Reprise 21/11/1968 When Eve is wounded during a
shooting, the remainder of the team remembers their first meetings with
them, and the wonders developed by the Chief so that she joins
him. During this time, Ed worries about know if he wants simply to stop
the attacker of Eve or to kill this man without another form of lawsuit.
Writing
by: Albert Aley
Directed by: Gift McDougall Guest star: Quinn Redeker (Paul Fulham), Lillian Lehman (Nurse 2), Adrienne Marden (Nurse 1), Irene Hervey (Mrs. Whitfield), Eddie Firestone (Cherney), Stuart Rice (Frank Sharkey), Nancy Wickwire (Mrs. Kessell). |
40. The macabre Mr. Micawber 28//11/1968 Ironside has go with a
rich man to take glass. When he arrives on the spot, accompanied by
Marc, he finds this last death, assassinated. Quickly, the servant
becomes the principal suspect until he is attacked by an unknown
without apparent reason. Ironside discovers whereas the servant had a
bird of company, a ménate, particularly chatterer and who could hold
the solution of the history.
Writing
by: Bill S. Ballinger and Brett Halliday
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc Guest star: Bill Fletcher (Arnie Simms), Burgess Meredith (Carney), Ray Montgomery (sergeant Boardman), John Pickard (lieutenant of the firemen), Arthur Space (Horatio Shute), Kathie Browne (Elda Thompson), Kevin Burchett (messenger), Joseph Mell (Mr. Pipe), Jack Kruschen (McKay). |
41. Side Pocket 05/12/1968 A young resourceful
person is constrained to degrade himself with a gangster when his
brother accumulates strong gambling debts. Will the Chief decides to
intervene but manage to draw the two brothers from this bad step in
time?
Writing
by: Norman Katkov and Sy Salkowitz
Directed by: Abner Biberman Guest star: Ross Sherman (officer of control of the traffic), Cathleen Cordell (saleswoman), Victor Bozeman (salesman of hot dog), Paul Sorenson (Frank), Bob Hastings (Ray), Corinne Cole (Judy), Michael Christian (Tim Patterson), Robert Ellenstein (Sidney), Carl Reindel (Bobby Patterson), H.M. Wynant (Phil Vance), Jack Albertson (Money Howard). |
42. Sergeant Mike 12/12/1968 An old woman is assassinated
and the only witness of the scene proves to be a dog, Sergent Mike.
Ironside is not long in discovering that the victim had assembled
astute combines to strip credulous single people, men who, as by
chance, all were assassinated. The woman having obligatorily had an
accomplice, the Chief leaves to research this last, with the assistance
of Sergent Mike.
Writing
by: Carey Wilber
Directed by: Anton Mr. Leader Guest star: Bill Quinn (medical examiner), Robert Karnes (working), Bill Bixby (Edward Neufane), Robert Cornthwaite (Judson Trumble), Fred Williamson (sergeant Peer), John Dehner (the colonel). |
43. In search of an artist 02/01/1969 Ironside wants to offer a
gift to Eve for his aniverssaire and, by chance, fall on a table
apparently painted by an old friend who is supposed died after
having acknowledged a murder. The Chief believes that he is
always alive, and innocent, and leaves to Mexico to find his
friend, but also the true murderer.
Writing
by: Joseph Bonaduce
Directed by: Abner Biberman Guest star: Lorraine Gary (Leona Stuart), Broderick Crawford (Jack Stuart), Ronald Long (responsible for store), Ivan Triesault (Dr. Driscoll), Myron Healey (Jones), Art Metrano (Burt Blake), Joaquín Martínez (Juan Sanroma), William Burns (Danny Fielder), Barbara Werle (Anita Stuart), Lisabeth Hush (Betty Neil), Richard Forbes (Scotty Collins). |
44. Up, down and even 09/01/1969 The niece of Eve is stopped for
the possession and the use of marijuana, and the Chief inquires in his
school and near his friends to try to clear her. It becomes soon
obvious that she is guilty, like good of others, and that she even
encouraged some of her friends to do as much of it.
Writing
by: Robert Earll
Directed by: Gift Weis Guest star: Richard Anderson (Ted Channing), Gwen Welles (Pam), Susan Sullivan (Andrea), Cynthia Hull (Christine), Mary Linda Rapelye (Ann), Barbara Sanford (Kathy), Edith Atwater (Miss Bryan), David Lewis (the headmaster Fall), Terry Messina (Susan Burgess), Susan O'Connell (Kimberly Channing), Charles Brewer (Terry Lawrence), Rachel Ames (Carolyn Channing), Alfred Ryder (sergeant John Darga). |
45. Why the tuesday afternoon bridge
club met on thursday 23/01/1969 Victoria Ironside, the aunt of
the Chief, is member of Club of Bridge of Tuesday Afternoon.
When a member of the club disappears, Tante Victoria is persuaded
that there was murder and at once will find his nephew so that he helps
her to solve this mystery. Ironside accepts and finds himself quickly
assisted in his task by four old ladies decided to put their salt grain
in the history. When the corpse of the missing member is discovered,
Ironside understands that assassin took example on an old crime
and that he reproduces it in his least details.
Writing
by: Irve Tunick
Directed by: Gift McDougall Guest star: Barry Cahill (sergeant Miller), Bill Quinn (medical examiner), Jessie Royce Landis (Victoria Ironside), Ellen Corby (Gladys Prescott), Arthur O'Connell (Harvey McPhee), Lenore Shanewise (Gale Prescott), Gail Kobe (Val Singleton), Linda Watkins (Bessie Montague), John Cliff (sergeant of police). |
46. Rundown on a bum rap 30/01/1969 The old trainer of boxing of
Marc, become alcoholic, is found on the scene of a serious aggression,
and nobody seems to want to believe that he could right innocent being,
especially after the victim formally identified him. Marc fights to
prove that he wrongfully was shown, helped by the remainder of the
team, and in his attempt he won the affection of his law professor.
Writing
by: Sy Salkowitz
Directed by: Allen Reisner Guest star: Jason Wingreen (Sam Freeman), Sumi Haru (pilot), Ernest Harada (prosecutor), Read Morgan (officer 1), Victor Bozeman (officer 2), John Perak (the man in the court), Lola Mason (Alice), Ken Renard (judge), Robert Brubaker (sergeant), Leonard Stone (Wilson), Ken Lynch (Malloy), June Dayton (Mrs. Wilson), Richard Bull (Dr. Ender), Clifton James (Frank Bollo), Janet MacLachlan (Ellen), James Gregory (Baker). |
47. The prophecy 06/02/1969 A friend of Ironside,
Francine, predicted various prophecies for the members
of the team of the Chief, and they start to be carried out with a
remarkable precision. All begin with the robbery from a table from
Leonard de Vinci, lent by France, then by the disappearance of Ed. In
spit of a prediction concerning his characteristic died, the Chief must
discover the person in charge for the robbery before the French
ambassador is not upset too much by the loss of a national treasure.
Writing by:
Jackson Gillis
Directed by: Gift Weis Guest star:
William Bramley (Joe Lorca), Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Martha Scott
(Francine), Richard Angarola (Mantini), Nick Stewart (guard of the
museum), Charles Macaulay (Frank Kincaid), Paul Stewart (Cambridge).
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48. A world of jackals 13/02/1969 An old friend of Marc invites
him to ask for an appointment but he is removed before he could
join him. It appears soon that his disappearance is related to
that of the star of cinema Gloria James, which can be
assassinated. The Chief digs naturally, and a tragedy history leading
directly to a representative of the underworld local remakes surface.
Writing
by: Irv Pearlberg
Directed by: Gift McDougall Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Bill Quinn (medical examiner), Dennis McCarthy (doctor), Jean Inness (nurse), Lynn Hamilton (Mrs. Johnson), Charles R. Radilac (Janowski), James McEachin (Luther), Charles Dierkop (Palo), Lewis Charles (Phil Lewis), William Smithers (Mr. Rick), Ena Hartman (Janet Loomis), Lynn Borden (Gloria James). |
49. And be my love 20/02//1969 While inquiring into a case of
robbery among the rich person inhabitants of San Francisco, Eve
Whitfield falls in love with the one with the victims, for then
discovering that he is the principal suspect of the Chief. While the
remainder of the team works with the best manner of catching the
robber, Eve wonders whether it is not time for her to leave the
police and to marry.
Writing
by: Dale Eunson, Katherine Eunson and Sy Salkowitz
Directed by: Charles S. Dubin Guest star: Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Eldon Quick (Vic), J. Edward McKinley (the large man), Keith Walker (Arthur Nadeliano), Amzie Strickland (Roberta O'Gorman), Paul Smith (Dave Tidwell), Chad Everett (Larry Van Druten). |
50. Moonlight means money 27/02/1969 Ed and an old friend discovers
drug while the latter fact the taxi, whereas it is prohibited by the
payment of the police force. The situation worsens when the cop-taxi
keep silent a trafficker not armed with his weapon service. The
service of the internal investigations find the situation strange and,
suspected to be implied in the traffic of drug, the two police officers
are suspended. Ed then takes large risks to prove the innocence of
his friend, passing in addition to his setting with foot…
Writing
by: Sy Salkowitz
Directed by: Gift Weis Guest star: Barry Cahill (sergeant Miller), Gene Lyons (Dennis Randall), Linden Chiles (Ray Leonard), John Marley (Simon), Skip Homeier (Dameron), Murray MacLeod (Wells), Judi Meredith (Helen), Warren Kemmerling (captain Barnes), Eduardo Ciannelli (John Danione), Conny Van Dyke (Marge Wells), Dick O'Shea (Pat Arnold). |
51. A drug on the market 06/03/1969 An old friend of the Chief,
recently widowed, hears strange voices and receives threats in the form
of phone calls. She is afraid to become insane, but Ironside is given
to prove that this is right a machination to obtain her internment in a
psychiatric hospital.
Writing
by: Arthur Weingarten
Directed by: Barry Shear Guest star: Nick Dennis (George Zuppas), Ray Danton (Avery Corman), Betsy Jones-Moreland (Karen Martin), Fred Beir (Dr. Braven), Victoria Shaw (Judith Corman), Johnny Silver (Israel Sanchez), Issa Arnal (Asher Sorb-apple), Alan Stone (Howard Geary). |
52. Puzzlelock 13/03/1969 A ex-police officer, become
lawyer, assassinates his wife while arranging himself to leave indices
proving that she was still in life when he left the marital home to go
to a dinner with Robert Ironside, thus securing a perfect alibi.
The Chief must find the best manner of destroying this alibi in order
to prove than he is guilty.
Writing
by: B.W. Sandefur
Directed by: Allen Reisner Guest star: Barry Cahill (sergeant Miller), Jennifer Gan (Chickie), Ned Glass (Benjie), Dabbs Greer (Thomas Gibbs), Jocelyn Brando (Etta Gibbs), Alvin Hammer (Mush Shelby), Murray Pollack (Franklin), Dennis Cooney (Paul Dekes), Ray Weaver (detective Newell), Simon Oakland (Mel Grayson). |
53. The tormentor 27/03/1969 A famous player of
baseball, which is an old friend of Ed, starts to receive anonymous
letters, before having more serious troubles. Fearing for his family,
he refuses the offer of assistance of his friend and tries to control
the situation alone. Ed must persuade him to change opinion, before the
events do not turn to the drama.
Writing
by: Norman Jolley
Directed by: Gift Weis Guest star: Noam Pitlik (Ernie Wilson), Marc Hannibal (Joe Bigelow), Joe Higgins (Salty), Gary Collins (Clint Atkins), Mary Ann Mobley (Marcy Atkins), Michael-James Wixted (Joey Atkins), Bruce Gordon (Marvin Cruse), Emmett Ashford (referee 2), Art Passarella (referee 1). |
54. A matter of love and death 03/04/1969 A young woman is found died in
a park and it appears soon that she died following an illegal abortion.
Affected by the fate of the young woman, Eve takes a false identity and
goes to the boarding school for unmarried women where the victim was
descended in order to discover who is the clandestine abortionist.
Writing
by: Jeannot Szwarc
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc Guest star: Connie Kreski (Arlene), Pamela McMyler (Helen Stroud), Charlene Jones (Lana Howes), Bettye Ackerman (Dr. Pat Manners), Patrick Tovatt (Stanford Chase), Susan Howard (Jo Lyons), Barbara Shannon (Betty Ross), Lillian Adams (nurse Lois). |
55. Not with a whimper, but a bang 10/04/1969 A local university is tormented
by false bomb scares, and the editor of the newspaper of the
campus is convinced that the militants of left are responsible.
However, when the fourth bomb proves to be true, and that a member of
the escouade of mine clearance is killed, Ironside starts to consider
very an other solution and to distinguish two quite distinct cases.
Writing
by: Carey Wilber
Directed by: Abner Biberman Guest star: John Zaremba (Morris), Francine York (Darlene), Ross Elliott (Ohrlich), John Harmon (Sam Jessen), Edward Asner (Simpson), Philip Chapin (Neal Morgan), Judy Brown (Angie Henderson), Davis Roberts (technician), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (sergeant Arnie Vernon). |