Medic - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes31
DatesSep 5, 1955 - Aug 27, 1956
Episodes
Season 2Episode 130 min
All the Lonely Night
Pretty, young Helen has a collapsing colon. Unless she consents to surgery to open up a new elimination canal and container bag, she will die. But what will that mean to a young woman's self-image and life style. Daring topic for its time.
Sep 5, 1955
Season 2Episode 230 min
Walk with Lions
Unaware that he has developed diabetes, a struggling young prizefighter who is also a gifted artist endangers his life by continuing to push himself in order to earn the money needed to further his education.
Sep 12, 1955
Season 2Episode 330 min
And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)
Immediately after giving birth to her fourth child, Frances Dunbar develops a severe case of postpartum depression and becomes convinced that she can (and will) violently murder the baby.
Sep 26, 1955
Season 2Episode 430 min
And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)
After unsuccessfully attempting to kill her baby, Frances Dunbar voluntarily admits herself to a state psychiatric institution where she receives treatment that slowly helps her to realize the reasons for her troubled mental state.
Oct 3, 1955
Season 2Episode 530 min
A Room, a Boy, and Mr. Bodine
A young boy, neglected by his wealthy parents, builds a dream world of his own with the help of his tattered teddy bear, Mr. Bodine. This aggravates his asthmatic condition, as he is allergic to the teddy bear.
Oct 10, 1955
Season 2Episode 630 min
When I Was Young
When Gwen Kellogg becomes depressed, modern treatment helps restore her to health
Oct 24, 1955
Season 2Episode 730 min
When Mama Says Jump
Dr. Styner offers advice and support when a 17-year-old track star develops severe acne and chronic fatigue due to stresses caused by his demanding mother's determination to see him achieve his father's dream of Olympic stardom.
Oct 31, 1955
Season 2Episode 830 min
Candle of Hope
A citrus farmer gets married at age 45. He then wants a son but is unable to have one. He visits the doctor to get help.
Nov 7, 1955
Season 2Episode 930 min
Black Friday
Little known but true story about an Army doctor who tried to save Abraham Lincoln's life. Dr. Charles A. Leale was in the audience at Ford's Theater when John Wilkes Booth fired the fatal shot at President Lincoln. For 12 hours Leale and two other doctors worked desperately against death.
Nov 21, 1955
Season 2Episode 1030 min
Glass of Fear
Comic strip artist Dick Hooper does a nationally syndicated feature called "Salty", but he can't make his due dates for finished cartoons because he's become obsessed with germs and various muscle and stomach pains that doctors can't locate. He's become a raging hypochondriac that's about to lose his wife and career.
Nov 28, 1955
Season 2Episode 1130 min
Pray Judgement
A county coroner's investigation will exonerate or incriminate a distraught spinsterish woman who was alone with her younger sister's baby boy when the infant died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Dec 5, 1955
Season 2Episode 1230 min
The World So High
During World War Two, pilots are able to take aircraft higher and higher, but they keep fainting out when parachuting out. A young doctor proceeds to do experiments back in the states on the most likely of these pilots to falter. Controlled high altitude simulations prove dangerous, but necessary.
Dec 26, 1955
Season 2Episode 1330 min
A Time for Sleep
The story of the contribution of the anesthesiologist to medicine. An elderly woman must undergo a thyroid operation. A large part of the success of such an operation is in the deft hands and decisions of the anesthesiologist.
Jan 2, 1956
Season 2Episode 1430 min
The Laughter and the Weeping
Due to circumstances at home, a young man needs to help take care of his mom and ailing father. He can't finish college and resorts to Professional Wrestling to make money. Can he restore his appearance and his dignity?
Jan 15, 1956
Season 2Episode 1530 min
Just Like Your Father
An elderly judge who has no close relatives is taken seriously ill. After he collapses, his ailment is diagnosed as a pancreatic tumor.
Jan 23, 1956
Season 2Episode 1630 min
If Tomorrow Be Sad
A successful photographer's model is told she is a victim of multiple sclerosis. Her unsympathetic husband decides he now wants a divorce.
Feb 6, 1956
Season 2Episode 1730 min
The Homecoming
Leprosy victim Allan Connolly is finally pronounced healthy and fit to resume a productive life in normal society, but he and his wife are unprepared for the rejection and irrational fear evinced by their friends and neighbors.
Feb 13, 1956
Season 2Episode 1830 min
Who Search for Truth
This is the story of Alexis St. Martin, a young fur trapper who was shot in the side and was used by Dr. William Beaumont for research into the function of the human digestive system.
Feb 27, 1956
Season 2Episode 1930 min
The Glorious Red Gallagher
A troubled woman has given birth to a baby by Caesarian section and has lost the will to live. She is put in the care of nurse Clara Mary Gallagher, who is retiring the next day after 39 years of service.
Mar 12, 1956
Season 2Episode 2030 min
My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend
This is the story of years of research to discover the cause of blindness in prematurely born infants.
Mar 19, 1956
Season 2Episode 2130 min
Awake Unto Spring
In today's episode, an eight year old boy with Muscular Dystrophy is in the care of the only family he has left -- his grandfather.
Mar 26, 1956
Season 2Episode 2230 min
Don't Count the Stars
An arrogant and self-aggrandizing singer's relentless drive for success is unceremoniously halted when he learns that his hoarseness is not due to vocal overwork, but to a potentially malignant cancer of the larynx.
Apr 9, 1956
Season 2Episode 2330 min
The Inconstant Heart
Although resigned to the fact that he had an incurable heart ailment, a man is badgered by his wife into going to a doctor. Tonight's story concerns radiology, and viewers see the UCLA medical center and its cancer-treating cobalt bomb.
Apr 23, 1956
Season 2Episode 2430 min
Someday We'll Laugh
A father, grateful to a doctor for saving his daughter's life, offers to finance the much-needed equipment for his office.
May 7, 1956
Season 2Episode 2530 min
To the Great - A Most Seldom Gift
Navy surgeon saves life of sailor injured in sea explosion.
May 24, 1956
Season 2Episode 2630 min
The Good Samaritan
Dr. Styner is sued for malpractice by a man whose wife was left partially paralyzed after a car accident.
May 31, 1956
Season 2Episode 2730 min
Reach for a Giant (1)
In today's episode, a man develops a crippling arthritic spinal condition.
Jun 11, 1956
Season 2Episode 2830 min
Reach for a Giant (2)
A man with nothing left to lose agrees to a very rare spinal surgery.
Jun 18, 1956
Season 2Episode 2930 min
Till the Song is Done...Till the Dance is Gone
This is the story of a young girl named Mary. She has a weak heart due to a defective heart valve. Doctors race to operate on her after she collapses at a dance she attended with her classmates.
Jul 9, 1956
Season 2Episode 3030 min
She Walks in Beauty
It's summer vacation and Jenny is a 12 year old girl with a club foot. Her parents are worried about her "ugly deformity" as they refer to it, and whether anybody will marry her when she's older. They take her to see a specialist to see if he can surgically repair her club foot.
Aug 6, 1956
Season 2Episode 3130 min
This Stange Ending
Promising 19-year-old ballerina Laurie Allen's 1947 death from cancer becomes a personal obsession for newspaper reporter Joe Bailey, who conducts a series of interviews that he hopes will reveal the true story behind her untimely demise.
Aug 27, 1956
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