The Medic
The Medic
Highlights the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors and surgeons headed by Dr. Konrad Styner (Richard Boone). One of the first medical shows on TV that paid strict attention to detail of the operations and medical procedures.
White is the Color
A young husband must inform his pregnant wife that she's been diagnosed with fatal leukemia. Concern now shifts to the expected baby's survival. Dr. Styner wages an extended battle in the delivery room for the newborn's survival.
Laughter is a Boy
Eight-year-old Jonno's speech is garbled because of a cleft palate he was born with. Now kids mock him and he's retreating into a lonely world of his own. Grandfather's too elderly to do anything. What can teenage brother Pete do to help?
I Climb the Stars
After collapsing on stairs, winsome young Annie is discovered to have a heart condition. Now doctors must operate to save her. But will they be able to after her heart stops?
My Brother Joe
A ten-year-old boy is in a coma after an auto accident, and a neurosurgeon and other specialists try to ascertain the extent of damage to the boy's brain. Meanwhile, the child's family tries to deal with the possibility of their child not coming through.
My Very Good Friend Albert
Swedish immigrant Albert plays viola in a symphony orchestra. But his hearing is getting worse, so he's let go. Also, his social life is being held back. An operation can correct the problem, but will it stay fixed, and how to pay.
The Wild Intruder
With only a week to go before her wedding, a young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, and must undergo an operation at once. A medical team must deal with both her physical problems and her fragile mental state at the same time.
Red Christmas
A young woman is wheeled in, the victim of a holiday road accident. Doctors pour over her, determining the extent of injuries. The tipsy driver responsible, her employer, callously wants to get on with his life.
Boy In The Storm
Following the death of his aunt/guardian, a 17-year-old epileptic is methodically treated with medication and extensive counseling in order that he may be able to live a comparatively normal life with a caring foster family.
Breath of Life
Obsessively self-reliant Dr. Robert Parker faces an uncertain future and an extended period of reliance on an iron lung (and on other people) after he contracts a case of polio.
A Time to Be Alive
Eleven-year-old Danny is a hemophiliac, even a slight injury can cause death. He's cut his arm and the doctors must halt the bleeding. Now his older sister worries that she too may be subject to the genetic disease.
Flash of Darkness
This "what-if" episode imagines what would happen in the event of a nuclear strike on Los Angeles. Dr. Styner and his colleagues are at a warehouse outside the city for a training session, but must try to make their way back to the devastated city.
Mercy Wears an Apron
An aging actor has been a paraplegic for five years. Confined to bed, he turns to the bottle, maundering over his situation. That is, until a public health nurse arrives. Now he feels sensations in his legs. Is it just wishful thinking?
Dr. Impossible
In 1884, pioneering surgeon Dr. William Stewart Halstead finds that he and three colleagues are slowly but surely becoming seriously addicted to the cocaine that they have been using in anesthetic self-experiments.
Break Through the Bars
A quiet, sedate, middle-aged bank cashier suddenly begins to exhibit strange and disturbing behavior. After a thorough examination, a medical team decides that his problem can best be treated by electroshock therapy.
Death is a Red Balloon
A young wife and mother are suddenly stricken with a brain aneurysm. Now the couple must decide between short-term treatment hoping for no recurrence or risk delicate brain surgery to remedy the problem.
All My Mothers, All My Fathers
An abandoned baby grows up in a hospital ward when an extensive series of surgical procedures is necessary to repair the damage caused when the infant's mother forced her to ingest caustic household lye.
Physician Heal Thyself
Shortly before completing his residency and beginning his own practice, a resident internist is stunned when a routine chest X-Ray reveals that he has contracted an active case of tuberculosis.
Wall of Silence
Following an assault that results in a severe head injury, a newspaper editor develops aphasia and must struggle through the lengthy rehabilitative process necessary to re-learn even basic speech and literary skills.
My Child's Keeper
Two mothers leave their children, a little girl and a baby boy, alone downstairs. The girl discovers a lighter and starts a blaze that engulfs them both. At the hospital, one mother holds the other responsible for what happened.
Lifeline
An injured sailor is helicoptered onto a naval hospital ship for treatment. There the head doctor suddenly starts treating his staff angrily. It appears he has a personal stake in the sailor's survival.
Never Comes Sunday
The blow to a child's head causes not only brain damage, but a dysfunctional family, as the members try to cope with the girl's problems.
General Practitioner
Dr. Terence Canfield, a general practitioner, is involved in the lives of his patients to the extent that it is beginning to adversely affect his own marriage.