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Ironside Season 8 Episodes

19 Episodes 1974 - 1975

Episode 1

Raise the Devil: Part 1

Thu, Sep 12, 197460 mins

Ironside receives psychic assistance in a mysterious death. Meanwhile, the victim's daughter is suicidal and inhabited by supernatural forces. Is it witchcraft or plain old murder? The team delves into the occult to uncover the truth.

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Episode 2

Raise the Devil: Part 2

Thu, Sep 19, 197460 mins

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

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Episode 3

What's New with Mark?

Thu, Sep 26, 197460 mins

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.

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Episode 4

Trial by Terror

Thu, Oct 3, 197460 mins

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.

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Episode 5

Cross Doublecross

Thu, Oct 10, 197460 mins

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

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Episode 6

Setup: Danger!

Thu, Oct 24, 197460 mins

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.

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Episode 7

The Last Cotillion

Thu, Oct 31, 197460 mins

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

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Episode 8

Run Scared

Thu, Nov 7, 197460 mins

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 connection to her.

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Episode 9

Act of Vengeance

Thu, Nov 14, 197460 mins

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

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Episode 10

The Far Side of the Fence

Thu, Nov 21, 197460 mins

Ironside meets with a snitch about a planned heist and the corrupt undercover cop who's providing information to the gang. When they're fired upon, Ironside fires back, hitting one of the gang, 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 catch the gang and find out who the corrupt cop is, Ed Brown volunteers to go undercover, complete with fake mustache, and meets the gang leader -- who carries a gargantuan Magnum. To avenge the death of the gang member, who is also the corrupt cop's brother, Ed is given a rifle and told to assassinate Ironside through his apartment window. But Ironside has a trick up his sleeve . . .

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Episode 11

The Over-the-Hill Blues

Thu, Dec 5, 197460 mins

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.

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Episode 12

Speak No Evil

Thu, Dec 12, 197460 mins

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.

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Episode 13

Fall of an Angel

Thu, Dec 19, 197460 mins

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.

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Episode 14

The Visiting Fireman

Thu, Dec 26, 197460 mins

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.

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Episode 15

The Return of Eleanor Rogers

Thu, Jan 2, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 16

The Faded Image

Thu, Jan 16, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 17

The Organizer

Wed, Jan 22, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 18

The Rolling Y

Wed, Jan 22, 197560 mins

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.

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Episode 19

A Matter of Life or Death

Wed, Jan 22, 197560 mins

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.

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