- 8.9/1024 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.7/107 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.5/1022 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/107 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1011 votesLoading...
#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
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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
- 8.2/107 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1012 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1010 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1028 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1017 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/109 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/108 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/108 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1011 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1011 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1013 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1012 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1012 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1011 votesLoading...
#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
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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
- 7.9/1018 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/1014 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/109 votesLoading...
#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
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.
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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".