Marcus Welby, M.D. - Season 1

Episodes

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, warns Myra against deep emotional involvement with the girl. Myra, however, whose own daughter would have been Tracy's age had she lived, makes plans to maintain Tracy has her own child--when it is born--indefinitely.

Nov. 18, 1969

Season 1Episode 1060 min

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 while suffering a violent "acid flash." . After the attack, Dr. Welby wants have him hospitalized. However, Max Behrman, Scott's father, who is willing to be separated from his son again, opposes the plan. He believes that if Scott pursues a responsible life, working in the family business, the attacks will not recur.

Nov. 25, 1969

Season 1Episode 1160 min

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.

Dez. 9, 1969

Season 1Episode 1260 min

The Chemistry of Hope

The parents of a teenage boy with leukemia prevent Dr. Welby from informing him of his diagnosis.

Dez. 16, 1969

Season 1Episode 1360 min

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 the will to live in a young man injured in an accident, but Dr. Welby's able to do so. Father Hugh announces to Dr. Welby that he is going to quit the priesthood.

Dez. 23, 1969

Season 1Episode 1460 min

Diagnosis: Fear

A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.

Dez. 30, 1969

Season 1Episode 1560 min

The Soft Phrase of Peace

Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.

Jan. 6, 1970

Season 1Episode 1660 min

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 taunts him by threatening to give up taking her insulin shots. When John Ambrose goes back East for a television appearance, Michael carries out his threat.

Jan. 13, 1970

Season 1Episode 1760 min

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 affects Mrs. Faris, the cynical women whose room she shares and who rejects the present while dreading the future.

Jan. 27, 1970

Season 1Episode 1860 min

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 are not convinced that Maslow has the disease. However, his condition continues to deteriorate, especially after he learns his wife is pregnant.

Feb. 3, 1970

Season 1Episode 1960 min

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 Warren Chamber -- his onetime benefactor -- find suitable employment, but his record as a former addict precludes any success. Finally, when a job as a bus driver with a private school becomes available, and Kiley is called on to give his friend a physical examination for the institution, he is forced to choose between his duty as a doctor and his obligation to a friend.

Feb. 10, 1970

Season 1Episode 2060 min

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 in physical collapse and he is hospitalized. There he overhears Doctors Welby and Kiley tell his manager that tests indicate he is still growing, at 21, and that it will be impossible for him to continue his career as a jockey.

Feb. 17, 1970

Season 1Episode 2160 min

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 surgery to determine if he has cancer of the bladder. Dr. Kiley, who has been checking up on tropical diseases, advocates alternative testing. However, he is unable to reach Radke's physician, and Radtke, the night before the surgery is scheduled, escapes form the hospital.

Feb. 24, 1970

Season 1Episode 2260 min

The Merely Syndrome

Diagnostic detective work is called for in the puzzling case of a young woman who underwent apparently successful heart surgery. After steady progress, she suffers an onset of unaccountable, increasingly severe seizures.

März 3, 1970