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Contrived unbelievable nonsense about a busy chap caught up in the search for a missing child.

Busy man agrees to go on holiday with his girlfriend, but cancels because of work and he doesn't have a clue why she's angry with him.

He becomes obsessed by a doll and this provides a lot of cringe moments.

Robert Ulrich was a competent actor but he's awful in this nonsense.

Even Lifetime would have trouble greenlighting this baffling, illogical tripe!

In the 1970s every popular British sitcom from 'Man About The House' to 'Porridge' had a terrible, forgettable movie version made of it.

The same character actors are wheeled out without the sitcom format, or the pithy sitcom-format dialog and without the laughter track. Each movie version of a British sitcom had wide angle cameras and depressing outdoor scenes to moviefy something that should not be moviefied!

This translation from TV to movie theatre is no different.

The running gag about the saucy, busty Rita being caught in compromising situations with the tailor by the Rabbi fall flat along with everything else.

But its redeeming quality is the strength of the entire cast. It's chock full of popular stars of the day from Yootha Joyce to Bill Maynard. Even the minor and uncredited parts are filled by names you'll recognize if you're of a certain age... which I am!

But at the end of the day, it's a poor man's Carry On film.

Don't let this terrible pilot ruin the series for you. It does get better.

But this debut has to rate as one of the worst pilots ever committed to film.

It's a joyless, one man show with other people crowbarred in to prop up the main character.

Burr simply doesn't cut it as the stubborn, hard-nosed cop. He's relentlessly rude and dismissive. Nobody (even in 1967) would ever put up with his foul temper.

But after the pilot came and went, the series did get better, so don't judge the world of Ironside by this stinker of a start!