Season Six of Ironside gets under way with the first episode of a two-part story. Wheelchair-bound detective Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr) travels from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where his assistant Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) lies seriously wounded in a hospital bed, the victim of an unidentified sniper. The situation becomes graver still when it develops that Ed may well be paralyzed for life, just like Chief Ironside. Ed's only hope for a completely recovery rests with an experimental procedure developed by a brilliant surgeon named Ritter (Vic Morrow)--whose daughter has been kidnapped to prevent him from performing the operation! The conclusion of this story was originally seen on September 19, 1972 as the fourth-season opener of the NBC series The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, with the latter show's stars E.G. Marshall (Dr. David Craig) and David Hartman (Dr. Paul Hunter) appearing in both Parts One and Two.
by Hal Erickson
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