Dr. Kildare Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Dr. Kildare: Season 5

• Season 5 Episode 58: Reckoning

  Police clear a young doctor of abortion charges, after he has resigned.

• Season 5 Episode 57: New Doctor in Town

  A doctor under investigation for an abortion case resigns from Blair.

• Season 5 Episode 56: A Strange Sort of Accident

  An anonymous phone caller accuses a doctor of performing an illegal abortion.

• Season 5 Episode 55: Mercy -- or Murder?

  Kildare debates an outspoken young doctor on TV about an abortion controversy.

• Season 5 Episode 51: The Art of Taking a Powder

  Kildare refuses to release the owner of a famous Italian restaurant.

• Season 5 Episode 50: Out of a Concrete Tower

  A doctor seeking a replacement for his practice collapses under stress.

• Season 5 Episode 49: The Taste of Crow

  Kildare convinces a doctor to readmit a patient for further tests.

• Season 5 Episode 48: What Happened to All the Sunshine and Roses?

  A critically ill doctor seeks a young replacement to take over his practice.

• Season 5 Episode 47: A Patient Lost

  Kildare thinks a rival doctor is releasing a young female patient too soon.

• Season 5 Episode 46: The Encroachment

  A snooping personal physician raises hackles among the hospital staff.

• Season 5 Episode 45: No Other Road

  Kildare and a notorious, philandering author are rivals for a nurse's love.

• Season 5 Episode 44: I Can Hear the Ice Melting

  A nurse accepts the advances of an author and enjoys Kildare's reaction.

• Season 5 Episode 43: Dr. Halloween

  An unwilling father deserts his diabetic, pregnant wife.

• Season 5 Episode 42: A Few Hearts, a Few Flowers

  The wife of a philandering author thinks his suicide attempt was phoney.

• Season 5 Episode 41: These Hands That Heal

  Kildare discovers the source of a poisoning epidemic in the market district.

• Season 5 Episode 40: Adrift in a Sea of Confusion

  A gang beating may lead to the origin of an epidemic in the market district.

• Season 5 Episode 39: Gratitude Won't Pay the Bills

  Kildare and Gillespie trace a strange epidemic to the market district.

• Season 5 Episode 38: A Cry From the Street

  When Kildare follows an ambulance to a fight at a picket line, he meets a colleague.

• Season 5 Episode 37: Never So Happy

  When a famous atheist sees God, his daughter examines her own beliefs.

• Season 5 Episode 36: The Next Thing to Murder

  A former atheist wants to describe a revelation on an evangelist's TV show.

• Season 5 Episode 35: The Last to Believe in Miracles

  A former atheist who claims he saw God wants to join a famous evangelist.

• Season 5 Episode 34: A Sort of Falling in Love

  A famous atheist claims to have seen and spoken to God during a stroke.

• Season 5 Episode 33: A Quick Look at Glory

  An evangelist implies a stroke suffered by an atheist was divine punishment.

• Season 5 Episode 32: The Atheist and the True Believer

  An atheist and his daughter clash with a noted evangelist at the Hospital.

• Season 5 Episode 31: Duet for One Hand

  After a startling confession about her past, an intern decides to leave medicine.

• Season 5 Episode 30: Perfect Is Too Hard to Be

  A famous pianist is bitter after collapsing on the eve of a comeback concert.

• Season 5 Episode 29: With This Ring

  A new crisis occurs in an anthropologist's strange medical condition.

• Season 5 Episode 28: When Shadows Fall

  An anthropologist's life seems hopeless; Kildare is the object of an infatuation.

• Season 5 Episode 27: In the Roman Candle's Bright Glare

  An anthropologist overworks himself to finish a book, against doctor's orders.

• Season 5 Episode 26: From Nigeria With Love

  A famous anthropologist from Nigeria seems to suffer from pneumonia.

Dr. Kildare: Season 4

• Season 4 Episode 32: Wings of Love

  If an ambitious airline pilot has asthma, he can no longer fly.

• Season 4 Episode 31: A Reverence for Life

  Kildare injures a woman whose religion forbids a necessary blood transfusion.

• Season 4 Episode 30: Believe and Live

  A famed malpractice lawyer refuses to believe he will recover from surgery.

• Season 4 Episode 29: Music Hath Charms

  A nurse pesters Kildare to be allowed to dance in a hospital variety show.

• Season 4 Episode 28: The Time Buyers

  A mother's health will not permit her to donate a kidney for her son.

• Season 4 Episode 27: A Journey to Sunrise

  A brilliant, flamboyant, mysterious patient refuses painkillers.

• Season 4 Episode 26: She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

  Kildare, coming home with a date, is dangerously injured in a car accident.

• Season 4 Episode 25: She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

  His fiancee's former suitor reveals her surprising past to Kildare.

• Season 4 Episode 24: All Brides Should Be Beautiful

  A new bride worries that an important operation may disfigure her.

• Season 4 Episode 23: Do You Trust Your Doctor?

  A nervous G.P. is reluctant to treat patients after losing a malpractice suit.

• Season 4 Episode 22: A Miracle for Margaret

  Kildare questions the leukemia diagnosis of a research specialist.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Make Way for Tomorrow

  A sailor proposes to stop his heart using yoga, for insurance money.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Marriage of Convenience

  A bride is secretly expecting a child by another man, now dead.

• Season 4 Episode 19: No Mother to Guide Them

  In the hospital for a heart attack, a cab driver worries about his two daughters.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Please Let My Baby Live

  A prospective mother, a former nurse, has a history of unsuccessful pregnancies.

• Season 4 Episode 17: My Name Is Lisa, and I Am Lost

  A difficult, arrogant patient accuses a shy young nurse of beating her.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Take Care of My Little Girl

  His daughter's dangerous illness is a wake up call to a neglectful songwriter.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Lullaby for an Indian Summer

  A middle-aged prospective father is diagnosed with a critical illness.

• Season 4 Episode 14: Never Is a Long Day

  A doctor worries about his wife when he learns he has an incurable disease.

• Season 4 Episode 13: An Exchange of Gifts

  Believing he will die, a derelict gives his life' hoarding to fellow patients.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Catch a Crooked Mouse

  An assistant D.A. wants a death-bed statement from a murder witness.

• Season 4 Episode 11: The Elusive Dik-Dik

  A father and son have a rare fever, but there is only serum for one.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Rome Will Never Leave You

  The father of Kildare's beloved has engaged her to a young Italian nobleman.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Rome Will Never Leave You

  Kildare and Gillespie continue their unexpected romances in Rome.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Rome Will Never Leave You

  Kildare, in Rome for an important medical breakthrough, falls in love.

• Season 4 Episode 7: A Candle in the Window

  A woman's (Ruth Roman) reaction to her doctor husband's death angers the staff, but Kildare senses a deeper problem.

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Sound of a Faraway Hill

  An necessary operation will end a baseball star's athletic career.

• Season 4 Episode 5: What's Different About Today?

  A 15-year-old girl at a diabetic children's camp falls in love with Kildare.

• Season 4 Episode 4: The Last Leaves on the Tree

  A family buys an inscribed tombstone for their still-living aunt.

• Season 4 Episode 3: The Hand That Hurts, the Hand That Heals

  An optimistic Kildare treats a talented and bitter dress designer.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House

  A bachelor doctor plans a conquest of Gillespie's widowed niece.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Man Is a Rock

  A hard-sell salesman refuses to accept his dangerous heart condition.

Dr. Kildare: Season 3

• Season 3 Episode 34: Dolly's Dilemma

  Gillespie wants a wealthy widow on the Board of Directors, but she wants him.

• Season 3 Episode 33: Speak Not in Angry Whispers

  A hospital kitchen worker's estranged wife has a fatal tumor.

• Season 3 Episode 32: A Sense of Tempo

  A healthy man claiming ESP enters the hospital because of a 'premonition'.

• Season 3 Episode 31: The Middle of Ernie Mann

  Overwhelming debt drives a prizefighter suffering from a severe ulcer to risk his life and keep fighting.

• Season 3 Episode 30: Night of the Beast

  A psychotic beach bum attacks Kildare and a pretty intern on the beach.

• Season 3 Episode 29: A Nickel's Worth of Prayer

  Two disgruntled patients, an old man and a teenage girl, form a friendship.

• Season 3 Episode 27: A Day to Remember

  A volunteer applicant determines to give a sick boy one day of happiness.

• Season 3 Episode 26: Quid Pro Quo

  Kildare befriends a panic-stricken intern on scholastic probation.

• Season 3 Episode 25: Tomorrow Is a Fickle Girl

  A brilliant ghetto youth forges prescriptions as a fake doctor.

• Season 3 Episode 24: A Hundred Million Tomorrows

  A young corporation president won't slow down after a heart attack.

• Season 3 Episode 23: The Child Between

  A young diabetic, bitter about his parents' divorce, refuses medication.

• Season 3 Episode 22: Why Won't Anybody Listen?

  The grandfather of a dead patient plants a bomb in Gillespie's office.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Goodbye, Mr. Jersey

  A woman (Suzanne Pleshette) whom men find persuasive brings a mysterious patient to Blair.

• Season 3 Episode 20: To Walk in Grace

  An attractive novelist tours the hospital researching for a new book.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Onions, Garlic and the Flowers That Bloom in the Spring

  Kildare takes over a difficult practice in a near-tenement neighborhood.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Never Too Old for the Circus

  A retired heart surgeon tries to take over Kildare's case.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Tyger, Tyger - Part Two

  Kildare falls for surfer Pat Holmes (Yvette Mimieux), who must adjust to epilepsy and life away from the ocean.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Tyger, Tyger - Part One

  A young woman (Yvette Mimieux) who blacked out while surfing is discovered to have epilepsy.

• Season 3 Episode 15: A Willing Suspension of Disbelief

  A surgeon, an ex-football player, tries to hide his severe arthritis.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Vote of Confidence

  A brilliant young surgeon challenges Gillespie for Chief of Staff.

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Oracle

  A glamorous female White House correspondent has multiple sclerosis.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Charlie Wade Makes Lots of Shade

  An overweight patient gains rather than loses on a low-calorie diet.

• Season 3 Episode 11: The Backslider

  Gillespie investigates a staff doctor whose carelessness endangers patients.

• Season 3 Episode 10: The Pack Rat and the Prima Donna

  Kildare works with Central Supply to dispose of obsolete equipment.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Four Feet in the Morning

  A teen (Marta Kristen) nearly dies from an attempted abortion, which also affects her boyfriend (Tony Dow).

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Eleventh Commandment

  Kildare makes roommates of a widow and an embittered young artist (Molly Picon, Susan Oliver), then regrets it.

• Season 3 Episode 7: One Clear, Bright Thursday Morning

  A doctor's pregnant wife was exposed to atomic radiation at Nagasaki.

• Season 3 Episode 6: The Exploiters

  A nurse begs Kildare to keep her father alive to avoid funeral costs.

• Season 3 Episode 5: A Game for Three

  An irresponsible intern accuses Kildare of having an affair with his wife.

• Season 3 Episode 4: The Heart, an Imperfect Machine

  A medical scientist (Pat Hingle) working on a heart/lung machine decides to use it on his ailing wife (Diane Baker) before it is perfected.

• Season 3 Episode 3: If You Can't Believe the Truth

  An industrialist (James Whitmore) being treated at Blair responds to a gold-digging nurse (Barbara Eden).

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Good Samaritan

  A farm couple sues Kildare after he delivers a stillborn child at the roadside following a traffic accident.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Whoever Heard of a Two-Headed Doll?

  Named resident at Blair, Kildare faces a dilemma, and a conflict with Gillespie.

Dr. Kildare: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 33: A Hand Held Out in Darkness

  Kildare cares for an unidentified little girl found unconscious in the park.

• Season 2 Episode 32: To Each His Prison

  An alcoholic patient reveals privileged information about a crime.

• Season 2 Episode 31: An Island Like a Peacock

  A young blind woman scorns the aid of the father who once deserted her.

• Season 2 Episode 30: The Gift of the Koodjanuk

  Kildare hopes a flamboyant patient will improve ward morale.

• Season 2 Episode 29: The Balance and the Crucible

  An intern's missionary wife meets a violent death in the jungle.

• Season 2 Episode 28: Tightrope Into Nowhere

  Kildare must decide how long to continue life support for a coma patient.

• Season 2 Episode 27: Ship's Doctor

  Gillespie hides his profession on a three-day luxury cruise.

• Season 2 Episode 26: The Sleeping Princess

  Kildare charms a teenage girl who lives in a fairy-tale world.

• Season 2 Episode 25: The Dark Side of the Mirror

  A wild-living girl bitterly refuses to donate a kidney to save her twin sister.

• Season 2 Episode 24: A Very Infectious Disease

  A middle-aged Australian intern has a harsh bedside manner.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Sister Mike

  Kildare considers reporting a young woman he suspects of beating her daughter.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Face of Fear

  A young lab technician (Robert Culp) thinks his outbursts are linked to mental illness, but Kildare and Gillespie suspect otherwise.

• Season 2 Episode 21: A Place Among the Monuments

  Kildare saves a girl who attempts suicide, but tragedy follows.

• Season 2 Episode 20: A Trip to Niagara

  A neuro-surgeon going blind wants to see Niagara with his wife.

• Season 2 Episode 19: The Jail Ward

  A policeman criticizes Kildare's thorough treatment of a cop killer.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Good Luck Charm

  An inexplicable paralysis seizes the healthy legs of a great actress.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Mosaic

  Kildare searches for the source of a potential hepatitis epidemic.

• Season 2 Episode 16: The Great Guy

  A comedian with a bone tumor refuses to face a possible amputation.

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Thing Speaks for Itself

  A woman's sudden death brings a malpractice suit on Kildare and the hospital.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Love Is a Sad Song

  A female intern must choose between Kildare and a surgical residency.

• Season 2 Episode 13: A Time to Every Purpose

  A teenage girl handles her eye injury better than her mother.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Bed I've Made

  Gillespie falls for the innovative new director of nursing, an attractive widow.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Legacy

  Kildare has mixed feelings about his testimony in a court case.

• Season 2 Episode 10: An Ancient Office

  In Kildare's hometown, the coroner hastily blames a mother for her baby's death.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Soul Killer

  A pretty nurse's strange behavior may be the effect of narcotics.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Cobweb Chain

  A sensitive Indian intern, reprimanded by Gillespie, nears his breaking point.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Breakdown

  A paranoid resident feels threatened by an overworked Kildare.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Hastings' Farewell

  An aphasia patient's hopeless wife plans to put him in a nursing home.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Guest Appearance

  A caustic TV host blames Kildare on the air for his son's death.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Mask Makers

  Kildare feels responsible when a plastic surgery patient attempts suicide.

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Visitors

  The pro-communist heir to a neutral country suffers from a brain tumor.

• Season 2 Episode 2: The Burning Sky

  A cocky medical student (Robert Redford) cracks under the pressure of treating forest-fire victims.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Gravida One

  A young expectant mother is frightened and uncooperative.

Dr. Kildare: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 33: Operation: Lazarus

  An experimental drug helps a psychotic whose wife had given up hope.

• Season 1 Episode 32: Road to the Heart

  Kildare wants to operate on a deaf boy, but the mother is unwilling.

• Season 1 Episode 31: A Distant Thunder

  An elderly war hero is admitted for malnutrition.

• Season 1 Episode 30: Something of Importance

  Kildare assists an ambitious doctor researching an incurable disease.

• Season 1 Episode 29: The Chemistry of Anger

  Haunted by his father's death, a doctor drives himself relentlessly.

• Season 1 Episode 28: The Horn of Plenty

  Kildare falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy doctor's patient.

• Season 1 Episode 27: One for the Road

  A doctor, recovering from alcoholism, starts a rehabilitation program.

• Season 1 Episode 26: A Very Present Help

  A remarkable nun helps a woman patient refusing an operation.

• Season 1 Episode 25: Solomon's Choice

  One woman suffers her fifth miscarriage; another won't look at her baby.

• Season 1 Episode 24: The Roaring Boy-O

  A drunk, trouble-making, has-been poet has only a few months to live.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Witch Doctor

  A quack convinces Kildare's patient her prescribed surgery is unnecessary.

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Bronc-Buster

  Kildare is embarrassed by his cousin, a back-slapping rodeo rider.

• Season 1 Episode 21: The Stepping Stone

  A pathologist asks a patient for permission to perform his autopsy.

• Season 1 Episode 20: The Dragon

  A frightened intern tries to blame his negligence on Dr. Kildare.

• Season 1 Episode 19: The Glory Hunter

  A famous jungle surgeon campaigns for money for his new hospital.

• Season 1 Episode 18: The Search

  Two cases of food poisoning set off a frantic search for the source.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Oh My Daughter

  Gillespie's daughter, three months pregnant, attempts suicide.

• Season 1 Episode 16: The Administrator

  A fight ensues when a hospital administrator fires a city appointee.

• Season 1 Episode 15: My Brother, the Doctor

  A hard-working accountant pays for his brother's medical education.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Johnny Temple

  A paranoid teenager, stabbed in a fight, springs a knife on Kildare.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Season to Be Jolly

  A raging, hung-over, well-educated sidewalk Santa is wheeled in Christmas Eve.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Hit and Run

  A terrified father refuses to allow surgery to save his son's arm.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Second Chance

  A promising surgeon suffers an incurable creeping paralysis.

• Season 1 Episode 10: For the Living

  A coma patient's family must decide whether to continue treatment.

• Season 1 Episode 9: The Patient

  Injuring his back, Kildare spends 72 hours in a room of unhappy patients.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Holiday Weekend

  A Blair intern is close to death after a holiday car accident.

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Lonely Ones

  In Kildare's hometown, an old friend's fiancee is behaving strangely.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Admitting Service

  A hasty diagnosis leads to a malpractice suit when an old man dies.

• Season 1 Episode 5: A Million Dollar Property

  An actress, part of a flamboyant clique, suffers a nervous breakdown.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Winter Harvest

  Gillespie worries about an old heart surgeon's fitness to operate.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Shining Image

  A beautiful actress and writer with a fatal disease falls in love with Kildare.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Immunity

  A Polish immigrant with smallpox triggers a search for carriers.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Twenty-Four Hours

  Gillespie criticizes Kildare for being abrupt with an abusive patient.