Ironside (TV Series) Eye of the Hurricane (1969) User Reviews

Cool Under Fire

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 22 August 2013]

There are several episodes of Ironside in which one or more members of Raymond Burr's team are in a hostage situation. In this one the Chief and Don Mitchell are lured to a prison on a pretext. What actually is happening is that three convicts, Johnny Seven, Dana Elcar, and Jackie Coogan, Jr. are the participants in an armored car heist and they want to escape to spend their ill gotten loot.

If I had to give an award to the coolest man in television under pressure it would go to Robert Ironside. That man has ice water in his veins. I think it has a lot to do with him being paralyzed and being so close to death. The Chief thinks he lives on borrowed time anyway so he's the wrong man ever to take hostage. A bit of that rubs off on his team whenever they're in that situation.

The coolest man under pressure on television ever.

Your an animal! That's right but this animal is getting out of his cage.

[sol-kay · 6/10 · 28 August 2013]

****SPOILERS**** Chief Robert T. Ironside, Raymond Burr, get's his new custom built station wagon carjacked with him in it as three dangerous convicts make their escape from prison lead by the convicted multiple murderer Mr. Sims played by Johnny "7" Seven. It was the usual on the ball Chief Ironside who was tricked into showing up at Warden Leydon's, Arthur Space, office in order to have him the warden and his wife Mrs. Leydon, Virginia Gregg, among others kidnapped by Sims and his two fellow convicts Toby, Dana Elcar, and Terry Wilson, Jackie Coogan Jr.

With Sims holding Ironside hostage as he together with Wilson & Toby make their escape in Ironside's station wagon their being tracked by Det. Sgt. Ed Brown, Don Galloway, in the air on a helicopter with Ironisde secretly having a tracking device in his pack of smokes on the ground. With Toby having shot and seriously wounded Warden Leydon the three escapees now face far bigger charges then breaking out of prison which makes them even more dangerous then they already were.

***SPOILERS*** It's at the docks where the three together with Sims' girlfriend Joy,Claire Brennen,were to make their escape on a speed boat with the 500G's they have stashed from a previous armored car robbery that their luck finally ran out. Not just in their escape route being blocked by the SFPD and US Coast Guard but with the wheelchair bound Ironsiode disarming Sims with a couple of karate chops. Which kept Sims from murdering all the hostages, Ironside included, as he promised if there was any police interference.