Season 4 · Episode 15 — The Quincunx

The Chief begins to receive strange phone calls, warning him of a murder to be committed somewhere in San Francisco, apparently in the inte…

A sniper working for the criminal underworld seeks refuge in the anti-Vietnam protest movement, and with a number of draft-dodgers relying…

The Chief travels into the mountains to spend the weekend with an old friend, only to be snowed in following a bad blizzard. Trapped in a s…

A judge decides to begin a series of lectures about a case that he tried eight years previously, the result of which was that a man was exe…

An ageing accountant, weighed down by the responsibilities of his life, decides to break free from the grindstone and try for something dif…

The accountant for the Police Pension Fund confesses to the murder of his secretary, but all of the evidence suggests that he could not pos…

In Canada for a conference, Ironside and the team get caught up in a spate of bombings, courtesy of Quebec separatists; one of them the son…

Ed goes undercover at the docks to try to identify and capture the murderer, whilst the rest of the team continue investigating the case. F…

A policeman's daughter crashes her car after taking cannabis, and her father sets out to catch the man who sold her the stuff. When it beco…

When a drug pusher is arrested following a spate of botched drug raids he fingers Ironside as a gang informer. Ed is press-ganged onto a te…

Mark investigates an old case as part of his coursework research, and uncovers an apparent miscarriage of justice which implicates Ed in a…

Pablo Esteban, a young Mexican boy, is brought to San Francisco by some businessmen who claim that he can heal people just by touching them…

Ironside attends a hospital for psychological evaluation, and whilst he is tying knots in his psychiatrist's theories, it transpires that a…

The power station for a four mile square area of town is destroyed in an explosion, and when a similar attack takes out the auxiliary gener…

The Chief and his team are detailed to escort a spy to Mexico, in order to make an exchange with the Russians for an American scientist. Wh…

An ex-con determined to go straight is roped into a scam to steal dynamite, after his son is kidnapped. The Chief manages to get the boy ba…

Outside odds horses are starting to win at the local track, and Ironside is soon on the case. He discovers that somebody is trying to fix t…

Ed and Eve travel to Mexico to assist in the interrogation of a former suspect in a murder case, who has been arrested for a similar offenc…

The team is at a theatre to watch the rehearsals of a play Ironside has some money invested in, when one of the actors is found dead. Two a…

A court case is put in jeopardy when it seems that the jury is irrevocably hung over its verdict; until the Chief realises that one member…

An old Armenian, the uncle of a friend of Eve's, appears to be hiding some secret that has his niece deeply worried. It soon transpires tha…

Driving to the garage whilst tired, Mark knocks down an old lady, with whom he develops a close relationship. It soon seems, however, that…

A gang of violent anarchists springs a protestor from prison and, when he is recaptured, try to force the police into releasing him again b…

An old woman whose handbag has been snatched asks Ironside to take her case. Moved by his friendship with her late husband, he agrees, and…

A parole officer famed for his hard line against drug pushers begins to fear for his life after a shooting. The line of suspects, however,…