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«The chief of detectives!»
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 Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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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 Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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Episode 1
Mark's aunt Ruby is cheated out of her life savings by a pair of conmen, and the team set out to capture those responsible. Ed and Eve go under cover as a rich couple, but the investigation is threatened when Ed's cover is blown by a woman he once arrested.
Directed by Don WeisGuest stars Beah Richards, Hank Stohl, Joseph Campanella, Len Wayland, Phillip Pine, Pat Priest, Joan Swift
Episode 2
Barbara Jones, the amnesiac victim with whom the Chief once fell in love (season one episode Barbara Who), calls Ironside in when her daughter is kidnapped. Not only is it a difficult case, but the Chief has an over eager Sheriff, a jealous husband and his own feelings to contend with, as he attempts to find the girl before it is too late.
Directed by Barry ShearGuest stars John Zaremba, Melody Thomas Scott, Dane Clark, Slim Pickens, Eddie Firestone, Philip Carey, Vera Miles, Murray MacLeod
Episode 3
As the team passes through a small town, Ed is kidnapped by an escaped convict. When it transpires that the real criminals are the local law officers, the pair go on the run together, and Ironside must get to Ed before he is killed by the Sheriff and his men.
Directed by Abner BibermanGuest stars Steve Forrest, William Smith, Clu Gulager, Stuart Nisbet, Med Flory
Episode 4
Lured to a prison with a promise of information, the Chief and Mark are taken hostage by three convicts desperate to escape. Together they plot to undermine the escape attempt by turning the situation to their own advantage.
Guest stars Jackie Coogan, Dana Elcar, Arthur Space, Myron Healey, Johnny Seven, Virginia Gregg, John S. Ragin
Episode 5
When Mark is shot, everybody assumes that the hitman was aiming for Ironside. It soon transpires, however, that Mark was the intended victim. With no apparent motive, and no clues as to who hired the assassin, can the team find the people responsible before they find out that Mark is still alive?
Directed by Richard BenedictGuest stars Richard Benedict, Felton Perry, John Archer, Robert Alda, Pat Renella, Don 'Red' Barry, Robert Donner, Nick Benedict
Episode 6
Ironside and Mark travel to France to handle the security for an American delegation at a conference with the Chinese, but somebody is determined to stop the talks from going ahead. Meanwhile, Mark falls in love with one of the Chinese delegates.
Directed by Don WeisGuest stars Bo Svenson, Philip Ahn, James Shigeta, Jeffrey Lynn
Episode 7
When a lowlife bookie is found severely beaten, five witnesses identify Ed as his attacker. Unable to provide an alibi, Ed finds himself having to prove his own innocence; and when the victim dies and Ed is arrested on a murder charge, the team have to find out who the real killer is.
Directed by Barry ShearWritten by Don GallowayGuest stars Beatrice Kay, Audrey Totter, Norman Fell, Robert Ellenstein, Anne Whitfield, Walter Reed
Episode 8
Mark encounters a group of freedom fighters at his local college, who appear to have more attitude than sense. When it turns out that they also have a roomful of stolen automatic weapons, the Chief has to decide whether or not they represent a threat to the security of San Francisco.
Directed by Don WeisWritten by William Douglas LansfordGuest stars Mort Mills, Willis Bouchey, Gene Lyons, Vito Scotti, A Martinez
Episode 9
Several girls connected to the same computer dating agency are attacked, and when it transpires that they all fit the same rough profile, Eve sets herself up as a potential next victim, in order to catch the man responsible.
Directed by John FloreaGuest stars Anne Baxter, Roger Perry, Herbert Anderson, Bobbi Jordan, Adrienne Marden, Jan Arvan
Episode 10
Taking an important witness from Hawaii to San Francisco by plane, Ironside discovers that a fellow passenger is a hitman. He has to find out who is trying to kill his witness before the plane lands; but there may be more than one person trying to claim the reward for an open contract.
Directed by Don WeisWritten by Paul SchneiderGuest stars Robert DoQui, Norma Crane, Milton Selzer, Regis Cordic, Frank Aletter, Joe Mantell, George Cisar, Sandy Ward
Episode 11
A Torah is stolen from a local Synagogue, presided over by an old friend of the Chief's. Ironside personally takes on the case, determined to find out if the theft was an act of vandalism, as the evidence would seem to point out, or if it is really the work of thieves looking for some quick money.
Directed by Anton LeaderGuest stars Shelly Novack, Hilly Hicks, Greg Mullavey, David Opatoshu, Bill Quinn
Episode 12
An old friend of the Chief's tries to commit suicide, after local gossip and the media both blame her for the murder of her husband. Ironside is determined to find out the truth about the death, even if it means proving that his friend really is guilty.
Directed by Richard BenedictWritten by Martha WilkersonGuest stars Mort Sahl, Michael Fox, Dana Wynter, Russ Conway, James McCallion, Gene Lyons, Simon Scott, Harold Ayer
Episode 13
A member of Mark's basketball team becomes involved with a gang stealing to order. Mark is determined to get to the boy before the police do, to persuade him to give himself up, but the boy's employer has other ideas.
Guest stars Victor Bozeman, Alan Oppenheimer, David Cassidy
Episode 14
A fruit seller is threatened by a protection racket, who obtain false photographs of her lawyer son in an attempt to coerce her into letting them invest in her business on the docks. The racket has not reckoned on the tenacity of Dora and her son, however; or on her good friend Chief Ironside.
Directed by John FloreaGuest stars Walter Brooke, Ann Doran, Barbara Rhoades, Stewart Moss, Bruce Kirby, Marc Seaton, Lenore Kingston
Episode 15
Driving home from a visit to his cousin, Mark picks up a hitch hiker, who turns out to be a thief looking for a scapegoat. The pair become friends, however, which causes problems when her accomplice turns up, anxious to carry out the original plan.
Directed by Don WeisGuest stars Tina Louise, William Boyett, Tyler McVey, John Ericson, Stacy Harris, Harry Harvey, Charles Aidman
Episode 16
A young boxer from San Francisco's Samoan community is anxious to break free from the old traditions of his people, which he feels are holding him back. He finds the process a lot more distressing than he had imagined, however; and his own life, and those of the people he spars with, are put at risk.
Directed by Daniel PetrieGuest stars John Marley, Ruth McDevitt, Maidie Norman, Jill Townsend, Patrick Adiarte, Sandy Kenyon
Episode 17
Ed falls in love with an actress, accidentally caught up in a robbery case. Although the affair is mutual, Vivian Page is a pacifist, and unable to accept Ed's career in the force. Both have to decide what means the most to them, and in the end, separate; whilst the cameras pull back, and curtains fall across the screen, as though it had all been just a movie...!
Directed by John FloreaGuest stars Frank Maxwell, Paul Carr, Peggy Stewart
Episode 18
When he arrives in Fiji to spend his holiday with an old friend, the Chief is suspicious about news that his friend has gone to visit him in San Francisco. After sending for Mark and Ed to join him, Ironside himself promptly disappears, leaving the boys to put the pieces together themselves.
Directed by Don WeisGuest stars John Orchard, Bernard Fox, Alan Caillou, Larry D. Mann, Gerald Peters, Alan Napier
Episode 19
Eve is present when an old friend of hers is kidnapped, and is taken along by the abductors. Anxious to get her back, the Chief investigates the husband of the intended victim, and discovers that all of the evidence points to his guilt. As always, however, the Chief is not prepared to go along with what seems obvious.
Directed by Abner BibermanGuest stars Fritz Weaver, Art Metrano, John Saxon, Carla Borelli
Episode 20
Ironside becomes trapped in his office on his own, when a man comes looking for revenge. With Mark at school and Ed dragged to the opera by Eve, the Chief has to improvise a series of defences, whilst his team gradually come to realise that something is very wrong.
Directed by Richard BenedictGuest stars Henry Corden, Ralph Manza, Nick Benedict
Episode 21
An ex-thief on parole is suspected of a jewel robbery, but the Chief, who has supported him since his release, is sure that he is innocent. Of all those with the means to commit the crime however, it seems that only this man and his young cousin are likely suspects. The fate of an entire rehabilitation programme may hang on Ironside's ability to prove his friend innocent.
Directed by Don WeisGuest stars Darwin Joston, Michael Conrad, Stephen McNally, DeForest Kelley, Ned Romero, Dabbs Greer, Ron Foster
Episode 22
A thirteen year old boy is the only witness to his mother's murder, but finds it hard to co-operate with the Chief, knowing that it was Ironside who put his father in prison. Allowing Marty Jessup a temporary pass is the only way for the Chief to solve the murder and to lessen his conscience at the same time.
Directed by Don WeisGuest stars Michael Bell, William Shatner, Nancy Malone, Mitch Vogel, Kenneth Tobey
Episode 23
The team is assigned to watch over a Crown Prince on a one night stay in San Francisco. With Eve accompanying him on an unscheduled tour, and Ed following along behind, it seems that he is safe from harm; or is he?
Directed by Robert DayGuest stars Wesley Addy, Ben Wright, Bradford Dillman
Episode 24
A dog belonging to a rich friend of the Commissioner's goes missing, and Ironside is assigned to the case. Somewhat scornful of the task, he details Ed and Eve to investigate instead; but is soon lured back when, helped by Mark, they uncover a racket stealing dogs for ransom.
Directed by Don WeisGuest stars Abner Biberman, Squire Fridell, Belinda Montgomery, Marsha Hunt, Leo G. Carroll, Frank Puglia
Episode 25
After killing Ed Brown's fiancée seven years previously, Tom Dayton, a sociopath with a hatred of female authority figures, is released on parole. Ed is certain that Dayton is still dangerous, but the authorities do not share his concerns.
Guest stars Bill Bixby, Harry Lauter, William Smithers, Lorraine Gary, Ross Elliott, Amzie Strickland
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Raymond BurrRobert Ironside
Don GallowayEd Brown
Don MitchellMark Sanger
Barbara AndersonEve Whitfield
Art Metrano
Dana ElcarBill O'Brien
Paul Carr
NBCUnited States
Universal TelevisionUnited States
