List of Ironside episodes
Season 5 (1971–72)

List of Ironside episodes

Section Title: Season 5 (1971–72)
Table Section Text: None

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date

107108	12	"The Priest Killer"	Richard A. Colla	David Levy (s), Joel Oliansky (t), Robert Van Scoyk (s/t)	September 14, 1971

Ironside teams up with Father Samuel Cavanaugh to capture a murderer This 2-hour episode serves as the pilot for the spin-off series Sarge.

109	3	"Contract: Kill Ironside"	Don Weis	Stephen Karpf, Elinor Karpf	September 21, 1971

Ironside discovers a contract signed to take his life - and the man who signed it has never fouled up.

110	4	"The Professionals"	Don Weis	Sy Salkowitz	September 28, 1971

Ironside pursues a gang of credit card thieves.

111	5	"The Gambling Game"	Don Weis	Sy Salkowitz	October 5, 1971

Ironside finds it suspicious that a hood is eager to vindicate a dead police captain accused of working with gamblers. Elizabeth Baur makes her debut as Fran Belding in this episode.

112	6	"Ring of Prayer"	Don Weis	Jack Morse	October 12, 1971

Ironside matches wits with a phony psychic.

113	7	"In the Line of Duty"	Don McDougall	Mark Rodgers	October 19, 1971

A local thief is suspected of killing a policeman - until evidence suggests otherwise.

114	8	"Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells"	Leslie Martinson	Marty Roth	October 26, 1971

Ironside probes his Korean foster daughter's fiance.

115	9	"Murder Impromptu"	Don Weis	Max Hodge (s/t), John McGreevey (s)	November 2, 1971

A group of stage actors are suspects in a stabbing. This episode reunites Raymond Burr with his former Perry Mason costar Barbara Hale.

116	10	"Dear Fran"	Don Weis	Edward de Blasio	November 9, 1971

Fran investigates when her cousin is alleged to have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.

117	11	"If a Body See a Body"	Don McDougall	Max Hodge	November 16, 1971

Ed tries to prove he saw a body - even though the corpse keeps vanishing on him.

118	12	"The Good Samaritan"	Leslie H. Martinson	Frank Telford	November 23, 1971

A murder case gets personal for Ed because the suspect is the man who saved his life.

119	13	"Gentle Oaks"	Robert Clouse	Michael Fisher	November 25, 1971

Ironside faces off against a malevolent nurse in a convalescent home with a suspiciously high death rate.

120	14	"License to Kill"	Don Weis	Donn Mullally	December 2, 1971

Ironside uses old-fashioned detective work to clear a cop framed for murder.

121	15	"Class of '57"	James Neilson	Robert Earll (t), Sy Salkowitz (s/t)	December 16, 1971

Ed looks for a classmate who's become a wanted man.

122	16	"No Motive for Murder"	Leslie H. Martinson	Sy Salkowitz	December 23, 1971

While in Tokyo, Ironside must find out who's trying to kill a disabled ex-kabuki dancer.

123	17	"But When She Was Bad"	Corey Allen	Alvin Boretz	December 30, 1971

A woman is determined to see Ironside dead.

124	18	"Unreasonable Facsimile"	Don Weis	Merwin Gerard	January 6, 1972

A makeup artist who just did time for a bank robbery is believed to be back in business.

125	19	"Find a Victim"	Christian Nyby II	Irving Pearlberg	January 13, 1972

The victims of a burglary wave, ironically, are all crooks.

126	20	"And Then There Was One"	Arnold Laven	Fred Freiberger	January 20, 1972

Ironside probes the deaths of former Army buddies who were all killed with hand-grenades.

127	21	"Death by the Numbers"	Don Weis	Francine Carroll	January 27, 1972

Ironside pretends to be a member of a parole board to put an end to a series of murders that have left the board victimized.

128	22	"Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder"	Christian I. Nyby II	Sy Salkowitz	February 3, 1972

Ironside investigates when the daughter of his friend practices witchcraft and blames herself for the death of her parents' landlord.

129	23	"Achilles' Heel"	Raymond Burr	Frank Telford	February 17, 1972

A man on trial for murder tries to get acquitted by framing the judge's son for the crime.

130	24	"His Fiddlers Three"	Alf Kjellin	Edward DeBlasio	March 2, 1972

A musical note is Ironside's clue to finding the murderer of an unpopular quartetmeister.

131	25	"A Man Named Arno"	Chris Christenberry	Helen McAvity	March 9, 1972

A drug dealer is the prime suspect in the case of a missing husband.

Sentence(s)

Hale guest-starred in "Murder Impromptu", a 1971 episode of the series Ironside, alongside Perry Mason and co-star Burr.

final_sentence: Hale guest-starred in "Murder Impromptu", a 1971 episode of the series Ironside, alongside Perry Mason and co-star Burr.