Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Interns' from 1970-1982:
- Broderick Crawford as Dr. Peter Goldstone (1970-1971)
- Christopher Stone as Dr. Pooch Hardin (1970-1971)
- Elaine Giftos as Bobbe Marsh (1970-1971)
- Hal Frederick as Dr. Cal Barrin (1970-1971)
- Mike Farrell as Dr. Sam Marsh (1970-1971)
- Sandra Smith as Dr. Lydia Thorpe (1970-1971)
- Skip Homeier as Dr. Hugh Jacoby (1970-1971)
- Stephen Brooks as Dr. Greg Pettit (1970-1971)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Interns':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: William Blinn D: Bob Claver
With Diane Baker (Sheila Carmichael), Torin Thatcher (Brother Anselm), Sherry Jackson (Jeri Spencer), Bert Convy (Dave Carmichael).
Dramatic series about a group of youthful doctors facing the professional and personal challenges of a career in medicine. Much of the series' action will take place outside a large metropolitan hospital, dealing with the interns' personal involvements as well as their careers, touching on such matters as drugs, sports and friendships. In the first episode, a wife pleads for the mercy killing of her husband; one of the interns is assigned to the case of a southern-born monk; and a go-go dancer disrupts hospital routine.
Season 1, episode 2
W: William Blinn D: Allen Reisner
With Jana Taylor (Pam Jarvis), Dabbs Greer (Edgar Jarvis), Jon Lormer (Joey), Barbara Press (Sally Harper), Mary Patton (Louise Jarvis).
While treating a girl patient who is critically ill, Dr. Pooch Hardin refuses to believe warning signs that she is a heroin addict who will stop at nothing to get drugs. She breaks out of the hospital to join a band of fellow drug users.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Larry Brody D: William Hale
With Christopher Connelly (Joby), Pat Harrington Jr. (Snyder), Skye Aubrey (Hazel), Henry Beckman (Miller), Shelly Morrison (Mrs. Miller).
A man fearful of inheriting a brain disease demands that his girl have an abortion. He then becomes jealous of the doctor and unwittingly endangers the operation.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Mark Rodgers D: Daniel Petrie
With Albert Salmi (Lt. Osland), Peggy McCay (Alice Vaughn), Brooke Bundy (Joy Anderson), William Devane (Hauser), Tom Hallick (Dr. Grant), Jack Garner (Officer Wyman).
Dr. Sam Marsh unwittingly endangers himself and his wife after he saves the life of a woman shot by a homicidal maniac who vows to get his victim at New North Hospital.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Skip Webster D: Ralph Senensky
With Meg Foster (Sharon), Milt Kamen (Harry), Phyllis Love (Louise), Simon Scott (Jim).
Dr. Pettit pretends to be blind to work with a therapy group and finds its morale threatened by a bitter girl.
Season 1, episode 6
W: William Blinn D: Allen Reisner
With Ned Glass (Joey Turpin), Tom Hallick (Assistant Surgeon), George Grizzard (Dr. Quentin), Bridget Hanley (Sookie Post), John Zaremba (Matthew Pryor), Carl Byrd (Wendell Derr).
A woman clown, injured while entertaining at New North Hospital, sues for $1 million in damages on grounds she has been crippled after surgery by a woman-hating doctor.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Jack Miller D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Pete Deuel (Fred Chalmers), Susan O'Connell (Millie Sutton), Bill Hayes (Vern Anderson), Paul Hampton (Mike Durrell), Gene Raymond (Judge Tidings), Patrick Horgan (Byrnes), Bill Quinn (Chairman).
Dr. Goldstone is injured by a man who has been refused life-saving treatment because a kidney machine is not available.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Jerry Thorpe
With Mills Watson (Carter), Malachi Throne (Lt. Kranz), S. John Launer (Abrams), Elaine Fielding (Nurse), Edith Diaz (Mary).
Dr. Sam March finds it hard to be detached knowing the man he is treating is the assailant who slugged his wife.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Charles Larson D: Don McDougall
With Charles Aidman (Dancer), Jane Elliot (Louella), Lane Bradbury (Irene), James W. Gavin (Pilot).
Following an argument with Dr. Goldstone over a dying child, Dr. Pettit has an auto accident involving two critically injured people.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Don Brinkley D: Marvin Chomsky
With Pamela Susan Shoop (Janet Keller), Ron Rifkin (Ferguson), Sabrina Scharf (Penny Weems), Frank Marth (Lt. Gerber).
Dr. Hardin finds himself suspected of murdering the hostess at a party he can't remember because he was served drugged punch. He's told that the one witness who could back up his story has disappeared.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Charles Larson D: Allen Reisner
With Radames Pera (David Walberg), Eduard Franz (Gus Walberg), Viveca Lindfors (Jennie Walberg), Barney Phillips (Dr. Kendrick), S. John Launer (Abrams), John Lupton (Dr. Phelps), Tom Hallick (Dr. Grant), Elaine Fielding (Nurse #1), Linda Dangcil (Nurse #2).
The fear of an epidemic sweeps the city after Dr. Marsh is stricken with bubonic plague while attending a music festival sponsored by Dr. Goldstone's friend.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Charles Larson D: David Lowell Rich
With Walter Anderson (Phil Cornelius), Kaz Garas (Walt Chaucer), Mathias Reitz (Ghest), Geri Reischl (Jane Doe), Mitzi Hoag (Geraldine Clarke), Gordon DeVol (Martin).
While doing research at the state penitentiary, Dr. Greg Pettit gets caught up in a riot led by a badly-scarred killer.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Barry Oringer D: Leo Penn
With Georg Sanford Brown (Hamid), William Callaway (Georgie), Noah Keen (Roberts), Christie Matchett (Dancy), John Randolph (Joe Binder), James Wainwright (Reverend), Eric Laneuville (Lewis).
The death of a teenage girl from a drug overdose hits Dr. Marsh so hard he leaves home on a quest for help for his own mental state.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Inez Boyd, Marshall Wilkerson D: Allen Reisner
With Robert Lansing (Lt. Garner), Billy Dee Williams (Eddie Tate), Maidie Norman (Mrs. Barrin), George Morgan (Beau Brown), Melendy Britt (Rose).
On the eve of a threatened strike at New North Hospital a bomb explodes, injuring Dr. Barrin and forcing Dr. Goldstone to order the evacuation of all patients who can be moved.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Samuel Roeca D: Jud Taylor
With Martin Sheen (Beau Denning), Fred Beir (Del Denning), Joe Maross (Lt. Garth), Joan Hotchkis (Mrs. Denning), John McLiam (Father Dooley), Lonny Chapman (Neil McElhenny).
A playboy takes the blame for a fatal hit-run auto crash and Dr. Pettit is the only one who knows that the confessor's brother, a candidate for the Senate, was really responsible.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Michael Caffey
With Signe Hasso (Tasha), Warren Kemmerling (Dr. Roland), Charlotte Stewart (Eileen).
Puzzled by the illness of a longtime mental patient who refuses to talk, Dr. Pooch Hardin suspects she is just pretending to be insane.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Jack Miller D: Allen Reisner
With Lois Nettleton (Jeanne/Jenny Eldridge), Mary Lansing (Miss Evans), Kathy Shawn (Miss Wickes), Lee Anthony (Tom).
A librarian with a startling dual personality has an ardent crush on Dr. Sam Marsh, and when she becomes pregnant he is suspected of being responsible.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Don Brinkley D: Paul Stanley
With Frank Gorshin (Joe Calico), Sheree North (Beth Calico), Edward Faulkner (Dr. Lansing), Robert F. Simon (Julian Beach), Victor Campos (Olson), Virginia Vincent (Bonnie).
After performing an emergency hand amputation on a man trapped in an elevator, Dr. Pettit learns the victim is the world's foremost billiards player.
Season 1, episode 19
W: William Blinn D: Richard Donner
With Diana Hyland (Norma Ryan), John Davidson (David Ryan), Pat Harrington Jr. (John Snyder), Elaine Fielding (Nurse).
A woman author writing a book about the hospital astonishes everyone with her callous attitude when she learns her brother has leukemia.
Season 1, episode 20
With Meredith MacRae (Vicki), Peter Haskell (Ben Bohannan), Elaine Fielding (Jeri), Kathleen Hughes (Miss Manning), David Sachs (Dr. Cherry).
An ambitious executive gets jealous of his pregnant wife and Dr. Sam Marsh and files suit for divorce. Marsh's wife takes on the task of making the man realize his jealousy has no foundation.
Season 1, episode 21
With Lew Ayres (Dr. Holt), Shelley Fabares (Catherine), Rafael Campos (Chico Ruiz), Gilbert Green (Rollins), Paula Victor (Mrs. Redding), Ned Wertimer (Hunter).
A famed heart specialist antagonizes the interns with his by-the-book approach, and stirs resentment at the hospital when he's rumored as the successor to ailing Dr. Goldstone.
Season 1, episode 22
With Ron O'Neal (Buzz Pollack), Janet McLachlan (Marsha Pollack), Jackie Coogan (Homer Wayne).
When a veteran boxer stages a surprising comeback, his longtime friend Dr. Barrin suspects the fighter's handlers are dosing him with stimulants.
Season 1, episode 23
W: Lester Pine, Tina Pine D: Marvin Chomsky
With Radames Pera, Pat Carroll (Maria), Janet Margolin (Rose), James Luisi (Nick), Harold J. Stone (Uncle Victor), Ed Gilbert (Dr. Tuttle).
An Italian mother tries to give her life to save her critically ill daughter by donating a kidney.
Season 1, episode 24
W: Charles Larson, Elinor Karpf D: David Lowell Rich
With Daniel J. Travanti (Harry Random), Isabel Sanford (Dr. Hearn), Dub Taylor (Pitts), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Tebbetts), Hal Lynch (Trellas), Charles Lampkin (Judge Davidson), Susan Batson (Hollie).
Dr. Lydia Thorpe finds herself torn by a choice between her career and marriage when her fiancee asks her to give up medicine just as she undertakes a heavy workload at a ghetto clinic. (Last show of the series.)