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
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.
An aspiring football star (O.J. Simpson) refuses treatment that may harm his budding career.
Gannon believes a young boy is the victim of a beating rather than a fall.
A college student stumbles into the hospital with a bullet in his neck and emotional problems.
A heart condition threatens a woman's pregnancy. She wants to risk the pregnancy while her husband wants her to have a therapeutic abortion.
An injured Vietnamese girl is brought to the United States for treatment, then resists it.
A college student about to undergo surgery for an abdominal condition is also addicted to shooting up methamphetamine (speed).
A young pregnant woman with a hemorrhaging kidney is rejected by her angry father and gets little support from her feckless boyfriend.
Gannon butts heads with the new acting chief of surgery (John Marley), believing he is too quick to schedule surgeries.
A student (Michael Burns) violently attacks a psychology professor (Lloyd Bochner). Gannon suspects the student has a neurological disorder.
A U.S. ambassador (Walter Pidgeon) has a heart condition that could jeopardize a crucial meeting.
A reclusive widow (Lee Grant) tentatively reaches out to a newly orphaned Mexican boy.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Gannon tries to bridge a gap between a homeless17-year-old (Richard Thomas) suffering blackouts and his immigrant father (Simon Oakland).
Gannon suspects a blind girl recovering from a motorcycle accident may have hysterical blindness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gannon protects a young student wife suffering from VD and faces a medical board hearing for violating hospital code.
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.
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.
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.