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A Murphy in the police garage
bkoganbing17 January 2014
A case against a really high level player in the illegal drug trade goes south on both Ironside semi-regular Johnny Seven and another cop Sandy Ward who is days from retirement. Someone Murphied a switch of a package of sugar in the parking garage at SFPD headquarters and it's the Ironside squad who has to get to the bottom of this.

Complicating matters is the fact that after Ward delivered the package, he gets killed an automobile crash. Now he looks dirty and is not there to defend himself and some of the dirt splatters on Seven. That makes it even more personal to Raymond Burr.

Chief Ironside gives credit for Elizabeth Baur's thoroughness in making a report on Ward's movements. It unlocks the mystery. And how the switch was made? Marvelous in its simplicity.

When rich drug kingpin Byron Morrow goes down you have to love it.
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Johnny Seven episode! Is that a good or bad thing?
TopekaBob21 April 2022
Johnny Seven appeared in 30 episodes of Ironside. Except for the first one, he played Lt. Reese. For the most part he's pretty good except in season 7 he started playing his role for cliche - the yelling, put-upon cop who walks out of Ironside's office screaming, "Why me! Why me!" etc. Etc. Note: Everybody seems to love Kolchak the Night Stalker, but Kolchak's boss spends almost every episode screaming and yelling at him that to me it kind of ruins the episodes as it's so ridiculous. I know it's fiction, but if people screamed and yelled like these people do that much they'd be put away!

Anyway, Seven started doing that in season 7 and it's not pleasant. In this episode he's accused of graft and he does get a little hysterical, so all in all I weigh in on it not being a good thing for him to be the "star" of the episode.

The real "star" is the garage cop! They basically solve the case when the garage cop is able to identify with great detail the criminals and the car that he only saw for a few seconds! Ironside should have hired him on the spot!

The Ironside/Star Trek connection in good force here: Clyde Kusatsu, who has a small part as as parking attendant, was Admiral Nakamura in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Bryan Morrow, the drug kingpin, was in two episodes of the original Star Trek. Enjoy and plug your ears when Johnny Seven starts speaking!
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