{"id":34363,"date":"2013-12-12T10:19:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=34363"},"modified":"2013-12-12T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:26:46","slug":"don-mitchell-passes-mark-ironside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=34363","title":{"rendered":"Don Mitchell Passes, &#8220;Mark&#8221; Ironside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Don Mitchell<\/strong>, the aide to the wheelchair-bound <strong>Raymond Burr<\/strong> on the 1970s NBC police series <em>Ironside<\/em>, died Sunday in Encino of natural causes. He was 70.<\/p>\n<div>Mitchell played Mark Sanger, an ex-con who is persuaded by Robert T. Ironside to become his driver and assistant after the San Francisco chief of detectives is paralyzed from the waist down by a sniper&#8217;s bullet.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Well, now, you lookin&#8217; for a boy!&#8221; Sanger says in the pilot, which aired in March 1967. &#8220;No, just legs,&#8221; says\u00a0Ironside. &#8220;You got &#8217;em and I need &#8217;em.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ironside also was assisted by Sgt. Ed Brown (<strong>Don Galloway<\/strong>) and plainclothes officer Eve Whitfield (<strong>Barbara Anderson<\/strong>). Mitchell returned as Sanger, who later became a lawyer in the series, for a 1993 reunion telefilm.<\/p>\n<p>Created by <strong>Collier Young<\/strong> (and with a great theme song by <strong>Quincy Jones<\/strong>), <em>Ironside<\/em> ran for eight seasons, until January 1975. The show was revived by NBC this season but canceled after just four episodes, with <strong>Blair Underwood <\/strong>as the title character.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Houston who attended UCLA, Mitchell starred opposite <strong>Pam Grier<\/strong> in the sequel <em>Scream Blacula Scream<\/em> (1973), playing an ex-police officer with an interest in the occult.<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared on such TV shows as <em>I Dream of Jeannie<\/em>, <em>The Fugitive<\/em>, <em>McMillan &amp; Wife<\/em>, <em>Wonder Woman<\/em> and <em>Matlock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was married to actress <strong>Judy Pace<\/strong> (<em>Peyton Place<\/em>, <em>Brian&#8217;s Song<\/em>) from 1972-86. She later married former Major League Baseball star <strong>Curt Flood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include daughter <strong>Julia Pace Mitchell<\/strong> (<em>The Young and the Restless<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Mitchell, the aide to the wheelchair-bound Raymond Burr on the 1970s NBC police series Ironside, died Sunday in Encino of natural causes. He was 70. Mitchell played Mark Sanger, an ex-con who is persuaded by Robert T. Ironside to become his driver and assistant after the San Francisco chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34367,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34363\/revisions\/34367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}