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

0Season 1

S1.E0 ∙ Operation Heartbeat

Wed, Apr 16, 1969

A college grid star, potential Heisman trophy recipient and big pro football draft choice, is plagued by a mysterious ailment, but refuses treatment in fear of jeopardizing his career.

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Last Ten Yards

Tue, Sep 23, 1969

An aspiring football star (O.J. Simpson) refuses treatment that may harm his budding career.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Victim

Tue, Sep 30, 1969

Gannon believes a young boy is the victim of a beating rather than a fall.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Emergency in Ward E

Tue, Oct 7, 1969

A college student stumbles into the hospital with a bullet in his neck and emotional problems.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ A Life Is Waiting

Tue, Oct 14, 1969

A heart condition threatens a woman's pregnancy. She wants to risk the pregnancy while her husband wants her to have a therapeutic abortion.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Battle of Lily Wu

Tue, Oct 21, 1969

An injured Vietnamese girl is brought to the United States for treatment, then resists it.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Crooked Circle

Tue, Oct 28, 1969

A college student about to undergo surgery for an abdominal condition is also addicted to shooting up methamphetamine (speed).

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Thousands and Thousands of Miles

Tue, Nov 11, 1969

A young pregnant woman with a hemorrhaging kidney is rejected by her angry father and gets little support from her feckless boyfriend.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Sharpest Edge

Tue, Nov 18, 1969

Gannon butts heads with the new acting chief of surgery (John Marley), believing he is too quick to schedule surgeries.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Jeopardy

Tue, Nov 25, 1969

A student (Michael Burns) violently attacks a psychology professor (Lloyd Bochner). Gannon suspects the student has a neurological disorder.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Fallen Image

Tue, Dec 2, 1969

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

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Loner

Tue, Dec 9, 1969

A reclusive widow (Lee Grant) tentatively reaches out to a newly orphaned Mexican boy.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ 24 Hours

Tue, Dec 16, 1969

Gannon comes to the aid of a student nurse who is efficient but resented by some for taking her own initiative too often. When a bus crash brings in a couple dozen patients, it puts her even more to the test.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Adversaries

Tue, Dec 30, 1969

Two interns (Patricia Quinn and Christopher Stone) are both being considered for a much-prized residency. And one of them is not above manipulation and sabotage to get it.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Deceived

Tue, Jan 6, 1970

A young woman (Carrie Snodgress) is is need of a kidney but family secrets prevent a donation from her parents (Inga Swenson and Pat Hingle)

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Moment of Decision

Tue, Jan 13, 1970

Dr. Paul Lochner (James Daly) must tell his daughter Jennifer (Tyne Daly) that she has a serious arterial condition which may require surgery and possibly delay her upcoming wedding.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Runaway

Tue, Jan 20, 1970

Gannon tries to bridge a gap between a homeless17-year-old (Richard Thomas) suffering blackouts and his immigrant father (Simon Oakland).

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Fright and Flight

Tue, Feb 3, 1970

Gannon suspects a blind girl recovering from a motorcycle accident may have hysterical blindness.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ A Duel with Doom

Tue, Feb 10, 1970

A young minister needs to undergo heart surgery as soon as possible, but he wants to put it off because he is more concerned with keeping one of the parolees he is working with out of trouble.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ A Matter of Tomorrow

Tue, Feb 24, 1970

Nurse Marge Bowen (Mercedes McCambridge) successfully convinces a young singer (Cliff Potts) to have surgery that could affect his voice. But she steals pain pills rather than face her own health problems.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Care Is No Cure

Tue, Mar 3, 1970

An overworked Dr. Gannon is forced to take a vacation. He travels to Mexico and falls in love with a woman with a terminal disease.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ The Professional

Tue, Mar 10, 1970

Former football legend Ollie Wayne checks into the hospital and told that his legs need vascular surgery. If postponed, it could lead to amputation. But he keeps stalling surgery.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Combatants

Tue, Mar 17, 1970

A determined researcher is overly eager to test a promising new drug on a 19-year-old patient with Hodgkin's Disease, but Gannon is reluctant because of a lack of information about the possible side effects.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ The V.D. Story

Tue, Mar 24, 1970

Gannon protects a young student wife suffering from VD and faces a medical board hearing for violating hospital code.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ His Brother's Keeper

Tue, Mar 31, 1970

Dr. Martin Lambert is so proud of his eldest son Jerry, a diving champion aiming for the Olympics, that he refuses to believe the boy may have a muscular disorder. And because of his obsession with Jerry's future, he has neglected his younger son.

25Season 1

S1.E25 ∙ The Rebel in White

Tue, Apr 7, 1970

A young, ambitious black resident thinks that Gannon is too reluctant to allow him to perform surgery, and that his assignment to a low income elderly white Southern patient is somehow meant as an insult.

26Season 1

S1.E26 ∙ Between Dark and Daylight

Tue, Apr 14, 1970

After going through four spontaneous abortions in two years, a young woman wants to be sterilized, but her husband is ambiguous and Gannon feels she is acting too hastily in making her decision.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Brink of Doom

Tue, Sep 15, 1970

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.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Undercurrent

Tue, Sep 22, 1970

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.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Junkie

Tue, Sep 29, 1970

Gannon is shocked to discover that the gifted 16-year-old daughter of his longtime friends is addicted to heroin.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Assailant

Tue, Oct 6, 1970

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.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Clash

Tue, Oct 13, 1970

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.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Ghetto Clinic

Tue, Oct 20, 1970

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.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Scream of Silence

Tue, Oct 27, 1970

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.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Death Grip

Tue, Nov 3, 1970

The behavior of a doctor recently returned from service in Vietnam leads Gannon to suspect that he is becoming dependent on alcohol.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Witch Hunt

Tue, Nov 10, 1970

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.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Deadly Encounter

Tue, Nov 17, 1970

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.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Trial by Terror

Tue, Nov 24, 1970

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.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Accused

Tue, Dec 1, 1970

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.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Crisis

Tue, Dec 8, 1970

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.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Man at Bay

Tue, Dec 15, 1970

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.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ The Savage Image

Tue, Dec 29, 1970

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.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Pitfall

Tue, Jan 5, 1971

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 .

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Web of Darkness

Tue, Jan 12, 1971

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.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Danger Point

Tue, Jan 26, 1971

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.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Secret Heritage

Tue, Feb 2, 1971

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.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Edge of Violence

Tue, Feb 9, 1971

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.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Countdown

Tue, Feb 16, 1971

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.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Perfection of Vices

Tue, Feb 23, 1971

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.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ The Man in Hiding

Tue, Mar 2, 1971

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.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Crossroads

Tue, Mar 9, 1971

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.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Blood Line

Tue, Sep 14, 1971

Gannon bargains with a fugitive to save the man's dying son.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Corrupted

Tue, Sep 21, 1971

A selfish, ambitious doctor risks his father's life to get an important position.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Imposter

Tue, Sep 28, 1971

In a twist of fate, Gannon is forced to destroy the career of a beloved general practioner who once saved his life.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Double Jeopardy

Tue, Oct 5, 1971

A young woman has herself artificially inseminated to save her marriage, but her husband insists she have an abortion.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Idolmaker

Tue, Oct 12, 1971

To save her own life, a woman evangelist must make a decision that might destroy her career, her marriage and her faith.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Circle of Power

Tue, Oct 19, 1971

A seriously ill surgeon continues his work, risking a patient's life.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Shattered Man

Tue, Oct 26, 1971

An impotent husband confronts his overpowering father-in-law to save his marriage.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Albatross

Tue, Nov 2, 1971

Paralyzed after a car crash, a young man can no longer care for his intellectually disabled brother.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Martyr

Tue, Nov 9, 1971

A chronic invalid refuses to be cured in order to protect her son.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Suspected

Tue, Nov 16, 1971

Gannon champions a doctor accused of being a sex offender.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Loser

Tue, Nov 23, 1971

Financial pressure from her husband and her education drive a young medical student to prostitution.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Pawn

Tue, Nov 30, 1971

A quack doctor romances a Medical Center patient whose life is in danger.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Conspiracy

Tue, Dec 7, 1971

Joe Gannon must choose between jeopardizing a long-standing friendship or violating the confidence of a patient.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Nowhere Child

Tue, Dec 14, 1971

Chad Everett directs and stars in the drama of a marital crisis and its effect on an adopted boy.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Shock!: Part 1

Tue, Dec 28, 1971

Dr. Joe Gannon uncovers a murder in which he and Lochner's younger sister are prime suspects. Part one of a two-part episode.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Shock!: Part 2

Tue, Jan 4, 1972

Gannon and Lochner's sister are murder suspects. Part two of a two-part episode.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Fatal Decision

Tue, Jan 18, 1972

Gannon rekindles an old flame with a torrid past.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Terror

Tue, Jan 25, 1972

The hunt for a girl exposed to the plague brings a clash between Gannon and an officious public health officer.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Secret

Tue, Feb 1, 1972

A reformed alcoholic backslides when his wife becomes fatally ill.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ The Choice

Tue, Feb 8, 1972

A young physician must choose between a career in hospital administration and general practice in a rural area where his services are badly needed.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Deadlock

Tue, Feb 15, 1972

When a surgeon's wife is kidnapped, her ransom is the death of one of her husband's patients.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Awakening

Tue, Feb 22, 1972

When her husband recovers from a long coma, a doctor's wife must choose between her new life-style and her unhappy marriage.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Confession

Tue, Feb 29, 1972

The career of a young female intern is threatened when her fiance confesses to a rape he did not commit.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ Conflict

Tue, Mar 7, 1972

When Gannon is unable to save the life of a politician, the man's family threatens him with a malpractice suit.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Vision of Doom

Tue, Sep 12, 1972

Dr. Gannon suspects a noted psychic's visions of his wife's death are wishful thinking.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Cycle of Peril

Tue, Sep 19, 1972

A false pregnancy threatens an anxious would-be mother and her sterile husband.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Condemned

Tue, Sep 26, 1972

Dr. Gannon loses the trust of a 13-year-old patient when the boy's young roommate dies of a terminal illness.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Wall of Silence

Tue, Oct 3, 1972

In seeking the cause of hysterical deafness in a 16-year-old patient, Dr. Gannon must force the boy's parents to acknowledge some deep-rooted guilt.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ The Torn Man

Tue, Oct 10, 1972

An intern marries a patient, knowing she is terminally ill, yet her death leaves him broken enough to quit medicine.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Betrayed

Tue, Oct 17, 1972

Before he can perform life-saving surgery, Dr. Gannon must separate a rebellious teenager from her only confidante--and jeopardize her parents' marriage.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Doctor and Mr. Harper

Tue, Oct 31, 1972

To save the career of a talented woman doctor, and the life of her critically ill husband, Dr. Gannon must help the man accept his limitations--and her paycheck.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ The Fallen

Tue, Oct 31, 1972

A young, depressed patient postpones essential surgery to go on a romantic voyage with a phony "world traveler", whom Gannon has unsuspectingly introduced to her.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Tio Taco, MD

Tue, Nov 7, 1972

An Hispanic herbal healer and his son, a young M.D., clash over the treatment of a superstitious Mexican woman at Medical Center.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ The Outcast

Tue, Nov 14, 1972

A cancer researcher, once convicted of second-degree murder in a mercy killing, is suspected when a patient's life-support systems are cut off.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ No Sanctuary

Tue, Nov 21, 1972

A tough cop helps Gannon restore a young nun's faith after she is sexually assaulted.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Gladiator

Tue, Nov 28, 1972

To protect the health of a football star, Gannon challenges the "win at any cost" mentality that condones the use of drugs by athletes.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ No Way Out

Tue, Dec 5, 1972

A young doctor suffering from an incurable disease must make a choice to marry a millionaire or spend her remaining years in medicine.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ A Game for One Player

Tue, Dec 12, 1972

Gannon helps a young intern overcome the guilt that motivated an unhealthy relationship with a colleague's widow.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Pressure Point

Tue, Dec 19, 1972

When his wife becomes a tragic mental case, a brilliant surgeon must choose between abandoning his career and institutionalizing her.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Question of Guilt

Tue, Jan 2, 1973

A female convict, recommended by Gannon to a physician's assistant's program, refuses to believe his interest is strictly professional.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Judgment

Tue, Jan 9, 1973

When a young patient goes on a hunger strike, Dr. Gannon tries to persuade a lonely hospital volunteer to care for the girl's illegitimate child.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ End of the Line

Tue, Jan 16, 1973

A young high-wire performer with a serious heart defect tells Dr. Gannon that the show must go on to save her grandfather's circus.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Between 2 Fires

Tue, Jan 23, 1973

Gannon must force a prominent surgeon through morphine withdrawal when the man is faced with operating on his own wife.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Night Cry

Tue, Jan 30, 1973

Gannon confronts a hard-nosed businesswoman who refuses to help the illegitimate son of her late husband.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ No Margin for Error

Tue, Feb 6, 1973

A patient arrives with explosives in his chest putting the staff on edge and the hospital in lock down. The emergency postpones an operation on a noted woman physician, putting her life in danger.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Impact

Tue, Feb 13, 1973

To save her son's life, Dr. Gannon must persuade a divorced mother to bare the guilty secret that destroyed her marriage.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ Fatal Memory

Tue, Feb 20, 1973

A free-spirited aviatrix, haunted by the accidental deaths of her husband and child, becomes suicidal--and Gannon receives a plea for help.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ The Vortex

Tue, Feb 27, 1973

To save the life of a 19-year-old girl, Gannon is forced to jeopardize Dr. Lochner's "September" romance with the girl's mother.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ The Guilty

Sun, Sep 9, 1973

Gannon looks for the cause of hysterical paralysis in a young woman whose parents have a secret which could prove destructive to all three of them.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Time of Darkness

Sun, Sep 16, 1973

A small town doctor calls Dr. Gannon for help on a strange medical case, but is murdered before he can tell his story.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Broken Image

Sun, Sep 23, 1973

An aging surgeon develops a combative attitude which threatens to wreck his career and his marriage, and endangers a patient's life.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Impasse

Sun, Sep 30, 1973

A young woman is admitted to the hospital and her symptoms lead Doctor Gannon to a difficult diagnosis.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Clash of Shadows

Sun, Oct 7, 1973

A mother who loses a child to SIDS finds herself pregnant, and struggles with health issues while trying to decide whether to keep her baby.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ The Casualty

Sun, Oct 21, 1973

A Veitnam vet, suffering from PTSD, tries to reconnect with his wife and child who started a new life while he was in a prisoner of war camp, placing the child's life at risk.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Stranger in Two Worlds

Sun, Oct 28, 1973

After a fellow diver dies, a young woman diver struggles with the stress of competitive diving, resulting in health problems. Her coach, who is also her fiancée, objects to Doctor Gannon performing tests on her.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Child of Violence

Sun, Nov 11, 1973

Doctor Gannon struggles to reach, and treat, a child refugee from 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Woman for Hire

Sun, Nov 18, 1973

Doctor Gannon tries to rein in a Resident who has a history of becoming emotionally involved with patients, while attempting to diagnose and treat an abused fashion model.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ A Life at Stake

Sun, Nov 25, 1973

Joe must deal with a forty-year-old doctor has not completed his Residency due to a gambling problem.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Nightmare

Sun, Dec 2, 1973

Doctor Gannon receives death threats which appear to be coming from inside the hospital.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Deadly Game

Sun, Dec 9, 1973

The ailing homeless widow of a baseball star, has difficulty reconciling with a daughter she hasn't seen in thirteen years.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Web of Intrigue

Sun, Jan 6, 1974

Doctor Gannon struggles to rein in an unorthodox third-year Resident.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Trial by Knife

Sun, Jan 13, 1974

Doctor Gannon clashes with the new Chief of the Surgical Service, who has recently returned from working in the Amazon jungles, and who Joe considers 'knife happy'.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ Choice of Evils

Sun, Jan 20, 1974

Doctor Gannon struggles to convince a middle-aged man suffering from an aneurysm to undergo a life-saving procedure which might leave him impotent.

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ No Escape

Sun, Jan 27, 1974

A prisoner offers his kidney to a young women in dire need of a transplant, causing serious consternation for her mother.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Dark Warning

Sun, Feb 10, 1974

A brilliant surgeon is to perform surgery on his critically ill former wife. But he is hiding his diagnosis of epilepsy and when Gannon finds out he feels he must intervene.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ Girl from Bedlam

Sun, Feb 17, 1974

Doctor Gannon goes undercover at a mental hospital to discover why an old friend of his did not receive proper medical care.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ The Spectre

Sun, Feb 24, 1974

A new doctor at the Medical Center, and an old friend of Doctor Gannon's, arrives at Medical Center. But what is he hiding?

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ The Enemies

Sun, Mar 3, 1974

Doctor Gannon takes responsibility for an adopted child with a very high IQ, and whose adoptive mother is in need of life-saving surgery.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ The Conspirators

Sun, Mar 10, 1974

After a young woman is assaulted and identifies her attacker, the girls street-gang friends gain vengeance, thereby dumping a seriously-injured patient into Dr. Gannon's hands.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ The World's Balloon

Sun, Mar 24, 1974

Doctor Gannon struggles to save a young boy who is in the care of a down-in-his-luck vaudevillian who is not his legal guardian.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ Hexed

Sun, Mar 31, 1974

Doctor Gannon is confounded when a colleague insists a patient is suffering from a voodoo curse, and every medical treatment he attempts fails to resolve the patient's illness.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ Appointment with Danger

Sun, Apr 14, 1974

A world-famous scientist struggles with health issues while rekindling an old flame.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Adults Only

Sun, Sep 8, 1974

A Resident at Medical Center discovers a disturbing secret about his wife.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Demi-God

Sun, Sep 15, 1974

A faith healer's wife is taken ill and he is confronted with a shocking revelation.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ The Faces of Peril

Sun, Sep 22, 1974

Doctor Gannon races against time to confirm a diagnosis which presents a threat to public health, but the patient is uncooperative and won't reveal any information about where she might have contracted her illness.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Three-Cornered Cage

Sun, Sep 29, 1974

A woman committed to a sanitarium is injured, leading to a diagnosis which might allow Doctor Gannon to restore her mental health, but her recovery might reveal a secret.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ The Shattered Mask

Sun, Oct 6, 1974

Doctor Gannon attempts to cure a female artist who has been confined to a wheelchair since an accident in her teens, but her dreams point to a darker truth.

6Season 6

S6.E6 ∙ May God Have Mercy

Sun, Oct 20, 1974

An old friend of Doctor Gannon's who left the priesthood, befriends a down-on-her-luck singer.

7Season 6

S6.E7 ∙ The Prisoners

Sun, Oct 27, 1974

Doctor Gannon enlists a prisoner to aid a wealthy woman in need of a miracle cure.

8Season 6

S6.E8 ∙ The Bribe

Sun, Nov 3, 1974

Doctor Gannon struggles with a controlling and overprotective socialite whose daughter has given a prognosis with which he disagrees.

9Season 6

S6.E9 ∙ Tainted Lady

Sun, Nov 10, 1974

Doctor Gannon counsels a friend who has life-changing surgery, and supports her attempts to keep her job.

10Season 6

S6.E10 ∙ Heel of the Tyrant

Sun, Nov 17, 1974

Doctor Gannon confronts a neo-Nazi hospital employee and his mother.

11Season 6

S6.E11 ∙ Three on a Tightrope

Sun, Nov 24, 1974

A mentally challenged young man falls in love with one of Doctor Gannon's patients, leading to conflict with the man's overprotective sister,

12Season 6

S6.E12 ∙ The Midwife

Sun, Dec 1, 1974

A respected gynecologist clashes with an unlicensed midwife, while Doctor Gannon works to save the life of one of her patients.

13Season 6

S6.E13 ∙ Kiss and Kill

Sun, Dec 8, 1974

A scheming young woman latches on to a wealthy man in the hospital.

14Season 6

S6.E14 ∙ Saturday's Child

Sun, Dec 15, 1974

A teenage girl is suffering fainting spells, but her estrangement from her parents threatens Doctor Gannon's ability to treat her.

15Season 6

S6.E15 ∙ The Hostile Heart

Sun, Dec 29, 1974

Matters of the heart intertwine the lives of a critically ill patient, his adoptive parents, his social worker, her boyfriend, and Doctor Gannon.

16Season 6

S6.E16 ∙ No Way Home

Sun, Jan 5, 1975

An aging star's behavior threatens the career of her husband, a highly-respected surgeon, at Medical Center.

17Season 6

S6.E17 ∙ The Captives

Sun, Jan 12, 1975

A dedicated nurse has a difficult pregnancy and a strained relationship with the baby's father, which causes stress for her preteen daughter.

18Season 6

S6.E18 ∙ Crown of Thorns

Sun, Feb 2, 1975

Doctor Gannon falls in love with a beautiful young patient who is not who she seems to be.

19Season 6

S6.E19 ∙ The Invisible Wife

Sun, Feb 9, 1975

The wife of a candidate for the US Senate is taken ill, and attempts to hide her illness from her husband and the Press.

20Season 6

S6.E20 ∙ If Mine Eye Offends Me

Sun, Feb 23, 1975

A sex offender is stabbed in prison and while he's being treated by Doctor Gannon, his wife tries to get him to take an experimental drug which would reduce his sexual urges.

21Season 6

S6.E21 ∙ Survivors

Sun, Mar 2, 1975

A brutal competition for a limited number of internships drives unhealthy competition between aspiring medical students.

22Season 6

S6.E22 ∙ Aftershock

Sun, Mar 9, 1975

Doctor Gannon struggles to save patients and coworkers after a gas explosion severely damages another hospital.

23Season 6

S6.E23 ∙ Half a Life

Sun, Mar 16, 1975

Doctor Gannon's assistant is torn between love for her ailing brother and love for a suitor.

24Season 6

S6.E24 ∙ The Rip-Off

Sun, Mar 23, 1975

Doctor Gannon faces a challenge in convincing a young rock star to undergo surgery which might result in the young man's loss of hearing.

1Season 7

S7.E1 ∙ The Fourth Sex: Part 1

Sun, Sep 7, 1975

Dr. Gannon is astounded when a world-famous surgeon asks for gender reassignment surgery.

2Season 7

S7.E2 ∙ The Fourth Sex: Part 2

Sun, Sep 14, 1975

Dr. Gannon is astounded when a world-famous surgeon asks for gender reassignment surgery. Second of two parts.

3Season 7

S7.E3 ∙ Torment

Sun, Sep 21, 1975

Dr. Gannon probes his own past to learn how to deal with a dying patient.

4Season 7

S7.E4 ∙ No Hiding Place

Sun, Sep 28, 1975

Dr. Gannon discovers that his trusted protégé is accused of conspiring in a brutal VIetnam massacre.

5Season 7

S7.E5 ∙ The Velvet Knife

Sun, Oct 5, 1975

Dr. Gannon unwillingly becomes the object of a young woman's all-demanding attention.

6Season 7

S7.E6 ∙ Street Girl

Sun, Oct 19, 1975

A study of teen-age prostitution: the daughter of a successful surgeon takes to the streets in a desperate bid for attention.

7Season 7

S7.E7 ∙ The Price of a Child

Tue, Oct 28, 1975

The son of a wealthy Middle Eastern oil magnate upsets Medical Center operations with his "money buys everything" attitude.

8Season 7

S7.E8 ∙ Too Late for Tomorrow

Sun, Nov 2, 1975

Dr. Tarkington, an esteemed surgeon, learns he has a terminal illness. He decides to spend his last days doing things he put off while pursuing his career.

9Season 7

S7.E9 ∙ The Last Performance

Sun, Nov 9, 1975

Tragedy prevents Dr. Paul Lochner from reviving his youthful romance with an opera star.

10Season 7

S7.E10 ∙ Two Against Death

Sun, Nov 16, 1975

A Medical Center surgeon is in conflict when he must operate on a patient whose life is the key to his own son's recovery.

11Season 7

S7.E11 ∙ One Last Rebellion

Sun, Nov 23, 1975

Rebelling against the intolerable conditions in a nursing home, the residents decide to take matters into their own hands and demand Dr. Gannon's help.

12Season 7

S7.E12 ∙ The Eighth Deadly Sin

Sun, Nov 30, 1975

Dr. Gannon must help a leading surgeon accept the limitations of his advanced age.

13Season 7

S7.E13 ∙ Gift from a Killer

Sun, Dec 7, 1975

Dr. Gannon must convince an escaped convict to risk capture in order to save the life of a dying child.

14Season 7

S7.E14 ∙ The High Cost of Winning

Sun, Dec 14, 1975

Pressured by his business associates, a young tennis pro seeks escape through surgery.

15Season 7

S7.E15 ∙ The Silent Witness

Sun, Dec 28, 1975

A lonely nurse is brutally attacked but refuses to identify her assailant.

16Season 7

S7.E16 ∙ A Very Private War

Sun, Jan 11, 1976

A Russian woman surgeon makes medical misjudgments--endangering the life of a patient--for political reasons.

17Season 7

S7.E17 ∙ You Can't Annul My Baby

Sun, Jan 18, 1976

Dr. Gannon is caught in a father-daughter battle over the adoption of the 15-year-old girl's baby.

18Season 7

S7.E18 ∙ Child of Conflict

Sun, Feb 1, 1976

While treating a former VIetnamese prostitute for a heart ailment, Dr. Gannon discovers that her missing child has found a new home with his close friends.

19Season 7

S7.E19 ∙ The Stranger

Sun, Feb 8, 1976

Shirley, a victim of a stabbing, and her self-obsessed mother raise suspicion at the hospital. Questions start to arise if either of them is capable of such a violent act and what would be the psychological motivation behind it.

20Season 7

S7.E20 ∙ A Touch of Sight

Sun, Feb 15, 1976

When a Medical Center resident is permanently blinded in an accident, Dr. Gannon, feeling indirectly responsible, tries to help him continue his career.

21Season 7

S7.E21 ∙ Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster

Sun, Feb 22, 1976

The proud mother of a Medical Center resident refuses vital surgery when Dr. Gannon is forced to fire her irresponsible son.

22Season 7

S7.E22 ∙ Major Annie, MD

Sun, Feb 29, 1976

A female Army major and surgeon investigates an unauthorized military drug experiment.

23Season 7

S7.E23 ∙ The Happy State of Depression

Sun, Mar 7, 1976

Ruth Buzzi and Don RIckles portray two comically depressive characters who fall in love at Medical Center.

24Season 7

S7.E24 ∙ If Wishes Were Horses

Sun, Mar 14, 1976

Skill, cunning and some good-hearted larceny help three ex-Medical Center physicians keep their ramshackle community hospital operating in a tough part of town.