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Season 2, 31 episodes

Episode 1: All the Lonely Night
- Now playing
- 30m
- Sep 5, 1955
Pretty, young Helen has a collapsing colon. Unless she consents to surgery to open up a new elimination canal and container bag, she will die. But what will that mean to a young woman's self-image and life style. Daring topic for its time.
Episode 2: Walk with Lions
- 30m
- Sep 12, 1955
Unaware that he has developed diabetes, a struggling young prizefighter who is also a gifted artist endangers his life by continuing to push himself in order to earn the money needed to further his education.
Episode 3: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)
- 30m
- Sep 26, 1955
Immediately after giving birth to her fourth child, Frances Dunbar develops a severe case of postpartum depression and becomes convinced that she can (and will) violently murder the baby.
Episode 4: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)
- 30m
- Oct 3, 1955
After unsuccessfully attempting to kill her baby, Frances Dunbar voluntarily admits herself to a state psychiatric institution where she receives treatment that slowly helps her to realize the reasons for her troubled mental state.
Episode 5: A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine
- 30m
- Oct 10, 1955
A young boy, neglected by his wealthy parents, builds a dream world of his own with the help of his tattered teddy bear, Mr. Bodine. This aggravates his asthmatic condition, as he is allergic to the teddy bear.
Episode 6: When I Was Young
- 30m
- Oct 24, 1955
When Gwen Kellogg becomes depressed, modern treatment helps restore her to health
Episode 7: When Mama Says Jump
- 30m
- Oct 31, 1955
Dr. Styner offers advice and support when a 17-year-old track star develops severe acne and chronic fatigue due to stresses caused by his demanding mother's determination to see him achieve his father's dream of Olympic stardom.
Episode 8: Candle of Hope
- 30m
- Nov 7, 1955
A citrus farmer gets married at age 45. He then wants a son but is unable to have one. He visits the doctor to get help.
Episode 9: Black Friday
- 30m
- Nov 21, 1955
Little known but true story about an Army doctor who tried to save Abraham Lincoln's life. Dr. Charles A. Leale was in the audience at Ford's Theater when John Wilkes Booth fired the fatal shot at President Lincoln. For 12 hours Leale and two other doctors worked desperately against death.
Episode 10: Glass of Fear
- 30m
- Nov 28, 1955
Comic strip artist Dick Hooper does a nationally syndicated feature called "Salty", but he can't make his due dates for finished cartoons because he's become obsessed with germs and various muscle and stomach pains that doctors can't locate. He's become a raging hypochondriac that's about to lose his wife and career.
Episode 11: Pray Judgement
- 30m
- Dec 5, 1955
A county coroner's investigation will exonerate or incriminate a distraught spinsterish woman who was alone with her younger sister's baby boy when the infant died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Episode 12: The World So High
- 30m
- Dec 26, 1955
During World War Two, pilots are able to take aircraft higher and higher, but they keep fainting out when parachuting out. A young doctor proceeds to do experiments back in the states on the most likely of these pilots to falter. Controlled high altitude simulations prove dangerous, but necessary.
Episode 13: A Time for Sleep
- 30m
- Jan 2, 1956
The story of the contribution of the anesthesiologist to medicine. An elderly woman must undergo a thyroid operation. A large part of the success of such an operation is in the deft hands and decisions of the anesthesiologist.
Episode 14: The Laughter and the Weeping
- 30m
- Jan 15, 1956
Due to circumstances at home, a young man needs to help take care of his mom and ailing father. He can't finish college and resorts to Professional Wrestling to make money. Can he restore his appearance and his dignity?
Episode 15: Just Like Your Father
- 30m
- Jan 23, 1956
An elderly judge who has no close relatives is taken seriously ill. After he collapses, his ailment is diagnosed as a pancreatic tumor.
Episode 16: If Tomorrow Be Sad
- 30m
- Feb 6, 1956
A successful photographer's model is told she is a victim of multiple sclerosis. Her unsympathetic husband decides he now wants a divorce.
Episode 17: The Homecoming
- 30m
- Feb 13, 1956
Leprosy victim Allan Connolly is finally pronounced healthy and fit to resume a productive life in normal society, but he and his wife are unprepared for the rejection and irrational fear evinced by their friends and neighbors.
Episode 18: Who Search for Truth
- 30m
- Feb 27, 1956
This is the story of Alexis St. Martin, a young fur trapper who was shot in the side and was used by Dr. William Beaumont for research into the function of the human digestive system.
Episode 19: The Glorious Red Gallagher
- 30m
- Mar 12, 1956
A troubled woman has given birth to a baby by Caesarian section and has lost the will to live. She is put in the care of nurse Clara Mary Gallagher, who is retiring the next day after 39 years of service.
Episode 20: My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend
- 30m
- Mar 19, 1956
This is the story of years of research to discover the cause of blindness in prematurely born infants.
Episode 21: Awake to Spring
- 30m
- Mar 26, 1956
An old man is the only family left for his crippled grandson. He's worried about his ability to carry on, and after a painful heart incident, he's convinced he'll soon be dead and his helpless charge will be doomed, so he decides they should go together and leaves the gas pipe open as they sleep.
Episode 22: Don't Count the Stars
- 30m
- Apr 9, 1956
An arrogant and self-aggrandizing singer's relentless drive for success is unceremoniously halted when he learns that his hoarseness is not due to vocal overwork, but to a potentially malignant cancer of the larynx.
Episode 23: The Inconstant Heart
- 30m
- Apr 23, 1956
Although resigned to the fact that he had an incurable heart ailment, a man is badgered by his wife into going to a doctor. Tonight's story concerns radiology, and viewers see the UCLA medical center and its cancer-treating cobalt bomb.
Episode 24: Someday We'll Laugh
- 30m
- May 7, 1956
A father, grateful to a doctor for saving his daughter's life, offers to finance the much-needed equipment for his office.
Episode 25: To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift
- 30m
- May 24, 1956
Navy surgeon saves life of sailor injured in sea explosion.
Episode 26: The Good Samaritan
- 30m
- May 31, 1956
Dr. Styner stops to help a married couple involved in an automobile accident, but finds himself on trial for medical malpractice when the wife subsequently and surprisingly becomes addled and partially paralyzed on her left side.
Episode 27: Reach of the Giant (1)
- 30m
- Jun 11, 1956
A man develops a crippling arthritic spinal condition.
Episode 28: Reach of the Giant (2)
- 30m
- Jun 18, 1956
After sending his wife away, Jim falls again and his condition worsens to the point where he decides to undergo experimental surgery on his spine.
Episode 29: Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone
- 30m
- Jul 9, 1956
This is the story of a young girl named Mary. She has a weak heart due to a defective heart valve. Doctors race to operate on her after she collapses at a dance she attended with her classmates.
Episode 30: She Walks in Beauty
- 30m
- Aug 6, 1956
It's summer vacation and Jenny is a 12 year old girl with a club foot. Her parents are worried about her "ugly deformity" as they refer to it, and whether anybody will marry her when she's older. They take her to see a specialist to see if he can surgically repair her club foot.
Episode 31: This Strange Ending
- 30m
- Aug 27, 1956
Promising 19-year-old ballerina Laurie Allen's 1947 death from cancer becomes a personal obsession for newspaper reporter Joe Bailey, who conducts a series of interviews that he hopes will reveal the true story behind her untimely demise.

Medic

1954 to 1956
Rated NR
2 seasons
30m per episode
Drama

6.3TMDB(7)

Overview

Medic is an American medical drama that aired on NBC beginning in 1954. Medic was television's first doctor drama to focus attention on medical procedures. Created by its principal writer James E. Moser, Medic tried to create realism which would typify medical shows from then on. Moser had previously written for the radio shows Dragnet and Dr. Kildare. He went on to write the television series Ben Casey.

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Ran for 2 seasons and 59 episodes (1954 to 1956)
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Created by: James E. Moser
Status: Ended
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 59
First aired: September 13, 1954
Last aired: August 27, 1956
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America

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Season 2, 31 episodes

Episode 1: All the Lonely Night
- Now playing
- 30m
- Sep 5, 1955
Pretty, young Helen has a collapsing colon. Unless she consents to surgery to open up a new elimination canal and container bag, she will die. But what will that mean to a young woman's self-image and life style. Daring topic for its time.
Episode 2: Walk with Lions
- 30m
- Sep 12, 1955
Unaware that he has developed diabetes, a struggling young prizefighter who is also a gifted artist endangers his life by continuing to push himself in order to earn the money needed to further his education.
Episode 3: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)
- 30m
- Sep 26, 1955
Immediately after giving birth to her fourth child, Frances Dunbar develops a severe case of postpartum depression and becomes convinced that she can (and will) violently murder the baby.
Episode 4: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)
- 30m
- Oct 3, 1955
After unsuccessfully attempting to kill her baby, Frances Dunbar voluntarily admits herself to a state psychiatric institution where she receives treatment that slowly helps her to realize the reasons for her troubled mental state.
Episode 5: A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine
- 30m
- Oct 10, 1955
A young boy, neglected by his wealthy parents, builds a dream world of his own with the help of his tattered teddy bear, Mr. Bodine. This aggravates his asthmatic condition, as he is allergic to the teddy bear.
Episode 6: When I Was Young
- 30m
- Oct 24, 1955
When Gwen Kellogg becomes depressed, modern treatment helps restore her to health
Episode 7: When Mama Says Jump
- 30m
- Oct 31, 1955
Dr. Styner offers advice and support when a 17-year-old track star develops severe acne and chronic fatigue due to stresses caused by his demanding mother's determination to see him achieve his father's dream of Olympic stardom.
Episode 8: Candle of Hope
- 30m
- Nov 7, 1955
A citrus farmer gets married at age 45. He then wants a son but is unable to have one. He visits the doctor to get help.
Episode 9: Black Friday
- 30m
- Nov 21, 1955
Little known but true story about an Army doctor who tried to save Abraham Lincoln's life. Dr. Charles A. Leale was in the audience at Ford's Theater when John Wilkes Booth fired the fatal shot at President Lincoln. For 12 hours Leale and two other doctors worked desperately against death.
Episode 10: Glass of Fear
- 30m
- Nov 28, 1955
Comic strip artist Dick Hooper does a nationally syndicated feature called "Salty", but he can't make his due dates for finished cartoons because he's become obsessed with germs and various muscle and stomach pains that doctors can't locate. He's become a raging hypochondriac that's about to lose his wife and career.
Episode 11: Pray Judgement
- 30m
- Dec 5, 1955
A county coroner's investigation will exonerate or incriminate a distraught spinsterish woman who was alone with her younger sister's baby boy when the infant died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Episode 12: The World So High
- 30m
- Dec 26, 1955
During World War Two, pilots are able to take aircraft higher and higher, but they keep fainting out when parachuting out. A young doctor proceeds to do experiments back in the states on the most likely of these pilots to falter. Controlled high altitude simulations prove dangerous, but necessary.
Episode 13: A Time for Sleep
- 30m
- Jan 2, 1956
The story of the contribution of the anesthesiologist to medicine. An elderly woman must undergo a thyroid operation. A large part of the success of such an operation is in the deft hands and decisions of the anesthesiologist.
Episode 14: The Laughter and the Weeping
- 30m
- Jan 15, 1956
Due to circumstances at home, a young man needs to help take care of his mom and ailing father. He can't finish college and resorts to Professional Wrestling to make money. Can he restore his appearance and his dignity?
Episode 15: Just Like Your Father
- 30m
- Jan 23, 1956
An elderly judge who has no close relatives is taken seriously ill. After he collapses, his ailment is diagnosed as a pancreatic tumor.
Episode 16: If Tomorrow Be Sad
- 30m
- Feb 6, 1956
A successful photographer's model is told she is a victim of multiple sclerosis. Her unsympathetic husband decides he now wants a divorce.
Episode 17: The Homecoming
- 30m
- Feb 13, 1956
Leprosy victim Allan Connolly is finally pronounced healthy and fit to resume a productive life in normal society, but he and his wife are unprepared for the rejection and irrational fear evinced by their friends and neighbors.
Episode 18: Who Search for Truth
- 30m
- Feb 27, 1956
This is the story of Alexis St. Martin, a young fur trapper who was shot in the side and was used by Dr. William Beaumont for research into the function of the human digestive system.
Episode 19: The Glorious Red Gallagher
- 30m
- Mar 12, 1956
A troubled woman has given birth to a baby by Caesarian section and has lost the will to live. She is put in the care of nurse Clara Mary Gallagher, who is retiring the next day after 39 years of service.
Episode 20: My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend
- 30m
- Mar 19, 1956
This is the story of years of research to discover the cause of blindness in prematurely born infants.
Episode 21: Awake to Spring
- 30m
- Mar 26, 1956
An old man is the only family left for his crippled grandson. He's worried about his ability to carry on, and after a painful heart incident, he's convinced he'll soon be dead and his helpless charge will be doomed, so he decides they should go together and leaves the gas pipe open as they sleep.
Episode 22: Don't Count the Stars
- 30m
- Apr 9, 1956
An arrogant and self-aggrandizing singer's relentless drive for success is unceremoniously halted when he learns that his hoarseness is not due to vocal overwork, but to a potentially malignant cancer of the larynx.
Episode 23: The Inconstant Heart
- 30m
- Apr 23, 1956
Although resigned to the fact that he had an incurable heart ailment, a man is badgered by his wife into going to a doctor. Tonight's story concerns radiology, and viewers see the UCLA medical center and its cancer-treating cobalt bomb.
Episode 24: Someday We'll Laugh
- 30m
- May 7, 1956
A father, grateful to a doctor for saving his daughter's life, offers to finance the much-needed equipment for his office.
Episode 25: To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift
- 30m
- May 24, 1956
Navy surgeon saves life of sailor injured in sea explosion.
Episode 26: The Good Samaritan
- 30m
- May 31, 1956
Dr. Styner stops to help a married couple involved in an automobile accident, but finds himself on trial for medical malpractice when the wife subsequently and surprisingly becomes addled and partially paralyzed on her left side.
Episode 27: Reach of the Giant (1)
- 30m
- Jun 11, 1956
A man develops a crippling arthritic spinal condition.
Episode 28: Reach of the Giant (2)
- 30m
- Jun 18, 1956
After sending his wife away, Jim falls again and his condition worsens to the point where he decides to undergo experimental surgery on his spine.
Episode 29: Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone
- 30m
- Jul 9, 1956
This is the story of a young girl named Mary. She has a weak heart due to a defective heart valve. Doctors race to operate on her after she collapses at a dance she attended with her classmates.
Episode 30: She Walks in Beauty
- 30m
- Aug 6, 1956
It's summer vacation and Jenny is a 12 year old girl with a club foot. Her parents are worried about her "ugly deformity" as they refer to it, and whether anybody will marry her when she's older. They take her to see a specialist to see if he can surgically repair her club foot.
Episode 31: This Strange Ending
- 30m
- Aug 27, 1956
Promising 19-year-old ballerina Laurie Allen's 1947 death from cancer becomes a personal obsession for newspaper reporter Joe Bailey, who conducts a series of interviews that he hopes will reveal the true story behind her untimely demise.

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: All the Lonely Night

E2 Episode 2: Walk with Lions

E3 Episode 3: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)

E4 Episode 4: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)

E5 Episode 5: A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine

E6 Episode 6: When I Was Young

E7 Episode 7: When Mama Says Jump

E8 Episode 8: Candle of Hope

E9 Episode 9: Black Friday

E10 Episode 10: Glass of Fear

E11 Episode 11: Pray Judgement

E12 Episode 12: The World So High

E13 Episode 13: A Time for Sleep

E14 Episode 14: The Laughter and the Weeping

E15 Episode 15: Just Like Your Father

E16 Episode 16: If Tomorrow Be Sad

E17 Episode 17: The Homecoming

E18 Episode 18: Who Search for Truth

E19 Episode 19: The Glorious Red Gallagher

E20 Episode 20: My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend

E21 Episode 21: Awake to Spring

E22 Episode 22: Don't Count the Stars

E23 Episode 23: The Inconstant Heart

E24 Episode 24: Someday We'll Laugh

E25 Episode 25: To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

E26 Episode 26: The Good Samaritan

E27 Episode 27: Reach of the Giant (1)

E28 Episode 28: Reach of the Giant (2)

E29 Episode 29: Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone

E30 Episode 30: She Walks in Beauty

E31 Episode 31: This Strange Ending

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E1 Episode 1: All the Lonely Night

E2 Episode 2: Walk with Lions

E3 Episode 3: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)

E4 Episode 4: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)

E5 Episode 5: A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine

E6 Episode 6: When I Was Young

E7 Episode 7: When Mama Says Jump

E8 Episode 8: Candle of Hope

E9 Episode 9: Black Friday

E10 Episode 10: Glass of Fear

E11 Episode 11: Pray Judgement

E12 Episode 12: The World So High

E13 Episode 13: A Time for Sleep

E14 Episode 14: The Laughter and the Weeping

E15 Episode 15: Just Like Your Father

E16 Episode 16: If Tomorrow Be Sad

E17 Episode 17: The Homecoming

E18 Episode 18: Who Search for Truth

E19 Episode 19: The Glorious Red Gallagher

E20 Episode 20: My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend

E21 Episode 21: Awake to Spring

E22 Episode 22: Don't Count the Stars

E23 Episode 23: The Inconstant Heart

E24 Episode 24: Someday We'll Laugh

E25 Episode 25: To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

E26 Episode 26: The Good Samaritan

E27 Episode 27: Reach of the Giant (1)

E28 Episode 28: Reach of the Giant (2)

E29 Episode 29: Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone

E30 Episode 30: She Walks in Beauty

E31 Episode 31: This Strange Ending

Episode 1: All the Lonely Night

Episode 2: Walk with Lions

Episode 3: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)

Episode 4: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)

Episode 5: A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine

Episode 6: When I Was Young

Episode 7: When Mama Says Jump

Episode 8: Candle of Hope

Episode 9: Black Friday

Episode 10: Glass of Fear

Episode 11: Pray Judgement

Episode 12: The World So High

Episode 13: A Time for Sleep

Episode 14: The Laughter and the Weeping

Episode 15: Just Like Your Father

Episode 16: If Tomorrow Be Sad

Episode 17: The Homecoming

Episode 18: Who Search for Truth

Episode 19: The Glorious Red Gallagher

Episode 20: My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend

Episode 21: Awake to Spring

Episode 22: Don't Count the Stars

Episode 23: The Inconstant Heart

Episode 24: Someday We'll Laugh

Episode 25: To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

Episode 26: The Good Samaritan

Episode 27: Reach of the Giant (1)

Episode 28: Reach of the Giant (2)

Episode 29: Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone

Episode 30: She Walks in Beauty

Episode 31: This Strange Ending

Episode 1: All the Lonely Night

Episode 2: Walk with Lions

Episode 3: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)

Episode 4: And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)

Episode 5: A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine

Episode 6: When I Was Young

Episode 7: When Mama Says Jump

Episode 8: Candle of Hope

Episode 9: Black Friday

Episode 10: Glass of Fear

Episode 11: Pray Judgement

Episode 12: The World So High

Episode 13: A Time for Sleep

Episode 14: The Laughter and the Weeping

Episode 15: Just Like Your Father

Episode 16: If Tomorrow Be Sad

Episode 17: The Homecoming

Episode 18: Who Search for Truth

Episode 19: The Glorious Red Gallagher

Episode 20: My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend

Episode 21: Awake to Spring

Episode 22: Don't Count the Stars

Episode 23: The Inconstant Heart

Episode 24: Someday We'll Laugh

Episode 25: To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

Episode 26: The Good Samaritan

Episode 27: Reach of the Giant (1)

Episode 28: Reach of the Giant (2)

Episode 29: Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone

Episode 30: She Walks in Beauty

Episode 31: This Strange Ending