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The New Temperatures Rising Show Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1972 - 1973

Episode 1

Operation Bingo

Tue, Sep 12, 197230 mins

In a hospital, one of it's best doctors plans to resign cause he needs to help his father. So Jerry Noland, another doctor and three nurses decide to hold a bingo night so that they could raise enough money to help the doctor's father so that he wouldn't have to resign. And they try to keep the whole thing from Dr. Campanelli, the hospital's by the book Chief of Staff.

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Episode 2

Operation Fastball

Tue, Sep 19, 197230 mins

Dr. Jerry Noland performs an unauthorized operation on a young pitcher's arm. It unfortunately occurs during an investigation of the department's practises.

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Episode 3

The Appointment

Tue, Sep 26, 197230 mins

The staff devises a wacky scheme to keep the the gruff but lovable Dr. Campanelli from quitting.

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Episode 4

Ellen's Flip Side

Tue, Oct 3, 197230 mins

Staff and patients are caught up in a numbers game and a hypnotized nurse is making a play for every doctor she encounters.

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Episode 5

The Muscle and the Medic

Tue, Oct 10, 197230 mins

John Astin stars as a hypochondriac hood and the nurses dodge his henchmen. Noland is selected to be Mr. Big's personal physician in Brazil.

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Episode 6

The Accident Con

Tue, Oct 17, 197230 mins

Dr. Nolan suspects that a man claiming to be hit by a hospital ambulance is faking it.

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Episode 7

Good Luck, Leftkowitz

Tue, Oct 24, 197230 mins

Harold Leftkowitz, an orderly who joins the hospital, has a reputation of being a jinx, because wherever he goes something happens. And it goes on when he arrives. And everybody is worried if they can survive.

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Episode 8

Tenor Loving Care

Tue, Oct 31, 197230 mins

Dr. Campanelli is sued for malpractice when he tells off a patient. The man, a temperemental opera singer, loses his voice and blames the irascible physician for his problem.

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Episode 9

RX: Love

Tue, Nov 14, 197230 mins

Nolan tries to get Campanelli to lighten up. And he thinks he needs a woman so Annie and Mildred try to set him with girls they know but they don't interest him. But it's Ellen's Aunt who catches his interest and he's happy. Till she tells him that she has to go to Europe.

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Episode 10

Lights, Camera, Action

Tue, Nov 21, 197230 mins

The hospital becomes the subject for a documentary filmmaker and Dr. Campanelli develops a case of stage fright.

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Episode 11

Witchcraft, Washington Style

Tue, Nov 28, 197230 mins

Dr. Noland has a patient who believes in the dark arts and need an operation. The physician uses trickery to get the person through his medical procedure.

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Episode 12

The Spy

Tue, Dec 5, 197230 mins

The hospital staff pampers a very important patient after they decide he's out to get Dr. Campanelli fired.

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Episode 13

The New Head Nurse

Tue, Dec 12, 197230 mins

The staff plans to get rid of the new head nurse, who is a holy terror that doesn't like men, by convincing her that Dr. Campanelli is a woman chaser.

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Episode 14

RX: Christmas

Tue, Dec 19, 197230 mins

The staff prepares a Christmas holiday show with a comic (Pat Harrington) who promised to do a benefit performance.

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Episode 15

Scalpel, Sponge, Typewriter

Tue, Jan 2, 197330 mins

A new staff newspaper comes out with orderly Lefkowitz writing a scandal feature that offends everyone.

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Episode 16

Black Is Beautiful

Tue, Jan 9, 197330 mins

Dr. Noland becomes infatuated with a new nurse and stops his clowning when he discovers she doesn't like his snappy patter.

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Episode 17

How to Cure a Doctor of Money

Tue, Jan 16, 197330 mins

A former professional football player has just started his internship at the hospital. But his old coach keeps offering him financial security at a time he is struggling.

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Episode 18

Interrupted Malady

Tue, Jan 30, 197330 mins

After a patient takes $200 from an orderly in a game of gin rummy Dr. Noland pretends to be a patient with an ulcer to flush out the card shark.

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Episode 19

Diagnosis: Who Knows?

Tue, Feb 6, 197330 mins

Dr. Nolan has to deal with fellow physician who is very unsure of himself. They together have a patient that they believe is faking his symptons but are having difficulty proving it.

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Episode 20

Panic in the Sheets

Tue, Feb 13, 197330 mins

Dr. Noland puts a newlywed couple in the VIP suite unaware that an ailing senator is being admitted for a top secret visit.

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Episode 21

RX: Nose Job

Tue, Feb 20, 197330 mins

Millie doesn't have money to pay for the nose surgery she desires. Dr. Nolan arranges for a special closed circuit TV arrangement to help her out.

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Episode 22

My Doctor, the Patient

Tue, Feb 27, 197330 mins

Dr. Noland starts an off-track betting operation in the hospital when Dr. Campanelli becomes a patient.

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Episode 23

Creepy-Peepy

Tue, Mar 6, 197330 mins

Dr. Noland wants to cheer up one of his young patients. The doctor brings in an old time horror film star to entertain the children but his efforts end up backfiring on him.

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Episode 24

It Don't Mean a Ping If You Ain't Got That Pong

Tue, Mar 13, 197330 mins

A lovelorn Chinese ping pong player causes diplomatic problems when he decides to defect and marry nurse Ellen.

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Episode 25

Super Doc

Tue, Mar 20, 197330 mins

Dr. Campanelli's revered teacher visits the hospital and takes over, driving his protege crazy.

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Episode 26

Gorilla of My Dreams

Tue, Mar 27, 197330 mins

Hospital monkey business, inspired by the admission of a gorilla who's pining away for her injured zoo keeper.

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