Medical Center - Season 5

Medical Center - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes24
DatesSep 10, 1973 - Apr 15, 1974
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Episodes

The Guilty
Season 5Episode 160 min

The Guilty

Shattered trust and an emotional crisis open a fifth season of medical and psychological dramas. Dr. Gannon's patient is a young woman who is stricken with hysterical paralysis after seeing her mother with a lover. Julie Harris plays her guilt-ridden parent.

Sep 10, 1973
Time of Darkness
Season 5Episode 260 min

Time of Darkness

An emergency call to a mountain community leads Gannon to a patient guarded by mysterious, gun-toting townsfolk.
Sep 17, 1973
Broken Image
Season 5Episode 360 min

Broken Image

Bent on proving his virility, an aging surgeon becomes involved with a young patient.
Sep 24, 1973
Impasse
Season 5Episode 460 min

Impasse

A lesbian psychiatrist is plagued by prejudice against her life style.
Oct 1, 1973
Clash of Shadows
Season 5Episode 560 min

Clash of Shadows

The horror of crib death is explored in this story about a couple who lose their 4-month-old child.
Oct 8, 1973
The Casualty
Season 5Episode 660 min

The Casualty

Romance ends for Gannon when his girlfriend's husband, missing for six years in Vietnam, comes home to reclaim his wife and son.
Oct 22, 1973
Stranger in Two Worlds
Season 5Episode 760 min

Stranger in Two Worlds

A champion diver is ignoring an illness that could end her career.
Oct 29, 1973
Child of Violence
Season 5Episode 860 min

Child of Violence

A wounded child from war-torn Northern Ireland baffles Gannon by showing no desire to get well.
Nov 12, 1973
Woman for Hire
Season 5Episode 960 min

Woman for Hire

A drama about the relationship between an ailing prostitute and the idealistic young resident who is falling in love with her. 

Nov 19, 1973
A Life at Stake
Season 5Episode 1060 min

A Life at Stake

Compulsive gambling is ruining the life of a once-fine surgeon.
Nov 26, 1973
Nightmare
Season 5Episode 1160 min

Nightmare

Gannon is receiving bloodcurdling murder threats that contain only one clue: the would-be killer is someone on the hospital staff.
Dec 3, 1973
Deadly Game
Season 5Episode 1260 min

Deadly Game

A derelict fakes her way into the hospital for free room and board, unaware that she is suffering from a serious disease.
Dec 10, 1973
Web of Intrigue
Season 5Episode 1360 min

Web of Intrigue

An arrogant young resident refuses to submit to authority.
Jan 7, 1974
Trial by Knife
Season 5Episode 1460 min

Trial by Knife

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. 

Jan 14, 1974
Choice of Evils
Season 5Episode 1560 min

Choice of Evils

A proud man must decide whether to live with a dangerous illness, or submit to surgery which might cause impotence.
Jan 21, 1974
No Escape
Season 5Episode 1660 min

No Escape

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.
Jan 28, 1974
Dark Warning
Season 5Episode 1760 min

Dark Warning

A seriously ill surgeon tries to hide his condition long enough to perform lifesaving surgery on his ex-wife.
Feb 11, 1974
Girl from Bedlam
Season 5Episode 1860 min

Girl from Bedlam

While investigating conditions in a mental hospital, Gannon falls in love with an amnesiac whose blinding headaches have gone untreated by the staff.
Feb 18, 1974
Spectre
Season 5Episode 1960 min

Spectre

Determined to save a critically ill patient, a surgeon is hiding his own serious malady from his colleagues.
Feb 25, 1974
The Enemies
Season 5Episode 2060 min

The Enemies

A young genius becomes the center of a custody battle between his critically ill mother and a wealthy, would-be benefactress.
Mar 4, 1974
The Conspirators
Season 5Episode 2160 min

The Conspirators

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.
Mar 11, 1974
The World's a Balloon
Season 5Episode 2260 min

The World's a Balloon

An impoverished ventriloquist may lose custody of his orphaned nephew when the boy develops a serious heart condition.
Mar 25, 1974
Hexed
Season 5Episode 2360 min

Hexed

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. 

Apr 1, 1974
Appointment with Danger
Season 5Episode 2460 min

Appointment with Danger

A critically ill scientist is determined to attend an important European conference, despite Gannon's warnings that the trip might kill her.
Apr 15, 1974

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