Ironside 1967 - 1975 Opening and Closing Theme
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Ironside is a Universal television series that ran on NBC from September 14, 1967, to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as a paraplegic Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie called "A Man Called Ironside". When the show was broadcast in the United Kingdom,
it was initially under that same title. The show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations. The show revolved around former San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr), a veteran of more than 20 years of police service who was forced to retire from the department after a sniper's bullet paralyzed him from the waist down, causing him to use a wheelchair. The series enjoyed an eight-season run on NBC, drawing respectable, if not always high, ratings.
As the eighth season began, Universal released a syndicated rerun package of episodes from earlier seasons under the title The Raymond Burr Show, reflecting the practice of that time to differentiate original network episodes from syndicated reruns whenever possible. Upon NBC's mid-season cancellation, however, the syndicated episodes reverted to the Ironside title.
Dude gets shot, paralyzed, still comes back to fight. Most badass intro.
Real talk
Ohh... so there was actual reason for using the sirens for Beatrix. Damnit Tarantino, you're awesome.
Just like Larry Flynt.
@@chucku00 except he wasn't a creeper smut king.
Mama Rora don’t talk about my moms yo
Ohhhhh.... THAT'S where that's from.
I thought that's where I've heard this before. And by Quincy Jones
Yes, didn’t originate with Kill Bill
@@Hectorson3 Quincy Jones took credit for the work of many musicians. This was actually done by Oliver Nelson.
@@fernmann7 this show was huge this and Perry Mason
Raymond Burr is a legend
Raymond Burr was in the 2 shows with the most iconic music
This has to be the coolest theme song in the history of television, as well as the most timeless. It sounds as good today as it did 50 years ago.
As far as coolness, I think Name of the Game gives Ironside a run for its money.
That was another good theme song.
Hawaii 50, welcome back kotter, Rockford files
Department S; The Baron; The Champions... there's a lot of good 60's TV intros.
Ohh yeah, along with SWAT and the first season only of Starsky and Hutch.
Quincy: How iconic do you want this theme song to be?
NBC: Yes
i think you meant it the other way around
@@Darko1.0 Fixed
Vijema loll, nice
HA
@Uncle Gilbert I mean, it worked enough to get a reaction out of it, didn’t it?
I love this! "Siren" effect creeped me out when I was little!
The show's use of mobile telephony in Ironside's Ford van, and his sidekick's sedans fascinated me to no end!
Ok.... I'm not the only one then. I used to run out of the room when this came on.
@@jewelm.9953 I don't remember if it scared me, but I remember being fascinated by the "siren" and the silhouettes. I was born during the run of the show and was just a toddler when it ended, but the intro obviously made an impression on me!
@@jewelm.9953 ... Oh, it's everybody -- and it's a third-quarter-of-the-'60s dank, doomed, post-apocalyptic Dante-esque kinda thing. (Think the Texas Tower shooter or the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD or the MEDICAL CENTER theme).
Used in a lot of old bad kung fu movies as well as the Kill Bill movies.
It definitely scared the living shit out of me as a child! Thanks for traumatizing me, Quincy Jones lol
Those opening notes...I've never forgotten them since the first time I've heard them on TV.
Me too
Same here. The only other theme i compare it too also NBC is the NFL/NHL/MLB theme in the 70s.
One of the most epic tv themes ever.
Oliver Nelson's theme
me trying to find the original sample of all caps from mf doom and I find one of the most infamous meme sounds of all time. nice.
exact same situation
@@Zion_ksame here too😂
Same
The All Caps sample appears in episode 11 of the second season, one of the parts from 4 minutes and the famous piano at 7:05 minutes, the full episode is on dailymotion!
Quincy Jones is one the Greatests
WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!
Yeah fresh prince of Bel air
I feel like the creators of Cowboy Bebop were inspired by this intro for their own.
And they in turn inspired the opening for Archer
Before that even happened, it was sampled in a movie called 5 Fingers of Death aka King Boxer
Agreed on that
You would probably like the theme from Mannix. That really has the Cowboy Bebop feel.
I don't blame you
YAY I FOUND IT
Glad to have helped!!
Same
Sans my mom is temporarily in a wheelchair, my father plays this when he comes home after work. it's hilarious
Sans yee thanks to family guy
Oh wow I had no idea that it was this old. I thought it was much more recent.
DAMN, I'm old! When you can remember having 3 channels and hearing this getting ready for bed. . .
yep.
Why did those days... eh... ver have to go...
You've aged like everyone else and there's nothing wrong with that, it's natural. Old is when you're in a retirement home playing bingo and I don't think you're there yet.
I'm with you, Macmillan and wife was a good one, I remember him riding through the city o8his horse
Old is gold.
Most insane intro music to such a shocking program
love thy enemy I love it, though. Wheeeee, Wowwwww, Wheeeee, Wowwwww, then that break into the music. I like the one that play first, better than the second half. I think the first one is the 70-75 version, and the latter one, is the 67-69 version.
You can thank Quincy Jones! Amazing producer and arranger!
@@michaelmorgan7685 first one is the earlier one ... I remember ... Was watching this with my Mom ... sometimes Grandma too... I prefer the original theme ....
Raymond Burr will ALWAYS be Perry Mason and Ironside. Can't replace that man in either role he just was his roles in whatever he did!
I liked seeing in in Godzilla!
Raymond Burr...RIP....great actor....all the cast were great...there are no shows like that today...just junk.
The opening used to scare me as a kid.
It prophesied George Wallace's fate...
It was intense!! You're not alone!!
Me too. Primarily because it was the cue to do my homework because I always waited until the last minute.
Me, too! I’d put a pillow over my ears!
@@Blaqjaqshellaq seriously? Just about as much as it prophesied Larry Flynt's fate.
He's in a METAL wheelchair and his name is IRON-SIDE! What are the odds of that?! Just mind blowing, man!
This is a classic . I watched it when new. My dad always liked it. Raymond Burr as Ironside resembled FDR, his face and hair. Many TV crime shows were really good during the 1960s and 1970s. I was lucky to watch them new.
FDR? Nah. I don't see it.
Ironside
Kojak
Hawaii 5-0
Columbo
Hart to Hart
Rockford Files
McMIllan and Wife
Starsky and Hutch
The Persuaders
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Avengers
The Saint
Charlie's Angels
Softly Softly/Task Force
And the list goes on ....
@@theblitz9 Adam-12, Dragnet,
I actually recorded the intro on one of the first cassette tape recorders that you could buy in the early 70's. just stuck the microphone in front of the tv playing full blast and then the rest of us kids would listen to it later. We thought the whole thing was pretty cool.
I used to do that too!
Me too, I’d record whole episodes of tv shows
I did that too with my small black and white tv , recorded the ozzy live mtv concert on Halloween 1982.
The pilot for this show was awesome. He solved his own shooting.
Raymond Burr was a great actor in this series & Parry Mason. Yeah I remember watchin this 70's tv series along with Burr & Don Galloway plus the 2 other actors that i can't remember who they were. Great show!
Barbara Anderson And Don Mitchell.
History of classic television detective shows from the sixties seventies and eighties brings back memories
Brings me back to being a little kid.
Oh my god I used to hear this in the mid seventies! I’m old! I was in my bunk bed with my brother and we wanted to watch the show because the song was neat. Then Raymond burrs voice apparently put us to sleep.
Or a big one.
HaaaHaaaa me too, altho when I heard the into at the very beginning I'd laugh and imitate it, and it'd make my parents mad lol
RZA / Bruce Lee / Madvillain
"Five Fingers of Death"
#Savage
Que tiene q ver Bruce Lee. aqui cabeza de mono🤔
For a show that aired in the 60's and 70's, this opening is pretty stylish and has a cool theme. Many modern shows' openings pale in comparison.
What do you mean "for a show"... Those decades were the pinnacle of TV openings
@@kloakovalimonadaPlease tell me I'm not mistaken to say that the television medium is not as good nor as relevant as ot once was. Ot seems to me to be "watered down" more each passing year, due to the influx of major hit shows appearing on streaming services. Certain television shows used to be "must see" TV! We nearly couldn't wait for the night "our show" would be on, and make a point of being home to watch it. I have not even owned a television since 2018 (No! I'm not homeless, nor in prison!). Television just does not hold the attention that it used to. For me anyway. And, now I can see many of the good old shows at the tap of a screen, on my tablet or computer. Times, they are a changin'!
This show was a great follow up for Raymond Burr to the wonderful show Perry Mason, which is still my all time favourite.
Epic intro-the siren, the music, the pow 💥 and the dramatic fall lol. Loved it for decades!
Raymond Burr will always be remembered.
Thank You Mr. Burr,
Ludwig
love the closing theme the brass power, the afro-rythm, percussions and so on...
My parents watched this when I was a kid. I thought Raymond Burr looked like an old guy. I watch this now and think he looks younger than I do now.
Funny how that works, isn't it? Same for me when I look at old shows. I rarely even see television any more, and haven't owned one for a few years! I dont live on a park bench! It's just that I had no interest in most of the pop culture mumbo jumbo and ugly spirited garbage that I perceived to be on the tube.
Still one of the most bad ass intros ever!
Used to watch reruns of this show in the early 90s on some german channel. Oh sweet old nostalgia
Loved Ironside great TV show. Brings back memories watching Ironside Columbo the original the million dollar man and many more classics repeated on BBC1 during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
That opening siren is unforgettable. That's all i remembered
That theme song by Q is bangin'
Quincy Jones did the best TV theme songs ever. He also did the ALL TIME BEST. Sanford & Son.
i used to watch this with my grandmother everyday wen it used to come on fully rate this programme
As a little kid, I used to mimic the intro when this was on NBC-TV in 1973
Didn't we all!
Guy Caballero, President of SCTV, learned a lot from this guy. "The wheelchair is for respect."
This intro scared the piss out of me when I was a kid!!
I think it scared the piss out of all of us "of a certain age"!
This is a badass score, actually
My new theme song (since being in a wheelchair due to the Route 91 Festival Massacre here in Las Vegas(October 1st, 2017 @ 10:05pm)) - "Brent the Gent"
Hugs from Australia. Take care ❤️
Tale care bro. Hope you do great things.
Wanted to be "Perry Mason" growing up, ended up "Robert T. Ironside. Oh well.
I loved this show. I used to come home after my cub scouts meeting and watch it. :-)
God, this is awesome! Me and pop would see this together. Miss you, dad!!!
One of the best from the good old days when tv was tv
This was an awesome TV series.
Ironside and the short lived series Longstreet were milestones. A man in a wheelchair crime fighting. A guy who got blinded still an investigator. In those days of the 60’s and early 70’s never before had that happened. They did have a lawyer /cop show in the early 90’s called Reasonable Doubts with deaf actress Marlee Marlin and actor Mark Harmon. But then it all stopped.
Because you write yourself into a corner.
@@mrmicro22 what does your comment have to do with anything? I just rattled off some old series that were milestones for their day. What’s your problem!
This series about Detective Robert Ironside who got shot by an unknown assassin turn became the paralyzed cop to come the investigation in the city
@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 I saw the pilot movie that led to Ironside as a series yesterday. His shooter was NOT unknown because with good detective work Ironside discovered who it was. She was a woman artist who killed a young man who refused to kill Ironside who had sent the man up when he was a juvenile. She was angry that the young man not only refused to go after Ironside but didn’t want to date her any more with her being 10 years older. In the pilot we get introduced to Sergeant Brown, Officer Whitfield and Mark Sanger. The show ran from 1967 to 1975 and the pilot was from 1967. Ironside was always a cop! But he turned consultant after he got paralyzed and his first case as a consultant was to find his shooter which he did by the end of the pilot. But the point is it was a milestone of television having a main character in a wheelchair. That never happened before, then came along Longstreet from 1971-1972 about an insurance investigator blinded by a bomb. And then of course Reasonable Doubts with Mark Harmon and Marlee Matlin whose deaf, but played a lawyer from 1991-1993. After those shows I haven’t seen any more shows that had any characters that they had. I guess you run out of ideas for a wheelchair, blind, and deaf characters because I haven’t seen any new shows with that. Ironside I watch every weekday. Two hours. Burr wasn’t bad as Perry Mason either. The lady who played Officer Whitfield, Barbara Anderson is the only one of the Ironside team still alive.
I remember being so shocked when I saw Raymond Burr in a TV movie walking. .I knew him only as Ironside before I knew him as Perry Mason
I first saw him in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!"
That's the "good" gullible we all once were, and better off for it!
Raymond Burr was the greatest actor - ever - on television.
He was also great in the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear window.
"Tarantino brought me here..."
"Family Guy brought me here..."
"Dan Bell brought me here..."
ME: "Ironside brought me here..."
kevin r. ME:Bruce Lee brought me here
Congratulations.
Tame Impala brought me here.
Xo tour life brought me here
Fredryk Phox brought me here
That's a great TV series 👍
One of THE BEST theme music intro and Altro. 🥰
Ironside was awesome. Cheers!
this intro and series affects me personally. I didn't know watching this as a kid that I would someday wind up in a wheelchair with no legs.
Sorry to learn about that. But, the fact that you can comment about it must take courage. Good luck adapting to whatever you need to do. And please, don't be afraid to ask for help from those around you. Peace.
@@hugejohnson5011 my great good fortune is that I have an excellent support system. Due to my multi-million dollar medical bills, my predicament has made me a firm supporter of Medicare for All.
@@MrEab2010 Funny you mention that, because a serious heart issue put me right down on the floor at work, about 18 months ago. I was blessed enough that there was an automated defibrillator available, and a night shift employee that used it with no hesitation.
Sorry to ramble, but I get what you are saying about the Medicare. My insurance through work became unaffordable to me after being out for so long, and I am fortunate that the government sponsored programs have helped me to eke by. I never imagined dropping out like I did at 53 years old.
Good luck wherever you're at on your journey.
@@hugejohnson5011 experiencing such a life-altering event should naturally change us both and make us more attuned to the suffering of others. My prayers are with you.
Outstanding series!
Badass intro to one of the greatest crime dramas in TV history. it's proof of Raymond Burr's acting chops that nobody watched this and thought they were watching Perry-Mason-in-a-wheelchair.
My mother loved this show. I miss you Mom.
Omg, my childhood. 🥰
Rest in peace MF DOOM. Remember ALL CAPS when you say the man name.
I heard the beginning of this song in a DangerouslyFunny video and it unlocked core memories from all the memes and funny videos I used to watch as a kid. Took me over 12 hours to find it.
This was a great groundbreaking show !
The theme song to every shock TH-cam video.
Couldn’t help but notice the opening credits featuring Karl Swenson, aka Lars Hanson on Little House on the Prairie. Was a terrific character actor!
I remember this show
This opening terrified me as a kid
Never watched a single episode, and I still get hyped every time it zooms out for that title drop. Like "Aw yeah, he's back, baby!" 😂
70’s had some bad ass drama theme songs, man.
remember ALL CAPS
Manchester Is Blue where’s the sample though I’m lost af
Wade Wilson
The sample isn’t shown here because it’s actually from an original composition used as a background theme in the show. This video just shows the intro/outro.
My fav show ...I wish it still come on now ..
It's now on Get Tv Monday-Friday at 11am.
ハードボイルドなオープニングだぁ…(恍惚)
It is a classic.
Back when tv show themes had real impact. Quincy Jones at his best. Great show.
Stfu
@@ggallintedtalk ???
Many still do, breaking bad, bojack horsemen, better call Saul, ect. This songs just iconic
back when TV Shows had themes, period
Quincy Jones was a boss musician,Raymond Burr a peerless actor,and Barbara Anderson was a primo babe!
Love it. Since I did THAT stereo mix for the intro over 13 years ago !!! Even getting the gunshot in stereo.
I've been looking for this song forever.
Quincy Jones could really crank out the music back in those days, quite a composer.
He sure was, in addition to the soundtrack work he was a prolific jazz musician too
I watched QJ direct his orchestra in Seattle and they played this among his other hits composed during his career. He turned 50 that night in Seattle at the Paramount theater. He was doing a benefit for his high school there, Garfield. I was guest of friends whose father was playing first trumpet in the stage band Quincy assembled from his high school and performance days in "Emerald City" where I was living at the time. I was also a skilled musician and played with bands in the NW....where Hendrix also was home grown. I'm from Compton and now here for the rest of my time. We had NWA make our town famous I guess. Music is the powerful thing we need more of in this tired world of war. Thanks.
First watched this with my dad via BBC1 reruns late 90s early 2000s. Great show and full of well known faces like Bruce Lee etc
(When I’m paralyzed, my friend who loves Ironside plays,)
Wow, I remembered this just right. I was a small girl, under 5 probably. My grandmother loved to watch this show.
Love! this! TV theme!
Reminds me of my youth!
The inspiration of the First song in Sega's Space channel 5 video game for the dreamcast
I knew someone was going to mention this! Bravo!!
After all these years,I finally found it...
The sound I used to hear when I was in trouble
Great Show
I'm still a big fan of mostly 70s police drama like Ironside when I used to watch it first run at night as a small kid in the early to mid-70s, not really a kids show but I always loved the show, the theme and Raymond Burr. I was happy to hear the homage music clip used in Kill Bill, bitchin' theme!
You got that right. SWAT, The Rookies, Adam-12, Dragnet, Police Woman, Starsky and Hutch, Barnaby Jones. Much simpler, happier times.
So this is where that siren sound is from. Cool!😄
Finally, reached here.
I was living in Newark then.
Along time ago.
I was a kid.
Black and white TV.
Got color in 1969. Life was good.
Happy 90th Birthday, Quincy Jones
Scariest intro ever.
It's a dim memory but I seem to recall it being on late at night. NBC was careful in those days.
Nothing scarier than Raymond burr charging up to you in a wheel chair and asking to toss your salad.
Indeed it is a scary intro. Does anyone else notice about 2 thru 4 seconds how portions of buildings eerily and creeply look similar to the buildings around TSBD in Dallas, Texas?
Perry Mason is way creepier.
jon122569 wtf lol
I hadn't heard that theme song in years. Still remembered the beginning of it though. :-)
This tune is awesome!
The website Imdb doesn't seem to rate "Ironside" very highly. From what I've seen, the episodes have been pretty good and Raymond Burr is well cast in the leading role.
It's a fantastic series.
Lasted for eight years.....IMDB is not the end all be all of what is good.
It’s a great show. I like Raymond Burr as Perry Mason but I always liked Ironside better.
The show was in the top 5 and top10 the regularly for a long time. Great show.
When the Bride finally finds Bill
If she hadn't found out at that exact same moment that BB was still alive.
Press F and give moment of silence for the people who still can’t find this masterpiece
I don't remember the actual show as I was very young when they used to air reruns of this in the 80s, but this intro and theme always stuck with me, such a badass intro, almost as good as Thundercats, but not quite ;)
After searching this Tarantino used theme in Kill Bill I finally found it. It's been driving me crazy knowing that I've heard it before but couldn't place it.
Almost died of laughter the first time we seen this intro on TV. Was NOT expecting THAT! Definitely the best version of the intro theme 😂😂😂😂😂
Just finished watching Perry Mason. Had to revisit this too!
Same. My childhood, right there.