Ironside: Light At The End Of The Journey

By Kathryn Ware

Our look back on the debut season of Ironside continues.
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Episode: Light at the End of the Journey
Airdate: 9 November 1967
Plot: Shortly before he’s to meet his old buddy Ironside for a rib dinner, private investigator Ted Bartlett is gunned down waiting for a hotel elevator. Not even a blind witness is enough to stop Ironside from getting his man. As the cop says to the coroner, “If you were going to kill someone, would you kill a friend of Robert T. Ironside?” Only if you had a death wish!

Posted on October 27, 2008

TV Notes: The Hills, Drs. Drew & Katz, Mighty Putty

By Steve Rhodes

1. If you, like me, watch The Hills – don’t be afraid to admit it – you will love The Hills According To Me, which must be a total mindfuck to LC, Audrina and the gang, seeing as how it is MTV itself viciously satirizing its own show, as well as an example of the meta-meta media universe we now live in.
Here’s a sample:

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Posted on October 20, 2008

Ironside: Let My Brother Go

By Kathryn Ware

Our look back on the debut season of Ironside continues.
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Episode: Let My Brother Go
Airdate: 2 November 1967
Plot: What, no murder to solve? This week’s episode casts Ironside as a tough-hearted Mother Teresa. The Chief is having trouble getting his Big Brother program for at-risk youth off the ground. It seems the boys in the hood would rather make zip guns than play touch football in the park with a bunch of off-duty cops. Sheeze, kids.

Posted on October 15, 2008

Ironside: Tagged For Murder

By Kathryn Ware

Our look back on the debut season of Ironside continues.
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Episode: Tagged for Murder
Airdate: 26 October 1967
Plot: Detective Ed Brown catches what seems to be an open-and-shut case of accidental death. But Ed’s no dummy and he smells a murder. After all, he’s been training under San Francisco’s finest sleuth, Chief Robert T. Ironside. Connecting the dots from a wristwatch to Army dog tags to a Swiss bank account, Ironside and his team take on a murder investigation that spans from the Italian campaign of WWII all the way to a “present day” San Francisco cable car barn.

Posted on October 6, 2008