Raymond Burr, the star of NBC-TV’s “Ironside,” which is the most popular program on Israeli television, is coming to this country Sept. 1 as guest of honor at the six-day Israel Film Festival opening in Safad Sept. 2. Burr will be accompanied by Don Galloway who plays Ironside’s aide, Sgt. Ed Brown. During their visit, the two actors are scheduled to tour around Jerusalem in a police squad car and visit the Alyn home for crippled children where many of the patients are youngsters confined to wheelchairs as is the fictional Robert Ironside. The television series is so popular in Israel that Israelis think twice before calling anyone between 9 and 10 p.m. Saturdays when the program is aired.
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