Medical Center Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Medical Center: Season 7 (1995)

• Season 7 Episode 24: If Wishes Were Horses

  Three doctors try to operate a community hospital in a tough ghetto district.

• Season 7 Episode 23: The Happy State of Depression

  A pair of depressives, a cynic and a romantic, begin an unlikely romance.

• Season 7 Episode 22: Major Annie, M.D.

  An Army surgeon implicates her fiance in an unauthorized drug experiment.

• Season 7 Episode 21: Life, Death, and Mrs. Armbruster

  The mother of a fired resident refuses surgery unless her son is reinstated.

• Season 7 Episode 20: The Touch of Sight

  Dr. Gannon helps an intern, blinded in an accident, to continue in medicine.

• Season 7 Episode 19: The Stranger

  Dr. Gannon discovers a suicidal split-personality has committed four murders.

• Season 7 Episode 18: Child of Conflict

  A Vietnamese prostitute finds her lost child adopted by friends of Dr. Gannon.

• Season 7 Episode 17: You Can't Annul My Baby

  A man demands his 15-year-old daughter give her baby up for adoption.

• Season 7 Episode 16: A Very Private War

  Gannon suspects a Russian surgeon's misjudgments are politically motivated.

• Season 7 Episode 15: The Silent Witness

  Dr. Gannon must convince a nurse to identify the man who brutally beat her.

• Season 7 Episode 14: The High Cost of Winning

  A tennis pro (Erik Estrada) blames performance anxiety on a physical ailment.

• Season 7 Episode 13: Gift From a Killer

  An escaped convict must risk capture by police to save a dying child.

• Season 7 Episode 12: The Eighth Deadly Sin

  A famous surgeon has trouble accepting the limitations of his age.

• Season 7 Episode 11: One Last Rebellion

  Nursing home inmates hold the Director hostage to protest intolerable conditions.

• Season 7 Episode 10: Two Against Death

  A surgeon must operate on a girl who is the key to his son's emotional recovery.

• Season 7 Episode 9: The Last Performance

  Love reunites Dr. Lochner with an opera star who may be dying.

• Season 7 Episode 8: Too Late for Tommorrow

  A dying surgeon abandons a patient to fulfill his dreams of adventure.

• Season 7 Episode 7: Street Girl

  A surgeon is shocked by her daughter's arrest for prostitution.

• Season 7 Episode 6: The Price of a Child

  A wealthy Arab falls in love and examines his materialistic values.

• Season 7 Episode 5: The Velvet Knife

  A young patient becomes infatuated with an unwilling Dr. Gannon.

• Season 7 Episode 4: No Hiding Place

  Dr. Gannon must decide whether to expose a colleague's war record.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Torment

  A dying patient forces Dr. Gannon to confront his own past.

• Season 7 Episode 2: The Fourth Sex - Part Two

  Gannon discusses the sex-change operation with Pat (Robert Reed) and the family.

• Season 7 Episode 1: The Fourth Sex - Part One

  A surgeon (Robert Reed) wants to have a sex change.

Medical Center: Season 6

• Season 6 Episode 24: The Rip-Off

  A girl is paid to convince a disillusioned rock star to have surgery, who finds her out.

• Season 6 Episode 23: Half a Life

  A spinster must choose between marriage and caring for her ailing brother.

• Season 6 Episode 22: Aftershock

  Gannon protects his patient from fellow victims trapped in a collapsed hospital wing.

• Season 6 Episode 21: Survivors

  Tension mounts when twelve top students vie for seven open internships.

• Season 6 Episode 20: If Mine Eye Offends Me

  A convicted child molester disputes winning parole by taking an impotence-inducing drug.

• Season 6 Episode 19: The Invisible Wife

  A famed politician's wife enters the hospital incognito, and asks to stay that way.

• Season 6 Episode 18: Crown of Thorns

  Gannon does not know his new love is a European princess targeted by political enemies.

• Season 6 Episode 17: The Captives

  A pregnant nurse plans to give up her baby and finds the fetus has a birth defect.

• Season 6 Episode 16: No Way Home

  A former film star (Cyd Charisse) falls ill while attempting to revive her career.

• Season 6 Episode 15: The Hostile Heart

  A young orphan's heart defect jeopardizes his chances for adoption.

• Season 6 Episode 14: Saturday's Child

  Trying to save her life, Gannon shields a young runaway from police.

• Season 6 Episode 13: Kiss and Kill

  A vicious young psychotic is destroying a surgeon's confidence and Gannon's career.

• Season 6 Episode 12: Midwife

  A mother-to-be resists surgery, afraid for her baby's health.

• Season 6 Episode 11: Three on a Tightrope

  An intelligent, irresponsible patient falls for a mentally impaired man.

• Season 6 Episode 10: Heel of the Tyrant

  A gentle researcher is targeted by a fascist group. With Katherine Helmond.

• Season 6 Episode 9: Tainted Lady

  A former cancer patient is stigmatized by her employer.

• Season 6 Episode 8: The Bribe

  An interfering socialite hires a suitor for her ailing daughter, and is found out.

• Season 6 Episode 7: The Prisoners

  An ailing heiress and a bitter convict help keep each other alive.

• Season 6 Episode 6: May God Have Mercy

  An ex-priest falls for a blues singer who may be crippled for life.

• Season 6 Episode 5: The Shattered Mask

  Gannon saves a chronic invalid from her domineering father.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Three-Cornered Cage

  A mental patient has a relapse upon learning of her husband's affair.

• Season 6 Episode 3: Faces of Peril

  An illegal alien infects his girlfriend, who refuses to name him.

• Season 6 Episode 2: The Demi-God

  A faith healer (Marjoe Gortner) resists care for his ill wife (Meredith Baxter).

• Season 6 Episode 1: Adults Only

  A resident (Monte Markham) learns his wife (Joan Van Ark) is making X-rated movies.

Medical Center: Season 5

• Season 5 Episode 24: Appointment With Danger

  An ill scientist gambles her life to further her career.

• Season 5 Episode 23: Hexed

  A South American girl's voodoo-induced seizures resist modern treatment.

• Season 5 Episode 22: The World's a Balloon

  A struggling ventriloquist (Dom DeLuise) is shaken by his nephew's heart ailment.

• Season 5 Episode 21: The Conspirators

  A boy's life is at risk when a gang leader's girl falsely accuses him of rape.

• Season 5 Episode 20: The Enemies

  Two widows -- one wealthy, one poor -- claim to be a boy's mother.

• Season 5 Episode 19: The Spectre

  An ailing doctor risks his patient's life to prove his thesis before he dies.

• Season 5 Episode 18: Girl From Bedlam

  Gannon falls for an amnesiac, cures her, and finds she is married.

• Season 5 Episode 17: Dark Warning

  Gannon is talked through a delicate surgery by an expert too sick to do it himself.

• Season 5 Episode 16: No Escape

  The man who killed her father is a girl's only hope for a kidney transplant.

• Season 5 Episode 15: A Choice of Evils

  A proud man must choose between lifesaving surgery or possible impotence.

• Season 5 Episode 14: Trial by Knife

  Gannon clashes with a 'knife-happy' superior (Rosemary Murphy).

• Season 5 Episode 13: Web of Intrigue

  A rebellious doctor's views threaten the lives of two patients - one his own child.

• Season 5 Episode 12: Deadly Game

  A derelict who fakes her way into the hospital turns out to be truly ill.

• Season 5 Episode 11: Nightmare

  The killer stalking Gannon is a hospital co-worker.

• Season 5 Episode 10: A Life at Stake

  A doctor's (Bradford Dillman) compulsive gambling risks his career and his wife's life.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Woman for Hire

  A resident (Barry Primus) falls for a patient (Jessica Walter) and finds she is a call girl.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Child of Violence

  A reporter's insistence on a boy's unwilling return to war-torn Ireland seems inexplicable.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Stranger in Two Worlds

  A world-class diver ignores her illness to concentrate on her career. With Joan Blondell.

• Season 5 Episode 6: The Casualty

  Gannon falls for a co-worker whose husband returns after years as a Vietnam prisoner of war.

• Season 5 Episode 5: Clash of Shadows

  A miscarriage-prone woman mourning the death of her adopted child becomes pregnant again.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Impasse

  A patient overreacts to the news that her psychiatrist is a lesbian.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Broken Image

  A surgeon's (William Windom) midlife crisis threatens his career and marriage.

• Season 5 Episode 2: Time of Darkness

  Gannon risks going to a hostile small town to help a patient and find a killer.

• Season 5 Episode 1: The Guilty

  A girl (Belinda J. Montgomery) must face a family secret to cure her hysterical paralysis.

Medical Center: Season 4

• Season 4 Episode 24: The Vortex

  His fiancee's daughter's illness forces Dr. Lochner to choose between love and medicine.

• Season 4 Episode 23: Fatal Memory

  Gannon prevents a grieving, ailing woman's (Stefanie Powers) suicide.

• Season 4 Episode 22: Impact

  With her son's life in the balance, a woman must bare her guilty secret.

• Season 4 Episode 21: No Margin for Error

  Gannon's heroics inspire a doctor (Celeste Holm) to reevaluate her own life.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Night Cry

  A businesswoman refuses to help her late husband's illegitimate son.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Between Two Fires

  A surgeon (Larry Hagman) endures morphine withdrawal to save his wife's (Barbara Feldon) life.

• Season 4 Episode 18: End of the Line

  An ailing performer feels the show must go on to save her grandfather's circus.

• Season 4 Episode 17: The Judgment

  A single mother and a lonely hospital volunteer learn they can help each other.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Question of Guilt

  An apprentice physician's assistant will not believe Gannon's interest in her is strictly professional.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Pressure Point

  A brilliant surgeon must choose between his career and caring for his mentally ill wife.

• Season 4 Episode 14: A Game for One Player

  A doctor (Robert Foxworth) suffers from an unhealthy emotional dependency.

• Season 4 Episode 13: No Way Out

  An ailing doctor must decide between marrying a millionaire or practicing medicine.

• Season 4 Episode 12: The Gladiator

  Gannon challenges the sanctioned use of drugs by athletes. With William Devane.

• Season 4 Episode 11: No Sanctuary

  A tough cop helps a nun who was raped regain her faith.

• Season 4 Episode 10: The Outcast

  A man who once committed a mercy killing is suspected of doing it again.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Tico Taco, M.D.

  A Mexican healer and his doctor son clash over a superstitious woman's treatment.

• Season 4 Episode 8: The Fallen

  A depressed patient (Lee Purcell) delays needed surgery to run off with a phony adventurer.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Doctor and Mister Harper

  An ailing man (Paul Burke) must face his limitations and accept his wife's (Diana Muldaur) career.

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Betrayed

  A wild teen must be separated from her new-found friend (Geraldine Page) before treatment.

• Season 4 Episode 5: The Torn Man

  An intern (Harry Guardino) is disillusioned with medicine when his new wife dies of cancer.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Wall of Silence

  A family secret is the cause of a boy's hysterical deafness.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Condemned

  The death of his roommate makes a young patient (Sean Kelly) distrust Gannon.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Cycle of Peril

  A false pregnancy threatens a woman's life and marriage.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Vision of Doom

  A psychic's vision of his wife dying in surgery is part of a lovers' plot.

Medical Center: Season 3

• Season 3 Episode 24: Conflict

  When a politician dies, his family accuses Gannon of malpractice.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Confession

  A man confesses to a rape he did not commit, jeopardizing his fiancee's medical career.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Awakening

  A wife (Barbara Rush) does not adjust well to her husband's recovery from a long coma.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Deadlock

  A patient's life is the ransom for a surgeon's (Michael Tolan) hostage wife.

• Season 3 Episode 20: The Choice

  A young doctor (Monte Markham) chooses between a fast-track career or a slow rural practice.

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Secret

  A reformed alcoholic (Michael Callan) backslides when his wife ails.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Terror

  Gannon and a public health officer clash over a hunt for a plague carrier.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Fatal Decision

  Gannon rekindles an old flame (Claudine Auger) with a torrid past.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Shock - Part Two

  Gannon turns from surgeon to sleuth to clear himself and Lochner's sister from murder charges.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Shock - Part One

  Gannon uncovers a murder, only to find himself a prime suspect.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Conspiracy

  Gannon debates hurting a friendship or violating a patient's confidence.

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Nowhere Child

  A marital crisis badly affects an adopted boy.

• Season 3 Episode 12: The Pawn

  A quack doctor (George Maharis) romances and endangers a seriously ill patient.

• Season 3 Episode 11: The Loser

  Financial pressure drives a medical student (Susan Strasberg) to prostitution.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Suspected

  Gannon defends a doctor accused of a sex offense.

• Season 3 Episode 9: The Martyr

  A chronic invalid believes refusing a cure will protect her son.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Albatross

  A paralyzed man's mentally impaired brother (Michael Douglas) and fearful fiancee learn they can help him.

• Season 3 Episode 7: The Shattered Man

  An impotent husband saves his marriage by confronting his rich father-in-law.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Circle of Power

  An ill surgeon (Barry Sullivan) resists retirement.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Idol Maker

  An evangelist's (Pamela Payton-Wright) husband and faith oppose her needed surgery.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Double Jeopardy

  An artificially inseminated wife's (Stefanie Powers) heart condition may warrant an abortion.

• Season 3 Episode 3: The Imposter

  Gannon must expose his former idol (Forrest Tucker) as a quack.

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Corrupted

  A doctor's (Steve Lawrence) ambition risks his father's life.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Blood Line

  A fugitive (William Windom) with a rare blood type is the only one who can save his son.

Medical Center: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 24: Crossroads

  Gannon helps an aging surgeon (Pat Hingle) find a new career.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Man in Hiding

  A doctor's (Richard Kiley) career and self-esteem are restored by his ex-wife.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Perfection of Vices

  Lochner's ex-wife (Dina Merrill) surfaces with a daughter she claims is his.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Countdown

  A man (Peter Strauss) tries to steal hospital funds to pay his wife's medical bills.

• Season 2 Episode 20: Edge of Violence

  A man (Jack Carter) with a brain tumor cheers a suicidal girl (Joan Van Ark), then attacks her.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Secret Heritage

  Gannon rescues an unwanted teen (Pamela Franklin) misdiagnosed as mentally impaired.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Danger Point

  A lost radioactive implant endangers Medical Center personnel.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Web of Darkness

  A near-fatal mishap reveals a sister's sinister plot.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Woman In Question

  An intern's love affair develops medical complications.

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Savage Image

  An Indian medicine man (Geoffrey Deuel) battles prejudice to study modern treatment.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Man at Bay

  Gannon unwillingly supports a rebellious, brilliant doctor (Gary Lockwood) against higher-ups.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Crisis

  Gannon treats opposing victims of a campus riot.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Accused

  A student (Belinda Montgomery) of Gannon claims he fathered her unborn baby.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Trial by Terror

  Temporarily blind Gannon is stalked by a would-be killer.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Deadly Encounter

  A jealous husband (Barry Sullivan) accuses Gannon of malpractice.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Witch Hunt

  A superstitious patient (Joan Delaney) must choose between witchcraft and medicine.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Death Grip

  A surgeon (Steve Forrest) returned from Vietnam must face his alcoholism.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Scream of Silence

  A wife (Lois Nettleton) hurts her marriage by refusing to admit her child's retardation.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Ghetto Clinic

  Gannon clashes with a protege (William Devane) over a drug clinic's policies.

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Clash

  An ambitious surgeon (Vera Miles) slanders Gannon to win his job.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Assailant

  Only Gannon believes a resident (Gary Lockwood) is innocent of rape.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Junkie

  A junkie's (Heidi Vaughn) parents learn they are pressuring her into drug abuse.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Undercurrent

  Gannon battles bigotry to champion a researcher's (Paul Burke) lifesaving discoveries.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Brink of Doom

  Gannon helps an ailing colleague (George Grizzard), then is accused of professional piracy.

Medical Center: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 26: Between Darkness and Daylight

  Gannon finds his aide's (Sharon Farrell) motives for sterilization surgery to be suspect.

• Season 1 Episode 25: Rebel in White

  A resident (Georg Stanford Brown) unjustly accuses Gannon of bigotry.

• Season 1 Episode 24: His Brother's Keeper

  A doctor neglects one son (David Cassidy) to favor the other (Ben Murphy).

• Season 1 Episode 23: The V.D. Story

  Protecting a patient's privacy puts Gannon's job in jeopardy.

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Combatants

  A researcher's (William Shatner) untested 'cure' does more harm than good.

• Season 1 Episode 21: The Professional

  Gannon makes an ex-athlete (Forrest Tucker) face reality.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Care Is No Cure

  Vacationer Gannon must operate on his fatally ill new love (Shelby Grant).

• Season 1 Episode 19: A Matter of Tomorrow

  A dedicated nurse (Mercedes McCambridge) fears being unable to work after surgery.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Duel With Doom

  A hip clergyman (Martin Sheen) risks his life to help a young parolee (Bruce Davison).

• Season 1 Episode 17: Fright and Flight

  Parental opposition impedes Gannon's efforts to restore a girl's (Heidi Vaughn) sight.

• Season 1 Episode 16: The Runaway

  A runaway (Richard Thomas) refuses to get parental permission for an operation.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Moment of Decision

  Lochner must decide whether to treat his ill daughter or reassign her case.

• Season 1 Episode 14: The Deceived

  Family secrets and conflicts emerge when a girl (Carrie Snodgrass) needs a kidney transplant.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Adversaries

  Gannon and Lochner each favor a different intern competing for a job.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Twenty-Four Hours

  Gannon restores a student nurse's (Belinda Montgomery) self-confidence after a patient dies.

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Loner

  A grieving orphan (Fabian Gregory) resists help from a wealthy widow (Lee Grant).

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Fallen Image

  An ambassador must choose between having life-saving surgery or continuing vital diplomacy.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Jeopardy

  A student's violent actions are caused by physical problems.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Sharpest Edge

  Gannon and his new boss (John Marley) clash over a patient's treatment.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Thousands and Thousands of Miles

  An unwed pregnant girl's parents are unsupportive.

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Crooked Circle

  Gannon gets an addict (Tim Considine) off drugs, but needed medication may return his habit.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Battle of Lily Wu

  An injured Vietnamese girl (France Nuyen) comes to America for treatment, then resists it.

• Season 1 Episode 4: A Life Is Waiting

  Gannon helps an ailing woman (Barbara Rush) continue her pregnancy.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Emergency in Ward E

  A loud-mouthed salesman (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) is a suicidal boy's (Robert Pine) unlikely savior.

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Victim

  Gannon suspects a boy's bruises come from abuse, not accident.

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Last 10 Yards

  An aspiring football star (O.J. Simpson) refuses treatment that may harm his career.