Ironside (TV Series) Class of '57 (1971) User Reviews

A tragic Ironside, brilliantly done

[TopekaBob · 10/10 · 6 February 2022]

So an episodic, weekly police show does an episode that explores nostalgia, youth lost, and "lives of quiet desperation?" Wow! Ed Brown has to solve a crime and in doing so looks up his old classmates from high school. Some have done well, some not so well, some clearly know they're heading nowhere, some wish they could go back, and some wish they could get try again.

Great stuff. Each classmate is interesting in his or her own way.

Especially tragic is the Marlyn Mason character. That's all I'll say.

After this episode she went on to star in "Longstreet," about a blind detective! Damn good show!

The triva section of IMDB claims that this episode inspired the Statler Brothers song "Class of the '57." Well, a citation would be nice, as I see no other evidence of this. But, I believe it, because it's a universal idea but great story, which both the Statler Brothers and Ironside writers got right.

The Statler Brothers.

Job comes first

[bkoganbing · 5/10 · 12 November 2013]

Don Galloway takes center stage in this Ironside episode as he's called to apprehend a fugitive whom he knows from high school and was in the same graduating class with him. Galloway has to start checking on a whole lot of people he hasn't seen since high school class of '57. Some of them are quite put off by his being a cop and the reactions vary from each person he talks to.

One person who welcomes him back is Marlyn Mason who is now a widow with two kids. And Galloway himself is not adverse to getting something going with her. But the job comes first.

To see how it works out for Galloway, check out this Ironside episode, not one of the better ones, but OK.