Season 4

E1. Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (II)

Sep 19, 1972 · 60m

While in Los Angeles to testify for a trial against gangster Frank Harmon, Ed is shot and falls off the balcony of his hotel room. He is then taken to the Craig Institute where he undergoes emergency surgery. Although the bullet wounds were non-life threatening, Ed suffers a broken back in the fall and some damage to his spine. The scarring leaves him paralyzed and only an experimental surgical procedure is the only option to regaining his mobility. Also, even though all the evidence points to Harmon, Ironside has doubts that he was the person responsible for the attempted hit. Also, the chief begins having flashbacks to the night he was shot and paralyzed. The crossover starts on Ironside S04E01 Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (I).

E2. Is This Operation Necessary?

Sep 26, 1972 · 60m

Gritty story of an aging gynecologist, portrayed credibly by Richard Basehart, who is accused by Dr. Hunter(David Hartman)of performing unnecessary operations. Dr. McLain, the besieged doctor, is promoting lake side property investments which requires substantial capital. Dr. Craig (E.G. Marshall) is a long time friend of Dr. McLain and defends the renown surgeon until it becomes evident that his practice must end. Dorothy Malone plays Basehart's wife and Vic Tayback is featured as a man who loses his wife when she is subjected to an unnecessary operation.

E3. A Nation of Human Pincushions

Oct 3, 1972 · 60m

Arthur Gravis (Carl Reiner) advances acupuncture as a treatment, while Ira Goldberg worries about the cost of medical care.

E4. Time Bomb in the Chest

Oct 10, 1972 · 60m

Dr. Frank Stedman is a cardiac specialist who himself has a heart attack.

E5. A Standard For Manhood

Oct 17, 1972 · 60m

A man suffering from impotence learns that a brain tumor is the cause. The benign tumor is successfully removed, but that does not solve the impotence or the emotional problems between him and his wife.

E6. A Substitute Womb

Oct 24, 1972 · 60m

Julie Garner is a pregnant, thirty-something wife who longs for a child. But a heart condition means any pregnancy may result in her death. Drs. Hunter and (Belasco?) present the couple with an alternative: Would Mrs. Garner be willing to allow them to transplant her present embryo into another woman's uterus? Mrs. Garner nominates her kid sister to be the surrogate, and the operation is a success. But, in short order, the sisters fall out.

E7. A Very Strange Triangle

Oct 31, 1972 · 60m

Dr. Cohen is interested in a relationship with Valerie, a nurse, unaware that she is already in one with a woman named Eleanor. Valerie starts seeing a psychiatrist to help her deal with her feelings. Professionally Dr. Cohen tries to find out why a young woman was admitted due to a drug overdose.

E8. A Quality of Fear

Nov 14, 1972 · 60m

Dr. Hunter interacts with cancer patients with different attitudes toward their disease which are not always commensurate with the patients' prognoses while dealing with medical professionals not always in alignment with the doctor.

E9. An Inalienable Right to Die

Nov 28, 1972 · 60m

Janice, a TV reporter, incurs permanent paralysis during a speedboat accident. Facing a future she finds hopeless, the quality of her life and medical care is debated by her husband, her doctor, and a hospital review board. The ultimate decision though belongs to Janice.

E10. A Purge of Madness

Dec 5, 1972 · 60m

Harry Burke has violent psychotic episodes and the doctors want to perform psycho surgery.

E11. End Theme

Dec 12, 1972 · 60m

A recording artist goes into a depression, and decides to fight it by taking amphetamines to perform to his own satisfaction. He then refuses to take the lithium medication Hunter subscribed for him.

E12. The Velvet Prison

Dec 19, 1972 · 60m

Marcus, a hemophiliac, requires an appendectomy and falls under the care if Dr. Hunter. The doctor learns the disease has led to his father being estranged and his mother overprotective, so he becomes over involved to give Marcus a bit of normality.

E13. Terminal Career

Jan 2, 1973 · 60m

A new female doctor has an intense fear of dealing with patients, forcing her to ask herself if she really has what it takes to be a doctor.

E14. A Tightrope to Tomorrow

Jan 9, 1973 · 60m

Four candidates experiencing chest pains undergo stringent tests for a bold new heart procedure to relieve their pain: Coronary bypass surgery.

E15. The Night Crawler

Jan 16, 1973 · 60m

Unsold pilot unconnected to "The Bold Ones," but aired in its time slot. "Hernandez, Houston, P.D." stars Henry Darrow as a Mexican-American homicide detective.

E16. And Other Things I May Not See

May 4, 1973 · 60m

After saving a pregnant 16-year-old from a fiery car wreck, Dr. Amanda Fallon attempts to mend a deep rift between the troubled girl and her divorced mother, who is insisting she have an abortion.