Ironside

- Season 8

(1974)

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A psychic says only exorcism can save a slain woman's daughter.

Mark passes the Bar and takes on his first case. Unfortunately, Mark's defense of his client may impinge on Ironside's investigation of a hood's extortion racket. Meanwhile Mark and Diana decide to get married.

A woman reluctantly turns to Ironside for protection after she witnesses the murder of her father, a man who was set to testify in the trial of a drug kingpin.

Fran's boyfriend, a San Francisco police detective, is accused of killing an unarmed man that was supposedly trying to kill him.

Ed, Mark, and Fran arrive at the office and find the Chief missing, the apparent victim of a kidnapping. Incredibly, the kidnapper asks Ironside for a favor.

A wealthy socialite is the main suspect in the murder of two of her former beaus but Ironside suspects she is actually innocent.

A young runaway named Peggy is working as part of a mime act in a department store window with her boyfriend, a small time criminal named Jamie. While she is performing she witnesses a murder and calls her godfather, who happens to be Ironside. However, just before she talks to him her boyfriend hangs the phone up and the two immediately go on the run with the killer hot on their trail. Ironside then tracks them to Los Angeles and before he gets them into protective custody Jamie is killed. It now is a race against time to find Peggy and arrest the killer, who has a ...

While trying to set up a home for children of incarcerated felons, Ironside has to deal with a potential gang war.

While investigating a labor racket on the San Francisco docks, Ironside fires on a dockworker, who is killed. But when the autopsy comes back, it's revealed that the slug went all the way through the man -- far too powerful for Ironside's .38 Police Special) and came from a different angle (Ironside was facing the man and the slug came from the side). To clear his own name, Ironside sends Ed Brown undercover with a fake mustache, where Ed meets the brother of the dead man and the racket leader -- who carries a gargantuan Magnum. To avenge the death of the dockworker, ...

A police detective wants to pin a recent jewelry heist on a notorious burglar in hopes of making Lieutenant. But Ironside isn't so sure he's responsible.

One of Ed's friends, a priest that works with at-risk kids, becomes the target of a killer, presumably because someone admitted to committing a murder during a confession.

An ex-con leaves his six year-old son in Ironside's van and goes into hiding after he kills the son of an underworld assassin in self-defense.

A Scotland Yard police inspector (who is an old chess-playing buddy to Ironside) comes to San Francisco - ostensibly to investigate a link between Americans there and a series of bank robberies in London. Actually, he is the leader of the robbery gang, and he also has a serious heart condition.

A judge trying a case is the subject of a series of death threats. His wife, who has a shady past, may have something to do with it.

Fran is going to night-school art classes. Returning to the classroom to pick something up, she sees a clay model of a woman's face horribly mangled by a set of fingernails. Fran leaves again and is immediately set upon by someone who beats her comatose and leaves her for dead. Fran recovers enough to tell about what she saw, and Ironside's crew tries to figure out the motive. The clay sculpture was apparently of a now-murdered woman and her killer attacked Fran, but nobody saw the attack and Ironside must question everyone in the art class to find a psychotic.

A mobster from New York arrives in California offering to organize local gangsters for a piece of their action. Ironside's team goes undercover to stop him.

A rancher's son, just off of probation and often helped by Ironside, is accused of cattle rustling and murder. Ironside goes to help and butts heads with the local police and the boy's father.

When Ironside's friend for whom Ironside was a rival for the man's wife is accidentally killed by the man's past lover, a corrupt lawyer tells the woman to avoid reporting it despite an destitute innocent man is on trial for the murder.