Ironside (TV Series) Sergeant Mike (1968) User Reviews

A well trained dog

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 29 July 2013]

Ironside and his team are involved in the shooting death of a woman in her home where a dog is found that is most definitely not her's. He is well trained, proving that when Raymond Burr accidentally gives him a command to fetch. And he won't drop the item which in this case is a crowbar.

Seems as though this woman of genteel background was involved in a few shady enterprises. And the dog witness leads to a human witness who also has an agenda.

Some nice performances from guest stars Bill Bixby and John Dehner and of course not to mention the well trained German shepherd named Sergeant Mike in the show.

Dead dogs don't wag tails

[sol-kay · 6/10 · 2 August 2013]

***SPOILERS*** It's when 45 year old spinster Emma Newfane was found murdered in her house the police headed by Chief Ironside, Raymond Burr, found this vicious German Shepard dog protecting the place. It soon became obvious that the dog didn't belong to the late Miss Neufane but was somehow left there by the person who may well have murdered her. It's the bog called Sargeant Mike by the little boy Charlie Tompkins, Robert Bruce Lang, who came to take him off Ironside's hands who's the only eye as well as material witness to Miss Neufane's murder! And it's Sargent Mike's real owner this guy called the Colonel, John Dehner, who together with his dog was at the scene of the crime.

It soon turns out that there's a lot more to Miss. Neufane murder as well as background that at first met the eye. And to fill in all the blanks is her nephew that good for nothing high living leach Edward Neufane, Bill Bixby. It's Edward who's been living off his Aunt Emma Neufane's money all his adult life. But what Ironside soon discovers with the help of his assistant Officer Eve Whitfield, Barbara Anderson,is that Miss Neufane was pulling a scam of her own. That in getting love sick middle age men, through local newspaper lonely hearts adds, to support her and then have them in turn murdered which had now backfired on her!

***SPOILERS*** All this blackmailing murders, there were at least a half dozen, and double-crossing finally came to an end at The Colonel's dilapidate shack outside a San Francisco junkyard where the heat or police came down on him. Not that the Colonel murdered Miss. Neufane but knew who did. And even worse was blackmailing her murderer in order to keep him from going to the police.

P.S Check out football's Kansas City Cheifs defensive back Fred "The Hammer" Williamson in his debut as homicide detective Sgt. La Peer. Who not only has no trouble reciting his lines but still looks believable like a cool and take no BS cop, not an unsure of himself football player turned actor, in his cameo role.