Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1969
O. J. Simpson plays a character he is familiar with, an All-American football player and No. 1 draft choice of the pros with a potential million dollar bonus. But he's sick. Nose bleeds and dizziness Indicate something serious, but he refuses to admit it. It's a dramatic and meaty role and with the help of Cicely Tyson, as his wife, O. J. does well.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1969
Young doctor Joe Gannon (Chad Everett) believes a child patient is the victim of a beating and has a run-in with the kid's father, Robert Lansing. In this series Gannon plays the fighter teeing off at those who interfere before the climactic scenes in surgery.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1969
A wounded college senior who has been under the influence of drugs staggers through the hospital's emergency entrance. There is lots going on in this case history about a college student with a bullet in his neck. Not only is there a drug angle and possible facial paralysis, but father rejection and a job offer from a friendly patient too.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1969
Guest star Barbara Rush portrays Nora Caldwell, a famed author's wife, who learns that her first pregnancy may be endangered by her heart condition.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1969
Lily Wu, an injured Vietnamese girl, is brought to the United States for treatment, then resists it.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1969
Tim Considine stars as a college student whose admission to the hospital for treatment of an internal ailment results in the discovery that he is a drug addict.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1969
The teenage daughter of a university professor suffers a kidney injury in an auto accident. Thousands of miles separates 19-year-old Jenny Webb from those she needs most. Jenny has a hermorrhaging kidney and a baby on the way, but her father feels only outrage, and her boy friend does not dig marriage.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1969
Dr. Roger Farrell takes over as hospital chief of surgery and immediately overrules Joe Gannon's opinion concerning one of his patients.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1969
Sorenson, a student (Michael Burns) makes an apparently unprovoked attack on a psychology professor. When the boy's behavior continues to be a problem, Dr. Gannon(Chad Everett) suspects the student has a physical problem which is manifesting itself in an emotional upset. Lloyd Bochner also is featured as the professor.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1969
Big name guest stars Walter Pidgeon and Viveca Lindfors add a touch of glamor to the hospital atmosphere. Pidgeon plays an ambassador with a bad ticker that requires surgery, but his son (Linden Chiles) opposes any such move. Doc Gannon first tries the reasoning approach with the son, and then brings in outside help in the person of Viveca Lindfors, a great and good friend of the ambassador's.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1969
A two-hankie show. In for a thyroid examination, a rich widow meets a cute Mexican kid whose mother was killed in a crosswalk accident. The widow is running away from involvement, but Doc Gannon brings the two together hoping for a happy ending.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1969
Doc Gannon hasn't had time for nurses this season, but in this episode he extends a helping hand to a student, with a feeling for her trouble. Belinda Montgomery plays a bumbling, well meaning nurse in need of a second chance.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1969
A behlnd-the-scenes look at interns competing for valuable residency posts. Doc Gannon plays mother hen, and is upset when a talented young woman doctor makes a mistake on a routine case. The lady, it seems, has an intern on her mind, and that isn't good. Patricia Quinn is the woman medic and she is easy to take, mistakes and all.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1970
Gannon gets a mysterious turndown when he asks the mother of a girl needing a kidney transplant to become her daughter's donor. He then discusses the case with the girl's father and begins to unfold tne reasons for the mother's strange attitude.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1970
Dr. Paul Lochner faces one of the most difficult assignments of his career when he must tell his daughter Jennifer that she has a serious arterial condition that may require surgery and possibly delay her planned wedding. Co-star James Daly's daughter Tyne Daly is the guest star.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1970
Fans see another side of hero Doc Gannon in this episode when he puts up a runaway kid in his apartment. Gannon displays sympathy listening to the youngster's complaints, while hunting for an answer to the blackouts suffered by the kid.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1970
Dr. Gannon has a dilemma seldom experienced on "Medical Center." A girl's blindness is brought to his attention after she had been in a motorcycle accident. While treating her injuries he becomes more and more interested in her blindness, which he diagnoses as stemming from a mental rather than physical cause. He can cure her, but he must bring back the shattering event that caused the blindness, and the girl's parents are fearful of the results.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1970
Martin Sheen guest stars as a young minister whose heart condition flares up to jeopardize his chances of maintaining a foundation for parolees.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1970
Marj Bowen is a veteran nurse who faces surgery and the fact that her job, to which she was dedicated, will no longer be possible for her to carry out. Head nurse Marge Bowen dispenses hope as well as pills, especially to a young singer who fears a throat operation.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1970
Medical Center doesn't stray too far from its basic premise for a love story. The girl in Dr. Gannon's life is played by Shelby Grant. She is a tour director the doctor meets while on a Mexican vacation.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1970
Doctor Gannon begins to treat his boyhood football idol and is startled to discover that ailing Ollie Wayne (Forrest Tucker) does not really seem to care whether or not he is cured. Gannon (Chad Everett) delves into the patient's personal life to find reasons for his peculiar behavior.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1970
Dr. Gannon locks horns with a co- worker when he insists on more tests on a purported cancer cure before using it on a 19-year old patient.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1970
Gannon squares off against angry father Carl Betz. Gannon has a Tartar in Betz who brings Joe before the medical board. With his forceful manner, Betz adds a flash of life to the show and manages to capture sympathy along the way.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1970
One of Doctor Gannon's associates whose son is a strong candidate for the Olympic diving team finds it difficult to believe that the young athlete has a muscular disease that could end chances for the International championships.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1970
This one is an interesting drama about a young resident doctor, a talented black who is denied a research grant. The resident suspects Doc Gannon lacks confidence in him and pressures our hero for the chance to perform a gallstone operation. Gannon gives in and then doubts his decision in the climatic surgery scenes.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1970
This series does its best with good guest performers, and in this episode, it's Sharon Farrell's turn to spark the hour. She plays a teaching assistant who wants sterilization, which requires a bit of digging into her background by our own Doc Gannon.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1970
The series opens its second season with a drama about a doctor who has symptons of multiple sclerosis. Just as surgeon Tom Forley (George Grizzard) is perfecting a new technique, he is stricken with a muscular ailment. The doctor cannot hide his crippling condition from his pretty wife Anne (Elizabeth Ashley), and she bares all to hero Joe Gannon.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1970
Guest star Paul Burke plays a dedicated research scientist whose vital work on a new drug is threatened when he receives anonymous letters.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1970
Gannon tries to save a 16-year-old girl from heroin addiction. His efforts are continually frustrated by her father, a professor who refuses to acknowledge the problem
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1970
Bradford Dillman guests as a methodical police inspector who is accumulating evidence that points to Gannon's protege, resident Carl Webson, as the psychopath responsible for the murder of a young woman.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1970
Vera Miles guest stars as an unbending woman doctor who clashes with Dr. Gannon after a coed's death from a bungled abortion.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1970
Maverick director of a ghetto clinic goes against the rules by shielding a stabbing victim and a young drug addict. William Devane gives a good performance as a doctor who runs a ghetto clinic but runs it by his own rules and even tosses out an inspector sent by the Center which supplies his funds.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1970
Dr. Gannon recommends treatment for Jenny, an abnormally active little girl. What do you do with a gifted child? Doc Gannon believes in a school for exceptional youngsters, and since he is the godfather of the child, he pushes a bit. Gannon's adversary is Mom, who takes an opposing position, and the friction between the two sparks the hour.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1970
Dr. Eric Canford, a brilliant surgeon, comes back from war service with a dinking problem but refuses to admit it is affecting his work.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1970
Dana Wynter appears as a witch doctor of sorts in a spooky episode. Chad Everett is involved because of a young student who has left the hospital (the fourth such girl to do so), even though she needs treatment for Addison's disease. Dick Kallman, who used to be Hank on the short-lived TV series, plays a superstitious doctor, the kind who doesn't want to operate on Friday the 13th.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1970
Suspicious Barry Sullivan flares up over his wife's appointments with Gannon while Joe, of course, remains Simon pure, merely keeping his patient's illness from her husband at her request.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1970
As it must to all TV heroes, blindness comes to Dr. Gannon on Medical Center. He's been in a car wreck, caused by bad brakes which, we soon learn, had been tampered with. It's not a good time for him, what with that young lady who needs heart surgery only he can perform. Frank Converse is the man who is trying to kill Gannon (and his motivation, when we finally learn it, is weak) and George Chakiris is a surgeon who may have to take over and operate in Gannon's greens — if he can learn the technique.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1970
More complications for Dr. Joe Gannon (Chad Everett), as a coed, suffering from a possible brain tumor, claims he fathered her unborn child. Of course, he's innocent, but the question is, would surgery endanger her pregnancy.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1970
Roddy McDowall plays a lawyer and Keenan Wynn a cop in a drama that has Gannon accused of shielding an injured cop who allegedly shot a student without provocation.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1970
A brash, long-haired surgeon runs afoul of his colleagues.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1970
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1971
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1971
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1971
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1971
17-year-old Baby Freitag is a mentally retarded girl who has been treated as an infant all her life.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1971
A hospital entertainer volunteers to help a girl who has tried to commit suicide, unaware that he himself is seriously ill.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1971
Tom Desmond is at his wits' end: he has a sick wife, a 3-month-old baby, no source of income and a towering pride that rejects all help.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1971
An insight into Lochner's personal life as Ruth, his ex-wife, and Bobbie, his daughter turn up at the hospital. Now widowed, Ruth Marlowe would like to pick up the pieces of a relationship shattered by an annulment many years before. However, here are obstacles: Ruth's heart condition-and her disapproving daughter.
Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1971
A once-brilliant surgeon has become very withdrawn. The crack surgeon who retires to do research and will not come out, shares the spotlight with Doc Gannon. The embittered medic is asked to perform a new operation on his former wife who will not allow a substitute.
Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1971
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1971
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1971
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1971
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1971
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1971
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1971
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1971
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1971
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1971
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1971
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1971
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1971
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1971
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1971
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1971
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1972
This episode concludes the murder mystery, but odds are you just have figured out the killer before Gannon beats the cops to the solution. Anyway, evidence piles up against Nora Crayton, Dr. Lochner's sister, and when she's in an accident and needs surgery, she doesn't seem to have any will to live. That little Oriental girl with the pancreas problem plays a major part in the solution to this. Part Two.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1972
A visiting woman doctor (Claudine Auger), an old flame of Dr. Gannon's, is accused by a hospital official of failing to give emergency aid to an accident victim.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1972
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1972
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1972
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1972
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1972
Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1972
Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1972
Season 4
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1972
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1972
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1972
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1972
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1972
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1972
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1972
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1972
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1972
A Mexican witch doctor and his physician son are involved in treatment of a woman who claims an evil spirit is causing her illness.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1972
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1972
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1972
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1972
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1972
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1973
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1973
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1973
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1973
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1973
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1973
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1973
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1973
Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1973
Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1973
Season 5
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1973
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1973
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1973
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1973
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1973
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1973
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1973
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1973
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1973
A drama about the relationship between an ailing prostitute and the idealistic young resident who is falling in love with her.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1973
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1973
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1973
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1974
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1974
Dr. Iris Cameron, a famed woman surgeon, whom Dr. Gannon considers to be "knife-happy" is appointed the Medical Center's chief of surgical services, and thereby becomes his superior. Dr. Gannon finds himself immediately at odds with Dr. Cameron over her tendency to decree instant surgery for seriously ill patients, whose fate now seems to hinge upon whether her free-swinging surgical philosophy or Dr. Gannon's conservative one is applied to them.
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1974
Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1974
Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1974
Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1974
Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1974
Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1974
Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1974
Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1974
Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1974
Loriss is a sinister professor of South American anthropology whose comely academic assistant is in critical condition— mental and physical— due to a possible voodoo curse.
Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1974
Season 6
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1974
Tough-talking Dr. Gannon opens his sixth season by confronting a gitted surgeon who wants to leave the hospital. The doctor is determined to start a new life after learning that his wife is a pornographic-movie star.
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1974
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1974
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1974
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1974
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1974
Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1974
Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1974
Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1974
Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1974
Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1974
Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1974
Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1974
Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1974
Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1974
Episode: 6x16 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1975
Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1975
Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1975
Episode: 6x19 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1975
Episode: 6x20 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1975
Episode: 6x21 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1975
Episode: 6x22 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1975
Episode: 6x23 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1975
Episode: 6x24 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1975
Season 7
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Sep 8, 1975
Dr. Joe Gannon finds himself helping a doctor friend decide a major medical change in his life.
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1975
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1975
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1975
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1975
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1975
Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1975
Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1975
Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1975
Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1975
Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1975
Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1975
Episode: 7x13 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1975
Episode: 7x14 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1975
Episode: 7x15 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1975
Episode: 7x16 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1976
Episode: 7x17 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1976
Episode: 7x18 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1976
Episode: 7x19 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1976
Episode: 7x20 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1976
Episode: 7x21 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1976
Episode: 7x22 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1976
Episode: 7x23 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1976
Episode: 7x24 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1976