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The Doctors and the Nurses Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Night Shift
Thu, Sep 27, 196260 mins
At New York's Alden hospital maternity ward, a group of student nurses take on their first duties. The focus is on head nurse Liz Thorpe and student Gail Lucas, and several patients including a young wife that hates her unborn baby, a first time mother determined to have a medication-free birth, and a sickly Greek immigrant with a problem pregnancy.
Episode 2
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Thu, Oct 4, 196260 mins
Ginny Nemets, a dedicated nurse at Alden General, has devoted herself to putting husband Adam through medical school and supporting him during his internship. Now an excellent ophthalmologist Adam is invited to join an elite practice. But as Adam's success soars to new heights, Ginny's spirits plunge to new lows.
Episode 3
Fly, Shadow
Thu, Oct 11, 196260 mins
Nurse Milo tries to restrain an inebriated and resistant Mrs. Northup, who accidentally takes a fall. After Nurse Milo fails to document the seemingly minor incident, Mrs. Northup comes down with pneumonia, caused by ribs broken in the fall. Milo faces termination and a lawsuit.
Episode 4
The Barbara Bowers Story
Thu, Oct 18, 196260 mins
Barbara Bowers, an naive student nurse at Alden General, experiences difficulty adjusting to the extreme demands of her medical training. Her problems are exacerbated when she becomes the target of dislike from the intimidating Dr. John Henden.
Episode 5
Dr. Lillian
Thu, Oct 25, 196260 mins
Talented surgeon Dr. Lillian Bauer joins Alden General but immediately becomes the target of abuse and male chauvinist attitudes from Dr. Mehil who thinks women are inappropriate for surgical careers. Lillian finds an ally and potential love interest in colleague Dr. Campbell.
Episode 6
A Private Room
Thu, Nov 1, 196260 mins
While a new patient is dying, he does his best to make everyone hate him, even threatening to sue after he claims a prized medal was stolen. A doctor who's separated from his wife yearns for the company of the widowed head nurse.
Episode 7
The Prisoner
Thu, Nov 8, 196260 mins
An unexpected ethical conundrum perplexes student nurse Gail Lucas when seriously ill William Taylor is admitted under the care of Dr. Lou Maxwell. Taylor has been transferred from a local prison by authorities who want to extend his life long enough for him to reach his execution date.
Episode 8
A Strange and Distant Place
Thu, Nov 15, 196260 mins
Dr. Ahmed Rashid arrives at Alden General from Pakistan to begin his residency. His gentle Eastern demeanor easily wins over Gail Lucas, but Dr. Rashid receives blatant hostility from prejudiced charge nurse Fay Loomis, who is determined to make Dr. Rashid's tenure as unpleasant as possible.
Episode 9
Two Black Candles
Thu, Nov 22, 196260 mins
A comatose patient brought into Alden General catches the attention of Nurse Ayres after a voodoo doll in human form is found in the patient's pocket. Nurse Ayres speculates that he has been placed under a spell, and her unorthodox theory is surprisingly supported by psychiatrist Dr. Fuller.
Episode 10
The Lady Made of Stone
Thu, Nov 29, 196260 mins
Gail is sent to work in the pediatrics ward under the tutelage of steely chief nurse Ruth Martin who must keep her emotions tightly bound in order to survive the loss of young life around her. Everyone is tested when the baby of Mr. and Mrs. Grant is born with severe birth defects, and Mr. Grant insists that his wife be told that their baby was stillborn.
Episode 11
Frieda
Thu, Dec 6, 196260 mins
Foreign nurse Frieda Schacht's skill, knowledge, and dedication to Alden General commands the respect of Gail, who finds her worthy of emulation. However, Frieda's reputation is severely threatened when a patient accuses her of having assisted Nazis with medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners during World War II.
Episode 12
The Soft Touch
Thu, Dec 13, 196260 mins
Overworked at Alden General, Nurse Thorpe decides to take a leave of absence to pursue private nursing which is considered a softer touch than her rigorous duties at the hospital. However, when she's assigned to care for the cantankerous patriarch of a peculiar family, she realizes that the grass isn't always greener elsewhere.
Episode 13
Image of Angela
Thu, Dec 27, 196260 mins
Young Angela Bonnell, the daughter of a famous acting couple, checks into Alden General for plastic surgery to reshape her nose. While there she meets jockey Danny Reynolds who faces more serious medical troubles, his leg has been severely injured in a fall from a racehorse.
Episode 14
A Difference of Years
Thu, Jan 3, 196360 mins
Heart surgeon Dr. Ken Houck's coldness following the death of a child bothers Gail. However, when she sees him breaking down in private, she offers to take him home and finds he's in a deeply troubled marriage. Soon she and Houck develop a more personal relationship.
Episode 15
Root of Violence
Thu, Jan 10, 196360 mins
Student nurse Terry Collins finds herself in a quandary when a patient deliriously confesses to committing a crime for which a young Puerto Rican immigrant has been arrested. Terry is reluctant to reveal the confession to the police as she fears her own deliberately concealed Puerto Rican heritage would be exposed.
Episode 16
Many a Sullivan
Thu, Jan 17, 196360 mins
Nurse Thorpe's sympathies lie with the family of patient Parnell Sullivan a hardworking fisherman rushed to Alden General following a heart attack in the Atlantic. Sullivan's wife Mary decides to bring their children to New York during her husband's hospitalization, and Thorpe incurs the wrath of the nurses's quarters superintendent Mr. Durkin when she gives the Sullivan family a place to lodge.
Episode 17
Night Sounds
Thu, Jan 24, 196360 mins
Gail becomes friendly with easygoing patient Norman Ruskin who's hospitalized for minor surgery. Things take a dark turn when Ruskin is revealed to be mentally ill and forces himself on Gail. Although the staff are skeptical and the hospital doesn't want publicity, Gail decides to press charges.
Episode 18
The Third Generation
Thu, Feb 7, 196360 mins
Nurse Thorpe's elderly former mentor Nurse Charlotte Pope is admitted to Alden General, bringing three generations of nurses to the ward. As Nurse Thorpe cares for Charlotte, Gail becomes involved with a downtrodden patient who thinks his family would be better off if he committed suicide.
Episode 19
The Life
Thu, Feb 14, 196360 mins
The staff at Alden General take notice when reliable student nurse Margaret Hunter begins to struggle with her duties. Unknown to anyone, Margaret is pregnant, unmarried, and uncertain about whether or not to keep her child or seek an abortion.
Episode 20
Circle of Choice
Thu, Feb 21, 196360 mins
Gail's ballet performance in the student nurses' annual talent show becomes a huge hit with her colleagues, so much so that she decides to apply for a position with ballerina mistress Madame Orlova. Once accepted, Gail finds herself unable to cope with the rigorous training of two professions and must choose between them.
Episode 21
The Perfect Nurse
Thu, Feb 28, 196360 mins
Nurse Margaret Connell appears to be the ideal nurse in every way and an idol for young nurses to emulate. However, Gail observes disturbing behavior in Connell that suggests she's not only far from ideal but a potential threat to the hospital's patients.
Episode 22
The Thunder of Ernie Bass
Thu, Mar 7, 196360 mins
While vacationing Nurse Thorpe meets Ernie Bass, a genial salesman and war veteran who lost his leg in service. She finds herself in a sudden romance during the holiday, but when she later returns to work, Ernie wants the relationship to continue. A reticent Nurse Thorpe begins to suspect that Ernie is more interested in a caregiver than a lover.
Episode 23
The Saturday Evening of Time
Thu, Mar 14, 196360 mins
After forty-seven years on the job, Nurse Higgins is starting to lose her strength and memory and its time for her retirement. problem is, she has no interest in leaving. She has no family and lives in a small, lonely row house flat without even a TV set. She returns to Alden to force a showdown.
Episode 24
A Question of Mercy
Thu, Mar 21, 196360 mins
It looks like a nurse has committed murder by shutting off a venal drip in a patient. By flashback we follow her relationship with the doomed man, a young doctor who had been building a romantic affair with her until an aneurysm puts him in terrible agony and on course for a paralyzed, certain death.
Episode 25
Party Girl
Thu, Mar 28, 196360 mins
Sophisticated, alluring party girl Clarissa Robin is admitted to Alden General as a cardiac patient but is in denial about the severity of her condition. Meanwhile, equally lovely housewife Sandra Leonard faces amputation of her leg. When her visiting husband Hal meets party girl Clarissa, the situation becomes complicated.
Episode 26
A Dark World
Thu, Apr 11, 196360 mins
Nurse Karen Gardner's new assignment in the psychiatric ward calls into question her professional objectivity when patient Edith Arnold fails to progress in her recovery, and it comes to light that Nurse Gardner, herself once a psychiatric patient, has been using her personal experiences in her treatment of Arnold.
Episode 27
You Could Die Laughing
Thu, Apr 18, 196360 mins
Popular comedian Ray Gifford arrives at Alden General for routine tests and instantly creates chaos for the hospital staff with his self-importance and demanding nature. Nurse Thorpe becomes the target of his dissatisfaction when she develops an innocent flirtation with Gifford's headwriter Charlie Noyes.
Episode 28
Choice Among Wrongs
Thu, May 2, 196360 mins
After college student Lucas Kiley discovers that his girlfriend Lauri is pregnant, he is forced to seek help from his estranged father, a physician at Alden General, but is met with rejection. Nurse Thorpe decides to intercede in an effort to reconcile the father and son.
Episode 29
Express Stop from Lenox Avenue
Thu, May 9, 196360 mins
In effort to achieve professional respect, black nurse Ginny Bishop disregards her ethnic roots. When her cousin Lonnie Hill is hired as an orderly at Alden General and is soon accused of providing liquor to an alcoholic patient, Ginny must confront issues of prejudice, race and self-acceptance.
Episode 30
Bitter Pill
Thu, May 23, 196360 mins
Paul and Jean Wheeler eagerly await the birth of their first child. When Jean is checked into the hospital, a bottle of pills from a German pharmacy are among her personal effects. They're identified as thalidomide, and the Wheelers have to accept the likelihood of their child having severe birth defects.
Episode 31
Field of Battle
Thu, May 30, 196360 mins
Marjorie Ford confides in Nurse Thorpe one recent single extramarital infidelity. The one night stand has left her with a case of syphilis, and now she has to face explaining the situation to her husband Steve, as the doctors and nurses at Alden General attempt to alert the public to rising cases of venereal disease.
Episode 32
They Are as Lions
Thu, Jun 6, 196360 mins
After spending ten years as a housewife, former nurse Lora Stanton decides to return to work at Alden General and is assigned duty in the geriatrics ward. When a patient she cared for dies, she attempts to turn all of her attention and devotion to an elderly man in the ward, but he rejects her. Meanwhile, Nurse Thorpe uncovers the reason why Lora has come back.