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Ironside - The Complete First Season
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Total reviews: 24
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Burr's sterling performance is distracted by too many leads 1 out of 5 stars.
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Raymond Burr was one of our finest actors. He could have kept our attention for an hour just reading addresses from the phone book. As nine years on Perry Mason attest to, audiences loved him in the part. "Ironside" brings him back as detective confined to a wheel chair. Essentially, an arm-chair detective, no doubt inspired by another fictional detective, Nero Wolfe. As such, "Ironside" suffers from the same problems as its predecessor, particularly that Ironside must delegate the legwork to others. Ironside is far less likable than Perry Mason. He's so rude to his staff, one wonders why they would put up with the abuse? William Conrad, who played a similar role as "Canon" managed to balance the hard boiled detective with a man who also had a heart. Ironside seems to have a perpetual chip on his shoulder, which makes him less likable. The show also suffers from the "too many cooks" syndrome, there are four principals in the lead, Ironside, with a female and male police assistant and a caretaker, all in fairly stereotypical roles. The female officer is seen doing all of the cooking and cleaning around the office, for example. The shows seems remarkably similar to "The Streets of San Francisco," which offered far better chemistry between the two leads, Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. In contrast, Ironside has too many people standing around in scenes, waiting to get their share of lines in. This also makes for clumsy dialogue, where lines are passed from player to player to give them something to say. That said, the character of Perry Mason was always more interesting when he played detective, so on that score, we get to see Burr at his best.
Editorial Review:
Raymond burr stars as wheelchair-bound detective robert t ironside who battles crime on the streets of san francisco in this classic tv series. Features all 29 episodes from shows first season (1967-1968) Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 04/24/2007
Ironside - Season 2
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Total reviews: 9
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Keep the Seasons coming ! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Growing up I watched a ton of Cop shows on TV.S.W.A.T.,Baretta,The Streets of San Francisco,The Rookies,Starsky & Hutch,McMillan and Wife and My Favorite: Columbo.Luckily these series have begun to make their way to DVD.On Dec.18,07 comes the 1st Season (Vol. 1....Don't You hate when the season is broken into volumes !!??!!?? I hate it !)of The Mod Squad.
During the late '60's-early '70's I never watched Ironside. I don't know why.About 3 years ago I came across repeats of Ironside on a local Albany,NY station.It aired early Sat. and Sun. mornings at 3am.I watched one episode and was hooked.Every Sat. & Sun. am there I was watching Ironside.Then after about 5 to 6 weeks after discovering this gem.the station replaced Ironside with Perry Mason episodes.Soon afterward I learned of the upcoming DVD release of Season 1.
With Raymond Burr in the lead role of Chief Robert Ironside.The series brings great expectations after His Film career & many, many years as Perry Mason.His relatively unknown co-stars,Don Galloway,Barbara Anderson and Don Mitchell played off well against the veteran,Burr.
Taking on the topical issues of the day,racism,abortion & the growing drug culture, Season 2 is a strong follow up to the 1st.The 2nd Season attracted a lot of great TV & Film Actors,Joseph Cotton,Burgess Meredith & Bill Bixby among them. A couple of standout episodes are A Matter of Love and Death,where Eve goes undercover to find an Abortionist responsible for a young Girl's death, and I the People, guest starring Milton Berle,who even wrote the episode.It was way ahead of it's time with Berle as a talk show host (much like Morton Downey Jr.)who angers a viewer enough to want to kill Him.
The Tormentor,with Gary Collins,about a Blackmailer & Not With a Whimper But a Bang,with Ed Asner,about a Bomber with a grudge against a College newspaper are other standout episodes.
If you're looking for a great example of TV circa 1968-69.Try Ironside.The well written plots & the banter between Ironside & His Associates make it well worth viewing.
Editorial Review:
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/16/2007
Ironside - Season 1, Vol. 1 (Pilot Episode & First Five Episodes)
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Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 3.5 of 5
seen em...very HIGH quality transfers! 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.
I have just watched a few of these episodes...and I want to alert my fellow DVD buyers that if they are fans of this show....the DVDs are very high quality. This show must have been shot on good film stock as the images are crisp, well saturated and excellent contrast. The guest stars are movie star quality and the stories are interesting..and well acted. Above all...Raymond Burr is a fascinating actor and as far as the small screen is/was concerned he had a commanding presence which is always compelling. I'd put these on a par with the columbo sets ...in story and strength of guest stars. If you are a fan you will not be dissapointed.
Dirty trick by distributor!! 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
Although I love this series, I was very angry after buying this volume 1 of season 1 to find out that there wasn't going to be a volume 2 of season 1. They created a complete set of season 1 instead. I will not be getting split seasons anymore unless the 2nd volume is already for sale. Otherwise, this was a great TV show and will buy more but complete seasons.
Ironside: Season 2, Vol. 1
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Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
A wonderful DVD set of a great show 4 out of 5 stars.
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This 2 DVD set contains seven selected episodes of what I consider to be one of the best TV dramas of all time. Disc One contains the two part episode, "Split Second To An Epitaph". According to the paper inserted inside the DVD holder, both parts originally aired on the same night, September 26, 1968. The clever way the wheelchair bound detective (played by Raymond Burr) foils his kidnappers in the October 24, 1968 episode, "Desperate Encounter", on Disc Two, makes a great payoff for the viewer. For those who can't afford the entire second season, this set is well worth the purchase and well worth the time watching.
Editorial Review:
Raymond Burr returns as Ironside 8 original episodes from the second season. From the uniquely equipped office at SFPD headquarters Chief Ironside continues to lead his special police unit fighting crime others can t. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) ex con turned assistant Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson who won an Emmy for this role). System Requirements:Running Time: 390 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 826663108057 Manufacturer No: SF10805
Ironside: Season 1 - Vol. 1
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Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
is this a repeat? 5 out of 5 stars.
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When I saw the message from amazon.com I was excited - then I saw where the DVD set is one I already own. It's a great DVD set but why was I given the impression this is a newly released set? I've had season I volume 1 for at least a year if not more.
mystery lover
Editorial Review:
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 06/03/2008
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