Chief of detectives Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr) is gunned down by a sniper. He recovers, but remains paralyzed from the waist down. Assembling a "special unit" around him, he sets out to find the sniper, and at first there is no shortage of suspects, considering how many people had sworn to kill him. Then, the analysis of an old ammunition shell leads the team to a troubled young genius, but their search is far from over.

Ironside suspects that a robbery at a race track's money room could have been an inside job.

Ironside hunts a killer who's using a phantom strangler's reign of terror to cover up his own crime.

In order to take down a crime lord, Ironside spreads a rumor that a murdered hood is still alive—and ready to talk.

An advice columnist is threatened with murder—and there's no shortage of suspects.

An unsolved case is reopened when Ironside works to vindicate a murder policeman who was accused of blackmailing.

A pair of killers hold Ironside and Eve hostage with the intention of forcing the Chief to help with their escape plan.

GI serial numbers scratched in a murder victim's watch case are Ironside's only clue to finding the killer.

Ironside attempts to stop an athlete from taking the fall for manslaughter in order to keep his parolee brother out of prison.

Ironside uses a blind woman as live bait to catch a killer who thinks she saw him.

A human fly is suspected of killing a guard at an art gallery.

While investigating a folk singer's apparent suicide, Ironside discovers that the young woman had a history of drug abuse.

A newly assigned lieutenant is suspected of corruption when he doesn't do anything about increasing thefts.

Ironside heads to New York in search of evidence that could clear a fugitive of murder charges before the death sentence is passed.

Ed gets involved with a night-club singer who has a very troubled past.

Ironside investigates the disappearance of Soviet track star who's also a double agent for the U.S. government.

While investigating the murder of fanatic, Ironside is forced to deal with a group of vengeful vigilantes.

Against Ironside's warning, Mark gets involved with an ex-con from his past.

Ed attempts to force a cop hater to confess to the murder of two policemen.

A cop who's wanted for robbing a bank and wounding another officer kidnaps Ironside and Mark.

Ironside thinks like an art critic to solve a psychologist's murder.

When Eve feels guilty for killing a crook, Ironside helps her learn to live with her duties as a police officer.

A singer helps Ironside catch a loan shark expecting his payment—with interest.

Ironside develops feelings for a woman who can't remember anything—but who someone wants dead.

As Ironside conducts a seminar, a campus sniper brags about his plan to commit the perfect crime.

Ironside looks for a connection between a bombing and a baby found in the van.

A conspiracy complicates Ironside's investigation of a hippie's fatal beating—that was allegedly administered by Ed.

When Mark's girlfriend is murdered, his demands for immediate justice make it difficult to find the killer.

Ironside's attempts to save a Vietnam hero from the gas chamber are put at risk by the man's war buddies.

Ironside matches wits with a master jewel thief intent on adding more to his collection.

After a melee with a thief, an operation seems possible to cure Ironside's paralysis—or kill him.

A lawyer, a boxer and a bar girl make it difficult for Ironside to clear a detective charged with murder.

Ironside finds himself caught between white and black extremists as he attempts to clear a black militant charged with murder.

While Ironside takes a vacation, he's forced to tangle with three men bent on killing him to cover up their previous murder—and implicate Mark in the Chief's murder.

Ironside goes through a list of suspects to find out who's been sending death threats to a TV host.

A derilict's murder gives Ironside two problems: finding the killer and rehabilitating the dead man's friend.

An attorney is accused of killing her unfaithful husband.

As a manhunt ensues for the person who shot Eve, she remembers her first meetings with her co-workers during her life-and-death- struggle.

A myna bird that screeches in riddles provides leads to a murderer.

Ironside goes through a series of deceptions to find out why a youth gave up a promising career to become a pool hustler.

A dog is the only witness to a woman's murder—a murder that seems to match a series of killings, except aimed at middle-aged men.

Ironside reopens a homicide case when he sees a recent painting by a friend who allegedly died after confessing.

Eve tries to help her niece who's been arrested on a second narcotics, bringing teenage mores and the generation gap into the fold.

A team of 70-year-old sleuths—led by Ironside's Aunt Victoria—closes in on a man suspected of murdering his wife.

Mark gets frustrated with the system when he tries to help a friend falsely accused of assault.

Ironside attempts to find a piece of Da Vinci art stolen from a museum.

Ironside's investigation of a movie star's disappearance leads to estranged husband—a mob boss.

Eve investigates a series of burglaries that's been pinned on a society columnist.

Ed and a fellow officer are suspended for killing a drug dealer.

Ironside investigates when a woman is terrified by accidents and a voice threatening to kill her.

An assistant district attorney murders his wife and frames his nephew.

A baseball star is being driven to a breakdown by hate letters, threatening phone calls and pellets.

To catch an abortionist, Eve pretends to be an unmarried woman who is pregnant.

A college newspaper editor is the prime suspect in Ironside's investigation of prank bombings.

Eve and Ed go undercover as a couple to nab a con man who swindles old women.

Barbara Jones comes back into Ironside's life to ask him to rescue her kidnapped daughter, but the case is complicated by an overeager sheriff, a jealous husband and the Chief's personal feelings.

A fugitive being pursued by a corrupt lawman attempting to hide his activities at the local jail kidnaps Ed.

Three San Quentin convicts use Ironside, Mark, the van and the warden's wife to plot their escape.

Two attempts are made on Mark, leading Ironside to investigate the motive.

Ironside secures a delegation the release of American prisoners of war.

Five eyewitnesses claim that Ed is responsible for a bookie's fatal beating.

A militant leads his followers into a conspiracy in a plot to commit treason.

Eve is used as bait to catch a rapist who uses a dating service to find his victims.

Ironside shares a flight with a witness ready to testify against a racketeer—and an unknown gunman.

Ironside must recover a stolen Torah before the thieves learn it's only of value to members of a synagogue.

An old friend of Ironside's threatens to commit suicide when she's blamed for killing her husband, so it's up to the Chief to find the truth.

Mark tries to get a teenage basketball player away from a gang of thieves.

Ironside must stop a crime organization from placing a stake in the produce market.

A waitress who played a part in a robbery picks Mark as a fall guy.

Ironside attempts to break a Samoan boxer's tradition of continuing life in the ring.

Ed's relationship with a starlet is jeopardized by her feelings about his gun.

While on vacation in Fiji, Ironside gets involved in a plot to steal gold.

A banker is unwilling to help the police capture the man who kidnapped his wife and Eve.

Ironside's ingenuity is put to the test when he's faced with a gun-toting youth.

The prime suspect in a jewelry-store robbery is the silversmith whom Ironside recommended in the first place.

Ironside bends the rules to help a boy whose mother was murdered and whose father is in jail.

Ironside finds his order to guard a visiting crown prince difficult due to the prince's thirst for night life.

Ironside attempts to capture dognappers who are abducting dogs owned by rich people.

Ed goes after the psychopath who murdered his fiancee.

Ironside enters a battle of wits with an anonymous caller who has predicted a murder.

Ironside rides a draft dodgers' railway to find a killer.

Ironside is trapped in a cabin during a blizzard with an old friend who's become a heroin addict. This is the only episode in which Don Galloway does not appear.

Mark's law class re-enacts a murder case when real drama unfolds.

A man charged with public intoxication gets involved with a girl and a rock musician after skipping his arraignment.

An investment manager's confession to a murder seems to contradict the evidence in the case.

Ironside meets an old flame while in Montreal and gets involved in the Separatist movement.

Ironside's trip to Montreal continues as he gets involved in a murder plot while searching for a stolen chess set.

A captain sets out to take down the dealer who gave his daughter marijuana.

An arrested drug pusher frames Ironside to get revenge.

Mark writes a hypothetical brief about a convicted murderer for his law class, which results in the case being reopened and the convict accusing Ed of framing him.

Ironside probes the managers of an alleged faith healer.

Ironside goes to a hospital for psychological evaluation where a crook is trying to learn the whereabouts of a police informant.

A blackout in San Francisco is apparently being used to cover up a crime.

The sister in a folk trio vanishes without a trace and another young woman is found brutally murdered.

Ironside is kidnapped along with a Communist spy.

An ex-con demolitions expert's son is kidnapped.

A jockey is suspected of throwing races.

Ed and Eve travel to Mexico where they're suspected of helping a convict—whom they believe is innocent of murder—escape.

An actress in a play dies from a heroin overdose.

Ironside has 24 hours to prove that a racketeer bribed a juror at his trial.

Ironside helps an elderly Armenian tobacconist who is being blackmailed by two nephews who are using his shop to manufacture cigarettes laced with PCP.

When Mark and a woman get into a traffic accident, Ironside suspects an insurance fraud was committed.

An attorney is concerned about his son getting involved with anarchists.

A 70-year-old corporation director's purse is snatched.

A parole officer is obsessed with drug dealers. This is Barbara Anderson's final episode.

Ironside teams up with Father Samuel Cavanaugh to capture a murderer. This 2-hour episode serves as a crossover with the series Sarge.

Ironside discovers a contract signed to take his life—and the man who signed it has never fouled up.

Ironside pursues a gang of credit card thieves.

Ironside finds it suspicious that a hood is eager to vindicate a dead police captain accused of working with gamblers. Elizabeth Baur makes her debut as Fran Belding in this episode.

Ironside matches wits with a phony psychic.

A local thief is suspected of killing a policeman—until evidence suggests otherwise.

Ironside probes his Korean foster daughter's fiance.

A group of stage actors are suspects in a stabbing. This episode reunites Raymond Burr with his former Perry Mason costar Barbara Hale.

Fran investigates when her cousin is alleged to have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Ed tries to prove he saw a body—even though the corpse keeps vanishing on him.

A murder case gets personal for Ed because the suspect is the man who saved his life.

Ironside faces off against a malevolent nurse in a convalescent home with a suspiciously high death rate.

Ironside uses old-fashioned detective work to clear a cop framed for murder.

Ed looks for a classmate who's become a wanted man.

While in Tokyo, Ironside must find out who's trying to kill a disabled ex-kabuki dancer.

A woman who appears to be the target of a stalker with no apparent motive for attacking her. The stalker may be just a trick, the woman has a connection to a former cop killer recently released from prison who has a grudge against Ironside.

A makeup artist who just did time for a bank robbery is believed to be back in business.

The victims of a burglary wave, ironically, are all crooks.

Ironside probes the deaths of former Army buddies who were all killed with hand-grenades.

Ironside pretends to be a member of a parole board to put an end to a series of murders that have left the board victimized.

Ironside investigates when the daughter of his friend practices witchcraft and blames herself for the death of her parents' landlord.

A man on trial for murder tries to get acquitted by framing the judge's son for the crime.

A musical note is Ironside's clue to finding the murderer of an unpopular music teacher.

A drug dealer is the prime suspect in the case of a missing husband.

Dr. David Craig (E. G. Marshall) and Dr. Paul Hunter (David Hartman) work to save Ed when he's hit a by a sniper, while Ironside remembers the same circumstances that left him paralyzed. This episode continues on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors.

A burglar figures out how to rob stores guarded by dogs.

Ironside appears on a telethon to ask those who have witnessed a murder to step forward.

Mark is forced to make a case against a friend accused of robbery.

Ironside must figure out who's sending him films of future murder victims.

When a package is stolen, a series of Oriental ideograms give clues to the contents.

Ed experiences jail from a prisoner's point of view when he gets booked on a misdemeanor.

Ironside must vindicate a convicted murderer he put in jail.

A scientist has an explosive strapped to him that's about to explode.

A group of criminals called "The Deadly Gamesmen" are using live pawns and a crime for every move in their own version of chess.

Prostitutes and panderers help Ironside solve a murder.

Ed goes undercover to thwart a kidnapping plot.

Ironside helps Scotland Yard solve a police superintendent's murder.

Ironside pursues the man who killed his friend: a retired cop.

The attempted murder of a magazine editor brings up several suspects.

Fran is plagued by obscene—and threatening—phone calls.

The prime suspect in a murder is a rancher engaged to the town's belle.

A ship containing a bloodstain and a bullet hole comes into the bay.

Someone is trying to kill an outspoken champion of women's liberation.

Ironside works to thwart a developing art heist.

A thief overcomes a maze of alarms to get to a bank vault.

Ironside gets trapped in a bank along with a gang of robbers and a group of hostages.

Ironside plays poker with a card-sharp murder suspect.

A magazine reveals details of Ironside's life—its source being a "lady of the night".

Ironside questions whether the gunshot that killed a boy was suicide or murder.

Ironside's long-lost love returns—only she's still a professional thief.

A man could be in danger, but only an amnesiac's hazy memories provide clues.

A scientist working on a project disappears, putting national security in jeopardy.

Two visitors to a supposedly haunted mansion mysteriously disappear.

An illegal immigration-smuggling ring hunts down a Mexican woman out to expose their operation.

Ironside quits the force and winds up on skid row after a boy who was in his custody gets killed.

A psychic can apparently predict the times and targets of arson attacks.

An ex-prisoner of war refuses to believe his policeman father died in an auto accident.

A gambler must sell information to Ironside to support his losses.

Mark goes under cover to take down an extortion ring.

A detective friend of Ironside's is suspected of stealing heroin that was evidence.

A bank robber's daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom.

A record pirate who was bootlegging a musician's recordings is suspected of electrocuting him.

The son of Ironside's old friend is the prime suspect in the murder of a Chinatown businessman.

Ironside gets nostalgic when he returns to his home town to investigate the death of an old friend.

The murder of a brother in a family occurs before the sister's surprise return.

A controversial teacher is a target for murder after one of his students commits suicide.

A woman with a bullet near her heart claims she doesn't remember ever getting shot.

Members of a crime syndicate intercept Ed to kill his prisoner—their former associate.

A medic helps Ironside with his investigation of a disguised murder. This is the only episode where Don Mitchell does not appear.

A woman's promotion to chief of detectives sparks controversy. This two-hour episode serves as the pilot for the series Amy Prentiss.

Ironside deals with the supernatural when he learns that a murder victim believed she was possessed.

Ironside's supernatural-themed case comes to a close when he discovers a psychiatrist using hypnosis to turn his patients into killers.

When Mark graduates law school, his first case is defending a grocery-store owner accused of murder.

When a witness in a case going on trial is murdered, Ed attempts to persuade the victim's daughter to take her father's place on the stand.

Fran's detective boyfriend is accused of killing an unarmed suspect.

A mobster kidnaps Ironside with the intention of proving his niece was murdered by a rival criminal's son.

A friend of Ironside's is afraid she could be a schizophrenic murderer.

Ironside's goddaughter witnesses a murder—and becomes the next target.

A parolee is determined to avenge his son's murder.

When Ed infiltrates a crime ring, he's told to kill Ironside in order to prove his loyalty.

A jewel thief is plotting to steal the four most valuable treasures in San Francisco.

Although a priest is being stalked, he denies being in danger.

A fugitive leaves his son in Ironside's van.

Ironside's fireman friend from Scotland Yard is plotting a robbery.

A judge receives threats since his wife once had connections to the mob.

When Fran is assaulted, her colleagues launch a search for the culprit.

A woman accidentally kills her lover, but her lawyer is preventing her from confessing.

Ironside and his colleagues infiltrate a meeting arranged by a criminal who intends to start an organization in California.

A rancher's son, just off of probation and often helped by Ironside, is accused of cattle rustling and murder. He swears he didn't rustle any cattle.

Chief Robert Ironside comes out of retirement when the chief of the Denver police department, where Ed Brown now works, dies prematurely and the daughter of Eve Whitfield is suspected of murdering her boyfriend.