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Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.

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Episodes

Season 1

26 episodes

S1 E1 · The Last 10 Yards

Bru Wiley, a college football star up for Heisman honors and a top pro career, ignores his failing health.

S1 E2 · Victim

Although the father of a 7-year-old with severe internal injuries insists the child fell off an embankment, Dr. Gannon suspects the child was beaten.

S1 E3 · Emergency in Ward E

Focuses on the psychological interplay between two patients in serious shape.

S1 E4 · A Life is Waiting

The question of a therapeutic abortion divides Nora Caldwell (Barbara Rush) and her husband Dan (John McMartin).

S1 E5 · The Battle of Lily Wu

A Vietnamese war victim (France Nuyen) is being treated at the medical center.

S1 E6 · The Crooked Circle

A story about drug addiction.

S1 E7 · Thousands and Thousands of Miles

Jenny Webb (Brooke Bundy), with a hemorrhaging kidney and a baby on the way, is rejected by her angry father and uncaring boyfriend.

S1 E8 · The Sharpest Edge

An intradepartmental dispute pits Gannon against the new acting chief of surgery (John Marley).

S1 E9 · Jeopardy

Dr. Gannon tries to prove that the suddenly violent behavior of student Greg Soreson stems from an organic ailment.

S1 E10 · The Fallen Image

A U.S. ambassador (Walter Pidgeon) has a heart condition that could jeopardize a crucial meeting.

S1 E11 · The Loner

A patient (Lee Grant) learns a lesson about life from a little boy (Fabian Gregory).

S1 E12 · 24 Hours

Gannon stakes his reputation on the integrity of a student nurse (Belinda Montgomery).

S1 E13 · The Adversaries

Interns Steve Seagren and Katherine Kenter are both being considered for a much-prized residency.

S1 E14 · The Deceived

A student facing kidney failure gets no comfort from her alienated family or her disinterested ex-husband.

S1 E15 · Moment of Decision

Dr. Lochner's emotions conflict with his professional judgment when he faces a crisis concerning his own daughter.

S1 E16 · Runaway

Dr. Gannon tries to bridge a gap between a 17-year-old and his gruff immigrant father.

S1 E17 · Fright and Flight

A blind student's recovery depends on recalling the horrible event that caused her loss of sight.

S1 E18 · A Duel with Doom

The director of a foundation for teenage parolees lays his life on the line to save one of his charges.

S1 E19 · A Matter of Tomorrow

The story of a dedicated head nurse (Mercedes McCambridge).

S1 E20 · Care is no Cure

A sensitive story about Gannon's love for an incurably ill woman (Shelby Grant).

S1 E21 · The Professional

A former gridiron idol (Forrest Tucker) finds living with his own legend unbearable.

S1 E22 · The Combatants

A research specialist (William Shatner) clashes with Gannon over a possible cancer cure.

S1 E23 · The V.D. Story

A story about the need to treat venereal disease as a medical problem divorced from social stigma.

S1 E24 · His Brother's Keeper

Dr. Martin Lambert is blind to the fact that his older son suffers from a muscular disorder and that he has neglected his younger son.

S1 E25 · The Rebel in White

An ambitious black resident (Georg Stanford Brown) is convinced that Gannon is preventing him from performing surgery.

S1 E26 · Between Dark And Daylight

The story of a marriage tormented by lack of children.

Season 2

24 episodes

S2 E1 · Brink of Doom

A surgeon's (George Grizzard) career may be ended by multiple sclerosis.

S2 E2 · Undercurrent

No summary.

S2 E3 · Junkie

A story about the feelings of parents whose teenagers are drug addicts.

S2 E4 · Assailant

A brooding young doctor (Gary Lockwood) is suspected of murdering a woman on hospital grounds.

S2 E5 · The Clash

A woman doctor (Vera Miles) battles male prejudice.

S2 E6 · Ghetto Clinic

William Devane guests as the maverick director of a free clinic.

S2 E7 · Scream of Silence

The problems of parents with mentally disabled children are explored in this episode.

S2 E8 · Death Grip

The problems of a doctor who has trouble adjusting to civilian life after serving in Vietnam.

S2 E9 · Witch Hunt

Modern medicine clashes with black magic as Gannon tries to save a girl afflicted with Addison's Disease-and a belief in the all-pervading, healing powers of Satan. (60 mins)

S2 E10 · Deadly Encounter

The problems of a patient who may face radical surgery.

S2 E11 · Trial by Terror

Blinded in an attack, Gannon is still being stalked by a would-be killer.

S2 E12 · Accused

A hallucinating patient accuses Gannon of fathering her unborn child.

S2 E13 · Crisis

Gannon is accused of shielding a seriously injured cop who allegedly shot a student without provocation.

S2 E14 · Man at Bay

A brash, long-haired surgeon (Gary Lockwood) runs afoul of his colleagues.

S2 E15 · The Savage Image

Gannon tries to save the life of a seriously ill Indian chief and enroll the chief's son in a physician's-assistant training program.

S2 E16 · Woman in Question

An intern who thinks his fiancee is ""wholesome"" doesn't know she contracted syphilis before they met.

S2 E17 · Web of Darkness

A deadly story of sibling conflict.

S2 E18 · Danger Point

A missing radium implant could contaminate the entire hospital.

S2 E19 · Secret Heritage

A mentally disabled teenager (Pamela Franklin) has been abandoned by her mother.

S2 E20 · Edge of Violence

The story of a troubled former vaudeville star (Jack Carter).

S2 E21 · Countdown

The high cost of hospital care is dramatized.

S2 E22 · Perfection of Vices

An insight into Lochner's personal life with his ex-wife (Dina Merrill) and daughter (Charlotte Stewart).

S2 E23 · The Man in Hiding

A once-brilliant surgeon (Richard Kiley) has become totally withdrawn.

S2 E24 · Crossroads

An aging doctor mistakenly believes that his medical practice is as good as ever.

Season 3

24 episodes

S3 E1 · Blood Line

A fugitive (William Windom) is torn between freedom and love for his anemic son.

S3 E2 · The Corrupted

A character study of an ambitious surgeon (Steve Lawrence).

S3 E3 · The Imposter

A highly respected country doctor's (Forrest Tucker) long career as a bogus physician is about to be exposed.

S3 E4 · Double Jeopardy

Artificial insemination plays a part in the story of a heart patient who risks her life to protect her sterile husband's pride.

S3 E5 · Idolmaker

Character studies of two critically ill patients who are jeopardizing their lives.

S3 E6 · Circle of Power

A distinguished surgeon (Barry Sullivan) is losing the use of his hands.

S3 E7 · The Shattered Man

A troubled husband (Bradford Dillman) is being treated for psychological impotence.

S3 E8 · The Albatross

A drama about mental retardation.

S3 E9 · Martyr

An iron-willed lady (Jo Van Fleet) is determined to spend her life in a wheelchair.

S3 E10 · Suspected

A surgeon's (Earl Hilliman) past comes back to haunt him: the once-convicted sex offender is now charged with child molesting.

S3 E11 · The Loser

A student nurse (Susan Strasberg) is plagued by a bad marriage and a mysterious respiratory illness.

S3 E12 · The Pawn

Medical quackery is the target of a drama in which a charming fraud (George Maharis) is risking the life of a young patient.

S3 E13 · Conspiracy

A lung-cancer victim (Suzanne Pleshette) is determined to keep her nightmare a secret.

S3 E14 · The Nowhere Child

An 11-year-old orphan's chance for adoption is threatened by a mysterious illness.

S3 E15 · Shock! (1)

Change-of-pace suspense drama about Gannon's involvement with an ailing tycoon and his conflict-ridden household. First of two parts.

S3 E16 · Shock! (2)

Dr. Lochner's sister is the prime suspect in the conclusion of a murder story.

S3 E17 · Fatal Decision

Gannon's romance with a woman doctor is plagued by a secret past.

S3 E18 · Terror

Bubonic plague is the villain in a medical conflict over the unidentified victim.

S3 E19 · Secret

A doctor (Michael Callan) is driven back to alcoholism by the fear of losing his dying wife.

S3 E20 · The Choice

A doctor (Monte Markham) is torn between a career in hospital administration and a return to surgical practice.

S3 E21 · Deadlock

A surgeon is offered a grim choice: his kidnapped wife will be saved if he can arrange the death of a certain patient.

S3 E22 · Awakening

A car-crash victim (Craig Stevens) awakes from a three-year coma to a nightmare: the crash killed his daughter and left him with an unforgiving wife.

S3 E23 · Confession

A woman (Ida Lupino) mysteriously turns against Gannon after he saves her husband's life.

S3 E24 · Conflict

A rape-murder mystery takes a grim twist with a confession by a young intern's fiance.

Season 4

24 episodes

S4 E1 · Vision of Doom

A doctor (William Windom) has a premonition that his wife will die in surgery.

S4 E2 · Cycle of Peril

A woman refuses an emergency operation for fear it will endanger her pregnancy.

S4 E3 · Condemned

The story of a growing attachment between an injured teenager and his critically ill roommate.

S4 E4 · Wall of Silence

A drama about deafness and family strife.

S4 E5 · The Torn Man

Tragedy for a 42-year-old intern: he's fallen in love with a critically ill patient.

S4 E6 · Betrayed

A hospital volunteer (Geraldine Page) has a horrifying secret.

S4 E7 · Doctor and Mr. Harper

A drama about an unemployed man married to a doctor.

S4 E8 · The Fallen

The ugly-duckling story is no fairy tale to a patient who thinks she's so second-rate that she wants to die.

S4 E9 · Tico Taco, M.D.

Superstition vs. science as a critically ill woman refuses medical help.

S4 E10 · The Outcast

A brilliant researcher is taking great pains to conceal his past.

S4 E11 · No Sanctuary

A nun has secrets that are hindering her recovery from a beating and rape.

S4 E12 · Gladiator

Problems for a college football hero include a drug habit, a serious illness and a disabled wife.

S4 E13 · No Way Out

A doctor's puzzling spells of fatigue are hampering her work.

S4 E14 · A Game for One Player

A tortured relationship evolves between a lonely widow and the doctor who blames himself for her husband's death.

S4 E15 · Pressure Point

The success of a new surgical procedure is threatened by the surgeon's worry over his wife's erratic behavior.

S4 E16 · Question of Guilt

A woman convict's bitterness is threatening her success in a medical training program.

S4 E17 · Judgement

The story of a desperately lonely hospital volunteer (Ruth Buzzi).

S4 E18 · End of the Line

A high-wire performer's illness might kill her if she continues her career.

S4 E19 · Between Two Fires

A surgeon's new procedure might save his dying wife, if he can conquer his drug addiction in time to operate.

S4 E20 · Night Cry

Drama about the future of an illegitimate child whose father has been critically injured.

S4 E21 · No Margin for Error

A famous doctor's (Celeste Holm) own vital surgery must be delayed to help a man with a live bomb lodged in his chest.

S4 E22 · Impact

An ailing boy's divorced parents can't agree whether to permit surgery.

S4 E23 · Fatal Memory

A woman (Stefanie Powers) refuses to admit symptoms of a serious illness.

S4 E24 · Vortex

Dr. Lochner's one-time fiancee has a beautiful daughter who's gravely ill.

Season 5

24 episodes

S5 E1 · The Guilty

A young woman is stricken with hysterical paralysis after seeing her mother with a lover.

S5 E2 · Time of Darkness

An emergency call to a mountain community leads Gannon to a patient guarded by mysterious, gun-toting townsfolk.

S5 E3 · Broken Image

Bent on proving his virility, an aging surgeon becomes involved with a young patient.

S5 E4 · Impasse

A lesbian psychiatrist is plagued by prejudice against her life style.

S5 E5 · Clash of Shadows

The horror of crib death is explored in this story about a couple who lose their 4-month-old child.

S5 E6 · The Casualty

Romance ends for Gannon when his girlfriend's husband, missing for six years in Vietnam, comes home to reclaim his wife and son.

S5 E7 · Stranger in Two Worlds

A champion diver is ignoring an illness that could end her career.

S5 E8 · Child of Violence

A wounded child from war-torn Northern Ireland baffles Gannon by showing no desire to get well.

S5 E9 · Woman for Hire

An idealistic young resident falls in love with an ailing prostitute.

S5 E10 · A Life at Stake

Compulsive gambling is ruining the life of a once-fine surgeon.

S5 E11 · Nightmare

Gannon is receiving bloodcurdling murder threats that contain only one clue: the would-be killer is someone on the hospital staff.

S5 E12 · Deadly Game

A derelict fakes her way into the hospital for free room and board, unaware that she is suffering from a serious disease.

S5 E13 · Web of Intrigue

An arrogant young resident refuses to submit to authority.

S5 E14 · Trial by Knife

Sparks fly when Gannon and the newly-appointed chief of surgery begin to clash on medical opinions.

S5 E15 · Choice of Evils

A proud man must decide whether to live with a dangerous illness, or submit to surgery which might cause impotence.

S5 E16 · No Escape

Gannon's patient needs a kidney transplant, and her only hope of a compatible donor is her father — a convict who is serving time for murder.

S5 E17 · Dark Warning

A seriously ill surgeon tries to hide his condition long enough to perform lifesaving surgery on his ex-wife.

S5 E18 · Girl from Bedlam

While investigating conditions in a mental hospital, Gannon falls in love with an amnesiac whose blinding headaches have gone untreated by the staff.

S5 E19 · Spectre

Determined to save a critically ill patient, a surgeon is hiding his own serious malady from his colleagues.

S5 E20 · The Enemies

A young genius becomes the center of a custody battle between his critically ill mother and a wealthy, would-be benefactress.

S5 E21 · The Conspirators

An accused rapist may not live to see a fair trial. The victim's boyfriend has already beaten him severely, and is waiting to finish the job.

S5 E22 · The World's a Balloon

An impoverished ventriloquist may lose custody of his orphaned nephew when the boy develops a serious heart condition.

S5 E23 · Hexed

A staff doctor thinks a patient's baffling symptoms are the result of a voodoo curse.

S5 E24 · Appointment with Danger

A critically ill scientist is determined to attend an important European conference, despite Gannon's warnings that the trip might kill her.

Season 6

24 episodes

S6 E1 · Adults Only

After learning that his wife is a pornographic-movie star, a gifted surgeon wants to leave the hospital.

S6 E2 · Demi-God

A cancer patient doesn't know whether to believe her faith-healer husband's assurances that he can cure her.

S6 E3 · The Faces of Peril

A patient refuses to divulge information about herself that might prevent a deadly epidemic.

S6 E4 · Three-Cornered Cage

A husband anguishes over the responsibility he feels toward his ill wife and the love he feels for her best friend.

S6 E5 · The Shattered Mask

A mechanic is oddly reluctant to consent to an operation for his wheelchair-bound daughter (Deborah Winters).

S6 E6 · May God Have Mercy

A former priest (Tim O'Connor) is captivated by a second-rate nightclub singer (Rita Moreno) who faces a dangerous operation.

S6 E7 · The Prisoners

A convict who agrees to participate in a cancer-research experiment tries to sabotage the project.

S6 E8 · The Bribe

A socialite (Vera Miles) tries to bribe a handsome tennis pro (Peter Coffield) into romancing her dying daughter (Pamela Franklin).

S6 E9 · Tainted Lady

Job and social discrimination against cured cancer patients is the theme of this story about a woman (Shirley Knight) who undergoes a mastectomy.

S6 E10 · Heel of the Tyrant

A Jewish researcher is harassed by young anti-Semites who are led by a hospital orderly (David Macklin).

S6 E11 · Three on a Tightrope

A heart patient's recovery is endangered when she falls in love with a mentally disabled young man.

S6 E12 · Midwife

A pregnant young widow (Brooke Bundy), arrested for unlawful midwifery, learns that she has cervical cancer.

S6 E13 · Kiss and Kill

A conniving young patient (Belinda J. Montgomery) tries to drive a wedge between a wealthy woman (Kim Hunter) and her clinging son (David Soul).

S6 E14 · Saturday`s Child

An adolescent girl needs surgery, but she won't help Gannon locate her parents so he can get their consent.

S6 E15 · The Hostile Heart

An orphan's need for open-heart surgery may frighten away prospective parents.

S6 E16 · No Way Home

A former movie star's will to live is undermined by a failing marriage and ill health.

S6 E17 · Captives

A pregnant nurse dosen't want to raise a second child without the help of her errant husband.

S6 E18 · Crown of Thorns

A European princess (Suzy Kendall) escapes her bodyguard and winds up in Gannon's arms.

S6 E19 · The Invisible Wife

The ailing and neglected wife of a charismatic politician asks Gannon to keep her presence in the hospital a secret.

S6 E20 · If Mine Eye Offends Me

A convicted child molester will be granted parole only if he takes a drug that might cause impotence.

S6 E21 · Survivors

Camaraderie turns to rivalry when 12 medical students compete for seven internships.

S6 E22 · Aftershock

A hospital explosion traps Gannon and five others in the basement.

S6 E23 · Half a Life

A woman is torn between her desire to live with her lover in Greece, and her duty to her brother, who needs transfusions of her blood.

S6 E24 · Ripoff

No summary.

Season 7

24 episodes

S7 E1 · The Fourth Sex (1)

A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.

S7 E2 · The Fourth Sex (2)

A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.

S7 E3 · Torment

On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.

S7 E4 · No Hiding Place

A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.

S7 E5 · The Velvet Knife

Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.

S7 E6 · The Price of a Child

The son of a wealthy Arab shows unusual concern over the plight of an ailing Jewish boy.

S7 E7 · Street Girl

The teenage daughter of a busy surgeon turns to prostitution in a bid for attention.

S7 E8 · Too Late for Tomorrow

Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.

S7 E9 · The Last Performance

Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.

S7 E10 · Two Against Death

An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.

S7 E11 · One Last Rebellion

A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.

S7 E12 · The Eighth Deadly Sin

An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.

S7 E13 · Gift from a Killer

One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.

S7 E14 · The High Cost of Winning

A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.

S7 E15 · The Silent Witness

A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.

S7 E16 · A Very Private War

Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.

S7 E17 · You Can't Annul My Baby

Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.

S7 E18 · Child of Conflict

The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.

S7 E19 · The Stranger

The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.

S7 E20 · A Touch of Sight

Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.

S7 E21 · Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster

The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.

S7 E22 · Major Annie, M.D.

An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.

S7 E23 · The Happy State of Depression

A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.

S7 E24 · If Wishes Were Horses

A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.