Episode list

Kildare is falling deeply for a young intern who is determined to become the first female surgeon from Blair Hospital. Both of them know, however, that plans to marry and start a family would go against her when the hospital board considers her application.

Kildare and Gillespie face a malpractice suit after a woman unexpectedly dies following a common and usually safe injection.

A popular comedian becomes embittered and hostile to everyone after his leg is amputated due to bone cancer.

Several medical students come down with hepatitis. Kildare works with a public health investigator to determine the source, a search which both men find perplexing.

An egotistical former movie idol is admitted to Blair, and tests can find no reason for her apparent inability to walk. Kildare hopes to determine the problem, and also to encourage the actress to see another patient of his, a girl with terminal cancer who idolizes her. But in pursuing both matters Kildare butts heads with the actress's personal physician.

Kildare volunteers for work in the jail ward after treating two policemen and the assailant who shot them for bullet wounds. One of the policemen dies, and Kildare discovers that the killer may have a blood disorder, requiring that his trial be delayed until he has undergone tests and treatment, which angers the dead officer's partner.

A neurologist is accidentally exposed to an excessive amount of radiation, which will cause him to go blind in a matter of weeks, just as his family is hoping for him to go on a vacation, and as one of his patients is desperate for him to perform surgery to correct her symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

After Kildare saves the life of a young woman who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on barbiturates, the girl's parents (particularly her father) become so worshiping of him that they put him on a pedestal and talk as if he can do no wrong. Kildare finds it hard to tell them that she is still not out of the woods.

After several unexplained violent outbursts, one in which he smashes his own lab, a hospital technician fears that he is going insane like his father did years earlier.

After observing that a woman has been been physically abusing her young daughter, Kildare wants to get involved in the case and report her for it. But this puts him in conflict with the nun who's been assigned to the family's welfare, who hopes to do everything in her power to keep the girl's family together if possible.

Working with a middle-aged Australian intern from the outback, Kildare is disturbed by the man's disregard for protocol and paperwork---and by his deeply prejudicial attitude toward a patient sent to the hospital from immigration services.

A woman will die unless she receives a kidney from her estranged twin sister, but the sister, a model, is unwilling to undergo the surgery to donate it.

Responding to a call at an apartment where an elderly man has collapsed, Kildare discovers the man's teenage daughter living inside. She has not ventured outside the apartment for years and appears to live in a fantasy world. When her father's condition is determined to be terminal, Kildare tries to determine if and how the girl, who is becoming attached to him, could survive in the real world.

In a lighter episode, Gillespie wins the hospital raffle for a vacation, and goes on a luxury cruise. However, he asks to not be identified as a doctor on the cruise list so that he won't be constantly pestered. But when the ship's doctor learns about his profession anyway, he assumes Gillespie is the spy sent by the ship's owners to investigate his excessive expense account.

A young woman is bitter and cold toward her seriously ill father, until he lapses into an irreversible coma, after which she begs Kildare to do everything possible to keep him alive. This puts Kildare in conflict with the chief resident in charge, who strongly opposes taking extraordinary measures to extend life for hopeless patients.

A brilliant doctor who is also a minister turns down Gillespie's offer of a residency at Blair, preferring instead to join his wife as a missionary in South America. But when struck by a tragedy, his faith is shattered and he reacts bitterly toward attempts by others to help.

Alfred Freely, a cheerful Irishman, comes in to Blair for a check-up, and tells Kildare that he is his long-lost uncle, though Kildare does not really remember him. Because of the man's gift for blarney and cheer, Kildare puts him in a ward regarded as the "jinx ward", due to the fact that several in it have died, and the others need something to lift their spirits. But then Kildare learns that Alfred may be seriously ill himself..

A man suffers a heart attack after coming to see his blind daughter, whom he abandoned when she was a child in order to live a vagabond life. The daughter refuses to forgive him and will not accept his offer of help, nor will she take a chance on surgery to restore her sight, because she has been disappointed by past operations that failed.

While in a state of advanced delirium tremens, an alcoholic tells Kildare that it was he who committed the embezzlement for which his former business partner was convicted and sent to prison. He tells Kildare to tell the police after he dies, but then he recovers and says he was hallucinating when he said it. Kildare is in a dilemma as to whether or not to believe him, or to tell the police.

A little girl is brought to Blair after being found unconscious on the street. She has no identification and no one comes to identify her. On examination no physical reason can be determined for her apparent comatose state. Kildare begins to suspect that she is suffering from a dissociative reaction to some emotional trauma.

Realizing he is terminally ill, a man becomes concerned about the future of his mentally disabled brother, whom he has been caring for alone.

On his first day as a resident Kildare struggles with the question of whether to tell a patient---and the patient's wife, an old school friend---that he has been diagnosed with leukemia.

Kildare stops on a farm road to help a woman and her daughter-in-law, whose car has stalled. The young woman goes into labor and Kildare has to deliver her baby, who is stillborn. Afterward, he is sued for malpractice and decides to fight despite the advice of the hospital attorney that he should settle out of court.

A wealthy industrialist in Blair for tests gets a lot of talk and attention from staff, and particularly from a nurse who's hoping to land a rich husband.

A doctor has been working to perfect a heart/lung machine, and plans to use it on his seriously ill wife as soon as he believes the time is right. But her condition is rapidly deteriorating, and she needs surgery now and can't wait for him to perfect his machine. He also believes he's the only one who can use it on her, though Kildare has studied it under him and Gillespie prefers that Kildare be the one to use it during the operation.

Kildare finds it necessary to call out intern Louis Miller for incompetent acts on several occasions. After Miller's wife is hospitalized with Kildare as her physician, Miller in turn accuses Kildare of using the occasion to begin a relationship with her.

A nurse at Blair, long bitter toward her father, is deeply upset after his death when a funeral home owner talks her mother into spending excessive amounts for his services, with money that will have to come from savings that were to be for her younger brother's education.

A Japanese-American doctor discovers that his pregnant Japanese-born wife, who he thought was from Tokyo, was actually from Nagasaki and was in that city when the atomic bomb was dropped there at the end of World War II--and that she is dying from radiation-induced leukemia.

Kildare puts two women together as roommates in Blair: a highly maternal elderly woman and a young commercial artist diagnosed with a debilitating illness. But the two do not get along well due to their different outlooks. The younger woman does however fall for the older woman's son, which displeases his mother.

A pregnant teenager is admitted to Blair with signs of food poisoning, the result of an apparent attempt to induce abortion. Meanwhile, the father of the baby, getting little help from his bickering parents, struggles with his responsibility. The parents of the girl are also of little help in the situation. This is Part One of a two-part story, the conclusion being shown on the series "The Eleventh Hour".

Kildare is assigned to work with the highly frugal, penny-pinching veteran central supply nurse to clean out obsolete equipment. But the nurse doesn't think most of the equipment in the "Elephant's Graveyard", as the downstairs storage area is jokingly called, is obsolete.

Kildare is concerned by a number of careless professional mistakes veteran doctor Harvey Gruboldt has made lately, but Gruboldt accuses Kildare of trying to undermine him, and even becomes defensive when Gillespie calls him out for the mistakes, including those involving a mother and daughter Gruboldt has long been friends with.

350-pound Charlie Wade is unable to lose weight, and Kildare at first attributes it to his unwillingness to take his diet seriously. But after he is admitted to Blair and still fails to lose pounds the doctors find they must reassess their opinion, while the normally jocular Charlie is becoming exceedingly discouraged.

A story of two women diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. One is a seemingly childlike and overprotected young woman about to give birth to her first child. The other is a celebrated, award-winning political correspondent known as a champion of the underdog. How they both deal with their diagnosis may come as a surprise.

Dr. Gillespie runs for re-election as chief of staff for Blair Hospital but he is not sure to win so easily. An ambitious resident has talked a surgeon, who disagrees with Gillespie's conservative approach, into running against him.