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S7 E24 · If Wishes Were Horses
Medical Center is a drama TV series that premiered on CBS on September 24, 1969. It has 7 seasons and 170 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 7 Episode 24 "If Wishes Were Horses", aired on March 15, 1976.
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
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170 episodes · 7 seasons
1969 · 26 episodes · Last episode: 56 years ago
The story of a marriage tormented by lack of children.
An ambitious black resident (Georg Stanford Brown) is convinced that Gannon is preventing him from performing surgery.
Dr. Martin Lambert is blind to the fact that his older son suffers from a muscular disorder and that he has neglected his younger son.
A story about the need to treat venereal disease as a medical problem divorced from social stigma.
A research specialist (William Shatner) clashes with Gannon over a possible cancer cure.
A former gridiron idol (Forrest Tucker) finds living with his own legend unbearable.
A sensitive story about Gannon's love for an incurably ill woman (Shelby Grant).
The story of a dedicated head nurse (Mercedes McCambridge).
The director of a foundation for teenage parolees lays his life on the line to save one of his charges.
A blind student's recovery depends on recalling the horrible event that caused her loss of sight.
Dr. Gannon tries to bridge a gap between a 17-year-old and his gruff immigrant father.
Dr. Lochner's emotions conflict with his professional judgment when he faces a crisis concerning his own daughter.
A student facing kidney failure gets no comfort from her alienated family or her disinterested ex-husband.
Interns Steve Seagren and Katherine Kenter are both being considered for a much-prized residency.
Gannon stakes his reputation on the integrity of a student nurse (Belinda Montgomery).
A patient (Lee Grant) learns a lesson about life from a little boy (Fabian Gregory).
A U.S. ambassador (Walter Pidgeon) has a heart condition that could jeopardize a crucial meeting.
Dr. Gannon tries to prove that the suddenly violent behavior of student Greg Soreson stems from an organic ailment.
An intradepartmental dispute pits Gannon against the new acting chief of surgery (John Marley).
Jenny Webb (Brooke Bundy), with a hemorrhaging kidney and a baby on the way, is rejected by her angry father and uncaring boyfriend.
A story about drug addiction.
A Vietnamese war victim (France Nuyen) is being treated at the medical center.
The question of a therapeutic abortion divides Nora Caldwell (Barbara Rush) and her husband Dan (John McMartin).
Focuses on the psychological interplay between two patients in serious shape.
Although the father of a 7-year-old with severe internal injuries insists the child fell off an embankment, Dr. Gannon suspects the child was beaten.
Bru Wiley, a college football star up for Heisman honors and a top pro career, ignores his failing health.
1970 · 24 episodes · Last episode: 55 years ago
An aging doctor mistakenly believes that his medical practice is as good as ever. Pat Hingle as Dr. Farrring, a septuagenarian heart-transplant recipient whose mistaken faith in his new-found stamina could have tragic consequences for a young cancer patient.
A once-brilliant surgeon (Richard Kiley) has become totally withdrawn. Dr—Thomas Patton, once a brilliant surgeon, now specializes in pathology, where he works only with the dead. Nor can anything reawaken his interest in the living, not even the needs of his critically ill ex-wife.
An insight into Lochner's personal life with his ex-wife (Dina Merrill) and daughter (Charlotte Stewart).
The high cost of hospital care is dramatized.
The story of a troubled former vaudeville star (Jack Carter).
A mentally disabled teenager (Pamela Franklin) has been abandoned by her mother.
A missing radium implant could contaminate the entire hospital.
A deadly story of sibling conflict.
An intern who thinks his fiancee is ""wholesome"" doesn't know she contracted syphilis before they met.
Gannon tries to save the life of a seriously ill Indian chief and enroll the chief's son in a physician's-assistant training program.
A brash, long-haired surgeon (Gary Lockwood) runs afoul of his colleagues.
Gannon is accused of shielding a seriously injured cop who allegedly shot a student without provocation.
A hallucinating patient accuses Gannon of fathering her unborn child.
Blinded in an attack, Gannon is still being stalked by a would-be killer.
The problems of a patient who may face radical surgery. Doc Gannon demonstrates his noble side for the ladies, protecting Sandra Polk, a patient, when her husband becomes jealous. Suspicious professor Tink Polk 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.
Modern medicine clashes with black magic as Gannon tries to save a girl afflicted with Addison's Disease-and a belief in the all-pervading, healing powers of Satan. (60 mins)
The problems of a doctor who has trouble adjusting to civilian life after serving in Vietnam. Dr. Eric Canford, a brilliant surgeon, comes back from war service with a drinking problem but refuses to admit it is affecting his work.
The problems of parents with mentally disabled children are explored in this episode. 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.
William Devane guests as the maverick director of a free clinic. The maverick director of a ghetto clinic endangers its future by his refusal to follow rules in making reports on his patients to the police.
A woman doctor (Vera Miles) battles male prejudice.
A brooding young doctor (Gary Lockwood) is suspected of murdering a woman on hospital grounds.
A story about the feelings of parents whose teenagers are drug addicts. 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.
A dedicated research scientist's vital work on a new drug is threatened when anonymous letters accuse him of being a homosexual.
A surgeon's (George Grizzard) career may be ended by multiple sclerosis.
1971 · 24 episodes · Last episode: 54 years ago
A rape-murder mystery takes a grim twist with a confession by a young intern's fiance.
A woman (Ida Lupino) mysteriously turns against Gannon after he saves her husband's life.
A car-crash victim (Craig Stevens) awakes from a three-year coma to a nightmare: the crash killed his daughter and left him with an unforgiving wife.
A surgeon is offered a grim choice: his kidnapped wife will be saved if he can arrange the death of a certain patient.
A doctor (Monte Markham) is torn between a career in hospital administration and a return to surgical practice.
A doctor (Michael Callan) is driven back to alcoholism by the fear of losing his dying wife.
Bubonic plague is the villain in a medical conflict over the unidentified victim.
Gannon's romance with a woman doctor is plagued by a secret past.
Dr. Lochner's sister is the prime suspect in the conclusion of a murder story.
Change-of-pace suspense drama about Gannon's involvement with an ailing tycoon and his conflict-ridden household. First of two parts.
An 11-year-old orphan's chance for adoption is threatened by a mysterious illness.
A lung-cancer victim (Suzanne Pleshette) is determined to keep her nightmare a secret.
Medical quackery is the target of a drama in which a charming fraud (George Maharis) is risking the life of a young patient.
A student nurse (Susan Strasberg) is plagued by a bad marriage and a mysterious respiratory illness.
A surgeon's (Earl Hilliman) past comes back to haunt him: the once-convicted sex offender is now charged with child molesting.
An iron-willed lady (Jo Van Fleet) is determined to spend her life in a wheelchair.
A drama about mental retardation.
A troubled husband (Bradford Dillman) is being treated for psychological impotence.
A distinguished surgeon (Barry Sullivan) is losing the use of his hands.
Character studies of two critically ill patients who are jeopardizing their lives.
Artificial insemination plays a part in the story of a heart patient who risks her life to protect her sterile husband's pride.
A highly respected country doctor's (Forrest Tucker) long career as a bogus physician is about to be exposed.
A character study of an ambitious surgeon (Steve Lawrence).
A fugitive (William Windom) is torn between freedom and love for his anemic son.
1972 · 24 episodes · Last episode: 53 years ago
Dr. Lochner's one-time fiancee has a beautiful daughter who's gravely ill.
A woman (Stefanie Powers) refuses to admit symptoms of a serious illness.
An ailing boy's divorced parents can't agree whether to permit surgery.
A famous doctor's (Celeste Holm) own vital surgery must be delayed to help a man with a live bomb lodged in his chest.
Drama about the future of an illegitimate child whose father has been critically injured.
A surgeon's new procedure might save his dying wife, if he can conquer his drug addiction in time to operate.
A high-wire performer's illness might kill her if she continues her career.
The story of a desperately lonely hospital volunteer (Ruth Buzzi).
A woman convict's bitterness is threatening her success in a medical training program.
The success of a new surgical procedure is threatened by the surgeon's worry over his wife's erratic behavior.
A tortured relationship evolves between a lonely widow and the doctor who blames himself for her husband's death.
A doctor's puzzling spells of fatigue are hampering her work.
Problems for a college football hero include a drug habit, a serious illness and a disabled wife.
A nun has secrets that are hindering her recovery from a beating and rape.
A brilliant researcher is taking great pains to conceal his past.
Superstition vs. science as a critically ill woman refuses medical help.
The ugly-duckling story is no fairy tale to a patient who thinks she's so second-rate that she wants to die.
A drama about an unemployed man married to a doctor.
A hospital volunteer (Geraldine Page) has a horrifying secret.
Tragedy for a 42-year-old intern: he's fallen in love with a critically ill patient.
A drama about deafness and family strife.
The story of a growing attachment between an injured teenager and his critically ill roommate.
A woman refuses an emergency operation for fear it will endanger her pregnancy.
A doctor (William Windom) has a premonition that his wife will die in surgery.
1973 · 24 episodes · Last episode: 52 years ago
A critically ill scientist is determined to attend an important European conference, despite Gannon's warnings that the trip might kill her.
A staff doctor thinks a patient's baffling symptoms are the result of a voodoo curse.
An impoverished ventriloquist may lose custody of his orphaned nephew when the boy develops a serious heart condition.
An accused rapist may not live to see a fair trial. The victim's boyfriend has already beaten him severely, and is waiting to finish the job.
A young genius becomes the center of a custody battle between his critically ill mother and a wealthy, would-be benefactress.
Determined to save a critically ill patient, a surgeon is hiding his own serious malady from his colleagues.
While investigating conditions in a mental hospital, Gannon falls in love with an amnesiac whose blinding headaches have gone untreated by the staff.
A seriously ill surgeon tries to hide his condition long enough to perform lifesaving surgery on his ex-wife.
Gannon's patient needs a kidney transplant, and her only hope of a compatible donor is her father — a convict who is serving time for murder.
A proud man must decide whether to live with a dangerous illness, or submit to surgery which might cause impotence.
Sparks fly when Gannon and the newly-appointed chief of surgery begin to clash on medical opinions.
An arrogant young resident refuses to submit to authority.
A derelict fakes her way into the hospital for free room and board, unaware that she is suffering from a serious disease.
Gannon is receiving bloodcurdling murder threats that contain only one clue: the would-be killer is someone on the hospital staff.
Compulsive gambling is ruining the life of a once-fine surgeon.
An idealistic young resident falls in love with an ailing prostitute.
A wounded child from war-torn Northern Ireland baffles Gannon by showing no desire to get well.
A champion diver is ignoring an illness that could end her career.
Romance ends for Gannon when his girlfriend's husband, missing for six years in Vietnam, comes home to reclaim his wife and son.
The horror of crib death is explored in this story about a couple who lose their 4-month-old child.
A lesbian psychiatrist is plagued by prejudice against her life style.
Bent on proving his virility, an aging surgeon becomes involved with a young patient.
An emergency call to a mountain community leads Gannon to a patient guarded by mysterious, gun-toting townsfolk.
A young woman is stricken with hysterical paralysis after seeing her mother with a lover.
1974 · 24 episodes · Last episode: 51 years ago
A woman is torn between her desire to live with her lover in Greece, and her duty to her brother, who needs transfusions of her blood.
A hospital explosion traps Gannon and five others in the basement.
Camaraderie turns to rivalry when 12 medical students compete for seven internships.
A convicted child molester will be granted parole only if he takes a drug that might cause impotence.
The ailing and neglected wife of a charismatic politician asks Gannon to keep her presence in the hospital a secret.
A European princess (Suzy Kendall) escapes her bodyguard and winds up in Gannon's arms.
A pregnant nurse dosen't want to raise a second child without the help of her errant husband.
A former movie star's will to live is undermined by a failing marriage and ill health.
An orphan's need for open-heart surgery may frighten away prospective parents.
An adolescent girl needs surgery, but she won't help Gannon locate her parents so he can get their consent.
A conniving young patient (Belinda J. Montgomery) tries to drive a wedge between a wealthy woman (Kim Hunter) and her clinging son (David Soul).
A pregnant young widow (Brooke Bundy), arrested for unlawful midwifery, learns that she has cervical cancer.
A heart patient's recovery is endangered when she falls in love with a mentally disabled young man.
A Jewish researcher is harassed by young anti-Semites who are led by a hospital orderly (David Macklin).
Job and social discrimination against cured cancer patients is the theme of this story about a woman (Shirley Knight) who undergoes a mastectomy.
A socialite (Vera Miles) tries to bribe a handsome tennis pro (Peter Coffield) into romancing her dying daughter (Pamela Franklin).
A convict who agrees to participate in a cancer-research experiment tries to sabotage the project.
A former priest (Tim O'Connor) is captivated by a second-rate nightclub singer (Rita Moreno) who faces a dangerous operation.
A mechanic is oddly reluctant to consent to an operation for his wheelchair-bound daughter (Deborah Winters).
A husband anguishes over the responsibility he feels toward his ill wife and the love he feels for her best friend.
A patient refuses to divulge information about herself that might prevent a deadly epidemic.
A cancer patient doesn't know whether to believe her faith-healer husband's assurances that he can cure her.
After learning that his wife is a pornographic-movie star, a gifted surgeon wants to leave the hospital.
1975 · 24 episodes · Last episode: 50 years ago
A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.
A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.
An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.
The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.
Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.
The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.
The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.
Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.
Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.
A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.
A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.
One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.
An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.
A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.
An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.
Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.
Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.
The son of a wealthy Middle Eastern oil magnate upsets Medical Center operations with his "money buys everything" attitude.
A study of teen-age prostitution: the daughter of a successful surgeon takes to the streets in a desperate bid for attention.
Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.
A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.
On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.
A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.
A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.
Created by Frank Glicksman and Al C. Ward
Tim O'Connor
Pamela Franklin
Beverly Garland
Meredith Baxter
Dana Wynter
France Nuyen
Vic Tayback
David Birney
Joanna Miles
Glenn Corbett
Jessica Walter
John Colicos
Nick Nolte
Tank
Paul Burke
Perry King
Ken Howard
Medical Center has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on March 15, 1976.
The most recent episode of Medical Center, Season 7 Episode 24 "If Wishes Were Horses", aired on March 15, 1976.
Medical Center has 7 seasons with 170 episodes in total.
Medical Center first aired on CBS on September 24, 1969.
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