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Ironside Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 1
The Priest Killer
Tue, Sep 14, 197160 mins
A police chief who is confined to a wheelchair and a former cop who is now a priest team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests.
Episode 2
Contract: Kill Ironside
Tue, Sep 21, 197160 mins
A hit man is given the job of killing Ironside before he can testify before the Grand Jury, and the hit man has well-deserved the reputation of never missing his mark.
Episode 3
The Professionals
Tue, Sep 28, 197160 mins
After one of those delivered dies from a reaction to a drug, Ironside investigates a ring that uses a phony cab to deliver men to a sham party at motels where the men are drugged and their credit cards stolen
Episode 4
The Gambling Game
Tue, Oct 5, 197160 mins
Ironside is trying to take down an illegal gambling operation. But when there's a raid the people in charge somehow find out and clean it out. Ironside suspects that someone in the department is tipping them off. And he has to deal with Fran Belding, a policewoman who is determined to take them down because she thinks that someone in the operation killed her father a cop. And Ironside is feeling weak, so he sees his doctor who tells him that he has a condition which needs to be treated and will require a long recuperation so he puts it off.
Episode 5
Ring of Prayer
Tue, Oct 12, 197160 mins
After a friend of Ironside's suddenly changes his mind on the parole of a convict, Ironside suspects something is wrong and starts to investigate the woman he is often seen with.
Episode 6
In the Line of Duty
Tue, Oct 19, 197160 mins
Inconsistencies in the story of a widow of a policemen murdered by a man the policeman formerly arrested for drug possession suggests the widow might know more about the murder than she is revealing.
Episode 7
Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells
Tue, Oct 26, 197160 mins
Ironside and his team receive a surprise visit from his Korean foster daughter who came to San Francisco to marry the young man she loves. But no one knows that the groom-to-be is in debt to a pair of local loan sharks.
Episode 8
Murder Impromptu
Tue, Nov 2, 197160 mins
Ironside attends an improvisation theatre show. During the show, one of the actors is murdered.
Episode 9
Dear Fran...
Tue, Nov 9, 197160 mins
Officer Fran Belding mourns the death of her cousin, who took his own life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge - or did he?
Episode 10
If a Body See a Body
Tue, Nov 16, 197160 mins
Ed tosses the football with Mark during a picnic at Bayview Park when they meet Craig Carlton, a wide-eyed 8-year-old with freckles and a flash camera. Picnicking nearby with his parents, Ted and Sally, who have modern ideas on child rearing, Craig snaps lots of photographs. He is an earnest boy who wants to be a Cub Scout and does not believe in telling lies. While looking for the football, Ed stumbles upon a green Hefty bag, red blanket and dead Caucasian male. Before Ed can blink, Craig snaps a photograph of Ed and the corpse. Ed identifies himself as a police detective and swears his impressionable young "partner" to secrecy, but Craig is agog with fantasies about spies and secret agents. Later, after debrief at HQ, the only fantasy is the dead body. Homicide Sgt. Larry Carr, cannot find a dead body at the park. The Chief relates facts regarding a kidnapping and Ed believes it is tied to the elusive corpse. Ed receives a package w containing a Ken doll wearing a suit and wrapped in green plastic and Sgt. Carr sings 'Bring Back My Body to Me' (to the tune of an old standard) to tease one very unamused detective. Ironside is tasked with solving these various issues before Sgt. Brown can force Sgt. Carr to eat the doll, "arm by arm and leg by leg". In the absence of Fran, an all-male team works with considerable participation by Craig, to prevent further mayhem.
Episode 11
Good Samaritan
Tue, Nov 23, 197160 mins
After an AWOL soldier saves Brown from a gun battle and gives first aid for Brown's leg wound, Ironside's crew helps exonerate the soldier for a murder for which he has been framed by a drug ring operating inside the military.
Episode 12
Gentle Oaks
Tue, Nov 30, 197160 mins
Ironside goes undercover at a nursing home where patients are turning up dead.
Episode 13
License to Kill
Thu, Dec 2, 197160 mins
After a killer of a policeman receives a hung jury, the policeman's partner is setup by the head of the killer's loan shark ring to have the policeman's partner look like he has killed the policeman's killer in cold blood.
Episode 14
Class of '57
Thu, Dec 16, 197160 mins
An old classmate of Ed's is on the run after assaulting another man. Ed's investigation into the case leads him to reconnect with old classmates, including an old girlfriend who may know where he's hiding.
Episode 15
No Motive for Murder
Thu, Dec 23, 197160 mins
The son of an old friend, fearing that his father's life is in danger, asks the Chief to go to Tokyo. Once there Ironside finds his old friend wheelchair-bound as a result of an accident, and begins to work on his own theory about who might have hired a hitman to kill such a respected old man.
Episode 16
But When She Was Bad, ...
Thu, Dec 30, 197160 mins
A woman appears to be the target of a stalker who has no apparent motive for attacking her. The stalker may be just a ruse due to her connection to a former cop killer recently released from prison.
Episode 17
Unreasonable Facsimile
Thu, Jan 6, 197260 mins
Ironside must determine whether a former bank robber he recommended for parole is back in the business or if there is a copycat out there trying to frame the parolee.
Episode 18
Find a Victim
Thu, Jan 13, 197260 mins
A series of break-ins are reported without anything being stolen and the evidence seems to point to a halfway house being run by an ex-con.
Episode 19
And Then There Was One
Thu, Jan 20, 197260 mins
Two Vietnam veterans are attacked using a fragmentation grenade, killing one, and an attempt is made on a third. Ironside decides to use Ed as bait to catch the assailant.
Episode 20
Death by the Numbers
Thu, Jan 27, 197260 mins
One by one members of a parole board are being murdered. On the assumption that the remaining ones will be next, Ironside goes undercover and pretends to be an artist, whom he finds to be an eccentric and irascible man.
Episode 21
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder
Thu, Feb 3, 197260 mins
A highly impressionable 9-year-old girl (Jodie Foster) thinks she has cast a spell which caused a mean man to fall and suffer a fatal skull fracture. She is even more upset when a huge, bald, man with severe mental problems (Lee Paul) says he shoved the victim to the ground because 'he made me mad'. Ironside and his team work to prove that neither the girl or the bald man killed the victim - and he finds that someone came upon the victim after he fell and finished him off with a blow from a blunt instrument.
Episode 22
Achilles' Heel
Thu, Feb 17, 197260 mins
The son of a prominent judge is framed in the murder of a young woman.
Episode 23
His Fiddlers Three
Thu, Mar 2, 197260 mins
A music teacher is murdered and, suspecting that he might be a victim of foul play, left a clue to the killer's identity in a mysterious code contained in a piece of recorded music.
Episode 24
A Man Named Arno
Thu, Mar 9, 197260 mins
Ironside is on the trail of mysterious, illusive high level heroin dealer while trying to discover the reasons for an apparent urgent, clandestine visit from an old friend and discovers that there might be a link between two investigations.