A notorious robber of jewels named Justin arrives downtown at the same time as a loading of famous jewels intended for an exposure in a local museum. Ironside must keep the robber with the eye to avoid the robbery of the jewels but his adversary is very intelligent and, moreover, he is helped by an accomplice infiltrated with the museum.

Ironside and Marc leave the hospital where the Chief comes to make his usual tests. They hear a shot and Marc precipitates towards his origin. He discovers the body of a guard and, before to have been able to react, is made strike by a masked unknown. The man leaves the building while running and runs up against Ironside which manages to uncover him and to see his face. The next morning, the Chief complains about pains to the legs, which is very unusual and the conduit at the hospital for examinations. His doctor then proposes an exploratory surgical operation to him which could enable him to recover the use of his legs… or to lead him to the mortuary. But Ironside wants to wedge the murderer of the guard of the hospital and pushes back the operation…

The murderer of the guard is determined to eliminate the only witness from his crime and, as the Chief finally decided to enter to the hospital to be operated, from the occasions go to present himself to him. Helped by his mistress, he initially tries to poison Ironside but, because of his obstinacy, fails. He then decides to choose a more radical solution by poisoning the Chief directly with the block, during the operation. Eve, Ed and Marc try to untie the situation to save Ironside…

Writing by: Sy Salkowitz, Gift Mr. Mankiewicz
Directed by: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Gift Stroud (Albee), Lorraine Gary (nurse Green), Joseph Cotten (Stern), Linda Chandler (nurse Kane), Amentha Dymally (Ann Fellows), Margaret O'Brien (Sister Louise Prescott), Troy Donahue (Father Dugan), Mel Scott (Ralph Fellows), Eileen Wesson (nurse Evans), Brenda Scott (Carol Dillon), David Sheiner (doctor), Andrew Prine (Ernie), Frank Arno (portraitist of the police), Lilia Skala (Sister Agatha).

Marc returns visit to a man whom he knew in prison and, arrived at his apartment, discovers him dead. In the darkness, he is struck by an unknown from which he distinguishes only two things: his shoes and his revolver with white stick. Ironside and his team go to the site and, when sergeant Al Serventes join them, Marc identifies him at once with these two details. The Commissioner Randall decides to entrust the case to Ironside while suspending Servantes of his functions and, in spite of the friendship that he is binds him to the Chief, this last is hardly shown co-operative, trying to solve the case only. Believing initially that his acts by pride, Ironside arrives soon at another conclusion: Al wants to be sacrificed.

An activist militant for the rights of the blacks is stopped for murder and the black community of San Francisco threatens to go down in the streets to protest. The Commissioner Randall asks the Chief to undertake the investigation to try to prove the innocence of Phillip; but certain citizens do not seem to want to cooperate.

A friend of the Chief invites him to come to spend a few days of holidays at his home, in mountain. The man, called Franklin, had just had an accident of hunting during which he received a bullet. When Ironside and Marc arrive in the small city close to Franklin, they note that this last enjoys a bad reputation and that he never came downtown. The Chief will see the sheriff Douglas and asks him to go to warn Franklin of his arrival, the access to the mountain not being easy to him. Douglas is recalcitrant and supports that Franklin should not be at his home but left in ramble: he agrees nevertheless to send somebody. Later, he comes to inform Ironside which he had reason and asks him to set out again. The Chief does not take account of it to and takes the risk of going to the hut of his friend, whom he finds in a deplorable state. Noting that the wood heap was moved, Ironside suspects a murder at once and sends Marc to seek the sheriff. When the two men return, Ironside disappeared. With his great surprise, Marc is stopped and understands rather quickly that Doublas hopes to put a crime to him on the back, a crime which does not have yet took place: the murder of Ironside.

Ross Howard, an odious organizer of talk-show called "the voice of the people", starts to receive death threats by mail and the Commissioner Randall decides to entrust the case to the Chief Ironside, asking him to ensure his protection. In spite of his aversion for the character, the Chief starts a deepened investigation, excavating the past of Howard like that of his close relations. When this last collapses with the studio after having eaten chocolates, it appears obvious that the threats do not have anything a joke. Having introduced little poison, Howard leaves indemne there and, later, he is victim of a new attempt on behalf of a shirker gunner. The organizer has many enemies, among whom the captain of police Walter Finch, a friend of Ironside, and the Chief has thus extremely to make. When the wife of Howard dies in the explosion of the car of her husband, everyone thinks at once of an error of target but Ironside starts to erect scaffolding a very least macabre assumption.

The Chief is called on the spot of the murder of a homeless person by a ex-cop living now in the street. This last, knowing Ironside, wishes that he take care of the investigation, estimating that the life of a tramp is worth that of no matter whom well. The Chief accepts and, soon, makes the bringing together between the death of the tramp and a burgling during which the necessary one to manufacture forged cheques was stolen. The robber being a man very unstable and beginning in the field from the crime, Ironside goes up his track rather easily. He wants to benefit from this investigation to oblige the ex-police officer become tramp to face his past to start again a more decent life.

Carolyn White, a friend of the Chief, suspected murder of her husband, although no body was discovered. District Attorney is based on a recording of an argument ending in a shot and traces of blood in the residence of the victim to support his theory. Ironside, convinced of the innocence of Carolyn, decides to take in hand the investigation and is not long in discovering a corpse: that of a mannequin, mistress of the victim. Carolyn is initially shown of this second murder but Ironside manages to establish her innocence and, soon, clears her completely, proving that her husband must always be in life and that he is him which assembled all this history. Whereas all seems finished, from the small details will foresee another possibility with the Chief, who will be vis-a-vis a painful choice.

When Eve is wounded during a shooting, the remainder of the team remembers their first meetings with them, and the wonders developed by the Chief so that she joins him. During this time, Ed worries about know if he wants simply to stop the attacker of Eve or to kill this man without another form of lawsuit.

Ironside has go with a rich man to take glass. When he arrives on the spot, accompanied by Marc, he finds this last death, assassinated. Quickly, the servant becomes the principal suspect until he is attacked by an unknown without apparent reason. Ironside discovers whereas the servant had a bird of company, a ménate, particularly chatterer and who could hold the solution of the history.

A young resourceful person is constrained to degrade himself with a gangster when his brother accumulates strong gambling debts. Will the Chief decides to intervene but manage to draw the two brothers from this bad step in time?

An old woman is assassinated and the only witness of the scene proves to be a dog, Sergent Mike. Ironside is not long in discovering that the victim had assembled astute combines to strip credulous single people, men who, as by chance, all were assassinated. The woman having obligatorily had an accomplice, the Chief leaves to research this last, with the assistance of Sergent Mike.

Ironside wants to offer a gift to Eve for his aniverssaire and, by chance, fall on a table apparently painted by an old friend who is supposed died after having acknowledged a murder. The Chief believes that he is always alive, and innocent, and leaves to Mexico to find his friend, but also the true murderer.

The niece of Eve is stopped for the possession and the use of marijuana, and the Chief inquires in his school and near his friends to try to clear her. It becomes soon obvious that she is guilty, like good of others, and that she even encouraged some of her friends to do as much of it.

Victoria Ironside, the aunt of the Chief, is member of Club of Bridge of Tuesday Afternoon. When a member of the club disappears, Tante Victoria is persuaded that there was murder and at once will find his nephew so that he helps her to solve this mystery. Ironside accepts and finds himself quickly assisted in his task by four old ladies decided to put their salt grain in the history. When the corpse of the missing member is discovered, Ironside understands that assassin took example on an old crime and that he reproduces it in his least details.

The old trainer of boxing of Marc, become alcoholic, is found on the scene of a serious aggression, and nobody seems to want to believe that he could right innocent being, especially after the victim formally identified him. Marc fights to prove that he wrongfully was shown, helped by the remainder of the team, and in his attempt he won the affection of his law professor.

A friend of Ironside, Francine, predicted various prophecies for the members of the team of the Chief, and they start to be carried out with a remarkable precision. All begin with the robbery from a table from Leonard de Vinci, lent by France, then by the disappearance of Ed. In spit of a prediction concerning his characteristic died, the Chief must discover the person in charge for the robbery before the French ambassador is not upset too much by the loss of a national treasure.

An old friend of Marc invites him to ask for an appointment but he is removed before he could join him. It appears soon that his disappearance is related to that of the star of cinema Gloria James, which can be assassinated. The Chief digs naturally, and a tragedy history leading directly to a representative of the underworld local remakes surface.

While inquiring into a case of robbery among the rich person inhabitants of San Francisco, Eve Whitfield falls in love with the one with the victims, for then discovering that he is the principal suspect of the Chief. While the remainder of the team works with the best manner of catching the robber, Eve wonders whether it is not time for her to leave the police and to marry.

Ed and an old friend discovers drug while the latter fact the taxi, whereas it is prohibited by the payment of the police force. The situation worsens when the cop-taxi keep silent a trafficker not armed with his weapon service. The service of the internal investigations find the situation strange and, suspected to be implied in the traffic of drug, the two police officers are suspended. Ed then takes large risks to prove the innocence of his friend, passing in addition to his setting with foot…

An old friend of the Chief, recently widowed, hears strange voices and receives threats in the form of phone calls. She is afraid to become insane, but Ironside is given to prove that this is right a machination to obtain her internment in a psychiatric hospital.

 

A ex-police officer, become lawyer, assassinates his wife while arranging himself to leave indices proving that she was still in life when he left the marital home to go to a dinner with Robert Ironside, thus securing a perfect alibi. The Chief must find the best manner of destroying this alibi in order to prove than he is guilty.

A famous player of baseball, which is an old friend of Ed, starts to receive anonymous letters, before having more serious troubles. Fearing for his family, he refuses the offer of assistance of his friend and tries to control the situation alone. Ed must persuade him to change opinion, before the events do not turn to the drama.

A young woman is found died in a park and it appears soon that she died following an illegal abortion. Affected by the fate of the young woman, Eve takes a false identity and goes to the boarding school for unmarried women where the victim was descended in order to discover who is the clandestine abortionist.

A local university is tormented by false bomb scares, and the editor of the newspaper of the campus is convinced that the militants of left are responsible. However, when the fourth bomb proves to be true, and that a member of the escouade of mine clearance is killed, Ironside starts to consider very an other solution and to distinguish two quite distinct cases.