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The Best Episodes of Medic

Every episode of Medic ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Medic!

Medic is an American medical drama that aired on NBC beginning in 1954. Medic was television's first doctor drama to focus attention on medical procedures. Created...
Genre:Drama
Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"Flash of Darkness" is the best rated episode of "Medic". It scored 8.9/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Bernard Girard and written by N/A, it aired on 2/14/1955. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Black Friday".

  • Flash of Darkness
    8.9/1024 votes
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    #1 - Flash of Darkness

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1955

    This "what-if" episode imagines what would happen in the event of a nuclear strike on Los Angeles. Dr. Styner and his colleagues are at a warehouse outside the city for a training session, but must try to make their way back to the devastated city after the nuclear attack. Along the way they try to treat and save as many injured and radiation-poisoned patients as they can with what little medicine they have and are forced by circumstances to decide which patients can be saved--and which ones they'll have to let die.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • Black Friday
    8.7/107 votes
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    #2 - Black Friday

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Laughter Is a Boy
    8.5/1022 votes
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    #3 - Laughter Is a Boy

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1954

    Eight-year old Jonno's speech is garbled because of a cleft palate he was born with. Now kids mock him and he's retreating into a lonely world of his own. Grandfather's too elderly to do anything. What can teenage brother Pete do to help.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Breath of Life
    8.5/1013 votes
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    #4 - Breath of Life

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1955

    Obsessively self-reliant Dr. Robert Parker faces an uncertain future and an extended period of reliance on an iron lung (and on other people) after he contracts a case of polio.

    Director: Ted Post

    Writer: N/A

  • A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine
    8.3/107 votes
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    #5 - A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I Climb the Stairs
    8.2/1011 votes
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    #6 - I Climb the Stairs

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1954

    After collapsing on stairs, winsome young Annie is discovered to have a heart condition. Now doctors must operate to save her, but can they after her heart stops.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All My Mothers, All My Fathers
    8.2/1011 votes
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    #7 - All My Mothers, All My Fathers

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1955

    An abandoned baby grows up in a hospital ward when an extensive series of surgical procedures is necessary to repair the damage caused when the infant's mother forced her to ingest caustic household lye.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Child’s Keeper
    8.2/107 votes
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    #8 - My Child’s Keeper

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/25/1955

    Two mothers leave their children, a little girl and a baby boy, alone downstairs. The girl discovers a lighter and starts a blaze that engulfs them both. At the hospital, one mother holds the other responsible for what happened.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All the Lonely Night
    8.2/1012 votes
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    #9 - All the Lonely Night

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pray Judgement
    8.2/1010 votes
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    #10 - Pray Judgement

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • White Is the Color
    8.1/1028 votes
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    #11 - White Is the Color

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1954

    A young husband must inform his pregnant wife that she's been diagnosed with fatal leukemia. Concern now shifts to the expected baby's survival. Dr. Styner wages an extended battle in the delivery room for the newborn's survival.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wild Intruder
    8.1/1017 votes
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    #12 - Wild Intruder

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1954

    A young and healthy woman is diagnosed with breast cancer only a week before her wedding. Surgery must be performed as soon as possible. She becomes depressed and contemplates suicide.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: John Meredyth Lucas

  • Lifeline
    8.1/109 votes
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    #13 - Lifeline

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/16/1955

    An injured sailor is helicoptered onto a naval hospital ship for treatment. There the head doctor suddenly starts treating his staff angrily. It appears he has a personal stake in the sailor's survival.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Very Good Friend Albert
    8.0/108 votes
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    #14 - My Very Good Friend Albert

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1954

    Swedish immigrant Albert plays viola in a symphony orchestra. But his hearing is getting worse, so he's let go. Also, his social life is being held back. An operation can correct the problem, but will it stay fixed, and how to pay.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Time for Sleep
    8.0/108 votes
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    #15 - A Time for Sleep

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1956

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Laughter and the Weeping
    8.0/1011 votes
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    #16 - The Laughter and the Weeping

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1956

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • If Tomorrow Be Sad
    8.0/1011 votes
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    #17 - If Tomorrow Be Sad

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1956

    A successful photographer's model is told she is a victim of multiple sclerosis. Her unsympathetic husband decides he now wants a divorce.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Reach of the Giant (2)
    8.0/1013 votes
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    #18 - Reach of the Giant (2)

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 6/18/1956

    After sending his wife away, Jim falls again and his condition worsens to the point where he decides to undergo experimental surgery on his spine.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mercy Wears an Apron
    7.9/1012 votes
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    #19 - Mercy Wears an Apron

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1955

    An aging actor has been a paraplegic for five years. Confined to bed, he turns to the bottle, maundering over his situation. That is, until a public health nurse arrives. Now he feels sensations in his legs. Is it just wishful thinking.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death Is a Red Balloon
    7.9/1012 votes
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    #20 - Death Is a Red Balloon

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1955

    A young wife and mother is suddenly stricken with a brain aneurysm. Now the couple must decide between short-term treatment hoping for no recurrence, or risk delicate brain surgery to remedy the problem.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Physician, Heal Thyself
    7.9/1011 votes
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    #21 - Physician, Heal Thyself

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1955

    Shortly before completing his residency and beginning his own practice, a resident internist is stunned when a routine chest X-Ray reveals that he has contracted an active case of tuberculosis.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)
    7.9/108 votes
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    #22 - And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Search for Truth
    7.9/1018 votes
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    #23 - Who Search for Truth

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1956

    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.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • Dr. Impossible
    7.8/1014 votes
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    #24 - Dr. Impossible

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1955

    In 1884, pioneering surgeon Dr. William Stewart Halstead finds that he and three colleagues are slowly but surely becoming seriously addicted to the cocaine that they have been using in anesthetic self-experiments.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)
    7.8/109 votes
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    #25 - And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A