Medical Center 1969
Season 2 Episode Guide
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Season snapshot
24
episodes currently available in the iDRief catalog.
Episode Directory
Season 2 episodes
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Episode
1
Brink of Doom
Sep 16, 1970
The series opens its second season with a drama about a doctor who has symptons of multiple sclerosis. Just as surgeon Tom Forley (George Grizzard)...
Episode
2
Undercurrent
Sep 23, 1970
Guest star Paul Burke plays a dedicated research scientist whose vital work on a new drug is threatened when he receives anonymous letters.
Episode
3
Junkie
Sep 30, 1970
Gannon tries to save a 16-year-old girl from heroin addiction. His efforts are continually frustrated by her father, a professor who refuses to ack...
Episode
4
Assailant
Oct 7, 1970
Bradford Dillman guests as a methodical police inspector who is accumulating evidence that points to Gannon's protege, resident Carl Webson, as the...
Episode
5
The Clash
Oct 14, 1970
Vera Miles guest stars as an unbending woman doctor who clashes with Dr. Gannon after a coed's death from a bungled abortion.
Episode
6
Ghetto Clinic
Oct 21, 1970
Maverick director of a ghetto clinic goes against the rules by shielding a stabbing victim and a young drug addict. William Devane gives a good per...
Episode
7
Scream of Silence
Oct 28, 1970
Dr. Gannon recommends treatment for Jenny, an abnormally active little girl. What do you do with a gifted child? Doc Gannon believes in a school fo...
Episode
8
Death Grip
Nov 4, 1970
Dr. Eric Canford, a brilliant surgeon, comes back from war service with a dinking problem but refuses to admit it is affecting his work.
Episode
9
Witch Hunt
Nov 11, 1970
Dana Wynter appears as a witch doctor of sorts in a spooky episode. Chad Everett is involved because of a young student who has left the hospital (...
Episode
10
Deadly Encounter
Nov 18, 1970
Suspicious Barry Sullivan flares up over his wife's appointments with Gannon while Joe, of course, remains Simon pure, merely keeping his patient's...
Episode
11
Trial by Terror
Nov 25, 1970
As it must to all TV heroes, blindness comes to Dr. Gannon on Medical Center . He's been in a car wreck, caused by bad brakes which, we soon learn,...
Episode
12
Accused
Dec 2, 1970
More complications for Dr. Joe Gannon (Chad Everett), as a coed, suffering from a possible brain tumor, claims he fathered her unborn child. Of cou...
Episode
13
Crisis
Dec 9, 1970
Roddy McDowall plays a lawyer and Keenan Wynn a cop in a drama that has Gannon accused of shielding an injured cop who allegedly shot a student wit...
Episode
14
Man at Bay
Dec 16, 1970
A brash, long-haired surgeon runs afoul of his colleagues.
Episode
15
The Savage Image
Dec 30, 1970
Brief episode summary coming soon.
Episode
16
Woman in Question
Jan 6, 1971
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Episode
17
Web of Darkness
Jan 13, 1971
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Episode
18
Danger Point
Jan 27, 1971
Brief episode summary coming soon.
Episode
19
Secret Heritage
Feb 3, 1971
17-year-old Baby Freitag is a mentally retarded girl who has been treated as an infant all her life.
Episode
20
Edge of Violence
Feb 10, 1971
A hospital entertainer volunteers to help a girl who has tried to commit suicide, unaware that he himself is seriously ill.
Episode
21
Countdown
Feb 17, 1971
Tom Desmond is at his wits' end: he has a sick wife, a 3-month-old baby, no source of income and a towering pride that rejects all help.
Episode
22
Perfection of Vices
Feb 24, 1971
An insight into Lochner's personal life as Ruth, his ex-wife, and Bobbie, his daughter turn up at the hospital. Now widowed, Ruth Marlowe would lik...
Episode
23
The Man in Hiding
Mar 3, 1971
A once-brilliant surgeon has become very withdrawn. The crack surgeon who retires to do research and will not come out, shares the spotlight with D...
Episode
24
Crossroads
Mar 10, 1971
Brief episode summary coming soon.
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