A Matter of Humanities

Dr. Welby has a heart attack and must take on another doctor. Dr. Welby has to convince a young doctor to keep practicing after he loses two patients.

1 :01x01 - Hello, Goodbye, Hello

Susan Clark guest-stars as Ruth Adams, a warm, outgoing young school teacher who learns that she only has a few months to live. She goes into seclusion. Dr. Kiley, who has become strongly attached to her, attempts to bring her back into the current of life.

2 :01x02 - The Foal

Dr. Welby finds that even a school that does brilliant work with retarded children will not accept 6-year old Paulie Stewart, since there is no basis for communication and response. his efforts to achieve a breakthrough result in hostile actions by Paulie, and a growing estrangement between the boy's parents, Janice and Bob Stewart.

3 :01x03 - Don't Ignore The Miracles

Pregnant for the first time at 42, a woman learns that her husband has been seeing another woman.

4 :01x04 - Silken Threads and Silver Hooks

Nadine Cabot, actress, suffers a stroke on set, and another during a procedure called cerebral angiography, to assess the nature of the injury. That forces doctors to rush her into surgery, where they are only partially able to repair the damage. She awakens, a miracle in itself, with deficits and must work hard to recover from them. And her husband and business manager pushes her hard to make that recovery. But is he pushing her too hard?

5 :01x05 - All Flags Flying

Captain Rick Ballinger is an aging war hero determined to sail alone to the South Pacific. Dr. Welby discovers that Ballinger has pernicious anemia and warn the captain that such voyage would prove fatal. Ballinger, however, goes ahead with his plan, since it is essential to him to maintain an heroic facade to impress his son and young wife.

6 :01x06 - Echo Of A Baby's Laugh

The Grahams have traveled nearly 2000 miles to California, chasing a dream of a better life. Mary Ann is pregnant, and due very soon. Fortunately for them, Dr. Welby periodically stops by the trailer park where they stop to care for the residents who are too infirm to visit his office. He advises the Grahams that they are Rh incompatible - she is negative, while her husband is positive. This is not a problem during the first pregnancy, but can be lethal to the second and subsequent children. Fortunately, this is Mary Ann's first pregnancy. Or, is it? Dr. Welby must get the truth from her so that he and the hospital can prepare for the birth correctly.

7 :01x07 - The White Cane

A young man who regains his sight has second thoughts about his engagement to a blind girl.

8 :01x08 - The Vrahnas Demon

An aging fisherman, stricken with emphysema, insists on entering a deep diving competition.

9 :01x09 - Madonna With Knapsack and Flute

10 :01x10 - Homecoming

11 :01x11 - Let Ernest Come Over

Detective Sergeant Ernest Jackson, a black policeman who has worked twice as hard as his white colleagues to reach that rank, drives hundreds of miles to see Dr. Welby. Why? Because he is under consideration for a promotion to Detective Lieutenant, the first black man to hold that rank in his command, but if word of his health problems gets back to his commanders, it will damage or destroy his chances. Dr. Welby faces the problem of whether to tell them, since his diagnosis means it may be dangerous for Jackson to continue serving.

12 :01x12 - The Chemistry of Hope

Pancho McGurney does not feel well at all, so his parents send him to Dr. Welby for tests. Dr. Welby sends him to the hospital, and then must have a hard conversation with Pancho's parents, centered around a word no parent wants to hear: leukemia. Treatment is further complicated by a serious disagreement between Pancho's father and Dr. Welby over what to tell the boy about why he's sick, and why he's in the hospital for such a long time.

13 :01x13 - Neither Punch nor Judy

A priest, whom Dr. Welby is treating for psychosomatic asthma attacks, decides to quit the church.

14 :01x14 - Diagnosis: Fear

Uncertain of Dr. Welby's recommendation to undergo knee surgery, a teenage basketball player resorts to an unconventional treatment.

15 :01x15 - The Soft Phrase of Peace

Billy Kincaid is a young black man participating in on-campus activism when police are called to the scene to remove the demonstrators. Billy Kincaid ends up beaten badly. The officer who hit him claims Billy attacked him; Billy does not remember the incident. Billy's father Sam, a prominent social activist himself, is determined to have the truth. Welby believes there's a medical explanation, but Sam's advisors accuse him of helping the "white establishment" engineer a cover-up designed to exonerate a bad policeman.

16 :01x16 - Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose

A diabetic youth stops his insulin shots to get even with his father.

17 :01x17 - The Legacy

While celebrating a party in a happy and pleasant ambiance, nurse Consuelo's mother suffers a serious attack. Consuelo doesn't know anything about it, and unknowingly to her daughter, the old lady shows up at the office of Welby's, so that he examines her. Welby understands that the lady has something extremely serious and that it cannot be treated surgically.

18 :01x18 - Dance to No Music

Leo Maslow once believed he'd never get married, but then Abby found him and lured him out of the lab. He told her that he did not want children, and when she pressed him, he secretly went to Marcus Welby to arrange a vasectomy - permanent sterility. It all has to do with how Maslow's grandfather, who rescued him from Europe, died - twitching and drooling, a victim of the rare genetic disorder now called Huntington's Disease. Maslow has noticed twitching in his hand and is convinced he has the same disorder, and he does not wish to leave that awful legacy to his children. But his wife, unaware of this, stopped taking the pill. And now, she is pregnant...

19 :01x19 - Go Get 'Em, Tiger

Dr. Kiley returns the gratitude to his former employer Mr. Chambers by helping him secure a job. Given his background, Mr. Chambers has to prove that a reformed addict is worth hiring in a high school environment.

20 :01x20 - Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey

21 :01x21 - The Other Side of the Chart

22 :01x22 - The Merely Syndrome

23 :01x23 - Sea of Security

24 :01x24 - The Daredevil Gesture

25 :01x25 - Enid

26 :01x26 - The Rebel Doctor

27 :02x01 - A Very Special Sailfish

28 :02x02 - The Worth Of A Man

29 :02x03 - Warn the World About Mike

Packaged carefully in this visit by Dr. Kiley's younger brother is the message — don't let fear of a disease (cancer) delay prompt medical examination. Kiley's brother Mike is a scientist and a cabby kid, full of jokes, but behind the playful facade, the boy is scared stiff by pains in neck and stomach.

30 :02x04 - Epidemic

Dr. Welby gets sick because he has unselfishly given his flu vaccine shot to a wealthy, selfish and cowardly woman (Michele Lee) who still manges to get sick. But even from his sick bed, Welby can do a diagnosis, and what he finds provides a suspenseful climax to this good look at the dedication needed by doctors when there's an epidemic.

31 :02x05 - To Get Through the Night

32 :02x06 - Daisy In the Shadows

33 :02x07 - The Labyrinth

34 :02x08 - The Girl From Rainbow Beach

35 :02x09 - Aura Of A New Tomorrow

The story dramatizes the emotional suffering brought on by an epileptic young man's obsessive concern with concealing his affliction.

36 :02x10 - Sounding Brass

Plight of a deaf youngster whose condition has been neglected by an unenlightened mother and aggravated by by a bad-tempered father, both of whom think their child is retarded.

37 :02x11 - To Carry the Sun In A Golden Cup

38 :02x12 - All the Golden Dandelions Are Gone

39 :02x13 - Brave On A Mountain Top

40 :02x14 - Another Buckle For Wesley Hill

41 :02x15 - False Spring

42 :02x16 - The Passing Of Torches

43 :02x17 - A Woman's Place

44 :02x18 - A Spanish Saying I Made Up

45 :02x19 - Cynthia

46 :02x20 - Don't Kid A Kidder

47 :02x21 - Elegy For A Mad Dog

48 :02x22 - The Contract

49 :02x23 - The Windfall

50 :02x24 - The House of Alquist

51 :03x01 - The Tender Comrade

This episode is a serious and helpful study of a touchy subject: a mastectomy. Diana Muldaur is the woman with breast cancer and Pernell Roberts is the man she is about to marry, in a story that probes their deeply rooted psychological reactions to the tragedy.

52 :03x02 - A Portrait of Debbie

53 :03x03 - In My Father's House

54 :03x04 - I Can Hardly Tell You Apart

55 :03x05 - This Is Max

56 :03x06 - Men Who Care (1)

57 :03x07 - Ask Me Again Tomorrow

58 :03x08 - Don't Phase Me Out

59 :03x09 - Echo From Another World

60 :03x10 - The Best Is Yet To Be

61 :03x11 - A Yellow Bird

62 :03x12 - They Grow Up

63 :03x13 - Of Magic Shadow Shapes

64 :03x14 - Cross-Match

65 :03x15 - Basic Moment (1)

66 :03x16 - Basic Moment (2)

67 :03x17 - All the Pretty People

68 :03x18 - I'm Really Trying

69 :03x19 - Is It So Soon That I Am Done For - I Wonder What I Was Begun For?

70 :03x20 - Just a Little Courage

71 :03x21 - Don't Talk About Darkness

72 :03x22 - Once There Was a Bantu Prince

Because she is the victim of sickle cell anemia, a black social worker finds resistance to her desire to adopt a boy with the same disease.

73 :03x23 - A Taste of Salt

74 :03x24 - Solomon's Choice

Dr. Welby's unwed niece faces two vital decisions affecting her expected baby.

75 :04x01 - A Fragile Possession

After a brush with death following an abortion which leaves her unable to bear children, a young girl comes to the realization that she must guide her own life.

76 :04x02 - Love Is When They Say They Need You

77 :04x03 - We'll Walk Out of Here Together

78 :04x04 - In Sickness and In Health

79 :04x05 - House of Mirrors

80 :04x06 - He Could Sell Iceboxes To Eskimos

81 :04x07 - The Wednesday Game

82 :04x08 - Don and Denise

83 :04x09 - Please Don't Send Flowers

84 :04x10 - With a Shout, Not a Whimper

85 :04x11 - Jason Be Nimble, Jason Be Quick

86 :04x12 - Unto the Next Generation

87 :04x13 - Heartbeat For Yesterday

88 :04x14 - Dinner of Herbs

89 :04x15 - A More Exciting Case

90 :04x16 - A Necessary End

91 :04x17 - Who Are You Arthur Kolinski?

92 :04x18 - Gemini Descending

93 :04x19 - The Problem With Charlie

94 :04x20 - Catch A Ring That Isn't There

95 :04x21 - The Working Heart

96 :04x22 - The Other Martin Loring

97 :04x23 - The Day After Forever

98 :04x24 - The Tortoise Dance

99 :05x01 - The Panic Path

100 :05x02 - A Joyful Song

101 :05x03 - For Services Rendered

102 :05x04 - Blood Kin

Sonny Bono, once half of the Sonny & Cher team, tries his hand at dramatic acting. He plays an Italian father whose daughter requires surgery for a rare affliction peculiar to Italians, Colley's Anemia. He doesn't want her to undergo surgery, fearing she is frail and might not survive.

103 :05x05 - The Light at the Threshold

Guest star Carol Lawrence, as the mother of a teen-age girl whose severe diabetic condition necessitates an operation to save her eyesight, reacts emotionally after hearing the sad news from Dr. Welby (Robert Young.)

104 :05x06 - A Question of Fault

105 :05x07 - Friends in High Places

106 :05x08 - The Endless Moment

107 :05x09 - The Tall Tree

108 :05x10 - The Circles of Shame

109 :05x11 - Nguyen

110 :05x12 - A Cry in the Night

111 :05x13 - Death Is Only a Side Effect

112 :05x14 - The Comeback

113 :05x15 - A Full Life

114 :05x16 - No Charity For the MacAllisters

115 :05x17 - Each Day A Miracle

116 :05x18 - The Fear of Silence

117 :05x19 - Angela's Nightmare

118 :05x20 - The Mugging

119 :05x21 - The Latch-Key Child

120 :05x22 - Out of Control

121 :05x23 - I've Promised You a Father (1)

122 :05x24 - I've Promised You a Father (2)

123 :05x25 - Designs

124 :06x01 - The Brittle Warrior

125 :06x02 - The Faith of Childish Things

Dr. Welby fights to save a diabetic mother-to-be.

126 :06x03 - Last Flight to Babylon

127 :06x04 - To Father a Child

128 :06x05 - The Outrage

129 :06x06 - The Fatal Challenge

130 :06x07 - A Fevered Angel

131 :06x08 - Feedback

132 :06x09 - No Gods in Sight

133 :06x10 - Hell Is Upstairs

134 :06x11 - The Last Rip-Off

135 :06x12 - Child of Silence

A young girl who nearly drowned is taken to Dr. Welby, who discovers that she has no medical service. The girl is deaf but her mother refuses to let her be operated. Doctor Welby tries to convince the mother but she argues that she doesn't trust medics.

136 :06x13 - The 266 Days

137 :06x14 - The Resident

138 :06x15 - Dark Fury (1)

139 :06x16 - Dark Fury (2)

140 :06x17 - Public Streets

141 :06x18 - The Time Bomb

142 :06x19 - Four-Plus Hot

143 :06x20 - Jake's Okay

A teenaged boy with minimal brain damage that has gone undetected does poorly at school in relationship with people.

144 :06x21 - Save the Last Dance For Me

Two women who fear they may have developed breast cancer have widely different reactions to the threat.

145 :06x22 - The Unindicted Wife

146 :06x23 - Dark Corridors

147 :06x24 - Loser in a Dead Heat

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair

148 :07x01 - Tomorrow May Never Come

Dr. Kiley realizes he has feelings for Janet Blake, the new hospital director. However, Janet faces tragedy when she is thrown from her horse and rendered paralyzed.

149 :07x02 - The Fruitfulness of Mrs Steffie Rhodes

Following her tragic accident, Janet has a difficult time coping with the aftermath, but is called to help deliver quintuplets. Janet Blake (Pamela Hensley), the new hand on the scene this season, gets a workout in this episode. When the word gets around that the birth of quintuplets is expected at Lang Hospital, she is besieged for information by the news media. And in the wings stands lovesick Dr. Kiley.

150 :07x03 - The Lie

A patient appears to have a recurrence of skin cancer. Eric Brandon, a new patient and longtime friend of Janet Blake, fails to reveal to Dr. Welby that he recently suffered a mild stroke which jeopardizes his life when major surgery is required.

151 :07x04 - The Covenant

Janet can't help but feel responsible when Dr. Welby is the main target in a malpractice lawsuit.

152 :07x05 - The Double Edged Razor

When his sister has to undergo surgery in order to save her life, a young man debates leaving law school in order to help pay the medical bills.

153 :07x06 - To Live Another Day

The parents of a sick child have difficulty keeping their marriage together when the child continues to have setbacks during the recovery process.

154 :07x07 - An End and a Beginning

Kiley and Janet ruin her mother's wedding plans she made for the two of them when they decide to suddenly get married instead of wait. Dr. Welby's elation over the imminent marriage of Dr. Kiley and Janet Blake is paralleled with concern over an autistic youth whose troubled mother is reluctant to submit him to proper medical care.

155 :07x08 - The Tidal Wave

A violent patient, not responding to medication, focuses his violent bursts on his wife. In order to control his temper, Welby and Kiley debate using a controversial brain surgery.

156 :07x09 - The Strange Behaviour of Paul Kelland

Dr. Welby must figure out why a husband is against hospitalizing his ill wife.

157 :07x10 - Calculated Risk

Dr. Welby's son-in-law returns from South America, but Welby soon notices signs of heart disease.

158 :07x11 - Killer of Dreams

A young couple dreams of a picture-perfect wedding, but their dreams come crashing down around them due to a recurring illness. Plans for a forthcoming marriage of a young couple are abruptly halted when Dr. Welby is forced to return the woman to a life giving machine which also affects her fiance's feelings for her.

159 :07x12 - The Medea Factor

After being placed in foster care, a young boy refuses to speak, and the foster parents ask Welby and Kiley to find out why he will no longer talk.

160 :07x13 - The One Face in the World

When her father is diagnosed with leukemia, a young doctor tries to convince Welby to include her in his medical care. Doctor Welby runs into a touchy situation when a woman doctor flouts an unwritten law of the medical profession that physicians should not treat members of their own families, by becoming involved in the treatment of her father, a leukemia victim.

161 :07x14 - Go Ahead and Cry

Consuelo learns she must undergo a major surgery all while considering a marriage proposal.

162 :07x15 - Strike II

A former rookie of the year baseball player battling alcoholism and his wife are hired as the new physical education directors at the center.

163 :07x16 - How Do You Know What Hurts Me?

A showgirl collapses after a performance, and fails to tell the doctors that she has had silicone injections.

164 :07x17 - Prisoner of the Island Cell (1)

Dr. Welby is convinced that a fellow doctor has been wrongly convicted of rape.

165 :07x18 - Prisoner of the Island Cell (2)

Dr. Welby's colleague is forced to quit practicing medicine following a rape accusation. However, Welby is convinced that the claim is false.

166 :07x19 - The Highest Mountain

Dr. Kiley studies to be a brain surgeon; Dr. Welby visits Sandy and Phil.

167 :07x20 - To Trump An Ace

A patient chooses to postpone tests for asthma due to fears of losing his pilot's license.

168 :07x21 - All Passions Spent

Kiley's former roommate accuses him of making a move on his wife.

169 :07x22 - Vanity Case (1)

Sandy and Paul become engaged while Paul's ex-wife undergoes tests on her vision.

170 :07x23 - Vanity Case (2)

Sandy and Paul become engaged while Paul's ex-wife undergoes tests on her vision.