S1.E0 ∙ A Matter of Humanities

Marcus Welby hires brash young Doctor Kiley to assist in his bustling general practice. Among Welby's most pressing cases is a young man suffering from aphasia whose wife is seeking to have him committed to an institution.

S1.E1 ∙ Hello, Goodbye, Hello

Miss Ruth Adams is a wonderful teacher, very engaged with and loved by her children. So when she slaps one of them in a fit of rage, her principal sends her to see Dr. Welby for a psychiatric reference. But her problem isn't psychiatric - it is a gliosarcoma, inoperable - a death sentence for a young teacher just beginning her life and career. Dr. Kiley must break the news to her, and then finds himself increasing drawn into the woman's final days.

S1.E2 ∙ The Foal

Welby fights bureaucratic pressure from a young couple and an unfeeling psychologist as he tries to help the couple's 7-year-old autistic, severely withdrawn son learn how to communicate.

S1.E3 ∙ Don't Ignore the Miracles

Claire visits Dr. Welby certain she has begun to enter menopause, only to discover that at 42 she has finally become pregnant. Her husband Paul was about to leave her for Maggie, a younger woman he has been seeing. A baby seems to be the last thing they want, and Clair considers and almost has an abortion. Delivery is likely to be difficult and Dr. Welby even mentions the possibility of a "defective baby". This episode tells the story of how the older couple learns to cope, and hopefully will learn to love, their new child.

S1.E4 ∙ Silken Threads and Silver Hooks

Actress Nadine Cabot suffers a cerebrovascular accident, more commonly know as a stroke, when a small aneurysm in her brain ruptures. Dr. Welby diagnoses her and gets her right to the hospital, but during the cerebral angiography she experiences another bleed, necessitating immediate surgery. Neurosurgeon Dr. Hoving does what he can, but he cannot completely seal off the defect, and Cabot awakens with certain deficits. Her husband and manager pushes her hard during her rehabilitation, but is he pushing her too fast? And why is his so insistent she work so hard? If he doesn't ease up, he might just push her into another stroke.

S1.E5 ∙ All Flags Flying

Captain Rick Ballinger, retired Naval hero, has finally finished building his boat, and now plans to sail it back to the places he visited during his military service, bringing with him his son Sailor. But his shortness of breath, cough, and numbness of the hands suggest that may not be a good idea. Dr. Welby discovers from a blood examination that he suffers from pernicious anemia - a treatable disease if he's willing to follow a doctor's advice. Unfortunately, his pride goads him into making poor decisions that might cost him and his son their lives.

S1.E6 ∙ Echo of a Baby's Laugh

Dr. Welby helps a young, pregnant woman come to terms with her past - namely, a past relationship she had concealed from her husband. Her previous pregnancy was ended by abortion - after she develops complications late in her third trimester. When Welby tells the husband about his wife's past (she was just a teenager when she was pregnant before), the man is furious and wants to leave his wife, but Welby sets him straight.

S1.E7 ∙ The White Cane

A blind couple's relationship is tested when an operation restores the young man's sight and they have to reconcile their worlds.

S1.E8 ∙ The Vrahnas Demon

An aging yet robust diver refuses to take Dr. Welby's advice to slow down after he's informed that he has emphysema.

S1.E9 ∙ Madonna with Knapsack and Flute

Dr. Welby's girlfriend, Myra, takes a pregnant hippie into her home.

S1.E10 ∙ Homecoming

A young man named Scott Behrman, who has recently quit using LSD, bursts into Welby's clinic in a stupor. An after-effect of his withdrawal of the drug (which he started using to deal with family pressures and the death of his mother), Behrman will suffer several more of these "acid flashes," the tipoff to Welby that the young man may need more serious intervention to help completely heal him. However, Welby has to deal with Behrman's stubborn father who believes that, given a job with the family's warehousing business and a little love, the attacks will go away. It takes the father - and Kiley, who disagrees with Welby's handling of the matter - witnessing one of his son's episodes to make him realize that his son needs help.

S1.E11 ∙ Let Ernest Come Over

A policeman who is up for a promotion wishes to keep his illness quiet, but Dr. Welby is unwilling to keep the ailment secret because it may hinder the officer in completing his duties.

S1.E12 ∙ The Chemistry of Hope

Parents of a teenaged boy with leukemia refuse to allow Dr. Welby to inform him of his condition.

S1.E13 ∙ Neither Punch nor Judy

A priest friend of Dr. Welby's suffers severe asthmatic attacks due to pressure from his parishioners. The pressure increases when he is unable to restore an injured man's will to live.

S1.E14 ∙ Diagnosis: Fear

A basketball player seeks out a faith healer for his injured knee instead of having the surgery Dr. Welby recommends.

S1.E15 ∙ The Soft Phrase of Peace

Billy Kincaid is the son of prominent rights activist Sam. He is beaten a cop durin a non-violent student demonstration where he becomes Dr. Welby's patient. The doctor is accused of covering up for the policeman.

S1.E16 ∙ Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose

A diabetic threatens to stop taking his insulin shots to get even with his father, whom he blames for his mother's suffering.

S1.E17 ∙ The Legacy

Consuelo's mother is diagnosed with a malignant tumor, and although she accepts the doctor's diagnosis, she finds it hard to accept her roommate, a sour woman dealing with a heart condition.

S1.E18 ∙ Dance to No Music

A newly married man asks Dr. Welby to perform a vasectomy. The man believes he has Huntington's Chorea and fears passing the disease down to his children. Welby and Kiley calm the heartbroken wife while attempting to confirm the diagnosis.

S1.E19 ∙ Go Get 'Em, Tiger

While visiting a drug rehab clinic, Dr. Kiley is shocked to see that one of its patients is Mr. Chambers, who used to own an auto repair shop and gave Kiley his first job in order to save money to go to college. Chambers' life fell apart after his daughter was killed in a car accident--he lost his business, became addicted to heroin, turned to crime to support his habit and served a stretch in prison. Kiley is determined to help Chambers get his life back on track, but he runs into unexpected difficulties.

S1.E20 ∙ Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey

Dr. Kiley's old friend Dinty is a jockey endangering his life by abusing diet pills as a desperate measure to maintain an impossibly low weight.

S1.E21 ∙ The Other Side of the Chart

Kiley undergoes a bout with chicken pox, and the young physician deals with an oil field worker who worries over the prospect of having bladder cancer.

S1.E22 ∙ The "Merely" Syndrome

Though she underwent a successful heart surgery as a young girl, a newlywed suffers heart seizures as an adult. Wanting a full life, she pushes the limits despite an overprotective husband.

S1.E23 ∙ Sea of Security

An oceanographer diagnosed with caisson disease (aka "the bends") insists on one last dive, despite Dr. Welby's warnings that just one dive might kill him.

S1.E24 ∙ The Daredevil Gesture

A hemophiliac begs Dr. Welby to keep his condition secret from his new schoolmates. Dr. Welby is concerned that he risks his health to achieve a normal teenage existence.

S1.E25 ∙ Enid

Dr. Kiley rescues a young boy with asthma and meets Enid Cooper, a compassionate counselor at an orphanage whose medicine cabinet suggests a dependence on prescription drugs.

S1.E26 ∙ Rebel Doctor

Dr. Welby steps in to help a former classmate of Dr. Kiley's, a maverick young doctor who is fighting to keep his neighborhood clinic operational.

S2.E1 ∙ A Very Special Sailfish

Cathy Cullen is a pretty high school senior girl comes out of her shell after a successful diet. Shedding her former wallflower self, Cathy quickly becomes popular with boys ... too popular, as she soon contracts a venereal disease. Welby presses for answers as Cathy continually resists treatment and refuses to reveal from where she may have transmitted VD.

S2.E2 ∙ The Worth of a Man

A brilliant trial attorney named Corday - an old Navy friend of Welby's - refuses to interrupt a landmark case for treatment of cancerous lymph nodes. Corday's stubbornness rubs off on his junior partner, who is also suffering from health issues of his own ... and it may cost them much more than a judgment in their favor.

S2.E3 ∙ Warn the World About Mike

Dr. Kiley's brother believes he is dying and refuses to seek help.

S2.E4 ∙ Epidemic

The efforts of Welby and Kiley to battle a flu epidemic are complicated by a rich hypochondriac.

S2.E5 ∙ To Get Through the Night

S2.E6 ∙ Daisy in the Shadows

The mother of a mentally handicapped child is forced to realize that she must allow the child to live with foster parents.

S2.E7 ∙ Labyrinth

Scientist Rick Rivera suffers from the physical and psychological after-effects of ingesting hallucinogenic drugs during a trip to Mexico. It is up to Welby to help Rivera cope and force him off the drugs.

S2.E8 ∙ The Girl from Rainbow Beach

Just before her marriage, a young woman discovers she is a victim of a form of leprosy.

S2.E9 ∙ Aura to a New Tomorrow

A young epileptic's effort to hide his affliction endangers his life.

S2.E10 ∙ Sounding Brass

A proud young father refuses to bring his supposedly mentally challenged son to a free clinic for treatment.

S2.E11 ∙ To Carry the Sun in a Golden Cup

Dr. Welby suspects a young nurse is suffering from a hereditary muscular disease.

S2.E12 ∙ All the Golden Dandelions Are Gone

A father with mononucleosis endangers his life by not following Welby's advice.

S2.E13 ∙ Brave on a Mountain Top

Dr. Welby urges a young American Indian with emphysema to return to the clean air of the reservation.

S2.E14 ∙ Another Buckle for Wesley Hill

A man who prided himself on his physical condition and active life must come to terms with the fact that his illness will eventually mean the complete loss of his independence.

S2.E15 ∙ False Spring

Kiley falls for a married woman who has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, after realizing that the woman's husband is emotionally distant with her. Getting the man to come to terms with his wife's condition and realize the seriousness of her condition uncovers some deep-seated secrets of his past.

S2.E16 ∙ A Passing of Torches

A former teacher who is dying and a confused medical student complicate efforts to honor the educator.

S2.E17 ∙ A Woman's Place

Dr. Welby tries to help an alcoholic orthopedic surgeon.

S2.E18 ∙ A Spanish Saying I Made Up

Dr. Welby's nurse Consuelo falls in love with a rich man with old-fashioned principles.

S2.E19 ∙ Cynthia

Despite repeated warnings by Kiley and Welby, a young woman insists on surgery to cure her paralysis. When the doctors stand firm, she sues them for malpractice, hoping to proceed with the surgery. Instead, secrets about her strained relationship with her estranged father rise to the surface.

S2.E20 ∙ Don't Kid a Kidder

Problems occur after Dr. Welby helps a blind woman arrange plastic surgery for her big-eared son.

S2.E21 ∙ Elegy for a Mad Dog

A rabid dog belonging to a mentally challenged teen-aged boy bites Welby.

S2.E22 ∙ The Contract

Dr. Welby becomes involved in a strained marriage when he assists the wife of a musician who becomes ill on a flight to Los Angeles.

S2.E23 ∙ The Windfall

A young girl develops an ulcer because she feels her rich parents don't love her.

S2.E24 ∙ The House of Alquist

Dr. Welby urges a young woman to break with her despotic father and marry the man she loves.

S3.E1 ∙ Tender Comrade

Welby's widowed neighbor embarks on a new relationship but her children aren't the only complication.

S3.E2 ∙ A Portrait of Debbie

A few months following the death of their daughter, a couple decide to adopt a young girl of the same age in order to help solve their building marital problems. The child's medical problems though only make things worse for all concerned.

S3.E3 ∙ In My Father's House

After his father suffers a stroke, Steve and the Kiley family are confronted with some arduous decisions with regard to their sire's care.

S3.E4 ∙ I Can Hardly Tell You Apart

A burn victim's recovery is delayed due to problems finding a skin-graft donor.

S3.E5 ∙ This Is Max

Welby agrees to host an old friend's son unaware that the boy is a Japanese child.

S3.E6 ∙ Men Who Care

Welby has a patient whose overprotective father is accused of murdering her boyfriend, so he asks Owen Marshall to defend the man.

S3.E8 ∙ Ask Me Again Tomorrow

A brilliant but stressed neurosurgeon seeks help from pills and alcohol.

S3.E9 ∙ Don't Phase Me Out

A man who has become obsessed with his work to the exclusion of everything else, including his wife and son, is forced to re-evaluate his priorities when a mild coronary is found to be caused by a potentially fatal heart condition.

S3.E10 ∙ Echo from Another World

A hot shot neurologist from the East, Kiley's old friend, endangers Welby's patient.

S3.E11 ∙ The Best Is Yet to Be

A wealthy widow falls prey to a charming gigolo at her new retirement hotel unaware that he is seriously ill.

S3.E12 ∙ A Yellow Bird

Consuelo becomes involved in the life of a young patient Paul Sanderson who is asthmatic. The caring nurse even looks into adopting the lad which Welby thinks she's doing to fill an emptiness of her own.

S3.E13 ∙ They Grow Up

A young English professor develops hypertension while caring for his mentally challenged younger sister. His condition worsens when he realizes she has matured into a young woman and has fallen in love with one of his students.

S3.E14 ∙ Of Magic Shadow Shapes

An aging film director puts off surgery on a potentially fatal heart condition in order to satisfy his ego and the ruthless ambitions of a young graduate student.

S3.E15 ∙ Cross-Match

A carefree Vietnam vet has to learn about personal responsibility when his rare blood type is the only thing that can keep a young boy suffering from insecticide poisoning alive.

S3.E16 ∙ The Basic Moment: Part 1

Dr. Welby is surprised when his daughter and grandson show up from South America unexpectedly.

S3.E17 ∙ The Basic Moment: Part 2

Dr. Welby, his daughter Sandy, and her husband Ray face some difficult decisions.

S3.E18 ∙ All the Pretty People

Kiley's friend, a well-known tennis player faces a career change.

S3.E19 ∙ I'm Really Trying

As a child an army officer transmitted a virus to his younger brother that left him mentally handicapped and led to his death. Now he refuses to accept that his oldest son may have minimal brain damage in case it turns out to be his fault.

S3.E20 ∙ Is It So Soon That I Am Done for - I Wonder What I Was Begun For?

After the death of their baby from SIDS, a young couple agree to take in a four year-old as a foster child but it soon becomes apparent that the mother is not ready to move on from her baby's death.

S3.E21 ∙ Just a Little Courage

Brian Kenny gave up a promising writing career to teach so he could care for younger brother Matthew. But just as prepares to quit he develops incapacitating spasms. Welby can find no physical reason for the affliction.

S3.E22 ∙ Don't Talk About Darkness

A middle-aged couple expecting a child face other issues when he begins to loose his vision.

S3.E23 ∙ Once There Was a Bantu Prince

A young married social worker seeks custody of an abandoned child who shares the same illness.

S3.E24 ∙ A Taste of Salt

A middle-aged Couple must learn to deal with the fact that their new-born son has cystic fibrosis.

S3.E25 ∙ Solomon's Choice

Welby's niece/god-child has a difficult pregnancy.

S4.E1 ∙ A Fragile Possession

A model faces pressure to have an abortion.

S4.E2 ∙ Love Is When They Say They Need You

A scientist needs a bone marrow transplant but the best donor may be his mentally-handicapped brother.

S4.E3 ∙ We'll Walk Out of Here Together

A young college student who has become a paraplegic from spinal meningitis alternates between confidence and despair until she falls in love with a fellow rehab patient who used to be a truck driver in Colorado.

S4.E4 ∙ In Sickness and in Health

A newly separated young woman tries the "wild life" with serious consequences.

S4.E5 ∙ House of Mirrors

Ever since a car accident killed his wife and crippled his son, Dr. Val Peterson's life has centered on his work and surgeries to get his son walking again. His engagement to Marilyn Hoffman is not for love and the question becomes why.

S4.E6 ∙ He Could Sell Iceboxes to Eskimos

Marcus takes on the case of a real estate salesman who has a stroke on an airplane just before it lands in Southern California. Feeling the man needs family support in addition to the care and therapy he's getting in the hospital, Marcus tries to get his estranged wife and daughter to visit him.

S4.E7 ∙ The Wednesday Game

Welby's neighbors, an orphaned sister and brother, befriend a promising young baseball player whose career is cut short by melanoma.

S4.E8 ∙ Don and Denise

A young artist develops multiple sclerosis and she and her musician husband must learn to deal with the strains her disease puts on their marriage.

S4.E9 ∙ Please Don't Send Flowers

A young housewife and mother of two falls into a deep depression after learning she has uterine cancer.

S4.E10 ∙ With a Shout, Not a Whimper

Dr. Justin Garvey has been appointed Chief of Surgery at Lang Memorial partially on Welby's recommendation but he refuses to acknowledge his increasing infirmities which would probably lead to his retirement.

S4.E11 ∙ Jason Be Nimble, Jason Be Quick

A young boy's battle with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is complicated by his estranged parents constantly arguing over the best way to deal with the illness.

S4.E12 ∙ Unto the Next Generation

After their infant son dies of Tay Sachs disease a young couple are in conflict over having another child.

S4.E13 ∙ Heartbeat for Yesterday

Welby accompanies a flying physician to a reserve 200 miles east of LA when a young man slips into a diabetic coma. Bad weather forces the plane to make a crash landing on the way home and the group waits for rescue without radio contact.

S4.E14 ∙ Dinner of Herbs

A wife turns to diet pills for lose weight and control her blood pressure despite Dr. Welby's warnings.

S4.E15 ∙ A More Exciting Case

A nurse who is depressed due to her inability to have children returns to nursing against Welby's better judging. Looking for "a more exciting case" leads her to take a private duty case involving a seriously troubled young man.

S4.E16 ∙ A Necessary End

A world renowned photo journalist who is dying from a rare tropical disease agrees to accept Welby's recommendation for her final months - do a photo essay on other people who are also terminally ill.

S4.E17 ∙ Who Are You Arthur Kolinski?

Growing up, Arthur Kolinski was ashamed that his father made a living as an auto mechanic. He grew up to become a wealthy industrialist and changed his name to Cole. Now he's upset that his son wants to emulate his grandfather.

S4.E18 ∙ Gemini Descending

A salesman changes from a physically fit go-getter to an overweight daydreamer and although there are indications of a medical problem, he refuses to see a doctor.

S4.E19 ∙ The Problem with Charlie

An aspiring student attorney stricken with a stress-related ulcer resists efforts by Welby and Kiley, and his wife, to help him.

S4.E20 ∙ Catch a Ring That Isn't There

Richie Manning, a teen-aged gymnast champion, falls off the rings in gym class, the tip-off that he has a serious drinking problem. Welby and Kiley refer Richie to the Comeback House to help him come to terms with his alcoholism. Compounding matters is the fact that Richie's parents - dry-cleaning store owners who are still grieving the death of their older son - are in denial over the whole thing.

S4.E21 ∙ The Working Heart

After suffering a heart attack, a workaholic TV interviewer fears she will never recover so she turns to a combination of alcohol and non-prescribed drugs to battle her anxiety and severe depression.

S4.E22 ∙ The Other Martin Loring

Dr. Welby learns patient Martin Loring is in a diabetic coma due to excessive drinking. Margaret Loring is divorcing her husband after discovering his homosexual tendencies. Welby tries to help the entire family.

S4.E23 ∙ The Day After Forever

A housewife's involvement with a political campaign quickly turns personal when she catches the eye of the charming young candidate. The woman's contractor husband quickly becomes fraught with worry about his marriage and develops a dependence of tranquilizers.

S4.E24 ∙ The Tortoise Dance

Feeling unloved and neglected at home, a teenager becomes obsessed with death and when a friend dies in a motorcycle accident he feels somehow responsible for the death and develops suicidal feelings.

S5.E1 ∙ The Panic Path

Welby gets dragged into a difficult situation after a friend confides he has lost sexual attraction to his wife. To cover the problem the friend tells his wife he is being treated by Welby, while all the time evidence mounts he is actually having an affair.

S5.E2 ∙ A Joyful Song

A young nun is brought into the hospital and faces a life threatening illness in leukemia. She struggles to come to terms with the situation and her faith, while continuing to try to inspire those around her to be positive.

S5.E3 ∙ For Services Rendered

A coronary bypass may be the only thing that can save the life of dry-cleaning store operator Fred Pulaski. But Pulaski, determined to retire with his wife to a ranch in Southern California, is determined not to have the surgery - he doesn't have health insurance or savings to fund both the surgery and the ranch - and instead keeps his health a secret.

S5.E4 ∙ Blood Kin

An Italian family become concerned when their daughter is diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. The secret to treating the girl is found in her parents blood, but they have a fear of doctors and hospitals in general.

S5.E5 ∙ The Light at the Threshold

A teenage girl suffers from a catastrophic eye condition that could leave her blind. Welby searches for answers while the girl tries to adapt to her situation.

S5.E6 ∙ A Question of Fault

A young boy looses his arm due to poor treatment. The boys father struggles to deal with his perception the boy wont grow up to be a man. To complicate matters the ugly notion of a malpractice is raised.

S5.E7 ∙ Friends in High Places

A man dying of cancer is frustrated that his youngest son continues to pursue an acting career despite a lack of success and resents the fact that he has returned to LA for acting opportunities and not just to see him.

S5.E8 ∙ The Endless Moment

A former girlfriend comes back into Kiley's life and they quickly decide to get married but when she is diagnosed with lupus, Steve's natural reticence to impart bad news makes it difficult to let her know she will become an invalid.

S5.E9 ∙ The Tall Tree

A talented psychotherapist working with trouble tackles problems with his health and his job.

S5.E10 ∙ The Circles of Shame

Welby is puzzled when a young woman and bride-to-be being treated for an ulcer tries to give herself an abortion, unaware that she is trying to conceal the fact that a co-worker had raped her.

S5.E11 ∙ Nguyen

A soldier returns from an extended tour in Vietnam with an adopted orphan in tow. The child's presence causes unintended tensions with his wife, child and mother-in-law.

S5.E12 ∙ A Cry in the Night

A marine biologist refuses to take even routine medical exams because she fears the effect test results will make on her professional and personal life.

S5.E13 ∙ Death Is Only a Side Effect

A young woman with chronic kidney disease lapses into a coma from complete renal failure and her husband blames Kiley for improperly prescribing the drug she was taking while Welby and Kiley race against time to find the actual cause.

S5.E14 ∙ The Comeback

A recovering alcoholic orthopedic surgeon tries to rebuild her reputation.

S5.E15 ∙ A Full Life

A medical researcher, despondent when his grandson's decides to become a professional athlete rather than follow in his footsteps refuses treatment for a fatal form of malaria so Welby hires a headstrong nurse to enforce treatment.

S5.E16 ∙ No Charity for the MacAllisters

An impoverished Appalachian family have moved to Los Angeles looking for work but they are hesitant to get medical treatment for looming health problems because tradition says to not accept anything they can't pay for.

S5.E17 ∙ Each Day a Miracle

Nancy Riggs has been in remission for her leukemia for six years and with the blessing of Welby and her oncologist wants to move back into the outside world but her father wants to keep her in a sterile cocoon the rest of her life.

S5.E18 ∙ The Fear of Silence

An air traffic controller faces a career-threatening illness.

S5.E19 ∙ Angela's Nightmare

Consuela becomes the only person who can communicate with a young, malnourished and frightened girl known only as Angela who has been brought to Juvenile Hall for stealing food.

S5.E20 ∙ The Mugging

Welby's neighbors struggle to recover when the wife is attacked outside their home.

S5.E21 ∙ The Latch-Key Child

When Dr. Kiley gives a ride to waitress Julie he learns her living situation is less then ideal. To earn a living she leaves 9 year old Casey in charge of Josh, who is 6. Josh also has seizures and Kiley tries to help.

S5.E22 ∙ Out of Control

An aspiring race car driver refuses to find out what is causing severe headaches because it may endanger his career but the headaches send him into uncontrollable fits of rage that endanger him and everyone around him.

S5.E23 ∙ I've Promised You a Father: Part 1

The sister of a nurse who's attracted to Kiley accuses him of getting her pregnant, so Welby asks Owen Marshall to defend him.

S5.E25 ∙ Designs

A fashion designer's fainting spells send her to Dr. Welby with unexpected results.

S6.E1 ∙ The Brittle Warrior

A veteran police sergeant (and new grandfather) tries to hide the debilitating effects of arthritis from his superior officers ... in particular, his son-in-law.

S6.E2 ∙ The Faith of Childish Things

The mother of a young boy is a strong believer in a religious group called The Satan Fighters. When he becomes fatally ill, she believes he is being taken by his guardian angel to heaven and refuses medical treatment to allow this miracle to happen. Dr. Welby must do everything in his power to save the boy.

S6.E3 ∙ Last Flight to Babylon

A young pilot who successfully undergoes treatment for bladder cancer becomes suicidal when his medical history prevents his employment and causes his girlfriend to shun him.

S6.E4 ∙ To Father a Child

Dr. Welby meets with a young couple, the Brechts, who are dealing with infertility issues. The physician suggests several alternatives including artificial insemination but meet resistance from the husband.

S6.E5 ∙ The Outrage

Welby tries to get a high school student, who was raped by his pedophile teacher, to reveal his assailant.

S6.E6 ∙ The Fatal Challenge

Kiley is frustrated by a resident at Lang Memorial's Family Practices Clinic who is prone to making rash and non-medical diagnoses.

S6.E7 ∙ A Fevered Angel

Because of her religious beliefs, a mother refuses to get medical help for her seriously ill son even though the inattention may lead to his death.

S6.E8 ∙ Feedback

Life outside the ring - permanently - is not easy for Danny Williams, a promising young fighter who shields the fact that he is epileptic from his wife. Williams struggles with having to adjust to a new life, despite the best efforts of Welby, Kiley and Williams' wife, Laurie.

S6.E9 ∙ No Gods in Sight

A doctor who has spent years in medical research has trouble adjusting to family medicine because of a lack of interpersonal skills and because he cannot deal with pain in other people.

S6.E10 ∙ Hell Is Upstairs

A young couple has a daughter who has unexplained attacks and keeps her hidden. Welby and Kiley diagnose her as having tortion dystonia, a disease similar to muscular dystrophy. The surgical process to releave her symptoms is shown.

S6.E11 ∙ The Last Rip-Off

Dr. Welby's patient dies in the night and her daughter agrees, under grieving duress, to a $5000 funeral. In the meantime, Dr. Kiley's long-time friend develops problems with his kidneys, and is unable to attend the opening of his art exhibit. Not to worry, Marcus Welby, M.D. is on both cases!

S6.E12 ∙ Child of Silence

Dr. Welby treats a young girl who almost drowned. His biggest challenge is getting through to the girl's mother who adamantly will not let her hearing-impaired daughter be seen by a specialist.

S6.E13 ∙ The 266 Days

A career woman, delighted to be pregnant at last, joins Consuelo's medical care group for pregnant women.

S6.E14 ∙ The Resident

Welby is concerned with a young resident shows more concern with the clinical aspects of his cases than with the patients themselves.

S6.E15 ∙ Dark Fury: Part 1

Kiley's medical and personal lives come into conflict after he takes Susan Davis (a former patient of his) out to dinner. Susan has been harassed by her ex-boyfriend, Wayne, who stalks her undeterred as Kiley repeatedly warns him off. On the night of Kiley's dinner date, Wayne breaks into Susan's apartment and attempts to rape her. Kiley runs in and scares Wayne off, then goes after him. As Kiley is going after Wayne (to get a license and car description so he can contact the police), Wayne loses control of his car and crashes into a concrete barrier, seriously injuring him.

S6.E16 ∙ Dark Fury: Part 2

Kiley finds himself fighting for his medical career after Wayne Trent - the man who was stalking his ex-girlfriend, who was now dating Kiley - files a medical malpractice lawsuit against him, all in the aftermath of a car chase and subsequent accident in which Wayne was seriously injured.

S6.E17 ∙ Public Secrets

Because his wife has chronic heart disease, a financial manager has a one-night stand with a model that gives him syphilis. The illness comes out in a routine physical and the results are both professionally and personally devastating.

S6.E18 ∙ The Time Bomb

A rising tennis star's career may be threatened by thyroid cancer caused from radiation treatment she received as a child.

S6.E19 ∙ Four Plus Hot

A young man returns home after several years abroad to visit a high school friend only to find his him seriously ill and in a severe depression. In helping his friend, the man finds he has personal problems of his own to deal with.

S6.E20 ∙ Jake's Okay

Kiley becomes a mentor-of-sorts to a teen-aged boy named Jake, who - thanks to a disorder caused by undetected minimal brain damage - has poor social skills and does poorly in school.

S6.E21 ∙ Save the Last Dance for Me

Two women have very different reactions to a diagnosis of breast cancer.

S6.E22 ∙ Unindicted Wife

A politician's wife, suffering from hypertension, has her health endangered when her husband finds himself embroiled in a kickback scandal.

S6.E23 ∙ Dark Corridors

A young teenage violinist appears to have a disease that only occurs in adolescents and Welby feels that he may be misdiagnosing because he is in shock over the death of an old friend earlier in the day.

S6.E24 ∙ Loser in a Dead Heat

A man's gambling endangers his daughter's health.

S7.E1 ∙ Tomorrow May Never Come

Kiley falls in love with the new public relations director at Lang Memorial.

S7.E2 ∙ The Fruitfulness of Mrs. Steffie Rhodes

Dealing with meager means, a woman expecting quintuplets due to fertility treatments is berated by a disapproving landlord, harassed by the media and besieged by companies wanting to benefit from the woman's circumstances.

S7.E3 ∙ The Lie

Janet's former boyfriend, Eric Brandon, returns to LA and sees Welby about a possible recurrence of his skin cancer. When surgery is called for, Brandon deliberately doesn't tell Welby of a recent stroke, which could endanger his life.

S7.E4 ∙ The Covenant

Welby faces a lawsuit when he gives a woman a blood transfusion in order to save her life even though he knows the procedure is against her religious beliefs.

S7.E5 ∙ The Double-Edged Razor

A teenage girl suffers a mild stroke during a high school exam and Kiley is concerned that even though initial tests come back normal there is something seriously wrong with the girl.

S7.E6 ∙ To Live Another Day

A Jewish boy named Simon, who is suffering from a series of illnesses, longs to recover in time for his Bar Mitzvah. But his parents quarrel over whether he should go through with the ceremony, complicating his recovery.

S7.E7 ∙ An End and a Beginning

An autistic young man complicates Kiley's wedding preparations.

S7.E8 ∙ The Tidal Wave

The Kileys' seemingly amicable plumber suffers from a series of uncontrolled violent outbursts, and it's up to Kiley and Welby to find out why and prescribe treatment ... before the man kills someone.

S7.E9 ∙ The Strange Behavior of Paul Kelland

A structural engineer develops severe mood swings and alternating periods of insomnia and drowsiness causing deep concern for his wife as well as Welby and Kiley.

S7.E10 ∙ Calculated Risk

Welby's joy at his daughter's return from South America is tempered by the realization that his son-in-law may be suffering from a serious heart problem.

S7.E11 ∙ Killers of Dreams

Five years after losing one of her kidneys to disease, a young woman suffers a relapse and the possibility of losing her other one. This causes worries that her illness may destroy her career and force her to cancel her upcoming wedding.

S7.E12 ∙ The Medea Factor

A deeply introverted young boy arrives at an orphanage and there is no indication of who he is or where he came from. Just as the head nun starts making some progress she becomes critically ill and has to be isolated in the hospital.

S7.E13 ∙ The One Face in the World

Dr. Welby must decide how to deal with a delicate ethical matter. A female colleague insists on treating her father, ill with leukemia, despite all the arguments against docctors administrating to family members.

S7.E14 ∙ Go Ahead and Cry

Consuelo faces difficult decisions after a diagnosis of fibroid tumors.

S7.E15 ∙ Strike Two!

Welby and Kiley endeavor to help a once-promising baseball player rebuild his life after alcohol misuse ends his career.

S7.E16 ∙ How Do You Know What Hurts Me?

June is a Vegas dancer who has become very ill from a botched silicone breast implant. The moral of the story is to go to a reputable plastic surgeon for a proper silicone implant procedure.

S7.E17 ∙ Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 1

A teen-aged "Brittle Diabetic" struggles to maintain control of her health. Welby and Kiley refer her to a promising young doctor with problems of his own. Part 1 of 2.

S7.E18 ∙ Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 2

A teen-aged "Brittle Diabetic" struggles to maintain control of her health. Welby and Kiley refer her to a promising young doctor with problems of his own. Part 2 of 2.

S7.E19 ∙ The Highest Mountain

Dr. Kiley finds himself work long hours with Dr. Welby away then he has a major argument with wife Janet. He subsequently suffers a stroke and he fights to fully recover from his disabilities.

S7.E20 ∙ To Trump an Ace

A pilot suffers what seems to be an asthma attack while flying the Kileys to Mexico. Further testing is needed to get proper diagnosis. The pilot is stubborn and delays testing. He fears he will lose his license and his livelihood.

S7.E21 ∙ All Passions Spent

Thirteen years ago, Kiley' college roommate, Vince Dager married Steve's girlfriend, Susan. When Vince suffers a severe heart attack, Kiley agrees to take the case but his presence appears o be hindering the recovery.

S7.E22 ∙ Aspects of Love

S7.E23 ∙ Vanity Case

Paul Moran is ready to propose to Welby's daughter but the hospitalization of his ex-wife for severe headaches threatens to put a hitch in the plans.