The Wheel Thing

I’m still working my way through the DVDs from season one of Ironside, the 1967-1975 NBC-TV series starring Raymond Burr (formerly of Perry Mason) as a headstrong, wheelchair-bound former chief of detectives with the San Francisco Police Department, and already I hear that season two is being prepared for release. The Web site TV Shows on DVD reports that the collection of 25 episodes from 1968-1969 will hit stores on October 16. Great! It will be about that time that, having sampled all of the new network offerings from the fall season, I shall be in need of something else that’s actually worth my viewing time ...