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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Ironside Season 1 Episode 3 - The Leaf in the Forest
    0.0/10(131 votes)

    #1 - The Leaf in the Forest

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Ironside Season 1 Episode 5 - Eat, Drink and Be Buried
    0.0/10(113 votes)

    #2 - Eat, Drink and Be Buried

    S1:E5

    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?

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Ironside Season 1 Episode 6 - The Taker
    0.0/10(121 votes)

    #3 - The Taker

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Winston Miller

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  4. Ironside Season 1 Episode 7 - An Inside Job
    0.0/10(126 votes)

    #4 - An Inside Job

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Ironside Season 1 Episode 9 - Let My Brother Go
    0.0/10(113 votes)

    #5 - Let My Brother Go

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Ironside Season 1 Episode 10 - Light at the End of the Journey
    0.0/10(95 votes)

    #6 - Light at the End of the Journey

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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  7. Ironside Season 1 Episode 11 - The Monster of Comus Towers
    0.0/10(114 votes)

    #7 - The Monster of Comus Towers

    S1:E11

    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 proprietor of the museum, who is an old friend of the Chief's.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Ironside Season 1 Episode 12 - The Man Who Believed
    0.0/10(100 votes)

    #8 - The Man Who Believed

    S1:E12

    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 uncovers the sad truth. (NB - As part of the incidental music, this episode heavily features the original song From The Day You're Born, which was reused later in the season, in episode Something For Nothing, where it was sung by guest star James Farentino).

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Ironside Season 1 Episode 13 - A Very Cool Hot Car
    0.0/10(117 votes)

    #9 - A Very Cool Hot Car

    S1:E13

    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 convinced that the cop in question is innocent, but nobody else seems very sure.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Luther Davis

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  10. Ironside Season 1 Episode 14 - The Past Is Prologue
    0.0/10(108 votes)

    #10 - The Past Is Prologue

    S1:E14

    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 him extradited back to NY for execution, but Ironside is equally determined to save him, especially when it becomes clear that he is innocent.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Paul Mason

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  11. Ironside Season 1 Episode 17 - Force of Arms
    0.0/10(96 votes)

    #11 - Force of Arms

    S1:E17

    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 out of hand.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writers:Warren Duff, Ivan Goff

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  12. Ironside Season 1 Episode 18 - Memory of an Ice Cream Stick
    0.0/10(93 votes)

    #12 - Memory of an Ice Cream Stick

    S1:E18

    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 risks breaking his own friendship with Mark.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Sy Salkowitz

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  13. Ironside Season 1 Episode 19 - To Kill a Cop
    0.0/10(98 votes)

    #13 - To Kill a Cop

    S1:E19

    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. Suspended from duty he sets himself up as the next victim, determined to prove that his suspicions are correct.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Ironside Season 1 Episode 20 - The Lonely Hostage
    0.0/10(94 votes)

    #14 - The Lonely Hostage

    S1:E20

    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 escape is certain. Ironside has to convince the man's wife that her husband is no longer the man she married.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Ironside Season 1 Episode 22 - All in a Day's Work
    0.0/10(89 votes)

    #15 - All in a Day's Work

    S1:E22

    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 officer, particularly when half of the town seems convinced that he was a model teenager. It soon turns out that this is far from the truth.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Evan Hunter

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  16. Ironside Season 1 Episode 24 - Barbara Who
    0.0/10(102 votes)

    #16 - Barbara Who

    S1:E24

    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 becomes clear that the Chief's hopes for a long term relationship might not be possible with this particular girl.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Ironside Season 1 Episode 25 - Perfect Crime
    0.0/10(83 votes)

    #17 - Perfect Crime

    S1:E25

    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 to be particularly cold and calculating, and the Chief finds that he is facing true genius.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Ironside Season 1 Episode 26 - Officer Bobby
    0.0/10(106 votes)

    #18 - Officer Bobby

    S1:E26

    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 make her come forward, using the baby as bait.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Bill S. Ballinger

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  19. Ironside Season 1 Episode 27 - Trip to Hashbury
    0.0/10(96 votes)

    #19 - Trip to Hashbury

    S1:E27

    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 apparently model students at a local private school.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Ironside Season 1 Episode 28 - Due Process of the Law
    0.0/10(81 votes)

    #20 - Due Process of the Law

    S1:E28

    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 hands, however, he finds himself under arrest for the murder of the chief suspect.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Ironside Season 2 Episode 1 - Shell Game
    0.0/10(91 votes)

    #21 - Shell Game

    S2:E1

    A notorious jewel thief named Justin arrives in town at the same time as a shipment of famous jewels arrives for display in a local museum. Ironside must keep the thief guessing about the method of shipment so that the jewels will remain safe; but he is up against a mastermind and there is still an inside man who has to be unmasked.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Ironside Season 2 Episode 2 - Split Second to an Epitaph
    0.0/10(99 votes)

    #22 - Split Second to an Epitaph

    S2:E2

    Ironside is the only witness to a murder, but has to go into hospital for exploratory surgery immediately after the events that he witnessed. The murderer is determined that he should not leave hospital alive, and as the Chief deals with the possibility of maybe one day being able to walk again, his presence in the hospital helps various other citizens right wrongs in their lives. Meanwhile Ed, Eve and Mark deal with their own worries and fears for the Chief as the murder attempts escalate.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Don Mankiewicz

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  23. Ironside Season 2 Episode 3 - The Sacrifice
    0.0/10(93 votes)

    #23 - The Sacrifice

    S2:E3

    A policeman friend of Ironside and the team is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Is he really guilty, though, or is the evidence just a little too damning?

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Ironside Season 2 Episode 4 - Robert Phillips vs. the Man
    0.0/10(73 votes)

    #24 - Robert Phillips vs. the Man

    S2:E4

    A black rights activist is arrested for murder, and San Francisco's Black community threatens to take to the streets in protest. Commissioner Randall asks the Chief to investigate the case in an attempt to prove Phillip's innocence; but certain citizens do not appear to want to co-operate.

    Director:Nicholas Colasanto
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Ironside Season 2 Episode 5 - Desperate Encounter
    0.0/10(78 votes)

    #25 - Desperate Encounter

    S2:E5

    A friend of the Chief's invites him to stay and then promptly disappears, leaving Ironside to figure out what has happened to him, whilst also running the gauntlet in a town determined to cover up a secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Leaf in the Forest" is the worst rated episode of "Ironside". It scored /10 based on 131 votes. Directed by Leo Penn and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/21/1967. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Eat, Drink and Be Buried".