A short-lived revamp of “Ironside,” with Blair Underwood in the title role, aired on NBC this year. Mitchell reprised his role as Sanger in the 1993 TV reunion film “The Return of Ironside.” ...

“Ironside” was one of TV’s most distinctive series of the late 1960s and ‘70s. The drama starred Raymond Burr as a San Francisco police chief who is forced to retire from the department ...

To be fair, Ironside (* ½ out of four; NBC, Wednesday, 10 ET/PT) could very well succeed: Stranger things have happened, particularly in weak time slots. Whether it can become less dreadful in ...