"Ironside" The Ghost of the Dancing Doll (TV Episode 1973) Poster

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6/10
Interconnected
bkoganbing24 December 2013
When SFPD Commissioner Gene Lyons asks Chief Ironside and his team to look into a situation involving a lot of organized crime movers and shakers all coming into town for a mini-Appalachian convention they've already got a case on their hands. It seems as though an old friend of Don Galloway's who has a criminal record Christopher Connelly is among the missing. Little do they know that the events are connected.

Connelly owns a charter fishing boat and the Dons, Galloway and Mitchell find it abandoned. They also fish a dead body out of the water and it's a known gangster. It's looking bad for Connelly, but Galloway refuses to give up.

In the end it works out all right and even the Chief is forced to admit that Connelly was a victim here. Good performance by Connelly as well as by Warner Anderson and Abner Biberman as a pair of organized crime bosses.
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6/10
Is Fran the most inept policewoman ever?
TopekaBob8 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I've refrained in my previous reviews in pointing out how clueless as a policewoman Fran seems to be, but since there's not a lot to write about with this episode, seems like a good time to do it.

There's a scene where Fran is waiting after hours in the upstairs room of a woman who is meeting a guy who is wanted by the mob. She looks down and sees two mobsters enter the restaurant. She goes in the room and moves her purse, which holds her gun, from one table to another, but doesn't actually take the gun and make it accessible in some fashion. She keeps it in her purse! Of course she can't get it out of the purse when she needs it. I know it's the 1970's, but sheesh!

The episode is below average for Ironside in that it's just not that overly exciting when the main investigation is to stop a mob meeting! The best scene probably is when Mark goes out on the fishing boat wearing a goofy hat and gets seasick.

No famous guest actors in this one, although Chris Connelly, who plays Jerry, showed up on a ton of TV shows in the 1970's.
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