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Ironside Season 1 Episode 21

The Lonely Hostage

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A cop goes bad and shoots a fellow officer, then offers to give himself up to Chief Ironside. Instead, he takes the Chief and Mark hostage, and plans to kill them as soon as his escape is certain. Ironside has to convince the man's wife that her husband is no longer the man she married.moreless

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

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Robert Lansing	Fred Hickman	Guest Star
Kathie Browne	Jane Hickman	Guest Star
Charles Brewer	Larry Reilly	Guest Star

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- Hickman tells Ironside that his policeman's salary is $142.97/week. Ironside says his salary was $91.50/week and that that was well before Hickman's time.
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QUOTES (3)
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- Ed: I am going with you.
  Ironside: Sergeant! You are about to become an ex-Sergeant!
  Ed: That's better than being one of your pallbearers.
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- Ed: My aching back.
  Eve: Oh, my feet.
  Ironside: If you two are an example of the younger generation, I'll take us senior citizens.
  Eve: Mercy, Chief.
  Ed: Do you know where we've been?
  Ironside: Every hotel, motel, trailer camp and flophouse in the Bay Area. Terminals: air, rail and bus, abandoned buildings, vacant lots, ships at anchor, ships at sea, stadiums, parks, aqueducts, viaducts and the San Francisco sewer system.
  Ed: Yeah!
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- Ironside: Nice of you to look in on me.
  Mark: Went out to get the paper.
  Ironside: Where to - Los Angeles?
  Mark: I waited for the 5-Star
  Ironside: And what did you find?
  Mark: Same that was in the 3-Star.
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- Robert Lansing is billed as a Guest Star in the opening credits.
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