Medical Center (1969)

The Last 10 Yards

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

Victim

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.

Emergency in Ward E

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

A Life is Waiting

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

The Battle of Lily Wu

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

The Crooked Circle

A story about drug addiction.

Thousands and Thousands of Miles

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

The Sharpest Edge

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

Jeopardy

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

The Fallen Image

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

The Loner

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

24 Hours

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

The Adversaries

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

The Deceived

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

Moment of Decision

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

Runaway

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

Fright and Flight

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

A Duel with Doom

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

A Matter of Tomorrow

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

Care is no Cure

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

The Professional

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

The Combatants

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

The V.D. Story

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

His Brother's Keeper

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.

The Rebel in White

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

Between Dark And Daylight

The story of a marriage tormented by lack of children.

Brink of Doom

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

Undercurrent

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

Junkie

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.

Assailant

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

The Clash

A woman doctor (Vera Miles) battles male prejudice.

Ghetto Clinic

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.

Scream of Silence

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.

Death Grip

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.

Witch Hunt

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)

Deadly Encounter

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.

Trial by Terror

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

Accused

A hallucinating patient accuses Gannon of fathering her unborn child.

Crisis

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

Man at Bay

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

The Savage Image

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.

Woman in Question

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

Web of Darkness

A deadly story of sibling conflict.

Danger Point

A missing radium implant could contaminate the entire hospital.

Secret Heritage

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

Edge of Violence

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

Countdown

The high cost of hospital care is dramatized.

Perfection of Vices

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

The Man in Hiding

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.

Crossroads

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.

Blood Line

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

The Corrupted

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

The Imposter

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

Double Jeopardy

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

Idolmaker

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

Circle of Power

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

The Shattered Man

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

The Albatross

A drama about mental retardation.

Martyr

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

Suspected

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

The Loser

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

The Pawn

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

Conspiracy

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

The Nowhere Child

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

Shock! (1)

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

Shock! (2)

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

Fatal Decision

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

Terror

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

Secret

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

The Choice

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

Deadlock

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

Awakening

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.

Confession

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

Conflict

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

Vision of Doom

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

Cycle of Peril

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

Condemned

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

Wall of Silence

A drama about deafness and family strife.

The Torn Man

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

Betrayed

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

Doctor and Mr. Harper

A drama about an unemployed man married to a doctor.

The Fallen

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

Tico Taco, M.D.

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

The Outcast

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

No Sanctuary

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

Gladiator

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

No Way Out

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

A Game for One Player

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

Pressure Point

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

Question of Guilt

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

Judgement

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

End of the Line

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

Between Two Fires

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

Night Cry

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

No Margin for Error

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

Impact

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

Fatal Memory

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

Vortex

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

The Guilty

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

Time of Darkness

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

Broken Image

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

Impasse

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

Clash of Shadows

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

The Casualty

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

Stranger in Two Worlds

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

Child of Violence

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

Woman for Hire

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

A Life at Stake

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

Nightmare

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

Deadly Game

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

Web of Intrigue

An arrogant young resident refuses to submit to authority.

Trial by Knife

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

Choice of Evils

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

No Escape

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.

Dark Warning

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

Girl from Bedlam

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

Spectre

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

The Enemies

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

The Conspirators

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.

The World's a Balloon

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

Hexed

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

Appointment with Danger

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

Adults Only

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

Demi-God

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

The Faces of Peril

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

Three-Cornered Cage

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

The Shattered Mask

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

May God Have Mercy

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

The Prisoners

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

The Bribe

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

Tainted Lady

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

Heel of the Tyrant

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

Three on a Tightrope

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

Midwife

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

Kiss and Kill

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

Saturday`s Child

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

The Hostile Heart

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

No Way Home

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

Captives

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

Crown of Thorns

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

The Invisible Wife

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

If Mine Eye Offends Me

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

Survivors

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

Aftershock

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

Half a Life

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.

Ripoff

The Fourth Sex (1)

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

The Fourth Sex (2)

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

Torment

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

No Hiding Place

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

The Velvet Knife

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

The Price of a Child

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

Street Girl

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

Too Late for Tomorrow

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

The Last Performance

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

Two Against Death

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

One Last Rebellion

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

The Eighth Deadly Sin

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

Gift from a Killer

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

The High Cost of Winning

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

The Silent Witness

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

A Very Private War

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

You Can't Annul My Baby

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

Child of Conflict

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

The Stranger

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

A Touch of Sight

Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.

Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster

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

Major Annie, M.D.

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

The Happy State of Depression

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

If Wishes Were Horses

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