In case you have not heard, ME-TV is removing "Ironside" from their schedule for a while beginning May 26th. Our favorite detective will have to be seen on Hulu or DVD or private recordings. I have already written the station to protect, but it probably will not do any good. What do you think?
shareI'll be in Ironside withdrawal! This is not good! I have no other way of watching. I hope they bring the show back in the Fall! MeTV also took away the morning episodes of Perry Mason for the summer. Raymond Burr withdrawal all summer!
shareI know how you feel. I did record a lot of episodes, but I don't understand why they decided to take off "Ironside" before completing this second round of episodes. It was also the 8th most popular series during ME-TV's recent contest. They claim that they will bring it back, but I am still waiting for them to bring back "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as well, which they removed to air "Wonder Woman". I guess "fluff" is more important in the summer than quality.
shareI just remembered that Hulu has the first five seasons to view. If you can't watch Hulu at home and have a public library nearby with Internet access, you can at least get your Ironside "fix" that way.
shareNo way! And I just discovered MeTV and that it had Ironside. I recorded "Goodbye to Yesterday" this a.m. and wanted to get the pre-quel episode to that entitled "Barbara Who". That was from season 1, so I'm out of luck unless they bring it back in the fall.
Huge bummer!
They started Ironside last year. A few episodes were not shown, but I was hoping that they would show them on the next run. Unfortunately, this is the last week that the episodes are being shown for the summer. They seem to indicate that Ironside will return, but it remains to be seen. If you have access to Hulu, you can at least see the first five seasons of Ironside. The first four seasons are on DVD on Amazon or Ebay for sale. If you have a player that can play movies from Australia, the other four seasons are also available for sale. If you can't view the episodes at home and have a public library nearby, you can watch them on Hulu. I know how you feel. I watched the series as a teenager over forty years ago and was thrilled when ME-TV began airing it. The recent contest they held had Ironside the eighth most memorable show. I guess fluff and series geared to younger people is more important in the summer, than a quality show like Ironside.
I didn't realize the impact that this series would have on me, but it has touched me profoundly. I just wish that I had been able to meet Raymond Burr. By the way, if you didn't know, Don Mitchell died in December of last year, so the only original cast members alive are Barbara Anderson and Elizabeth Baur.
Hi sue - I'm sue too! Thanks for your reply and info on how to watch Ironside. I would like to buy it on dvd, but it's expensive. We are giving some thought to getting Hulu, but I'll have to look into it a bit.
I was pretty little when Ironside was on and didn't watch it until now. I came to it in a round-about way, through Vera Miles. I remembered her from an episode of Medical Center from when I was ten yrs. old. It was on Youtube a couple years ago and she was stunning. So, I started on a treasure hunt, so to speak, for her work. That brought me to IMDB and Ironside.
It has been really fun and rewarding to watch these shows that I was too young to appreciate the first time around. There is some dated-ness, for sure. But what is so surprising is how NOT dated they are in most ways. The stories and acting are just as powerful and impactful because they deal with the human condition, which fundamentally doesn't change over time.
I love the episode "Barbara Who" because Ironside falls in love and he expresses this with a great deal of subtlety. But it is unmistakable how he feels. When she tells him she fell in love with him when he was in the hospital, his reaction was priceless. They were both such amazing actors, natural and understated and all the more powerful because of it.
I do remember when Don Mitchell passed away. I saw something on Youtube the other night that had Barbara Anderson, William Shatner and Peter Graves. She was gorgeous. I loved her character on Ironside.
Thanks for being a friend in Ironside! I sure hope they bring it back in the fall.
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I love it too, but with kids off for the summer, they might be planning to show some more kid-friendly shows. Bring on "Nanny and the Professor" and "Please Don't Eat The Daisies"!
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Have to take the bad with the good with MeTV, looks like The Rockford Files is going to be on M-F at noon.
in baseball terms thats a pretty equal trade raymond burr for james garner.
Hello Ironside fans,METv is showing Ironside in my area (Winston-Salem,NC) at 2am M-F.I enjoy watching this show too.Is one of my favorites.I couldn't imagine anybody but Raymond Burr playing Ironside though.
shareThey are also showing it on many other ME-TV stations at the same time. There is a possibility that ME-TV will at some point end Dragnet in the morning. If so, maybe Ironside will be restored to 11AM. I really love the relationships between the characters, and I too could not imagine anyone else but Raymond Burr being Ironside.
The Miami station had been running it at 2AM. I have been watching it on my DVR. But the past few days they have been showing some Godawful house flipping infomercial instead. It sounds like a case for Ironside and his team, a situation where a smiling couple claims they will make you rich, but you have to pay them to find out how to do it.
shareIt's now 11/14/14 and I'm watching Ironside on ME-TV in NYC, so where aren't they showing it?
shareI originally wrote the topic back when ME-TV removed Ironside at the beginning of the summer. Fortunately, it returned in September, although early in the morning. I am hoping that they change the time at the end of the year, since they won't be finished running the 8 years of episodes until after December.
shareSince this was posted in may and guess no one put anything about its still on here it is nov and not sure when it did come back on. It comes on at 2am et mon to fri. Thought I let you all know.
shareIf you noticed above your last post, I did send out a message that Ironside was back on ME-TV. It came back in September. Actually it is on Tuesday-Saturday at 2 AM.
shareIt's back on at 2:00 AM!
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But it is only on through Saturday morning. ME-TV decided to remover Ironside for the time being, for the second time. I wrote a letter to one of the execu times at the network, Neil Sabden, to request that they return Ironside this summer, maybe on Sundays, where more people could view it. I would suggest you do the same. The more people that contact them, the more likely they may follow through.