Emmy-winning actor Raymond Burr – raised in Vallejo – achieved stardom as crusading TV lawyer Perry Mason and TV detective Ironside. Those roles were a far cry from his early acting — as a hulking, ...

He assisted Raymond Burr on the 1970s NBC series and starred in the blaxploitation film "Scream Blacula Scream." By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mitchell played Mark Sanger, an ex-con who is persuaded by ...

If you’ve watched television at all in the past 45 years, you almost certainly recall Raymond Burr’s imposing voice, his impassive expression. In the 271 Perry Mason episodes he made for CBS between ...

For most young viewers, the history of “Ironside” is ancient. For anyone who remembers that history, might as well forget it before watching the new version. The original “Ironside” series premiered ...

The Killing star Brent Sexton has joined NBC's Ironside update. The Event's Blair Underwood will replace Raymond Burr as the iconic wheelchair-bound detective in a new pilot, TVLine reports. Sexton ...

In the reboot of the TV series Ironside, Blair Underwood plays the character once played by Raymond Burr. Underwood joins a long list of... If you watched Ironside this week on NBC, you probably ...

LOS ANGELES — NBC says it’s canceling two freshman shows, “Ironside” and “Welcome to the Family.” “Ironside,” starring Blair Underwood in an updated version of the Raymond Burr police drama, will air ...

A new era is born.

San Francisco, not Los Angeles, was the city of preference for television series about plainclothes detectives, since two of the biggest – “The Streets of San Francisco” and “Ironside” were based in ...

He works in mysterious ways.