The Story of Dr. Kildare — 1950
49 episodes broadcast in 1950.
Concert pianist Angela Kester's growing paranoia threatens both her career and her marriage to Steven, and Kildare must reach the mind behind the illness.
Marjorie Northrup faces the loss of a leg, and Kildare weighs the amputation against her will to go on.
Benjamin Barkley is treated at Blair General for appendicitis.
Rico Marchiano refuses to accept that his wife Carmen is dying of terminal cancer, and Gillespie must help him face it.
Vernon Pendleton is convinced he is gravely ill; Kildare has to separate the hypochondriac's fear from any real disease.
Young Barbara Lane is brought in as a drug addict, and Kildare looks past the habit to the trouble that drove her to it.
Caroline Shelley, a lonely little girl whose parents have separated, needs an emergency appendix operation.
Janet Dane's throat cancer sends Kildare after an experimental betatron treatment that may be her only hope.
March 29, 1950
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April 5, 1950
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Warren Jackson is admitted after what looks like an allergic collapse, but the deeper danger is a suicide attempt.
Terry Murphy's partial deafness hides a cause the doctors must find before it costs him his hearing for good.
Philip Van Court vanishes and turns up at Brighton Beach with traumatic amnesia and a mind in crisis.
A newborn, Jackie Mason, is abandoned in one of Blair's ambulances, drawing in a hard-boiled police lieutenant as the staff searches for the mother.
When Kildare's old sweetheart dies of a heart complication after the flu, his grief nearly drives him out of medicine.
Nurse Evangeline 'Nosey' Parker has finally had enough of Dr. Gillespie and hands in her resignation -- and he is only too glad to let her go.
Kildare and Gillespie scheme to get Dr. Carew's wife to shed twenty pounds, with predictably stubborn results.
A boy named Dick Brennan confesses to Kildare that he stole 5,000 dollars -- but the owners insist the sum was 50,000.
A Kentucky colonel, Beauregard, is slowly being paralyzed by a cause no one at Blair can identify.
Construction worker Gordon Mallory has lead poisoning; when a second worker shows the same signs, Kildare hunts for the shared source.
Drake Simmons comes in too late to save his sight from glaucoma, and Kildare and Gillespie must operate.
Priscilla Babcock, a young genius nursing a broken arm, learns to be a real person -- and falls for Dr. Kildare along the way.
Kildare and Gillespie head to the mountains for a well-earned week of hunting, only to find the locals need a doctor.
A construction worker comes in with a peptic ulcer, though his sharper trouble may be the formidable Mrs. Malloy.
Mrs. Stanford's angina pectoris tests Kildare's judgment about how much a failing heart can safely bear.
July 27, 1950
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August 3, 1950
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Buffalo Barnie McClure, a travelling-show cowboy who swallowed his own bridgework, throws Blair into an uproar and refuses to part with his ten-gallon hat.
With a patient needing an appendectomy far from any surgeon, Kildare talks an operation through step by step over the radio.
August 24, 1950
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August 31, 1950
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A teenager, Marion Lewis, arrives with acute alcohol poisoning, and Kildare finds the real sickness lies with her parents.
Sam Lubinski's spinal injury leaves him facing paralysis unless Kildare can find a way through.
The Mumpkin family nervously awaits the arrival of their first baby at Blair General.
October 5, 1950
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October 12, 1950
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Eddie Jenkins is carried in with burns after a warehouse fire the police believe he set -- though the boy swears he was asleep under the pier.
Ling Ko gambles his livelihood on whether to risk the leg surgery Kildare recommends.
November 3, 1950
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November 10, 1950
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Businessman Mr. Bradley collapses after a punishing day, and his damaged heart forces a decision about open-heart surgery.
Mr. Kramer's chronic stomach trouble coincides with Nurse Parker taking up painting -- and a stomach ache of her own.
The hypochondriacal Lady Dunabee sweeps in from London for her annual visit and starts bossing all of Blair around.
Arthur Morgan's brain hemorrhage puts him in the path of dangerous, delicate surgery.
December 15, 1950
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December 22, 1950
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Little David Norton's bout of pneumonia becomes the thing that finally brings his feuding parents back together.
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Other seasons: 1951