About this season
The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama which aired on CBS from September 27, 1962 to May 11, 1965. It was originally called The Nurses when it premiered in 1962; for the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses and it ran until 1965, when it was transformed into a half-hour daytime soap opera. The soap opera, also called The Nurses, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967.
Episodes (32)
1. Night Shift
Aired 27 September 1962 • 60 min
2. The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Aired 4 October 1962 • 60 min
3. Fly, Shadow
Aired 11 October 1962 • 60 min
4. The Barbara Bowers Story
Aired 18 October 1962 • 60 min
5. Doctor Lillian
Aired 25 October 1962 • 60 min
6. A Private Room
Aired 1 November 1962 • 60 min
7. The Prisoner
Aired 8 November 1962 • 60 min
8. A Strange and Distant Place
Aired 15 November 1962 • 60 min
9. Two Black Candles
Aired 22 November 1962 • 60 min
10. Lady Made of Stone
Aired 29 November 1962 • 60 min
11. Frieda
Aired 6 December 1962 • 60 min
12. The Soft Touch
Aired 13 December 1962 • 60 min
Nurse Thorpe (Shirl Conway) swamped with hospital routine, decides to go into private nursing which, she is led to believe, is a “soft touch".
13. Image of Angela
Aired 27 December 1962 • 60 min
14. A Difference of Years
Aired 3 January 1963 • 60 min
15. Root of Violence
Aired 10 January 1963 • 60 min
A nurse attending a teen-aged boy brought to the hospital with a fractured skull, presumably after having been attacked by a street gang, learns that her patient had been the attacker and that his assailant had acted in self defense.
16. Many A Sullivan
Aired 17 January 1963 • 60 min
A New England fisherman suffers a heart attack while at sea and is flown to the New York hospital for attention.
17. Night Sounds
Aired 24 January 1963 • 60 min
Norman Ruskin is recuperating after a minor operation and strikes up a friendly relationship with Miss Lucas. One night late at her post just as a patient dies, and her attempts to explain the delay are brushed aside. Edith Ruskin (Miss Benoit) is informed that Gail intends to press charges against her husband, despite opposition by hospital authorities.
18. The Third Generation
19. The Life
20. Circle of Choice
21. The Perfect Nurse
22. The Thunder of Ernie Bass
23. The Saturday Evening of Time
24. A Question of Mercy
25. Party Girl
26. A Dark World
27. You Could Die Laughing
28. Choice Among Wrongs
29. Express Stop from Lennox Avenue
Express Stop from Lennox Avenue is an episode of the TV program The Nurses.