About this season
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.
Episodes (28)
1. White Is the Color
Aired 13 September 1954 • 30 min
A young husband must inform his pregnant wife that she's been diagnosed with fatal leukemia. Concern now shifts to the expected baby's survival. Dr. Styner wages an extended battle in the delivery room for the newborn's survival.
2. Laughter Is a Boy
Aired 20 September 1954 • 30 min
Eight-year old Jonno's speech is garbled because of a cleft palate he was born with. Now kids mock him and he's retreating into a lonely world of his own. Grandfather's too elderly to do anything. What can teenage brother Pete do to help.
3. I Climb the Stairs
Aired 27 September 1954 • 30 min
After collapsing on stairs, winsome young Annie is discovered to have a heart condition. Now doctors must operate to save her, but can they after her heart stops.
4. Death Rides a Wagon
Aired 4 October 1954 • 30 min
On the way westward in the year 1867, a wagon train in a barren wilderness is suddenly hit by an outbreak of Cholera, and the one doctor among them is at odds to contain it.
5. Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup
Aired 11 October 1954 • 30 min
An alcoholic wife and mother of two faces the nearly overwhelming prospect of going through withdrawal and overcoming cirrhosis of the liver before she can begin the more difficult process of attempting to conquer her addiction to drink.
6. My Brother Joe
10.0Aired 25 October 1954 • 30 min
A father has a car accident leaving his 10 year old son in a coma. As a team of specialists attempts to save the boy's life, his family tries to deal with the anger and guilt.
7. Day 10
Aired 1 November 1954 • 30 min
A dramatization of the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles in 1924. The title refers to the 10-day period with no new cases, which must be waited out before the quarantine can be lifted.
8. After the Darkness
Aired 8 November 1954 • 30 min
A pianist, blind since childbirth, learns he can regain his sight with a corneal transplant. This delicate operation involves the substitution of a new cornea for the injured one, in this case scarred by exposure to lime.
9. With This Ring
Aired 22 November 1954 • 30 min
One stormy night a soaking wet woman arrives at hospital and announces she is about to have a baby. In addition to the complications of a difficult birth she bears the secret that she is unwed and alone.
10. My Very Good Friend Albert
Aired 29 November 1954 • 30 min
Swedish immigrant Albert plays viola in a symphony orchestra. But his hearing is getting worse, so he's let go. Also, his social life is being held back. An operation can correct the problem, but will it stay fixed, and how to pay.
11. Wild Intruder
Aired 6 December 1954 • 30 min
A young and healthy woman is diagnosed with breast cancer only a week before her wedding. Surgery must be performed as soon as possible. She becomes depressed and contemplates suicide.
12. Red Christmas
Aired 20 December 1954 • 30 min
A young woman is wheeled in, victim of a holiday road accident. Doctors pour over her, determining extent of injuries. The tipsy driver responsible, her employer, callously wants to get on with his life. Entry serves as holiday warning.
13. When Comes the Autumn
Aired 27 December 1954 • 30 min
An elderly widow, who lives with her son and his family, feels unwanted. As a result, she instigates arguments in the household. Eventually her gloom leads her to drastic action.
14. Boy in the Storm
Aired 3 January 1955 • 30 min
Following the death of his aunt/guardian, a 17-year-old epileptic is methodically treated with medication and extensive counseling in order that he may be able to live a comparatively normal life with a caring foster family.
15. Breath of Life
Aired 24 January 1955 • 30 min
Obsessively self-reliant Dr. Robert Parker faces an uncertain future and an extended period of reliance on an iron lung (and on other people) after he contracts a case of polio.
16. A Time to Be Alive
Aired 31 January 1955 • 30 min
Eleven-year old Danny is a hemophiliac, even a slight injury can cause death. He's cut his arm and the doctors must halt the bleeding. Now his older sister worries that she too may be subject to the genetic disease.
17. Flash of Darkness
Aired 14 February 1955 • 30 min
This "what-if" episode imagines what would happen in the event of a nuclear strike on Los Angeles. Dr. Styner and his colleagues are at a warehouse outside the city for a training session, but must try to make their way back to the devastated city after the nuclear attack. Along the way they try to treat and save as many injured and radiation-poisoned patients as they can with what little medicine they have and are forced by circumstances to decide which patients can be saved--and which ones they'll have to let die.
18. Mercy Wears an Apron
Aired 21 February 1955 • 30 min
An aging actor has been a paraplegic for five years. Confined to bed, he turns to the bottle, maundering over his situation. That is, until a public health nurse arrives. Now he feels sensations in his legs. Is it just wishful thinking.
19. Dr. Impossible
Aired 28 February 1955 • 30 min
In 1884, pioneering surgeon Dr. William Stewart Halstead finds that he and three colleagues are slowly but surely becoming seriously addicted to the cocaine that they have been using in anesthetic self-experiments.
20. Break Through the bars
Aired 14 March 1955 • 30 min
A quiet, sedate, middle-aged bank cashier suddenly begins to exhibit strange and disturbing behavior. After a thorough examination, a medical team decides that his problem can best be treated by electroshock therapy.
21. Death Is a Red Balloon
Aired 21 March 1955 • 30 min
A young wife and mother is suddenly stricken with a brain aneurysm. Now the couple must decide between short-term treatment hoping for no recurrence, or risk delicate brain surgery to remedy the problem.
22. All My Mothers, All My Fathers
Aired 28 March 1955 • 30 min
An abandoned baby grows up in a hospital ward when an extensive series of surgical procedures is necessary to repair the damage caused when the infant's mother forced her to ingest caustic household lye.
23. Physician, Heal Thyself
Aired 11 April 1955 • 30 min
Shortly before completing his residency and beginning his own practice, a resident internist is stunned when a routine chest X-Ray reveals that he has contracted an active case of tuberculosis.
24. Wall of Silence
Aired 18 April 1955 • 30 min
After suffering a severe head injury, a newspaper editor struggles through a lengthy rehabilitative process .
25. My Child’s Keeper
Aired 25 April 1955 • 30 min
Two mothers leave their children, a little girl and a baby boy, alone downstairs. The girl discovers a lighter and starts a blaze that engulfs them both. At the hospital, one mother holds the other responsible for what happened.
26. Lifeline
Aired 16 May 1955 • 30 min
An injured sailor is helicoptered onto a naval hospital ship for treatment. There the head doctor suddenly starts treating his staff angrily. It appears he has a personal stake in the sailor's survival.
27. Never Comes Sunday
Aired 23 May 1955 • 30 min
The blow to a child's head causes not only brain damage, but a dysfunctional family, as the members try to cope with the girl's problems.
28. General Practitioner
Aired 13 June 1955 • 30 min
Dr. Canfield is a family physician with a troubled marriage trying to balance the needs and demands of his patients with those of his family .