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60-612: The principal architect was Arthur Brown, Jr. , of Bakewell & Brown, whose attention to the finishing details extended to the doorknobs and the typeface to be used in signage . Brown also designed the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House , Veterans Building , Temple Emanuel , Coit Tower and the Federal office building at 50 United Nations Plaza . The building's vast open space is more than 500,000 square feet (46,000 m) and occupies two full city blocks. It

120-774: A Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931). In Washington, D.C. , Brown designed the Interstate Commerce Commission Building, its near-twin the Department of Labor Building , and the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium . All three form part of the Federal Triangle , the largest construction project undertaken by the US Federal government prior to The Pentagon . Preliminary designs were begun in 1927, with construction in

180-634: A TV-movie, The Priest Killer . Jessica Walter guest-starred in a spin-off episode for the series Amy Prentiss , which aired as part of The NBC Mystery Movie during the 1974–1975 season. She played a relatively young investigator who becomes chief of detectives for the San Francisco Police Department. Helen Hunt , in an early role, played Prentiss' preteen daughter, Jill. Three two-hour episodes were aired. The 22nd episode of season seven, airing in March 1974, and titled "Riddle at 24,000,"

240-465: A diameter of 112 ft (34 m), resting upon 4 x 50 ton (44.5 metric ton) and 4 x 20 ton (17.8 metric ton) girders, each 9 ft (2.7 m) deep and 60 ft (18 m) long. The building as a whole contains 7,900 tons (7,035 metric tons) of structural steel from the American Bridge Company of Ambridge, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh . It is faced with Madera County granite on

300-453: A general retail release. Season four was re-released on August 22, 2017. In Region 2, Anchor Bay Entertainment released the first season on DVD in the UK on August 25, 2008. In Region 4, Madman Entertainment released all eight seasons on DVD. The eighth and final season, which included the 1993 TV reunion movie The Return of Ironside , was released on October 19, 2011. Season five includes

360-511: A gruff persona. The series enjoyed a seven-and-a-half-season run on NBC, drawing respectable, if not always high ratings. As the shortened eighth and final season began (only 16 of 19 episodes produced were aired by NBC), Universal released a syndicated rerun package of episodes from earlier seasons under the title The Raymond Burr Show , reflecting the practice of that time to differentiate original network episodes from syndicated reruns whenever possible. After NBC's midseason cancellation, however,

420-591: A nod to both Ironside and Perry Mason . A promo for the adult animated sitcom Archer was made in the style of the show's opening sequence, replacing Ironside with the character Ray Gillette, who had been temporary confined to a wheelchair after a spinal injury. Shout! Factory has released the first four seasons of Ironside on DVD in Region 1. Seasons three and four were released as Shout Factory Exclusives , available exclusively through Shout!'s online store. On May 9, 2017, Shout! Factory re-released season three as

480-567: A parody of Ironside titled "Ironride." On The Benny Hill Show , Benny Hill played Ironside in a few sketches, most notably in a sketch called "Murder on the Oregon Express," which parodied several television detective characters. Impressionist Billy Howard included Ironside as one of the detectives parodied in his novelty hit record "King of the Cops." The 1980 television movie Murder Can Hurt You spoofs numerous television detectives from

540-556: A rather large open space on the fourth floor of the Old Hall of Justice in San Francisco at 750 Kearny Street between Washington and Merchant Streets. The Old Hall had already been demolished while Ironside was still in production. It had been abandoned in 1961 and demolished in late 1967. The SFPD had begun using their new home by January 1962. In December 1967, demolition finally began. Wrecking balls and bulldozers took five months to raze

600-569: A small makeover to distinguish the Ironside character from the more identifiable Perry Mason. Burr thus had his hair colored (which was unnecessary, since Burr was already gray-haired when Ironside originally aired) and cut his beard down to a goatee. One thing Burr did not need to do, however, was pretend to be disabled. At the time the Ironside reunion went into production, Burr had been suffering from kidney cancer that had metastasized to his liver, and

660-466: A style that discouraged loitering. The plaza was then extensively excavated for underground parking. At this time a central rectangular pond, with an extensive array of water vents (strangely, all in several strict rows and all pointing east, with identical arcs of water, and completely without sculptural embellishment), was added, with extensive groves of trees (again, in 60s modernist style, planted with absolute military precision on rectangular grids). In

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720-399: A suspect on the streets of San Francisco.) The iconic theme music has since been sampled in numerous recordings and soundtracks to television commercials and shows, including Kill Bill: Volume 1 . The score for the episode "The Macabre Mr. Micawber" by Billy Goldenberg (credited as William Goldenberg) was sampled for the song " All Caps " by the hip-hop duo Madvillain . In addition to

780-410: A two-hour crossover between Ironside and a new series, Sarge , starring George Kennedy as a cop-turned-priest. Kennedy's San Diego–based Father Samuel Cavanaugh comes to San Francisco because of the death of a friend and fellow priest, and his investigation gets him embroiled with Ironside and his staff. The special consolidated the two shows' consecutive time slots and has been subsequently seen as

840-650: Is 390 ft (120 m) between Van Ness Avenue and Polk Street , and 273 ft (83 m) between Grove and McAllister Streets. Its dome , which owes much to Mansart 's Baroque domes of the Val-de-Grâce (church) and Les Invalides in Paris, rises 307.5 ft (93.7 m) above the Civic Center Historic District . It is 19 ft (5.8 m) higher than the United States Capitol , and has

900-624: Is an important Modernist landmark in the Bay Area. Coit Tower was the site of some of the first public works murals executed under the Public Works Administration , later known as the WPA. "The primitive nature of Coit Tower would lend itself better to that sort of thing than other public buildings," was Arthur Brown's first reaction to the project. Diego Rivera included Brown among the designers and craftsmen in his fresco mural of The Making of

960-440: Is replaced in the episode titled "Poole's Paradise" after the van is destroyed by Sergeant Brown as part of a plan to trick a corrupt sheriff. At the end of the episode, the patrol wagon is replaced by a one-off fully custom modified 1969 one-ton Ford Econoline Window Van. The show became a success as Ironside depended on brains and initiative in solving cases. Although Ironside is portrayed as good-hearted and honest, he maintains

1020-607: The Depression years between 1932 and 1934. The new buildings were to be designed to reflect the "dignity and power of the nation." Brown's last works were primarily at UC Berkeley, where Brown served as campus planner and chief architect from 1936 to 1950. His principal buildings there include Sproul Hall, the Bancroft Library , and the Cyclotron Building, commissioned by Ernest Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer . Brown

1080-677: The Moscone assassination , which took place just a few yards from that spot in the smaller rotunda of the mayor's office entrance. A bust of former county supervisor Harvey Milk , who was assassinated in the building was unveiled on May 22, 2008. The inscription that dominates the grand Rotunda and the entrance to the mayor's small rotunda, right below Father Time, reads: SAN • FRANCISCO O • GLORIOVS • CITY • OF • OVR HEARTS • THAT • HAST • BEEN TRIED • AND • NOT • FOVND WANTING • GO • THOV • WITH LIKE • SPIRIT • TO • MAKE THE • FVTVRE • THINE 1912 JAMES ROLPH JR. MAYOR 1931 The words were written by

1140-738: The 1906 earthquake laid there in 1917. President Warren G. Harding laid here in 1923. Former mayor and governor James Rolph was laid in state in City Hall following his death in 1934. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were married at City Hall in January 1954. In May 1960, the main Rotunda was a site of a student protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee and a countering police action whereby students from UC Berkeley, Stanford, and other local colleges were fire hosed down

1200-455: The 1970s and '80s, and includes Victor Buono playing the wheelchair-using detective Ironbottom. American Dad has an episode, "Wheels and Legman," that loosely parodies Ironside and similar programs in which Roger and Steve have a fictional detective agency. In the "Gone Efficient" episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law , a man in a wheelchair is shown pleading a case in front of Judge Mentok (who strongly resembles Raymond Burr) as

1260-482: The 1990s, with the rise of the problem of homelessness , the plaza was once again remodeled to make it somewhat less habitable—although the most significant change, the replacement of the pond and pumps with a lawn, could be reasonably justified on the basis of energy and water conservation . The building features color changeable LED lighting at the outside of the Rotunda, and between the exterior columns. The colors change to coincide with different events happening in

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1320-444: The San Francisco police force himself in the sixth season, then marries late in the run of the series. Commissioner Randall was played by Gene Lyons . After the program's fourth season, Anderson left for personal reasons, and her character was then replaced by another young policewoman, Fran Belding ( Elizabeth Baur ), who filled much the same role for four more years. Ironside uses a fourth-floor room (for living and office space) in

1380-565: The South Light Court display, Progress . From 1849 to 1850, San Francisco's municipal government was on the west side of Portsmouth Square at the Office of the Alcalde , who was the municipal magistrate , with both judicial and administrative functions, and the ayuntamiento , the town council, or cabildo . In May 1850, after the first City Charter was adopted, the first San Francisco City Hall

1440-422: The airing of just four episodes (of nine produced). There was a single novel based on the series by Jim Thompson . It was published in 1967 by Popular Library . There was also a board game published by Ideal in 1967. An episode of Get Smart that aired in March 1969 was titled "Leadside" and featured a wheelchair-using master criminal by that name (and his assistants). Leadside could not walk, but he

1500-477: The atelier of Victor Laloux , before returning to San Francisco to establish his practice with Bakewell in 1905. Their first commissions included the interior of the City of Paris department store and the city hall for Berkeley, California , before entering the competition for the 1915 San Francisco City Hall for which they are best known. Brown also designed the city's War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building,

1560-455: The building. The opening theme music was composed by Quincy Jones , and was the first synthesizer-based television theme song. In 1971, Jones recorded a fuller four-minute band version for the album Smackwater Jack . This recording was then edited and used for the opening credits of the fifth through eighth seasons (1971–1975). (The entire album track can be heard in the fifth-season episode "Unreasonable Facsimile" as Ironside and team track

1620-541: The city and elsewhere. During the COVID-19 pandemic , City Hall was closed from March 2020 until reopening on June 7, 2021. Informational notes Citations Arthur Brown, Jr. Arthur Brown Jr. (May 21, 1874—July 7, 1957) was an American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks. He is known for his work with John Bakewell Jr. as Bakewell and Brown, along with later works after

1680-460: The competition, construction started in 1913 and was completed by 1915, in time for the Exposition. Ground was broken for the 1916 City Hall at Van Ness and Fulton on April 5, 1913, and the cornerstone was laid on October 25 of that year. Mayor Rolph moved into City Hall on December 28, 1915, the final stone was laid on March 31, 1916, and scaffolding was finally removed on July 28, officially marking

1740-532: The disease left him unable to stand or walk without assistance. Thus, like Ironside, Burr used a wheelchair to get around. Unlike the original series, which took place in San Francisco, the reunion was set and filmed in Denver , Colorado , with the justification that the character Ed Brown had become the city's deputy chief of police. (Denver was also where most of Burr's Perry Mason TV movies were produced.) Galloway, Mitchell, Anderson, and Baur recreated their roles for

1800-471: The earthquake for the Civic Center complex called for a neo-classical design as part of the city beautiful movement, as well as a desire to rebuild the city in time for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition . A bond was authorized for $ 8.8 million on March 28, 1912, of which the new City Hall was budgeted for $ 3.5 million to $ 4 million. After Arthur Brown Junior's design was selected from

1860-513: The end of construction. The ruins of the old City Hall were sold shortly thereafter in August 1916 for US$ 2,300 (equivalent to $ 64,000 in 2023), with removal to be completed within 40 days. The main rotunda served as the site where many prominent politicians and public servants were laid in state. General Fredrick Funston , hero of the Spanish–American War , Philippine–American War , and

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1920-488: The exterior, and Indiana sandstone within, together with finish marbles from Alabama , Colorado , Vermont , and Italy . Much of the statuary is by Henri Crenier . The upper levels of the Rotunda are public and handicapped accessible. Opposite the grand staircase, on the second floor, is the office of the Mayor. Bronze busts of former Mayor George Moscone and his successor, Dianne Feinstein , stand nearby as tacit reminders of

1980-541: The former in collaboration with G. Albert Lansburgh . Brown was meticulously trained in the rigorous Beaux-Arts tradition, and in the City Hall project his attention extended to the smallest details of light fixtures, floor patterning and doorknobs. In addition to their well-known monumental works, Bakewell and Brown designed several homes in the Arts and Crafts style championed by Maybeck. Early among them were two redwood framed "double houses" for Stanford University in 1908, and

2040-511: The leadership of the San Francisco Bureau of Architecture in collaboration with Carey & Co. preservation architects, and Forell/Elsesser Engineers, work was completed to render the building earthquake resistant through a base isolation system, which would likely prevent total collapse of the building. City Hall reopened after its seismic upgrade in January 1999, and was the world's largest base-isolated structure at that time. Prior to

2100-410: The main cast reunited for a made-for-TV movie in 1993, The Return of Ironside , which aired on May 4, 1993, on NBC, not long before Burr's death. At the time, Burr was starring in a series of telefilms for NBC playing his most famous character, Perry Mason . In the years between the end of Ironside in 1975 and the first Perry Mason movie in 1985, Burr's appearance had undergone some changes. His hair

2160-453: The movie, though Anderson and Baur had not worked at the same time on the original series. "The Over-the-Hill Blues" (1974) At the start of its sixth season, Ironside did a two-part crossover episode with The Bold Ones: The New Doctors , titled "Five Days in the Death of Sergeant Brown", where Ed is critically injured by a sniper and is treated by Dr. David Craig and his medical staff. Part 1

2220-447: The old San Francisco Hall of Justice building, which housed the city's police headquarters. He recruits Mark Sanger to be his personal assistant after Sanger is brought in as a suspect who wanted to kill Ironside. Ironside acquires a specially equipped, former fleet-modified 1940 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -ton Ford police patrol wagon, with bulletproof glass and a specially modified high-performance supercharged and fuel-injected V-8 engine. This

2280-621: The only fraternity house they designed de novo, the Beta Chi Chapter House of Sigma Nu in 1910 (razed by the University in 1991 despite student and alumni efforts to give it historic designation and restore it). They later designed additions to Ernest Coxhead's 1893 Beta Theta Pi house they had lived in as undergraduates, now a listed Berkeley landmark. The firm went on to design a series of familiar San Francisco landmarks, and many buildings at Stanford University , before Brown dissolved

2340-467: The opening theme music, Quincy Jones composed the entire score for the first eight episodes. Oliver Nelson took over those duties up to the end of the winter to spring 1972 episodes. Nelson was then replaced by Marty Paich for nearly all of the episodes from the beginning of the fall of that year until the last episode that was produced, in late 1974. The song "Even When You Cry", with music composed by Jones and lyrics written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman ,

2400-459: The partnership dissolved in 1927. Brown was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1896, where he and his future partner, John Bakewell Jr. (1872–1963), also a member of Beta Theta Pi, were both protégés of famed Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck . Brown went to Paris and graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1901, attending

2460-599: The partnership in 1927. For contractual reasons many buildings at Stanford through the 1930s continued to be credited to both. Bakewell and Brown also designed the Byzantine-inspired Temple Emmanuel (1926) at Lake St. and Arguello Blvd. in San Francisco, and the Pasadena City Hall (1927). Most of Brown's later San Francisco works employed a stripped-down classicism. The poured-concrete Art Moderne Coit Tower (1932), that crowns Telegraph Hill

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2520-521: The pilot, Ironside eventually solves the mystery of the ambush. He requests Ed Brown and Eve Whitfield be assigned to him as his own private law enforcement squad. Supporting characters on Ironside included Det. Sgt. Edward "Ed" Brown ( Don Galloway ) and a young socialite-turned-plainclothes officer, Eve Whitfield ( Barbara Anderson ). In addition, delinquent-turned assistant Mark Sanger ( Don Mitchell ), who subsequently attends and graduates from law school (night classes were mentioned from early on), joins

2580-438: The plans were shelved in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , which destroyed the 1899 City Hall. Ever since the fire the ample ruins of the old city hall have been displayed to visitors. There is hardly a citizen that has not been embarrassed at some time or other by pertinent questions about our city hall. Mayor James "Sunny Jim" Rolph , 1912 San Francisco Call editorial Reconstruction plans following

2640-505: The previous Mayor Edward Robeson Taylor , and dedicated by Mayor James Rolph . While plaques at the Mall entrance memorialize President George Washington 's farewell address and President Abraham Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address , the primary themes of the statuary are to the past mayors, with the dates of their terms in office. The medallions in the vaults of the Rotunda are of Equality , Liberty , Strength , Learning and, as memorialized in

2700-553: The retrofitting, the San Francisco County Superior Court ’s civil courtrooms were located in City Hall but have been located across the street at the 400 McAllister courthouse since it opened in 1997. The original grand plaza has undergone several extensive renovations, with radical changes in its appearance and utility. Prior to the 1960s there were extensive brick plazas, few trees, and a few large, simple, raised, and circular ponds with central fountains, all in

2760-480: The steps beneath the rotunda. This event was memorialized by students during the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley four years later. On November 27, 1978, former Supervisor Dan White assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk inside of City Hall. The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 damaged the structure, and twisted the dome four inches (102 mm) on its base. Afterward, under

2820-413: The syndicated episodes reverted to the Ironside title. The show was filmed in a mixture of locations, sometimes in San Francisco, but also with a large number of studio scenes (including scenes with conversations in a moving vehicle, where a traffic backdrop is used). The shows contained stock footage of San Francisco, with pan shots of Coit Tower or clips of traffic scenes. Ironside and his team used

2880-521: The title "Chief Ironside"), a consultant to the San Francisco police department (formerly chief of detectives), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie entitled Ironside . When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, from late 1967 onward, it was broadcast as A Man Called Ironside . The show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations. Ironside

2940-405: The title role (with none of the other characters from the original series being used), while the action was relocated from San Francisco to New York City. This version of the character was more in the tough cop mold, often at odds with his superiors over his unrelenting, even violent approach to police work. The series was lambasted by critics and ignored by viewers, and was cancelled and pulled after

3000-409: The waist down , resulting in his reliance on a wheelchair . In the pilot episode, a television movie , Ironside shows his strength of character and gets himself appointed a peculiar and unprecedented job; a "special department consultant", by his good friend, Police Commissioner Dennis Randall. He does this by calling a press conference and then tricking Commissioner Randall into meeting his terms. In

3060-457: Was a pilot for "Dr. Domingo," a proposed spin-off series starring Desi Arnaz as a crime-solving physician in a small, California town. It was written by Lane Slate, perhaps best known as the screenwriter of They Only Kill Their Masters , the James Garner movie about a small-town police chief. In 2013, a short-lived remake with the same name aired on NBC. Actor Blair Underwood took on

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3120-402: Was a production of Burr's Harbour Productions Unlimited in association with Universal Television . The series revolves around former San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside ( Raymond Burr ), a Navy veteran, widower, and veteran of 25 years of police service, forced to retire from the department after a sniper 's bullet to the spine paralyzed him from

3180-407: Was able to run. Leadside was directed by Gary Nelson. Nelson never directed on Ironside during its original stint as a television series but instead directed the reunion television movie The Return of Ironside . Another Get Smart episode, called "Ironhand," had a KAOS operative with a hand encased in metal hence why he was known as Ironhand. The December 1970 issue of Mad magazine included

3240-466: Was bounded by Larkin Street, McAllister Street, and City Hall Avenue (a street, now built over, which ran from the corner of Grove and Larkin to the corner of McAllister and Leavenworth), largely where the current public library and U.N. Plaza stand today. Noted city planner and architect Daniel Burnham published a plan in 1905 to redesign the city, including a new Civic Center complex around City Hall, but

3300-413: Was broadcast on Ironside and part two on The New Doctors . Part two is now shown in reruns as an episode of Ironside . E. G. Marshall and David Hartman (stars of The New Doctors ) received starring credit in the opening credits of both episodes. Part two features a longer edited version of Quincy Jones' "Ironside" theme as heard on his 1971 album Smackwater Jack . NBC's 1971 fall TV season opened with

3360-659: Was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1930. Among the draftsmen in his office was Clarence W. W. Mayhew . In 1943, Brown was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1953. In San Francisco unless otherwise noted: Ironside (1967 TV series)#Locations Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over eight seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside (usually addressed by

3420-479: Was established at the former Graham House on the corner of Kearny and Pacific streets, which was later consumed by the great fire of June 1851. In 1852, San Francisco City Hall was at 750 Kearny Street between Washington and Merchant Streets, at the converted Jenny Lind Theatre building and Parker House, located then between the El Dorado Hotel and The Union , opposite the east side of Portsmouth Square. Later, this

3480-425: Was grayer, he had gained a significant amount of weight, and after years of playing clean-shaven characters, he grew a beard. Since nearly 20 years had passed since Ironside left the air, and as he had been playing Perry Mason on television for the previous eight years, Burr felt that he was more associated with Perry Mason. He believed that to play Ironside properly and not confuse viewers, he would need to undergo

3540-443: Was performed by James Farentino in the episode "Something for Nothing", while Marcia Strassman had already sung it off-screen in the earlier episode "The Man Who Believed"; both installments were originally broadcast during season one. * The pilot episode was titled A Man Called Ironside . ** The last three episodes of the series were not broadcast on NBC, but were later seen in syndication, as well as released on DVD. Burr and

3600-466: Was the site of a Hall of Justice , as seen on the TV series, Ironside . The 1916 City Hall building is a replacement for the 1899 building, begun in 1871, which was designed by Augustus Laver and Thomas Stent and completed in 1899 after 27 years of planning and construction. The 1899 city hall was a much larger building which also contained a smaller extension which contained the city's Hall of Records. It

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