Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Medical Center' from 1970-1982:
- Chad Everett as Dr. Joe Gannon (1969-1976)
- Chris Hutson as Nurse Courtland (1969-1976)
- James Daly as Dr. Paul Lochner (1969-1976)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Medical Center':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Andy Lewis D: William Graham
With Paulene Myers (Mrs. Wiley), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Jolly), Radames Pera (Allan Theron), Dana Elcar (George Mazur), Cicely Tyson (Susan Wiley), O.J. Simpson (Bru Wiley), Edward Asner (Coach Trask).
A potential Heisman Trophy recipient and big draft choice with the pros is suddenly plagued by a mysterious ailment.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Robert Hamner D: Charles S. Dubin
With Jason Wingreen (Dr. Howard), Eldon Quick (Surgical Resident), Sheila Larken (Nurse Wittley), Don Clarke (Jamie Crawford), Robert Lansing (Eric Crawford), Dyan Cannon (Elinor Crawford), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett).
Bruises on a young boy's body convince Dr. Gannon that his patient has been the victim of a child beating instead of suffering injuries from a fall he reportedly had.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Don Brinkley D: Vincent Sherman
With France Nuyen (Lily Wu), Harold J. Stone (Capt. Lombardi), Jayne Meadows (Nurse Chambers), Byron Keith (Dr. Berger), Paul Hahn (Fred Cody).
An injured Vietnamese girl is brought to the United States and proves a problem for Dr. Gannon by becoming uncommunicative and failing to respond to treatment.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Vincent Sherman
With Richard Webb (Hank Dallas), Charlotte Stewart (Jane Minter), Nan Martin (Anne Filbey), Tim Considine (Charlie Filbey), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett).
A wounded college senior, who has been under the influence of drugs, staggers through the hospital's emergency entrance and touches off a police investigation of his injury.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Don Brinkley D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Carolyn Conwell (Doris Webb), Peter Donat (Calvin Webb), Michael Brandon (Andy Tobin), Brooke Bundy (Jenny Webb), Patti Cohoon (Proo), Tom Falk (Dr. Tobias).
Jenny Webb, with a hemorrhaging kidney and a baby on the way, is rejected by her angry father and uncaring boyfriend.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Oliver Crawford D: Harvey Hart
With Lynn Carlin (Ruth Dwyer), John Ericson (Pete Duncan), John Marley (Dr. Roger Farrell), Tom DeMent (James Tredman), Paula Victor (Mrs. Vola).
Dr. Roger Farrell takes over as chief of surgeons and immediately overrules Dr. Gannon's opinion concerning one of his patients.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Shimon Wincelberg, Donn Mullally D: Alvin Ganzer
With Michael Burns (Greg Sorenson), Joanna Cameron (Lainie Jeffries), Lloyd Gough (Larry Sorenson), Carl Reindel (Dr. Hauser), Lloyd Bochner (Dean Wrightman), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett), Byron Morrow (Judge Thomas).
A student's unprovoked attack on a psychology professor and his generally unpredictable behavior leads Dr. Gannon to believe that the boy's troubles may have some physical cause.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Andy Lewis, Al C. Ward D: Daniel Petrie
With Arthur Adams (Dr. Maywood), Paul Stevens (Dr. Scarpia), Richard Geary (Agent), Linden Chiles (Martin Evarts), Viveca Lindfors (Kyri Gregaros), Walter Pidgeon (Ambassador Evarts).
A U.S. ambassador's critical negotiations with a major foreign power are delayed by a sudden heart flareup. Dr. Gannon determines from tests that heart surgery is required, but then becomes locked in a conflict with the ambassador's son who opposes the operation.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Robert J. Shaw D: Earl Bellamy
With James Shigeta (Dan Purcell), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Torres), Lee Grant (Karen Harper), Fabian Gregory (Tavo Enriquez), Paul Comi (Jeff McKay), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett).
A wealthy widow, withdrawn since the death of her husband, begins to feel involvement with people again when she becomes attached to a 10-year-old hospital patient.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Andy Lewis, Al C. Ward D: Daniel Petrie
With Belinda Montgomery (Eunice Carston), Ned Glass (Pop Tulliver), Bettye Ackerman (Nurse Marsh), Tom Fielding (Jess Yarnaby), Peter Brocco (Mr. Honeyman), Frank Wilcox (Ashley Drumman), Ivan Bonar (Dr. Nelson).
Dr. Gannon sticks his neck out to back a struggling student nurse who has been accused of mishandling a patient.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Oscar Millard D: Gerald Mayer
With Jack Garner (Dr. Harrison), Boyd Berlind (Dr. Posten), Patricia Quinn (Dr. Kenter), Ricky Kelman (Quincy Rust), Helen Westcott (Mary Summers), Sidney Clute (Dr. Grover), Shirley Bonne (June), Christopher Stone (Dr. Steve Seagren), Ivan Bonar (Dr. Nelson).
A promising intern learns that there is only one residency postion open at the hospital. His competition for the post being a pretty woman, he decides on a plan to get her out of the way.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Andy Lewis D: Vincent Sherman
With Inga Swenson (Nina Hoagley), Booth Colman (Dr. Persky), Sean Morgan (Janusas), Pat Hingle (Tom Hoagley), Greg Mullavey (Frank Alber), Carrie Snodgress (Mimi Hoagley).
Dr. Gannon gets a mysterious turndown when he asks the mother of a girl needing a kidney transplant to become her donor. After discussing the case with the father, he begins to unfold the reasons for he mother's strange attitude.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Robert J. Shaw D: Daniel Petrie
With Percy Rodrigues (Dr. DeHaven), Robert Gentry (Peter Marshall), Tyne Daly (Jennifer Lochner).
Dr. Lochner is faced with the difficult task of telling his daughter that she has a serious arterial condition, right when she's making plans for her upcoming wedding.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Don Brinkley D: Charles S. Dubin
With James Shigeta (Resident Doctor), Richard Thomas (Toby Tavormina), Carol Booth (Verna), Gilbert Green (Sgt. Brook), Pamela Peters (Maria Tavormina), Simon Oakland (August Tavormina).
Remembering his own youthful rebeliousness, Dr. Gannon provides refuge for a 17-year-old runaway suffering from mysterious blackouts.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Robert M. Young D: Harvey Hart
With Steve Ihnat (Zach Hibbs), Martine Bartlett (Stella Hibbs), Heidi Vaughn (Lucy Hibbs), Mark Jenkins (Danny Conwell), Marj Dusay (Dr. Michaels).
Dr. Joe Gannon suspects a sightless teenager is suffering from hysterical blindness when she reacts visibly to a hypodermic needle after being hospitalized because of a motorcycle accident.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Charles S. Dubin
With Marj Dusay (Dr. Michaels), Bruce Davison (Mickey Peters), Jana Taylor (Janet Johns), Fred Sadoff (Johns), Martin Sheen (Rev. Thompson), Joseph Breen (Sgt. Walding).
A minister's heart condition flares up to jeopardize his chances of maintaining a foundation for parolees.
Season 1, episode 19
W: John W. Bloch, Robert J. Shaw D: Earl Bellamy
With Mercedes McCambridge (Nurse Marge Bowen), Cliff Potts (Johnny Kane), Suzanne Benoit (Nancy), David Saber (Musician), Charles Wagenheim (Mr. Hinckley).
A dedicated head nurse suffers several minor strokes and shields her serious artery condition to avoid losing her job.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Don Brinkley D: Charles S. Dubin
With Walter Matthews (Rinaldi), Dolores Mann (Mrs. Rinaldi), Julian Rivero (Manuel), Stephen Brooks (Dr. Casman), Shelby Grant (T.J. O'Hara).
A lovely tour director falls in love with Dr. Joe Gannon while he is on vacation in Mexico. Gannon is just falling under her spell when she's involved in an auto accident, and it appears that her injuries may be traceable to something other than the accident itself.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Don Brinkley D: Bernard McEveety
With Jo Ann Harris (Ellen Farley), Slim Pickens (Smokey Bradville), Forrest Tucker (Ollie Wayne), Jayne Meadows (Nurse Chambers), Gertrude Flynn (Mrs. Farley), John Crawford (Pat Dugan), Hilly Hicks (Photographer).
Dr. Gannon begins to treat his boyhood football idol and is startled to discover that the ailing athlete doesn't really seem to care if the poor circulation in his legs is cured.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Oliver Crawford D: Earl Bellamy
With Barbara Dana (Esther Neily), Renne Jarrett (Vicki Kaufman), Lonny Chapman (Mr. Kaufman), William Shatner (Dr. Eli Neily), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett), Jack Garner (Doctor).
The determination of a research scientist to have his probable cure for Hodgkin's Disease accepted by the center brings him to a parting of the ways with the hospital and weakens his friendship with Dr. Gannon.
Season 1, episode 23
W: Dick Nelson D: Harvey Hart
With James Shigeta (Dr. Osaka), Anne Seymour (Dr. Bardman), Carl Betz (Jason Purcell), Wendell Burton (Jerry), Katherine Cannon (Nancy), Jon Lormer (Dr. Riedmont).
A wealthy publisher forces Dr. Gannon to face a medical board hearing for violating the hospital code, by failing to inform him that his teenage daughter has contracted a venereal disease.
Season 1, episode 24
W: Robert J. Shaw D: Earl Bellamy
With David Cassidy (Rick Lambert), Ben Murphy (Jerry Lambert), Tim O'Connor (Dr. Martin Lambert), Carl Reindel (Dr. Hauser), Chris Shelton (Bob Tredman).
One of Dr. Gannon's medical associates whose son is a strong candidate for the Olympic diving team finds it difficult to believe that the young athlete has developed a muscular disease.
Season 1, episode 25
W: Anthony Lawrence D: Harvey Hart
With David Opatoshu (Dr. Komer), Bart La Rue (Cal Gibbs), Paula Kelly (Ellie James), Will Geer (Jess Calhoun), Georg Stanford Brown (Dr. James), Hazel Medina (Hettie Simpson).
Gannon tries to assure a black resident in surgery that he's one of the young doctor's strongest boosters, but the medic is convinced that Gannon lacks confidence in him when he fails to receive a research grant and then is assigned a welfare patient.
Season 1, episode 26
W: Don Brinkley D: Earl Bellamy
With Sharon Farrell (Linda Atwood), Tom Skerritt (Artie Atwood), Rudy Solari (Dr. Walters), Walter Koenig (Harry Seller), Lane Bradbury (Maggie Seller), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett), David Renard (Dr. Lorca).
Dr. Gannon feels there is an underlying psychiatric reason when his teaching assistant seeks sterilization as the solution to her miscarriage problems.
September 16, 1970: Brink Of Doom
Season 2, episode 1
W: Dick Nelson D: Daniel Petrie
With Rita Rogers (Elena Marsh), Robert Lipton (Bryan Marsh), George Grizzard (Dr. Tom Forley), Elizabeth Ashley (Anne Forley), James Shigeta (Dr. Osaka), Lloyd Kino (Doctor).
A brilliant surgeon is stricken with a crippling muscular ailment just as he is perfecting a radical new surgical technique. Anxious for a fellowship grant, the doctor stubbornly tries to hide his condition from his wife and gets furious when she goes to Dr. Joe Gannon for information.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Robert M. Young D: Daniel Petrie
With Pamela Murphy (Linda Petrie), Murray MacLeod (Pvt. Burton Reeves), Andrew Duggan (Dr. Oliver Garson), Paul Burke (Dr. Ben Teverley), Salome Jens (Dr. Abby Whitten), Severn Darden (Dr. Seaton), Jack Garner (Dr. Bolton), Ivan Bonar (Dr. Crump).
A dedicated research scientist's vital work on a new drug is threatened when anonymous letters accuse him of being a homosexual.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Anthony Lawrence D: Murray Golden
With Janet Wood (Nadine), Tom Ormeny (Frank), Glenn Allan (Pete), Geoffrey Binney (Ken), Frank Campanella (Sgt. Gifford), Michael Anderson Jr. (Kevin), Murray Hamilton (Robert Jennings), Heidi Vaughn (Julie Jennings), Phyllis Thaxter (Celia Jennings).
Dr. Gannon learns that the teenage daughter of his best friend is on drugs, but when he tries to commit her to the student health center for treatment he runs into opposition from her parents.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Oliver Crawford, Barney Slater D: Richard Benedict
With Gary Lockwood (Dr. Carl Webson), Bradford Dillman (Inspector Fellows), Jane Dulo (Nurse Murphy), Fred Holliday (Dr. Barnes).
When a series of criminal attacks on coeds puts the hospital community up in arms, suspicion falls on an arrogant doctor.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Cliff Gould D: Vincent Sherman
With Patricia Stich (Louise), Stewart Moss (Greg), Charles Aidman (Pete Howell), Vera Miles (Dr. Gloria Howell), Fred Holliday (Dr. Barnes), Eugene Peterson (Dr. Weller).
An uncompromising woman doctor clashes with Gannon after a coed's death from a bungled abortion starts him on a campaign to ease Student Health Service rules.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Oliver Crawford D: Daniel Petrie
With Ivan Bonar (Dr. Crump), Ed Hall (Stan), Elizabeth Ann Coffin (Madge), Michael Clark (Glen), Al Checco (Gordie), Victor Brandt (Tony), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Daggett), Vincent Van Patten (Benjy), Robert F. Lyons (Pete), William Devane (Dr. Ray Waltham).
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.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Robert M. Young D: Vincent Sherman
With Lois Nettleton (Marian Palmer), Christina Crawford (Dr. Myles), Mia Bendixsen (Jenny Palmer), Jason Evers (Ken Palmer), Jayne Meadows (Nurse Chambers), Fred Holliday (Dr. Barnes).
A little girl's abnormally active behavior leads her grandfather to urge special treatment for her despite protests from her mother.
Season 2, episode 8
With Michael Stearns, Slim Gaillard (Piano Player), Steve Forrest (Dr. Eric Canford), Laurie Prange (Emmy Cranston), Hugh Beaumont (Dr. Simpson), John Breckfield (Dr. Wilson).
A brilliant surgeon returns from the war with a drinking problem. He refuses to admit it is affecting his work and tries to cover up for a mistake in treating a critically ill coed.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Ed Adamson
With Jeff Donnell (Mrs. Hersey), Dana Wynter (Amanda Scott), Joan Delaney (Janice), Dick Kallman (Charlie), John Abbott (Professor MacIntyre), Ted de Corsia (Bert Wilcox), Ed Hall (Intern), Alfred Shelly (Officer Dormer).
Gannon tracks down a campus witchcraft cult that is using bizarre practices to treat an ailing coed.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Oliver Crawford, Max Hodge, Al C. Ward D: Vincent Sherman
With James Shigeta (Dr. Osaka), Barry Sullivan (Marshall Polk), Bettye Ackerman (Nurse Marsh), Jeff Siggins (Art), Ron Castro (Young Man), Russ Marin (Pathologist), Diane Baker (Sandra Polk).
An aging professor is jealous of his young, attractive wife's frequent visits to Gannon, an old boyfriend, not knowing she is seriously ill.
Season 2, episode 11
D: Harvey Hart
With Frank Converse (Pete Barris), George Chakiris (Dr. Christopher), Elliott Montgomery.
A new surgeon has to learn a complex heart operation when Dr. Gannon is blinded in an auto crash, apparently set up in an attempt on his life.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Anthony Lawrence D: Harvey Hart
With Belinda Montgomery (Melanie Toland), James Olson (Dave Toland), Jonathan Brooks (Alan Lacey), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett), Chris Woodley (Vicki).
A coed suffering from a possible brain tumor claims Dr. Gannon is the father of her unborn child.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Jack Turley D: Murray Golden
With Michael Stearns, Roy Glenn (Inspector Holman), Mark Jenkins (Phil), Roddy McDowall (Carl Marris), Keenan Wynn (Sergeant Gordon), Sean Morgan (Intern), Walter Brooke (Chancellor Lewis), Tiffany Bolling (Helen).
A security guard, injured when he is forced to shoot and wound a student leader, becomes the target of a crusading attorney who uses the incident to provoke a campus uprising.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Don Brinkley D: Earl Bellamy
With Andrew Duggan (Dr. Garson), Gary Lockwood (Dr. Carl Webson), Stefanie Powers (Lisa Montague), Dana Elcar (General Montague), Jack Garner (Dr. Bolton).
A hippie-style doctor fights a stiff-necked colleague for promising too much success with a new treatment to a girl suffering from gangrene.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Robert I. Holt D: Earl Bellamy
With Eduard Franz (Blue Eagle), Geoffrey Deuel (Billy Sand), Daniel J. Travanti (Dr. Fredericks), Barry O'Hara (Bartender), Joe Renteria (Young Indian), Riza Royce (Patient), Rudy Solari (Dr. Walters).
Modern medical science clashes with tribal customs when Dr. Gannon treats a poverty-stricken Indian suffering a mysterious ailment.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Don Brinkley
With Brenda Scott (Ellen Beeker), Dennis Cole (Dr. Gordon DeWitt), Herb Armstrong (Dr. Faraday), Nancy Priddy (Nurse Loving), William Dozier (Dr. Bradville), Caroline Barrett (Connie).
A student nurse learns she has to postpone her wedding and fears telling her doctor-fiancee the true reason -- that she has syphilis.
Season 2, episode 17
With Jessica Walter (Maggie Spencer), Roger Davis (Brad Carter), Janet Margolin (Terri Spencer), Alfred Ryder (Dr. Wiles).
A woman executive is injured in a fall while horseback riding with her younger sister, and after surgery she becomes paralyzed.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Jackson Gillis, John Meredyth Lucas D: Michael Caffey
With Joanne Linville (Joan Morton), Frank Aletter (Morton), Parley Baer (Elter), Don Dubbins (Parker), Brent Davis (Charlie), Stephen Hudis (Rick), James Griffith (Follit), Paul Picerni (Reinart), Alex Miller (MacGill), James A. Watson Jr. (Stan), Michael Stearns (Orderly).
The hospital is endangered when a patient, deranged by the death of her newborn baby, loses a radioactive implant for cancer treatment then can't remember the incident.
Season 2, episode 19
With Pamela Franklin (Baby Freitag), Kim Stanley (Nurse Hull), Inga Swenson (Mrs. Amons), Karl Swenson (Dr. Mills).
When Gannon learns that a 17-year-old girl has been treated as an infant all of her life, he tries to make her do things for herself but realizes he must know more about her background before his treatment can succeed.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Stephen Kandel D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Michael Stearns, Jack Carter (Pete Olsen), Joan Van Ark (Deborah Walters), Liam Sullivan (Tyson), Brooke Tucker (Nurse Peerwood).
A hospital entertainer volunteers to help a girl who has tried to commit suicide, unaware that he himself is seriously ill.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Don Brinkley D: Vincent Sherman
With Michael Stearns, Helen Westcott (Mrs. Keller), John Qualen (Charlie), William Lundigan (Willoughby), Bebe Kelly (Gloria), Frank Corsentino (Ciavelli), Brooke Bundy (Julie Desmond), Peter Strauss (Tom Desmond).
The high cost of medical care takes its toll of a man who sets out to steal when he can't pay his wife's hospital bills.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Dick Nelson
With Charlotte Stewart (Connie Marlowe), Dina Merrill (Ruth Marlowe), Evelyn Frank (Nurse Foley), Brooke Tucker (Nurse Peerwood).
Dr. Lochner's ailing ex-wife turns up unexpectedly and he is unaware of her designs on him. He gets involved with Dr. Gannon over treatment of her.
Season 2, episode 23
D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Hal England (Dr. Bill Kebner), Gena Rowlands (Frances Delaney), Richard Kiley (Dr. Thomas Patton), Georg Stanford Brown (Dr.Roy James).
Dr. Joe Gannon is dismayed to learn that a once famous doctor has given up surgery for a self-imposed exile in the research laboratory and steadfastly refuses to help a critically ill patient -- his ex-wife!
Season 2, episode 24
W: Don Brinkley D: Al C. Ward
With Pat Hingle (Dr. Farring), Lynne Marta (Libby Brent), Jan Sterling (Florence Brent), Robert Pine (Jimmy Cole).
An elderly doctor who has undergone a heart transplant sets out on a busy work schedule despite Gannon's warning to slow down.
September 15, 1971: Blood Line
Season 3, episode 1
W: Jackson Gillis
With Carol Lawrence (Flora McCrae), William Windom (Nick McCrae), Percy Rodrigues (Lt. Preston), Vincent Van Patten (Jimmy McRae), Ed Hall (Dr. Bricker).
Third season gets underway with doctors Gannon and Lochner faced with an unusual problem: a critically ill child needs the type of blood only his fugitive father can supply.
Season 3, episode 2
With David Opatoshu (Oscar Havlicek), Steve Lawrence (Dr. Sam Havers), Pippa Scott (Nancy Havers), Eric Scott (Danny).
Dr. Gannon is distressed to see an ambitious doctor trying so hard for a big new job that he loses interest in his patients -- even his seriously ill father.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Don Brinkley D: Richard Benedict
With Forrest Tucker (Doc Yarman), Kim Hunter (Carla Yarman), Joy Bang (Peggy).
A country doctor who has built a successful practice with no medical training lives in fear of being discovered.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Oliver Crawford D: Vincent Sherman
With Paul Stevens (Dr. Kentner), Jack Kruschen (Stavros), Stefanie Powers (Marcie), Scott Marlowe (Steve).
A woman with a heart ailment defies Dr. Gannon's warning against having a child and becomes pregnant by artificial insemination -- without telling her husband.
Season 3, episode 5
W: John Meredyth Lucas
With Pamela Payton-Wright (Jessie), Roger Davis (Bob MacGill), David Roberts (Tim Cooper).
Dr. Gannon tries to cope with two patients who refuse to undergo surgery: a woman evangelist depending on her faith for a cure-all; an old man tired of living.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Alvin Boretz D: Paul Stanley
With Barry Sullivan (Dr. Sangford), Michael Burns (Carl Harris), Jessica Walter (Dr. Carrie Benson).
Dr. Gannon becomes suspicious when an ailing surgeon tries to block the promotion for a woman resident he has trained as his "hands", to perform operations he can no longer do himself.
Season 3, episode 7
W: Robert M. Young D: Michael Caffey
With Bradford Dillman (John Weisley), Collin Wilcox (Claudia), David Wayne (Quentin Thayer), Jayne Meadows (Nurse Chambers).
When Dr. Gannon treats a young executive for accident injuries, he realizes that his patient has a serious marital problem but refuses to seek help.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Richard Shapiro D: Richard Benedict
With Michael Douglas (Jonathan Crowley), John Ericson (Steve Crowley), Anne Helm (Carole Sims), Pamela McMyler (Melody Cavandale), Jeffrey Thorpe (Marvin).
A retarded man faces a grim future when his brother, on whom he depends, becomes ill.
Season 3, episode 9
With Paul Stewart (Dr. Holmby), Jo Van Fleet (Margaret), Michael Larrain (Frank).
By refusing surgery which could free her from a wheelchair, a woman executive tries to force her son to take care of her.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Dick Nelson D: Charles S. Dubin
With Diana Hyland (Susan), Earl Holliman (Dr. Ian Hayton), Louise Latham (Mrs. Whitlock), Dianne Hull (Kathy).
A mother's complaint that a doctor has molested her daughter uncovers the fact that the medic is a convicted sex offender.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Robert M. Young D: Paul Stanley
With Susan Strasberg (Diana), Tom Ligon (David), Greg Mullavey (Don).
Gannon makes no headway when he tries to get a student nurse's self-centered husband to ease her workload. She has become overwhelmed by money, marriage and health problems.
Season 3, episode 12
W: Stephen Kandel D: Charles S. Dubin
With Louise Sorel (Miriam), George Maharis (Evan Kenbrook), Charles Cioffi (John Glenson), Dran Hamilton (Mrs. Glenson), Jonathan Lippe (Sgt. Boyce).
A charming quack doctor and his unconventional approach to medicine arouses Dr. Gannon's anger.
Season 3, episode 13
W: Lou Shaw D: Daniel Petrie
With Suzanne Pleshette (Mary), Leslie Nielsen (Frank), Lee H. Montgomery (Alec).
A woman with lung cancer refuses to postpone her wedding and forbids Dr. Gannon to tell her fiancee.
Season 3, episode 14
D: Chad Everett
With Ed Nelson (Hank), Fay Spain (Linda), Willie Aames (Eric), Diana Sands (Dr. Marylou Neeley).
Dr. Gannon suspects a small boy has a brain tumor but when he proposes further tests he runs into objections from the child's own doctor and the couple planning to adopt him.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Don Brinkley D: Paul Stanley
With John Larch (Victor Crayton), Robert F. Lyons (David Crayton), Glenn Corbett (Phil Dorsey), Sheree North (Karen Porter), Vera Miles (Nora Crayton), Frank Campanella (Lt. Berger), Miko Mayama (Yoshiko Toma).
Gannon gets entangled in the affairs of an ailing tycoon who sets the stage for his own murder through cruelty to his wife, coldness to his son and his romantic overtures to his nurse.
Season 3, episode 16
W: Don Brinkley D: Paul Stanley
With John Larch (Victor Crayton), Robert F. Lyons (David Crayton), Glenn Corbett (Phil Dorey), Vera Miles (Nora Crayton), Sheree North (Karen Porter), Frank Campanella (Lt. Berger), Miko Mayama (Yoshiko Toma).
While police investigate the murder of one of Dr. Gannon's patients, he has difficulty diagnosing the illness of an Oriental exchange student whose own physician wants to perform drastic surgery.
Season 3, episode 17
With Claudine Auger (Dr. Suzanne Millay), Wendell Burton (Bill Howland), Fritz Weaver (Dr. Matthews).
A visiting woman doctor, an old flame of Dr. Gannon's, is accused by a hospital official of failing to give emergency aid to an accident victim.
Season 3, episode 18
W: Barry Oringer D: Vincent Sherman
With Larry Blyden (Dr. Lieber), Kathleen Lloyd (Angela Corelli), Tony De Costa (Khalid), Anthony Caruso (Zanarek), Georg Stanford Brown (Dr. James).
A case of bubonic plague sends Dr. Gannon and a public health doctor on an all-out search for the source of infection to head off an epidemic of the disease.
Season 3, episode 19
W: Don Brinkley, Jackson Gillis D: Earl Bellamy
With Jeanette Nolan (Hallie), Marianne McAndrew (Stephanie), Michael Callan (Dr. Steve Carson), Joan Tompkins (Mrs. Magruder).
A staff doctor who is faced with trying to overcome a drinking problem learns that his wife is dying of a rare nervous disease.
Season 3, episode 20
W: Lionel E. Siegel D: Leo Penn
With David Huddleston (Sheriff), Clu Gulager (Jack Filmore), Monte Markham (Dr. Grainger), Tyne Daly (Dr. Barbara Latimer).
A hospital administrator treats an accident victim in a community with no doctor and is tempted to return to active medical practice.
Season 3, episode 21
W: Stephen Kandel D: Michael Caffey
With Michael Tolan (Dr. Larry Crown), Michael Anderson Jr. (Blake), Jo Ann Harris (Dana Warren), Susan Howard (Linda Crown), Peter Brown (Dr. Musante), Jared Martin (Jason).
A doctor's wife is kidnapped and her husband notified that the price for her safe return is the death of a patient who needs emergency surgery.
Season 3, episode 22
W: Robert M. Young D: Earl Bellamy
With Barbara Rush (Judy MacMurdy), Craig Stevens (Dr. David MacMurdy), Eugene Peterson (Dr. Whittaker), Jack Ging (Ward Field), Jane Dulo (Nurse Murphy).
A doctor who awakens after three years in a coma faces the critical problems of the time lapse, including a wife who blames him for the auto crash which killed their child. He then begins to lose interest in his own recovery.
Season 3, episode 23
W: Don Brinkley D: Al C. Ward
With Ida Lupino (Marion McKinnon), Howard Duff (Matt McKinnon), Meg Foster (Carol McKinnon), James Shigeta (Dr. Osaka).
A hard-driving politician angrily opposes additional heart surgery for his daughter and demands that Dr. Lochner take Dr. Gannon off the case.
Season 3, episode 24
W: Stephen Kandel D: Vincent Sherman
With Shelly Novack (Nick Belasco), Tisha Sterling (Dr. Maggie Craig), Chris Robinson (Ted Broder), Martin E. Brooks (Lt. Samuels), Ayn Ruymen (Connie Belasco).
An assaulted co-ed points out a campus teacher as her attacker, setting off a chain reaction that involves the career of his fiancee, a brilliant woman intern.
September 13, 1972: Vision Of Doom
Season 4, episode 1
W: Barry Oringer D: Charles S. Dubin
With William Windom (Dr. Charles Nolan), Susan Oliver (Dr. Ruth), James Stacy (Neil), Lynn Carlin (Louise Nolan).
A professor known for his extrasensory perception has a vision of his own wife's death in surgery.
Season 4, episode 2
With Michael Masters (Foreman), Nancy Walker (Mrs. Bainbridge), James Stacy (Neil), Pamela Payton-Wright (Lori).
An ambitious husband insists that he cannot be the father of the child expected by his wife, while she refuses an emergency operation for fear it will endanger her pregnancy.
Season 4, episode 3
W: Edward DeBlasio D: Paul Stanley
With Lola Albright (Madeline Harris), Stephen Hudis (Davey Campbell), Sean Kelly (Jack Harris), Karl Held (Arthur Campbell), Sarah Marshall (Ann Campbell).
The ailing delinquent son of a jet-set mother learns new values from the critically ill youth who is his hospital roommate.
Season 4, episode 4
W: Robert M. Young D: Paul Stanley
With Kristoffer Tabori (Kyle), Tim O'Connor (Max), Estelle Parsons (Bev).
The father of a deaf youth unaccountably refuses permission for tests that could help his son recover his hearing.
Season 4, episode 5
W: Barry Oringer D: Vincent Sherman
With Robert H. Harris (Gruber), Vincent Beck (Lewie Tappie), Marcia Rodd (Connie), Harry Guardino (Dr. Rubinstein).
An impulsive older intern, in constant trouble over his emotional involvement with patients, falls in love with a girl who has tried to commit suicide.
Season 4, episode 6
W: Bill Stratton D: Richard Benedict
With Ayn Ruymen (Denny), Joyce Van Patten (Paula Eckhart), Charles Aidman (Ross Eckhart), Geraldine Page (Mary Ellen Davis), Martin E. Brooks (Lt. Samuels).
A well-meaning hospital aide locks her teenage daughter away from the world because of the girl's wild, animal-like behavior. When Dr. Gannon discovers this he takes the child in for treatment and, through blood tests, begins to believe the girl is not her child.
Season 4, episode 7
W: Karl Tunberg D: Earl Bellamy
With Diana Muldaur (Dr. Harper), Peter Kastner (Phil), Darleen Carr (Vivian), Paul Burke (Ted Harper).
To Dr. Gannon's dismay, a woman doctor on the staff wants to leave but then she learns that her husband is seriously ill. Her personal crisis affects her ability to deal with a young patient who is having trouble with her fiancee.
Season 4, episode 8
With Fred Beir (Dr. Belfield), Peter Haskell (Jimmy), Lee Purcell (Liza), George Tobias (Kabakov), Eugene Peterson (Dr. Weller).
When a flamboyant traveling photographer promises a critically ill girl he will take her on his next trip, she wants to delay badly needed surgery to go with him.
Season 4, episode 9
W: Karl Tunberg D: Vincent Sherman
With Gilbert Roland (Mondragon), Priscilla Garcia (Elisa), George Chakiris (Dr. John Martins), Rosa Turich (Housekeeper), Carmen Zapata (Senora Esquival), Alfonso Tafoya (Neighbor).
A young doctor and a faith healer are called to treat an elderly Mexican woman who believes her illness is caused by an evil spirit.
Season 4, episode 10
W: Herb Bermann D: Michael Caffey
With Louise Sorel (Louise Morgan), Dick Kallman (Dr. Styles), Ken Howard (Kevin Morgan), Kay Medford (Mattie).
A brilliant research scientist, trying to conceal a secret that threatens his career, finds himself under heavy pressure when a wealthy woman cancer victim pins her hopes of recovery on his work.
Season 4, episode 11
W: Don Brinkley D: Vincent Sherman
With Shelby Grant (Sister Teresa), Simon Oakland (Sergeant Driscoll), Mary McCarty (Mother Superior), John Lupton (Bayliss), Tammi Bula (Dorrie), Thomas A. Geas (Augie).
A nun is criminally assualted but refuses to describe her assailant despite pressure from police.
Season 4, episode 12
W: Don Brinkley, Oliver Crawford D: Earl Bellamy
With Joe Kapp (Coach Savalas), Russell Wiggins (Don), Leslie Charleson (Patti), William Devane (Dr. Waltham), Marvin Goux (Assistant Coach).
When his wife becomes paralyzed as the result of a serious accident, a star college football player blames himself for the tragedy because he was high on pep pills at the time.
Season 4, episode 13
W: Martin Zweiback D: Richard Benedict
With Lois Nettleton (Dr. Amy Todd), Nico Minardos (Rubio Sandoval), Scott Jacoby (Tony Ivers), Will Geer (Coughlin).
An ailing woman doctor is asked by her millionaire suitor to give up her career just at a time an elderly patient insists on her for surgery.
Season 4, episode 14
W: Stephen Kandel D: Earl Bellamy
With Sandy Ward (Gifford), Jessica Walter (Susan), Robert Foxworth (Pete DeCarta), Justin Trader (Beeman), Jay Varela (Lorimer), Patricia Harty (Abby), Tom Hallick (Ed Talley), Norman Alden (Roczak).
One of the hospital medics is overwhelmed by guilt when a friend who subbed for him on an emergency call is killed by a sniper.
Season 4, episode 15
W: Barry Oringer D: Paul Stanley
With Bill Bixby (Dr. Hurst), Joanna Miles (Terry Hurst), Brooke Tucker (Nurse Peerwood), Dianne Hull (Diane).
A neurosurgeon, troubled by his wife's strange behavior, neglects a young girl's surgical treatment.
Season 4, episode 16
W: Larry Brody, Jack Guss D: Michael Caffey
With Brenda Scott (Lyla Tillberg), Charlotte Stewart (Bobbie), Shelly Novack (J.K. Ruttman), Aldine King (Wanda), Bettye Ackerman (Nurse Marsh).
Dr. Gannon battles opposition at the hospital to enroll a talented but bitter woman convict in his halfway house medical training program.
Season 4, episode 17
W: Mark Weingart D: Paul Stanley
With Sheila Larken (Holly Evans), Tom Bosley (Howard Spirling), Ruth Buzzi (Rose Jenkins), Peggy Rea (Landlady), John Karlen (Frank Crane).
A busybody hospital volunteer wins Dr. Gannon's appreciation with her kindness to a surgical patient. But then she gets involved in the case of an ailing woman whose refusal to turn her infant son over to foster care forces Gannon to serve as emergency baby sitter.
Season 4, episode 18
With Parley Baer (Farraday), Dean Jagger (Boomerang Stargel), John Ritter (Ronnie), Lynne Marta (Daphne), Jeanette Nolan (Juliet).
A circus high-wire performer is hurt a fall and wants to quit but learns her grandfather, owner of the circus, is counting on her act to get his struggling troupe into the bigtime.
Season 4, episode 19
W: Don Brinkley D: Murray Golden
With Barbara Feldon (Barbara Dorsey), Larry Hagman (Glenn Dorsey), Jason Wingreen (Dr. Wykoff).
The ailing wife of a surgeon violently objects to her husband's treating her, even though his new surgical procedure is her only hope of recovery.
Season 4, episode 20
With Adam Roarke (Michael Harrison), Marlyn Mason (Victoria Harrison), Brandon Cruz (Mooch), Barbara Baldavin (Nurse Holmby).
A State Department employee, critically injured in an auto crash, discloses to Dr. Gannon that he has smuggled a child into this country from South America, but doesn't want his wife to know the boy is his son by another woman.
Season 4, episode 21
W: Barry Oringer D: Paul Stanley
With Ramon Bieri (Capt. Simmons), Celeste Holm (Dr. Linda Wilson), Shelley Morrison (Rose), Ron Masak (Ron), Jack Kruschen (Jacobson), Wesley Addy (Bristol).
A live explosive lodged in a man's chest imperils the entire hospital and the emergency forces postponement of vital surgery on a famous woman doctor.
Season 4, episode 22
W: Jack Guss D: Earl Bellamy
With Earl Holliman (Brent), Barbara Rush (Pauline), Orville Sherman (Neighbor), Vincent Van Patten (Kenny).
A father, bitter over the divorce that has caused a breach in relations with his son, tries to kidnap the boy only to have an accident in which the youth is injured.
Season 4, episode 23
W: Al C. Ward D: Paul Stanley
With Michael Parks (Dr. Wells), Stefanie Powers (Aggie), Mary-Robin Redd (Emma), Ty Henderson (Michael), Mae Mercer (Laura Nash), Gary Merrill (Jason Norman).
Gannon is faced with the dilemma of how much to tell a patient about an illness.
Season 4, episode 24
With Nancy Priddy (Sue), Fred Beir (Dr. Belfield), Jim Backus (Dr. Danvers), Elayne Heilveil (Jill).
A hospital efficiency expert tries to force the retirement of an elderly surgeon who is treating the daughter of the woman Dr. Lochner wants to marry.
September 10, 1973: The Guilty
Season 5, episode 1
W: Don Brinkley D: Paul Stanley
With Belinda Montgomery (Janet Ogden), Steve Forrest (Alex Delaware), Julie Harris (Helen Delaware), John Lupton (Andy), Lara Parker (Paula), Stephen Brooks (Dan).
The fifth season opens as Dr. Joe Gannon tries to get the facts on what he believes is a psychological case of paralysis caused by an emotional disturbance brought on by an argument with the patient's parents.
Season 5, episode 2
D: Michael Caffey
With Jo Van Fleet (Leah), Claude Akins (Williams), Dennis Robertson (Deputy Blair), Sam Gilman (Corey), Lonny Chapman (Sheriff), Martin Braddock (Dr. Bradford), Pamela Franklin (Jessica).
Joe Gannon answers an emergency call in an isolated mountain town, and finds his own life in danger.
Season 5, episode 3
W: Barry Oringer D: Paul Stanley
With Amanda McBroom (Maria), Laraine Day (Arlene Gillette), William Windom (Dr. Brandon Gillette).
Bent on proving his virility, an aging surgeon becomes involved with a young patient.
Season 5, episode 4
W: Barry Oringer D: Vincent Sherman
With Lois Nettleton (Dr. Claymor), Jamie Smith-Jackson (Tobi), Tim Matheson (Sam Miller), Nick Nolte (Lou).
A psychiatrist is enlisted by Dr. Gannon for his treatment of a critically ill cardiac patient, a lovely young college girl with a wish to die.
Season 5, episode 5
W: Martin Roth D: Paul Stanley
With Rae Allen (Rose), Andrew Duggan (Garson), Diane Baker (Sharon), Martin Sheen (Glen).
When a young mother's 4-month-old son dies without warning and for no obvious reason while at rest in his crib, the grief-stricken mother mistakenly blames it on her presumed neglect of the child.
Season 5, episode 6
W: Jack Guss D: Lee Philips
With Joseph Campanella (Duncan), Barbara Anderson (Betty), Neil J. Schwartz (Dr. Cabe), Shari Price (Mrs. Grady), Michael Morgan (Mike), Stephen Coit (Dr. Karp).
The sudden return of an Army sergeant presumed killed in Vietnam staggers Joe Gannon, who is in love with the sergeant's wife.
Season 5, episode 7
W: Stephen Kandel D: Vincent Sherman
With Gary Lockwood (Andy Lorenz), Lynne Marta (Barbara Wilder), Joan Blondell (Doris Wilder), Michael Croyden (Terry Spelman), Andrew Duggan (Garson).
A bitter, aggressive widow is determined to push her daughter to athletic fame -- no matter what the physical or emotional cost.
Season 5, episode 8
With Lee H. Montgomery (Mac), Gena Rowlands (Karen Coberly), Michael Stearns, Louise Fletcher (Nurse).
An American female journalist has brought a 12-year-old orphan from Northern Ireland for treatment of a critical bullet wound, but jeopardizes his life by insisting that the weakened child return to his strife-torn homeland.
Season 5, episode 9
W: Barry Oringer D: Vincent Sherman
With Angela Greene (Miss Berendt), Alex Gerry (Spielberger), Vincent Beck (Sanders), Harold J. Stone (Ferretti), Barry Primus (Sam), Jessica Walter (Phoebe), Joseph Mell (Kabak), Lesley Rogers (Della).
A call girl's arrival at the center poses medical and emotional problems for Dr. Joe Gannon.
Season 5, episode 10
W: Don Brinkley D: Joseph Pevney
With Stefanie Powers (Valerie), Bradford Dillman (Egan), David Opatoshu (Goldstein), E.A. Sirianni (Graham), Davis Roberts (Monk), Nicky Blair (Larry), Barbara Babcock (Janet).
A surgeon's compulsive gambling is destroying his career and marriage, and his wife lies seriously ill as a result of a marital clash.
Season 5, episode 11
With David Opatoshu (Goldstein), Janice Lynde (Nurse), Greg Mullavey (Mills), Perry King (Wilson), William Devane (Dr. Waltham).
As he is preparing himself and a special medical team for the risky first performance upon a human candidate of a new form of heart surgery, Gannon starts to receive threats on his life.
Season 5, episode 12
W: Martin Roth D: Vincent Sherman
With Tyne Daly (April), Kay Medford (Meg), Bruce Kirby (Henderson), Ann Loos (Mrs. Pine).
A critically ill derelict dreads a forthcoming reunion with her daughter who is unaware of the life she's led.
Season 5, episode 13
With Harv Selsby (Dr. Calvert), Celeste Holm (Geraldine Stern), Michael Brandon (Dr. Lensko), Meg Foster (Cassie), Damu King (Dieter), Ann Loos (Bernice), Dale Tarter (Dr. Hearn), Carol Worthington (Louise).
A hospitalized grande dame finds her heart strongly touched by an arrogant young doctor who brands her a rich, pampered hypochondriac.
Season 5, episode 14
W: Oliver Crawford D: Murray Golden
With Rosemary Murphy (Dr. Iris Cameron), Jacque Lynn Colton (Nurse), Felton Perry (Jeff), Judy Pace (Patti), Mark Montgomery (Harry).
A noted woman surgeon, whom Dr. Gannon considers to be "knife-happy", is appointed chief of medical services, thus becoming his superior.
Season 5, episode 15
With Jill Clayburgh (Beverly), Paul Burke (Welton), Barbara Rush (Claire), Bebe Kelly (Mona), William Campbell (Marvin).
An aggressive, athletic, middle-aged man, married to a beautiful young woman, refuses to submit to a life-saving surgery because it will probably leave him impotent.
Season 5, episode 16
W: Jack Guss D: Murray Golden
With Ayn Ruymen (Sharon), Lola Albright (Grace), Cameron Mitchell (Jennings), Barney Phillips (Warden), Eddie Garrett (Guard).
A brilliant young pianist needs a kidney transplant, and her only hope of a compatible donor is her father -- a convict who is serving time for murder.
Season 5, episode 17
W: Martin Roth D: Earl Bellamy
With Joanna Miles (Janet), Ed Nelson (Cal), Eugene Peterson (Weller), David Hedison (Dave).
A doctor, who must perform delicate brian surgery on his critically ill ex-wife, secretly suffers severe epileptic seizures.
Season 5, episode 18
W: Don Brinkley D: Vincent Sherman
With Joanna Pettet (Molly), Murray Hamilton (Dr. Scofield), Leonard Frey (Joshua), Sandy Kevin (Woody Ellis), Andre Philippe (Auberge), Michael Stearns (Arnie).
Dr. Joe Gannon, posing as a psychotic, gains admittance to a mental home to try to prove that the negligent patient care there caused the death of an old friend.
Season 5, episode 19
W: Barry Oringer D: Earl Bellamy
With Stockard Channing (Shirley), Dean Jones (Dr. Ronston), Eddie Firestone (Guard), James Griffith (Leo Walding).
A new doctor on the Medical Center staff challenges Dr. Gannon's judgements concerning a critical heart attack patient and also causes Gannon to wonder at some of his unusual actions.
Season 5, episode 20
W: Jack Guss D: Lee Philips
With Sally Frei (Debbie), Carol Lawrence (Mrs. Grayson), Willie Aames (Jeff), Anne Meara (Rose Miller).
A society woman attempts to gain control of the adopted son of an impoverished widow, while Dr. Gannon tries to save the widow's life with a risky operation.
Season 5, episode 21
W: Don Brinkley D: Earl Bellamy
With Kay Lenz (Kitty), Joey Aresco (Leo Rivers), Nick Nolte (Tank), John David Carson (Alex), Ian Sander (Ziggy), Barbara Colby (Mrs. Polumbo).
After a young rape victim identifies her attacker, the girl's street-gang friends gain vengeance, thereby dumping a seriously injured patient into Joe Gannon's hands.
Season 5, episode 22
W: Martin Roth D: Michael Caffey
With Beverly Garland (Kay), Dom DeLuise (Max), Norman Fell (Frank), Lee H. Montgomery (Jerry), Karen Morrow (Norma), Anne Seymour (Judge), Dale Tarter (Dr. Wayburn).
An aging, lackluster but ever-ambitious ventriloquist finds his dearest pal and manager -- his 14-year-old orphaned nephew -- about to be separated from him by the court after the boy is found to be seriously ill.
Season 5, episode 23
W: Barry Oringer D: Lee Philips
With Louise Sorel (Isabella), Peter Haskell (Dr. Jerry Mayhill), Rosa Turich (Mrs. Sanchez), Will Geer (Loriss).
A sinister professor of South American anthropology, whose pretty young academic assistant is in critical mental and physical condition, attributes the illness to a voodoo curse.
Season 5, episode 24
With Nancy Kelly (Kate), Leif Erickson (Ben).
An internationally famous nuclear scientist who is critically ill defies Dr. Gannon by addressing a world scientific conference in Rome.
September 9, 1974: Adults Only
Season 6, episode 1
W: Jack Guss D: Robert L. Friend
With Monte Markham (Dr. Scott Griffith), Tony Young (Brian), Gale Sondergaard (Myra), Joan Van Ark (Chris), Carol Wayne (Blanche), Chris Capen (Ray Lamb), Chris Hutson (Courtland).
The sixth season kicks off as a young surgeon is distressed when he discovers that his wife is a star of stag movies.
Season 6, episode 2
W: Martin Roth D: Joseph Pevney
With John Marley (Harmon), Jacqueline Scott (Lorelei), Marjoe Gortner (David), Meredith Baxter (Paula).
A cancer patient doesn't know whether to believe her faith-healer husband's assurances that he can cure her.
Season 6, episode 3
W: Barry Oringer D: Michael Caffey
With Andrea Marcovicci (Evangeline Carter), Eric Server (Ridgely), Ron Castro (Manuelo Fuentes), Robert Walden (Frank Corelli), John Randolph (Dr. Ehren Kranz).
A woman paranoiac refuses information to Dr. Gannon that would aid his diagnosis of her seriously contagious disease, even though he suspects she has exposed other people to it.
Season 6, episode 4
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Vincent Sherman
With Diane Baker (Anne Martin), Dennis Cole (Tom Martin), Diana Hyland (Pat Londean), Kate Murtaugh (Martha), Barney Phillips (Dr. Carlington).
An operation brings a 7-year coma victim back to reality, but complications set in when she discovers her husband has fallen in love with her best friend.
Season 6, episode 5
W: Robert White, Phyllis White D: Murray Golden
With Cameron Mitchell (Tom Kravitz), Barbara Baldavin (Holmby), Deborah Winters (Alicia).
A man refuses to let his daughter have an operation that will free her from life in a wheelchair.
Season 6, episode 6
W: Jack Guss D: Michael Caffey
With Rita Moreno (Lydia), Tim O'Connor (Barney), Vic Tayback (Trailer).
A former priest, working as an orderly, falls in love with a nightclub singer who faces a dangerous operation.
Season 6, episode 7
With James Wainwright (Ben Wade), Shelby Grant (Diana Richmond), Frank Maxwell (Warden Silver), Dennis Robertson (Day Guard), Eddie Garrett (Night Guard).
An unrepentent convict becomes the only hope for saving the life of a rich young woman who is dying of cancer.
Season 6, episode 8
W: Jack Guss D: Michael Caffey
With Pamela Franklin (Gwen), Peter Coffield (Roger Patman), Vera Miles (Eva), Margaret Fairchild (Sybil Lang), Harv Selsby (Dr. Calvert).
Dr. Gannon fears that an "arranged romance" by a wealthy mother for her critically ill daughter will jeopardize the girl's only chance to get well.
Season 6, episode 9
W: Don Brinkley D: Robert Douglas
With Shirley Knight (Amy Calloway), Lloyd Bochner (Todd), David Sheiner (Max Prideman), Jane Actman (Jan).
A young woman who has had a cancer operation loses her job at a health spa because the club's directors feel she is a poor health risk, even after the disease shows no signs of returning.
Season 6, episode 10
W: Don Brinkley D: Earl Bellamy
With Rod Haase (Jumbo), David Macklin (Howard Tully), Louise Latham (Mrs. Tully), Katherine Helmond (Rachel), James Griffith (Sergeant Welding), Richard Gilliland (David Weldman), John Colicos (Weldman).
A famed Jewish scientist comes to the university to do medical research, only to learn that a neo-Nazi group is determined to drive him away.
Season 6, episode 11
W: Martin Roth D: Murray Golden
With Kristina Holland (Cindy), Richard Hatch (Mark), Allyn Ann McLerie (Marion), Len Lesser (Sam), Sheldon Coburn (Anesthesiologist).
After a beautiful, intelligent young heart patient falls in love with a mentally retarded young man, she refuses an operation that could save her life.
Season 6, episode 12
With Brooke Bundy (Terry), Pat Hingle (Maxwell Grant), John Larch (Dr. Cabe), Gina Alvarado (Mrs. Torres), Natividad Vacio (Pedro), Carmen Zapata (Luisa).
A pregnant young widow refuses a cancer operation that could save her life because it might endanger her unborn child.
Season 6, episode 13
W: Stephen Kandel D: Earl Bellamy
With Belinda Montgomery (Joyce), David Soul (Walter), Kim Hunter (Marion), Paul Carr (Ray), Dolores Sutton (Bonnie), George Tobias (Shapiro), Caroline Kido (Huerta).
Dr. Gannon unwittingly puts a patient who is psychotic and a potential murderer in the same room with one of his closest friends.
Season 6, episode 14
W: Nate Monaster D: Earl Bellamy
With John Travolta (Danny), Paula Kelly (Ames), Michael Tolan (Julius), Kathleen Lloyd (Ellie), Roger Pancake (Driver), Rose Gregorio (Emma).
In hopes of saving her life, Dr. Joe Gannon shields a young girl from authorities after she escapes from juvenile hall.
Season 6, episode 15
W: Hesper Anderson D: Robert Douglas
With Lois Nettleton (Katie Hoyt), Janet MacLachlan (Hannah Thompson), Peter Haskell (Dr. Lancaster), Thalmus Rasulala (Jim Thompson), Rodney Allen Rippy (Josh).
A 9-year-old orphan who is about to be adopted into a loving home is found to have a serious heart problem -- which becomes a problem for the prospective parents.
Season 6, episode 16
W: Don Brinkley D: Paul Stanley
With Cyd Charisse (Valerie), Joseph Campanella (Colson), Paul Brinegar (Hooch), Joe Silver (Marty), Eddie Fontaine (Jablonsky).
A former film star tries to make a comeback after 20 years, only to discover that she is no longer wanted.
Season 6, episode 17
W: Jack Guss D: Lee Philips
With Jodie Foster (Ivy), Laurel Barnett (Junie), Robert Gibbons (Mailman), Marcia Rodd (Phyllis), Jerry Orbach (Josh).
A nurse reveals her pregnancy to Gannon, announcing that she wants to put the baby up for adoption, and then learns the child has a congenital heart defect requiring surgery immediately following its birth.
Season 6, episode 18
W: Stephen Kandel D: Murray Golden
With Suzy Kendall (Princess Andrea), Eduard Franz (Ramon), Kirby Furlong (Pete), Loretta Leversee (Mrs. Milos), Albert Paulsen (Scarpi).
Dr. Gannon falls in love with a beautiful patient, unaware that she is a European crown princess who is the target of powerful enemies who have murdered her father.
Season 6, episode 19
With Penny Fuller (Nina Bradshaw), Ed Nelson (Wesley Stockwood), Beverly Garland (Madeline Stockwood), Lew Horn (Reece).
A famed politician's wife enters Medical Center under an assumed name and asks Dr. Gannon, an old friend, not to inform her husband of her whereabouts.
Season 6, episode 20
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Murray Golden
With David Birney (Mac Guthrie), Donna Mills (Donna Guthrie), Jack Hogan (John Porter), Joan Hotchkis (Mollie Porter), Brock Peters (James Rosemont).
A convicted child molester has to decide whether he is willing to win parole by taking a drug that may curb his anti-social behavior.
Season 6, episode 21
W: Barry Oringer D: Vincent Sherman
With Peter Strauss (Lloyd Halloran), Darleen Carr (Rita Halloran), Richard Lawson (Andy Willis), Robert Douglas (Miles Halloran), Mimi Maynard (Danielle Carter).
Tension develops when 12 highly-rated medical students learn that only the top seven will be chosen for internships at the hospital, and Dr. Gannon is in a delicate situation.
Season 6, episode 22
W: Martin Roth D: Joseph Pevney
With Jack Kruschen (Florea), Philip Bourneuf (Claymore), William Campbell (Dr. Prideman), Vincent Beck (Winchell), Burr DeBenning (Ed), Louise Sorel (Ellen), Dabney Coleman (Brice).
Trapped in a basement operating room without ventilation, Dr. Gannon is urged by his fellow victims to use the oxygen of a patient in hopes of saving their lives.
Season 6, episode 23
With Ken Berry (Allan Ronston), Sheree North (Sylvia Ronston), Cesare Danova (Milo).
A 40-year-old spinster finally finds romance just as her brother contracts a disease that will require her constant attention to him.
Season 6, episode 24
With Desi Arnaz Jr. (Richie), James Coco (Buddy), Dianne Hull (Pam Loring), Parley Baer (Levine).
A rock star, secretly deaf in his left ear, refuses a risky operation on his right.
September 8, 1975: The Fourth Sex (1)
Season 7, episode 1
W: Rita Lakin D: Vincent Sherman
With Robert Reed (Dr. Pat Caddison), Salome Jens (Heather Caddison), Louise Sorel (Jessica), Alan Oppenheimer (Dr. Danfield), Gary Frank (Steve), Dennis Cole (Skip).
The seventh season opens with the first of a two-part drama. Dr. Gannon is shocked when a medical colleague returns to Medical Center to change his sex because of a feeling of failure in his life relationships.
Season 7, episode 2
W: Rita Lakin D: Vincent Sherman
With Louise Sorel (Jessica), Robert Reed (Dr. Pat Caddison), Alan Oppenheimer (Dr. Danfield), Gary Frank (Steve), Dennis Cole (Skip), Salome Jens (Heather Caddison).
A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied, as Gannon must choose between the wishes of the woman he wants to marry, and the desire of his colleague.
Season 7, episode 3
W: Barry Oringer D: Joseph Pevney
With Florence Henderson (Jenny Delaney), Robert Walden (Dr. Corelli), Philip Abbott (Stoddard), Willie Aames.
On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms which interfere with his medical practice.
Season 7, episode 4
W: Stephen Kandel D: Joseph Pevney
With Jesse Welles (Ellen Taggert), Peter Haskell (Dr. Courtney), Susan Sullivan (Joanna Courtney), John Karlen (Danny Taggert), Robbie Rist (Andy).
Gannon is faced with the dilemma of blindly trusting a valuable colleague or taking the word of a dying man that the doctor was involved in atrocities in Vietnam.
Season 7, episode 5
With Harv Selsby (Dr. Calvert), Meredith Baxter (Priscilla), Martin Braddock (Dr. Mason), Pearl Shear (Mrs. Toretsky), Steve Allen (Dr. Townsend).
A mild flirtation assumes nightmarish proportions for Dr. Joe Gannon when the girl refuses to play second fiddle to his career.
Season 7, episode 6
W: Jack Guss D: Daniel Haller
With David Opatoshu (Emir), Keith Gordon (Herbie), Dick Shawn (Pete), Shelley Fabares, Louise Lasser (Esther).
The son of a wealthy Arab shows unusual concern over the plight of an ailing Jewish boy.
Season 7, episode 7
W: Jack Guss D: Vincent Sherman
With Gail Fisher (Bonnie Horne), Jacque Lynn Colton (Mavis), Linda Purl (Leslie).
Dr. Joe Gannon suddenly finds himself in a father's role when a neglected teenager asks for help.
Season 7, episode 8
W: Robert Lewin D: Paul Stanley
With Patrick O'Neal (Dr. Tarkington), Allyn Ann McLerie (Jan), Keenan Wynn (Hank), Joan Van Ark (Eileen), Ivan Bonar.
Dr. Gannon must ask a great surgeon to sacrifice his last hopes for happiness to treat the patients whose lives depend on him.
Season 7, episode 9
W: Don Appell D: Murray Golden
With Roberta Peters, Angela Greene (Mrs. Maxwell), David Man (Mick Jenson), Jessica Rains (Miss Simmons), George Petrie (Dr. Maxwell), Audrey Christie (Lydia), George Chakiris (Alex Solkin).
An old romance is rekindled for Dr. Lochner when a celebrated diva checks into the hospital with a serious illness.
Season 7, episode 10
W: Hindi Brooks D: Robert Douglas
With George Janek (Yeddy), Melanie Mayron (Jan Simmons), Doris Roberts (Gladys Callahan), Jack Hogan (Dr. Gordon Blake).
A girl's life hangs in the balance when a doctor must make a decision between her well-being and that of his son.
Season 7, episode 11
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Robert Douglas
With Belinda Montgomery (Carrie), Davis Roberts (Chuck), Arthur Space (Tom), Lurene Tuttle (Kate), Ruth McDevitt (Alice), Lonny Chapman (Carter).
Residents of a senior citizens home, deploring the conditions under which they must live, arise in rebellion.
Season 7, episode 12
W: John Hess D: Earl Bellamy
With Jane Wyatt (Louise), Ralph Bellamy (Dr. Bycroft), Robert Walden (Dr. Corelli), Darleen Carr (Jenny).
Dr. Gannon must risk a great man's ego to save the life of the man's granddaughter.
Season 7, episode 13
With Shelly Novack (Bob Foster), Herb Edelman (Brannigan), Tyne Daly (Liz Lathem), Nora Marlowe (Hannah), Karen Obediear (Gail Foster), Walter McGinn (Eddie Lathem).
Dr. Gannon has to convince a wanted criminal to weigh his freedom against a child's life, when his young patient needs blood.
Season 7, episode 14
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Earl Bellamy
With Lynne Marta (Doris), Erik Estrada (Mike), Cesar Romero (Packy).
The future of two lives is at stake when Gannon treats a young tennis star and a girl who has lost her will to live.
Season 7, episode 15
With Charles Cioffi (Lew), David Sheiner (Prideman), Kate Reid (Mary), Ivan Bonar, Joby Baker (Tony Tabor), Dana Brady.
A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.
Season 7, episode 16
W: Jeff Kanter D: Vincent Sherman
With George Tobias (Shapiro), Theodore Bikel (Joseph Zankov), Victoria Fedorova, Leigh McCloskey (Mihail Zankov), Michael Swann.
A Russian woman doctor who treats the son of a special envoy nettles Dr. Gannon by disputing his decision to operate.
Season 7, episode 17
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Earl Bellamy
With Mark Hamill (Danny), John Colicos (Tom Evans), Kathleen Beller (Sharon), Ellen Travolta, Tom Pace.
A teenage mother is torn between risking the life of her sick infant son, or putting him up for adoption.
Season 7, episode 18
With Fionnula Flanagan (Karen), France Nuyen (Li Quan), Don Galloway (Martin), Dana Brady, Michael Stearns, Wendy Tochi (Alice).
When a Vietnamese woman collapses at the hospital while searching for her child, Dr. Gannon discovers she is the real mother of a war orphan adopted by a young couple who are his friends.
Season 7, episode 19
With Allen Williams (Haynes), Kathryn Walker (Dr. Talley), Ivan Bonar, Catherine Burns (Shirley), Julie Adams (Ellie Wilke).
The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.
Season 7, episode 20
W: Howard Dimsdale
With Vic Tayback (Mac Atwood), Susan Strasberg (Marge), David Birney (Nick Matero), Lieux Dressler, Christian Juttner, Barbara Brownell.
After a doctor is blinded while working for Gannon, Joe is forced to deal with his own guilt and his fellow doctor's dependency on him.
Season 7, episode 21
W: Don Brinkley D: Chad Everett
With Stanley Adams (Arlo McNally), Totie Fields (Mrs. Armbruster), Jeanne Sorel, Ron Rifkin (Danny Armbruster), Peter Tomarken, Arthur Adams.
The mother of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.
Season 7, episode 22
W: Don Brinkley D: Vincent Sherman
With Lois Nettleton (Major Annie Malone), Scott Hylands (Hoby), Della Reese (Captain Sykes), Michael V. Gazzo (Leo Gardena), John Gavin (Col. Halliday), John Randolph (Col. Mayhill).
A dedicated Army surgeon's assistant comes down with a strange malady.
Season 7, episode 23
W: Jack Guss D: Al C. Ward
With Alan McRae (Maldonado), Don Rickles, Ruth Buzzi, Gary Sandy (Feinberg), Cara Williams (Sheila Ruskin), Natalie Core.
A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.
Season 7, episode 24
W: James Henerson D: Gene Reynolds
With Philip Michael Thomas (Dr. Sam Karter), Kim Richards (Penny), Scott Hylands (Dr. Al Healey), Mary McCarty (Charlotte), William Redfield (Dr. Frank Waldman), Eugene Roche, William Windom (Crail), Percy Rodrigues.
The owner-doctors of a San Francisco ghetto health clinic face an uncertain future when a vengeful police officer places it off-limits to ambulance service because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police. (Last show of the series.)