A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.
Guest Stars:
Louise Sorel, Robert Reed, Gary Frank, Dennis Cole, Lew Gallo
A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.
Guest Stars:
Louise Sorel, Robert Reed, Gary Frank, Dennis Cole, Alan Oppenheimer
On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.
Guest Stars:
Willie Aames, Robert Walden, Florence Henderson, Philip Abbott
A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.
Guest Stars:
Peter Haskell, Robbie Rist, Susan Sullivan, Jesse Welles, Audrey Totter
Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.
Guest Stars:
Meredith Baxter, Michael Callan, Steve Allen
The son of a wealthy Arab shows unusual concern over the plight of an ailing Jewish boy.
Guest Stars:
Dana Wynter, Linda Purl, Louise Lasser, Dick Van Patten, Gail Fisher
The teenage daughter of a busy surgeon turns to prostitution in a bid for attention.
Guest Stars:
Keith Gordon, Louise Lasser, David Opatoshu, Gail Fisher, Dick Shawn
Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.
Guest Stars:
Joan Van Ark, Patrick O'Neal, Keenan Wynn, Allyn Ann McLerie, Ivan Bonar
Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.
Guest Stars:
David Man, George Chakiris
An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.
Guest Stars:
Melanie Mayron, Jack Hogan
A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.
Guest Stars:
Belinda Montgomery, Arthur Space, Regis Cordic, Ruth McDevitt, Andrea King
An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.
Guest Stars:
Ralph Bellamy, Robert Walden, Darleen Carr
One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.
Guest Stars:
Tyne Daly, Shelly Novack, Herb Edelman, Nora Marlowe
A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.
Guest Stars:
Cesar Romero, Lynne Marta, Ed Fury, Erik Estrada
A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.
Guest Stars:
Kate Reid, Charles Cioffi, Joby Baker, Ivan Bonar, David Sheiner
Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.
Guest Stars:
George Tobias, Michael Swan
Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.
Guest Stars:
John Colicos, Ellen Travolta, Kathleen Beller, Mark Hamill
The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.
Guest Stars:
France Nuyen, Fionnula Flanagan, Don Galloway
The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.
Guest Stars:
Kathryn Walker, Catherine Burns, Barbara Baldavin, Martin E. Brooks, Ivan Bonar
Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.
Guest Stars:
Vic Tayback, David Birney, Susan Strasberg
The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.
Guest Stars:
Stanley Adams, Ron Rifkin, Peter Tomarken, Totie Fields
An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.
Guest Stars:
John Randolph, Lois Nettleton, John Gavin, Michael V. Gazzo, Scott Hylands
A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.
Guest Stars:
Cara Williams, Gary Sandy, Ruth Buzzi, Don Rickles