Ironside (1967 TV series)
American television crime drama (1967–1975) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the original 1967–1975 television series. For the remake, see Ironside (2013 TV series).
Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over eight seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside (usually addressed by the title "Chief Ironside"), a consultant to the San Francisco police department (formerly chief of detectives), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie entitled Ironside. When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, from late 1967 onward, it was broadcast as A Man Called Ironside. The show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.[1]
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Genre | Detective fiction |
Created by | Collier Young |
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Theme music composer | Quincy Jones |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 8 |
No. of episodes | 199 (list of episodes) |
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Production companies | Harbour Productions Unlimited Universal Television |
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Network | NBC |
Release | September 14, 1967 (1967-09-14) – January 16, 1975 (1975-01-16) |
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Ironside was a production of Burr's Harbour Productions Unlimited in association with Universal Television.