As of July 2026, Ironside Season 8 aired in 1974 with 16 episodes — streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Ironside Season 8

1974 16 Episodes Crime · Drama ⭐ 7/10

Ironside Season 8 has quietly become one of the more dependable crime dramas currently available on and . Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 70 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Raymond Burr sets the tone, and the ensemble matches it scene for scene. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

There is a reason Ironside Season 8 keeps coming up in conversation. The plotting gives Ironside Season 8 its backbone, but it is the characters you come back for. Season 8 of Ironside includes 16 episodes. It aired from September 1974 to January 1975. This season stars Raymond Burr, Don Galloway and Don Mitchell. Raymond Burr and Don Galloway lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1974. Ironside Season 8 is at its best in the quiet scenes between the plot beats, where the character work actually happens. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For anyone who wants their crime drama to earn its twists, Ironside Season 8 delivers. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Raymond Burr carries scenes that would sink a lesser production. The resolution feels inevitable rather than arbitrary, which is rarer than it sounds.

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🎬 Ironside Season 8 — Episode Guide

E1
Raise the Devil (1)
1974-09-12
A woman is killed in a locked room, and her daughter Susan confesses to the murder after apparently becoming possessed by the spirit of her long-dead younger brother. The Chief enlists a psychic to help him in his investigations, but the clues that she offers him seem to confuse more than they assis...
E2
Raise the Devil (2)
1974-09-19
The Chief links his case with a psychiatrist, who turns out to be a psychopath with a passion for brainwashing. Before he can get his evidence together, however, Fran is taken as the next victim of the doctor's peculiar brand of therapy, and is programmed to kill Ironside. Meanwhile Susan has to fac...
E3
What's New with Mark?
1974-09-26
Mark and his girlfriend come across a murder whilst on a date, but decide to defend the killer when it transpires that he acted in self defence. During the case the pair get married, and Ed decides to move in with the Chief in Mark's place.
E4
Trial of Terror
1974-10-03
E5
Cross Doublecross
1974-10-10
When somebody takes pot shots at Fran's hot-headed cop boyfriend, he soon comes under suspicion for a handful of assaults and two murders. All the trouble seems to be linked back to a case he investigated with his one-time partner, now turned private eye; but is it a case of cop-turned-bad, or is it...
E6
Set Up: Danger!
1974-10-24
When Ed returns from a holiday he finds the Chief missing, and a series of obscure clues pointing to the suggestion that he has been kidnapped. In truth Ironside has been waylaid by an old enemy, a mobster seeking his help to solve a murder, but a gang war is brewing and the Chief needs his team to ...
E7
The Lost Cotillion
1974-10-31
A series of murders appear to be connected to an old friend of the Chief's, an ageing woman from San Francisco's old rich set; and when the murders are linked to her debutante's ball and she appears to be exhibiting signs of deteriorating mental health, the odds look stacked against her. As always, ...
E8
Run Scared
1974-11-07
The Chief's god-daughter witnesses a murder whilst performing in a street-side harlequin show. On the run from the murderer, she and her boyfriend remain one jump ahead of Ironside's team; but there is an added dimension to the case which the Chief cannot at first hope to guess at, and a further rea...
E9
Act of Vengeance
1974-11-14
A convict awaiting parole hears that his son has been shot dead following a clash with a rival teenage gang. Although eager for vengeance he has another son to think about, and the Chief is determined to keep them both on the straight and narrow, whilst at the same time finding out who really killed...
E10
Far Side of the Fence
1974-11-21
After the killing of one of his men, gangland boss Lew Parker puts out a contract on Ironside, which the undercover Ed is forced to pick up. Unable to contact the rest of the team Ed has to go along with the preparations for a heist, but when his cover is blown and he winds up a prisoner, the Chief ...
E11
The Over-the-Hill Blues
1974-12-05
Peter Justin, a gentleman jewel thief and old adversary of the Chief's, returns from a five year stretch in San Quentin and is soon back to his old life. When a protégé frames him for a robbery and murder charge the Chief has to prove him innocent, despite his knowledge that another recent robbery...
E12
Speak No Evil
1974-12-12
A friend of Ed's becomes the target of an assassin, but cannot shed any light on the reasons for the attempt on his life. When Ed discovers that his friend is a priest, prevented from speaking by the bounds of confession, he and the Chief attempt to discover the truth; which soon leads them to three...
E13
Fall of an Angel
1974-12-19
A retired assassin kills the son of a mob chief, and tries to escape town after anonymously leaving his own young son in the care of Chief Ironside. The Chief soon puts two and two together, and figures out who the boy is; but he still has to find the father, before a major league gangster out for r...
E14
The Visiting Fireman
1974-12-26
A British police inspector visits San Francisco for a conference, and whilst there assists his old friend Chief Ironside with an awkward investigation. It soon appears, however, that he knows more about the case than he should do, and that his involvement may have something to do with his deteriorat...
E15
The Return of Eleanor Rogers
1975-01-02
Ed befriends the daughter of the judge presiding over his latest case, only for the girl to come to him in fear for her father's life. It seems she is overreacting to a series of accidents, but events soon suggest her suspicions may be correct; especially after it turns out that her father's new wif...
E16
The Faded Image
1975-01-16
Ed befriends the daughter of the judge presiding over his latest case, only for the girl to come to him in fear for her father's life. It seems she is overreacting to a series of accidents, but events soon suggest her suspicions may be correct; especially after it turns out that her father's new wif...

🎭 Cast of Ironside Season 8

Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr
Robert Ironside
Don Galloway
Don Galloway
Ed Brown
Don Mitchell
Don Mitchell
Mark Sanger
Barbara Anderson
Barbara Anderson
Eve Whitfield
EB
Elizabeth Baur
Fran Belding

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