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COLLECTION · Series · 1954

Medic

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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* 6.3 (7)DramaUnited States
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Creators
James E. Moser
Countries
United States
Studios
NBC · Medic Productions
Runtime
30 min/ep
Age rating
NR
Release
13/09/1954
Score
6.3 / 10 (7)

Awards and nominations

  • Nominated at Emmy Award — For episode "White Is the Color"
  • Nominated at Emmy Award — Victor Young
  • Nominated at Emmy Award — Best Dramatic Series
  • Nominated at Emmy Award — Beverly Garland
  • Nominated at Emmy Award — Richard Boone
  • Winner at Emmy Award — For episode "I Climb the Stairs"
  • Nominated at Emmy Award — Frank La Tourette
  • Winner at Emmy Award — For episode "Black Friday"
  • Nominated at Emmy Award — For orchestration of Victor Young's music
  • Nominated at Emmy Award — For episode "Mercy Wears an Apron"
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
28 episodes · 1954
Episode 1. White Is the Color
1954-09-13 · 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.

Episode 2. Laughter Is a Boy
1954-09-20 · 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.

Episode 3. I Climb the Stairs
1954-09-27 · 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.

Episode 4. Death Rides a Wagon
1954-10-04 · 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.

Episode 5. Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup
1954-10-11 · 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.

Episode 6. My Brother Joe
1954-10-25 · 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.

Episode 7. Day 10
1954-11-01 · 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.

Episode 8. After the Darkness
1954-11-08 · 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.

Episode 9. With This Ring
1954-11-22 · 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.

Episode 10. My Very Good Friend Albert
1954-11-29 · 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.

Episode 11. Wild Intruder
1954-12-06 · 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.

Episode 12. Red Christmas
1954-12-20 · 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.

Episode 13. When Comes the Autumn
1954-12-27 · 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.

Episode 14. Boy in the Storm
1955-01-03 · 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.

Episode 15. Breath of Life
1955-01-24 · 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.

Episode 16. A Time to Be Alive
1955-01-31 · 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.

Episode 17. Flash of Darkness
1955-02-14 · 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…

Episode 18. Mercy Wears an Apron
1955-02-21 · 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.

Episode 19. Dr. Impossible
1955-02-28 · 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.

Episode 20. Break Through the bars
1955-03-14 · 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.

Episode 21. Death Is a Red Balloon
1955-03-21 · 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.

Episode 22. All My Mothers, All My Fathers
1955-03-28 · 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.

Episode 23. Physician, Heal Thyself
1955-04-11 · 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.

Episode 24. Wall of Silence
1955-04-18 · 30 min

After suffering a severe head injury, a newspaper editor struggles through a lengthy rehabilitative process .

Episode 25. My Child’s Keeper
1955-04-25 · 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.

Episode 26. Lifeline
1955-05-16 · 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.

Episode 27. Never Comes Sunday
1955-05-23 · 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.

Episode 28. General Practitioner
1955-06-13 · 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 .

Season 2
Season 2
31 episodes · 1955
Episode 1. All the Lonely Night
1955-09-05 · 30 min

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
1955-09-12 · 30 min

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)
1955-09-26 · 30 min

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)
1955-10-03 · 30 min

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
1955-10-10 · 30 min

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
1955-10-24 · 30 min

When Gwen Kellogg becomes depressed, modern treatment helps restore her to health

Episode 7. When Mama Says Jump
1955-10-31 · 30 min

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
1955-11-07 · 30 min

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
1955-11-21 · 30 min

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…

Episode 10. Glass of Fear
1955-11-28 · 30 min

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…

Episode 11. Pray Judgement
1955-12-05 · 30 min

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
1955-12-26 · 30 min

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.…

Episode 13. A Time for Sleep
1956-01-02 · 30 min

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
1956-01-15 · 30 min

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
1956-01-23 · 30 min

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
1956-02-06 · 30 min

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
1956-02-13 · 30 min

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
1956-02-27 · 30 min

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
1956-03-12 · 30 min

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
1956-03-19 · 30 min

This is the story of years of research to discover the cause of blindness in prematurely born infants.

Episode 21. Awake to Spring
1956-03-26 · 30 min

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…

Episode 22. Don't Count the Stars
1956-04-09 · 30 min

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
1956-04-23 · 30 min

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
1956-05-07 · 30 min

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
1956-05-24 · 30 min

Navy surgeon saves life of sailor injured in sea explosion.

Episode 26. The Good Samaritan
1956-05-31 · 30 min

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)
1956-06-11 · 30 min

A man develops a crippling arthritic spinal condition.

Episode 28. Reach of the Giant (2)
1956-06-18 · 30 min

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
1956-07-09 · 30 min

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
1956-08-06 · 30 min

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…

Episode 31. This Strange Ending
1956-08-27 · 30 min

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.

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Richard Boone
Richard Boone
Dr. Konrad Styner
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