Ironside (TV Series) Close to the Heart (1974) User Reviews

On close examination

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 28 January 2014]

Two presidents of the USA, Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt carried bullets in their bodies located near where Elizabeth Ashley carries her's in this Ironside story. Of course neither Andy or Ted was involved in any extra curricular romantic affair that got it there.

When Elizabeth Ashley gets into an automobile accident with the Chief it's discovered she's carrying a bullet real close to her heart when she's examined. She's real reluctant to talk about, not to Raymond and his squad and definitely not to her husband Donald Moffat.

Good reason the bullet matches a slug taken from a man who lost an election in a union local. Said local was under fire for a lot of shady transactions with their pension money.

Ashley's extracurricular love life is tied close to all this crookedness. How so, see this good Ironside episode to find out.

Great premise for an Ironside!

[TopekaBob · 9/10 · 23 April 2022]

Fantastic premise: Woman is discovered to have a bullet in her body but says she didn't know about it. How? Why? What does it mean? The Ironside gang set to find out and in the process discover corruption and murder. The villian of the piece is a a real slime ball - but then again Ironside often featured top of the line psychos and sleazebags. It helped that it was the 70's so their awful hair and clothes contributed to the look.

Look for a couple interesting things in this episode: 1. A short scene involving the widow of the murdered Ortega. Virginia Paris really does a great job with her part here, conveying the tiredness of a woman struggling to put food on the table for her family.

2. All of Mark's lines are dubbed! Maybe he had a cold or something, but it's kind of weird!

Donald Moffat has a big role in this one. Moffat was a great character actor with the thickest eyebrows in Hollywood. My favorite role of his - of anybody's in fact - was Gerry in 1982's "The Thing" starring Kurt Russell. He's fantastic in that.

Veteran actor Paul Lambert is our Ironside/Star Trek connection. He was in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was also in the films "Spartacus" and "Planet of the Apes." What a career! Creative premise makes for good episode.

Creative premise makes for good episode

[TopekaBob · 9/10 · 19 April 2022]

Fantastic premise: Woman is discovered to have a bullet in her body but says she didn't know about it. How? Why? What does it mean? The Ironside gang set to find out and in the process discover corruption and murder. The villian of the piece is a a real slime ball - but then again Ironside often featured top of the line psychos and sleazebags. It helped that it was the 70's so their awful hair and clothes contributed to the look.

Look for a couple interesting things in this episode: 1. A short scene involving the widow of the murdered Ortega. Virginia Paris really does a great job with her part here, conveying the tiredness of a woman struggling to put food on the table for her family.

2. All of Mark's lines are dubbed! Maybe he had a cold or something, but it's kind of weird!

Donald Moffat has a big role in this one. Moffat was a great character actor with the thickest eyebrows in Hollywood. My favorite role of his - of anybody's in fact - was Gerry in 1982's "The Thing" starring Kurt Russell. He's fantastic in that.

Veteran actor Paul Lambert is our Ironside/Star Trek connection. He was in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was also in the films "Spartacus" and "Planet of the Apes." What a career!