An aspiring football star (O.J. Simpson) refuses treatment that may harm his career.
Young doctor Joe Gannon (Chad Everett) believes a child patient is the victim of a beating and has a run-in with the kid's father, Robert Lansing. In this series Gannon plays the fighter teeing off at those who interfere before the climactic scenes in surgery.
A wounded college senior who has been under the influence of drugs staggers through the hospital's emergency entrance. There's lots going on in this case history about a college student with a bullet in his neck. Not only is there a drug angle and possible facial paralysis, but father rejection and a job offer from a friendly patient too.
Guest star Barbara Rush portrays Nora Caldwell, a famed author's wife, who learns that her first pregnancy may be endangered by her heart condition.
Lily Wu, an injured Vietnamese girl, is brought to the United States for treatment, then resists it.
Tim Considine stars as a college student whose admission to the hospital for treatment of an internal ailment results in the discovery that he is a drug addict.
The teenage daughter of a university professor suffers a kidney injury in an auto accident. .Thousands of miles separates 19 - year - old Jenny Webb from those she needs most. Jenny has a hermorrhaging kidney and a baby on the way, but her father feels only outrage, and her boy friend doesn't dig marriage
Dr. Roger Farrell takes over as hospital chief of surgery and immediately overrules Joe Gannon's opinion concerning one of his patients.
A student's attack on a psychology professor. Our fighting doc, Joe Gannon, becomes convinced physical problems are the cause of young Sorenson's outburst against his teacher, but he has to prove it.
Big name guest stars Walter Pidgeon and Viveca Lindfors add a touch of glamor to the hospital atmosphere. Pidgeon plays an ambassador with a bad ticker that requires surgery, but his son (Linden Chiles) opposes any such move. Doc Gannon first tries the reasoning approach with the son, and then brings in outside help in the person of Viveca Lindfors, a great and good friend of the ambassador's.
A two-hankie show. In for a thyroid examination, a rich widow meets a cute Mexican kid whose mother was killed in a crosswalk accident. The widow is running away from involvement, but Doc Gannon brings the two together hoping for a happy ending.
Doc Gannon hasn't had time for nurses this season, but in this episode he extends a helping hand to a student, with a feeling for her trouble. Belinda Montgomery plays a bumbling, well meaning nurse in need of a second chance. Gannon mother-hens the girl and should score points with the ladies on his good behavior.
A behlnd-the-scenes look at interns competing for valuable residency posts. Doc Gannon plays mother hen, and is upset when a talented young lady doctor makes a mistake on a routine case. The lady, it seems, has an intern on her mind, and that ain't good. Patricia Quinn is the lady medic and she's easy to take, mistakes and all.
Gannon gets a mysterious turndown when he asks the mother of a girl needing a kidney transplant to become her daughter's donor. He then discusses the case with the girl's father and begins to unfold tne reasons for the mother's strange attitude.
Dr. Paul Lochner faces one of the most difficult assignments of his career when he must tell his daughter Jennifer that she has a serious arterial condition which may require surgery and possibly delay her planned wedding. Co-star James Daly's daughter Tyne Daly is the guest star.
Fans see another side of hero Doc Gannon in this episode when he puts up a runaway kid in his apartment. Gannon displays sympathy listening to the youngster's complaints, while hunting for an answer to the blackouts suffered by the kid.
Dr. Gannon has a dilemma seldom experienced on "Medical Center." A girl's blindness is brought to his attention after she had been in a motorcycle accident. While treating her injuries he becomes more and more interested in her blindness, which he diagnoses as stemming from a mental rather than physical cause. He can cure her, but he must bring back the shattering event that caused the blindness, and the girl's parents are fearful of the results.
Martin Sheen guest stars as a young minister whose heart condition flares up to jeopardize his chances of maintaining a foundation for parolees.
Marj Bowen is a veteran nurse who faces surgery and the fact that her job, to which she was dedicated, will no longer be possible for her to carry out. Head nurse Marge Bowen dispenses hope as well as pills, especially to a young singer who fears a throat operation.
Medical Center doesn't stray too far from its basic premise for a love story. The girl in Dr. Gannon's life is played by Shelby Grant. She is a tour director the doctor meets while on a Mexican vacation. If you think the main obstacle to their romance is a medical one, you're right.
Doctor Gannon begins to treat his boyhood football idol and is startled to discover that ailing Ollie Wayne (Forrest Tucker) doesn't really seem to care whether or not he is cured. Gannon (Chad Everett) delves into the patient's personal life to find reasons for his peculiar behavior.
Dr. Gannon locks horns with a co- worker when he insists on more tests on a purported cancer cure before using it on a 19-year old patient.
Gannon squares off against angry father Carl Betz. Gannon has a Tartar in Betz who brings Joe before the medical board. With his forceful manner, Betz adds a flash of life to the show and manages to capture sympathy along the way.
One of Doctor Gannon's associates whose son is a strong candidate for the Olympic diving team finds it difficult to believe that the young athlete has a muscular disease which could end chances for the International championships.
This one is an interesting drama about a young resident doctor, a talented black who is denied a research grant. The resident suspects Doc Gannon lacks confidence In him and pressures our hero for the chance to perform a gallstone operation. Gannon gives In and then doubts his decision in the climatic surgery scenes.
This series does its best with good guest performers, and in this episode it's Sharon Farrell's turn to spark the hour. She plays a teaching assistant who wants sterilization, which requires a bit of digging into her background by our own Doc Gannon.
The series opens its second season with a drama about a doctor who has symptons of multiple sclerosis. Just as surgeon George Grizzard is perfecting a new technique, he's stricken with a muscular ailment. The doctor can't hide his crippling condition from his pretty wife Eli zabeth Ashley, and she bares all to hero Joe Gannon.
Guest star Paul Burke plays a dedicated research scientist whose vital work on a new drug is threatened when he receives anonymous letters.
Gannon tries to save a 16-year-old girl from heroin addiction. His efforts are continually frustrated by her father, a professor who refuses to acknowledge the problem
Bradford Dillman guests as a methodical police inspector who is accumulating evidence that points to Gannon's protege, resident Carl Webson, as the psychopath responsible for the murder of a young woman.
Vera Miles guest stars as an unbending woman doctor who clashes with Dr. Gannon after a coed's death from a bungled abortion.
Maverick director of a ghetto clinic goes against the rules by shielding a stabbing victim and a young drug addict. William Devane gives a good performance as a doctor who runs a ghetto clinic but runs it by his own rules and even tosses out an inspector sent by the Center which supplies his funds.
Dr. Gannon recommends treatment for Jenny, an abnormally active little girl. What do you do with a gifted child? Doc Gannon believes in a school for exceptional youngsters, and since he's the godfather of the child, he pushes a bit. Gannon's adversary is Mom, who takes an opposing position, and the friction between the two sparks the hour.
Dr. Eric Canford, a brilliant surgeon, comes back from war service with a dinking problem but refuses to admit it is affecting his work.
Witchcraft show kind of spooky and entertaining. Doc Gannon investigates a lady's deals in potions and amulets while treating patients. Guest star Dana Wynter plays a campus witchcraft leader. Modern medicine clashes with black magic as Gannon tries to save a girl afflicted with Addison's disease—and a belief in the all pervading, healing powers of Satan.
Doc Gannon demonstrates his noble side for the ladies, protecting Sandra Polk, a patient, when her husband becomes jealous. Suspicious Barry Sullivan flares up over his wife's appointments with Gannon while Joe, of course, remains simon pure, merely keeping his patient's illness from her husband at her request.
As it must to all TV heroes, blindness comes to Dr. Gannon on Medical Center. He's been in a car wreck, caused by bad brakes which, we soon learn, had been tampered with. It's not a good time for him, what with that young lady who needs heart surgery only he can perform. Frank Converse is the man who is trying to kill Gannon (and his motivation, when we finally learn it, is weak) and George Chakiris is a surgeon who may have to take over and operate in Gannon's greens — if he can learn the technique.
More complications for Dr. Joe Gannon (Chad Everett), as a coed, suffering from a possible brain tumor, claims he fathered her unborn child. Of course, he's innocent, but the question is, would surgery endanger her pregnancy.
Roddy McDowall plays a lawyer and Keenan Wynn a cop in a drama that has Gannon accused of shielding an injured cop who allegedly shot a student without provocation.
Gary Lockwood returns to Medical Center as a brash and unconventional long-haired surgeon who becomes the target of his conventional peers. Stefanie Powers, back from Mexico with a gangrenous leg, is treated by Gary Lockwood, a young doctor who looks more like a hippie. His unorthodox appearance alienates the girl's father (Dana Elcar) and stiff-necked doctor (Andrew Duggan). But Chad Everett is in his corner. Important in this story is a new type of pressure chamber, for treating gangrene. They built it on the set, with a technical advisor looking over their shoulders to make sure it was accurate.
This episode focuses on Geoffrey Duel (Pete Duel's younger brother) as a young Indian caught between the old ways and his yearning to become a doctor. It's a serious attempt to present the problems of the Indian, although you may feel that a supposedly educated man like the head of a special training program at the hospital, would be less prejudiced. Eduard Franz plays Duel's seriously ill grandfather and Dan Traventy is a doctor who works on the reservation.
Jack Carter plays a man who once aspired to be a comic, but is now happy just entertaining the patients. He becomes involved with Joan Van Ark who attempted suicide but insists she fell -not stepped- out that window.
A fugitive (William Windom) with a rare blood type is the only one who can save his son.
A doctor's (Steve Lawrence) ambition risks his father's life. Singer Steve Lawrenceexperiments with drama, playing Dr. Sam Havers, an ambitious medic — too ambitious In the eyes of Dr. Joe Gannon. Dr. Joe plays observer, watching Havers as he neglects his patients, Including his own father, in favor of bigger things.
Gannon must expose his former idol (Forrest Tucker) as a quack. A successful country doctor with no formal medical training lives in fear of being discovered.
An artificially inseminated wife's (Stefanie Powers) heart condition may warrant an abortion. The story of a young woman with a heart ailment who defies Dr. Joe Gannon's warning against having a child and becomes pregnant.
An evangelist's (Pamela Payton-Wright) husband and faith oppose her needed surgery.
An ill surgeon (Barry Sullivan) resists retirement.
An impotent husband saves his marriage by confronting his rich father-in-law.
A paralyzed man's mentally impaired brother (Michael Douglas) and fearful fiancee learn they can help him.
A chronic invalid believes refusing a cure will protect her son.
Gannon defends a doctor accused of a sex offense.
Financial pressure drives a medical student (Susan Strasberg) to prostitution.
A quack doctor (George Maharis) romances and endangers a seriously ill patient.
Prospective parents have second thoughts about adopting a child who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
A young woman undergoes heart surgery after waiting for eleven years. Her father, a prominent senator, is in campaign and gets angry because he wasn't told about the operation. Then the woman must be intervened a second time and Gannon calls her parents for the permission.
Kyle, a deaf teenager, is injured and taken to the Medical Center. There Dr. Gannon becomes convinced that Kyle's deafness is hysterical in nature.
A 42-year-old intern's life has been marked with tragedy and now he is falling in love with a critically ill patient.
Story about a brilliant young doctor whose spells of fatigue are hampering her work with two seriously ill patients.
The middle-aged husband of a beautiful young bride refuses to submit to life-saving surgery because it may leave him impotent.
Dom Deluise guests on this episode. He plays an ambitious ventriloquist, managed by his 14-year-old nephew. It becomes a heart-tugger when the boy becomes sick and requires heart surgery. Because of it, Dom is removed by the courts as the boy's legal guardian.
Will Geer, is guest-starred. He plays an anthropologist whose pretty young assistant is hosptalized with a mysterious illness. It could be a voodoo curse, although Dr. Gannon is skeptical.
The life of a surgeon crumbles down when he discovers his wife moonlights as a porno actress.
David, a faith healer, convinces Paula, his wife, to leave the hospital because he assures her there's another way to cure her cancer.
A famed politician's wife enters Medical Center under an assumed name and asks Dr. Gannon not to tell her husband.
Conclusion of the two-parter, with Gannon having to make a decision that will bring about a colleague's desires to have a transsexual operation.
Losing his confidence, Dr. Gannon returns to the scenes of his childhood and probes deeply and painfully Into his past.
Dr. Joe Gannon is faced with the dilemma of blindly trusting a colleague or taking the word of a dying man that a staff doctor was involved to a shameful incident.
Pete Rashid, the son of a wealthy Arab ruler takes parental interest in a fatherless Jewish boy and a romantic interest in the boy's mother. The boy needs an expensive kidney operation, and his mother, Esther, struggles to support herself and the boy and pay for his medical care by running a kosher deli.
An old romance is rekindled for Dr. Lochner when a celebrated opera star checks in at the hospital.
Ralph Bellamy guest stars in one of those emotional, penetrating stories about a once-great surgeon who refuses to accept the fact that old age has seriously diluted his effectiveness at the operating table. Dr. Gannon faces the disturbing realization that he must virtually send the doctor into retirement involuntarily in order to keep him from performing critical surgery on his own granddaughter.
Three doctors try to operate a community hospital in a tough ghetto district.