The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Dr. Benjamin Craig was an extremely successful neurosurgeon who had become so well-known and well-renowned in his field that he was able to open his own exclusive clinic, The David Craig Institute of New Medicine, where he and his two bold young charges, Paul Hunter and Chief of Surgery Ted Stuart, worked on experimental, sometimes non-surgical advances in medical science. Dr. Stuart was later replaced by Dr. Cohen.
- 1969-1973
- 4 seasons
- NBC
- Drama
Dr. Benjamin Craig was an extremely successful neurosurgeon who had become so well-known and well-renowned in his field that he was able to open his own exclusive clinic, The David Craig Institute of New Medicine, where he and his two bold young charges, Paul Hunter and Chief of Surgery Ted Stuart, worked on experimental, sometimes non-surgical advances in medical science. Dr. Stuart was later replaced by Dr. Cohen.
Season 4 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1972 - 1973
Episode 1
Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown: Part II
Tue, Sep 19, 1972 60 mins
Sgt. Ed Brown decides to go through with the surgical procedure that will hopefully restore mobility to his legs. The procedure involves the a process where his nerves will be reconnected in a procedure invented by Dr. Ritter as well as an infusion of polypeptides administered by Dr. Paul Hunter. However, a complication arises when the daughter of Dr. Ritter, the man who will be performing the surgery, is kidnapped by someone who was hired by the person who wants to see Ed dead. Also, Chief Ironside has flashbacks to the events surrounding his own paralysis and confinement to a wheelchair.
Episode 2
Is This Operation Necessary?
Tue, Sep 26, 1972 60 mins
Dr. Hunter is alone in his suspicions that a highly respected surgeon is making risky choices during operations. Dr. Craig is distracted by the financial end of running a hospital to give the matter his full attention and a life threatening case escalates the situation.
Episode 3
A Nation of Human Pincushions
Tue, Oct 3, 1972 60 mins
Arthur Gravis (Carl Reiner) advances acupuncture as a treatment, while Ira Goldberg worries about the cost of medical care.
Episode 4
Time Bomb in the Chest
Tue, Oct 10, 1972 60 mins
Dr. Frank Stedman is a cardiac specialist who himself has a heart attack.
Episode 5
A Standard of Manhood
Tue, Oct 17, 1972 60 mins
A man suffering from impotence learns that a brain tumor is the cause. The benign tumor is successfully removed, but that does not solve the impotence or the emotional problems between him and his wife.
Episode 6
A Substitute Womb
Tue, Oct 24, 1972 60 mins
Julie Garner is a pregnant, thirty-something wife who longs for a child. But a heart condition means any pregnancy may result in her death. Drs. Hunter and (Belasco?) present the couple with an alternative: Would Mrs. Garner be willing to allow them to transplant her present embryo into another woman's uterus? Mrs. Garner nominates her kid sister to be the surrogate, and the operation is a success. But, in short order, the sisters fall out.
Episode 7
A Very Strange Triangle
Tue, Oct 31, 1972 60 mins
Dr. Cohen is interested in a relationship with Valerie, a nurse, unaware that she is already in one with a woman named Eleanor. Valerie starts seeing a psychiatrist to help her deal with her feelings. Professionally Dr. Cohen tries to find out why a young woman was admitted due to a drug overdose.
Episode 8
A Quality of Fear
Tue, Nov 14, 1972 60 mins
Dr. Hunter interacts with cancer patients with different attitudes toward their disease which are not always commensurate with the patients' prognoses while dealing with medical professionals not always in alignment with the doctor.
Episode 9
An Inalienable Right to Die
Tue, Nov 28, 1972 60 mins
Janice, a TV reporter, incurs permanent paralysis during a speedboat accident. Facing a future she finds hopeless, the quality of her life and medical care is debated by her husband, her doctor, and a hospital review board. The ultimate decision though belongs to Janice.
Episode 10
A Purge of Madness
Tue, Dec 5, 1972 60 mins
Harry Burke has violent psychotic episodes and the doctors want to perform psycho surgery.
Episode 11
Endtheme
Tue, Dec 12, 1972 60 mins
A recording artist goes into a depression, and decides to fight it by taking amphetamines to perform to his own satisfaction. He then refuses to take the lithium medication Hunter subscribed for him.
Episode 12
The Velvet Prison
Tue, Dec 19, 1972 60 mins
Marcus, a hemophiliac, requires an appendectomy and falls under the care if Dr. Hunter. The doctor learns the disease has led to his father being estranged and his mother overprotective, so he becomes over involved to give Marcus a bit of normality.
Episode 13
A Terminal Career
Tue, Jan 2, 1973 60 mins
A new female doctor has an intense fear of dealing with patients, forcing her to ask herself if she really has what it takes to be a doctor.
Episode 14
Tightrope to Tomorrow
Tue, Jan 9, 1973 60 mins
Four candidates experiencing chest pains undergo stringent tests for a bold new heart procedure to relieve their pain: Coronary bypass surgery.
Episode 15
The Night Crawler
Tue, Jan 16, 1973 60 mins
Unsold pilot unconnected to "The Bold Ones," but aired in its time slot. "Hernandez, Houston, P.D." stars Henry Darrow as a Mexican-American homicide detective.
Episode 16
And Other Springs I May Not See
Fri, May 4, 1973 60 mins
Fallon discovers an alienated young girl she rescues from auto accident is pregnant and the girl's remarried mother aggressively seeks an abortion despite the girl's insistence on keeping the baby.