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A warm, outgoing young school teacher is told by Dr. Welby that she only has a few months to live. She goes into seclusion. Dr. Kiley, who has become strongly attached to her, attempts to bring her back into the current of life.

Hello, Goodbye, Hello

Dr. Welby finds that even a school that does brilliant work with retarded children will not accept 6-year old Paulie Stewart, since there is no basis for communication and response. his efforts to achieve a breakthrough result in hostile actions by Paulie, and a growing estrangement between the boy's parents, Janice and Bob Stewart.

The Foal

Claire Burwick, 42 becomes pregnant for the first time and is convinced her husband Paul does not want a child. Claire's anxiety increase when she learns that her husband has been seeing younger women, and she sets out to lose the baby

Don't Ignore The Miracles

While giving speech therapy to Nadine, a motion picture star who suffers a stroke, Dr. Welby learns that her husband, Lucas, has set up a television documentary in which Nadine is to show that people do recover full and quickly from strokes. In addition, the documentary lets the public know that she will soon be returning to motion pictures. Lucas does not heed Dr. Welby's warning that the strain of the show may prove extremely dangerous.

Silken Threads and Silver Hooks

Rick Ballinger is an aging war hero determined to sail alone to the South Pacific. Dr. Welby discovers that Ballinger has pernicious anemia, and warn the captain that such a voyage would prove fatal. Ballinger, however, goes ahead with his plan, since it is essential to him to maintain an heroic facade to impress his son and his young wife.

All Flags Flying

Dr. Welby tells a pregnant young wife, Mary Ann Graham, that because of her RH-negative factor, her husband will have to be told about a previous pregnancy and abortion. Dr. Welby explains that her baby will have to be transfused at birth and insists that her husband be told. Mrs. Graham fears that if he learns of her previous indiscretion, he will leave her

Echo Of A Baby's Laugh

When an operation restores Paul   Hannan's sight, his love cools for his blind fiancee, Laura Jelliffe. Laura,   employed at the Center for the Blind, seeks to forestall the ordeal of the   engagement being called off by asking for a transfer to another city

The White Cane

Nick Eugenides is an aging but   lusty Greek American fisherman who refuses to change his life style when Dr.   Welby informs him he has emphysema. Eugenedes insists on entering an annual   deep diving competition, an event he has won for many years.

The Vrahnas Demon

In her recurring   role as Myra Sherwood, Ann Baxter, with whom Dr. Welby is in love, takes a   pregnant, unmarried ""flower child,"" Tracy Clifford, into her home. Dr.   Welby, who is treating Tracy for mononucleosis, warns Myra against deep   emotional involvement with the girl. Myra, however, whose own daughter would   have been Tracy's age had she lived, makes plans to maintain Tracy has her   own child--when it is born--indefinitely.

Madonna With Knapsack and Flute

Dr. Welby, wishes to hospitalize Scott   Behrman, who has given up LDS but suffers from recurrences of the effects of   the drug. Scott returns home after a long absence, and bursts into Dr.   Welby's office while suffering a violent ""acid flash."" . After the attack,   Dr. Welby wants have him hospitalized. However, Max Behrman, Scott's father,   who is willing to be separated from his son again, opposes the plan. He   believes that if Scott pursues a responsible life, working in the family   business, the attacks will not recur.

Homecoming

Ernest Jackson--up for   promotion to police lieutenant--fells that disclosure of his physical   problem would ruin his chance for advancement. Welby, learning of Jackson's   occupation, says he cannot allow the truth to be hidden since his condition   may lead to the officer's inability to carry out his duty at a crucial   moment.

Let Ernest Come Over

Pacho McGuerney's parents,   refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.

The Chemistry of Hope

Dr. Welby's friend, Father   Hugh Riorden, suffers severe asthmatic attacks because he feels inadequate   in dealing with the personal problems of his parishioners. The priest's   feelings reach a climax when he is unable to restore the will to live in a   young man injured in an accident, but Dr. Welby's able to do so. Father Hugh   announces to Dr. Welby that he is going to quit the priesthood.

Neither Punch nor Judy

A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.

Diagnosis: Fear

Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.

The Soft Phrase of Peace

Michael Ambrose, a diabetic, tries to end his life to get even with his father. Michael resents his father, best-selling novelist John Ambrose, blaming him for the unhappiness his mother suffered before her death, and taunts him by threatening to give up taking her insulin shots. When John Ambrose goes back East for a television appearance, Michael carries out his threat.

Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose

When the patrician Senora Carlotta,   mother of Dr. Welby's nurse Consuelo Lopez, is told by the doctor that her   life-or-death decision will also involve others, she decides immediately   what course she must take. Her philosophy affects Mrs. Faris, the cynical   women whose room she shares and who rejects the present while dreading the   future.

The Legacy

Joseph Campanella guest-stars   as scientist Leo Maslow, who is convinced that he has an hereditary disease,   Huntington's Chorea, which begins with complete loss of memory and inability   to function. Welby and Kiley conduct tests, but are not convinced that   Maslow has the disease. However, his condition continues to deteriorate,   especially after he learns his wife is pregnant.

Dance to No Music

Dr. Steven Kiley befriends a   former employee, now a reformed drug addict, and in doing so places himself   and Dr. Welby in an awkward and almost untenable position. Dr. Kiley does   his best to help Warren Chamber -- his onetime benefactor -- find suitable   employment, but his record as a former addict precludes any success.   Finally, when a job as a bus driver with a private school becomes available,   and Kiley is called on to give his friend a physical examination for the   institution, he is forced to choose between his duty as a doctor and his   obligation to a friend.

Go Get 'Em, Tiger

Dinty Gallagher   refuses to give up his regimen of diet pills and steam baths, even after   having fainting spells. Gallagher's desperate attempts to make the weight   for the most important race of his life result in physical collapse and he   is hospitalized. There he overhears Doctors Welby and Kiley tell his manager   that tests indicate he is still growing, at 21, and that it will be   impossible for him to continue his career as a jockey.

Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey

The Other Side of the Chart  Dr. Steven Kiley,   embarrassingly hospitalized for Chicken Pox, becomes interested in ""Dutch""   Radtke, a husky oil field worker who panics at the prospect of surgery.   Radtke's physician plans exploratory surgery to determine if he has cancer   of the bladder. Dr. Kiley, who has been checking up on tropical diseases,   advocates alternative testing. However, he is unable to reach Radke's   physician, and Radtke, the night before the surgery is scheduled, escapes   form the hospital.

The Other Side of the Chart

A young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.

The Merely Syndrome

An oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.

Sea of Security

A hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.

The Daredevil Gesture

An orphanage counselor, addicted to pills, causes an automobil accident in which one of her charges is injured.

Enid

Dr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.

The Rebel Doctor

After a successful diet, a teenager gets caught up in the swinging set, leading to VD.

A Very Special Sailfish

An attorney refuses to step down from a case after Dr. Welby tells him he has a terminal disease.

The Worth Of A Man

Dr. Kiley's brother believes he is dying and refuses to seek help.

Warn the World About Mike

The efforts of Dr. Welby and Kiley to battle a flu epidemic are complicated by a rich hypochondriac.

Epidemic

A psychiatrist discovers he is the victim of a fatal form of sclerosis.

To Get Through the Night

The mother of a retarded   child is forced to realize that she must allow the child to live with foster   parents.

Daisy In the Shadows

Dr. Welby tries to help a   scientist, Vic Rivera, who appears to be suffering from drug-induced   symptoms so serious he fears he will die or become completely incapacitated.

The Labyrinth

Just before her marriage, a young woman discovers she is a victim of a form of leprosy.

The Girl From Rainbow Beach

A young epileptic's effort to hide his affliction endanger his life.

Aura To A New Tomorrow

A proud young father refuses to bring his supposedly mentally    challenged son to a free clinic for treatment.

Sounding Brass

Dr. Welby suspects a young nurse is suffering from a    hereditary muscular disease.

To Carry the Sun In A Golden Cup

All the Golden Dandelions Are Gone

Brave On A Mountain Top

Another Buckle For Wesley Hill

False Spring

The Passing Of Torches

A Woman's Place

A Spanish Saying I Made Up

Cynthia

Don't Kid A Kidder

Elegy For A Mad Dog

The Contract

The Windfall

The House of Alquist

The Tender Comrade

A Portrait of Debbie

In My Father's House

Sally Fields is seens   as June and Jan Wilkins, betweeen whom exists a very strong sibling rivalry.   Jan's feelings are put to a test when June's burns require a skin graft.

I Can Hardly Tell You Apart

This Is Max

Welby testifies at the murder trial of Marshall's client.

Men Who Care (1)

Men Who Care (2)

A brilliant but stressed neurosurgeon seeks help from pills and alcohol.

Ask Me Again Tomorrow

Don't Phase Me Out

Echo From Another World

The Best Is Yet To Be

A Yellow Bird

They Grow Up

Of Magic Shadow Shapes

Cross-Match

The Basic Moment (1)

The Basic Moment (2)

Rick, whose tennis prowess   has brought him fame, money and a beautiful wife, is hospitalized by Dr.   Kiley following a collapse. Faced with the fact that his tennis playing days   are over, Rick thinks his life is over as well until a suggestion for a new   career comes from a teammate.

All the Pretty People

I'm Really Trying

Is It So Soon That I Am Done For - I Wonder What I Was Begun For?

Just a Little Courage

Don't Talk About Darkness

Once There Was A Bantu Prince

A middle-aged Couple must learn to deal with the fact that their new-born son has cystic fibrosis.

A Taste of Salt

Teenaged Carol Lockett, three   months pregnant and hospitalized by an infection, chooses to risk going full   term rather than having a therapeutic abortion. Another complication is   deciding whether to marry the baby's father or to put the child up for   adoption.

Solomon's Choice

A Fragile Possession

Love Is When They Say They Need You

We'll Walk Out of Here Together

In Sickness and In Health

Ever since a car accident killed his wife and crippled his son, Dr. Val Peterson's life has centered on his work and surgeries to get his son walking again. His engagement to Marilyn Hoffman is not for love and the question becomes why.

House of Mirrors

He Could Sell Iceboxes To Eskimos

The Wednesday Game

Don and Denise

Please Don't Send Flowers

With A Shout, Not A Whimper

Jason Be Nimble, Jason Be Quick

Unto the Next Generation

Dr. Welby, called by   flying physician Jerome Billings, an orthopedic surgeon, for help finds   young Carlos in a diabetic coma. Carlos' grandfather, Charlie, convinced his   grandson will die, objects to Welby's treating him but accompanies Carlos   when Welby insists on flying the ailing youth to a hospital. Weather forces   the plane into an emergency landing in which Charlie is injured, giving   Welby two emergencies to handle.

Heartbeat For Yesterday

Dinner of Herbs

A More Exciting Case

When Julie Langley Kirk's   illness is diagnosed by Dr. Welby as serious heart damage, she refuses to   accept it at first. Convinced finally by Dr. Welby that she must continue   her work, she works on, with the help of her assistant, Greta, finishing a   moving photographic essay on the end of life.

A Necessary End

Who Are You Arthur Kolinski?

Gemini Descending

The Problem With Charlie

When 17-year-old   gymnastic champion Rickie Manning falls off the rings in gym, he is examined   by Dr. Kiley who suspects the boy has been drinking. He and Dr. Welby want   the boy to get help from a group at Comeback House. Richie's parents resist   at first, but come to face the fact they have helped create their son's   problems by pressures on him following the death of their other son.

Catch A Ring That Isn't There

Laura Daniels develops a   serious heart problem as the result of rheumatic fever. Although she accepts   Dr. Welby's order to give up her TV interview show, she is convinced that   her husband Paul loves her only as a successful career woman. She returns to   work, getting pills from her assistant, Jan, and these, combined with   liquor, cause her to collapse, making heart surgery mandatory.

The Working Heart

"The Other Martin Loring" is a 1973 episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., an American medical drama that aired on ABC. It tells the story of a middle-aged man facing several health issues, which seem to stem from his repression of his homosexuality. The episode aired on February 20, 1973, and was met with concern and protests from LGBT rights activists for its equating of homosexuality and illness.

The Other Martin Loring

Troubled by his wife's   relationship with a charming young political candidate, a successful   architect-builder turns to tranquilizers and is seriously injured at a   construction site.

The Day After Forever

The Tortoise Dance

The Panic Path

Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.

The Best Seasons of Marcus Welby, M.D.

The Best Seasons of Marcus Welby, M.D.

Season 7

Season 3

Season 5

Season 1

Season 2

Season 4

Season 6