Ironside/Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (1)

Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (1)
Season 6, Episode 1
Airdate	September 14, 1972
Written by	Robert Van Scoyk "The Bold Ones" characters created by Richard Landau, Paul Mason and Steven Bochco
Directed by	Leonard J. Horn
Produced by	Cy Chermak
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Ironside — Season Six

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Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (1) is the first episode of the sixth season of Ironside, and the one hundred thirty-second episode overall.

Starring: Raymond Burr (Robert Ironside), E.G. Marshall (Dr. David Craig), David Hartman (Dr. Paul Hunter)

Also Starring: Don Galloway (Det. Sgt. Ed Brown), Don Mitchell (Mark Sanger), Elizabeth Baur (Officer Fran Belding)

Guest Stars: Vic Morrow (Dr. William Ritter), Russell Wiggins (Richard Wells), Stephen Young (Lt. Ben Rauch), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Maurice Goodson), Ed Flanders (Phil MacIver)

Co-Starring: Norman Alden (Frank Harmon), Christina Hart (Jan Ritter), Kathryn Kelly Wiget (Polly MacIver)

and Scott Walker (Al Bundy)

with Herb Robins (District Attorney), Mark M. Giardino (Duff), Kathleen O'Malley (Night Nurse), Gary Van Orman (1st Officer), Alyscia Maxwell (Nurse Thompson), Fran Ryan (Charge Nurse), Ann Doran (Nurse Stern)

Plot Overview

Ed is critically wounded and faces the same fate as his boss - life in a wheelchair - unless the doctors at the Craig Institute can work some major magic. Unfortunately, someone does not want them to succeed: the daughter of Dr. Ritter, who is assisting doctors Craig and Hunter, has been kidnapped in order to keep him from saving Ed.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode is part one of a two-part story continued on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors. The stars of that series, E.G. Marshall and David Hartman, appear in this episode.