Thu, Nov 7, 1974
A young runaway named Peggy is working as part of a mime act in a department store window with her boyfriend, a small time criminal named Jamie. While she is performing she witnesses a murder and calls her godfather, who happens to be Ironside. However, just before she talks to him her boyfriend hangs the phone up and the two immediately go on the run with the killer hot on their trail. Ironside then tracks them to Los Angeles and before he gets them into protective custody Jamie is killed. It now is a race against time to find Peggy and arrest the killer, who has a connection to her.
Thu, Nov 21, 1974
Ironside meets with a snitch about a planned heist and the corrupt undercover cop who's providing information to the gang. When they're fired upon, Ironside fires back, hitting one of the gang, who is killed. But when the autopsy comes back, it's revealed that the slug went all the way through the man -- far too powerful for Ironside's .38 Police Special) and came from a different angle (Ironside was facing the man and the slug came from the side). To catch the gang and find out who the corrupt cop is, Ed Brown volunteers to go undercover, complete with fake mustache, and meets the gang leader -- who carries a gargantuan Magnum. To avenge the death of the gang member, who is also the corrupt cop's brother, Ed is given a rifle and told to assassinate Ironside through his apartment window. But Ironside has a trick up his sleeve . . .
Thu, Dec 26, 1974
A Scotland Yard police inspector (who is an old chess-playing buddy to Ironside) comes to San Francisco - ostensibly to investigate a link between Americans there and a series of bank robberies in London. Actually, he is the leader of the robbery gang, and he also has a serious heart condition.
Thu, Jan 16, 1975
Fran is going to night-school art classes. Returning to the classroom to pick something up, she sees a clay model of a woman's face horribly mangled by a set of fingernails. Fran leaves again and is immediately set upon by someone who beats her comatose and leaves her for dead. Fran recovers enough to tell about what she saw, and Ironside's crew tries to figure out the motive. The clay sculpture was apparently of a now-murdered woman and her killer attacked Fran, but nobody saw the attack and Ironside must question everyone in the art class to find a psychotic.