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Dr. Kildare Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Man Is a Rock
Thu, Sep 24, 196460 mins
Hard-living executive Franklin Gaer seems likely to develop a serious heart condition if he doesn't moderate his excessive lifestyle.
Episode 2
Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House
Thu, Oct 1, 196460 mins
Dr. Gillespie subtly promotes a romance between his widowed niece and a young doctor.
Episode 3
The Hand That Hurts, the Hand That Heals
Thu, Oct 8, 196460 mins
Several doctors have failed to diagnose the mystery ailment that afflicts Joan Cartwright - will Dr. Kildare be more successful?
Episode 4
The Last Leaves on the Tree
Thu, Oct 15, 196460 mins
Oliver Blair, grandson of the hospital's founder, tries to get his elderly relatives declared incompetent.
Episode 5
What's Different About Today?
Thu, Oct 22, 196460 mins
Working at a camp for diabetic children, Kildare befriends a talented 15-year-old girl who is bitter about her condition and having difficulty adjusting to it. But to her mind the relationship is becoming more than just a friendship
Episode 6
The Sound of a Faraway Hill
Thu, Oct 29, 196460 mins
A baseball pitcher approaching the end of his career resists having an operation which could save his life but sideline him for the rest of the season. While in the hospital, he tries to encourage a young boy dying from cystic fibrosis to keep trying to live rather than just laying in bed, angering the boy's father.
Episode 7
A Candle in the Window
Thu, Nov 5, 196460 mins
The reaction of Lily Prentice to her husband's death causes surprise.
Episode 8
Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 1
Thu, Nov 12, 196460 mins
Gillespie and Kildare go to Italy for medical research, but there proves to be more to the trip than work.
Episode 9
Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 2
Thu, Nov 19, 196460 mins
In Rome, Kildare falls in love with a beautiful Italian girl whilst Gillespie renews his acquaintance with a woman he knew during the war.
Episode 10
Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 3
Thu, Nov 26, 196460 mins
Kildare and Gillespie prepare to leave the Eternal City.
Episode 11
The Elusive Dik-Dik
Thu, Dec 3, 196460 mins
A renowned tropical doctor and his young son are both stricken with a rare fever from an elusive animal. Unfortunately, there is only enough serum available to treat one of them, and Kildare may be the one to decide who gets it.
Episode 12
Catch a Crooked Mouse
Thu, Dec 17, 196460 mins
In the emergency room, a police detective and a particularly aggressive assistant district attorney try to pressure Kildare into allowing them access to one of his patients, a heart attack victim who has only hours to live. They want her to give a deathbed statement implicating her brother-in-law as an accomplice in a murder, but Kildare refuses, as the patient does not know she is dying. What's more, the man they hope her to implicate is also there with the patient's sister, hoping to pressure her against saying anything.
Episode 13
An Exchange of Gifts
Thu, Dec 24, 196460 mins
A penniless alcoholic, believing himself to be dying, plans one last gesture of defiance against the world.
Episode 14
Never Is a Long Day
Thu, Dec 31, 196460 mins
Dr. Max Jurgens is known to his colleagues as "the Iron Chancellor", but his wife sees a gentler side to him. In fact, she wraps her entire life around him. Now he is terminally ill, and fears for how she is going to handle losing him.
Episode 15
Lullaby for an Indian Summer
Thu, Jan 7, 196560 mins
After nineteen years, the middle-aged Mrs. Winfield finds she's pregnant. But her doctor husband learns that she might not survive the pregnancy, and then that he is terminally ill himself.
Episode 16
Take Care of My Little Girl
Thu, Jan 14, 196560 mins
A feckless would-be songwriter must face up to his responsibilities when his young daughter becomes seriously ill.
Episode 17
My Name Is Lisa, and I Am Lost
Thu, Jan 21, 196560 mins
A sensitive young nurse is distressed by the spitefulness of a patient.
Episode 18
Please Let My Baby Live
Thu, Jan 28, 196560 mins
A pregnant woman is fearful and neurotic about her unborn child - with good reason - she's already had three miscarriages due to Rh factor.
Episode 19
No Mother to Guide Them
Thu, Feb 4, 196560 mins
A widowed cab driver has a serious heart condition, and Kildare advises him to quit his job. But the man refuses to quit out of fear for the future of his two daughters, one of whom he is estranged from due to his disapproval of her lifestyle.
Episode 20
A Marriage of Convenience
Thu, Feb 11, 196560 mins
Kildare suspects that the naive Vincent Doyle is being tricked into matrimony with a young woman who's boyfriend just died, and who has not told her parents that she is pregnant with his baby.
Episode 21
Make Way for Tomorrow
Thu, Feb 18, 196560 mins
An old seaman, hospitalized for a heart attack, claims to be able to stop his heart at will through yoga, and says he will do it before the day his insurance runs out so that his money will go to his beneficiary - an old ship that hasn't left port in years. Thinking he feels useless, Kildare and the staff hope to find him another job before that date arrives, if they can get him interested.
Episode 22
A Miracle for Margaret
Thu, Feb 25, 196560 mins
Kildare considers transferring to research after a close friend dies of leukemia, and after meeting a 14-year-old girl who is believed to also have the disease. But Kildare is not certain of her diagnosis, putting him at odds with the efficient but seemingly impersonal researcher who is working on the girl's case.
Episode 23
Do You Trust Your Doctor?
Thu, Mar 4, 196560 mins
Kildare is puzzled as to why a highly regarded doctor, whom Gillespie has recommended for a clinic appointment, is constantly referring his patients to other doctors and specialists, even when the diagnosis should be easy.
Episode 24
All Brides Should Be Beautiful
Thu, Mar 11, 196560 mins
A newly married friend of Kildare's, diagnosed with breast cancer, refuses to undergo a mastectomy lest she be disfigured.
Episode 25
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Part 1
Thu, Mar 18, 196560 mins
Kildare is seriously injured in a car accident while on a date with Carol Tredman. The first motorist she flags down is a fellow doctor at Blair, who panics when he sees Kildare and leaves the scene.
Episode 26
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Part 2
Thu, Mar 25, 196560 mins
It begins to look as if Kildare's forthcoming marriage to Carol Tredman might not happen after all, as he finds out a few surprising things about her.
Episode 27
A Journey to Sunrise
Thu, Apr 1, 196560 mins
Graham Lanier, a cantankerous old man suffering from apparent terminal cancer, refuses to take anything to relieve his pain. A mystery surrounds the man, as well as his relationship with the poor itinerant farm family that he's been staying with. Raymond Massey plays Lanier as well as Dr. Gillespie, but this seems to be of no major significance in the storyline and the resemblance is hardly noticed.
Episode 28
The Time Buyers
Thu, Apr 8, 196560 mins
When her son needs a kidney transplant to save his life, a doctor fears that her secret will be discovered: that her husband is not the boy's father, and that the real father will have to be the donor as she has only one functional kidney.
Episode 29
Music Hath Charms
Thu, Apr 15, 196560 mins
Kildare is saddled with the unwelcome task of supervising a musical revue.
Episode 30
Believe and Live
Thu, Apr 22, 196560 mins
After his identical twin dies of cancer, high-flying malpractice attorney Mark Sloan is convinced that he, too, is dying - despite detailed assurances from doctors that he isn't.
Episode 31
A Reverence for Life
Thu, Apr 29, 196560 mins
Kildare clashes with a patient who refuses necessary surgery for religious reasons.
Episode 32
Wings of Hope
Thu, May 13, 196560 mins
Pilot Robert Hill is diagnosed as asthmatic by Kildare - a diagnosis which could lose him his job.
