Thu, Jan 10, 1963
Student nurse Terry Collins finds herself in a quandary when a patient deliriously confesses to committing a crime for which a young Puerto Rican immigrant has been arrested. Terry is reluctant to reveal the confession to the police as she fears her own deliberately concealed Puerto Rican heritage would be exposed.
Thu, Jan 17, 1963
Nurse Thorpe's sympathies lie with the family of patient Parnell Sullivan a hardworking fisherman rushed to Alden General following a heart attack in the Atlantic. Sullivan's wife Mary decides to bring their children to New York during her husband's hospitalization, and Thorpe incurs the wrath of the nurses's quarters superintendent Mr. Durkin when she gives the Sullivan family a place to lodge.
Thu, Jan 24, 1963
Gail becomes friendly with easygoing patient Norman Ruskin who's hospitalized for minor surgery. Things take a dark turn when Ruskin is revealed to be mentally ill and forces himself on Gail. Although the staff are skeptical and the hospital doesn't want publicity, Gail decides to press charges.
Thu, Feb 7, 1963
Nurse Thorpe's elderly former mentor Nurse Charlotte Pope is admitted to Alden General, bringing three generations of nurses to the ward. As Nurse Thorpe cares for Charlotte, Gail becomes involved with a downtrodden patient who thinks his family would be better off if he committed suicide.
Thu, Feb 21, 1963
Gail's ballet performance in the student nurses' annual talent show becomes a huge hit with her colleagues, so much so that she decides to apply for a position with ballerina mistress Madame Orlova. Once accepted, Gail finds herself unable to cope with the rigorous training of two professions and must choose between them.
Thu, Mar 7, 1963
While vacationing Nurse Thorpe meets Ernie Bass, a genial salesman and war veteran who lost his leg in service. She finds herself in a sudden romance during the holiday, but when she later returns to work, Ernie wants the relationship to continue. A reticent Nurse Thorpe begins to suspect that Ernie is more interested in a caregiver than a lover.
Thu, Mar 28, 1963
Sophisticated, alluring party girl Clarissa Robin is admitted to Alden General as a cardiac patient but is in denial about the severity of her condition. Meanwhile, equally lovely housewife Sandra Leonard faces amputation of her leg. When her visiting husband Hal meets party girl Clarissa, the situation becomes complicated.
Thu, Apr 11, 1963
Nurse Karen Gardner's new assignment in the psychiatric ward calls into question her professional objectivity when patient Edith Arnold fails to progress in her recovery, and it comes to light that Nurse Gardner, herself once a psychiatric patient, has been using her personal experiences in her treatment of Arnold.
Thu, Apr 18, 1963
Popular comedian Ray Gifford arrives at Alden General for routine tests and instantly creates chaos for the hospital staff with his self-importance and demanding nature. Nurse Thorpe becomes the target of his dissatisfaction when she develops an innocent flirtation with Gifford's headwriter Charlie Noyes.
Thu, May 9, 1963
In effort to achieve professional respect, black nurse Ginny Bishop disregards her ethnic roots. When her cousin Lonnie Hill is hired as an orderly at Alden General and is soon accused of providing liquor to an alcoholic patient, Ginny must confront issues of prejudice, race and self-acceptance.
Thu, May 23, 1963
Paul and Jean Wheeler eagerly await the birth of their first child. When Jean is checked into the hospital, a bottle of pills from a German pharmacy are among her personal effects. They're identified as thalidomide, and the Wheelers have to accept the likelihood of their child having severe birth defects.
Thu, May 30, 1963
Marjorie Ford confides in Nurse Thorpe one recent single extramarital infidelity. The one night stand has left her with a case of syphilis, and now she has to face explaining the situation to her husband Steve, as the doctors and nurses at Alden General attempt to alert the public to rising cases of venereal disease.
Thu, Jun 6, 1963
After spending ten years as a housewife, former nurse Lora Stanton decides to return to work at Alden General and is assigned duty in the geriatrics ward. When a patient she cared for dies, she attempts to turn all of her attention and devotion to an elderly man in the ward, but he rejects her. Meanwhile, Nurse Thorpe uncovers the reason why Lora has come back.
Thu, Sep 26, 1963
After Alden General nurse Sarah Styles becomes secretly dependent upon narcotics, she does her best to conceal her addiction by stealing drugs from the hospital. Faced with possible exposure, Sarah's husband Lenny turns to street pusher Doc for his wife's fix by pretending he's the one with the problem.
Thu, Oct 17, 1963
Nurse Doris Kelly is assigned to the case of patient Arthur Luskin, a despondent man who has become partially paralyzed following a failed suicide attempt. Although Luskin will likely try to kill himself again, an indefatigable Nurse Kelly is determined to give him the will to live.
Thu, Oct 31, 1963
Felissa Arenas, a nurse from a small South American village, visits Alden General to study the latest advancements in medicine. However, she finds a great deal of waste in the American way of doing things and creates a serious problem by salvaging discarded medical implements for use in her own village.
Thu, Nov 14, 1963
Alden General patient Paul Marker has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. When his brother Ben consults with an out of state doctor who prescribes an unorthodox treatment regimen, the hospital refuses to comply because the requested drug isn't approved for use as a Hodgkins treatment.
Thu, Nov 28, 1963
As part of her public health training, Gail receives an eye-opening assignment with the troubled Fuentes family, who live in an impoverished city tenement. The ailing matriarch of the family is pregnant with her eleventh child, while her eldest daughter Helena is also pregnant, and son Damon an addict. To complicate matters, Gail finds hostility and resentment among those she's trying to serve.
Thu, Dec 12, 1963
Dr. Lowry experiences a crisis during his first surgical experience and is saved by head nurse Cleo Tanner, who takes a personal interest in his success. However, her devotion to him quickly turns to frightening vengeance when she develops romantic feelings for him, too, but is rejected for Gail.