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- A story of two women diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. One is a seemingly childlike and overprotected young woman about to give birth to her first child. The other is a celebrated, award-winning political correspondent known as a champion of the underdog. How they both deal with their diagnosis may come as a surprise.
- A female surfer almost drowns when she falls off her board on a wave. She is diagnosed with petit mal seizures, which will necessitate that she give up surfing. But she feels this is like giving up her life's passion. Kildare is involved in her case, as well as that of the alcoholic young wife of a major hospital benefactor.
- A private hospital refuses to admit a little girl in respiratory distress because her mother can't pay and doesn't have insurance. The girl is rushed to Blair, where she dies. After Kildare is overheard saying she might have been saved if not for being refused admittance there, the administrator of the private hospital takes Kildare to court for libel.
- An egotistical former movie idol is admitted to Blair, and tests can find no reason for her apparent inability to walk. Kildare hopes to determine the problem, and also to encourage the actress to see another patient of his, a girl with terminal cancer who idolizes her. But in pursuing both matters Kildare butts heads with the actress's personal physician.
- Kildare finds that the spouses of five patients who are candidates for the new kidney dialysis treatment are having a more difficult time than the patients themselves. As is Nurse Fain, whose husband is also suffering from kidney disease but is too old for consideration.
- Kildare learns that a brilliant youth, self-educated in medical books but not accredited, has been using Blair prescription forms to forge prescriptions for the inner-city doctor he's been assisting.
- Steve Perrona becomes angry with Kildare after he learns about the new kidney treatment; Morrison leaves the hospital without permission.
- An ex-football player turned surgeon is desperate to overcome the signs and pain of severe arthritis, which would end his surgical career, so he decides to try a medicine which has not been approved by the FDA.
- A newly married friend of Kildare's, diagnosed with breast cancer, refuses to undergo a mastectomy lest she be disfigured.
- Kildare is concerned by a number of careless professional mistakes veteran doctor Harvey Gruboldt has made lately, but Gruboldt accuses Kildare of trying to undermine him, and even becomes defensive when Gillespie calls him out for the mistakes, including those involving a mother and daughter Gruboldt has long been friends with.
- Kildare is assigned to intern under Dr. Nicholas Keefe, a brilliant, highly driven, and extremely thorough resident who is admired for his skill, but not for his belligerent and inflexible intolerance of any imperfections from interns and staff. It is due to this difficulty that Gillespie turns down Keefe's application for the position of chief resident.
- Yvette Mimieux as Pat Holmes cannot let her seizures keep her from surfing. She returns to the ocean. Dr. Kildare follows her to stop her, but he is too late. She suffers a seizure while surfing and drowns.
- Realizing he is terminally ill, a man becomes concerned about the future of his mentally disabled brother, whom he has been caring for alone.
- Kildare finds it necessary to call out intern Louis Miller for incompetent acts on several occasions. After Miller's wife is hospitalized with Kildare as her physician, Miller in turn accuses Kildare of using the occasion to begin a relationship with her.
- The four patients chosen begin the new treatment, while those not chosen have to deal with the rejection. Conclusion of seven-part story.
- The hospital administrator, already unpopular with much of the staff, makes things worse by firing an employee he suspects of stealing equipment. Meanwhile, his marriage is also on the rocks as his neglected wife increasingly turns to drinking.
- Gillespie finds himself falling for the new director of nursing, who is stirring up the entire hospital with the numerous changes she is making with both equipment and personnel.
- A doctor has been working to perfect a heart/lung machine, and plans to use it on his seriously ill wife as soon as he believes the time is right. But her condition is rapidly deteriorating, and she needs surgery now and can't wait for him to perfect his machine. He also believes he's the only one who can use it on her, though Kildare has studied it under him and Gillespie prefers that Kildare be the one to use it during the operation.
- Once a big baseball star, Charles Bishop must now face up to the knowledge that his career is ending.
- 1961–196630m8.5 (28)TV EpisodeA hospitalized doctor learns that his wife is pregnant, and searches to find someone to take over his practice.
- After his beloved young granddaughter dies during a routine tonsillectomy, an elderly man, upset by what he perceives as the hospital staff's lack of concern, decides to take action by planting a bomb in Gillespie's office.
- The reaction of Lily Prentice to her husband's death causes surprise.
- Kildare considers transferring to research after a close friend dies of leukemia, and after meeting a 14-year-old girl who is believed to also have the disease. But Kildare is not certain of her diagnosis, putting him at odds with the efficient but seemingly impersonal researcher who is working on the girl's case.
- Dr. Paul Probeck, a recovering alcoholic himself, decides to start an alcohol rehabilitation program at Blair, with Kildare as one of his assistants. However, one of the men they are treating is highly uncooperative and doesn't even give his name. After talking to him Probeck starts to wonder if he may be the son he has never met.
- A young diabetic has become neglectful in taking his medicine, mostly because of his difficulty in adjusting to his parents' divorce, and their continual arguments over him are not helping.
- Kildare puts two women together as roommates in Blair: a highly maternal elderly woman and a young commercial artist diagnosed with a debilitating illness. But the two do not get along well due to their different outlooks. The younger woman does however fall for the older woman's son, which displeases his mother.
- Veteran nurse Jenny Freesmith, newly returning to duty after successfully battling morphine addiction, recognizes all the signs in younger nurse Cathy Benjamin and tries to get her to also overcome it. When Cathy steals morphine from the hospital supply room, Jenny plans to take her for cold-turkey withdrawal.
- Kildare learns that Morrison's wife has become an alcoholic, a fact he may have to report to the committee deciding who gets the treatment. Anna tells her husband she knows the truth about her condition.
- On his first day as a resident Kildare struggles with the question of whether to tell a patient---and the patient's wife, an old school friend---that he has been diagnosed with leukemia.
- A woman who just lost her husband after a long illness wants to volunteer at Blair to help severely ill patients. She decides to try to give a terminally ill young boy a day of happiness. But she violates procedure in order to do so, not getting true consent from the boy's emotionally distant young stepmother.
- After suffering a heart attack, the hard-driving president of a major corporation still refuses to put his health ahead of his business. After a second attack, immediate surgery is indicated, sending the business world into a frenzy and putting pressure on his executive vice-president as well.
- Kildare catches a patient/doctor snooping on the interns and incurs the wrath of Dr. Carl Noyes.
- After a patient dies unexpectedly, Frankie decides to drop out of training, but Kildare does not accept it. Conclusion of six part story.
- Dr. Gillespie runs for re-election as chief of staff for Blair Hospital but he is not sure to win so easily. An ambitious resident has talked a surgeon, who disagrees with Gillespie's conservative approach, into running against him.
- A man suffers a heart attack after coming to see his blind daughter, whom he abandoned when she was a child in order to live a vagabond life. The daughter refuses to forgive him and will not accept his offer of help, nor will she take a chance on surgery to restore her sight, because she has been disappointed by past operations that failed.
- Kildare is puzzled as to why a highly regarded doctor, whom Gillespie has recommended for a clinic appointment, is constantly referring his patients to other doctors and specialists, even when the diagnosis should be easy.
- An elderly Polish man is admitted to the hospital with smallpox, and Kildare and Gillespie try to find people he has been in contact with to prevent an epidemic.
- A sensitive young nurse is distressed by the spitefulness of a patient.
- A Japanese-American doctor discovers that his pregnant Japanese-born wife, who he thought was from Tokyo, was actually from Nagasaki and was in that city when the atomic bomb was dropped there at the end of World War II--and that she is dying from radiation-induced leukemia.
- Kildare deals with two third-year medical students working under him. One is brilliant in diagnosis but has a carefree attitude and refuses to in any way sacrifice his personal life for hospital duties. The other, his roommate, is on scholastic probation and is so afraid of failing that he becomes overly tense and often jumps too quickly to incorrect diagnoses.
- When he makes a serious mistake with one of his patients, Dr. Eddie Moore asks Kildare to cover up for him. When Kildare refuses to do so, Moore tries to manipulate a vulnerable young nurse into taking the blame. Meanwhile, the young nurse's strict supervisor, Mrs. Fain, is surprised to find her husband back home after he abandoned her seventeen years earlier.
- A potentially life-saving new treatment is available at Blair General, but only for a small number of people; Kildare and Giollespie must choose from dozens of possible patients. First of seven parts.
- An arrogant actor is unreasonably convinced that he is dying of cancer, when in fact he has cirrhosis but refuses to stop drinking. First of two parts.
- Steve tries to bribe Gillespie into getting Anna accepted for the new treatment; Kirsh's daughter comes to the hospital to visit him; Kleber is behaving irresponsibly after his treatment.
- Kildare becomes involved in the life of a patient of his, a young woman dying of leukemia.
- Kildare is determined to try to help an aphasia patient regain some of his abilities, but this puts him in conflict with the man's discouraged wife, who wants to put him in a nursing home.
- The committee meets to make its final decision on which four of eleven patients will receive the new kidney dialysis treatment, without which their prognosis is terminal.
- As he becomes more closely involved in the personal problems of his three med school protégés, Kildare unwittingly gains the enmity of his teaching assistant.
- After nineteen years, the middle-aged Mrs. Winfield finds she's pregnant. But her doctor husband learns that she might not survive the pregnancy, and then that he is terminally ill himself.
- Devereaux organizes a demonstration protesting Helvick's dismissal, only to find out Helvick lied to him about the real reason for why he was let go. Frankie gets a new patient.
- A famous musician is admitted to Blair Hospital and proves a very difficult patient. First of two parts.
- A surgeon is diagnosed with a progressive paralytic disease, and fears for how it will affect both his career and his relationship with the woman he wants to marry. Meanwhile, Kildare becomes involved in the case of a young girl suffering from severe asthma attacks.
- Yvonne Barlow is seriously ill - but the only doctor she'll listen to is the genial Dr. Orloff - another patient. First of five parts.
- Kildare is assigned to work with the highly frugal, penny-pinching veteran central supply nurse to clean out obsolete equipment. But the nurse doesn't think most of the equipment in the "Elephant's Graveyard", as the downstairs storage area is jokingly called, is obsolete.
- A deaf child is brought into the hospital after accidentally swallowing poison. After his recovery, it is discovered that his deafness is treatable, but his overprotective mother refuses to allow the surgery which could cure him.
- Kildare thinks he's finally diagnosed a dancer's mysterious malady but must persuade her to re-enter Blair Hospital for tests to prove his diagnosis.
- A writer comes to Blair Hospital to do research on her next book, and incurs the resentment of Dr. Kildare, who finds her writing on medical issues overly sentimental. He is unaware that she is suffering from a serious illness herself.
- Gillespie is forced to dismiss Helvick, Hartwood stands up to his wife, Frankie has had it with Krantz's sexism, and Devereaux needs to make a decision about his personal life.
- After several unexplained violent outbursts, one in which he smashes his own lab, a hospital technician fears that he is going insane like his father did years earlier.
- A retired heart surgeon, anxious to feel useful again, is called in as a consultant on a case Kildare is assisting on. Unfortunately, friction develops between him and the younger doctors, and his young grandson, who'd been depending on his grandfather for attention, feels left out.
- Kitty, a nurse from Blair General Hospital, is ready to deliver a baby after suffering several miscarriages in the past. Winona Pine, a woman estranged from her husband, is also giving birth to a baby. When Mrs. Pine states she does not want to keep her newborn, Dr. Kildare gets caught up in a plan to help the baby find a loving home.
- A renowned tropical doctor and his young son are both stricken with a rare fever from an elusive animal. Unfortunately, there is only enough serum available to treat one of them, and Kildare may be the one to decide who gets it.
- Maxwell Keller is admitted to Blair after collapsing from malnutrition at a surgical instrument store. Gillespie recognizes him as a veteran medical researcher who pioneered in attempting to eradicate polio. Keller still does his research now - out of the basement at the apartment he rents. Meanwhile a younger pathologist angers both Gillespie and Kildare by his lack of respect for Keller, and by his actions such as asking another elderly patient for permission to perform his autopsy.
- Kildare and Gillespie face a malpractice suit after a woman unexpectedly dies following a common and usually safe injection.
- A little girl is brought to Blair after being found unconscious on the street. She has no identification and no one comes to identify her. On examination no physical reason can be determined for her apparent comatose state. Kildare begins to suspect that she is suffering from a dissociative reaction to some emotional trauma.
- 350-pound Charlie Wade is unable to lose weight, and Kildare at first attributes it to his unwillingness to take his diet seriously. But after he is admitted to Blair and still fails to lose pounds the doctors find they must reassess their opinion, while the normally jocular Charlie is becoming exceedingly discouraged.
- A friend of Kildare is in a coma after falling and hitting his head. The man's wife, son, and brother struggle with whether to continue treatment at home or in an institution, and even whether or not life is worth living for him anymore.
- Kildare is saddled with the unwelcome task of supervising a musical revue.
- Kildare is assigned to work in a psychiatric ward to help treat severely schizophrenic patients with a new experimental drug. He recognizes one of the patients as a brilliant orthopedist. However, when Kildare tells the man's wife about the promising breakthrough, she is less than enthused, as she has given up hope for his recovery, and thinks the hospital is just using her husband as a guinea pig.
- Kildare stops on a farm road to help a woman and her daughter-in-law, whose car has stalled. The young woman goes into labor and Kildare has to deliver her baby, who is stillborn. Afterward, he is sued for malpractice and decides to fight despite the advice of the hospital attorney that he should settle out of court.
- Holman suffers a relapse, which baffles the doctors; Lydia confesses her feelings toward Holman to Lois, who insists she herself is in love with Kildare.
- Dr. Becker is involved in a serious car accident and finds himself in the care of his opponent, Kildare.
- After Kildare saves the life of a young woman who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on barbiturates, the girl's parents (particularly her father) become so worshiping of him that they put him on a pedestal and talk as if he can do no wrong. Kildare finds it hard to tell them that she is still not out of the woods.
- An eccentric, acerbic author checks himself in at Blair. Despite tests showing him to be in perfect health, he insists that he has a premonition that he is going to die, and refuses to leave the hospital even when it is loaded beyond capacity with victims of an explosion.
- Working with a middle-aged Australian intern from the outback, Kildare is disturbed by the man's disregard for protocol and paperwork---and by his deeply prejudicial attitude toward a patient sent to the hospital from immigration services.
- Dr. Max Jurgens is known to his colleagues as "the Iron Chancellor", but his wife sees a gentler side to him. In fact, she wraps her entire life around him. Now he is terminally ill, and fears for how she is going to handle losing him.
- The wife of a Blair kitchen worker is brought to the hospital after collapsing at her apartment. She refuses to undergo exploratory surgery to discover the extent of a tumor, telling Kildare that she knows she is going to die. Kildare tries to get her husband to convince her to have the surgery, but this only leads to friction as the man and his wife have had increasing difficulty in communicating with each other due to different outlooks on life.
- 1961–196630m7.9 (12)TV EpisodeKildare finds himself in the role of teacher to three difficult third-year medical students. First of six parts.
- Alfred Freely, a cheerful Irishman, comes in to Blair for a check-up, and tells Kildare that he is his long-lost uncle, though Kildare does not really remember him. Because of the man's gift for blarney and cheer, Kildare puts him in a ward regarded as the "jinx ward", due to the fact that several in it have died, and the others need something to lift their spirits. But then Kildare learns that Alfred may be seriously ill himself..
- When Kildare becomes bothered by the lack of concern some people in the big city show for their fellow humans, Gillespie gives him a few days off to travel to his small home town. While there, he discovers that the fiancée of one of his close friends is addicted to heroin.
- After falling over a dressing cart, Kildare injures his back and is forced to spend a few days recuperating in a room with four others who don't mind seeing a doctor becoming a patient for once.
- Pilot Robert Hill is diagnosed as asthmatic by Kildare - a diagnosis which could lose him his job.
- A man has a mental breakdown in an arcade. He checks into Blair Hospital and it turns out he was a general in the war and needs psychological help.
- A highly tenacious yet compassionate nun is determined to continue her social work at the hospital despite having medical issues herself. When finally admitted, she tries to help her roommate, a woman suffering from bone cancer who stubbornly refuses to let doctors amputate her leg and has become bitter toward God because of her situation.
- Kildare feels that a doctor acted too hastily is releasing a man who is showing some vague but troublesome symptoms. When the man dies the next day, his relatives seek a malpractice suit against the hospital.
- After his identical twin dies of cancer, high-flying malpractice attorney Mark Sloan is convinced that he, too, is dying - despite detailed assurances from doctors that he isn't.
- Kildare works under an orthopedist who, while highly skilled and efficient, is also overly perfectionist and demanding with those who work under him. Especially Kildare, whom he starts to suspect of wanting to undermine him.
- Gillespie wants to appoint his widowed friend Dolly Marlowe to fill a vacancy on the Board of Trustees. But Dolly has bigger plans---to get Gillespie to marry her.
- When his young son dies unexpectedly from an embolism after a broken leg, a TV emcee blames Kildare and tries to use his show to attack him and destroy his medical career.
- Due to Holman's still delicate condition and their tendency to argue, his devoted missionary assistant is asked to not visit him until he recovers further. Meanwhile Kildare becomes concerned when he learns that a teenage hospital assistant is dating a much older doctor.
- Kildare is falling deeply for a young intern who is determined to become the first female surgeon from Blair Hospital. Both of them know, however, that plans to marry and start a family would go against her when the hospital board considers her application.
- The animosity between Dr. Noyes and Dr. Orloff reaches a boiling point after Yvonne's overdose. Conclusion of five-part story.
- Kildare and Gillespie are increasingly concerned about the three trainees as well as Kildare's teaching assistant. Hartwood is making too many mistakes, and is dealing with an unsupportive wife. Warren is underconfident, and having a hard time dealing with sexism from patients and doctors. And Devereaux and teaching assistant Helvick are displaying bad attitudes.
- A nurse at Blair, long bitter toward her father, is deeply upset after his death when a funeral home owner talks her mother into spending excessive amounts for his services, with money that will have to come from savings that were to be for her younger brother's education.
- A woman and a little girl are admitted to the hospital and determined to be suffering from botulism poisoning. A dedicated but overly brash and assertive young pediatrician teams with a public health inspector to find the source of the toxin and prevent an epidemic.
- When her son needs a kidney transplant to save his life, a doctor fears that her secret will be discovered: that her husband is not the boy's father, and that the real father will have to be the donor as she has only one functional kidney.
- The cause of Holman's condition is determined, leading him to propose to Lydia; Lois admits her real motives to Kildare. Conclusion of four-part story.
- Still unaware of the seriousness of his daughter Sister Benjamin's condition, pool hustler Joe Quinlen is admitted to Blair due to his heart problem and roomed with a brain-damaged prizefighter.
- A teenage girl suffers a severe eye injury in an auto accident, but she handles it much better than her mother, who refuses to let the doctors tell her that the eye may have to be removed.
- The arrogant Dr. Becker treats his wife cruelly and becomes vindictive when Kildare dares to disagree openly with him. First of four parts.
- A young man is admitted to Blair after being stabbed by a street gang. The youth soon exhibits erratic and unpredictable behavior which indicate he is severely paranoid and schizophrenic. However, his parents, particularly his father, refuse to listen to the recommendation of the doctors that he be admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
- A young woman is brought into Blair after going into a seizure due to an overdose of amphetamines. She is treated by Kildare and Lois Bower, an intern he is dating. The young patient's boyfriend, who brought her in, is belligerent and uncooperative with Kildare and Lois. Later he and his friends follow the two on their date and attack them on the beach, forcing Kildare to watch as Lois is assaulted.
- A pregnant woman is fearful and neurotic about her unborn child - with good reason - she's already had three miscarriages due to Rh factor.
- A feckless would-be songwriter must face up to his responsibilities when his young daughter becomes seriously ill.
- A brilliant doctor who is also a minister turns down Gillespie's offer of a residency at Blair, preferring instead to join his wife as a missionary in South America. But when struck by a tragedy, his faith is shattered and he reacts bitterly toward attempts by others to help.
- A famous doctor, who has made a name for himself working with the poor people of India, comes to Blair for tests due to a suspected neurological disorder, and also to raise more money for his hospital overseas.
- Janitor Joe Hogan refuses to have another operation for the cancer he's been battling for several years, because he feels he has no one to live for. But Kildare learns of one person: a girl in the apartment building Joe worked in, who is now dealing with a highly dysfunctional family life.
- To everyone's surprise, militant atheist Justin Post becomes a believer in God.
- Flying all the way from Nigeria, stubborn anthropologist and author Felix Holman is admitted to Blair suffering from an undetermined pulmonary infection which is proving strangely difficult to treat. First of four parts.
- While Kildare assists in the case of a pregnant woman who shows a lack of enthusiasm and even hostility to the idea of giving birth to her first child, Gillespie is involved in the case of the hospital's original benefactor, who is suffering from a perforated ulcer.
- After his son's arm is paralyzed in an automobile accident, a man adamantly refuses to allow doctors to perform the operation which should restore it to full use. The man's wife unexpectedly died during surgery after another car accident a few years earlier, and he has been overly fearful and distrusting of doctors, hospitals, and surgery ever since.
- Dr. Simon Agurski's older brother has been paying for his medical education, delaying his own career as an accountant, and his marriage, in the process. Upset by this sacrifice, Simon announces he will drop his plans to become a pediatrician and take a job with an insurance firm. He reconsiders, but the conflict with his brother continues to escalate.
- Gillespie's daughter leaves her home in Paris to come to Blair for tests. When she is told she is pregnant, she bitterly and angrily denies it, and tries to jump out a window. A psychiatrist tries to discover the source of her fears.
- Kildare and Gillespie prepare to leave the Eternal City.
- In a lighter episode, Gillespie wins the hospital raffle for a vacation, and goes on a luxury cruise. However, he asks to not be identified as a doctor on the cruise list so that he won't be constantly pestered. But when the ship's doctor learns about his profession anyway, he assumes Gillespie is the spy sent by the ship's owners to investigate his excessive expense account.
- Kildare's rodeo rider cousin Lucky Elcott brings in his son who has been stricken with appendicitis. The boy is fine after surgery, but Kildare then notices symptoms in Lucky which turn out to be from rheumatoid arthritis. He tries to persuade Lucky to quit the rodeo, but is it just for his health, or also because Kildare is embarrassed by his cousin's happy-go-lucky, back-slapping style?
- Several medical students come down with hepatitis. Kildare works with a public health investigator to determine the source, a search which both men find perplexing.
- While in a state of advanced delirium tremens, an alcoholic tells Kildare that it was he who committed the embezzlement for which his former business partner was convicted and sent to prison. He tells Kildare to tell the police after he dies, but then he recovers and says he was hallucinating when he said it. Kildare is in a dilemma as to whether or not to believe him, or to tell the police.
- Kildare's ability to get along with his patients is tested by a difficult alcoholic.
- Kildare believes that a highly respected older doctor is slowing down too much in surgery, and informs Gillespie of this even though the man is one of Gillespie's oldest friends and mentors. Gillespie must make the decision as to whether to suggest to his friend that he should retire.
- A neurologist is accidentally exposed to an excessive amount of radiation, which will cause him to go blind in a matter of weeks, just as his family is hoping for him to go on a vacation, and as one of his patients is desperate for him to perform surgery to correct her symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
- While Kildare is visiting his hometown along with Gillespie, a young mother finds her newborn baby dead in his crib. The longtime coroner quickly rules, without an examination, that the baby suffocated in his blankets, causing the mother to blame herself. Kildare believes that the ruling was premature and that an autopsy should be conducted, causing friction between him, the coroner, and the baby's father.
- Kildare volunteers for work in the jail ward after treating two policemen and the assailant who shot them for bullet wounds. One of the policemen dies, and Kildare discovers that the killer may have a blood disorder, requiring that his trial be delayed until he has undergone tests and treatment, which angers the dead officer's partner.
- A research doctor is worried that he is going to be scooped on a cure for sickle cell anemia. He enlists the aid of two interns. The doctor in his haste to be first fudges the results.
- A popular comedian becomes embittered and hostile to everyone after his leg is amputated due to bone cancer.
- A young woman is admitted to Blair and discovered to be suffering from a subdural hematoma. Fearful of hospitals, she asks to be released, though Kildare tells her she needs to be operated on within days or she will die. Instead of returning to Blair, however, she seeks help from a charlatan who feeds on people's mistrust of the medical profession.
- A popular actress comes to Blair for tests, along with members of her "circle" who try to come between Kildare and his patient.
- A pregnant teenager is admitted to Blair with signs of food poisoning, the result of an apparent attempt to induce abortion. Meanwhile, the father of the baby, getting little help from his bickering parents, struggles with his responsibility. The parents of the girl are also of little help in the situation. This is Part One of a two-part story, the conclusion being shown on the series "The Eleventh Hour".
- The staff at Blair prepares for an influx of accident victims on the holiday weekend, but they are not prepared for one of the victims being one of their own interns, who is critically injured.
- Kildare tries to be of help to an intern from India who, feeling under intense pressure to succeed, is becoming defensive and overworking himself.
- Despite being confined to a wheelchair, Dr. Becker decides to operate on his severely burned patient Charles Shannon, but he still resists reconciling with his long-suffering wife. Conclusion of four-part story.
- Kildare clashes with a patient who refuses necessary surgery for religious reasons.
- A penniless alcoholic, believing himself to be dying, plans one last gesture of defiance against the world.
- A nun, seriously ill, is reunited with her roguish pool-hustler father. First of four parts.
- The anti-Western son of the ruler of an Arab nation is found to be suffering from a brain tumor. Doctors at Blair tell him it must be removed surgically and that they believe they can successfully operate, but the young man asks that a Communist-trained surgeon be called in to do it. When the surgeon arrives and talks to the son, he advises him to not have the surgery---for political reasons.
- A young woman is bitter and cold toward her seriously ill father, until he lapses into an irreversible coma, after which she begs Kildare to do everything possible to keep him alive. This puts Kildare in conflict with the chief resident in charge, who strongly opposes taking extraordinary measures to extend life for hopeless patients.
- In the emergency room, a police detective and a particularly aggressive assistant district attorney try to pressure Kildare into allowing them access to one of his patients, a heart attack victim who has only hours to live. They want her to give a deathbed statement implicating her brother-in-law as an accomplice in a murder, but Kildare refuses, as the patient does not know she is dying. What's more, the man they hope her to implicate is also there with the patient's sister, hoping to pressure her against saying anything.
- Gillespie and Kildare go to Italy for medical research, but there proves to be more to the trip than work.
- Kildare is assigned to assist in plastic surgery, and a friend of his decides to undergo it to reconstruct the oversize nose she's long been self-conscious of. But her personality change after the operation is not nearly as positive as she and her friends thought it would be.
- The rivalry between Kildare and Becker intensifies when the latter attempts suicide.
- 1961–19661h7.1 (11)TV EpisodeWhile an acerbic veteran doctor recuperates from a heart attack, Kildare is assigned to temporarily take over his inner-city clinic. He finds it more difficult than he realized as the patients are reluctant to accept him, and the old doctor keeps trying to get in on the action rather than take time to relax.
- On Christmas Eve, an alcoholic, bitter, cynical department store Santa Claus is admitted to the hospital. The hospital chaplain is shocked to recognize the man as someone he knew in the past, who has let personal tragedies sink him into his current state of despair.
- Kildare is seriously injured in a car accident while on a date with Carol Tredman. The first motorist she flags down is a fellow doctor at Blair, who panics when he sees Kildare and leaves the scene.
- A woman will die unless she receives a kidney from her estranged twin sister, but the sister, a model, is unwilling to undergo the surgery to donate it.
- Despite his condition, Joe Quinlan leaves the hospital to participate in a championship pool tournament. Meanwhile, Gillespie receives news regarding Sister Benjamin. Conclusion of four-part story.
- A college friend of Kildare's has become a prizefighter and is determined to get out of debt by going through with his next fight, despite a duodenal ulcer which could kill him if it perforates.
- Responding to a call at an apartment where an elderly man has collapsed, Kildare discovers the man's teenage daughter living inside. She has not ventured outside the apartment for years and appears to live in a fantasy world. When her father's condition is determined to be terminal, Kildare tries to determine if and how the girl, who is becoming attached to him, could survive in the real world.
- Quinlan risks his health by going down to the recreation room to play pool with another patient, which disturbs the nurses, as well as his disapproving sister.
- Hard-living executive Franklin Gaer seems likely to develop a serious heart condition if he doesn't moderate his excessive lifestyle.
- Kildare and a young intern assist in the field treating victims of a major forest fire. The intern, however, finds himself having a difficult time dealing directly with the victims in life-and-death situations. (Episode broadcast in color as part of network's special color week).
- A down-and-out, alcoholic poet is found to be suffering from advanced cirrhosis. Unfortunately, his devoted girlfriend has taken to drink as well, and Kildare hopes he can still save her from the poet's fate.
- Kildare suspects that the naive Vincent Doyle is being tricked into matrimony with a young woman who's boyfriend just died, and who has not told her parents that she is pregnant with his baby.
- 1961–19661h6.8 (17)TV EpisodeSeveral doctors have failed to diagnose the mystery ailment that afflicts Joan Cartwright - will Dr. Kildare be more successful?
- To patch up a disagreement he had with another doctor, Kildare attends a party at the doctor's home. One of the guests is the daughter of a wealthy patient of the doctor's, and she and Kildare find themselves falling in love. But can the relationship really work out?
- In Rome, Kildare falls in love with a beautiful Italian girl whilst Gillespie renews his acquaintance with a woman he knew during the war.
- After observing that a woman has been been physically abusing her young daughter, Kildare wants to get involved in the case and report her for it. But this puts him in conflict with the nun who's been assigned to the family's welfare, who hopes to do everything in her power to keep the girl's family together if possible.
- A young woman is injured in a car accident in which her boyfriend is killed. Upon examination it is discovered that she is pregnant and terminally ill. The girl doesn't want her mother to know about the pregnancy, and the mother does not want her daughter to know about her prognosis. First of two parts.
- A wealthy industrialist in Blair for tests gets a lot of talk and attention from staff, and particularly from a nurse who's hoping to land a rich husband.
- Oliver Blair, grandson of the hospital's founder, tries to get his elderly relatives declared incompetent.
- Kildare finds himself in an ethical dilemma after a severely burned auto accident victim tells him about the medicine he had taken before the crash, information which will likely go against his wife's case when she takes the other driver to court.
- Conclusion. Rachel tells Kildare that she wants to stop her treatments, even though that will mean the death of her baby as well as herself, because she thinks the baby will have no hope of a good life.
- In an episode with a comedic touch, an overly persuasive Good Samaritan brings an injured sheepdog into Blair and through her charms persuades Kildare and another doctor to work on him, and a Texas oil millionaire who is brought in insists on anonymity and poses as a nameless vagrant.
- Militant atheist Justin Post has had a bad heart attack; it is suggested that this might be "divine retribution".
- A widowed cab driver has a serious heart condition, and Kildare advises him to quit his job. But the man refuses to quit out of fear for the future of his two daughters, one of whom he is estranged from due to his disapproval of her lifestyle.
- An old seaman, hospitalized for a heart attack, claims to be able to stop his heart at will through yoga, and says he will do it before the day his insurance runs out so that his money will go to his beneficiary - an old ship that hasn't left port in years. Thinking he feels useless, Kildare and the staff hope to find him another job before that date arrives, if they can get him interested.
- It begins to look as if Kildare's forthcoming marriage to Carol Tredman might not happen after all, as he finds out a few surprising things about her.
- Working at a camp for diabetic children, Kildare befriends a talented 15-year-old girl who is bitter about her condition and having difficulty adjusting to it. But to her mind the relationship is becoming more than just a friendship
- Dr. Gillespie subtly promotes a romance between his widowed niece and a young doctor.
- An inner city doctor, arriving at the scene of a riot, finds that his younger brother is one of the injured. First of four parts.
- Kildare must deal with a playboy author who attempts suicide and a woman about to give birth to a baby her hubby doesn't want. First of four parts.
- Graham Lanier, a new patient, is a mystery man - whose resemblance to Dr. Gillespie does not go unnoticed.
- A nurse (Diane Varsi) must decide whether to risk surgery for her heart condition.
- Jerry refuses to move back with his brother and sister, preferring to stay with the elderly storekeeper he idolizes; Kildare and Dr. Lou Rush search for the source of the infection.
- Conclusion. Bannion is severely injured in a fight at a bar, but still shows no sign of facing up to his condition.
- Conclusion. Dr. Martel and the irascible Foray finally become reconciled to each other, just as the secret Martel has been hiding comes to light.
- Kildare tells Dr. Lou Rush that a possible epidemic may be spreading in his neighborhood; Rush's sister wants her brother to quit his neighborhood practice and take a residency at Blair so they can move to a better area.
- Kildare suspects the worse when he learns that Nurse Lawton is paying a visit to the apartment of a playboy author; Gillespie tells Kildare he plans to resign his position due to his heart attack.
- Dr. Kildare becomes involved in a debate over the ethics of abortion. First of four parts.
- Justin Post appears on Webb's show to proclaim his conversion, despite the risk to his heart. Conclusion of six-part story.
- Dr. Brill elects to leave Blair Hospital and move to a small town.
- Kildare thinks he's come up with a solution to the problems of a couple who are expecting their first child, and, at the same time, to Gillespie's plan to resign; Zoe and Damon West both come to realize the truth about each other and their feelings.
- Conclusion. Richard Ross is determined to show his father his new car, despite Kildare's insistence that the dying old man cannot leave his bed; Zoe wants to leave Blair, but Kildare and Gillespie are determined to talk her out of it.
- Dr. Kildare pays a call on the Reverend Elder. Conclusion of four-part story.
- Gillespie is hospitalized after a heart attack; Kildare is worried about Nurse Lawton's growing attraction to a hospitalized author with a reputation as a playboy.
- Dr. Brill is suspected by police of performing an illegal abortion, which causes trouble for Kildare and the hospital.
- A movie actor comes to visit his old immigrant father.
- An outspoken atheist is admitted to Blair Hospital at the same time as an evangelist. First of six parts.
- Is the religious conversion of former atheist Justin Post genuine, or is he simply afraid of dying?
- Justin Post plans to leave the hospital to appear on Reverend Webb's television show and testify to his conversion, despite the danger to his health. Kildare plans to stop him, even by declaring him mentally damaged, until he talks to another patient who has had his faith restored by Post.
- Kildare and Dr. Rush discover the source of the poisoning. They also look for Jerry, who has run from them fearing they will turn him over to the police, which is also what Jerry's gang fears he will do to them.
- Right before she's scheduled to undergo heart surgery, a nurse learns that her husband, reported MIA in Vietnam, is alive and returning home.
- In this pilot, an older and more experienced Kildare has assumed the role of mentor after the passing of Dr. Gillespie. Kildare and his intern, Dr. Grayson have a patient needing brain surgery after a head injury. The wife tells Kildare that the patient's friend had been paralyzed after such a surgery and that he made her promise not to consent. A young nurse trainee gets emotionally involved, making her wonder if she will be effective as a nurse. When the patient revives from the morphine, Kildare convinces him to consent to surgery. The anesthesiologist informs Kildare and his intern, Dr. Grayson, that the patient's breathing is too shallow to perform the surgery. Kildare realizes that the problem may have come from inhalation exposure and tries to find out what the patient has done in the past. The patient manages to communicate that he previously worked in a factory where fluorescent light bulbs were made, and Kildare diagnoses beryllium poisoning. Meanwhile, Kildare's intern is wanting to leave Blair and take what appears to be a lucrative practice. Kildare, in an effort to keep the intern at Blair, intervenes to get another departing intern the job. The surgery is a success, with both the intern and the nurse having learned something about themselves from the experience.