Assembling a "special unit" around him, he sets out to find the sniper, and at first there is no shortage of suspects, considering how many people had sworn to kill him.
Ironside hunts a killer who's using a phantom strangler's reign of terror to cover up his own crime.
In order to take down a crime lord, Ironside spreads a rumor that a murdered hood is still alive—and ready to talk.
A pair of killers hold Ironside and Eve hostage with the intention of forcing the Chief to help with their escape plan.
GI serial numbers scratched in a murder victim's watch case are Ironside's only clue to finding the killer.
Ironside attempts to stop an athlete from taking the fall for manslaughter in order to keep his parolee brother out of prison.
While investigating a folk singer's apparent suicide, Ironside discovers that the young woman had a history of drug abuse.
Ironside heads to New York in search of evidence that could clear a fugitive of murder charges before the death sentence is passed.
When Eve feels guilty for killing a crook, Ironside helps her learn to live with her duties as a police officer.
As Ironside conducts a seminar, a campus sniper brags about his plan to commit the perfect crime.
Ironside's attempts to save a Vietnam hero from the gas chamber are put at risk by the man's war buddies.
Ironside matches wits with a master jewel thief intent on adding more to his collection.
A lawyer, a boxer and a bar girl make it difficult for Ironside to clear a detective charged with murder.
While Ironside takes a vacation, he's forced to tangle with three men bent on killing him to cover up their previous murder—and implicate Mark in the Chief's murder.
A derilict's murder gives Ironside two problems: finding the killer and rehabilitating the dead man's friend.
As a manhunt ensues for the person who shot Eve, she remembers her first meetings with her co-workers during her life-and-death- struggle.
Ironside goes through a series of deceptions to find out why a youth gave up a promising career to become a pool hustler.
Ironside reopens a homicide case when he sees a recent painting by a friend who allegedly died after confessing.
Eve tries to help her niece who's been arrested on a second narcotics, bringing teenage mores and the generation gap into the fold.
Barbara Jones comes back into Ironside's life to ask him to rescue her kidnapped daughter, but the case is complicated by an overeager sheriff, a jealous husband and the Chief's personal feelings.
A fugitive being pursued by a corrupt lawman attempting to hide his activities at the local jail kidnaps Ed.
Three San Quentin convicts use Ironside, Mark, the van and the warden's wife to plot their escape.
An old friend of Ironside's threatens to commit suicide when she's blamed for killing her husband, so it's up to the Chief to find the truth.
Ironside's trip to Montreal continues as he gets involved in a murder plot while searching for a stolen chess set.
Ironside helps an elderly Armenian tobacconist who is being blackmailed by two nephews who are using his shop to manufacture cigarettes laced with PCP.
Ironside finds it suspicious that a hood is eager to vindicate a dead police captain accused of working with gamblers.
The stalker may be just a trick, the woman has a connection to a former cop killer recently released from prison who has a grudge against Ironside.
A group of criminals called "The Deadly Gamesmen" are using live pawns and a crime for every move in their own version of chess.
When Mark graduates law school, his first case is defending a grocery-store owner accused of murder.
When a witness in a case going on trial is murdered, Ed attempts to persuade the victim's daughter to take her father's place on the stand.