Ironside

- Season 6

(1972)

While in Los Angeles to testify for a trial against gangster Frank Harmon, Ed is shot and falls off the balcony of his hotel room. He is then taken to the Craig Institute where he undergoes emergency surgery. Although the bullet wounds were non-life threatening, Ed suffers a broken back in the fall and some damage to his spine. The scarring leaves him paralyzed and only an experimental surgical procedure is the only option to regaining his mobility. Also, even though all the evidence points to Harmon, Ironside has doubts that he was the person responsible for the ...

A thief has managed to steal from the most secure locations, even those guarded by vicious guard dogs. Ironside has to figure out how he has managed to subdue the dogs.

After the savage murder of a young woman, Ironside takes to the airwaves to openly discuss the shocking case, hoping it will drive the murderer out into the open.

Mark finally graduates from law school. He takes an interest in a janitor from the school who finds himself in jail accused of grand theft. Meanwhile Ironside struggles with the reality that Mark may eventually leave for his new career.

Ironside keeps receiving 8mm films in the mail. Someone is filming the murders of random women and then brazenly mailing them to Ironside.

A young woman convinces Ironside that her father's d death was not just an accident. Someone was following him and very interested in the package he was carrying.

While in Los Angeles for a prisoner exchange, Ed gets mugged by a couple of thugs and thrown down a hillside. With no I.D. the local cops throw him into jail.

Ironside seeks to exonerate a man wrongfully convicted of murder by slowly breaking apart a web of lies and possible misconduct by the District Attorney.

An anonymous man forces a government scientist to wear a belt rigged with explosives with a demand that three terrorists be released from prison in exchange for the key to remove the belt.

Two rich, bored ne'er-do-wells try to outdo each other in a series of escalating crimes. The pattern of the crimes make no sense until Ironside connects them to another game of strategy.

After witnessing a distraught father's anguished plight, Ironside investigates the death of the man's daughter and finds himself becoming too emotionally involved in finding her killer.

Ed goes undercover as a kidnapper when Ironside learns of a scheme to kidnap the daughter of a movie star.

While in London for a conference, Ed witnesses the murder of the next Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. Ed then becomes the assassin's next target.

Ed goes to a small coastal fishing town to investigate the death of an old friend, a retired police officer, and finds the hostile locals very reluctant to help him.

While attending a party to set up a magazine interview, Ironside witnesses the near murder of it's playboy publisher.

After Fran temporarily moves into a friend's apartment to house sit, she starts getting threatening phone calls.

Small-town bias against a May-December romance is blocking Ironside's attempt to clear a murder suspect.

A friend of Ed's invites him to go fishing but when he arrives at the dock the friend is not only late, he appears to have completely vanished.

A controversial feminist author is nearly shot after one of her appearances. Fran is assigned to protect her while the others search for the shooter.

An old adversary of Ironside, newly released from prison, plans to get back at Ironside by planning an elaborate art heist, with an unusual twist.

On a Monday morning a bank manager discovers that they were robbed. As difficult as it is to figure out how the thief got into the vault, they also have to determine how the thief got out.

While at a bank to discuss his portfolio, Ironside finds himself right in the middle of a bank heist as three men wait for an armored truck to arrive.

While staying at a remote lodge during a fishing trip Ironside and Ed become involved in a murder investigation.