Family Doctor — 1938

Cedarton's kindly Dr. Grant Adams gently teaches Maddie Clark, the town's well-meaning gossip, that a loose tongue can wound as surely as any lie.

A boy turns up with a bullet wound after a bank robbery, and Doc Adams argues that if the younger generation has gone wrong, it is the older one that shaped the world they inherited.

Boathouse owner Griff Miller comes in with dizzy spells and a failing heart, and Doc Adams discovers the real ailment is the worry over an overdue mortgage payment.

The town drunk is gravely hurt saving a little girl from a runaway circus elephant, and a failed operation leaves Doc Adams reflecting on what people truly count as enjoyment.

Two thirteen-year-old twins sneak their first cigar -- and learn their lesson the hard way.

When high-strung young Ella Mary keeps falling to pieces, Doc Adams prescribes ice cream delivered by handsome Johnny Kemp, having correctly diagnosed a case of first love.

Hardware man Jess Rankin, a reformed ex-convict, confides in Doc Adams that newspaper editor Amos Day is threatening to expose his past and ruin him.

With Mrs. Parkins delivering ahead of schedule and her husband nowhere to be found, Doc Adams and wife Lou race off to bring the baby into the world.

Seventeen-year-old Duncan Webb returns from reform school full of big plans, and Doc Adams quietly sets about steering him toward honest work before trouble finds him.

Heartsick over Johnny Kemp's attentions to Faith Windsor, a despairing Ella Mary Bliss takes the boat out just as a storm builds and the dam gives way.

A suspicious, overweight Police Chief Benson takes newcomer Chick Harper for a crook, and Doc Adams gently turns the lesson back on the lawman himself.

Johnny Kemp leaves Cedarton for Denver, and Doc Adams watches two disappointed girls, Ella Mary and Faith, cross the line from childhood into young womanhood.

Doc Adams and Lou rush to a barn fire, where the doctor risks his life to pull young Junior Windsor -- a boy he once delivered -- from the flames.

A traveling tent show brings faded Hollywood actor Francois Millay to Cedarton, an actor-boxer who quickly turns Maddie Clark's head.

Auditions for the community play reveal that some Cedarton folks perform far better with no audience watching.

Newcomers Joe Stanley and his wife arrive to open a gas station and build a house, and Mrs. Stanley's real worry is the nail her stubborn husband stepped on and won't tend.

Doc Adams joins Chief Benson's posse after little Esther Guffy runs off again, rescuing her from a railroad trestle as a train bears down.