S1.E1 ∙ To Save a Life

A young man, injured in an auto accident, appears to be neither alive nor truly dead, while another patient desperately needs a donor for a kidney transplant.

S1.E2 ∙ What's the Price of a Pair of Eyes?

Dr. Hunter joins with research doctor Ralph Simpson in an attempt to develop artificial sight. Dr. Stuart hopes it will help a new patient of his, a young woman Casey Woods, who has recently lost her vision.

S1.E3 ∙ The Rebellion of the Body

An explosion in a chemotherapy lab leaves Dr. Paul Hunter with extensive exposure to radiation, and a severely weakened immune system.

S1.E4 ∙ Man Without a Heart

After hotshot malpractice attorney Henry Speiser accuses Dr. Theodore Stuart of misconduct in court, he request that he performs his open heart surgery.

S1.E5 ∙ One Small Step for Man

The doctors at the Craig Institute solve a medical emergency on board an Apollo mission to the Moon.

S1.E6 ∙ Crisis

Fervent Doctor Lanier receives a directive to desist when he performs an experimental heart operation which causes him to abandon Craig Institute for another medical facility sparking a competition for a lucrative grant.

S1.E7 ∙ And Those Unborn

The doctors are using experimental tests on a fetus to see if the baby will be born healthy.

S1.E8 ∙ If I Can't Sing, I'll Listen

Aspiring singer and guitarist G.G. Gilman (Susan Albert) suffers from neurofibromatosis, which may derail her career just as it is beginning to take off, and Dr. Stuart (John Saxon) must confront issues of medical ethics regarding medical treatments and quality of life.

S1.E9 ∙ This Day's Child

The doctors try experimental treatments to save the life of a severely retarded teen with contagious hepatitis.

S1.E10 ∙ Dark Is the Rainbow, Loud the Silence

A friend of David Craig who works for the President of the United States is having psychotic episodes of wanting to kill and the medical team investigates the cause.

S2.E1 ∙ This Will Really Kill You

Joan, a very pregnant woman, is admitted to the hospital needing an operation but she's an addict. Drs. Hunter and Stuart become involved, tracking down the baby's father Jerry, who's also a junkie. Dr. Hunter discovers the teenage neighbor boy, Hal Parker, is also a user. Methods of treatment are examined.

S2.E2 ∙ Killer on the Loose

A mysterious virus invades the hospital as the doctors struggle to find a cure.

S2.E3 ∙ Giants Never Kneel

A tycoon checks himself into the Craig Institute to manipulate the stock of his company, but also actually is concealing a real illness.

S2.E4 ∙ First: No Harm to the Patient

The hospital has been receiving patients with previous botched surgeries and Dr. Stuart investigates.

S2.E5 ∙ In Dreams They Run

In this episode directed by Jerry Lewis, patients in the neurological unit include a golf pro who is showing symptoms of a possible muscular disease and a boy with muscular dystrophy whose parents disagree as to whether he should be at home or in the hospital.

S2.E6 ∙ A Matter of Priorities

Dr. Ted Stuart spends an evening helping in Dr. Bartell's low income clinic. After returning to the hospital he is confronted by the effort and cost in keeping Harry Miller, a high profile patient, alive after risky surgery. Dr. Stuart struggles with the ethical dilemma of allocating medical resources.

S2.E7 ∙ An Absence of Loneliness

Dr. Paul Hunter falls for a patient who has a terminal illness and is having trouble on how to break the news to her, while Craig deals with a similar problem with a longtime friend who is dying.

S2.E8 ∙ Tender Predator

Budget cuts put Craig in the difficult position of deciding which valuable research programs will have to be dropped, including one that is necessary for determining the cause of a young woman's seizures and blackouts. What's more, the young doctor in charge of that program is falling in love with the girl.

S3.E1 ∙ Broken Melody

Two patients' lives intersect: a singer who is suffering from hearing loss; and a little boy who shows signs of having been battered though his parents deny it.

S3.E2 ∙ Angry Man

A caring but cynical paramedic has been treating indigent patients himself in a small inner-city office with very little medical facilities, and removing items from the hospital in order to treat them.

S3.E3 ∙ One Lonely Step

Dr. Karnes and Dr. Hunter fight to restore a sickle cell anemia research program that may save a black child.

S3.E4 ∙ Close-Up

A model suffers from sudden excruciating pain in her face. However, she refuses to have the common surgery for her condition---cutting off the nerve---because she fears it will disfigure her. Instead, Dr. Stuart agrees to implant his newly perfected electric stimulator which will stop her pain whenever it starts. But before he can implant it, his hands are severely burned in a lab fire.

S3.E5 ∙ The Convicts

Four convicts enter the institute as volunteers in an experiment to test immune suppression therapy for transplant patients. Due to their lowered immunity to infection, the men must be in total isolation for six months. But one of them takes advantage of the situation to plot his escape

S3.E6 ∙ The Glass Cage

Three people enter a new program at the institute for treating and discovering the causes of alcoholism.

S3.E7 ∙ Dagger in the Mind

Dr. Stuart is trying to find the cause of his mentor's illness when the man arrives from Europe with his much-younger wife. The hospital colleagues began to suspect it's psychological in nature. An anthropologist who has neglected her heart condition while in the jungle also checks in for a dangerous operation.

S3.E8 ∙ Moment of Crisis

An argument Dr. Hunter has with his girlfriend Amanda has her first getting drunk, than causing a school bus accident. Dr. Craig is dealing with a board member who is determined to replace him with a prejudiced surgeon. That becomes secondary as the crash victims arrive, including his granddaughter who is severely injured.

S3.E9 ∙ Short Flight to a Distant Star

The boastful, heavy-drinking father of Dr. Hunter's date is severely injured in a shooting. With a bullet fragment dangerously floating in the brain, Hunter and Stuart look to space-age technology to save the patient's life.

S3.E10 ∙ A Threatened Species

A 37 year old surgical nurse is having a baby and she has decided to sell it once it's born.

S3.E11 ∙ Discovery at Fourteen

Young Corey is found to have an ulcer and Dr. Fallon is determined to find the cause. It seems a secret visit to his estranged father has exposed lies his mother told him and Corey worries he is just like dad.

S4.E1 ∙ Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown: Part II

Sgt. Ed Brown decides to go through with the surgical procedure that will hopefully restore mobility to his legs. The procedure involves the a process where his nerves will be reconnected in a procedure invented by Dr. Ritter as well as an infusion of polypeptides administered by Dr. Paul Hunter. However, a complication arises when the daughter of Dr. Ritter, the man who will be performing the surgery, is kidnapped by someone who was hired by the person who wants to see Ed dead. Also, Chief Ironside has flashbacks to the events surrounding his own paralysis and confinement to a wheelchair.

S4.E2 ∙ Is This Operation Necessary?

Dr. Hunter is alone in his suspicions that a highly respected surgeon is making risky choices during operations. Dr. Craig is distracted by the financial end of running a hospital to give the matter his full attention and a life threatening case escalates the situation.

S4.E3 ∙ A Nation of Human Pincushions

Arthur Gravis (Carl Reiner) advances acupuncture as a treatment, while Ira Goldberg worries about the cost of medical care.

S4.E4 ∙ Time Bomb in the Chest

Dr. Frank Stedman is a cardiac specialist who himself has a heart attack.

S4.E5 ∙ A Standard of Manhood

A man suffering from impotence learns that a brain tumor is the cause. The benign tumor is successfully removed, but that does not solve the impotence or the emotional problems between him and his wife.

S4.E6 ∙ A Substitute Womb

Julie Garner is a pregnant, thirty-something wife who longs for a child. But a heart condition means any pregnancy may result in her death. Drs. Hunter and (Belasco?) present the couple with an alternative: Would Mrs. Garner be willing to allow them to transplant her present embryo into another woman's uterus? Mrs. Garner nominates her kid sister to be the surrogate, and the operation is a success. But, in short order, the sisters fall out.

S4.E7 ∙ A Very Strange Triangle

Dr. Cohen is interested in a relationship with Valerie, a nurse, unaware that she is already in one with a woman named Eleanor. Valerie starts seeing a psychiatrist to help her deal with her feelings. Professionally Dr. Cohen tries to find out why a young woman was admitted due to a drug overdose.

S4.E8 ∙ A Quality of Fear

Dr. Hunter interacts with cancer patients with different attitudes toward their disease which are not always commensurate with the patients' prognoses while dealing with medical professionals not always in alignment with the doctor.

S4.E9 ∙ An Inalienable Right to Die

Janice, a TV reporter, incurs permanent paralysis during a speedboat accident. Facing a future she finds hopeless, the quality of her life and medical care is debated by her husband, her doctor, and a hospital review board. The ultimate decision though belongs to Janice.

S4.E10 ∙ A Purge of Madness

Harry Burke has violent psychotic episodes and the doctors want to perform psycho surgery.

S4.E11 ∙ Endtheme

A recording artist goes into a depression, and decides to fight it by taking amphetamines to perform to his own satisfaction. He then refuses to take the lithium medication Hunter subscribed for him.

S4.E12 ∙ The Velvet Prison

Marcus, a hemophiliac, requires an appendectomy and falls under the care if Dr. Hunter. The doctor learns the disease has led to his father being estranged and his mother overprotective, so he becomes over involved to give Marcus a bit of normality.

S4.E13 ∙ A Terminal Career

A new female doctor as issues commutating with her patients.

S4.E14 ∙ Tightrope to Tomorrow

Four candidates experiencing chest pains undergo stringent tests for a bold new heart procedure to relieve their pain: Coronary bypass surgery.

S4.E15 ∙ The Night Crawler

S4.E16 ∙ And Other Springs I May Not See

Fallon discovers an alienated young girl she rescues from auto accident is pregnant and the girl's remarried mother aggressively seeks an abortion despite the girl's insistence on keeping the baby.