About this season
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
Episodes (24)
1. The Brittle Warrior
Aired 10 September 1974 • 60 min
2. The Faith of Childish Things
Aired 17 September 1974 • 60 min
3. Last Flight to Babylon
Aired 24 September 1974 • 60 min
Len Dalton is unable to secure a position as a pilot, fearful of losing the affections of his girlfriend and suffering from post-operation depression, he contemplates suicide. After visiting Dr. Welby for a checkup, Dalton tries to persuade Consuelo to give him some sleeping pills. When his pleading fails, he obtains the drug from another source and tries to end his mental anguish forever.
4. To Father A Child
Aired 1 October 1974 • 60 min
5. The Outrage
Aired 8 October 1974 • 60 min
"The Outrage" is a 1974 episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., a long-running American medical drama on ABC. The episode tells the story of a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted by his male teacher. The episode, which originally aired October 8, 1974, sparked controversy and anger for its equation of homosexuality to pedophilia. "The Outrage" was targeted for protests by LGBT rights groups and several network affiliates refused to broadcast it.
6. The Fatal Challenge
Aired 15 October 1974 • 60 min
7. A Fevered Angel
Aired 22 October 1974 • 60 min
Dr. Welby and Kiley fight to save the life of a three-year-old boy, whose mother will not allow the child to be given proper medical treatment because of her fanatical beliefs.
8. Feedback
Aired 29 October 1974 • 60 min
Even though Dr. Welby gives him the best treatment modern medicine can provide plus wise counseling and encouragement, Williams has a difficult time adjusting to an entirely different way of life after having to give up his career because of his affliction.
9. No Gods In Sight
Aired 12 November 1974 • 60 min
10. Hell Is Upstairs
Aired 19 November 1974 • 60 min
11. The Last Rip-Off
Aired 26 November 1974 • 60 min
12. Child of Silence
Aired 3 December 1974 • 60 min
Dr. Welby treats a young girl who almost drowned. His biggest challenge is getting through to the girl's mother who adamantly will not let her hearing-impaired daughter be seen by a specialist.
13. The 266 Days
Aired 10 December 1974 • 60 min
A career woman, delighted to be pregnant at last, joins Consuelo's medical care group for pregnant women.
14. The Resident
Aired 17 December 1974 • 60 min
15. Dark Fury (1)
Aired 7 January 1975 • 60 min
Dr. Kiley takes Susan Davis out to dinner to celebrate the first annivesary of her operation. When Kiley takes her home, he leaves, but then he hears her scream. At length he succeeds in battering down her door, and finds that she has been sexually violated by her ex-boyfriend, Wayne Trent. Kiley takes Susan to the hospital. Later, he goes after Trent, who in attempting to flee, is seriously injured when his car crashes into a concrete pillar.
16. Dark Fury (2)
Aired 14 January 1975 • 60 min
After Susan Davis has been molested by her ex-boyfriend, who has constantly harassed her, Kiley tries to find him. After an accident occurs in which the attacker almost dies, Kiley is subsequently charged with malpractice.
17. Public Streets
Aired 21 January 1975 • 60 min
18. The Time Bomb
Aired 28 January 1975 • 60 min
Dr. Welby has serious self-doubts when a young woman develops a cancerous condition, and blames him because of treatments he had recommended when she was a child.
19. Four-Plus Hot
Aired 4 February 1975 • 60 min
20. Jake's Okay
Aired 11 February 1975 • 60 min
21. Save the Last Dance For Me
Aired 18 February 1975 • 60 min
22. The Unindicted Wife
Aired 25 February 1975 • 60 min
23. Dark Corridors
Aired 4 March 1975 • 60 min
24. Loser in a Dead Heat
Aired 11 March 1975 • 60 min
Constant arguments between her parents because of her father's compulsive gambling, cause a girl to suffer from hyperventilation, a condition in which the subject's intake of oxygen is excessive.