****SPOILERS*** Afterr participating with a quite game of chess with psychology professor Carl Anderson, Noah keen, whom he easily beat in five moves Special Police Consultant Robert T. Ironside, Raymond Burr,is confronted with the professors professional opinion that one of five artists in the San Francisco Bay area who he's psychoanalyzed has the potential of becoming a murder. Not giving it much thought, Ironside feels that Anderson needs a vacation from his work, the very next day Prof. Anderson is found dead in his house obviously murdered by one of the five artists he suspected of becoming a murder. Was Anderson just full of it or did he in fact not predict who the person who was to murdered him is and did Ironside by fluffing him off, he felt the guy had to much to drink, overlook the evidence in the artists works in order to prevent him from being murdered?
It's now up to Ironside and his three assistants Det Sgt. Ed Brown, Dan Galloway, lady detective Eve Whitefield, Barbara Anderson, and driver cook butler and all around gofer Mark Sanger, Don Mitchell, to track down the five artists and find who's the one who, like he predicted, murdered the professor. At no time was the complexities or murder as complex as they were in this very complex Ironside episode. And they got even more and more complex as the episode rolled along with the suspected artists all seemed to have an alibi where they were with the exception of fruitcake Rhea Prentiss, Sue Ann Langdon, who claimed she was alone in her studio mindlessly splattering paint all over her canvas.
***SPOILERS**** As Ironside soon suspected that Anderson's murderer used his theory of an artistic homicidal maniac to his or her advantage. Feeling no one will suspect him of murdering the professor and made it look like one of the artists whom Anderson psychoanalyzed did him in. With Ironside doing some down to earth solid police work and little bit of psychoanalyzing himself he came up with the person who murdered Professor Anderson. And it wasn't in the name of art either! Just in him covering his behind to prevent him from being exposed by the professor as the person who's been forging his name on his checks, all made out to cash, that he used at the local race tracks and casinos to gamble with.
It's now up to Ironside and his three assistants Det Sgt. Ed Brown, Dan Galloway, lady detective Eve Whitefield, Barbara Anderson, and driver cook butler and all around gofer Mark Sanger, Don Mitchell, to track down the five artists and find who's the one who, like he predicted, murdered the professor. At no time was the complexities or murder as complex as they were in this very complex Ironside episode. And they got even more and more complex as the episode rolled along with the suspected artists all seemed to have an alibi where they were with the exception of fruitcake Rhea Prentiss, Sue Ann Langdon, who claimed she was alone in her studio mindlessly splattering paint all over her canvas.
***SPOILERS**** As Ironside soon suspected that Anderson's murderer used his theory of an artistic homicidal maniac to his or her advantage. Feeling no one will suspect him of murdering the professor and made it look like one of the artists whom Anderson psychoanalyzed did him in. With Ironside doing some down to earth solid police work and little bit of psychoanalyzing himself he came up with the person who murdered Professor Anderson. And it wasn't in the name of art either! Just in him covering his behind to prevent him from being exposed by the professor as the person who's been forging his name on his checks, all made out to cash, that he used at the local race tracks and casinos to gamble with.
