Season 1
26 episodes · Sep 23, 1969
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S1E1Hello, Goodbye, Hello
Sep 23, 196960mA 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.
S1E2The Foal
Sep 30, 196960mDr. 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.
S1E3Don't Ignore The Miracles
Oct 7, 196960mClaire 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
S1E4Silken Threads and Silver Hooks
Oct 14, 196960mWhile 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.
S1E5All Flags Flying
Oct 21, 196960mRick 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.
S1E6Echo Of A Baby's Laugh
Oct 28, 196960mDr. 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
S1E7The White Cane
Nov 4, 196960mWhen 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
S1E8The Vrahnas Demon
Nov 11, 196960mNick 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.
S1E9Madonna With Knapsack and Flute
Nov 18, 196960mIn 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.
S1E10Homecoming
Nov 25, 196960mDr. 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.
S1E11Let Ernest Come Over
Dec 9, 196960mErnest 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.
S1E12The Chemistry of Hope
Dec 16, 196960mPacho McGuerney's parents, refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.
S1E13Neither Punch nor Judy
Dec 23, 196960mDr. 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.
S1E14Diagnosis: Fear
Dec 30, 196960mA basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.
S1E15The Soft Phrase of Peace
Jan 6, 197060mWelby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.
S1E16Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose
Jan 13, 197060mMichael 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.
S1E17The Legacy
Jan 27, 197060mWhen 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.
S1E18Dance to No Music
Feb 3, 197060mJoseph 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.
S1E19Go Get 'Em, Tiger
Feb 10, 197060mDr. 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.
S1E20Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey
Feb 17, 197060mDinty 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.
S1E21The Other Side of the Chart
Feb 24, 197060mThe 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.
S1E22The Merely Syndrome
Mar 3, 197060mA young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.
S1E23Sea of Security
Mar 10, 197060mAn oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.
S1E24The Daredevil Gesture
Mar 17, 197060mA hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.
S1E25Enid
Mar 24, 197060mAn orphanage counselor, addicted to pills, causes an automobil accident in which one of her charges is injured.
S1E26The Rebel Doctor
Apr 14, 197060mDr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.