Season 3

E1. Broken Melody

Sep 19, 1971 · 60m

Two patients' lives intersect: a singer who is suffering from hearing loss; and a little boy who shows signs of having been battered though his parents deny it.

E2. The Angry Man

Oct 3, 1971 · 60m

A caring but cynical paramedic has been treating indigent patients himself in a small inner-city office with very little medical facilities, and removing items from the hospital in order to treat them.

E3. One Lonely Step

Oct 24, 1971 · 60m

Dr. Karnes and Dr. Hunter fight to restore a sickle cell anemia research program that may save a black child.

E4. Close Up

Nov 7, 1971 · 60m

A model suffers from sudden excruciating pain in her face. However, she refuses to have the common surgery for her condition---cutting off the nerve---because she fears it will disfigure her. Instead, Dr. Stuart agrees to implant his newly perfected electric stimulator which will stop her pain whenever it starts. But before he can implant it, his hands are severely burned in a lab fire.

E5. The Convicts

Nov 21, 1971 · 60m

A Doctors segment focuses on organ transplants in "The Convicts." Five prison inmates, temporarily released as volunteers for medical research, aid Doctors Craig, Hunter and Stuart in an experiment toward saving lives with transplants from nonmatching donors.

E6. The Glass Cage

Dec 5, 1971 · 60m

Three people enter a new program at the institute for treating and discovering the causes of alcoholism.

E7. Dagger in the Mind

Dec 19, 1971 · 60m

Dr. Stuart is trying to find the cause of his mentor's illness when the man arrives from Europe with his much younger wife. The hospital colleagues began to suspect it's psychological in nature. An anthropologist, who has neglected her heart condition while in the jungle, also checks in for a dangerous operation.

E8. Moment of Crisis

Jan 2, 1972 · 60m

An argument Dr. Hunter has with his girlfriend Amanda has her first getting drunk, than causing a school bus accident. Dr. Craig is dealing with a board member who is determined to replace him with a prejudiced surgeon. That becomes secondary as the crash victims arrive, including his granddaughter who is severely injured.

E9. Short Flight to a Distant Star

Jan 23, 1972 · 60m

The boastful, heavy-drinking father of Dr. Hunter's date is severely injured in a shooting. With a bullet fragment dangerously floating in the brain, Hunter and Stuart look to space-age technology to save the patient's life.

E10. A Threatened Species

Feb 6, 1972 · 60m

A 37 year old surgical nurse is having a baby and she has decided to sell it once it's born.

E11. Discovery at Fourteen

Mar 5, 1972 · 60m

Young Corey is found to have an ulcer and Dr. Fallon is determined to find the cause. It seems a secret visit to his estranged father has exposed lies his mother told him and Corey worries he is just like dad.