"Ironside" The Armageddon Gang (TV Episode 1973) Poster

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(1973)

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7/10
Big stakes
bkoganbing7 January 2014
Although a case like this would be handled by the FBI or the CIA it was gratifying to know that the Ironside squad was equal to the task in a situation that involved national security.

Scientist Michael Brandon disappears from his high level job at a research institute headed by Harold Gould and Raymond Burr and his team are brought in by the man's wife. She's not trusting all the hush hush involving her husband and I can't really blame her.

Turns out that a fellow scientist Joseph Campanella at the institute has a research project all his own. And he's not even calling all the shots. A right wing industrialist played by Ramon Bieri is the one doing that and Campanella, arrogant fool that he is, is being spoon fed information himself on a need to know basis. Bieri determining what he needs to know.

Let's say in this episode I don't think the squad was playing for bigger stakes.
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7/10
Ironside Saves the World - No, really, he does!
TopekaBob29 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
It's possible that few people love Ironside more than me, but this is the first time they really overreached. Essentially, if Ironside hadn't solved this case, then two nut-jobs were going to launch a nuclear first-strike against the Soviet Union! Even the writers must have realized, man, we're going to freak everyone out, and inserted a line that the nukes could be "blown up in the air," but given what the two whacko scientists had done, I don't believe that for a second.

I do like that they weren't blaming the Russians for the espionage, that it nutty Americans. And the motive for one of the Americans, played by Joseph Campanella - to blow up the world! - was that he was bored! Seriously! Campanella pulls it off though. He just oozes narcissism and jerkiness. Even at the end he only doesn't launch the missiles - not because, oh, he might kill hundreds of millions - but because he was supposed to be the one to decide when to do it!

Harold Gould also stars in this one. I should say, Dr. Harold Gould! He had a Ph. D in Theater! If you've watched any TV from 1961-2010, then you know Dr. Gould.

Campanella is great here. He also is our Ironside/Star Trek connection as he appeared on an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
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