Episode
Ironside: Two Hundred Large
Overview
A robbery goes wrong and one of the thieves is killed, whilst another, an unlikely sort to be taking part in a robbery, is arrested. The third thief manages to escape with the money, but when the young daughter of the arrested gang member is kidnapped, the ransom being the unrecovered money from the heist, the team faces a race against time to capture the missing man.
Details
- Series
- Ironside
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1974-01-10
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Two Hundred Large is Episode 14 in Season 7 of Ironside. It aired on 1974-01-10. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 13: Friend or Foe (aka For the Love of God)
A packet of heroin goes missing, implicating Carl Reece and his partner Don Boyden in a possible cover-up. When Boyden is killed in a freak car accident, the evidence begins to point firmly at Reece, and Ironside and the team must prove his innocence before the DA decides to press charges.
Episode 15: Once More for Joey
The work of a quartet of musicians is being pirated, and whilst Ed and Fran are investigating, a member of the group is murdered in front of them. Their investigations lead them into the backgrounds of all those involved at the recording studios where the three survivors work, but all of the possible suspects appear to be friends with the group, and therefore unlikely candidates.
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