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Ironside Season 1 Episode 17

The Fourteenth Runner

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AIRED: 12/28/67

A visiting Soviet athlete vanishes during a practice run, and Ironside is placed on the case. It soon turns out that the 'trustworthy Soviet hero' is anything but, and that the athlete is working for American Intelligence. Has he simply disappeared, however, or has he been found out?moreless

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Raymond Burr	Chief Robert T. Ironside
Don Galloway	Detective Sergeant Ed Brown
Barbara Anderson	Officer Eve Whitfield (1967-1971)
Don Mitchell	Mark Sanger

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Steve Ihnat	Zarkov	Guest Star
Edward Asner	Davis	Guest Star
John Van Dreelen	Varinyi	Guest Star
Gene Lyons	Commissioner Dennis Randall	Recurring Role

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- Mark: This has to go down in history. This is the day the mighty Ironside struck out.
  Ironside: Don't you believe it.
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- Mark: Chief, we have the contact. He's following us.
  Ironside: All right. When he stops you stop.
  Mark: Aye aye.
  Ironside: In my Navy Mark, it was 'Aye aye Sir' - and try not to make a Chinese landing when you park this bucket.
  Mark: I'll try Skipper, but what's a Chinese landing?
  Ironside: I thought you were an old salt.
  Mark: Our man just parked Chief. (Mark stops the car jarring Ironside in the process) Sorry Chief, ran into the curb.
  Ironside: That is a Chinese landing.
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- Steve Ihnat, Edward Asner and John Van Dreelen are billed as Guest Stars in the opening credits.
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- Ironside: ... try not to make a Chinese landing when you park this bucket.
  
  'Chinese landing' is a term for a clumsy airplane landing and is one of several such expressions in common use in aviation since World War I. Since these phrases could infer that the Chinese are clumsy or inferior, they are considered offensive and in poor taste today.
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- Mark: This is the day the mighty Ironside struck out.
  
  This is likely a play on the famous poem 'Casey at the Bat' written by by Ernest L. Thayer in 1888. The poem tells the story of the Mudville Nine and the concluding line, known by baseball fans everywhere is 'mighty Casey has struck out'.
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