''Ironside'' is an American television
crime drama
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that aired on
NBC
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over eight seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred
Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in television dramas ''Perry Mason'' and '' Ironside''.
Burr's early acting career included roles ...
as Robert T. Ironside (usually addressed by the title "Chief Ironside"), a consultant for the San Francisco police department (formerly chief of detectives), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie entitled ''Ironside''. When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, from late 1967 onward, it was broadcast as ''A Man Called Ironside''. The show earned Burr six
Emmy
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and two
Golden Globe nominations.
''Ironside'' is a production of Burr's
Harbour Productions Unlimited
Harbour Productions Unlimited was an American television production company formed by Canadian actor Raymond Burr. It was responsible for the series '' Ironside'' and '' The Bold Ones: The New Doctors'' (both with Universal Television), which b ...
in association with
Universal Television
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.
Plot
The series revolves around former
San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief of
Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...
s Robert T. Ironside (
Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in television dramas ''Perry Mason'' and '' Ironside''.
Burr's early acting career included roles ...
), a veteran of more than 20 years of police service, forced to retire from the department after a
sniper
A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision r ...
's bullet to the spine
paralyzed him from the waist down, resulting in his reliance on a
wheelchair
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. In the pilot episode, a
television movie
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for ...
, Ironside shows his strength of character and gets himself appointed a peculiar and unprecedented job; a "special department consultant", by his good friend,
Police Commissioner Dennis Randall. He does this by calling a press conference and then tricking Commissioner Randall into meeting his terms. In the pilot, Ironside eventually solves the mystery of the ambush. He requests Ed Brown and Eve Whitfield be assigned to him as his own private law enforcement force.
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Supporting characters on ''Ironside'' included Det. Sgt. Edward "Ed" Brown (
Don Galloway
Donald Poe Galloway (July 27, 1937 – January 8, 2009) was an American stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown in the long-running crime drama series '' Ironside'' (1967–1975). He reprised the ...
) and a young socialite-turned-plainclothes officer, Eve Whitfield (
Barbara Anderson). In addition, delinquent-turned assistant Mark Sanger (
Don Mitchell), who subsequently attends and graduates from law school (night classes were mentioned from early on), joins the San Francisco police force himself in the sixth season, then marries late in the run of the series. Commissioner Randall was played by
Gene Lyons
Gene Lyons is an American political columnist who has defended former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Writing
He and Joe Conason co-authored '' The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton'', a documentary ...
.
After the program's fourth season, Anderson left for personal reasons, and her character was then replaced by another young policewoman, Fran Belding (
Elizabeth Baur
Elizabeth Baur (December 1, 1947 – September 30, 2017) was an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Teresa O'Brien on the CBS western series '' Lancer'', and as Officer Fran Belding on NBC's crime drama series '' Ironsid ...
), who filled much the same role for four more years.
Ironside uses a fourth-floor room (for living and office space) in the old San Francisco
Hall of Justice building, which housed the city's police headquarters. He recruits Mark Sanger to be his personal assistant after Sanger is brought in as a suspect who wanted to kill Ironside. Ironside acquires a specially equipped, former fleet-modified 1940 -ton Ford police patrol wagon, with bulletproof glass and a specially modified high-performance supercharged and fuel-injected V-8 engine. This is replaced in the episode titled "Poole's Paradise" after the van is destroyed by Sergeant Brown as part of a way to trick a corrupt sheriff. At the end of the episode, the patrol wagon is replaced by a one-off fully custom modified 1969 1-ton
Ford Econoline
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Window Van.
The show became a success as Ironside depended on brains and initiative in solving cases. Although Ironside is portrayed as good-hearted and honest, he often maintains a somewhat gruff persona. The series enjoyed a seven-and-a-half-season run on NBC, drawing respectable, if not always high ratings. As the shortened eighth and final season began (only 16 of 19 episodes produced were aired by NBC), Universal released a
syndicated rerun package of episodes from earlier seasons under the title ''The Raymond Burr Show,'' reflecting the practice of that time to differentiate original network episodes from syndicated reruns whenever possible. After NBC's midseason cancellation, however, the syndicated episodes reverted to the ''Ironside'' title.
Cast
*
Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in television dramas ''Perry Mason'' and '' Ironside''.
Burr's early acting career included roles ...
as Chief Robert T. Ironside
*
Don Galloway
Donald Poe Galloway (July 27, 1937 – January 8, 2009) was an American stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown in the long-running crime drama series '' Ironside'' (1967–1975). He reprised the ...
as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown
*
Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield
*
Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger
*
Elizabeth Baur
Elizabeth Baur (December 1, 1947 – September 30, 2017) was an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Teresa O'Brien on the CBS western series '' Lancer'', and as Officer Fran Belding on NBC's crime drama series '' Ironsid ...
as Officer Fran Belding
*
Gene Lyons
Gene Lyons is an American political columnist who has defended former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Writing
He and Joe Conason co-authored '' The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton'', a documentary ...
as Commissioner Dennis Randall (recurring role)
Production
Locations
The show was filmed in a mixture of locations, sometimes in San Francisco, but also with a large number of studio scenes (including scenes with conversations in a moving vehicle, where a traffic backdrop is used). The shows contained stock footage of San Francisco, with pan shots of
Coit Tower
Coit Tower is a tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's beq ...
or clips of traffic scenes.
Ironside and his team used a rather large open space on the fourth floor of the Old Hall of Justice in San Francisco at 750 Kearny Street between Washington and Merchant Streets. The Old Hall had already been demolished while ''Ironside ''was still in production. It had been abandoned in 1961 and demolished in late 1967. The SFPD had begun using their new home by January 1962. In December 1967, demolition finally began. Wrecking balls and bulldozers took 5 months to raze the building.
Music
The opening theme music was composed by
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award n ...
, and was the first synthesizer-based television theme song. In 1971, Jones recorded a fuller four-minute band version for the album ''
Smackwater Jack
''Smackwater Jack'' is a 1971 studio album by Quincy Jones. Tracks include the theme music to '' Ironside'' and ''The Bill Cosby Show''.
Track listing
# " Smackwater Jack" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:31
# "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vin ...
''. This recording was then edited and used for the opening credits of the fifth through eighth seasons (1971–1975). (The entire album track can be heard in the fifth-season episode "Unreasonable Facsimile" as Ironside and team track a suspect on the streets of San Francisco.) The iconic theme music has since been sampled in numerous recordings and soundtracks to recent television commercials and shows, including "
All Caps
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" by the hip-hop duo
Madvillain
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.
In addition to the opening theme music, Quincy Jones composed the entire score for the first eight episodes.
Oliver Nelson
Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album ''The Blues and the Abstract Truth'' (1961) is regarded as one of the most signifi ...
took over those duties up to the end of the winter to spring 1972 episodes. Nelson was then replaced by
Marty Paich
Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kento ...
for nearly all of the episodes from the beginning of the fall of that year until the last episode that was produced, in late 1974. The song "Even When You Cry", with music composed by Jones and lyrics written by
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, was performed by
James Farentino
James Farentino (February 24, 1938 – January 24, 2012) was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 100 television, film, and stage roles, among them '' The Final Countdown'', ''Jesus of Nazareth'', and '' Dynasty''.
Career
Born in Brooklyn, N ...
in the episode "Something for Nothing", while
Marcia Strassman
Marcia Ann Strassman (April 28, 1948 – October 24, 2014) was an American actress and singer. She played Nurse Margie Cutler on ''M*A*S*H'', Julie Kotter on '' Welcome Back, Kotter'', and Diane Szalinski in the film ''Honey, I Shrunk the Ki ...
had already sung it off-screen in the earlier episode "The Man Who Believed"; both installments were originally transmitted during season one.
Personnel
*
Freddie Hubbard −
trumpet
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*
Frank Rosolino
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Biography
Rosolino was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, He performed with the big bands of Bob Chester, Glen Gray, Tony Pastor, Herbie Fields, Gen ...
−
trombone
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*
Hubert Laws
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flute
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*
Anthony Ortega,
Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson (November 15, 1920 – June 23, 2000) was an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and flute player, who also played soprano sax, alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute and piccolo. He played with Ch ...
,
Dan Higgins
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−
reeds
*
Howard Roberts
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Early years
Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 - a ...
,
Bill Pitman
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As a first-call studio musician working in Los Angeles, Pitman played on some of the most celebrated and influential records of the ro ...
−
guitar
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*
Carol Kaye −
electric bass
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*
Shelly Manne
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,
Earl Palmer
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Palmer was one of the most prolific studio musicians of a ...
−
drums
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Episodes
Episode list
* Pilot episode was titled ''A Man Called Ironside''.
** The last three episodes of the series were not broadcast on NBC, but were later seen in syndication, as well as released on DVD.
TV reunion movie
Burr and the main cast reunited for a made-for-TV movie in 1993, ''The Return of Ironside'', which aired on May 4, 1993, on NBC, not long before Burr's death. At the time, Burr was starring in a series of telefilms for NBC playing his most famous character,
Perry Mason
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in 82 novels and 4 short stories, all of which involve a c ...
. In the years between the end of ''Ironside'' in 1975 and the first ''Perry Mason'' movie in 1985, Burr's appearance had undergone some changes. His hair was grayer, he had gained a significant amount of weight, and after years of playing clean-shaven characters, he grew a beard.
Since nearly 20 years had passed since ''Ironside'' left the air, and as he had been playing Perry Mason on television for the previous eight years, Burr felt that he was more associated with Perry Mason. He believed that to play Ironside properly and not confuse viewers, he would need to undergo a small makeover to distinguish the Ironside character from the more identifiable Perry Mason. Burr thus had his hair colored (which was unnecessary, since Burr was already gray-haired when ''Ironside'' originally aired) and cut his beard down to a goatee. One thing Burr did not need to do, however, was pretend to be disabled. At the time the ''Ironside'' reunion went into production, Burr had been suffering from
kidney cancer
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that had metastasized to his liver, and the disease left him unable to stand or walk without assistance. Thus, like Ironside, Burr used a wheelchair to get around.
Unlike the original series, which took place in San Francisco, the reunion was set and filmed in
Denver
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,
Colorado
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, with the justification that the character Ed Brown had become the city's deputy chief of police. (Denver was also where most of Burr's ''Perry Mason'' TV movies were produced.) Galloway, Mitchell, Anderson, and Baur recreated their roles for the movie, though Anderson and Baur had not worked at the same time on the original series.
Broadcast history
Notable guest appearances
Crossovers and spinoffs
At the start of its sixth season, ''Ironside'' did a two-part crossover episode with ''
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors'', titled "Five Days in the Death of Sergeant Brown", where Ed is critically injured by a sniper and is treated by Dr. David Craig and his medical staff. Part 1 was broadcast on ''Ironside'' and part 2 on ''The New Doctors''. Part 2 is now shown in reruns as an episode of ''Ironside''. E. G. Marshall and David Hartman (stars of ''The New Doctors'') received starring credit in the opening credits of both episodes. Part 2 features a longer edited version of Quincy Jones' "Ironside" theme as heard on his 1971 album ''Smackwater Jack''.
NBC's 1971 fall TV season opened with a two-hour crossover between ''Ironside'' and a new series, ''
Sarge'', starring
George Kennedy as a cop-turned-priest. Kennedy's San Diego–based Father Samuel Cavanaugh comes to San Francisco because of the death of a friend and fellow priest, and his investigation gets him embroiled with Ironside and his staff. The special consolidated the two shows' consecutive time slots and has been subsequently seen as a TV-movie, ''The Priest Killer''.
Jessica Walter
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guest-starred in a spin-off episode for the series ''
Amy Prentiss
''Amy Prentiss'' is an American police drama television series that originally aired on NBC.
Description
''Amy Prentiss'' was a spinoff of ''Ironside (TV series), Ironside'' (the pilot was a two-hour episode of that show) and like that series wa ...
'', which aired as part of ''
The NBC Mystery Movie
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'' during the 1974–1975 season. She played a relatively young investigator who becomes chief of detectives for the San Francisco Police Department.
Helen Hunt, in an early role, played Prentiss' preteen daughter, Jill. Three two-hour episodes were aired.
The 22nd episode of season 7, airing in March 1974, and entitled "Riddle at 24,000," was a pilot for "Dr. Domingo," a proposed spin-off series starring
Desi Arnaz
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as a crime-solving physician in a small, California town. It was written by Lane Slate, perhaps best known as the screenwriter of ''
They Only Kill Their Masters
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'', the
James Garner
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movie about a small-town police chief.
2013 remake
In 2013, a short-lived
remake
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with the
same name aired on NBC. Actor
Blair Underwood
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Underwood has ...
took on the title role (with none of the other characters from the original series being used), while the action was relocated from San Francisco to New York City. This version of the character was more in the tough cop mold, often at odds with his superiors over his unrelenting, even violent approach to police work. The series was lambasted by critics and ignored by viewers, and was cancelled and pulled after the airing of just four episodes (of 9 produced).
Parodies
An episode of ''
Get Smart
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'' that aired in March 1969 was titled "Leadside" and featured a wheelchair-using master criminal by that name (and his assistants). Leadside could not walk, but he was able to run. Another episode, called "Ironhand", had a KAOS operative with a hand encased in metal.
The December 1970 issue of ''
Mad'' magazine included a parody of ''Ironside'' titled "Ironride".
On ''
The Benny Hill Show
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'',
Benny Hill
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played Ironside in a few sketches, most notably in a sketch called "Murder on the Oregon Express", which parodied several TV detective characters.
Impressionist
Billy Howard included Ironside as one of the detectives parodied in his novelty hit record "King of the Cops".
The 1980 television movie ''
Murder Can Hurt You
''Murder Can Hurt You'' (stylized onscreen as ''Murder Can Hurt You!'') is a 1980 American made-for-television comedy film that parodies detective and police TV shows of the 1960s and 1970s, much as '' Murder by Death'' spoofed literary detectiv ...
'' spoofs numerous TV detectives from the 1970s and '80s, and includes
Victor Buono
Victor Charles Buono (February 3, 1938January 1, 1982) was an American actor, comic, and briefly a recording artist. He was known for playing the villain King Tut in the television series ''Batman (TV series), Batman'' (1966–1968) and musician ...
playing the wheelchair-using detective Ironbottom.
''American Dad'' has an episode, "Wheels and Legman", that loosely parodies Ironside in which Roger and Steve have a fictional detective agency.
In the "Gone Efficient" episode of ''
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
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'', a man in a wheelchair is shown pleading a case in front of Judge Mentok (who strongly resembles Raymond Burr) as a nod to both Ironside and Perry Mason.
Home media
Shout! Factory has released the first four seasons of ''Ironside'' on DVD in Region 1. Seasons 3 and 4 were released as ''Shout Factory Exclusives'', available exclusively through Shout!'s online store.
On May 9, 2017, Shout! Factory re-released season 3 as a general retail release. Season 4 was re-released on August 22, 2017.
In Region 2,
Anchor Bay Entertainment
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released the first season on DVD in the UK on August 25, 2008.
In Region 4,
Madman Entertainment
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released all eight seasons on DVD. The eighth and final season, which included the 1993 TV reunion movie ''The Return of Ironside'', was released on October 19, 2011.
Ironside – The Complete Eighth Season
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Season 5 includes the two-part crossover TV movie episode ''The Priest Killer'', a crossover with the series '' Sarge''.
♦ – Shout! Factory Exclusives title, sold exclusively through Shout's online store
See also
*Jessie McTavish
Jessie Gordon, formerly McTavish, (born c.1940) is a Scotland, Scottish retired nurse who was convicted in 1974 of murdering a patient with insulin, and of administering a variety of substances Grievous bodily harm, with intent to cause harm. The ...
, British woman who was alleged to have murdered a woman after being inspired by the plot of ''Ironside''
References
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