Ironside
1 9 6 7 - 1 9 7 5 (USA)
197 x 60 minute episodes
The citizens of San Francisco are shocked by the news that
Robert Ironside - the hard-nosed, tough-talking chief of
detectives - has been shot by a hit man while on holiday at his
friend the Police Commissioner's rural retreat.
Ironside survives the murder attempt, but the bullet has
damaged his spine, leaving him paralysed from the waist down.
Unable to return as chief of detectives, Ironside gets
permission to continue investigating criminal cases as a citizen
volunteer (although he is often referred to as 'Chief' throughout
the show).
With the assistance of two former protégées, Detective
Sergeant Ed Brown and the beautiful Officer Eve Whitfield, and a
newly-hired driver, Mark Sanger, a young man headed for the wrong
side of the law until Ironside encouraged him to make a better
life for himself.
Ironside sets out to solve his first case as a civilian by
finding the people responsible for the attempt on his life.
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