Ironside – Season Two (Shout! Factory/DVD-Video)
Picture: C Sound: C+ Extras: D Episodes: B
Enough of
a hit with the first season, Shout! Factory continues to issue the hit TV
series Ironside on DVD, with more
great episodes from Season Two. The episodes this time include:
1)
Shell Game (guest stars Charles Aidman,
Sorrell Booke & Robert DoQui)
2)
Split Second To An Epitaph (Two parts; guest stars Joseph
Cotton, Troy Donahue, Lorraine Gary, Margaret O’Brien and Andrew Prine)
3)
The Sacrifice (guest stars Ricardo Montalban)
4)
Robert Phillips vs. The Man (guest stars Diane Ladd &
Paul Winfield)
5)
Desperate Encounter (guest stars Gene Raymond)
6)
I, The People (guest stars Julie Adams, Milton
Berle & Abraham Sofaer)
7)
Price Tag Death (guest stars Ralph Meeker)
8)
An Obvious Case Of Guilt (guest stars Anne Baxter)
9) Reprise
10) The
Macabre Mr. Micawber (guest stars Kathie Browne & Burgess Meredith)
11) Side
Pocket (guest stars Jack Albertson & Bob Hastings)
12) Sergeant
Mike (guest stars Bill Bixby, Robert Cornthwaite & Fred Williamson)
13) In
Search Of An Artist (guest stars Broderick Crawford & Lorraine Gary)
14) Up, Down
and Even (guest stars Richard Anderson, Edith Atwater & Alfred Ryder)
15) Why The
Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met On Thursday (guest stars Arthur
O’Connell, Jessie Royce Landis & Barry Cahill)
16) Rundown On
A Bum Rap (guest stars James Gregory & Clifton James)
17) The
Prophecy (guest stars Martha Scott)
18) A World Of
Jackals (guest stars Dennis McCarthy)
19) And Be
My Love (guest stars Chad Everett and Keith Walker)
20) Moonlight
Means Money (guest stars Linden Chiles)
21) A Drug On
The Market (guest stars Fred Beir)
22) Puzzlelock
(guest stars Simon Oakland, Ned Glass & Barry Cahill)
23) The
Tormentor (guest stars Gary Collins & Mary Ann Mobley)
24) A Matter
Of Love & Death (guest stars Bettye Ackerman & Charlene Jones)
25) Not With
A Whimper, But A Bang (guest stars Edward Asner & Gerald S. O’Loughlin)
Before we
continue, here is more on the show from the review of the first season:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/5404/Ironside+%E2%80%93+Season+One
Again,
the set has not extras and the Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono is the same, but sadly,
the image quality is poorer, with detail issues throughout, motion blur that
makes these look like old digital copies and not as engaging as the first
set. Why the quality drop? Who knows, but it is not good, especially
with 2 HD formats around. Fans will be happy
the shows are available, but these should look much better than they do, like
the first set. Oh, and they changed the
theme song a bit.
- Nicholas Sheffo
