Medical Center
Located in the Los Angeles, California area, the Medical Center was an otherwise unnamed hospital complex that was part of a larger university campus.
Genre: Drama
Cast:James Daly , Chad Everett , Chris Hutson , Virginia Hawkins , Barbara Baldavin , Daniel Silver , Audrey Totter , Harv Selsby , Sheldon Coburn , Evelyn Frank , Richard Stuart , Lisa Moore , Corinne Camacho , Louise Lewis , Eugene Peterson , Larry Evans , Ed Hall , Michael Stearns
S2.E1 ∙ Brink of Doom
A doctor knows he is exhibiting the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, but is hoping to postpone diagnosis until after he performs necessary surgery on his patient, a young man suffering from thyroid cancer. But it is becoming apparent that he'd be risking the patient's life by performing the surgery himself.
S2.E2 ∙ Undercurrent
A doctor's new drug may be the last hope for a young woman stricken with leukemia. But that hope may be dashed by rumors that the doctor is a homosexual, which have been delivered to members of the hospital board who must approve his drug to be used.
S2.E3 ∙ Junkie
Gannon is shocked to discover that the gifted 16-year-old daughter of his longtime friends is addicted to heroin.
S2.E4 ∙ Assailant
Two young women have been attacked on the medical center grounds, one of them fatally, and a police inspector's main suspect is a brash, brooding intern whose behavior does not help matters.
S2.E5 ∙ The Clash
A student dies after an illegal abortion, and soon another is hospitalized. Gannon, who is head of student health at the university, believes the rule that all abortions must be reported is actually preventing young women from seeking medical attention after they've had one. But on this matter Gannon locks horns with Dr. Gloria Howell, who is so determined to not be seen as stereotypically soft and emotional that she has an unbending rigidity when it comes to rules.
S2.E6 ∙ Ghetto Clinic
Gannon is given 24 hours to get an inner city free clinic shaped up before authorities decide to cut off its funding. He needs to convince the unconventional doctor who runs it to work with him, and to keep in touch with the police regarding any reportable incidents, which the clinic doctor fears will cause his patients to lose trust in him.
S2.E7 ∙ Scream of Silence
Gannon determines that his goddaughter is mildly retarded and will need special schooling. But the girl's mother refuses to accept that there is anything wrong with her, and refuses to listen to anything Gannon suggests.
S2.E8 ∙ Death Grip
The behavior of a doctor recently returned from service in Vietnam leads Gannon to suspect that he is becoming dependent on alcohol.
S2.E9 ∙ Witch Hunt
A girl is found to be suffering from Addison's Disease (adrenal insufficiency) after going into a panic and collapsing at the university. Gannon finds a strange pendant in her hand, and she suddenly leaves the hospital after a visit from a woman who seems to hold a strange control over her. Both Gannon and a superstitious intern investigate, fearing for the girl's health and suspecting the woman of being into witchcraft.
S2.E10 ∙ Deadly Encounter
Gannon discovers that a former nurse and one-time girlfriend, now married to an older college professor, may have pancreatic cancer. However, as her condition for giving consent for surgery, she insists that her husband not be informed of the real reason for the operation, a condition Gannon agrees to but later wishes he hadn't.
S2.E11 ∙ Trial by Terror
Just before he is supposed to perform a life-saving operation on a young woman who is counting on him, Gannon is blinded in a car accident after his brakes fail. And he does not realize that the orderly whom he trusts and requests to work with him is the one working against him.
S2.E12 ∙ Accused
A girl that Gannon has known for years is suffering from blackouts, and also from a delusion that she and Joe are in love with each other. When she learns she is pregnant, she claims he is the father, and her protective older brother believes it.
S2.E13 ∙ Crisis
Gannon has to treat two patients, a student with a bullet wound, and the campus policeman who shot him and suffered a severe abdominal injury. The cop, who claims the student provoked him, turns out to be in more critical condition than the student, who claims the shooting was unjustified. When Gannon refuses to let the student's lawyer interview the cop, the lawyer tries to use this to start a campus protest against Gannon and the medical center.
S2.E14 ∙ Man at Bay
The unconventional Dr. Carl Webson frankly informs a young woman suffering from spreading gangrene that her leg may have to be amputated. The girl is far more accepting of this than are her father, or the very conventional Dr. Garson, both of whom want to see Webson dismissed when he performs the amputation.
S2.E15 ∙ The Savage Image
A young Indian hoping to be accepted into the physician's assistant program deals with prejudice among doctors and patients, as well as the conflict between modern medicine and his tribe's traditions, which his ailing grandfather still holds more faith in.
S2.E16 ∙ Pitfall
A student nurse, who is planning to be married in only a few days, learns that she has syphilis. She is afraid to tell her fiance, a young doctor who may need to undergo surgery himself due to back pain of unknown origin .
S2.E17 ∙ Web of Darkness
Young executive Maggi Spencer is seriously injured while horse riding with her younger sister. Gannon diagnoses a resulting aortic aneurysm, and is forced to operate when she loses consciousness. But after surgery Maggi is unable to move her legs, though no doctors can find any reason for the paralysis.
S2.E18 ∙ Danger Point
A woman being treated for cervical cancer, unable to accept the death of her newborn baby, removes a radium implant and leaves it somewhere in the hospital after running from her room. Until she can accept her baby's death she has no memory of where she put the implant, which could result in radiation poisoning for the entire hospital if it is broken and must be located.
S2.E19 ∙ Secret Heritage
A girl from an institution for the severely retarded is admitted to the hospital after suffering minor injuries in a fight. Gannon begins to suspect that the girl is not as severely retarded as is thought and can be helped, but he finds resistance from the doctor and nurse at the institution, and from the girl's own mother.
S2.E20 ∙ Edge of Violence
A former comic who now entertains patients at the hospital tries to help a young woman who has tried to commit suicide. But he has problems as well: he is suffering from violent spells which he loses all memory of afterward. The two wind up having to help each other.
S2.E21 ∙ Countdown
Tom Desmond abruptly quits his job as an orderly, even though he has a sick wife and a baby daughter to support. And his prospects for finding a new source of income keep falling through, in part because of his past record and in part because of his chip-on-shoulder attitude.
S2.E22 ∙ Perfection of Vices
Lochner's college flame, whom he briefly married until her father had it annulled, is suffering from a heart ailment. But she refuses to have an angiogram which could pinpoint the problem. And she gives Lochner some unexpected news.
S2.E23 ∙ The Man in Hiding
A woman is admitted to the hospital after a series of strokes. Gannon finds that she may need a new surgical procedure to save her life. She asks to see her ex-husband, formerly a top surgeon, who has become a pathologist and now has little contact with patients. She wants him to perform the operation, but due to a past tragedy which ended their marriage he is unwilling to.
S2.E24 ∙ Crossroads
An elderly doctor who recently underwent a heart transplant is determined to keep doing surgery, though Gannon doesn't feel he is strong enough. The old doctor's first operation is on an 18-year-old girl who is found to be suffering from melanoma, for which he wants to take a conservative approach, while Gannon believes she must have a full mastectomy.
