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The Best Episodes of Medic Season 1

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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 by its principal writer James E. Moser, Medic tried to

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Medic Season 1 Episode 1 - White Is the Color
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    #1 - White Is the Color

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Medic Season 1 Episode 2 - Laughter Is a Boy
    8.2/10(25 votes)

    #2 - Laughter Is a Boy

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Medic Season 1 Episode 3 - I Climb the Stairs
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #3 - I Climb the Stairs

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Medic Season 1 Episode 4 - Death Rides a Wagon
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #4 - Death Rides a Wagon

    S1:E4

    On the way westward in the year 1867, a wagon train in a barren wilderness is suddenly hit by an outbreak of Cholera, and the one doctor among them is at odds to contain it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Medic Season 1 Episode 5 - Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #5 - Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup

    S1:E5

    An alcoholic wife and mother of two faces the nearly overwhelming prospect of going through withdrawal and overcoming cirrhosis of the liver before she can begin the more difficult process of attempting to conquer her addiction to drink.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Medic Season 1 Episode 6 - My Brother Joe
    7.8/10(26 votes)

    #6 - My Brother Joe

    S1:E6

    A father has a car accident leaving his 10 year old son in a coma. As a team of specialists attempts to save the boy's life, his family tries to deal with the anger and guilt.

    Director:Bernard Girard
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Medic Season 1 Episode 7 - Day 10
    8.8/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Day 10

    S1:E7

    A dramatization of the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles in 1924. The title refers to the 10-day period with no new cases, which must be waited out before the quarantine can be lifted.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Medic Season 1 Episode 8 - After the Darkness
    8.8/10(6 votes)

    #8 - After the Darkness

    S1:E8

    A pianist, blind since childbirth, learns he can regain his sight with a corneal transplant. This delicate operation involves the substitution of a new cornea for the injured one, in this case scarred by exposure to lime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Medic Season 1 Episode 9 - With This Ring
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #9 - With This Ring

    S1:E9

    One stormy night a soaking wet woman arrives at hospital and announces she is about to have a baby. In addition to the complications of a difficult birth she bears the secret that she is unwed and alone.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Medic Season 1 Episode 10 - My Very Good Friend Albert
    7.7/10(12 votes)

    #10 - My Very Good Friend Albert

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Medic Season 1 Episode 11 - Wild Intruder
    8.0/10(23 votes)

    #11 - Wild Intruder

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  12. Medic Season 1 Episode 12 - Red Christmas
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #12 - Red Christmas

    S1:E12

    A young woman is wheeled in, victim of a holiday road accident. Doctors pour over her, determining extent of injuries. The tipsy driver responsible, her employer, callously wants to get on with his life. Entry serves as holiday warning.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Medic Season 1 Episode 13 - When Comes the Autumn
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - When Comes the Autumn

    S1:E13

    An elderly widow, who lives with her son and his family, feels unwanted. As a result, she instigates arguments in the household. Eventually her gloom leads her to drastic action.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Medic Season 1 Episode 14 - Boy in the Storm
    7.7/10(23 votes)

    #14 - Boy in the Storm

    S1:E14

    Following the death of his aunt/guardian, a 17-year-old epileptic is methodically treated with medication and extensive counseling in order that he may be able to live a comparatively normal life with a caring foster family.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Medic Season 1 Episode 15 - Breath of Life
    8.1/10(18 votes)

    #15 - Breath of Life

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Medic Season 1 Episode 16 - A Time to Be Alive
    7.6/10(15 votes)

    #16 - A Time to Be Alive

    S1:E16

    Eleven-year old Danny is a hemophiliac, even a slight injury can cause death. He's cut his arm and the doctors must halt the bleeding. Now his older sister worries that she too may be subject to the genetic disease.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Medic Season 1 Episode 17 - Flash of Darkness
    8.5/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Flash of Darkness

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Medic Season 1 Episode 18 - Mercy Wears an Apron
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Mercy Wears an Apron

    S1:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Medic Season 1 Episode 19 - Dr. Impossible
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #19 - Dr. Impossible

    S1:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Medic Season 1 Episode 20 - Break Through the bars
    7.1/10(16 votes)

    #20 - Break Through the bars

    S1:E20

    A quiet, sedate, middle-aged bank cashier suddenly begins to exhibit strange and disturbing behavior. After a thorough examination, a medical team decides that his problem can best be treated by electroshock therapy.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  21. Medic Season 1 Episode 21 - Death Is a Red Balloon
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Death Is a Red Balloon

    S1:E21

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Medic Season 1 Episode 22 - All My Mothers, All My Fathers
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #22 - All My Mothers, All My Fathers

    S1:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Medic Season 1 Episode 23 - Physician, Heal Thyself
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    #23 - Physician, Heal Thyself

    S1:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Medic Season 1 Episode 24 - Wall of Silence
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #24 - Wall of Silence

    S1:E24

    After suffering a severe head injury, a newspaper editor struggles through a lengthy rehabilitative process .

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Medic Season 1 Episode 25 - My Child’s Keeper
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #25 - My Child’s Keeper

    S1:E25

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"White Is the Color" is the best rated episode of "Medic" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/13/1954. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Laughter Is a Boy".