Ironside
To Kill a Cop
TV Flash files “To Kill a Cop” as hour 18 of 193 in the TV Flash guide — Ironside (1967–1975) on NBC, season 1, episode 18, aired 1968-01-25, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E18: listed hour 18 of 193 in the Ironside guide, hour 18 of 28 in season 1. It aired 1968-01-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Memory of an Ice Cream Stick” (S01E17). Next is “The Lonely Hostage” (S01E19).
Viewer FAQ
Where does To Kill a Cop sit in the Ironside guide?
S01E18 is listed hour 18 of 193 — hour 18 of 28 in season 1, season 1 episode 18.
When did Ironside S01E18 air?
To Kill a Cop aired 1968-01-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Burr's Ironside with the early team (Galloway, Mitchell, Anderson) on a San Francisco consultant case is the premise: wheelchair, zero pity, mind as the chase. You do not need Perry Mason first, though the star overlap is the lore.
In the series
Why this series still plays
After a sniper's bullet, Robert Ironside returns to crime-fighting from a wheelchair with a handpicked team and zero patience for pity. Raymond Burr's second iconic lawman — post-Perry Mason — made a disabled lead a long-running NBC franchise. Eight seasons of San Francisco cases: brains, not body, as the brand.
The mind does the chasing. After a sniper's bullet, Robert Ironside returns to crime-fighting from a wheelchair with a handpicked team and zero patience for pity. Raymond Burr — post-*Perry Mason* — headlined NBC's *Ironside* (1967–1975) as a consultant chief across eight San Francisco seasons. Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson in the early seasons, and Don Mitchell rounded out the unit. Collier Young put a disabled lead at the center of a long-running network franchise long before inclusion became a corporate slide…
Filed against
- Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside
Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason made courtroom theater a comfort contract — the real killer almost always stood up, appointment justice served, stillness as the camera’s argument. Carefully managed public image is old-Hollywood PR textbook. On…
- Don Galloway as Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
Don Galloway’s Det. Sgt. Ed Brown rode Ironside as the legs of a wheelchair franchise — Raymond Burr’s second iconic lawman after a sniper’s bullet, handpicked team, zero patience for pity, eight seasons of San Francisco cases. TV Flash…
- Barbara Anderson as Eve Whitfield
Barbara Anderson’s Eve Whitfield rode shotgun on Ironside — Raymond Burr’s second iconic lawman, a disabled lead as a long-running NBC franchise, San Francisco cases with zero patience for pity. Handpicked team after a sniper’s bullet. TV…
- Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger
Don Mitchell’s Mark Sanger gave Ironside a second pair of hands — Raymond Burr’s wheelchair lawman, handpicked team, zero patience for pity, eight seasons of San Francisco cases after a sniper’s bullet. Post-Perry Mason franchise. TV…