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4 May 1993 (USA) morePlot:
Chief Ironside has just retired and is looking forward to running his vineyard with his wife. But his... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Not Casablanca, but not Clambake either moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Raymond Burr | ... | Robert Ironside | |
| Don Galloway | ... | Ed Brown | |
| Barbara Anderson | ... | Eve Whitfield | |
| Elizabeth Baur | ... | Fran Belding | |
| Don Mitchell | ... | Mark Sanger | |
| Dana Wynter | ... | Katherine Ironside | |
| Perrey Reeves | ... | Suzanne Dwyer | |
| Eddie Jones | |||
| Jeff Kaake | ... | Mike Quinn | |
| Derek Webster | |||
| Cliff Gorman | ... | Joe McManus | |
| Robin Sachs | |||
| Scott Patterson | |||
| Ed Lauter | ... | Chief Bell | |
| Chuck Booms |
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While growing up, IRONSIDE was one of my all-time favorite TV series'; it remains my all-time favorite TV cop show. Not because it was better or more original or even more true-to-life. At the time it originally aired it was the first TV show in history whose lead character was physically disabled (Longstreet, about a blind detective, was number 2). It remains one of the very, very few. To a man who spent the first ten years of life in a wheelchair and still needs a cane occasionally, that's more important than plots or even originality.
The plot of "The Return of Ironside" serves as a justification for getting all the old characters from the TV series together to solve a mystery again. As police procedural, it's better than competent; as a murder mystery, the solution is translucent, like a window in a bathroom, but it's still a puzzle. But for those few of us who loved the original Ironside character, just seeing him work again is a kick.
Raymond Burr holds the distinction of starring in not one but two of the best written, best produced and best acted mystery dramas TV ever produced; Perry Mason was the first; Ironside was the second. Just as no one will ever play Perry Mason again, no one will ever play Robert T. Ironside again. Burr made a whole slew of Perry Mason movies before he died; Return of Ironside might also have been the first of many had he not died of cancer shortly after filming.
All I can say is I've watched the movie half a dozen times and I still lik e it. It's not one of the greatest movies ever made; it's not even one of the greatest TV movies ever made. But just as the TV series Ironside was better than most other cop shows, the movie is a lot better than most other cop movies made for TV in the last decade or two. If you don't like Burr, you won't like it; if, however, like a lot us born before JFK got shot, you like Raymond Burr, it serves as a great ending for one of TV's best actors.