Dr. Kildare

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The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

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Episodes

Season 1

33 episodes

S1 E1 · Twenty-Four Hours

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S1 E2 · Immunity

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S1 E3 · Shining Image

Julie Lawler, a beautiful and fun-loving young woman, suffers a sudden respiratory attack and is brought to Blair Hospital.

S1 E4 · Winter Harvest

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S1 E5 · The Million Dollar Property

Anne Francis plays the part of a famous actress BUT everywhere she goes her cool cat friends follow. All they care about is partying. They give Kildare a very hard time. She is emotionally drained and in the hospital. Her friends led by Jan Murray try to keep up the partying even in her room but eventually Anne calls it quits. Gillespe arranges for Kildare to go on a romantic weekend with Anne. He finally convinces her that she doesnt need these friends and can go on with her acting career with confidence. Jan Murray plays a very sarcastic role. Anne highlights that beauty mark on her face like never before. Good episode.

S1 E6 · Admitting Service

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S1 E7 · The Lonely Ones

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S1 E8 · Holiday Weekend

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S1 E9 · The Patient

Dr. Kildare trips over a cart while looking at a cute nurses aide and hurts his back. He gets hospitalized in Blair in a ward with several different characters. He slowly becomes friends with them all and ends up liking them and givies advise on their problems. Very good episode.

S1 E10 · For the Living

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S1 E11 · Second Chance

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S1 E12 · Hit and Run

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S1 E13 · Season to Be Jolly

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S1 E14 · Johnny Temple

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S1 E15 · My Brother, the Doctor

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S1 E16 · The Adminstartor

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S1 E17 · Oh My Daughter

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S1 E18 · The Search

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S1 E19 · The Glory Hunter

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S1 E20 · The Dragon

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S1 E21 · The Stepping Stone

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S1 E22 · The Bronc Buster

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S1 E23 · The Witch Doctor

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S1 E24 · The Roaring Boy-O

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S1 E25 · Solomon's Choice

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S1 E26 · A Very Present Help

Glynis Johns plays a nun who gets admitted to Blair because she has gallstones and needs an operation. She gets involved in some of the patient's lives and problems, tries to help and is scolded by Kildare before he apologizes and realizes how good she really is. The episode is too long and deep to explain in words, BUT, it is one of the very best that they ever produced. An A plus for this show.

S1 E27 · One for the Road

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S1 E28 · The Horn of Plenty

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S1 E29 · The Chemistry of Anger

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S1 E30 · Something of Importance

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S1 E31 · A Distant Thunder

Elderly war hero, Lt Gen John Sparrow is admitted for malnutrition. A very potient story of mistreatment of the elderly.

S1 E32 · The Road to the Heart

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S1 E33 · Operation Lazarus

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Season 2

34 episodes

S2 E1 · Gravida One

With the help and emotional support, Dr. Kildare helps a severly neglected older woman, Doris Manning, give birth to her first child.

S2 E2 · The Burning Sky

Cocky medical student, Mark Hadley cracks under the pressure of treating forest-fire victims.

S2 E3 · The Visitors

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S2 E4 · The Mask Makers

Carolyn Jones plays the part of a girl born with an big, odd shaped nose and who is used to being teased and made fun of. Kildare dates her and convinces her to have plastic surgery to remedy the problem. She goes ahead and has the surgery. Later on she cannot get accustomed to having a normal looking face, tries to kill herself and Kildare feels responsible. C. Jones has spent so many years with her imperfection that she cannot get used to the fact that she is normal looking, she was used to making light of herself and so on.......as a defense mechanism. Super good episode.

S2 E5 · Guest Appenrance

Jack Carter plays an arrogant, sarcastic, smooth operating T.V. talk show host. His young son is hurt in an accident, Kildare shows up with the ambulance, the boy later dies , Carter blames Kildare and belittles him on the T.V. show. Finally Gillespe goes on the show and defends Kildare using Carters own words, thus making him eat every word he said and he apologizes for all. As tough as Carter thinks he is, Gillespe eats him up for lunch on the show. Decent episode, very predictable though.

S2 E6 · Hastings Farewell

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S2 E7 · Breakdown

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S2 E8 · The Cobweb Chain

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S2 E9 · The Soul Killer

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S2 E10 · An Ancient Office

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S2 E11 · The Legacy

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S2 E12 · The Bed I've Made

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S2 E13 · A Time for Every Purpose

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S2 E14 · Love is a Sad Song

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S2 E15 · The Thing Speaks for Itself

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S2 E16 · The Great Guy

A comedian with a bone tumor refuses to face a possible amputation.

S2 E17 · The Mosaic

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S2 E18 · Good Luck Charm

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S2 E19 · Jail Ward

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S2 E20 · A Trip to Niagara

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S2 E21 · A Place Among the Monuments

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S2 E22 · Face of Fear

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S2 E23 · Sister Mike

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S2 E24 · A Very Infectious Disease

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S2 E25 · Dark Side of the Mirror

Twin sisters one good and one bad, the good sister needs a kidney to save her life and the bad refuses to donate one to her.

S2 E26 · The Sleeping Princess

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S2 E27 · Ship's Doctor

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S2 E28 · Tightrope Into Nowhere

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S2 E29 · The Balance and the Crucible

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S2 E30 · Gift Of Koodjanuk

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S2 E31 · An Island LikeA Peacock

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S2 E32 · To Each His Prison

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S2 E33 · A Hand Held Out in Darkness

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S2 E34 · What's God To Julis

A brother is worried about his mentally retarded brother, Julius and who will take care of him after he is gone.

Season 3

34 episodes

S3 E1 · Who Ever Heard Of Two-Headed Doll?

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S3 E2 · Good Samaritan

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S3 E3 · If You Can't Believe the Truth

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S3 E4 · Heart, an Imperfect Machine

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S3 E5 · A Game for Three

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S3 E6 · Exploiters

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S3 E7 · One Bright and Clear Thursday Morning

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S3 E8 · Eleventh Commandment

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S3 E9 · Four Feet in the Morning

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S3 E10 · Pack Rat and Prima Donna

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S3 E11 · Backslider

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S3 E12 · Charile Wade Makes Lots of Shade

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S3 E13 · Oracle

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S3 E14 · Vote of Confidence

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S3 E15 · Willing Suspension of Disbelief

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S3 E16 · Tyger Tyger (1)

Yvette Mimiuex plays the part of a girl who is totally smitten with surfing and is hell bent on being the BEST surfer. She is in Blair and Gillespe diagnoses her with epilepsy. She is warned not to surf OR drive a car until the siezures are brought under control. Despite everyone's concern and warnings she keeps sneaking off to the beach to ""catch the big wave"". Kildare and her friend Clu Gullager go to the beach several times to stop her. At home she has a grand mal(BIG) siezure and is re-hospitalized. It ends there and is continued into part 2. VERY good show, brings you right back to the 60's.

S3 E17 · Tyger Tyger (2)

Yvette Mimieux continues her surfing. She and Kildare go to the beach at night and they ""make out"". He is infatuated with her but cant get her to accept the epilepsy. She has many smaller siezures. Kildare meets all the beach bums and beatnicks of that time. Ultimately she goes for a surf, catches the wave off her life and has a grand mal siezure at the same time. She drowns and Kildare is there to pronounce her dead. GREAT episode with a sad ending.

S3 E18 · Never Too Old for the Circus

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S3 E19 · Onions, Garlic and Flowers That Bloom in Spring

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S3 E20 · To Walk in Grace

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S3 E21 · Goodbye Mr. Jersey

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S3 E22 · Why Won't Anybody Listen?

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S3 E23 · Child Between

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S3 E24 · A Hundred Million Tomorrows

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S3 E25 · Tomorrow is a Fickle Girl

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S3 E26 · Quid Pro Quo

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S3 E27 · A Day to Remember

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S3 E28 · An Ungodly Act

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S3 E29 · Nickel's Worth Of Prayer

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S3 E30 · Night of the Beast

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S3 E31 · Middle Of Ernie Mann

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S3 E32 · Sense of Tempo

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S3 E33 · Speak Not in Angry Whispers

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S3 E34 · Dolly's Dilemma

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Season 4

32 episodes

S4 E1 · Man is a Rock

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S4 E2 · Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House

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S4 E3 · Hand That Hurts, Hand That Heals

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S4 E4 · Last Leaves on the Tree

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S4 E5 · What's Different About Today?

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S4 E6 · Sound of a Faraway Hill

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S4 E7 · Candle in the Window

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S4 E8 · Rome Will Never Leave You (1)

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S4 E9 · Rome Will Never Leave You (2)

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S4 E10 · Rome Will Never Leave You (3)

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S4 E11 · Elusive Dik Dik

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S4 E12 · Catch a Crooked Mouse

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S4 E13 · Exchange of Gifts

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S4 E14 · Never is a Long Day

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S4 E15 · Lullaby for an Indian Summer

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S4 E16 · Take Care of My Little Girl

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S4 E17 · My Name is Lisa, and I am Lost

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S4 E18 · Please Let My Baby Live

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S4 E19 · No Mother To Giude Them

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S4 E20 · A Marriage Of Convience

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S4 E21 · Make Way for Tomorrow

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S4 E22 · Miracle for Margaret

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S4 E23 · Do You Trust Your Doctor?

Robert Culp Plays a heart doctor who was involved in a malpratice suit therefore has become afriad to diagnose anything so he refers all his patients to Bliar. Kildare catches on, they have it out good, then Gillespe gets involved, makes Culp face his demons, offers him a big job at the hospital. Good one, Culp plays a very sarcastic, abrasive character.

S4 E24 · All Brides Should be so Beatiful

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S4 E25 · She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not (1)

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S4 E26 · She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not (2)

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S4 E27 · A Joruney To The Sunrise

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S4 E28 · Time Buyers

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S4 E29 · Music Hath Charms

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S4 E30 · Believe and Live

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S4 E31 · Reverence for Life

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S4 E32 · Wings of Hope

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Season 5

58 episodes

S5 E1 · Behold the Great Man (1)

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S5 E2 · A Life for Life (2)

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S5 E3 · Web of Hate (3)

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S5 E4 · Horizontal Hero (4)

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S5 E5 · The Bell in the Schoolhouse Tolls for Thee (1)

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S5 E6 · Life in the Dance Hall: F-U-N (2)

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S5 E7 · Some Doors are Slamming (3)

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S5 E8 · Enough La Boheme for Everybody (4)

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S5 E9 · Now: the Mummy (5)

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S5 E10 · A Pyrotechnic Display (6)

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S5 E11 · With Helfire and Thunder (1)

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S5 E12 · Daily Flights to Olympus (2)

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S5 E13 · The Life Machine (1)

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S5 E14 · Toast the Golden Couple (2)

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S5 E15 · Wives and Losers (3)

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S5 E16 · Welcome Home, Dear Anna (4)

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S5 E17 · A Little Child Shall Lead Them (5)

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S5 E18 · Hour of Decision (6)

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S5 E19 · Aftermath (7)

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S5 E20 · Fathers and Daughters (1)

Sister Benjamin is forced to give up her missionary work when she's stricken with leukemia, an illness she hides from her father.

S5 E21 · A Gift of Love (2)

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S5 E22 · The Tent-Dwellers (3)

Joe Quinlan becomes the talk of Blair Hospital when he slips out of his sick bed to hustle a wealthy patient in a pool game.

S5 E23 · Going Home (4)

Despite a serious heart ailment, Joe Quinlan competes in a strenuous pool tournament to win the money for his daughter's hospital bill.

S5 E24 · Something Old, Something New (1)

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S5 E25 · To Visit One More Spring (2)

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S5 E26 · From Nigeria with Love (1)

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S5 E27 · In Roman Candel's Bright Glare (2)

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S5 E28 · When Shadows Fall (3)

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S5 E29 · With This Ring (4)

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S5 E30 · Perfect is too Hard to Be (1)

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S5 E31 · Duet for One Hand (2)

Gillespie is impressed with intern Jessie Martel's handling of patient Frederic Foray, a temperamental pianist whose career is threatened by Parkinson's disease.

S5 E32 · The Atheist and the True Believer (1)

Dr. Gillepsie expects fireworks: Attorney Justin Post, an outspoken atheist, will be visiting the hospital at the same time as evangelist Andrew Webb.

S5 E33 · A Quick Look at Glory (2)

A reporter tricks Andrew Webb into implying that Justin Post's heart attack may have been divine punishment.

S5 E34 · A Sort of Falling in Love (3)

Amy Post seeks a medical explanation for her father's abrupt conversion from atheism to religion after his near brush with death.

S5 E35 · The Last to Believe in Miracles (4)

Amy Post learns that her father wants to join Dr. Webb in his evangelistic crusade.

S5 E36 · The Next Thing to Murder (5)

Dr. Kildare feels that he must prevent Justin Post from making a television appearance. He plans to do it by declaring the former atheist mentally incompetent.

S5 E37 · Never So Happy (6)

Justin Post is determined to appear on television with evangelist Andrew Webb despite the danger to himself and the effect of his actions on his daughter.

S5 E38 · A Cry from the Street (1)

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S5 E39 · Gratitude Won't Pay the Bills (2)

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S5 E40 · Adrift in a Sea of Confusion (3)

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S5 E41 · These Hands That Heal (4)

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S5 E42 · Few Hearts, Few Flowers (1)

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S5 E43 · Some Tales for Halloween (2)

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S5 E44 · I Can Hear the Ice Melting (3)

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S5 E45 · No Other Road (4)

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S5 E46 · The Encroachment (1)

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S5 E47 · A Patient Lost (2)

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S5 E48 · What Happened to All the Sunshine and Roses? (3)

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S5 E49 · The Taste of Crow (4)

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S5 E50 · Out of a Concrete Tower (5)

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S5 E51 · The Art Of Taking A Powder

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S5 E52 · Read The Book,Then See The Picture (2)

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S5 E53 · A Sometimes Distant Spring (1)

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S5 E54 · Travel a Crooked Road (2)

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S5 E55 · Mercy Or Murder (1)

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S5 E56 · A Strange Sort of Accident (2)

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S5 E57 · New Doctor in Town (3)

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S5 E58 · Reckoning (4)

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