Medical Center

1. The Last 10 Yards

Air Date: 1969-09-24

Bru Wiley, a college football star up for Heisman honors and a top pro career, ignores his failing health.

2. Victim

Air Date: 1969-10-01

Although the father of a 7-year-old with severe internal injuries insists the child fell off an embankment, Dr. Gannon suspects the child was beaten.

3. Emergency in Ward E

Air Date: 1969-10-08

Focuses on the psychological interplay between two patients in serious shape.

4. A Life is Waiting

Air Date: 1969-10-15

The question of a therapeutic abortion divides Nora Caldwell (Barbara Rush) and her husband Dan (John McMartin).

5. The Battle of Lily Wu

Air Date: 1969-10-22

A Vietnamese war victim (France Nuyen) is being treated at the medical center.

6. The Crooked Circle

Air Date: 1969-10-29

A story about drug addiction.

7. Thousands and Thousands of Miles

Air Date: 1969-11-12

Jenny Webb (Brooke Bundy), with a hemorrhaging kidney and a baby on the way, is rejected by her angry father and uncaring boyfriend.

8. The Sharpest Edge

Air Date: 1969-11-19

An intradepartmental dispute pits Gannon against the new acting chief of surgery (John Marley).

9. Jeopardy

Air Date: 1969-11-26

Dr. Gannon tries to prove that the suddenly violent behavior of student Greg Soreson stems from an organic ailment.

10. The Fallen Image

Air Date: 1969-12-03

A U.S. ambassador (Walter Pidgeon) has a heart condition that could jeopardize a crucial meeting.

11. The Loner

Air Date: 1969-12-10

A patient (Lee Grant) learns a lesson about life from a little boy (Fabian Gregory).

12. 24 Hours

Air Date: 1969-12-17

Gannon stakes his reputation on the integrity of a student nurse (Belinda Montgomery).

13. The Adversaries

Air Date: 1969-12-31

Interns Steve Seagren and Katherine Kenter are both being considered for a much-prized residency.

14. The Deceived

Air Date: 1970-01-07

A student facing kidney failure gets no comfort from her alienated family or her disinterested ex-husband.

15. Moment of Decision

Air Date: 1970-01-14

Dr. Lochner's emotions conflict with his professional judgment when he faces a crisis concerning his own daughter.

16. Runaway

Air Date: 1970-01-21

Dr. Gannon tries to bridge a gap between a 17-year-old and his gruff immigrant father.

17. Fright and Flight

Air Date: 1970-02-04

A blind student's recovery depends on recalling the horrible event that caused her loss of sight.

18. A Duel with Doom

Air Date: 1970-02-11

The director of a foundation for teenage parolees lays his life on the line to save one of his charges.

19. A Matter of Tomorrow

Air Date: 1970-02-25

The story of a dedicated head nurse (Mercedes McCambridge).

20. Care is no Cure

Air Date: 1970-03-04

A sensitive story about Gannon's love for an incurably ill woman (Shelby Grant).

21. The Professional

Air Date: 1970-03-11

A former gridiron idol (Forrest Tucker) finds living with his own legend unbearable.

22. The Combatants

Air Date: 1970-03-18

A research specialist (William Shatner) clashes with Gannon over a possible cancer cure.

23. The V.D. Story

Air Date: 1970-03-25

A story about the need to treat venereal disease as a medical problem divorced from social stigma.

24. His Brother's Keeper

Air Date: 1970-04-01

Dr. Martin Lambert is blind to the fact that his older son suffers from a muscular disorder and that he has neglected his younger son.

25. The Rebel in White

Air Date: 1970-04-08

An ambitious black resident (Georg Stanford Brown) is convinced that Gannon is preventing him from performing surgery.

26. Between Dark And Daylight

Air Date: 1970-04-15

The story of a marriage tormented by lack of children.

1. Brink of Doom

Air Date: 1970-09-16

A surgeon's (George Grizzard) career may be ended by multiple sclerosis.

2. Undercurrent

Air Date: 1970-09-23

A dedicated research scientist's vital work on a new drug is threatened when anonymous letters accuse him of being a homosexual.

3. Junkie

Air Date: 1970-09-30

A story about the feelings of parents whose teenagers are drug addicts. Gannon tries to save a 16-year-old girl from heroin addiction. His efforts are continually frustrated by her father, a professor who refuses to acknowledge the problem.

4. Assailant

Air Date: 1970-10-07

A brooding young doctor (Gary Lockwood) is suspected of murdering a woman on hospital grounds.

5. The Clash

Air Date: 1970-10-14

A woman doctor (Vera Miles) battles male prejudice.

6. Ghetto Clinic

Air Date: 1970-10-21

William Devane guests as the maverick director of a free clinic. The maverick director of a ghetto clinic endangers its future by his refusal to follow rules in making reports on his patients to the police.

7. Scream of Silence

Air Date: 1970-10-28

The problems of parents with mentally disabled children are explored in this episode. Dr. Gannon recommends treatment for Jenny, an abnormally active little girl. What do you do with a gifted child? Doc Gannon believes in a school for exceptional youngsters, and since he is the godfather of the child, he pushes a bit. Gannon's adversary is Mom, who takes an opposing position, and the friction between the two sparks the hour.

8. Death Grip

Air Date: 1970-11-04

The problems of a doctor who has trouble adjusting to civilian life after serving in Vietnam. Dr. Eric Canford, a brilliant surgeon, comes back from war service with a drinking problem but refuses to admit it is affecting his work.

9. Witch Hunt

Air Date: 1970-11-11

Modern medicine clashes with black magic as Gannon tries to save a girl afflicted with Addison's Disease-and a belief in the all-pervading, healing powers of Satan. (60 mins)

10. Deadly Encounter

Air Date: 1970-11-18

The problems of a patient who may face radical surgery. Doc Gannon demonstrates his noble side for the ladies, protecting Sandra Polk, a patient, when her husband becomes jealous. Suspicious professor Tink Polk flares up over his wife's appointments with Gannon while Joe, of course, remains Simon pure, merely keeping his patient's illness from her husband at her request.

11. Trial by Terror

Air Date: 1970-11-25

Blinded in an attack, Gannon is still being stalked by a would-be killer.

12. Accused

Air Date: 1970-12-02

A hallucinating patient accuses Gannon of fathering her unborn child.

13. Crisis

Air Date: 1970-12-09

Gannon is accused of shielding a seriously injured cop who allegedly shot a student without provocation.

14. Man at Bay

Air Date: 1970-12-16

A brash, long-haired surgeon (Gary Lockwood) runs afoul of his colleagues.

15. The Savage Image

Air Date: 1970-12-30

Gannon tries to save the life of a seriously ill Indian chief and enroll the chief's son in a physician's-assistant training program.

16. Woman in Question

Air Date: 1971-01-06

An intern who thinks his fiancee is ""wholesome"" doesn't know she contracted syphilis before they met.

17. Web of Darkness

Air Date: 1971-01-13

A deadly story of sibling conflict.

18. Danger Point

Air Date: 1971-01-27

A missing radium implant could contaminate the entire hospital.

19. Secret Heritage

Air Date: 1971-02-03

A mentally disabled teenager (Pamela Franklin) has been abandoned by her mother.

20. Edge of Violence

Air Date: 1971-02-10

The story of a troubled former vaudeville star (Jack Carter).

21. Countdown

Air Date: 1971-02-17

The high cost of hospital care is dramatized.

22. Perfection of Vices

Air Date: 1971-02-24

An insight into Lochner's personal life with his ex-wife (Dina Merrill) and daughter (Charlotte Stewart).

23. The Man in Hiding

Air Date: 1971-03-03

A once-brilliant surgeon (Richard Kiley) has become totally withdrawn. Dr—Thomas Patton, once a brilliant surgeon, now specializes in pathology, where he works only with the dead. Nor can anything reawaken his interest in the living, not even the needs of his critically ill ex-wife.

24. Crossroads

Air Date: 1971-03-10

An aging doctor mistakenly believes that his medical practice is as good as ever. Pat Hingle as Dr. Farrring, a septuagenarian heart-transplant recipient whose mistaken faith in his new-found stamina could have tragic consequences for a young cancer patient.

1. Blood Line

Air Date: 1971-09-15

A fugitive (William Windom) is torn between freedom and love for his anemic son.

2. The Corrupted

Air Date: 1971-09-22

A character study of an ambitious surgeon (Steve Lawrence).

3. The Imposter

Air Date: 1971-09-29

A highly respected country doctor's (Forrest Tucker) long career as a bogus physician is about to be exposed.

4. Double Jeopardy

Air Date: 1971-10-06

Artificial insemination plays a part in the story of a heart patient who risks her life to protect her sterile husband's pride.

5. Idolmaker

Air Date: 1971-10-13

Character studies of two critically ill patients who are jeopardizing their lives.

6. Circle of Power

Air Date: 1971-10-20

A distinguished surgeon (Barry Sullivan) is losing the use of his hands.

7. The Shattered Man

Air Date: 1971-10-27

A troubled husband (Bradford Dillman) is being treated for psychological impotence.

8. The Albatross

Air Date: 1971-11-03

A drama about mental retardation.

9. Martyr

Air Date: 1971-11-10

An iron-willed lady (Jo Van Fleet) is determined to spend her life in a wheelchair.

10. Suspected

Air Date: 1971-11-17

A surgeon's (Earl Hilliman) past comes back to haunt him: the once-convicted sex offender is now charged with child molesting.

11. The Loser

Air Date: 1971-11-24

A student nurse (Susan Strasberg) is plagued by a bad marriage and a mysterious respiratory illness.

12. The Pawn

Air Date: 1971-12-01

Medical quackery is the target of a drama in which a charming fraud (George Maharis) is risking the life of a young patient.

13. Conspiracy

Air Date: 1971-12-08

A lung-cancer victim (Suzanne Pleshette) is determined to keep her nightmare a secret.

14. The Nowhere Child

Air Date: 1971-12-15

An 11-year-old orphan's chance for adoption is threatened by a mysterious illness.

15. Shock! (1)

Air Date: 1971-12-29

Change-of-pace suspense drama about Gannon's involvement with an ailing tycoon and his conflict-ridden household. First of two parts.

16. Shock! (2)

Air Date: 1972-01-05

Dr. Lochner's sister is the prime suspect in the conclusion of a murder story.

17. Fatal Decision

Air Date: 1972-01-19

Gannon's romance with a woman doctor is plagued by a secret past.

18. Terror

Air Date: 1972-01-26

Bubonic plague is the villain in a medical conflict over the unidentified victim.

19. Secret

Air Date: 1972-02-02

A doctor (Michael Callan) is driven back to alcoholism by the fear of losing his dying wife.

20. The Choice

Air Date: 1972-02-09

A doctor (Monte Markham) is torn between a career in hospital administration and a return to surgical practice.

21. Deadlock

Air Date: 1972-02-16

A surgeon is offered a grim choice: his kidnapped wife will be saved if he can arrange the death of a certain patient.

22. Awakening

Air Date: 1972-02-23

A car-crash victim (Craig Stevens) awakes from a three-year coma to a nightmare: the crash killed his daughter and left him with an unforgiving wife.

23. Confession

Air Date: 1972-03-01

A woman (Ida Lupino) mysteriously turns against Gannon after he saves her husband's life.

24. Conflict

Air Date: 1972-03-08

A rape-murder mystery takes a grim twist with a confession by a young intern's fiance.

1. Vision of Doom

Air Date: 1972-09-20

A doctor (William Windom) has a premonition that his wife will die in surgery.

2. Cycle of Peril

Air Date: 1972-09-27

A woman refuses an emergency operation for fear it will endanger her pregnancy.

3. Condemned

Air Date: 1972-10-04

The story of a growing attachment between an injured teenager and his critically ill roommate.

4. Wall of Silence

Air Date: 1972-10-11

A drama about deafness and family strife.

5. The Torn Man

Air Date: 1972-10-18

Tragedy for a 42-year-old intern: he's fallen in love with a critically ill patient.

6. Betrayed

Air Date: 1972-10-25

A hospital volunteer (Geraldine Page) has a horrifying secret.

7. Doctor and Mr. Harper

Air Date: 1972-11-01

A drama about an unemployed man married to a doctor.

8. The Fallen

Air Date: 1972-11-08

The ugly-duckling story is no fairy tale to a patient who thinks she's so second-rate that she wants to die.

9. Tico Taco, M.D.

Air Date: 1972-11-15

Superstition vs. science as a critically ill woman refuses medical help.

10. The Outcast

Air Date: 1972-11-22

A brilliant researcher is taking great pains to conceal his past.

11. No Sanctuary

Air Date: 1972-11-29

A nun has secrets that are hindering her recovery from a beating and rape.

12. Gladiator

Air Date: 1972-12-06

Problems for a college football hero include a drug habit, a serious illness and a disabled wife.

13. No Way Out

Air Date: 1972-12-13

A doctor's puzzling spells of fatigue are hampering her work.

14. A Game for One Player

Air Date: 1972-12-20

A tortured relationship evolves between a lonely widow and the doctor who blames himself for her husband's death.

15. Pressure Point

Air Date: 1973-01-03

The success of a new surgical procedure is threatened by the surgeon's worry over his wife's erratic behavior.

16. Question of Guilt

Air Date: 1973-01-10

A woman convict's bitterness is threatening her success in a medical training program.

17. Judgement

Air Date: 1973-01-17

The story of a desperately lonely hospital volunteer (Ruth Buzzi).

18. End of the Line

Air Date: 1973-01-24

A high-wire performer's illness might kill her if she continues her career.

19. Between Two Fires

Air Date: 1973-01-31

A surgeon's new procedure might save his dying wife, if he can conquer his drug addiction in time to operate.

20. Night Cry

Air Date: 1973-02-07

Drama about the future of an illegitimate child whose father has been critically injured.

21. No Margin for Error

Air Date: 1973-02-14

A famous doctor's (Celeste Holm) own vital surgery must be delayed to help a man with a live bomb lodged in his chest.

22. Impact

Air Date: 1973-02-21

An ailing boy's divorced parents can't agree whether to permit surgery.

23. Fatal Memory

Air Date: 1973-02-28

A woman (Stefanie Powers) refuses to admit symptoms of a serious illness.

24. Vortex

Air Date: 1973-03-07

Dr. Lochner's one-time fiancee has a beautiful daughter who's gravely ill.

1. The Guilty

Air Date: 1973-09-10

A young woman is stricken with hysterical paralysis after seeing her mother with a lover.

2. Time of Darkness

Air Date: 1973-09-17

An emergency call to a mountain community leads Gannon to a patient guarded by mysterious, gun-toting townsfolk.

3. Broken Image

Air Date: 1973-09-24

Bent on proving his virility, an aging surgeon becomes involved with a young patient.

4. Impasse

Air Date: 1973-10-01

A lesbian psychiatrist is plagued by prejudice against her life style.

5. Clash of Shadows

Air Date: 1973-10-08

The horror of crib death is explored in this story about a couple who lose their 4-month-old child.

6. The Casualty

Air Date: 1973-10-22

Romance ends for Gannon when his girlfriend's husband, missing for six years in Vietnam, comes home to reclaim his wife and son.

7. Stranger in Two Worlds

Air Date: 1973-10-29

A champion diver is ignoring an illness that could end her career.

8. Child of Violence

Air Date: 1973-11-12

A wounded child from war-torn Northern Ireland baffles Gannon by showing no desire to get well.

9. Woman for Hire

Air Date: 1973-11-19

An idealistic young resident falls in love with an ailing prostitute.

10. A Life at Stake

Air Date: 1973-11-26

Compulsive gambling is ruining the life of a once-fine surgeon.

11. Nightmare

Air Date: 1973-12-03

Gannon is receiving bloodcurdling murder threats that contain only one clue: the would-be killer is someone on the hospital staff.

12. Deadly Game

Air Date: 1973-12-10

A derelict fakes her way into the hospital for free room and board, unaware that she is suffering from a serious disease.

13. Web of Intrigue

Air Date: 1974-01-07

An arrogant young resident refuses to submit to authority.

14. Trial by Knife

Air Date: 1974-01-14

Sparks fly when Gannon and the newly-appointed chief of surgery begin to clash on medical opinions.

15. Choice of Evils

Air Date: 1974-01-21

A proud man must decide whether to live with a dangerous illness, or submit to surgery which might cause impotence.

16. No Escape

Air Date: 1974-01-28

Gannon's patient needs a kidney transplant, and her only hope of a compatible donor is her father — a convict who is serving time for murder.

17. Dark Warning

Air Date: 1974-02-11

A seriously ill surgeon tries to hide his condition long enough to perform lifesaving surgery on his ex-wife.

18. Girl from Bedlam

Air Date: 1974-02-18

While investigating conditions in a mental hospital, Gannon falls in love with an amnesiac whose blinding headaches have gone untreated by the staff.

19. Spectre

Air Date: 1974-02-25

Determined to save a critically ill patient, a surgeon is hiding his own serious malady from his colleagues.

20. The Enemies

Air Date: 1974-03-04

A young genius becomes the center of a custody battle between his critically ill mother and a wealthy, would-be benefactress.

21. The Conspirators

Air Date: 1974-03-11

An accused rapist may not live to see a fair trial. The victim's boyfriend has already beaten him severely, and is waiting to finish the job.

22. The World's a Balloon

Air Date: 1974-03-25

An impoverished ventriloquist may lose custody of his orphaned nephew when the boy develops a serious heart condition.

23. Hexed

Air Date: 1974-04-01

A staff doctor thinks a patient's baffling symptoms are the result of a voodoo curse.

24. Appointment with Danger

Air Date: 1974-04-15

A critically ill scientist is determined to attend an important European conference, despite Gannon's warnings that the trip might kill her.

1. Adults Only

Air Date: 1974-09-09

After learning that his wife is a pornographic-movie star, a gifted surgeon wants to leave the hospital.

2. Demi-God

Air Date: 1974-09-16

A cancer patient doesn't know whether to believe her faith-healer husband's assurances that he can cure her.

3. The Faces of Peril

Air Date: 1974-09-23

A patient refuses to divulge information about herself that might prevent a deadly epidemic.

4. Three-Cornered Cage

Air Date: 1974-09-30

A husband anguishes over the responsibility he feels toward his ill wife and the love he feels for her best friend.

5. The Shattered Mask

Air Date: 1974-10-07

A mechanic is oddly reluctant to consent to an operation for his wheelchair-bound daughter (Deborah Winters).

6. May God Have Mercy

Air Date: 1974-10-21

A former priest (Tim O'Connor) is captivated by a second-rate nightclub singer (Rita Moreno) who faces a dangerous operation.

7. The Prisoners

Air Date: 1974-10-28

A convict who agrees to participate in a cancer-research experiment tries to sabotage the project.

8. The Bribe

Air Date: 1974-11-04

A socialite (Vera Miles) tries to bribe a handsome tennis pro (Peter Coffield) into romancing her dying daughter (Pamela Franklin).

9. Tainted Lady

Air Date: 1974-11-11

Job and social discrimination against cured cancer patients is the theme of this story about a woman (Shirley Knight) who undergoes a mastectomy.

10. Heel of the Tyrant

Air Date: 1974-11-18

A Jewish researcher is harassed by young anti-Semites who are led by a hospital orderly (David Macklin).

11. Three on a Tightrope

Air Date: 1974-11-25

A heart patient's recovery is endangered when she falls in love with a mentally disabled young man.

12. Midwife

Air Date: 1974-12-02

A pregnant young widow (Brooke Bundy), arrested for unlawful midwifery, learns that she has cervical cancer.

13. Kiss and Kill

Air Date: 1974-12-09

A conniving young patient (Belinda J. Montgomery) tries to drive a wedge between a wealthy woman (Kim Hunter) and her clinging son (David Soul).

14. Saturday`s Child

Air Date: 1974-12-16

An adolescent girl needs surgery, but she won't help Gannon locate her parents so he can get their consent.

15. The Hostile Heart

Air Date: 1974-12-30

An orphan's need for open-heart surgery may frighten away prospective parents.

16. No Way Home

Air Date: 1975-01-06

A former movie star's will to live is undermined by a failing marriage and ill health.

17. Captives

Air Date: 1975-01-13

A pregnant nurse dosen't want to raise a second child without the help of her errant husband.

18. Crown of Thorns

Air Date: 1975-02-03

A European princess (Suzy Kendall) escapes her bodyguard and winds up in Gannon's arms.

19. The Invisible Wife

Air Date: 1975-02-10

The ailing and neglected wife of a charismatic politician asks Gannon to keep her presence in the hospital a secret.

20. If Mine Eye Offends Me

Air Date: 1975-02-24

A convicted child molester will be granted parole only if he takes a drug that might cause impotence.

21. Survivors

Air Date: 1975-03-03

Camaraderie turns to rivalry when 12 medical students compete for seven internships.

22. Aftershock

Air Date: 1975-03-10

A hospital explosion traps Gannon and five others in the basement.

23. Half a Life

Air Date: 1975-03-17

A woman is torn between her desire to live with her lover in Greece, and her duty to her brother, who needs transfusions of her blood.

24. Ripoff

Air Date: 1975-03-24

1. The Fourth Sex (1)

Air Date: 1975-09-08

A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.

2. The Fourth Sex (2)

Air Date: 1975-09-15

A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.

3. Torment

Air Date: 1975-09-22

On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.

4. No Hiding Place

Air Date: 1975-09-29

A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.

5. The Velvet Knife

Air Date: 1975-10-06

Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.

6. The Price of a Child

Air Date: 1975-10-13

The son of a wealthy Arab shows unusual concern over the plight of an ailing Jewish boy.

7. Street Girl

Air Date: 1975-10-20

The teenage daughter of a busy surgeon turns to prostitution in a bid for attention.

8. Too Late for Tomorrow

Air Date: 1975-11-03

Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.

9. The Last Performance

Air Date: 1975-11-10

Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.

10. Two Against Death

Air Date: 1975-11-17

An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.

11. One Last Rebellion

Air Date: 1975-11-24

A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.

12. The Eighth Deadly Sin

Air Date: 1975-12-01

An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.

13. Gift from a Killer

Air Date: 1975-12-08

One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.

14. The High Cost of Winning

Air Date: 1975-12-15

A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.

15. The Silent Witness

Air Date: 1975-12-29

A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.

16. A Very Private War

Air Date: 1976-01-12

Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.

17. You Can't Annul My Baby

Air Date: 1976-01-19

Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.

18. Child of Conflict

Air Date: 1976-02-02

The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.

19. The Stranger

Air Date: 1976-02-09

The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.

20. A Touch of Sight

Air Date: 1976-02-16

Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.

21. Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster

Air Date: 1976-02-23

The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.

22. Major Annie, M.D.

Air Date: 1976-03-01

An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.

23. The Happy State of Depression

Air Date: 1976-03-08

A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.

24. If Wishes Were Horses

Air Date: 1976-03-15

A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.