Family Doctor — 1939
22 episodes broadcast in 1939.
Drama teacher Miss Malloy, author of a piece called 'Tolerance,' meets the partner who once left her ruined -- and Doc Adams reminds her to live by her own words.
The Maynard twins, exploring a hillside cave against orders, tumble into what turns out to be an old mineshaft with a rich vein of gold on Griff Miller's land.
Doc Adams grows worried when young Chick Harper is led astray betting on the radio horse races by Pete and Jesse Regan.
Invited to inspect a new bridge, Doc Adams is on hand when it collapses from faulty construction and blinds workman Ben Carson -- and the doctor turns detective on the cause.
Rheumatic Griff Miller, now sitting on a gold mine, comes to Doc Adams, and the talk turns to what the old boathouse owner should finally do with his fortune.
With Doc Adams' car laid up at the garage and an urgent call from an injured Griff Miller, drugstore man Pete May insists on driving the doctor himself.
Amos, editor of the struggling Post Bugle, is worked up over an unpaid advertising debt he can ill afford, and Doc Adams counsels him to stop fretting over trifles.
Home for a rare lunch and in fine spirits, Doc Adams surprises Lou with a plan to spend the day at the traveling carnival, three-headed calf and shell game and all.
A visit from Grant Jr. and his wife stirs family friction, which Doc Adams smooths over the only way he knows -- with a well-chosen story.
Drugstore clerk Chick Harper tidies up and corners boathouse owner Miller, hoping to arrange a romantic lake outing with Faith Windsor.
With a beauty contest and a lead role in the town pageant at stake, a heartbroken Ella Mary sets out to beat the polished Faith Windsor -- with a scheme from her mother.
As casting begins for the first annual Cedarton pageant, Pete ducks a part by claiming someone has to mind the drugstore once Chick Harper lands a role.
Judge Samuel Windsor throws himself into rehearsals for the historical pageant, and Doc Adams is tapped to introduce the climax of the first annual Cedarton Festival.
Doc Adams offers to pick up the groceries on his way home and, caught without pen or paper, gamely tries to keep Lou's whole list in his head.
On Lou's twice-yearly cleaning day, Doc Adams hides out at home to do his taxes and defends every dusty back number of his Medical Journal from the discard pile.
Two candidates for mayor stage rival rallies in wildly different styles, and Doc Adams is roped in to make an introduction -- amid a squabble over a grocery bill.
In a great hurry and acting suspiciously, Doc Adams sets Lou wondering what he's up to -- an errand that lands him at Sid Bloom's tailor shop in a hideous new suit.
While treating his old friend Griff Miller's injured back, Doc Adams learns that Mrs. Forest is offering him a prestigious post at a New York hospital.
Marvin Forest talks Chick Harper into a foursome for the dance over at Dunlap -- once someone gives them a lesson in handling the horses.
Torn over the New York offer, Doc Adams seeks out Pastor Glen Maynard to talk through whether a doctor, like a minister, can receive a 'call' -- and resolves to take the job.
Brash newcomer Marvin Forest and his tight-lipped mother arrive in Cedarton on a 'secret mission,' and the cheeky young man is soon needling drugstore clerk Chick.
In the series finale, Doc Adams shows incoming physician Dr. Grayson around the surgery, introducing Cedarton's cast of characters one last time before he boards the train for New York.
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Other seasons: 1938 ·