During a horse race someone steals 175.000 dollars from the money room. Al Hayes, the security chief of the race track, contacts chief detective Ironside for help. One employee, Lewis Blackwell, who had access to the money room, has disappeared. In a police chase Blackwell loses the control of his car, crashes and dies. Ironside realizes that Blackwell has only been a stooge for the real thief. His team of detectives investigates every inch of the crashed car, but cannot find any hidden money, or anything else of interest. Someone steals the car, and leaves it some hours later in an alley. That means that the real thief now must have found what he was looking for in the car. Suddenly Ironside gets an idea of what it might be. He commissions Mark to irradiate the car with a special lamp. In the blue light an invisible text is seen on the car paint. It gives the name of an old boat dump. Ironside goes there with his team, hoping to find either the money or the thief. Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

An old woman, Esther Garrison, is found strangled in her apartment. She is the fifth elderly woman that is murdered in the same way in the same area around Bradley Plaza in Bayside. The police are looking for a serial killer, but Ironside thinks it's not the same killer this time, because several details are different. He thinks that the killer consciously uses the four previous cases to hide his own homicide, just as the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest. Ironside is sure that Pierre Dupont, Mrs. Garrison's business manager, is the murder. Dupont has the motif, because after her death he will be the executive of her estate. The problem is that Dupont's wife gives him alibi for the evening the murder was committed, and that Ironside has no evidence. To catch the serial murder Ironside sets up a trap. Officer Eve Whitfield is disguised as an old woman, and put to bed in an apartment in Bradley Plaza. The serial killer is lured into the trap and seized. He confesses that he is ... Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

Warren Stuart, number two man in a big crime syndicate in San Francisco, wants to leave the criminal world and start a new life. He has tried to contact Ironside several times, to reveal important information about the criminal organization. When he is killed by a sniper, Ironside is quite sure that John Trask, the number one man, ordered the assassination. Ironside is since a long time clear about who the leaders of the crime syndicate are. The problem is that he cannot find any evidence against them. Now he sees a chance to catch the leaders, by arranging a trap for them. If they believe that Stuart isn't dead, but only unconscious, they get nervous about what will happen when he wakes up, and may start some actions that can prove their criminality. Stuart died almost immediately of the bullets, but Ironside spreads the false news, through media, that Stuart is still alive, but kept in a secret and guarded place at the hospital. To increase the pressure on Trask, he arrests the ... Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

The famous advice columnist Francesca Kirby is kidnapped and pushed into a car by a man dressed in a wetsuit. After a short ride she grabs the steering wheel and turns the car off the road. The man runs away. Next day Francesca calls for chief detective Ironside, who promises to surveil her discreetly. Some days later someone tries to poison her with strychnine without success. Ironside and his team investigate all persons around her, without finding any clues. Several persons, like her husband Mitch Kirby and her sister Doris Keller, hate her, but they are all dependent on her income, so there is no reason for them to kill her. Ironside decides to send police officer Eve Whitfield to Francesca, pretending to be her new secretary, while the ordinary one is at leave. Working undercover gives Eve the opportunity to observe what's going on in Francesca's house. She happens to see Francesca's manager, Vic Durant, leaving the code of the safe in a drawer. When Eve opens the safe, she finds... Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

The young police officer Andy Anderson is shot in a dark alley. The murder puts 500 dollars in cash in his pocket. The police investigators find out that further 2000 dollars had been deposited at his bank account recently. For Commissioner Randall the case is clear: Andy has used his inside information as a detective to blackmail the wealthy Johnny Utrecht, so Utrecht had him shot. Ironside cannot believe in this theory. He knew Andy very well, and was Andy's mentor. He has double motives for taking over the investigation: to find the murder and to disperse the rumors of Andy being a taker. Ironside's team finds out that the bullet that killed Andy was shot from the same gun that killed the wife of Daryll Frazer, the owner of a glossy magazine. Frazer was suspected, but his staff photographer Simon Arkoff provided an alibi for him, saying that Frazer and his mistress Adrienne May was with him in Sausalito that very day. Ironside gets really confused, when he finds out that Andy not ... Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

Ironside and Eve are held hostage at police headquarters by escaping criminals Carter and Baines. The criminals give Ironside a way to survive, He must become a criminal and come up with a plan for them to escape.

Ironside investigates an accidental electrocution that Ed thinks is a murder and finds a pattern of murder and greed over a Swiss bank account in which a group of WWII veterans have stored loot from a bank heist during the war.

Mark's boyhood pal, now a pro football star, refuses Ironside's request to start a sports program for inner-city youths. The gridiron hero then discovers his recently-paroled younger brother has been working for illegal bookmakers.

An old friend of Ironside's, now a P.I., is murdered. The only witness is a woman who happens to be blind. Ironside takes a calculated risk that the killer doesn't realize this and sets a trap to catch him when he comes back to kill her.

A heavy center piece of a priceless artwork is stolen from an upper story high rise office building and the apparent entrance and exit is through a broken window on the floor.

When a rising folk-singer's body is found in the water under the Golden Gate Bridge, suicide is suspected, but Ironside has reasons to suspect something else.

Mark goes undercover at a scrapyard to assist Ironside in the investigation of a sharp increase in auto thefts, and a corresponding decrease in vehicle recoveries.

A hard-working carpenter is about to be extradited to the state of New York and executed for a murder he was convicted of committing 19 years earlier. Ironside races against time to prove the man's innocence.

In Las Vegas in police business, Ed meets a pretty singer, takes her to dinner and later to her home, where she abruptly leaves and Ed is assaulted. Ironside investigates the connection between Ed's assailants and the mysterious young lady. Written by dav3id-2

The chief of staff for a millionaire's citizen vigilance group is found dead in his wrecked car. Ironside looks into a theory that the murderer was an organization insider trying to set up the victim as a martyr.

Ironside knows a man Mark ran errands for as a child is a convicted robber who may be involved in the murder of a gangland racketeer. Mark, however, defies a warning to stay away from his old acquaintance.

Ed helps two patrol officers arrest a restaurant owner who vows revenge upon his release. Both of the policemen are murdered a few days later. Convinced that the restaurateur is the killer, Ed pursues him against Ironside's orders.

A detective working part-time as a bank guard shoots a patrolman who catches him robbing the bank. After a week in hiding and unable to leave the city, he meets with Ironside to turn himself in, but kidnaps him instead and forces Mark to drive them north out of the city. His wife and son are waiting at a cabin in Tahoe where a chartered plane is coming to fly the family to Mexico. Written by bobbymaxwell

A psychiatrist is murdered two days after asking his friend Ironside if he could tell which of five patients was a potential killer by looking at their artwork.

Eve shoots and kills one of the two men involved in a jewelry store robbery. Stunned when she finds out he was only seventeen years old and everyone that knew him says he was a fine young man, she questions her commitment to police work. After she tells Ironside she is quitting, he convinces her to finish the case and finds a way to help her regain her confidence. Written by bobbymaxwell

Ironside wants a singer to testify in court against the influential crime lord who forced him to participate in a bank robbery as payment for gambling debts.

A woman is found beaten and suffering from permanent amnesia. After recovery from her injuries, she asks Ironside to help her find her past.

In an informal talk at a local college, Ironside says all criminal plots are flawed. An anonymous student challenges that statement by wounding several people - including Eve - with long-range rifle shots.

The plane Ironside was about to board is bombed, and a baby is left in his van! Ironside takes the infant boy home to wait for his mother and her ex-husband, the only people from the plane's passenger list who are unaccounted for.

A teenage runaway claims Ed assaulted her while trying to remove her from a house full of hippies. Ironside investigates the possibility that someone else attacked the girl before Ed arrived.

After Mark's girlfriend is found dead he becomes obsessed with finding the responsible person, even if it means ignoring the law.

Ironside's former colleague is found guilty of fatally shooting his wife and her lover. When the judge, district attorney, and witnesses from the trial are threatened or killed by bombs, Ironside believes two separate forces are at work.