Ironside
Close to the Heart
TV Flash files “Close to the Heart” as hour 171 of 193 in the TV Flash guide — Ironside (1967–1975) on NBC, season 7, episode 20, aired 1974-02-28, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E20: listed hour 171 of 193 in the Ironside guide, hour 20 of 23 in season 7. It aired 1974-02-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Death in Academe” (S07E19). Next is “Come Eleven, Come Twelve” (S07E21).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Close to the Heart sit in the Ironside guide?
S07E20 is listed hour 171 of 193 — hour 20 of 23 in season 7, season 7 episode 20.
When did Ironside S07E20 air?
Close to the Heart aired 1974-02-28 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…