Ironside
The Priest Killer
TV Flash files “The Priest Killer” as a desk essential hour — Ironside (1967–1975) on NBC, season 5, episode 1, aired 1971-09-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E01: listed hour 105 of 193 in the Ironside guide, first listed hour of season 5. It aired 1971-09-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Walls Are Waiting” (S04E26). Next is “Contract: Kill Ironside” (S05E02).
Essential hour: “The Priest Killer”. The Priest Killer — mid-run landmark title, Burr's granite transferred from Mason to a chief who will not be managed.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Priest Killer sit in the Ironside guide?
S05E01 is listed hour 105 of 193 — first listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 1.
When did Ironside S05E01 air?
The Priest Killer aired 1971-09-14 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…