Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

kidboots I have read that Raymond Burr was so fed up by the end of the Perry Mason series, he had no idea the show was destined to take up 9 years of his professional life. Before that he had played some of the nastiest villains on film ("The Whip Hand", "Rear Window" etc) so he must have jumped for joy when given the opportunity to portray one of the straightest lawyers in history - Perry Mason!!! Nine years later he was offered another police series - "Ironside" but this cop was different. As the pilot showed he was gunned down by an unknown assailant and forced to come to terms with life in a wheelchair - his abrasive, forthright and refreshing "politically incorrect" manner shows that the number of suspects will be limitless (the crime is solved within the pilot). Along the way he picks up ambitious young officer Ed Brown (Don Galloway) and private school educated Eve Whitfield who Ironside thinks has the makings of a fine police woman. As well he enlists the help of a young black juvenile offender, Mark Sanger, to look after him - their confrontations are some of the highlights of the show.With a pulsating theme by Quincey Jones (his first major series), the different episodes took viewers through such diverse issues as civil rights, the world of drugs, hippies, extreme vigilante groups etc. The pilot took Ironside into the existential world of art and beatniks - Tiny Tim (remember him!!) was even featured. One of my favourite episodes, "The Man Who Believed", was about Ironside's fight for justice when a young singer is presumed to have died from an overdose - he believes and proves it was murder!! There were old time actors like Gene Raymond in the very timely "Force of Arms" - he played the head of a nationwide vigilante group who are tirelessly collecting dossiers on United States citizens. Another one was "The Past is Prologue" with a young Harrison Ford whose father has been on the run from a murder charge for the past 19 years.I found the episodes that were not so great were the ones that gave Don Galloway the occasional lead - "wooden acting" was a term invented for that guy. Another minus - Ironside seemed to have a few quirky mannerisms that were eased out as the series took hold. Especially his catch phrase "Flaming" this and "Flaming" that - even his offsiders started to say it (although not with the same ease and glibness) but after a few episodes it was gone. I always thought it was a pity.

Bellfire32 Ironside started out as a great show about a physically challenged police officer that could fight crime. He had 2 police officers and one aide as his sidekicks. The police officers and aide were like his family and you could actually see the love and affection he had for them and they him. The stories were about all of them interacting with oneanother and I just love the programming from the 60's anyway because of the feel but this program went sour about 1969 and later. The first mistake is they changed writers. Secondly, the stories became more mysteries than drama. Thirdly the family seemed to be more about fitting into the mysteries than living actual lives. I liked to see each actor shows his or her character. Eve was a rich girl, Ed was an average Joe, and Mark was a guy who turned his life around for the better. When the show changed so did the characters except for the Ironside. There was too much spy nonsense, diamond heists, art thefts and all in out corniness. Gone were the days that they operated as a team and lived as a family. (I'm not getting into Eve's replacement, Fran and how she just ruined the dynamics of the unit.) The only thing that got better was the change in music to the latest them but if that was in place of a good script than it was not worth it.

sofiamusa2002 I didn't know much about Ironside, apart from my mum, explaining to me what Raymond Burr did apart from Perry Mason. So, in 1999, the BBC started to do re-runs of it, and i watched a few, and I liked it alot. Channel five showed the 1967 TV Movie, and the Priest Killer (1971, scary and a bit controversial) and it was the best i've ever seen. It blows all the other cop shows out of the water, and quincy jones's score, is addictive. the support cast, proved their worth, especially Ed and Mark, and Eve's razor sharp wit. It shows that people (the characters) who are from different backgrounds Mark, a young black ex-con, Eve's upper class background, to Ed's (i'm assuming working class catholic boy, who lost his way when his fiance died) can gel quite well, but, that was what San Francisco was like from 1967 onwards, a melting pot, of people from different backgrounds.It is worthy of a big screen remake, but they have to it justice and not go for the starsky and hutch spoof hollywood have managed to botch together. It needs a director who is a fan, rather than somebody who sees this as another remake of an old show, it's more than that. and what i can't get, is that what actually happened to the actors from Ironside, Galloway has appeared on Perry Mason a couple of times, looking 10 years older than his real age! but in comparison to him in Ironside galloway aged 30 was a catch.enough of my female observations. It's a great programme, but i think it needs to be brought to attention of a new audience, i'm 22 years old, and i think that the programmes of today are trash!!

ironside-3 Raymond Burr is excellent as Robert T. Ironside and proves that despite being crippled by a snipers bullet, manages to trap his would be assassin and bring the culprit to book.Great locations,(set in San Francisco), powerful score by Quincy Jones and excellent supporting cast.This film captures the mood of the late 60's in America, better than any other film of its time.Naturally with the above combination it was decided to make a successful tv series that ran for eight years and quite rightly so, I always thought Ironside was one of the best cop shows of the 60's & 70's and it was exciting to see how he would cope in dangerous situations when confronting crooks, when his friends were not always around to help him.Raymond Burr as Ironside proved that he could solve cases sitting down better than any other tv cop standing and despite being paraplegic he was more than a match for any able bodied villain or crook, with his sharp mind and 26yrs experience on the SFPD.Excellent film and tv series, its a pity there is nothing like it around like it today.