1974-75 Television Season 50th Anniversary: Ironside (Raymond Burr and cast interview on Vicki! '93)

Our second of two part tribute to the NBC TV series Ironside is our next stop as we look back at the 1974-1975 television season, and specifically now, the spring season, when many of those long running series were riding off into the sunset... and syndication rerun heaven. This clip is from a reunion show for the cast back in 1993 on Vicki ! The cast was getting together to help promote a new Ironside TV-movie that was coming to network television prime time later that season. We got a kick out of the opening bumper on this clip from the Ironside series, with actors John Saxon and Donald Stroud (two of the best television character actors of that era) strutting their 'crazy guy' stuff in this scene. Those are two very high-strung kidnappers in that scene ! Final note here - the spring of 1975 really was a 'turning of the page' for the first half of 1970s television. Many older series from the 1960s were saying farewell that spring: on NBC, Ironside and Adam-12, on ABC The Odd Couple (although it was a fall 1970 series entry to be exact), and on CBS Gunsmoke and Mannix. The second half of the 1970s were upon us back then, and with it, a rush of new series that would perhaps better illuminate that era better than the now well-in-the-past 1960s. For the fall of 1975, The Carol Burnett Show would become the longest running series on Prime Time television, having debuted in the fall of 1967. By the late 1970s, with all the changes in the pop culture by that time, 1967 seemed like a lifetime ago. Going forward at this point in mid 1975, there were to be just two remaining weekly television series left in prime time television from the 1960s - The Carol Burnett Show (1967) and Hawaii Five-O (1968). This video clip is presented here on YouTube for the entertainment and informational value of the viewer, and no copyright infringement is intended. Final, final note here: We would not be complete in our tribute and admiration to the Ironside series, cast and crew if we did not also pay tribute to the man who was responsible for the fantastic Ironside music theme score - the great Quincy Jones. He passed away recently but his contributions to the music and recording industry are without peer - spanning from the late 1940s well into the 21st century - phenomenal talent. We tried (more than once over the years here at Television Vanguard), to place a video clip of the theme song music, but copyright issues would not allow us to do so. Completely understandable. But we felt the need to take a moment to pay tribute to Mr. Jones, who helped write the soundtrack of the second half of the 20th century. RIP Quincy Jones.