Season 7 · Episode 8 — Downhill All the Way
A small boy witnesses a crime, but proves to be an awkward witness due to a mental condition that doctors cannot explain. An attempt is made on his life whilst he is under the Chief's sole care, and in order to capture those responsible, the story is put out that the boy is dead, and that the Chief has retired through a sense of guilt. Putting it about that he has new evidence, he sits back to wait for somebody to make an attempt on his life, whilst spurning the efforts of his friends to help him. It looks as though his attempts to make it look as though he is turning to drunkenness and depression might just be costing him his life.
Season 7 episodes
E1A sleazy magazine prints stories against the SFPD, and Ironside in particular, using the tale of a vanished actor as an example of the depa…
E2The teenage son of a friend of Fran's appears to commit suicide, however the evidence seems to point in a number of different directions. D…
E3The Chief meets Alexandra, an old girlfriend with whom he is still very much in love. When he finds that the feeling is mutual he hopes to…
E4A lawyer turns up at Ironside's door late at night, badly bruised and unable to remember what has happened to him. All that he can recall i…
E5A scientist disappears, sparking fears at the research centre where he works that he might have defected. Suspicious at the nature of the e…
E6The Commissioner's niece makes a bet that she can sleep for one night in the master bedroom of a haunted house, then disappears without tra…
E7Fran Belding's Mexican cleaning lady turns out to be an illegal immigrant, brought into the country against her will by an employment agenc…
E8A small boy witnesses a crime, but proves to be an awkward witness due to a mental condition that doctors cannot explain. An attempt is mad…
E9While Fran, Mark and Ed are at a night club, a psychic sees details of a recent fire. When the Chief becomes interested, he visits the psyc…
E10A returning Vietnam vet sees his supposedly dead father at the airport, and initiates a search for him against the Commissioner's wishes. T…
E11A violent gang kills two men during a robbery, and the Chief enlists the help of a regular informant in order to capture those responsible.…
E12A friend of Mark's is being unfairly shaken down by a crooked loan shark with crippling interest demands. Worried for his friend Mark goes…
E13A packet of heroin goes missing, implicating Carl Reece and his partner Don Boyden in a possible cover-up. When Boyden is killed in a freak…
E14A robbery goes wrong and one of the thieves is killed, whilst another, an unlikely sort to be taking part in a robbery, is arrested. The th…
E15The work of a quartet of musicians is being pirated, and whilst Ed and Fran are investigating, a member of the group is murdered in front o…
E16An elder in the Chinese community is murdered, and a young man is held to be responsible. The Chief calls in his friends in the community t…
E17The Chief attends his high school reunion, only to find two of his old classmates recently murdered, and somebody apparently after his own…
E18A girl thought to have died years previously turns up at the home of her mother just as her brother is found murdered. Clearly somebody is…
E19A philosophy student commits suicide, and her death leads to strong criticism of her college professor. When it seems that the life of the…
E20When a woman crashes her car into the Chief's van after suffering a minor heart attack, doctors discover a bullet lodged in her chest, wher…
E21Ed gets grounded in Reno whilst transporting a murder suspect back to San Francisco, and knowing gunmen to be on his tail he hides out in a…
E22A man dies of a heart attack whilst flying his plane, but the town medical examiner, a charmingly eccentric Cuban doctor, is convinced that…
E23The promotion of a new Chief of Police leaves an opening for a new Chief of Detectives, and the front runner for the job is Lieutenant Amy…