
Matt Lincoln
Matt Lincoln is a with it psychiatrist in an inner city neighborhood helping disadvantaged young people. Helping him staff the phone lines are streetwise Jimmy and Tag, with Ann and policeman Kevin filling in where needed.
- 1970-1971
- 1 season
- ABC
- Drama
Matt Lincoln is a with it psychiatrist in an inner city neighborhood helping disadvantaged young people. Helping him staff the phone lines are streetwise Jimmy and Tag, with Ann and policeman Kevin filling in where needed.
Season 1 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1970 - 1971
Episode 1
Sheila
Thu, Sep 24, 1970 60 mins
Episode 2
Charles
Thu, Oct 1, 1970 60 mins
Charles becomes unhinged when he feels wronged by police and becomes an urban sniper. Dr. Lincoln is enlisted to assist in finding the shooter, giving him an opportunity to help the desperate man.
Episode 3
Nina
Thu, Oct 8, 1970 60 mins
Nina appears to be the perfect daughter but she is hiding a heroin addiction. But after it's discovered she agrees to go to Dr. Lincoln for treatment. She pretends the therapy is helping but she continues using.
Episode 4
Steve
Thu, Oct 15, 1970 60 mins
Matt attempts to reconcile an affluent father with his idealistic son and finds himself in the middle of a deadly communications gap. Young Steve Henshaw has allied himself with a militant group bent on destroying his father's pollution-causing chemical plant.
Episode 5
Jilly
Thu, Oct 22, 1970 60 mins
Matt's old girlfriend Jilly, a governor's daughter, comes back into his life and at first he is elated. After he learns of her impending blindness he helps her accept her future.
Episode 6
Nick
Thu, Oct 29, 1970 60 mins
Father Nicholas Burrell is suffering a crisis of faith and turns to Dr. Matt for help. He has fallen in love but his religion doesn't allow him to marry and have a family yet remain a priest.
Episode 7
Lori
Thu, Nov 5, 1970 60 mins
Dr. Lincoln's life is threatened when he invades a hippie commune to try and save a retarded girl who has overdosed.
Episode 8
Doc
Thu, Nov 12, 1970 60 mins
Matt returns to Lakeview when he learns an old friend needs help. Doc is the only physician is the area and has taken to drinking heavily since the death of his wife. Matt tries to assist the man who helped him in his career.
Episode 9
Angie
Thu, Nov 19, 1970 60 mins
Matt and his retired father Matthew, also a physician, team up to identify at risk expectant mothers. Their primary concern is women who have diabetes but aren't aware, putting their pregnancies in jeopardy.
Episode 10
Yumiko
Thu, Dec 3, 1970 60 mins
Matt attempts to help a young Japanese girl who illegally entered the United States in search of her fiancee, who loves her but fears the consequences of their marriage.
Episode 11
Billy
Thu, Dec 10, 1970 60 mins
A young son of a building contractor is full of despair and decides to end his life. Dr. Matt must use all his skills to bring the boy back from the brink.
Episode 12
Lia
Thu, Dec 17, 1970 60 mins
After Matt saves young Adam from drowning he meets the widowed mother Lia. They fall in love and after a whirlwind courtship decide to marry. But a tragic medical diagnosis means their time together will be short.
Episode 13
Adam
Thu, Dec 24, 1970 60 mins
Despite his own sorrow Matt must get through to his new stepson Adam. The boy is overwhelmed with grief and can't accept the sudden death of his mother.
Episode 14
Jimmy
Thu, Dec 31, 1970 60 mins
Matt delves into the case of five students that are dismissed from school when previously on probation.
Episode 15
Karen
Thu, Jan 7, 1971 60 mins
Matt must use his psychiatric training when a mother Karen confesses that she beats her toddler. Rather then jail it is hoped that the woman gains some insight when she begins work at a halfway house.
Episode 16
Christopher
Thu, Jan 14, 1971 60 mins
John Rubinstein, the son of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, plays a brilliant concert pianist tormented by a fear that he is slowly growing deaf.