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MovieNerd ScoreMarcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
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Episodes
Specials
1 episode
S0 E1 · A Matter of Humanities (Pilot)
A doctor from Santa Monica has some heart trouble and needs an assistant.
Season 1
26 episodes
S1 E1 · Hello, Goodbye, Hello
A warm, outgoing young school teacher is told by Dr. Welby that she only has a few months to live. She goes into seclusion. Dr. Kiley, who has become strongly attached to her, attempts to bring her back into the current of life.
S1 E2 · The Foal
Dr. Welby finds that even a school that does brilliant work with retarded children will not accept 6-year old Paulie Stewart, since there is no basis for communication and response. his efforts to achieve a breakthrough result in hostile actions by Paulie, and a growing estrangement between the boy's parents, Janice and Bob Stewart.
S1 E3 · Don't Ignore The Miracles
Claire Burwick, 42 becomes pregnant for the first time and is convinced her husband Paul does not want a child. Claire's anxiety increase when she learns that her husband has been seeing younger women, and she sets out to lose the baby
S1 E4 · Silken Threads and Silver Hooks
While giving speech therapy to Nadine, a motion picture star who suffers a stroke, Dr. Welby learns that her husband, Lucas, has set up a television documentary in which Nadine is to show that people do recover full and quickly from strokes. In addition, the documentary lets the public know that she will soon be returning to motion pictures. Lucas does not heed Dr. Welby's warning that the strain of the show may prove extremely dangerous.
S1 E5 · All Flags Flying
Rick Ballinger is an aging war hero determined to sail alone to the South Pacific. Dr. Welby discovers that Ballinger has pernicious anemia, and warn the captain that such a voyage would prove fatal. Ballinger, however, goes ahead with his plan, since it is essential to him to maintain an heroic facade to impress his son and his young wife.
S1 E6 · Echo Of A Baby's Laugh
Dr. Welby tells a pregnant young wife, Mary Ann Graham, that because of her RH-negative factor, her husband will have to be told about a previous pregnancy and abortion. Dr. Welby explains that her baby will have to be transfused at birth and insists that her husband be told. Mrs. Graham fears that if he learns of her previous indiscretion, he will leave her
S1 E7 · The White Cane
When an operation restores Paul Hannan's sight, his love cools for his blind fiancee, Laura Jelliffe. Laura, employed at the Center for the Blind, seeks to forestall the ordeal of the engagement being called off by asking for a transfer to another city
S1 E8 · The Vrahnas Demon
Nick Eugenides is an aging but lusty Greek American fisherman who refuses to change his life style when Dr. Welby informs him he has emphysema. Eugenedes insists on entering an annual deep diving competition, an event he has won for many years.
S1 E9 · Madonna With Knapsack and Flute
In her recurring role as Myra Sherwood, Ann Baxter, with whom Dr. Welby is in love, takes a pregnant, unmarried ""flower child,"" Tracy Clifford, into her home. Dr. Welby, who is treating Tracy for mononucleosis, warns Myra against deep emotional involvement with the girl. Myra, however, whose own daughter would have been Tracy's age had she lived, makes plans to maintain Tracy has her own child--when it is born--indefinitely.
S1 E10 · Homecoming
Dr. Welby, wishes to hospitalize Scott Behrman, who has given up LDS but suffers from recurrences of the effects of the drug. Scott returns home after a long absence, and bursts into Dr. Welby's office while suffering a violent ""acid flash."" . After the attack, Dr. Welby wants have him hospitalized. However, Max Behrman, Scott's father, who is willing to be separated from his son again, opposes the plan. He believes that if Scott pursues a responsible life, working in the family business, the attacks will not recur.
S1 E11 · Let Ernest Come Over
Ernest Jackson--up for promotion to police lieutenant--fells that disclosure of his physical problem would ruin his chance for advancement. Welby, learning of Jackson's occupation, says he cannot allow the truth to be hidden since his condition may lead to the officer's inability to carry out his duty at a crucial moment.
S1 E12 · The Chemistry of Hope
Pacho McGuerney's parents, refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.
S1 E13 · Neither Punch nor Judy
Dr. Welby's friend, Father Hugh Riorden, suffers severe asthmatic attacks because he feels inadequate in dealing with the personal problems of his parishioners. The priest's feelings reach a climax when he is unable to restore the will to live in a young man injured in an accident, but Dr. Welby's able to do so. Father Hugh announces to Dr. Welby that he is going to quit the priesthood.
S1 E14 · Diagnosis: Fear
A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.
S1 E15 · The Soft Phrase of Peace
Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.
S1 E16 · Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose
Michael Ambrose, a diabetic, tries to end his life to get even with his father. Michael resents his father, best-selling novelist John Ambrose, blaming him for the unhappiness his mother suffered before her death, and taunts him by threatening to give up taking her insulin shots. When John Ambrose goes back East for a television appearance, Michael carries out his threat.
S1 E17 · The Legacy
When the patrician Senora Carlotta, mother of Dr. Welby's nurse Consuelo Lopez, is told by the doctor that her life-or-death decision will also involve others, she decides immediately what course she must take. Her philosophy affects Mrs. Faris, the cynical women whose room she shares and who rejects the present while dreading the future.
S1 E18 · Dance to No Music
Joseph Campanella guest-stars as scientist Leo Maslow, who is convinced that he has an hereditary disease, Huntington's Chorea, which begins with complete loss of memory and inability to function. Welby and Kiley conduct tests, but are not convinced that Maslow has the disease. However, his condition continues to deteriorate, especially after he learns his wife is pregnant.
S1 E19 · Go Get 'Em, Tiger
Dr. Steven Kiley befriends a former employee, now a reformed drug addict, and in doing so places himself and Dr. Welby in an awkward and almost untenable position. Dr. Kiley does his best to help Warren Chamber -- his onetime benefactor -- find suitable employment, but his record as a former addict precludes any success. Finally, when a job as a bus driver with a private school becomes available, and Kiley is called on to give his friend a physical examination for the institution, he is forced to choose between his duty as a doctor and his obligation to a friend.
S1 E20 · Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey
Dinty Gallagher refuses to give up his regimen of diet pills and steam baths, even after having fainting spells. Gallagher's desperate attempts to make the weight for the most important race of his life result in physical collapse and he is hospitalized. There he overhears Doctors Welby and Kiley tell his manager that tests indicate he is still growing, at 21, and that it will be impossible for him to continue his career as a jockey.
S1 E21 · The Other Side of the Chart
The Other Side of the Chart Dr. Steven Kiley, embarrassingly hospitalized for Chicken Pox, becomes interested in ""Dutch"" Radtke, a husky oil field worker who panics at the prospect of surgery. Radtke's physician plans exploratory surgery to determine if he has cancer of the bladder. Dr. Kiley, who has been checking up on tropical diseases, advocates alternative testing. However, he is unable to reach Radke's physician, and Radtke, the night before the surgery is scheduled, escapes form the hospital.
S1 E22 · The Merely Syndrome
A young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.
S1 E23 · Sea of Security
An oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.
S1 E24 · The Daredevil Gesture
A hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.
S1 E25 · Enid
An orphanage counselor, addicted to pills, causes an automobil accident in which one of her charges is injured.
S1 E26 · The Rebel Doctor
Dr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.
Season 2
24 episodes
S2 E1 · A Very Special Sailfish
After a successful diet, a teenager gets caught up in the swinging set, leading to VD.
S2 E2 · The Worth Of A Man
An attorney refuses to step down from a case after Dr. Welby tells him he has a terminal disease.
S2 E3 · Warn the World About Mike
Dr. Kiley's brother believes he is dying and refuses to seek help.
S2 E4 · Epidemic
The efforts of Dr. Welby and Kiley to battle a flu epidemic are complicated by a rich hypochondriac.
S2 E5 · To Get Through the Night
A psychiatrist discovers he is the victim of a fatal form of sclerosis.
S2 E6 · Daisy In the Shadows
The mother of a retarded child is forced to realize that she must allow the child to live with foster parents.
S2 E7 · The Labyrinth
Dr. Welby tries to help a scientist, Vic Rivera, who appears to be suffering from drug-induced symptoms so serious he fears he will die or become completely incapacitated.
S2 E8 · The Girl From Rainbow Beach
Just before her marriage, a young woman discovers she is a victim of a form of leprosy.
S2 E9 · Aura To A New Tomorrow
A young epileptic's effort to hide his affliction endanger his life.
S2 E10 · Sounding Brass
A proud young father refuses to bring his supposedly mentally challenged son to a free clinic for treatment.
S2 E11 · To Carry the Sun In A Golden Cup
Dr. Welby suspects a young nurse is suffering from a hereditary muscular disease.
S2 E12 · All the Golden Dandelions Are Gone
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S2 E13 · Brave On A Mountain Top
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S2 E14 · Another Buckle For Wesley Hill
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S2 E15 · False Spring
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S2 E16 · The Passing Of Torches
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S2 E17 · A Woman's Place
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S2 E18 · A Spanish Saying I Made Up
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S2 E19 · Cynthia
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S2 E20 · Don't Kid A Kidder
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S2 E21 · Elegy For A Mad Dog
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S2 E22 · The Contract
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S2 E23 · The Windfall
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S2 E24 · The House of Alquist
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Season 3
25 episodes
S3 E1 · The Tender Comrade
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S3 E2 · A Portrait of Debbie
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S3 E3 · In My Father's House
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S3 E4 · I Can Hardly Tell You Apart
Sally Fields is seens as June and Jan Wilkins, betweeen whom exists a very strong sibling rivalry. Jan's feelings are put to a test when June's burns require a skin graft.
S3 E5 · This Is Max
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S3 E6 · Men Who Care (1)
Welby testifies at the murder trial of Marshall's client.
S3 E7 · Men Who Care (2)
Welby testifies at the murder trial of Marshall's client.
S3 E8 · Ask Me Again Tomorrow
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S3 E9 · Don't Phase Me Out
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S3 E10 · Echo From Another World
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S3 E11 · The Best Is Yet To Be
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S3 E12 · A Yellow Bird
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S3 E13 · They Grow Up
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S3 E14 · Of Magic Shadow Shapes
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S3 E15 · Cross-Match
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S3 E16 · The Basic Moment (1)
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S3 E17 · The Basic Moment (2)
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S3 E18 · All the Pretty People
Rick, whose tennis prowess has brought him fame, money and a beautiful wife, is hospitalized by Dr. Kiley following a collapse. Faced with the fact that his tennis playing days are over, Rick thinks his life is over as well until a suggestion for a new career comes from a teammate.
S3 E19 · I'm Really Trying
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S3 E20 · Is It So Soon That I Am Done For - I Wonder What I Was Begun For?
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S3 E21 · Just a Little Courage
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S3 E22 · Don't Talk About Darkness
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S3 E23 · Once There Was A Bantu Prince
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S3 E24 · A Taste of Salt
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S3 E25 · Solomon's Choice
Teenaged Carol Lockett, three months pregnant and hospitalized by an infection, chooses to risk going full term rather than having a therapeutic abortion. Another complication is deciding whether to marry the baby's father or to put the child up for adoption.
Season 4
24 episodes
S4 E1 · A Fragile Possession
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S4 E2 · Love Is When They Say They Need You
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S4 E3 · We'll Walk Out of Here Together
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S4 E4 · In Sickness and In Health
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S4 E5 · House of Mirrors
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S4 E6 · He Could Sell Iceboxes To Eskimos
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S4 E7 · The Wednesday Game
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S4 E8 · Don and Denise
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S4 E9 · Please Don't Send Flowers
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S4 E10 · With A Shout, Not A Whimper
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S4 E11 · Jason Be Nimble, Jason Be Quick
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S4 E12 · Unto the Next Generation
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S4 E13 · Heartbeat For Yesterday
Dr. Welby, called by flying physician Jerome Billings, an orthopedic surgeon, for help finds young Carlos in a diabetic coma. Carlos' grandfather, Charlie, convinced his grandson will die, objects to Welby's treating him but accompanies Carlos when Welby insists on flying the ailing youth to a hospital. Weather forces the plane into an emergency landing in which Charlie is injured, giving Welby two emergencies to handle.
S4 E14 · Dinner of Herbs
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S4 E15 · A More Exciting Case
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S4 E16 · A Necessary End
When Julie Langley Kirk's illness is diagnosed by Dr. Welby as serious heart damage, she refuses to accept it at first. Convinced finally by Dr. Welby that she must continue her work, she works on, with the help of her assistant, Greta, finishing a moving photographic essay on the end of life.
S4 E17 · Who Are You Arthur Kolinski?
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S4 E18 · Gemini Descending
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S4 E19 · The Problem With Charlie
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S4 E20 · Catch A Ring That Isn't There
When 17-year-old gymnastic champion Rickie Manning falls off the rings in gym, he is examined by Dr. Kiley who suspects the boy has been drinking. He and Dr. Welby want the boy to get help from a group at Comeback House. Richie's parents resist at first, but come to face the fact they have helped create their son's problems by pressures on him following the death of their other son.
S4 E21 · The Working Heart
Laura Daniels develops a serious heart problem as the result of rheumatic fever. Although she accepts Dr. Welby's order to give up her TV interview show, she is convinced that her husband Paul loves her only as a successful career woman. She returns to work, getting pills from her assistant, Jan, and these, combined with liquor, cause her to collapse, making heart surgery mandatory.
S4 E22 · The Other Martin Loring
"The Other Martin Loring" is a 1973 episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., an American medical drama that aired on ABC. It tells the story of a middle-aged man facing several health issues, which seem to stem from his repression of his homosexuality. The episode aired on February 20, 1973, and was met with concern and protests from LGBT rights activists for its equating of homosexuality and illness.
S4 E23 · The Day After Forever
Troubled by his wife's relationship with a charming young political candidate, a successful architect-builder turns to tranquilizers and is seriously injured at a construction site.
S4 E24 · The Tortoise Dance
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Season 5
25 episodes
S5 E1 · The Panic Path
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S5 E2 · A Joyful Song
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S5 E3 · For Services Rendered
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S5 E4 · Blood Kin
Rico and Louisa Renati, aware their frail but lively daughter Maria has the rare Cooley's Anemia, peculiar to Italians, refuse Dr. Welby's suggestion on the operation. Dr. Jed Hartnet, a leading specialist in this type of disease who is ready to quit the profession , becomes intrigued with Maria and decides to fight her parents' decision.
S5 E5 · The Light At the Threshold
Tracey Robbins has been plagued with diabetes for years and the disease has caused her to slowly lose her sight due to blood vessel malfunction. When her father fails to take her on a promised trip to Europe and her infatuation with Dr. Kiley undergoes a rude awakeing, the girl becomes withdrawn and refuses the operation.
S5 E6 · A Question of Fault
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S5 E7 · Friends In High Places
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S5 E8 · The Endless Moment
Fearing that his bride-to-be, Kelly Green, will cancel their marriage plans, Dr. Kiley does not tell her the seriousness of the rheumatic disease she has contracted. Dr. Welby disagrees with his associate and, as her doctor, tells her the eventualities of such an illness when she insists on knowing.
S5 E9 · The Tall Tree
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S5 E10 · The Circles of Shame
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S5 E11 · Nguyen
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S5 E12 · A Cry In The Night
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S5 E13 · Death Is Only A Side Effect
Patricia Lowry, despondent over her chronic kidney ailment and fear that her husband, Duke, is having romantic affairs on his business trips, takes a tranquilizer that puts her in a coma.
S5 E14 · The comeback
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S5 E15 · A Full Life
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S5 E16 · No Charity For the MacAllisters
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S5 E17 · Each Day A Miracle
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S5 E18 · The Fear of Silence
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S5 E19 · Angela's Nightmare
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S5 E20 · The Mugging
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S5 E21 · The Latch-Key Child
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S5 E22 · Out of Control
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S5 E23 · I've Promised You a Father (1)
A young nursed suffering from a rare genetic disease that can cause delusions, names Dr. Kiley as the father of her small son in a paternity suit.
S5 E24 · I've Promised You a Father (2)
Marshall is persuaded by Dr. Welby to defend Dr. Kiley in a paternity suit filed by Perry, a nurse who believes that the young doctor is the father of her child.
S5 E25 · Designs
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Season 6
24 episodes
S6 E1 · The Brittle Warrior
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S6 E2 · The Faith of Childish Things
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S6 E3 · Last Flight to Babylon
Len Dalton is unable to secure a position as a pilot, fearful of losing the affections of his girlfriend and suffering from post-operation depression, he contemplates suicide. After visiting Dr. Welby for a checkup, Dalton tries to persuade Consuelo to give him some sleeping pills. When his pleading fails, he obtains the drug from another source and tries to end his mental anguish forever.
S6 E4 · To Father A Child
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S6 E5 · The Outrage
"The Outrage" is a 1974 episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., a long-running American medical drama on ABC. The episode tells the story of a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted by his male teacher. The episode, which originally aired October 8, 1974, sparked controversy and anger for its equation of homosexuality to pedophilia. "The Outrage" was targeted for protests by LGBT rights groups and several network affiliates refused to broadcast it.
S6 E6 · The Fatal Challenge
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S6 E7 · A Fevered Angel
Dr. Welby and Kiley fight to save the life of a three-year-old boy, whose mother will not allow the child to be given proper medical treatment because of her fanatical beliefs.
S6 E8 · Feedback
Even though Dr. Welby gives him the best treatment modern medicine can provide plus wise counseling and encouragement, Williams has a difficult time adjusting to an entirely different way of life after having to give up his career because of his affliction.
S6 E9 · No Gods In Sight
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S6 E10 · Hell Is Upstairs
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S6 E11 · The Last Rip-Off
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S6 E12 · Child of Silence
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S6 E13 · The 266 Days
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S6 E14 · The Resident
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S6 E15 · Dark Fury (1)
Dr. Kiley takes Susan Davis out to dinner to celebrate the first annivesary of her operation. When Kiley takes her home, he leaves, but then he hears her scream. At length he succeeds in battering down her door, and finds that she has been sexually violated by her ex-boyfriend, Wayne Trent. Kiley takes Susan to the hospital. Later, he goes after Trent, who in attempting to flee, is seriously injured when his car crashes into a concrete pillar.
S6 E16 · Dark Fury (2)
After Susan Davis has been molested by her ex-boyfriend, who has constantly harassed her, Kiley tries to find him. After an accident occurs in which the attacker almost dies, Kiley is subsequently charged with malpractice.
S6 E17 · Public Streets
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S6 E18 · The Time Bomb
Dr. Welby has serious self-doubts when a young woman develops a cancerous condition, and blames him because of treatments he had recommended when she was a child.
S6 E19 · Four-Plus Hot
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S6 E20 · Jake's Okay
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S6 E21 · Save the Last Dance For Me
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S6 E22 · The Unindicted Wife
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S6 E23 · Dark Corridors
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S6 E24 · Loser in a Dead Heat
Constant arguments between her parents because of her father's compulsive gambling, cause a girl to suffer from hyperventilation, a condition in which the subject's intake of oxygen is excessive.
Season 7
23 episodes
S7 E1 · Tomorrow May Never Come
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S7 E2 · The Fruitfulness of Mrs Steffie Rhodes
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S7 E3 · The Lie
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S7 E4 · The Covenant,
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S7 E5 · The Double Edged Razor
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S7 E6 · To Live Another Day
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S7 E7 · An End And A Beginning
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S7 E8 · The Tidal Wave
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S7 E9 · The Strange Behaviour of Paul Kelland
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S7 E10 · Calculated Risk
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S7 E11 · Killer Of Dreams
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S7 E12 · The Medea Factor
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S7 E13 · The One Face In the World
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S7 E14 · Go Ahead and Cry
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S7 E15 · Strike II
A former rookie of the year baseball player who became an alcoholic, finally gets another chance at life when he and his wife, Norma, become the physical education directors at the center. When a hepatitis epidemic breaks out, the cases are traced to Scott. The people at the center reject Scott and he returns to the bottle, feeling that his world has collapsed.
S7 E16 · How Do You Know What Hurts Me?
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S7 E17 · Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 1
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S7 E18 · Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 2
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S7 E19 · The Highest Mountain
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S7 E20 · To Trump An Ace
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S7 E21 · All Passions Spent
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S7 E22 · Vanity Case (1)
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S7 E23 · Vanity Case (2)
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