Episode
Ironside: Amy Prentiss: AKA The Chief
Overview
The promotion of a new Chief of Police leaves an opening for a new Chief of Detectives, and the front runner for the job is Lieutenant Amy Prentiss. Much of the force is opposed to her appointment, but she is determined to prove them wrong. With Ironside and his team alone in supporting her, she has to make her mark in a difficult case beset with problems, whilst at the same time convincing her male dominated staff to accept her as their new leader.
Details
- Series
- Ironside
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1974-05-23
- Runtime
- 120 min
Episode context
Amy Prentiss: AKA The Chief is Episode 23 in Season 7 of Ironside. It aired on 1974-05-23. The runtime is 120 min.
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Episode 21: Come Eleven, Come Twelve
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Episode 19: A Death in Academe
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Episode 18: A Taste of Ashes
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Episode 17: Class of '40
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Episode 15: Once More for Joey
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Episode 14: Two Hundred Large
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.
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.
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