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13 Episodes 1977 - 1979
Episode 1
Mon, Sep 5, 1977
Dr. Rafferty fends off a millionaire parent, a socialite surgeon, and a malpractice suit as he works to rid a teenager of a near-total paralysis.
Episode 2
Mon, Sep 12, 1977
A mother of five children disappears, a young girl needs a kidney donor.
Episode 3
Mon, Sep 19, 1977
Dr. Rafferty deals with a blind woman, an elderly black man who is afraid of loosing his virility, and a female doctor who refuses to report her rape.
Episode 4
Mon, Sep 26, 1977
Rafferty spots a potential health with a musician issue during a concert, and another with an operating room nurse.
Episode 5
Mon, Oct 3, 1977
Rafferty plays detective for an pregnant airline stewardess who suspects radiation exposure, and helps a self-pitying comic strip artist who learns to forget his handicap over concern for a deaf orphan.
Episode 6
Mon, Oct 17, 1977
In the midst of an epidemic of the "extinct" disease of polio, Rafferty is confronted with a critically-ill girl displaying polio symptoms. He defies the odds, his colleagues and his young patient's hostile parents by diagnosing her ailment as botulism.
Episode 7
Mon, Oct 31, 1977
Dr. Rafferty comes across an unfriendly mountain clan, the Danes. It turns out they have an 11 year old boy that they are unable to control so they keep him caged. Rafferty takes measures to free the child.
Episode 8
Mon, Nov 7, 1977
Rafferty's nurse-friend Vera may be terminally ill, but he refuses to give up hope.
Episode 9
Mon, Nov 14, 1977
Dr. Rafferty deals with a teenage gymnast who is starving herself to death, a police officer carrying a bullet in his back, and a colleague who may be psychotic.
Episode 10
Mon, Nov 28, 1977
Dr. Sid Rafferty is determined to prove that a businessman who died in the crash of a private aircraft he was piloting did not commit suicide.
Episode 11
After blacking out while driving, a man (Paul Bennett) is reluctant to submit to hospital tests or to divulge any medical history to Dr. Gentry. It turns out that Bennett and his wife are in the Witness Protection Program after having testified against a mobster wanted for embezzlement. The government agents guarding Bennett believe that any investigation into his medical past by Dr. Gentry will endanger Bennett's cover. However, Bennett is in need of brain surgery due to an aneurysm, and any time spent postponing the operation brings him closer to death.
Episode 12
Rafferty saves the life of an actress after her car overturns. During her hospital stay, the police become suspicious about the source of her past pain medication, causing Rafferty to think she may be a drug addict. Meanwhile, a nurse's aide from the hospital finds a young woman badly beaten in the park. Once under Rafferty's care, the victim remains in a coma with her identity still unknown.
Episode 13
While fighting a raging wildfire, several Native American firemen fall ill. Rafferty travels to the firefighter's camp where he discovers they are suffering from pneumonic plague. He attempts to treat them, but meets resistance from both the Indians and the other firefighters.