The show starred Raymond Burr as former Chief Detective Robert Ironside, who became a consultant to the San Franciscopolice department after a sniper's bullet paralyzed him from the waist down confining him to a wheelchair.
Series creator Kenneth Johnson has said that the story was inspired by the 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, but a quick check at the library will show that several scenes from the original TV pilot were lifted directly from the Bertolt Brecht play The Private Life of the Master Race.
During the course of the series, the Resistance Network's TV news bulletins report stories of erstwhile enemies uniting in common cause against the alien occupiers, such as fl and white South Africans (the series was produced when South Africa was still under apartheid), or Israelis and Palestinians.
The series ran for 200 minutes and was successful enough to spawn a sequel, V: The Final Battle, which was meant to conclude the story, and a televisionseries in 1984–85 that revived it.
Ironside (broadcast under the name A Man Called Ironside in the United Kingdom) was the name of a televisionseries which ran on NBC from 1967 to 1975.
Burr was starring in an ongoing series of Perry Mason TV movies at the time, so in order to make himself look less like the other character, he died his hair red and shaved off his beard for the Ironside movie.
Unlike the original series, which took place in San Francisco, the reunion took place in Denver, Colorado, which was also where the last few of Burr's Perry Mason films were produced.
Feeds |
Contact