Ironside (1967)

Crime · Drama · Mystery

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

IMDb rating: 6.9 (4,828 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 ↑ +0.8 vs IMDb
Seasons: 8
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 8 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1967)

7.62 avg 28 episodes 7.2 → 7.6 55 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Message from Beyond	7.2	189
2	The Leaf in the Forest	7.6	158
3	Dead Man's Tale	7.5	141
4	Eat, Drink and Be Buried	7.4	140
5	The Taker	7.4	121
6	An Inside Job	8.1	129
7	Tagged for Murder	7.8	136
8	Let My Brother Go	7.1	115
9	Light at the End of the Journey	8.0	117
10	The Monster of Comus Towers	7.4	101
11	The Man Who Believed	8.2	119
12	A Very Cool Hot Car	7.5	103
13	The Past Is Prologue	8.0	123
14	Girl in the Night	7.4	112
15	The Fourteenth Runner	7.2	95
16	Force of Arms	7.6	96
17	Memory of an Ice Cream Stick	8.1	98
18	To Kill a Cop	7.7	95
19	The Lonely Hostage	7.8	100
20	The Challenge	7.6	97
21	All in a Day's Work	7.8	103
22	Something for Nothing	6.6	91
23	Barbara Who	8.3	115
24	Perfect Crime	7.9	106
25	Officer Bobby	7.1	85
26	Trip to Hashbury	7.5	110
27	Due Process of Law	7.9	99
28	Return of the Hero	7.6	83

Season 2 (1968)

7.79 avg 26 episodes 8.0 → 7.7 60 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Shell Game	8.0	93
2	Split Second to an Epitaph: Part 1	8.1	104
3	Split Second to an Epitaph: Part 2	8.1	98
4	The Sacrifice	7.7	76
5	Robert Phillips vs. the Man	7.7	83
6	Desperate Encounter	8.1	89
7	I, the People	7.9	97
8	Price Tag: Death	7.2	80
9	An Obvious Case of Guilt	8.3	89
10	Reprise	8.0	102
11	The Macabre Mr. Micawber	7.8	93
12	Side Pocket	7.4	77
13	Sergeant Mike	7.8	88
14	In Search of an Artist	7.5	82
15	Up, Down and Even	7.8	104
16	Why the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met on Thursday	8.5	115
17	Rundown on a Bum Rap	7.5	81
18	The Prophecy	7.7	78
19	A World of Jackals	6.8	79
20	And Be My Love	7.3	89
21	Moonlight Means Money	8.0	86
22	A Drug on the Market	7.9	83
23	Puzzlelock	8.1	84
24	The Tormentor	7.7	85
25	A Matter of Love and Death	7.9	77
26	Not with a Whimper, But a Bang	7.7	81

Season 3 (1969)

7.63 avg 25 episodes 7.7 → 8.0 60 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Alias Mr. Braithwaite	7.7	76
2	Goodbye to Yesterday	7.4	94
3	Poole's Paradise	7.8	76
4	Eye of the Hurricane	7.5	70
5	A Bullet for Mark	7.6	70
6	Love My Enemy	7.4	72
7	Seeing Is Believing	7.7	76
8	The Machismo Bag	6.6	78
9	Programmed for Danger	7.6	74
10	Five Miles High	7.6	81
11	L'Chayim	7.6	70
12	Beyond a Shadow	7.8	72
13	Stolen on Demand	7.5	85
14	Dora	8.2	76
15	Beware the Wiles of the Stranger	7.6	73
16	Eden Is the Place We Leave	6.2	72
17	The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place	7.4	66
18	Return to Fiji	8.1	76
19	Ransom	7.9	62
20	One Hour to Kill	8.6	91
21	Warrior's Return	7.0	63
22	Little Jerry Jessup	8.4	72
23	Good Will Tour	7.6	70
24	Little Dog, Gone	8.0	72
25	Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us	8.0	73

Season 4 (1970)

7.58 avg 26 episodes 8.1 → 8.5 60 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Killing Will Occur	8.1	71
2	No Game for Amateurs	8.0	79
3	The Happy Dreams of Hollow Men	8.2	85
4	The People Against Judge McIntire	7.9	74
5	Noel's Gonna Fly	7.8	73
6	The Lonely Way to Go	7.8	62
7	Check, Mate and Murder: Part 1	7.2	67
8	Check, Mate, and Murder: Part 2	7.3	64
9	Too Many Victims	7.3	70
10	The Man on the Inside	8.2	67
11	Backfire	7.4	63
12	The Laying on of Hands	7.0	69
13	This Could Blow Your Mind	7.9	67
14	Blackout	8.0	69
15	The Quincunx	7.1	68
16	From Hrûska, with Love	6.7	65
17	The Target	7.3	69
18	A Killing at the Track	7.3	68
19	Escape	6.7	68
20	Love, Peace, Brotherhood and Murder	7.5	73
21	The Riddle in Room Six	8.4	69
22	The Summer Soldier	7.0	69
23	Accident	7.9	65
24	Lesson in Terror	7.1	64
25	Grandmother's House	7.4	66
26	Walls Are Waiting	8.5	81

Season 5 (1971)

7.75 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 7.1 60 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Priest Killer	7.6	112
2	Contract: Kill Ironside	8.5	71
3	The Professionals	7.9	66
4	The Gambling Game	8.0	67
5	Ring of Prayer	7.5	73
6	In the Line of Duty	7.5	64
7	Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells	7.7	65
8	Murder Impromptu	7.6	87
9	Dear Fran...	7.6	73
10	If a Body See a Body	7.8	68
11	Good Samaritan	7.9	61
12	Gentle Oaks	8.6	86
13	License to Kill	7.9	66
14	Class of '57	8.0	61
15	No Motive for Murder	7.8	61
16	But When She Was Bad, ...	7.6	65
17	Unreasonable Facsimile	8.1	64
18	Find a Victim	7.3	62
19	And Then There Was One	8.0	60
20	Death by the Numbers	7.4	73
21	Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder	8.1	91
22	Achilles' Heel	7.6	61
23	His Fiddlers Three	7.0	61
24	A Man Named Arno	7.1	65

Season 6 (1972)

7.51 avg 23 episodes 8.2 → 7.8 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown	8.2	86
2	The Savage Sentry	6.9	68
3	Programmed for Panic	5.8	76
4	Down Two Roads	8.3	71
5	Camera... Action... Murder!	7.0	66
6	Riddle Me Death	7.2	62
7	Nightmare Trip	7.5	74
8	Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?	7.9	68
9	The Countdown	8.1	63
10	The Deadly Gamesmen	7.3	62
11	Who'll Cry for My Baby	7.6	60
12	Cold Hard Cash	7.7	66
13	Shadow Soldiers	7.8	58
14	Ollinger's Last Case	7.1	69
15	A Special Person	7.5	60
16	The Caller	8.0	61
17	Love Me in December	6.9	53
18	The Ghost of the Dancing Doll	6.9	56
19	All About Andrea	7.3	74
20	Another Shell Game	7.4	55
21	All Honorable Men	8.1	64
22	The Best Laid Plans	8.4	63
23	A Game of Showdown	7.8	58

Season 7 (1973)

7.65 avg 24 episodes 7.0 → 8.0 60 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Confessions: From a Lady of the Night	7.0	68
2	Murder by One	8.2	67
3	In the Forests of the Night	7.1	66
4	Fragile Is the House of Cards	7.4	59
5	The Armageddon Gang	6.5	63
6	House of Terror	7.4	77
7	The Helping Hand	7.9	55
8	Downhill All the Way	7.7	76
9	Mind for Murder	7.3	62
10	The Hidden Man	7.4	59
11	Double-Edged Corner	7.6	55
12	The Last Payment	7.4	49
13	Friend or Foe	7.5	56
14	Two Hundred Large	7.2	50
15	Once More for Joey	7.2	60
16	Terror on Grant Avenue	7.6	52
17	Class of '40	8.1	61
18	The Taste of Ashes	8.5	62
19	A Death in Academe	7.6	50
20	Close to the Heart	8.2	50
21	Come Eleven, Come Twelve	8.3	53
22	Riddle at 24,000	8.4	68
23	Amy Prentiss: Part 1	8.0	67
24	Amy Prentiss: Part 2	8.0	64

Season 8 (1974)

7.71 avg 19 episodes 6.6 → 8.4 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Raise the Devil: Part 1	6.6	65
2	Raise the Devil: Part 2	6.6	59
3	What's New with Mark?	8.5	58
4	Trial by Terror	7.7	58
5	Cross Doublecross	7.4	57
6	Setup: Danger!	8.1	65
7	The Last Cotillion	7.4	62
8	Run Scared	8.0	56
9	Act of Vengeance	7.4	50
10	The Far Side of the Fence	7.8	54
11	The Over-the-Hill Blues	8.1	55
12	Speak No Evil	7.6	54
13	Fall of an Angel	8.2	55
14	The Visiting Fireman	7.2	53
15	The Return of Eleanor Rogers	7.9	52
16	The Faded Image	7.9	62
17	The Organizer	7.9	47
18	The Rolling Y	7.7	49
19	A Matter of Life or Death	8.4	51