Marcus Welby, M.D.
S01E11: Let Ernest Come Over
Ernest Jackson--up for promotion to police lieutenant--fells that disclosure of his physical problem would ruin his chance for advancement. Welby, learning of Jackson's occupation, says he cannot allow the truth to be hidden since his condition may lead to the officer's inability to carry out his duty at a crucial moment.
Overview
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
Episodes
A warm, outgoing young school teacher is told by Dr. Welby that she only has a few months to live. She goes into seclusion. Dr. Kiley, who has become strongly attached to her, attempts to...
S01E02 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...
S01E03 Don't Ignore The Miracles
Claire Burwick, 42 becomes pregnant for the first time and is convinced her husband Paul does not want a child. Claire's anxiety increase when she learns that her husband has been seeing younger women, and...
S01E04 Silken Threads and Silver Hooks
While giving speech therapy to Nadine, a motion picture star who suffers a stroke, Dr. Welby learns that her husband, Lucas, has set up a television documentary in which Nadine is to show that people...
S01E05 All Flags Flying
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 a voyage would prove fatal. Ballinger,...
S01E06 Echo Of A Baby's Laugh
Dr. Welby tells a pregnant young wife, Mary Ann Graham, that because of her RH-negative factor, her husband will have to be told about a previous pregnancy and abortion. Dr. Welby explains that her baby...
S01E07 The White Cane
When an operation restores Paul Hannan's sight, his love cools for his blind fiancee, Laura Jelliffe. Laura, employed at the Center for the Blind, seeks to forestall the ordeal of the engagement being called off...
S01E08 The Vrahnas Demon
Nick Eugenides is an aging but lusty Greek American fisherman who refuses to change his life style when Dr. Welby informs him he has emphysema. Eugenedes insists on entering an annual deep diving competition, an...
S01E09 Madonna With Knapsack and Flute
In her recurring role as Myra Sherwood, Ann Baxter, with whom Dr. Welby is in love, takes a pregnant, unmarried ""flower child,"" Tracy Clifford, into her home. Dr. Welby, who is treating Tracy for mononucleosis,...
S01E10 Homecoming
Dr. Welby, wishes to hospitalize Scott Behrman, who has given up LDS but suffers from recurrences of the effects of the drug. Scott returns home after a long absence, and bursts into Dr. Welby's office...
S01E11 Let Ernest Come Over
Ernest Jackson--up for promotion to police lieutenant--fells that disclosure of his physical problem would ruin his chance for advancement. Welby, learning of Jackson's occupation, says he cannot allow the truth to be hidden since his...
S01E12 The Chemistry of Hope
Pacho McGuerney's parents, refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.
S01E13 Neither Punch nor Judy
Dr. Welby's friend, Father Hugh Riorden, suffers severe asthmatic attacks because he feels inadequate in dealing with the personal problems of his parishioners. The priest's feelings reach a climax when he is unable to restore...
S01E14 Diagnosis: Fear
A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.
S01E15 The Soft Phrase of Peace
Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.
S01E16 Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose
Michael Ambrose, a diabetic, tries to end his life to get even with his father. Michael resents his father, best-selling novelist John Ambrose, blaming him for the unhappiness his mother suffered before her death, and...
S01E17 The Legacy
When the patrician Senora Carlotta, mother of Dr. Welby's nurse Consuelo Lopez, is told by the doctor that her life-or-death decision will also involve others, she decides immediately what course she must take. Her philosophy...
S01E18 Dance to No Music
Joseph Campanella guest-stars as scientist Leo Maslow, who is convinced that he has an hereditary disease, Huntington's Chorea, which begins with complete loss of memory and inability to function. Welby and Kiley conduct tests, but...
S01E19 Go Get 'Em, Tiger
Dr. Steven Kiley befriends a former employee, now a reformed drug addict, and in doing so places himself and Dr. Welby in an awkward and almost untenable position. Dr. Kiley does his best to help...
S01E20 Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey
Dinty Gallagher refuses to give up his regimen of diet pills and steam baths, even after having fainting spells. Gallagher's desperate attempts to make the weight for the most important race of his life result...
S01E21 The Other Side of the Chart
The Other Side of the Chart Dr. Steven Kiley, embarrassingly hospitalized for Chicken Pox, becomes interested in ""Dutch"" Radtke, a husky oil field worker who panics at the prospect of surgery. Radtke's physician plans exploratory...
S01E22 The Merely Syndrome
A young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.
S01E23 Sea of Security
An oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.
S01E24 The Daredevil Gesture
A hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.
S01E25 Enid
An orphanage counselor, addicted to pills, causes an automobil accident in which one of her charges is injured.
S01E26 The Rebel Doctor
Dr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.
Cast
Robert Young
Dr. Marcus Welby
James Brolin
Dr. Steven Kiley
Pamela Hensley
Janet Blake
Sharon Gless
Kathleen Faverty
Elena Verdugo
Consuelo Lopez
