Ironside

S1 • E1

Message from Beyond

A security guard is implicated in the theft of $175,000 from a horse-racing track. Even after the suspect dies in a car crash, Ironside is sure he left clues about where to find the money - and who ordered him to steal it.

S1 • E2

The Leaf in the Forest

The smothering death of an elderly woman is blamed on an at-large serial killer, but Ironside notices enough differences in this case to see if a second murderer was trying to give that impression.

S1 • E3

Dead Man's Tale

Warren Stuart, number two man in a big crime syndicate in San Francisco, wants to leave the criminal world and start a new life. He has tried to contact Ironside several times, to reveal important information about the criminal organization. When he is killed by a sniper, Ironside is quite sure that John Trask, the number one man, ordered the assassination. Ironside is since a long time clear about who the leaders of the crime syndicate are. The problem is that he cannot find any evidence against them. Now he sees a chance to catch the leaders, by arranging a trap for them. If they believe that Stuart isn't dead, but only unconscious, they get nervous about what will happen when he wakes up, and may start some actions that can prove their criminality. Stuart died almost immediately of the bullets, but Ironside spreads the false news, through media, that Stuart is still alive, but kept in a secret and guarded place at the hospital. To increase the pressure on Trask, he arrests the other leaders of the syndicate, thus giving the impression that Stuart has woken up and started to talk.

S1 • E4

Eat, Drink and Be Buried

A fabulously successful advice columnist escapes serious injury from abduction, poisoning, and gunshots. Ironside sets out to find the person responsible for the writer's brushes with death.

S1 • E5

The Taker

A policeman that Ironside has known for some years is on an investigation and gets shot and killed. The evidence seems to look like the policeman is crooked, Ironside is determined to prove that this is not the case.

S1 • E6

An Inside Job

Ironside and Eve are held hostage at police headquarters by escaping criminals Carter and Baines. The criminals give Ironside a way to survive, He must become a "criminal" and come up with a plan for them to escape.

S1 • E7

Tagged for Murder

Ironside investigates an accidental electrocution that Ed thinks is a murder and finds a pattern of murder and greed over a Swiss bank account in which a group of WWII veterans have stored loot from a bank heist during the war.

S1 • E8

Let My Brother Go

Mark's boyhood pal, now a pro football star, refuses Ironside's request to start a sports program for inner-city youths. The gridiron hero then discovers his recently-paroled younger brother has been working for illegal bookmakers.

S1 • E9

Light at the End of the Journey

An old friend of Ironside's, now a P.I., is murdered. The only "witness" is a woman who happens to be blind. Ironside takes a calculated risk that the killer doesn't realize this and sets a trap to catch him when he comes back to kill her.

S1 • E10

The Monster of Comus Towers

A heavy center piece of a priceless artwork is stolen from an upper story high rise office building and the apparent entrance and exit is through a broken window on the floor.

S1 • E11

The Man Who Believed

When a rising folk-singer's body is found in the water under the Golden Gate Bridge, suicide is suspected, but Ironside has reasons to suspect something else.

S1 • E12

A Very Cool Hot Car

Mark goes undercover at a scrapyard to assist Ironside in the investigation of a sharp increase in auto thefts, and a corresponding decrease in vehicle recoveries.

S1 • E13

The Past Is Prologue

A hard-working carpenter is about to be extradited to the state of New York and executed for a murder he was convicted of committing 19 years earlier. Ironside races against time to prove the man's innocence.

S1 • E14

Girl in the Night

In Las Vegas on police business, Ed meets a pretty singer, takes her to dinner and later to her home, where she abruptly leaves and Ed is assaulted. Ironside investigates the connection between Ed's assailants and the mysterious young lady.

S1 • E15

The Fourteenth Runner

A Soviet athlete has been kidnapped! Or has he? Ironside must work with Soviet agents to find out what happened to the man.

S1 • E16

Force of Arms

The chief of staff for a millionaire's citizen vigilance group is found dead in his wrecked car. Ironside looks into a theory that the murderer was an organization insider trying to set up the victim as a martyr.

S1 • E17

Memory of an Ice Cream Stick

Ironside knows a man Mark ran errands for as a child is a convicted robber who may be involved in the murder of a gangland racketeer. Mark, however, defies a warning to stay away from his old acquaintance.

S1 • E18

To Kill a Cop

Ed helps two patrol officers arrest a restaurant owner who vows revenge upon his release. Both of the policemen are murdered a few days later. Convinced that the restaurateur is the killer, Ed pursues him against Ironside's orders.

S1 • E19

The Lonely Hostage

A detective working part-time as a bank guard shoots a patrolman who catches him robbing the bank. After a week in hiding and unable to leave the city, he meets with Ironside to turn himself in, but kidnaps him instead and forces Mark to drive them north out of the city. His wife and son are waiting at a cabin in Tahoe where a chartered plane is coming to fly the family to Mexico.

S1 • E20

The Challenge

A psychiatrist is murdered two days after asking his friend Ironside if he could tell which of five patients was a potential killer by looking at their artwork.

S1 • E21

All in a Day's Work

Eve shoots and kills one of the two men involved in a jewelry store robbery. Stunned when she finds out he was only seventeen years old and everyone that knew him says he was a fine young man, she questions her commitment to police work. After she tells Ironside she is quitting, he convinces her to finish the case and finds a way to help her regain her confidence.

S1 • E22

Something for Nothing

Ironside wants a singer to testify in court against the influential crime lord who forced him to participate in a bank robbery as payment for gambling debts.

S1 • E23

Barbara Who

A woman is found beaten and suffering from permanent amnesia. After recovery from her injuries, she asks Ironside to help her find her past.

S1 • E24

Perfect Crime

In an informal talk at a local college, Ironside says all criminal plots are flawed. An anonymous student challenges that statement by wounding several people - including Eve - with long-range rifle shots.

S1 • E25

Officer Bobby

The plane Ironside was about to board is bombed, and a baby is left in his van! Ironside takes the infant boy home to wait for his mother and her ex-husband, the only people from the plane's passenger list who are unaccounted for.

S1 • E26

Trip to Hashbury

A teenage runaway claims Ed assaulted her while trying to remove her from a house full of hippies. Ironside investigates the possibility that someone else attacked the girl before Ed arrived.

S1 • E27

Due Process of Law

After Mark's girlfriend is found dead he becomes obsessed with finding the responsible person, even if it means ignoring the law.

S1 • E28

Return of the Hero

Ironside's former colleague is found guilty of fatally shooting his wife and her lover. When the judge, district attorney, and witnesses from the trial are threatened or killed by bombs, Ironside believes two separate forces are at work.

S1 • E29

Return of the Hero (1)