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Split Second to an Epitaph (1)

Episode Number: 30    Season Num: 2    First Aired: September 26, 1968    Prod Code: LP38054
Ironside is the only witness to a murder, but has to go into hospital for exploratory surgery immediately after the events that he witnessed. The murderer is determined that he should not leave hospital alive, and as the Chief deals with the possibility of maybe one day being able to walk again, his presence in the hospital helps various other citizens right wrongs in their lives. Meanwhile Ed, Eve and Mark deal with their own worries and fears for the Chief as the murder attempts escalate.

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Writer: Don M. Mankiewicz, Sy Salkowitz, Richard Landau
Director: Leonard Horn
Star: Barbara Anderson (Officer Eve Whitfield (1967-1971)),  Don Galloway (Detective Sergeant Ed Brown),  Don Mitchell (Mark Sanger),  Raymond Burr (Chief Robert T. Ironside)
Guest Star: Margaret O'Brien (Louise Prescott),  Joseph Cotten (Dr. Ben Stern),  Andrew Prine (Ernie Norton),  David Sheiner (Doctor),  Lorraine Gary (Nurse Green),  Don Stroud (Albee),  Troy Donahue (Father Dugan),  Brenda Scott (Carol Dillon),  Mel Scott (Ralph Fellows),  Amentha Dymally (Ann Fellows),  Les Crane (Himself),  Frank Arno (Police Artist),  Linda Chandler (Nurse Kane),  Eileen Wesson (Nurse Evans),  Caroline Olivarez (Tina Kendall),  Christine Olivarez (Nina Kendall),  Lilia Skala (Sister Agatha)

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Although included in the credits for Part 1 and 2, Les Crane (Himself), Christine Olivarez (Nina Kendall) and Caroline Olivarez (Tina Kendall) only appear in Part 2 of the show. (edit)
Joseph Cotten, Troy Donahue, Lilia Skala, Andrew Prine, Don Stroud and Margaret O'Brien are billed as Guest Stars in the opening credits. (edit)
This episode originally aired as a two hour movie. (edit)

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(speaking to Ralph Fellows, who has recently been wheelchair bound and is facing the same surgery the Chief is)
Ironside: You want me to tell you what it's like, OK? OK. It starts out as pure hell and it gets worse. Two years after you think you've adjusted a little thing like a woman stopping at your table and you start to get up and ...
They'll tell you, they'll all tell you to forget it. You can't walk like you can't fly and that's it. But you never could fly and you don't spend your life with people that can fly. It's a lot of hell Ralph. It's impossible Ralph. You can't take it Ralph, any of it. Nobody can. But you do. (edit)
Ironside: You two (Ed and Eve) are still on the city payroll, got a killer to catch. What are you doing here?
Eve: Well, you were sick.
Ironside: Well, you're not. Now get to work. Both of you. Both of you.
Eve: I'm glad you're really better. (edit)
Sister Agatha: With him (Ironside), if you break even it's a victory. (edit)
(Ed and Eve enter The Chief's hospital room)
Eve: Hi Chief.
Ironside: Any leads on who he was? Did anybody see a car? What about fingerprints? What about ballistics?
Ed: Easy. One question at a a time.
Ironside: Since when?
Eve: How do you feel?
Ironside: Curious. Where do we stand?
Eve: Nothing on the getaway car, no prints anywhere.
Ironside: That's great. All right, what was the take Ed?
Ed: A case of morphine syrettes, assorted methamphetamines. I've got a list.
Eve: We got his picture out. All PD's, bus stations, airports.
Ironside: It'll be on page 51 of the Dispatch, all the places where no one sees it. (edit)

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