Episode
Ironside: Price Tag -- Death
Overview
The Chief is alerted to the murder of a down-and-out by an ex-cop now living on the streets. The trail soon leads to a long line of false cheques, and an extremely unstable man.
Details
- Series
- Ironside
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1968-11-07
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Price Tag -- Death is Episode 7 in Season 2 of Ironside. It aired on 1968-11-07. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 6: I, the People
An obnoxious talk show host known as ""The Peoples' Voice"" begins to receive death threats, and the Chief is assigned to protect him. Firstly he must overcome his own feelings of dislike for the man, but are those feelings entirely misplaced? Events escalate when the host's wife is killed by a car bomb apparently meant for her husband.
Episode 8: An Obvious Case of Guilt
A friend of the Chief's is an obvious suspect in the murder of her husband, but the Chief believes that the evidence against her is too obvious. He soon proves her innocence, but is she really the victim of a frame-up, or is it all rather more complicated than that?
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Episode 11: Side Pocket
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Episode 2: Split Second to an Epitaph
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Episode 12: Sergeant Mike
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