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***SPOILERS*** Going together with his crew of crimes fighter Det. Sgt. Ed Brown, Don Galloway, Officer Eve Whitfield, Barbara Anderson, & Don Stanger, Mark Mitchell, for a quite trip in the country Chief Ironside, Raymond Burr, ends up getting trapped in this little out of the way town in the mountains of Nortern California. It's there where the sheriff Harvey Poole, Steve Forrest,runs the local prison work camp as if he were a Nazi concentration camp or Soviet gulag commander. It's work camp escapee D.W Donnelly, Clu Gulager, who on the run for his life in the Sheriff and his goons that includes his brutal deputy Hogg, William Smith,wanting him dead before he reveals what's been going on in what is known as Poole's Paradise.

It's when Ironside & Co. dropped into the nearly deserted Wanda's Coffee Shop run by Wanda, Louise Latham, an old flame of Sheriff Poole that Det Sgt. Brown checking out the famous Ironside paddy wagon was kidnapped by Donnelly and held hostage. That until the truth is finally reviled of what's been going on in Poole's Paradise that he was an eye whiteness of. It's later when his hostage Det Sgt. Brown ended up freeing himself from Donnelly that he found out that he in fact was right about the Sheriff. In that he together with Donnelly were almost shot and killed by one of Poole's deputies when he tried to give himself up. With the thought that both Det. Sgt Brown and Donnelly were killed when their car the Ironside paddy wagon fell off a cliff while being chased by Pool's men when the two "dead men" suddenly appeared with the evidence of his criminal activities. It was then that he together his Chief Deputy Hogg knew that their gooses were cooked and checked themselves into the town lock-up ready to take their medicine.

***SPOILERS*** The biggest tragedy in all this was Ironside's beloved custom built paddy wagon that was destroyed and burned to a crisp. But in the end the Chief was provided with a newer and far more modern mode of transportation a hopped up station wagon with all the conveniences of home including a bar and color TV. So as things happily turned out the destruction of Chief Ironside's famed paddy wagon, that was ready for the junkyard anyway, ended up being a blessing instead a curse for him.