Dr. Kildare (1961)
The dramatic relationship between a young medical intern and his surgeon mentor.
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Episode 1 - Man Is a Rock
Release Date: 24 Sep. 1964Hard-living executive Franklin Gaer seems likely to develop a serious heart condition if he doesn't moderate his excessive lifestyle.
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Episode 2 - Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House
Release Date: 1 Oct. 1964Dr. Gillespie subtly promotes a romance between his widowed niece and a young doctor.
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Episode 3 - The Hand That Hurts, the Hand That Heals
Release Date: 8 Oct. 1964Several doctors have failed to diagnose the mystery ailment that afflicts Joan Cartwright - will Dr. Kildare be more successful?
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Episode 4 - The Last Leaves on the Tree
Release Date: 15 Oct. 1964Oliver Blair, grandson of the hospital's founder, tries to get his elderly relatives declared incompetent.
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Episode 5 - What's Different About Today?
Release Date: 22 Oct. 1964Working 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
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Episode 6 - The Sound of a Faraway Hill
Release Date: 29 Oct. 1964Once a big baseball star, Charles Bishop must now face up to the knowledge that his career is ending.
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Episode 7 - A Candle in the Window
Release Date: 5 Nov. 1964The reaction of Lily Prentice to her husband's death causes surprise.
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Episode 8 - Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 1
Release Date: 12 Nov. 1964Gillespie and Kildare go to Italy for medical research, but there proves to be more to the trip than work.
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Episode 9 - Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 2
Release Date: 19 Nov. 1964In Rome, Kildare falls in love with a beautiful Italian girl whilst Gillespie renews his acquaintance with a woman he knew during the war.
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Episode 10 - Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 3
Release Date: 26 Nov. 1964Kildare and Gillespie prepare to leave the Eternal City.
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Episode 11 - The Elusive Dik-Dik
Release Date: 3 Dec. 1964A 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.
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Episode 12 - Catch a Crooked Mouse
Release Date: 17 Dec. 1964In 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.
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Episode 13 - An Exchange of Gifts
Release Date: 24 Dec. 1964A penniless alcoholic, believing himself to be dying, plans one last gesture of defiance against the world.
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Episode 14 - Never Is a Long Day
Release Date: 31 Dec. 1964Dr. 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.
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Episode 15 - Lullaby for an Indian Summer
Release Date: 7 Jan. 1965After 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.
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Episode 16 - Take Care of My Little Girl
Release Date: 14 Jan. 1965A feckless would-be songwriter must face up to his responsibilities when his young daughter becomes seriously ill.
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Episode 17 - My Name Is Lisa, and I Am Lost
Release Date: 21 Jan. 1965A sensitive young nurse is distressed by the spitefulness of a patient.
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Episode 18 - Please Let My Baby Live
Release Date: 28 Jan. 1965A pregnant woman is fearful and neurotic about her unborn child - with good reason - she's already had three miscarriages due to Rh factor.
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Episode 19 - No Mother to Guide Them
Release Date: 4 Feb. 1965A 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.
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Episode 20 - A Marriage of Convenience
Release Date: 11 Feb. 1965Kildare 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.
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Episode 21 - Make Way for Tomorrow
Release Date: 18 Feb. 1965An 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.
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Episode 22 - A Miracle for Margaret
Release Date: 25 Feb. 1965Kildare 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.
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Episode 23 - Do You Trust Your Doctor?
Release Date: 4 Mar. 1965Kildare 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.
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Episode 24 - All Brides Should Be Beautiful
Release Date: 11 Mar. 1965A newly married friend of Kildare's, diagnosed with breast cancer, refuses to undergo a mastectomy lest she be disfigured.
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Episode 25 - She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Part 1
Release Date: 18 Mar. 1965Kildare 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.
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Episode 26 - She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Part 2
Release Date: 25 Mar. 1965It 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.
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Episode 27 - A Journey to Sunrise
Release Date: 1 Apr. 1965Graham Lanier, a new patient, is a mystery man - whose resemblance to Dr. Gillespie does not go unnoticed.
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Episode 28 - The Time Buyers
Release Date: 8 Apr. 1965When 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.
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Episode 29 - Music Hath Charms
Release Date: 15 Apr. 1965Kildare is saddled with the unwelcome task of supervising a musical revue.
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Episode 30 - Believe and Live
Release Date: 22 Apr. 1965After 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.
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Episode 31 - A Reverence for Life
Release Date: 29 Apr. 1965Kildare clashes with a patient who refuses necessary surgery for religious reasons.
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Episode 32 - Wings of Hope
Release Date: 13 May 1965Pilot Robert Hill is diagnosed as asthmatic by Kildare - a diagnosis which could lose him his job.