About this season
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
Episodes (24)
1. The Fourth Sex (1)
Aired 8 September 1975 • 60 min
A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.
2. The Fourth Sex (2)
Aired 15 September 1975 • 60 min
A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.
3. Torment
Aired 22 September 1975 • 60 min
On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.
4. No Hiding Place
Aired 29 September 1975 • 60 min
A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.
5. The Velvet Knife
Aired 6 October 1975 • 60 min
Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.
6. Street Girl
Aired 20 October 1975 • 60 min
A study of teen-age prostitution: the daughter of a successful surgeon takes to the streets in a desperate bid for attention.
7. The Price of a Child
Aired 29 October 1975 • 60 min
The son of a wealthy Middle Eastern oil magnate upsets Medical Center operations with his "money buys everything" attitude.
8. Too Late for Tomorrow
Aired 3 November 1975 • 60 min
Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.
9. The Last Performance
Aired 10 November 1975 • 60 min
Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.
10. Two Against Death
Aired 17 November 1975 • 60 min
An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.
11. One Last Rebellion
Aired 24 November 1975 • 60 min
A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.
12. The Eighth Deadly Sin
Aired 1 December 1975 • 60 min
An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.
13. Gift from a Killer
Aired 8 December 1975 • 60 min
One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.
14. The High Cost of Winning
Aired 15 December 1975 • 60 min
A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.
15. The Silent Witness
Aired 29 December 1975 • 60 min
A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.
16. A Very Private War
Aired 12 January 1976 • 60 min
Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.
17. You Can't Annul My Baby
Aired 19 January 1976 • 60 min
Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.
18. Child of Conflict
Aired 2 February 1976 • 60 min
The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.
19. The Stranger
Aired 9 February 1976 • 60 min
The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.
20. A Touch of Sight
Aired 16 February 1976 • 60 min
Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.
21. Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster
Aired 23 February 1976 • 60 min
The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.
22. Major Annie, M.D.
Aired 1 March 1976 • 60 min
An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.
23. The Happy State of Depression
Aired 8 March 1976 • 60 min
A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.
24. If Wishes Were Horses
Aired 15 March 1976 • 60 min
A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.