Ironside

Shell Game

A notorious jewel thief named Justin arrives in town at the same time as a shipment of famous jewels arrives for display

Split Second to an Epitaph

Ironside is the only witness to a murder, but has to go into hospital for exploratory surgery immediately after the even

The Sacrifice

A policeman friend of Ironside and the team is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Is he really guilty, though,

Robert Phillips vs. the Man

A black rights activist is arrested for murder, and San Francisco's Black community threatens to take to the streets in

Desperate Encounter

A friend of the Chief's invites him to stay and then promptly disappears, leaving Ironside to figure out what has happen

I, the People

An obnoxious talk show host known as ""The Peoples' Voice"" begins to receive death threats, and the Chief is assigned t

Price Tag -- Death

The Chief is alerted to the murder of a down-and-out by an ex-cop now living on the streets. The trail soon leads to a l

An Obvious Case of Guilt

A friend of the Chief's is an obvious suspect in the murder of her husband, but the Chief believes that the evidence aga

Reprise

When Eve is injured during a shooting, the rest of the team recall their early encounters with her, and the Chief wonder

The Macabre Mr. Micawber

A rich man is murdered, and his man-servant is the prime suspect, until a talkative Mynah bird appears which may just ha

Side Pocket

A young pool hustler is coerced into a contract with a crooked promoter when his brother amasses large gambling debts. T

Sergeant Mike

A old woman is murdered, and the only witness appears to be a large, grumpy Alsatian. The Chief enlists his help in a se

In Search of an Artist

A painting turns up, apparently painted by an old friend of the Chief's who is presumed dead after confessing to a murde

Up, Down, and Even

Eve's niece is arrested for possession and use of marijuana, and the Chief investigates her school and friends in a bid

Why the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met on Thursday

Victoria Ironside, the Chief's aunt, is a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club. When a fellow member disappears,

Rundown on a Bum Rap

Mark's old boxing coach, an alcoholic, is found at the scene of a serious assault, and nobody seems prepared to entertai

The Prophecy

A fortune teller predicts various confusing prophecies for the members of Ironside's team, which begin to come true with

A World of Jackals

An old friend of Mark's calls him to ask for a meeting, but she is kidnapped before he can reach her. It soon transpires

And Be My Love

Following a series of robberies amongst San Francisco's richest inhabitants, Eve Whitfield falls in love with one of the

Moonlight Means Money

Ed and an old friend uncover a drug running operation whilst having a night on the town, and after becoming implicated i

A Drug on the Market

An old friend of the Chief's, recently widowed, is hearing strange voices and receiving threatening 'phone calls. She is

Puzzlelock

An ex-policeman murders his wife, and sets up a complicated false trail and apparently flawless alibi in order to cover

The Tormentor

A famous baseball player who is an old friend of Ed's begins to receive nuisance mail, which soon turns into something f

A Matter of Love and Death

A young woman is found dead in a park, and it soon transpires that she died as a result of an illegal abortion. Greatly

Not With a Whimper, But a Bang

A local college is plagued by false bomb alerts, and the editor of the campus paper is convinced that leftist militants

Alias Mr. Braithwaite

Mark's aunt Ruby is cheated out of her life savings by a pair of conmen, and the team set out to capture those responsib

Goodbye to Yesterday

Barbara Jones, the amnesiac victim with whom the Chief once fell in love (season one episode Barbara Who), calls Ironsid

Poole's Paradise

As the team passes through a small town, Ed is kidnapped by an escaped convict. When it transpires that the real crimina

Eye of the Hurricane

Lured to a prison with a promise of information, the Chief and Mark are taken hostage by three convicts desperate to esc

A Bullet for Mark

When Mark is shot, everybody assumes that the hitman was aiming for Ironside. It soon transpires, however, that Mark was

Love My Enemy

Ironside and Mark travel to France to handle the security for an American delegation at a conference with the Chinese, b

Seeing Is Believing

When a lowlife bookie is found severely beaten, five witnesses identify Ed as his attacker. Unable to provide an alibi,

The Machismo Bag

Mark encounters a group of freedom fighters at his local college, who appear to have more attitude than sense. When it t

Programmed for Danger

Several girls connected to the same computer dating agency are attacked, and when it transpires that they all fit the sa

Five Miles High

Taking an important witness from Hawaii to San Francisco by plane, Ironside discovers that a fellow passenger is a hitma

L'Chayim

A Torah is stolen from a local Synagogue, presided over by an old friend of the Chief's. Ironside personally takes on th

Beyond a Shadow

An old friend of the Chief's tries to commit suicide, after local gossip and the media both blame her for the murder of

Stolen On Demand

A member of Mark's basketball team becomes involved with a gang stealing to order. Mark is determined to get to the boy

Dora

A fruit seller is threatened by a protection racket, who obtain false photographs of her lawyer son in an attempt to coe

Beware the Wiles of the Stranger

Driving home from a visit to his cousin, Mark picks up a hitch hiker, who turns out to be a thief looking for a scapegoa

Eden Is the Place We Leave

A young boxer from San Francisco's Samoan community is anxious to break free from the old traditions of his people, whic

The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place

Ed falls in love with an actress, accidentally caught up in a robbery case. Although the affair is mutual, Vivian Page i

Return to Fiji

When he arrives in Fiji to spend his holiday with an old friend, the Chief is suspicious about news that his friend has

Ransom

Eve is present when an old friend of hers is kidnapped, and is taken along by the abductors. Anxious to get her back, th

One Hour to Kill

Ironside becomes trapped in his office on his own, when a man comes looking for revenge. With Mark at school and Ed drag

Warrior's Return

An ex-thief on parole is suspected of a jewel robbery, but the Chief, who has supported him since his release, is sure t

Little Jerry Jessup

A thirteen year old boy is the only witness to his mother's murder, but finds it hard to co-operate with the Chief, know

Good Will Tour

The team is assigned to watch over a Crown Prince on a one night stay in San Francisco. With Eve accompanying him on an

Little Dog, Gone

A dog belonging to a rich friend of the Commissioner's goes missing, and Ironside is assigned to the case. Somewhat scor

Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us

After killing Ed Brown's fiancée seven years previously, Tom Dayton, a sociopath with a hatred of female authority fi

A Killing Will Occur

The Chief begins to receive strange phone calls, warning him of a murder to be committed somewhere in San Francisco, app

No Game for Amateurs

A sniper working for the criminal underworld seeks refuge in the anti-Vietnam protest movement, and with a number of dra

The Happy Dreams of Hollow Men

The Chief travels into the mountains to spend the weekend with an old friend, only to be snowed in following a bad blizz

The People Against Judge McIntire

A judge decides to begin a series of lectures about a case that he tried eight years previously, the result of which was

Noel's Gonna Fly

An ageing accountant, weighed down by the responsibilities of his life, decides to break free from the grindstone and tr

The Lonely Way to Go

The accountant for the Police Pension Fund confesses to the murder of his secretary, but all of the evidence suggests th

Check, Mate: and Murder (1)

In Canada for a conference, Ironside and the team get caught up in a spate of bombings, courtesy of Quebec separatists;

Check, Mate: and Murder (2)

Ed goes undercover at the docks to try to identify and capture the murderer, whilst the rest of the team continue invest

Too Many Victims

A policeman's daughter crashes her car after taking cannabis, and her father sets out to catch the man who sold her the

The Man on the Inside

When a drug pusher is arrested following a spate of botched drug raids he fingers Ironside as a gang informer. Ed is pre

Backfire

Mark investigates an old case as part of his coursework research, and uncovers an apparent miscarriage of justice which

The Laying on of Hands

Pablo Esteban, a young Mexican boy, is brought to San Francisco by some businessmen who claim that he can heal people ju

This Could Blow Your Mind

Ironside attends a hospital for psychological evaluation, and whilst he is tying knots in his psychiatrist's theories, i

Blackout

The power station for a four mile square area of town is destroyed in an explosion, and when a similar attack takes out

The Quincunx

A successful folk trio comprising two brothers and a sister tour San Francisco, and Eve's suspicions are roused when the

From Hrûska, with Love

The Chief and his team are detailed to escort a spy to Mexico, in order to make an exchange with the Russians for an Ame

The Target

An ex-con determined to go straight is roped into a scam to steal dynamite, after his son is kidnapped. The Chief manage

A Killing at the Track

Outside odds horses are starting to win at the local track, and Ironside is soon on the case. He discovers that somebody

Escape

Ed and Eve travel to Mexico to assist in the interrogation of a former suspect in a murder case, who has been arrested f

Love, Peace, Brotherhood, and Murder

The team is at a theatre to watch the rehearsals of a play Ironside has some money invested in, when one of the actors i

The Riddle in Room Six

A court case is put in jeopardy when it seems that the jury is irrevocably hung over its verdict; until the Chief realis

The Summer Soldier

An old Armenian, the uncle of a friend of Eve's, appears to be hiding some secret that has his niece deeply worried. It

Accident

Driving to the garage whilst tired, Mark knocks down an old lady, with whom he develops a close relationship. It soon se

Lesson in Terror

A gang of violent anarchists springs a protestor from prison and, when he is recaptured, try to force the police into re

Grandmother's House

An old woman whose handbag has been snatched asks Ironside to take her case. Moved by his friendship with her late husba

Walls Are Waiting

A parole officer famed for his hard line against drug pushers begins to fear for his life after a shooting. The line of

Priest-Killer

A police chief who is confined to a wheelchair and a former cop who is now a priest team up to discover who has been com

Contract: Kill Ironside

Due to give evidence, the Chief discovers that there is a contract out on his life, and that the chosen killer is a high

The Professionals

A phoney cab driver is taking men to so-called parties, where they are drugged and robbed; but when one of the victims w

The Gambling Game

After the murder of Police Captain Belding, his daughter, a rookie cop, is anxious to prove that the allegations of corr

Ring of Prayer

A prisoner is denied parole for no clear reason, and the Chief's investigations lead him to a woman who seems to have su

In the Line of Duty

A policeman is shot and killed by an assailant. The evidence points to the murderer being a local thief, currently enjoy

Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells

Chief Ironside's sponsored "daughter" arrives from Korea, intending to marry a fellow Korean now living in San Francisco

Murder Impromptu

An actor/producer is murdered during a series of comic improvisations, and all of the actors present at the time seem to

Dear Fran

Fran Belding's cousin Bobby commits suicide, and a note left behind seems to suggest that he could not live without her

If a Body See a Body

On a day out with Mark, Ed finds a body in the park, but when Homicide arrives it has gone. Teased by his rival, Homicid

Good Samaritan

Ed is shot during a raid on a jewellery store, and his life is saved by a stranger who vanishes as soon as the authoriti

Gentle Oaks

A string of deaths at a convalescence home leads the Chief to go undercover as a patient, whose two children (Fran Beldi

License to Kill

A policeman is killed, and his murderer is subsequently shot by the dead man's partner; and when it transpires that both

Class of '57

Ed discovers that a man sought on assault charges is Bernie Simmonds, a man who was in his class at school. Whilst pursu

No Motive for Murder

The son of an old friend, fearing that his father's life is in danger, asks the Chief to go to Tokyo. Once there Ironsid

But When She Was Bad

The Chief is sure that a man just released from prison is responsible for the murder of a policeman, but as determined a

Unreasonable Facsimile

A string of bank robberies are being committed, all with the exact hallmarks of a certain thief recently released from p

Find a Victim

A Mob numbers racket suffers a series of robberies, but is understandably unwilling to report the thefts. The Chief, fee

And Then There Was One

A military-issue fragmentation grenade is used in an attack on two Vietnam veterans, one of whom - a friend of Mark's -

Death by the Numbers

A string of murders is committed, and in each case the victim has a numbered disk in their possession. After number four

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder

The small daughter of a friend of the Chief's dabbles in witchcraft, and becomes convinced that she is responsible for t

Achilles' Heel

The son of a judge involved in a fraud case is framed for the murder of a young actress, in the hope that this will forc

His Fiddlers Three

A violin tutor at a conservatory in San Francisco is murdered, and the suspects include an eclectic mix of talented musi

A Man Named Arno

Alone in the office, Fran Belding is attacked by an escaped convict, and helped by a mystery man who refuses to tell her

Five Days in the Death of Sergeant Brown (I)

The star witness to a major case, Ed is shot and seriously injured by a mystery assailant. Threatened with paralysis he

The Savage Sentry

A man with an uncanny ability to tame vicious guard dogs commits a series of robberies in San Francisco. The Chief has a

Programmed for Panic

After a murder is committed in a San Francisco park, the Chief takes part in a live TV broadcast in the hope of provokin

Down Two Roads

Mark's graduation from law school coincides with the arrest of a caretaker that he has befriended. Believing the man inn

Camera...Action...Murder!

The Chief receives a series of films showing the murders of young women, and his investigation is assisted by a filmmake

Riddle Me Death

A man dies in what appears to be an accident, but his estranged daughter is convinced that the story is not nearly so si

Nightmare Trip

Ed goes to LA to fetch a prisoner, but when confronted by a pair of hostile beat cops after a mugging, he loses his cool

Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?

Meeting with a man imprisoned for manslaughter seven years previously, the Chief begins to doubt the evidence which he h

The Countdown

A scientist is given a irremovable belt containing explosives, and the man responsible demands the release of three men

The Deadly Gamesmen

A series of cleverly orchestrated crimes in a section of San Francisco leads the Chief to the conclusion that a pair of

Who'll Cry for My Baby?

The Chief meets a man whose daughter has been murdered, and who is unable to rest until the killer is found. Moved by th

Cold, Hard Cash

When the team gets word of a kidnap plot, Ed goes undercover as the wheel man; but he soon finds himself battling with a

Shadow Soldiers

Whilst in London at a conference with the Chief, Ed witnesses an assassination, and promptly becomes the killer's next t

Ollinger's Last Case

The Chief receives a worrying phone call from Ted Ollinger, an old friend, and he sends Ed to investigate. In the tiny t

A Special Person

Whilst the Chief and Ed are at a party, the host is shot at by an unseen assailant, and Ironside wastes no time in settl

The Caller

After agreeing to housesit for a friend, Fran Belding begins to receive suspicious telephone calls, which soon become ra

Love Me in December

When her fiancé is accused of murder, a young woman comes to Ironside for help; but when it transpires that the fianc

The Ghost of the Dancing Doll

An old friend of Ed's goes missing after promising to take him on a fishing trip, and it soon becomes clear that he has

All About Andrea

A celebrated feminist writer is shot at in the street, and Fran is assigned to protect her. The Chief does what he can t

Another Shell Game

A major art display comes to San Francisco, just as an old adversary of the Chief's is released from jail. Anthony Justi

All Honorable Men

An apparently impossible robbery occurs in the safety deposit vault at a bank, and Ironside begins to unravel the detail

The Best Laid Plans

The Chief is in the bank when it is robbed by a gang of three men, planning to await the arrival of a payroll delivery t

A Game Of Showdown

Ed and the Chief are on their way out of the city for a fishing trip, when they get mixed up in a fatal shooting at a mo

Confessions from a Lady of the Night

A sleazy magazine prints stories against the SFPD, and Ironside in particular, using the tale of a vanished actor as an

Murder by One

The teenage son of a friend of Fran's appears to commit suicide, however the evidence seems to point in a number of diff

In the Forests of the Night

The Chief meets Alexandra, an old girlfriend with whom he is still very much in love. When he finds that the feeling is

Fragile Is the House of Cards

A lawyer turns up at Ironside's door late at night, badly bruised and unable to remember what has happened to him. All t

The Armageddon Gang

A scientist disappears, sparking fears at the research centre where he works that he might have defected. Suspicious at

House of Terror

The Commissioner's niece makes a bet that she can sleep for one night in the master bedroom of a haunted house, then dis

The Helping Hand

Fran Belding's Mexican cleaning lady turns out to be an illegal immigrant, brought into the country against her will by

Downhill All the Way

A small boy witnesses a crime, but proves to be an awkward witness due to a mental condition that doctors cannot explain

Mind for Murder

While Fran, Mark and Ed are at a night club, a psychic sees details of a recent fire. When the Chief becomes interested,

The Hidden Man

A returning Vietnam vet sees his supposedly dead father at the airport, and initiates a search for him against the Commi

The Double-Edged Corner

A violent gang kills two men during a robbery, and the Chief enlists the help of a regular informant in order to capture

The Last Payment

A friend of Mark's is being unfairly shaken down by a crooked loan shark with crippling interest demands. Worried for hi

Friend or Foe (aka For the Love of God)

A packet of heroin goes missing, implicating Carl Reece and his partner Don Boyden in a possible cover-up. When Boyden i

Two Hundred Large

A robbery goes wrong and one of the thieves is killed, whilst another, an unlikely sort to be taking part in a robbery,

Once More for Joey

The work of a quartet of musicians is being pirated, and whilst Ed and Fran are investigating, a member of the group is

Terror on Grant Avenue

An elder in the Chinese community is murdered, and a young man is held to be responsible. The Chief calls in his friends

Class of '40

The Chief attends his high school reunion, only to find two of his old classmates recently murdered, and somebody appare

A Taste of Ashes

A girl thought to have died years previously turns up at the home of her mother just as her brother is found murdered. C

A Death in Academe

A philosophy student commits suicide, and her death leads to strong criticism of her college professor. When it seems th

Close to the Heart

When a woman crashes her car into the Chief's van after suffering a minor heart attack, doctors discover a bullet lodged

Come Eleven, Come Twelve

Ed gets grounded in Reno whilst transporting a murder suspect back to San Francisco, and knowing gunmen to be on his tai

Riddle at 24,000

A man dies of a heart attack whilst flying his plane, but the town medical examiner, a charmingly eccentric Cuban doctor

Amy Prentiss: AKA The Chief

The promotion of a new Chief of Police leaves an opening for a new Chief of Detectives, and the front runner for the job

Raise the Devil (1)

A woman is killed in a locked room, and her daughter Susan confesses to the murder after apparently becoming possessed b

Raise the Devil (2)

The Chief links his case with a psychiatrist, who turns out to be a psychopath with a passion for brainwashing. Before h

What's New with Mark?

Mark and his girlfriend come across a murder whilst on a date, but decide to defend the killer when it transpires that h

Trial of Terror

Cross Doublecross

When somebody takes pot shots at Fran's hot-headed cop boyfriend, he soon comes under suspicion for a handful of assault

Set Up: Danger!

When Ed returns from a holiday he finds the Chief missing, and a series of obscure clues pointing to the suggestion that

The Lost Cotillion

A series of murders appear to be connected to an old friend of the Chief's, an ageing woman from San Francisco's old ric

Run Scared

The Chief's god-daughter witnesses a murder whilst performing in a street-side harlequin show. On the run from the murde

Act of Vengeance

A convict awaiting parole hears that his son has been shot dead following a clash with a rival teenage gang. Although ea

Far Side of the Fence

After the killing of one of his men, gangland boss Lew Parker puts out a contract on Ironside, which the undercover Ed i

The Over-the-Hill Blues

Peter Justin, a gentleman jewel thief and old adversary of the Chief's, returns from a five year stretch in San Quentin

Speak No Evil

A friend of Ed's becomes the target of an assassin, but cannot shed any light on the reasons for the attempt on his life

Fall of an Angel

A retired assassin kills the son of a mob chief, and tries to escape town after anonymously leaving his own young son in

The Visiting Fireman

A British police inspector visits San Francisco for a conference, and whilst there assists his old friend Chief Ironside

The Return of Eleanor Rogers

Ed befriends the daughter of the judge presiding over his latest case, only for the girl to come to him in fear for her

The Faded Image

Ed befriends the daughter of the judge presiding over his latest case, only for the girl to come to him in fear for her