Ironside

Pablo Esteban, a young faith healer from a small Mexican village, lays hands upon the willing in big cities across 1970 America. Pablo lays hands upon a friend of Ironside who convalesced with him and was similarly disabled in San Francisco. When she regains her ability to walk, Ironside, Ed and Mark attempt to investigate whether a miracle or human avarice is responsible.

One evening, Chief Ironside and Mark Sanger visit a precinct where the Chief worked as a young officer. Initially, the precinct Captain, played by 70's NFL hero, Roman Gabriel, greets the Chief formally, as if he thinks Ironside is there to meddle. In contrast, Ironside's old partner, played by veteran actor, Jack Albertson, is happy to see Ironside. Suddenly, there is a city-wide blackout; now, the young Captain is relieved to have Ironside on site and even provides him an office. There is a rush to organize and institute emergency protocol but the Chief remains unfazed. With the help of his old partner, Ironside and team investigate events occurring inside of the precinct. They find information that may connect events inside with the blackout outside.

The team goes to see Eve's friend perform at a local bar where she is performing in a trio. After a delay in starting time, the two male trio members who are brothers announce to the audience that the friend will not be able to perform that night. When she can't get in touch with her friend and the body of a young murder victim that may be related to the band is discovered, Eve becomes involved with one of the brothers.

Ironside and his team have to escort a Czechoslovakian refugee to Mexico where she is to be traded for an American scientist. But it appears that someone has blown their cover and that a third party is now involved.

Ironside and crew assist an ex-convict whose son has been kidnapped by a militant group so the ex-convict will supply them with explosives from the construction company at which the man has been employed.

Ironside is asked by the Commisioner to investigate a possible race fixing scandal at the racetrack. As part of the investigation Eve has to rekindle a romance with a former lover.

Ed and Eve go south of the border to interview Lonnie Burnett, someone Eve helped clear of a murder charge in the US but now faces a similar charge in a foreign country. A muckraking reporter also shows up and complicates their situation.

Ironside, who has invested money in a controversial stage show, brings his team to a rehearsal when it's discovered one of its performers has died mysteriously from a drug overdose. With such a large cast there are any number of suspects.

Ironside investigates a purse-snatching, but not just the usual petty crime: the victim is the widow of the former head of the Police Commission, and the purse contained a little cash . . . and $200,000 in jewelry.

After a parole officer is shot at, Ironside finds the list of possible suspects is quite long. A drug pusher may be responsible since he is especially hard on them after his sister was confined to an institution after a bad drug experience.

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.

When a jury on a mobster's trial becomes hopelessly deadlocked, Ironside tries to find out if the one holdout has been bribed. But before they can start they must determine just who the holdout is.

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

Mark, who has been up for three nights on an extended stakeout, accidentally hits an elderly woman. Mark befriends her and gradually uncovers her secret past. Meanwhile Ed works on a separate jewel heist case.

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.

An underground terrorist group breaks a member out of jail. The son of a prominent lawyer appears to have a connection to the group but Ironside isn't sure if he is a willing participant in their schemes.

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.

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.

Ironside attends an improvisation theatre show. During the show, one of the actors is murdered.

Officer Fran Belding mourns the death of her cousin, who took his own life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge - or did he?

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.

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.

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.

Ironside goes undercover at a nursing home where patients are turning up dead.

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.