The Story of Dr. Kildare — 1951
31 episodes broadcast in 1951.
Eddie Lazetti, a murderer held under guard at Blair, breaks free and takes Dr. Kildare and Nurse Diana hostage.
A surprise testimonial dinner is arranged in Dr. Gillespie's honor, and the staff conspires to keep it from him.
Kildare takes on Dr. Conlon, a quack whose useless 'treatments' have let a patient's real illness fester.
Joe Finley's ulcer perforates, turning a routine complaint into an emergency.
Kildare puzzles out why Oliver Van Meter suffers an allergic flare like clockwork each Monday.
An anthrax case in the Adirondacks sets Kildare and Gillespie against a fast-moving, deadly infection.
Kildare works the difficult case of Pete Cosloff, a man in the grip of mental illness.
Cowboy movie star Buck Houston checks himself into Blair, where his 'sciatica' proves to be more in the mind than the spine.
David Cooper is rushed to Blair with severe facial burns and the long road of reconstruction ahead.
Edward Carlton's dog bite splits the doctors -- Kildare fears rabies while Gillespie suspects hysteria.
Amy Dickens breaks her leg, and a simple fracture opens onto a more human story.
A frightened young mother wants to give her baby up for adoption, and Kildare must weigh her wishes against the child's future.
On her second day as a Blair nurse, Joan Quinn becomes the target of Gillespie's matchmaking on Kildare's behalf.
Up for the Henderson Award on his antibiotics paper, Dr. Gillespie frets everyone -- especially over his shabby suit.
Nurse Parker sinks her savings into Yukon Joe Moran's gold mine, and Kildare watches the scheme unfold.
April 27, 1951
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May 4, 1951
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May 11, 1951
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May 18, 1951
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A mysterious patient with hemophilia confronts Dr. Gillespie with a case unlike any he has seen.
Dr. Carew maneuvers to move Dr. Gillespie into a new office, enlisting Kildare to get the old man out of the way.
June 1, 1951
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June 8, 1951
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Internist Paul Bailey is failing his duties -- and a suspected drinking problem masks a nervous breakdown.
June 29, 1951
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July 6, 1951
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Walter Benton plunges from the hospital's seventh story, and the question of whether he jumped or was pushed turns the case into a murder inquiry.
Stranded in the small town of Wentworth, Kildare and Gillespie diagnose fellow guest Evelyn Briggs with diphtheria.
Intern Robert Lane is off duty when he is needed most, raising the charge that he has been practicing medicine without a license.
A well-dressed woman faints in Blair's lobby unable to recall her name, and Kildare untangles the repressive amnesia behind her thousand-dollar coat.
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Other seasons: 1950 ·