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Medic Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
28 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
White Is the Color
Mon, Sep 13, 195426 mins
A young husband must inform his pregnant wife that she's been diagnosed with fatal leukemia. Concern now shifts to the expected baby's survival. Dr. Styner wages an extended battle in the delivery room for the newborn's survival.
Episode 2
Laughter Is a Boy
Mon, Sep 20, 195425 mins
Eight-year old Jonno's speech is garbled because of a cleft palate he was born with. Now kids mock him and he's retreating into a lonely world of his own. Grandfather's too elderly to do anything. What can teenage brother Pete do to help.
Episode 3
I Climb the Stairs
Mon, Sep 27, 195430 mins
After collapsing on stairs, winsome young Annie is discovered to have a heart condition. Now doctors must operate to save her, but can they after her heart stops.
Episode 4
Death Rides a Wagon
Mon, Oct 4, 195430 mins
On the way westward in the year 1867, a wagon train in a barren wilderness is suddenly hit by an outbreak of Cholera, and the one doctor among them is at odds to contain it.
Episode 5
Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup
Mon, Oct 11, 195430 mins
An alcoholic wife and mother of two faces the nearly overwhelming prospect of going through withdrawal and overcoming cirrhosis of the liver before she can begin the more difficult process of attempting to conquer her addiction to drink.
Episode 6
My Brother Joe
Mon, Oct 25, 195430 mins
A ten-year-old boy is in a coma after an auto accident, and a neurosurgeon and other specialists try to ascertain the extent of damage to the boy's brain. Meanwhile, the child's family tries to deal with the possibility of their child not coming through the operation, and also with the guilt and anger they feel over the accident.
Episode 7
Day 10
Mon, Nov 1, 195430 mins
A dramatization of the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles in 1924. The title refers to the 10-day period with no new cases, which must be waited out before the quarantine can be lifted.
Episode 8
After Darkness
Mon, Nov 8, 195430 mins
A pianist, blind since childbirth, learns he can regain his sight with a corneal transplant. This delicate operation involves the substitution of a new cornea for the injured one, in this case scarred by exposure to lime.
Episode 9
With This Ring
Mon, Nov 22, 195430 mins
One stormy night a soaking wet woman arrives at hospital and announces she is about to have a baby. In addition to the complications of a difficult birth she bears the secret that she is unwed and alone.
Episode 10
My Very Good Friend Albert
Mon, Nov 29, 195430 mins
Swedish immigrant Albert plays viola in a symphony orchestra. But his hearing is getting worse, so he's let go. Also, his social life is being held back. An operation can correct the problem, but will it stay fixed, and how to pay.
Episode 11
The Wild Intruder
Mon, Dec 6, 195430 mins
With only a week to go before her wedding, a young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, and must undergo an operation at once. A medical team must deal with both her physical problems and her fragile mental state at the same time.
Episode 12
Red Christmas
Mon, Dec 20, 195429 mins
A young woman is wheeled in, victim of a holiday road accident. Doctors pour over her, determining extent of injuries. The tipsy driver responsible, her employer, callously wants to get on with his life.
Episode 13
When Comes the Autumn
Mon, Dec 27, 195430 mins
An elderly widow, who lives with her son and his family, feels unwanted. As a result, she instigates arguments in the household. Eventually her gloom leads her to drastic action.
Episode 14
Boy in the Storm
Mon, Jan 3, 195530 mins
Following the death of his aunt/guardian, a 17-year-old epileptic is methodically treated with medication and extensive counseling in order that he may be able to live a comparatively normal life with a caring foster family.
Episode 15
Breath of Life
Mon, Jan 24, 195530 mins
Obsessively self-reliant Dr. Robert Parker faces an uncertain future and an extended period of reliance on an iron lung (and on other people) after he contracts a case of polio.
Episode 16
A Time to Be Alive
Mon, Jan 31, 195530 mins
Eleven-year old Danny is a hemophiliac, even a slight injury can cause death. He's cut his arm and the doctors must halt the bleeding. Now his older sister worries that she too may be subject to the genetic disease.
Episode 17
Flash of Darkness
Mon, Feb 14, 195530 mins
This "what-if" episode imagines what would happen in the event of a nuclear strike on Los Angeles. Dr. Styner and his colleagues are at a warehouse outside the city for a training session, but must try to make their way back to the devastated city after the nuclear attack. Along the way they try to treat and save as many injured and radiation-poisoned patients as they can with what little medicine they have and are forced by circumstances to decide which patients can be saved--and which ones they'll have to let die.
Episode 18
Mercy Wears an Apron
Mon, Feb 21, 195529 mins
An aging actor has been a paraplegic for five years. Confined to bed, he turns to the bottle, maundering over his situation. That is, until a public health nurse arrives. Now he feels sensations in his legs. Is it just wishful thinking.
Episode 19
Dr. Impossible
Mon, Feb 28, 195530 mins
In 1884, pioneering surgeon Dr. William Stewart Halstead finds that he and three colleagues are slowly but surely becoming seriously addicted to the cocaine that they have been using in anesthetic self-experiments.
Episode 20
Break Through the Bars
Mon, Mar 14, 195530 mins
A quiet, sedate, middle-aged bank cashier suddenly begins to exhibit strange and disturbing behavior. After a thorough examination, a medical team decides that his problem can best be treated by electroshock therapy.
Episode 21
Death Is a Red Balloon
Mon, Mar 21, 195530 mins
A young wife and mother is suddenly stricken with a brain aneurysm. Now the couple must decide between short-term treatment hoping for no recurrence, or risk delicate brain surgery to remedy the problem.
Episode 22
All My Mothers, All My Fathers
Mon, Mar 28, 195530 mins
An abandoned baby grows up in a hospital ward when an extensive series of surgical procedures is necessary to repair the damage caused when the infant's mother forced her to ingest caustic household lye.
Episode 23
Physician, Heal Thyself
Mon, Apr 11, 195529 mins
Shortly before completing his residency and beginning his own practice, a resident internist is stunned when a routine chest X-Ray reveals that he has contracted an active case of tuberculosis.
Episode 24
Wall of Silence
Mon, Apr 18, 195530 mins
Following an assault that results in a severe head injury, a newspaper editor develops aphasia and must struggle through the lengthy rehabilitative process necessary to re-learn even basic speech and literary skills.
Episode 25
My Child's Keeper
Mon, Apr 25, 195530 mins
Two mothers leave their children, a little girl and a baby boy, alone downstairs. The girl discovers a lighter and starts a blaze that engulfs them both. At the hospital, one mother holds the other responsible for what happened.
Episode 26
Lifeline
Mon, May 16, 195530 mins
An injured sailor is helicoptered onto a naval hospital ship for treatment. There the head doctor suddenly starts treating his staff angrily. It appears he has a personal stake in the sailor's survival.
Episode 27
Never Comes Sunday
Mon, May 23, 195526 mins
A little girl suffers a head injury that leaves her slightly brain-damaged. She still is able to walk, talk, and care for herself, but her mother's insistence that her daughter is and must be "normal" disrupts her marriage and the lives of her other children. The girl's father, a concert pianist, manages to persuade his wife to institutionalize the child if a doctor confirms that she is not and never will be "normal." The story provides an object lesson in what was considered the correct way to deal with mental deficiencies at the midpoint of the twentieth century.
Episode 28
General Practitioner
Mon, Jun 13, 195530 mins
Dr. Terence Canfield, a general practitioner, is involved in the lives of his patients to the extent that it is beginning to adversely affect his own marriage.