Did the Chief ever have a girlfriend?

I'm watching the show on MeTV, so I haven't seen the complete series at this point. But there was an episode in which it was obvious he had feelings for a woman who worked at the hospital at the time he was shot and paralyzed. I think the episode was called "Barbara Who." The episode begins with Barbara contacting Ironside and asking for his help in investigating her background, which results in a trip out of state to solve the mystery. Anyway, Ironside seems to care for her quite a bit, and she for him, and it's obvious he'd like her to return to San Francisco so he can continue seeing her (in some capacity).

Vera Miles was the guest in Barbara Who (season 1) playing an amnesic. She and the Chief fall in love, but he discovers her true identity and she returns to her family. In Goodbye to Yesterday (season 3), Ironside helps his former love who is having trouble adjusting to her old life and is involved in a mystery.

In An Obvious Case of Guilt (season 2) Anne Baxter guests as an old girlfriend who may or may not be guilty of murder. Raymond Burr and Anne Baxter co-starred in the 1953 film-noir The Blue Gardenia.

In But When She Was Bad (season 5) Suzanne Pleshette has designs on the Chief for murderous reasons.

In In the Forests of the Night (season 7), Dana Wynter plays an old love of Ironside's, who is on the wrong side of the law. There also may have been some romantic sparks with Ms. Wynter in Beyond a Shadow (season 3). She plays a woman in trouble whose life Ironside once saved. In The Return of Ironside (1993) Dana Wynter plays the Chief's wife, Katherine.





Madame meets many people, but she usually avoids the mad ones.

I agree with you totally about Ironside. I too watched it as a child, but I am appreciating it even more because of the acting of Raymond Burr and the relationship he has with his team, particularly Mark. Mr. Burr is so believable. I marvel at the scenes were he gets himself back in the wheelchair, or gets out of the wheelchair without a stunt man. He even attempted escaping a kidnapping by crawling out a window and trying to drive a car. Ironside came a long way from depending on Mark to help him do dressing and transferring between the wheelchair and his bed to driving the van himself and becoming independent of Mark for the most part. I always felt bad for the Chief that he couldn't have a romantic life, but like many other shows that allow the main character to get married, any chance at marriage during the 8 seasons of the show may have hastened it's demise. Ironside was truly a groundbreaking series with a character who had to contend with his disability, but didn't seem to let it get in the way most of the time. Also, having a friendship between a white man and an African-American on a major TV series only occurred only once before Ironside on "I Spy" with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp. It took over years for me to see it again, but I can miss any episodes of this series.

It seems odd, and in the sixties I missed the point, but Ironside and his present-day equivalent House M.D. are both sex symbols, although not in a very healthy manner. For instance the episode "Barbara who" is clearly a romance of Ironside. Now, half a century later, I assume and appreciate the irony and sarcasm in its dialogs (Ironside to Barbara: "Don't worry, we'll find him!"). Many other episodes hint at romance in a subtle way. For instance Ironside: "I'll take you up on that some time". Woman: "And bring a friend". Or nurse: "What are you doing in those clothes?" Ironside: "I could ask the same to you" Nurse: "What do you mean?" Ironside: "Raw passion".

He's married in the reunion movie from 1993. The pair of them live out in the country and have a vineyard. At the end of the film they head off home together. It's quite a definite goodbye; Burr knew that he was very ill when he filmed it. So for all that the Chief was often alone in the series, I guess he didn't end up that way.



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