Episode 1
Aired Sep 28, 1961
Twenty-Four Hours
Gillespie criticizes Kildare for being abrupt with an abusive patient.
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Episode 2
Aired Oct 5, 1961
Immunity
A Polish immigrant with smallpox triggers a search for carriers.
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Episode 3
Aired Oct 12, 1961
Shining Image
A beautiful actress and writer with a fatal disease falls in love with Kildare.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 19, 1961
Winter Harvest
Gillespie worries about an old heart surgeon's fitness to operate.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 26, 1961
The Million-Dollar Property
An actress, part of a flamboyant clique, suffers a nervous breakdown.
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Episode 6
Aired Nov 2, 1961
Admitting Service
A hasty diagnosis leads to a malpractice suit when an old man dies.
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Episode 7
Aired Nov 9, 1961
The Lonely Ones
In Kildare's hometown, an old friend's fiancee is behaving strangely.
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Episode 8
Aired Nov 16, 1961
Holiday Weekend
A Blair intern is close to death after a holiday car accident.
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Episode 9
Aired Nov 23, 1961
The Patient
Injuring his back, Kildare spends 72 hours in a room of unhappy patients.
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Episode 10
Aired Nov 30, 1961
For the Living
A coma patient's family must decide whether to continue treatment.
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Episode 11
Aired Dec 7, 1961
Second Chance
A promising surgeon suffers an incurable creeping paralysis.
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Episode 12
Aired Dec 14, 1961
Hit and Run
A terrified father refuses to allow surgery to save his son's arm.
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Episode 13
Aired Dec 21, 1961
Season to Be Jolly
A raging, hung-over, well-educated sidewalk Santa is wheeled in Christmas Eve.
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Episode 14
Aired Dec 28, 1961
Johnny Temple
A paranoid teenager, stabbed in a fight, springs a knife on Kildare.
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Episode 15
Aired Jan 4, 1962
My Brother, the Doctor
A hard-working accountant pays for his brother's medical education.
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Episode 16
Aired Jan 11, 1962
The Administrator
A fight ensues when a hospital administrator fires a city appointee.
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Episode 17
Aired Jan 25, 1962
Oh My Daughter
Gillespie's daughter, three months pregnant, attempts suicide.
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Episode 18
Aired Feb 1, 1962
The Search
Two cases of food poisoning set off a frantic search for the source.
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Episode 19
Aired Feb 8, 1962
The Glory Hunter
A famous jungle surgeon campaigns for money for his new hospital.
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Episode 20
Aired Feb 15, 1962
The Dragon
A frightened intern tries to blame his negligence on Dr. Kildare.
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Episode 21
Aired Feb 22, 1962
The Stepping Stone
A pathologist asks a patient for permission to perform his autopsy.
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Episode 22
Aired Mar 1, 1962
The Bronc-Buster
Kildare is embarrassed by his cousin, a back-slapping rodeo rider.
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Episode 23
Aired Mar 8, 1962
Witch Doctor
A quack convinces Kildare's patient her prescribed surgery is unnecessary.
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Episode 24
Aired Mar 15, 1962
The Roaring Boy-O
A drunk, trouble-making, has-been poet has only a few months to live.
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Episode 25
Aired Mar 29, 1962
Solomon's Choice
One woman suffers her fifth miscarriage; another won't look at her baby.
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Episode 26
Aired Apr 5, 1962
A Very Present Help
A remarkable nun helps a woman patient refusing an operation.
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Episode 27
Aired Apr 12, 1962
One for the Road
A doctor, recovering from alcoholism, starts a rehabilitation program.
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Episode 28
Aired Apr 19, 1962
The Horn of Plenty
Kildare falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy doctor's patient.
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Episode 29
Aired Apr 26, 1962
The Chemistry of Anger
Haunted by his father's death, a doctor drives himself relentlessly.
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Episode 30
Aired May 3, 1962
Something of Importance
Kildare assists an ambitious doctor researching an incurable disease.
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Episode 31
Aired May 10, 1962
A Distant Thunder
An elderly war hero is admitted for malnutrition.
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Episode 32
Aired May 17, 1962
Road to the Heart
Kildare wants to operate on a deaf boy, but the mother is unwilling.
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Episode 33
Aired May 24, 1962
Operation Lazarus
An experimental drug helps a psychotic whose wife had given up hope.
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