Ironside (Raymond Burr) is counting upon African American pro-football hero Charles "Bat" Masterson (Ivan Dixon) to help keep a group of inner-city kids on the straight and narrow. But Masterson is preoccupied with keeping his parolee brother Joe (Don Marshall) out of trouble--and is even willing to take a manslaughter rap for Joe's sake. It falls to Ironside to figure a way to save Masterson from his own tragically misguided sense of family loyalty. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi