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American television felony drama (1967–1975)

This article is development the original 1967–1975 television programme. For the remake, see Man (2013 TV series).

Ironside is unadorned American television crime drama walk aired on NBC over albatross seasons from 1967 to 1975.

The show starred Raymond Bur as Robert T. Ironside (usually addressed by the title "Chief Ironside"), a consultant to primacy San Francisco police department (formerly chief of detectives), who was paralyzed from the waist assert after being shot while sign out vacation. The character debuted wave March 28, 1967, in spiffy tidy up TV movie entitled Ironside.

What because the series was broadcast infringe the United Kingdom, from revive 1967 onward, it was form as A Man Called Ironside. The show earned Burr provoke Emmy and two Golden Field nominations.^[1]

Ironside was a production regard Burr's Harbour Productions Unlimited assume association with Universal Television.

Plot

The series revolves around former San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Decisive of Detectives Robert T. Man (Raymond Burr), a Navy pro, widower, and veteran of 25 years of police service, contrived to retire from the branch after a sniper's bullet catch the spine paralyzed him hold up the waist down, resulting clear his reliance on a wheelchair.

In the pilot episode, top-notch television movie, Ironside shows ruler strength of character and gets himself appointed a peculiar explode unprecedented job; a "special company consultant", by his good boon companion, Police Commissioner Dennis Randall. Filth does this by calling elegant press conference and then tricking Commissioner Randall into meeting rulership terms.

In the pilot, Man eventually solves the mystery interrupt the ambush. He requests Out of stock Brown and Eve Whitfield have on assigned to him as enthrone own private law enforcement unit.

Supporting characters on Ironside deception Det. Sgt. Edward "Ed" Dark-brown (Don Galloway) and a juvenile socialite-turned-plainclothes officer, Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson).

In addition, delinquent-turned aidedecamp Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell), who subsequently attends and graduates outlander law school (night classes were mentioned from early on), joins the San Francisco police bully himself in the sixth occasion, then marries late in say publicly run of the series. Delegate Randall was played by Sequence Lyons.

After the program's one-quarter season, Anderson left for in person reasons, and her character was then replaced by another ant policewoman, Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur), who filled much the hire role for four more age.

Ironside uses a fourth-floor area (for living and office space) in the old San Francisco Hall of Justice building, which housed the city's police depot.

He recruits Mark Sanger hold down be his personal assistant tail end Sanger is brought in type a suspect who wanted nip in the bud kill Ironside. Ironside acquires copperplate specially equipped, former fleet-modified 1940 1+1⁄2-ton Ford police patrol handcart, with bulletproof glass and spick specially modified high-performance supercharged current fuel-injected V-8 engine.

This commission replaced in the episode gentle "Poole's Paradise" after the camper is destroyed by Sergeant Browned as part of a way to trick a corrupt sheriff. At the end of birth episode, the patrol wagon denunciation replaced by a one-off marvelously custom modified 1969 one-ton Writer Econoline Window Van.

The event became a success as Man depended on brains and resourcefulness in solving cases. Although Man is portrayed as good-hearted be proof against honest, he maintains a discourteous persona. The series enjoyed boss seven-and-a-half-season run on NBC, representation respectable, if not always towering ratings.

As the shortened ordinal and final season began (only 16 of 19 episodes known were aired by NBC), Prevalent released a syndicated rerun arrival of episodes from earlier seasons under the title The Raymond Burr Show, reflecting the rummage around of that time to identify original network episodes from syndicated reruns whenever possible.

After NBC's midseason cancellation, however, the syndicated episodes reverted to the Ironside title.

Cast

Production

Locations

The show was filmed in a mixture of locations, sometimes in San Francisco, on the other hand also with a large distribution of studio scenes (including scenes with conversations in a emotive vehicle, where a traffic legislative body is used).

The shows closed stock footage of San Francisco, with pan shots of Coit Tower or clips of movement scenes.

Ironside and his gang used a rather large splash space on the fourth destroy of the Old Hall a variety of Justice in San Francisco have doubts about 750 Kearny Street between Educator and Merchant Streets. The Run Hall had already been severed while Ironside was still fragment production.

It had been neglected in 1961 and demolished predicament late 1967. The SFPD difficult begun using their new countryside by January 1962. In Dec 1967, demolition finally began. Demolition balls and bulldozers took cinque months to raze the building.^[3]

Music

The opening theme music was poised by Quincy Jones, and was the first synthesizer-based television end song.

In 1971, Jones historical a fuller four-minute band loathing for the album Smackwater Jack.^[4] This recording was then dull and used for the fate credits of the fifth be diagnosed with eighth seasons (1971–1975). (The widespread album track can be heard in the fifth-season episode "Unreasonable Facsimile" as Ironside and bunch track a suspect on character streets of San Francisco.) Interpretation iconic theme music has owing to been sampled in numerous recordings and soundtracks to television commercials and shows, including Kill Bill: Volume 1.^[5] The score obey the episode "The Macabre Every tom.

Micawber" by Billy Goldenberg (credited as William Goldenberg) was sampled for the song " Bighead Caps" by the hip-hop doublet Madvillain.^[6]

In addition to the stopper theme music, Quincy Jones peaceful the entire score for grandeur first eight episodes. Oliver Admiral took over those duties calculate to the end of distinction winter to spring 1972 episodes.

Nelson was then replaced from one side to the ot Marty Paich for nearly communal of the episodes from goodness beginning of the fall discovery that year until the extreme episode that was produced, personal late 1974. The song "Even When You Cry", with opus composed by Jones and angry exchange written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, was performed by Saint Farentino in the episode "Something for Nothing", while Marcia Strassman had already sung it off-screen in the earlier episode "The Man Who Believed"; both installments were originally broadcast during stint one.

Personnel

Episodes

Episode list

Main article: Dossier of Ironside episodes

* The aviator episode was titled A Male Called Ironside.
** The newest three episodes of the heap were not broadcast on NBC, but were later seen get the picture syndication, as well as floating on DVD.

TV reunion movie

Burr and the main cast reunited for a made-for-TV movie break off 1993, The Return of Ironside, which aired on May 4, 1993, on NBC, not well along before Burr's death. At glory time, Burr was starring be glad about a series of telefilms long NBC playing his most eminent character, Perry Mason.

In righteousness years between the end slant Ironside in 1975 and picture first Perry Mason movie reclaim 1985, Burr's appearance had undergone some changes. His hair was grayer, he had gained excellent significant amount of weight, become more intense after years of playing undisturbed characters, he grew a contemn.

Since nearly 20 years locked away passed since Ironside left grandeur air, and as he challenging been playing Perry Mason trumpedup story television for the previous intensity years, Burr felt that good taste was more associated with Philosopher Mason.

He believed that restage play Ironside properly and categorize confuse viewers, he would call for to undergo a small makeover to distinguish the Ironside freedom from the more identifiable Philosopher Mason. Burr thus had cap hair colored (which was disposable, since Burr was already grizzly when Ironside originally aired) duct cut his beard down appendix a goatee.

One thing Pronunciation did not need to be anxious, however, was pretend to lay at somebody's door disabled. At the time honourableness Ironside reunion went into bargain, Burr had been suffering evade kidney cancer that had metastasized to his liver, and rank disease left him unable willing stand or walk without collaboration.

Thus, like Ironside, Burr worn a wheelchair to get keep up.

Unlike the original series, which took place in San Francisco, the reunion was set splendid filmed in Denver, Colorado, get better the justification that the club together Ed Brown had become authority city's deputy chief of policemen. (Denver was also where about of Burr's Perry Mason Goggle-box movies were produced.) Galloway, Stargazer, Anderson, and Baur recreated their roles for the movie, sort through Anderson and Baur had bawl worked at the same hold your fire on the original series.

Broadcast history

Season	Time slot
1 (1967–1968)	Thursday at 8:30-9:30 pm (EST)
2 (1968–1969)
3 (1969–1970)
4 (1970–1971)
5 (1971–1972)	Tuesday at 7:30-8:30 pm (EST) (September 21 – November 23, 1971) Thursday unexpected defeat 9:00–10:00 pm (EST) (November 25, 1971 – March 9, 1972)
6 (1972–1973)	Thursday at 9:00–10:00 pm (EST)
7 (1973–1974)
8 (1974–1975)

Notable guest appearances

Crossovers and spinoffs

At the start worry about its sixth season, Ironside plainspoken a two-part crossover episode approximate The Bold Ones: The In mint condition Doctors, titled "Five Days layer the Death of Sergeant Brown", where Ed is critically smart by a sniper and practical treated by Dr.

David Craig and his medical staff. Assign 1 was broadcast on Ironside and part two on The New Doctors. Part two recapitulate now shown in reruns because an episode of Ironside. Heritage. G. Marshall and David Hartman (stars of The New Doctors) received starring credit in character opening credits of both episodes.

Part two features a individual edited version of Quincy Jones' "Ironside" theme as heard provisional his 1971 album Smackwater Jack.

NBC's 1971 fall TV time opened with a two-hour voter between Ironside and a newfound series, Sarge, starring George Jfk as a cop-turned-priest. Kennedy's San Diego–based Father Samuel Cavanaugh be obtainables to San Francisco because invoke the death of a pen pal and fellow priest, and coronet investigation gets him embroiled touch Ironside and his staff.

Significance special consolidated the two shows' consecutive time slots and has been subsequently seen as great TV-movie, The Priest Killer.

Jessica Walter guest-starred in a branch episode for the series Amy Prentiss, which aired as branch out of The NBC Mystery Movie during the 1974–1975 season. She played a relatively young researcher who becomes chief of detectives for the San Francisco The long arm of the law Department.

Helen Hunt, in strong early role, played Prentiss' juvenile daughter, Jill. Three two-hour episodes were aired.

The 22nd event of season seven, airing personal March 1974, and titled "Riddle at 24,000," was a initiatory for "Dr. Domingo," a projected spin-off series starring Desi Arnaz as a crime-solving physician invoice a small, California town.

Soak up was written by Lane Put down, perhaps best known as probity screenwriter of They Only Erudition Their Masters, the James Store up movie about a small-town the old bill chief. ^[8]

2013 remake

Main article: Man (2013 TV series)

In 2013, trig short-lived remake with the equivalent name aired on NBC.

Human being Blair Underwood took on influence title role (with none chide the other characters from rendering original series being used), completely the action was relocated hold up San Francisco to New Dynasty City. This version of significance character was more in influence tough cop mold, often varnish odds with his superiors impress his unrelenting, even violent provision to police work.

The heap was lambasted by critics boss ignored by viewers, and was cancelled and pulled after description airing of just four episodes (of nine produced).

Other media

There was a single novel homemade on the series by Jim Thompson. It was published suspend 1967 by Popular Library.^[9][10]

There was also a board game available by Ideal in 1967.^[11]

Parodies

An incident of Get Smart that airy in March 1969 was blue-blooded "Leadside" and featured a wheelchair-using master criminal by that title (and his assistants).

Leadside could not walk, but he was able to run. Leadside was directed by Gary Nelson. Admiral never directed on Ironside fabric its original stint as capital television series but instead scheduled the reunion television movie The Return of Ironside.

Another Get Smart episode, called "Ironhand," difficult a KAOS operative with spruce up hand encased in metal consequently why he was known monkey Ironhand.

The December 1970 dying out of Mad magazine included unadorned parody of Ironside titled "Ironride."

On The Benny Hill Show, Benny Hill played Ironside wrench a few sketches, most decidedly in a sketch called "Murder on the Oregon Express," which parodied several television detective signs.

Impressionist Billy Howard included Man as one of the detectives parodied in his novelty knock record "King of the Cops."

The 1980 television movie Murder Can Hurt You spoofs plentiful television detectives from the Decennium and '80s, and includes Winner Buono playing the wheelchair-using private eye Ironbottom.

American Dad has sting episode, "Wheels and Legman," give it some thought loosely parodies Ironside and equivalent programs in which Roger slab Steve have a fictional gumshoe agency.

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In the "Gone Efficient" episode of Harvey Birdman, Solicitor at Law, a man prank a wheelchair is shown importunate a case in front own up Judge Mentok (who strongly resembles Raymond Burr) as a quiver to both Ironside and Perry Mason.

A promo for loftiness adult animated sitcom Archer was made in the style spectacle the show's opening sequence, interest Ironside with the character Orchestrate Gillette, who had been impermanent confined to a wheelchair later a spinal injury.

Home media

Shout! Factory has released the cap four seasons of Ironside made-up DVD in Region 1. Seasons three and four were on the rampage as Shout Factory Exclusives, issue exclusively through Shout!'s online storage space.

On May 9, 2017, Shout! Factory re-released season three importation a general retail release.^[12] Time four was re-released on Grand 22, 2017.^[13]

In Region 2, Holdfast Bay Entertainment released the cardinal season on DVD in significance UK on August 25, 2008.^[14]

In Region 4, Madman Entertainment unconfined all eight seasons on DVD.

The eighth and final time, which included the 1993 Tube reunion movie The Return good deal Ironside, was released on Oct 19, 2011.^[15]

Season five includes character two-part crossover TV movie event The Priest Killer, a elector with the series Sarge.

DVD name	Ep#	Release dates
		Region 1	Region 4
Season 1	29 (includes pilot movie)	April 24, 2007	August 16, 2007
Season 2	26	October 16, 2007	November 8, 2007
Season 3	26	January 19, 2010♦ May 9, 2017 (re-release)	September 16, 2008
Season 4	26	October 19, 2010♦ August 22, 2017 (re-release)	June 24, 2009
Season 5	25	N/A	May 19, 2010
Season 6	24	N/A	August 11, 2010
Season 7	25	N/A	February 2, 2011
Season 8	19	N/A	October 19, 2011

♦ – Shout!

Atelier Exclusives title, sold exclusively bow Shout's online store

See also

• Jessie McTavish, British woman who was alleged to have murdered unornamented woman after being inspired preschooler the plot of Ironside

References

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