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The Best Episodes of Medic Season 1

Every episode of Medic Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Medic Season 1!

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

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"White Is the Color" is the best rated episode of "Medic" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/1954. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Laughter Is a Boy".

  • White Is the Color
    8.1/1028 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Laughter Is a Boy
    8.5/1022 votes

    #2 - 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

  • I Climb the Stairs
    8.2/1011 votes

    #3 - 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

  • Death Rides a Wagon
    NaN/100 votes

    #4 - Death Rides a Wagon

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1954

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup
    7.4/108 votes

    #5 - Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1954

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Brother Joe
    7.3/1020 votes

    #6 - My Brother Joe

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1954

    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: N/A

  • Day 10
    NaN/100 votes

    #7 - Day 10

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1954

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • After the Darkness
    NaN/100 votes

    #8 - After the Darkness

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1954

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • With This Ring
    NaN/100 votes

    #9 - With This Ring

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1954

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Very Good Friend Albert
    8.0/108 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Wild Intruder
    8.1/1017 votes

    #11 - 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

  • Red Christmas
    7.2/1014 votes

    #12 - Red Christmas

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1954

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • When Comes the Autumn
    NaN/100 votes

    #13 - When Comes the Autumn

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1954

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Boy in the Storm
    7.7/1019 votes

    #14 - Boy in the Storm

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1955

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Breath of Life
    8.5/1013 votes

    #15 - 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 Time to Be Alive
    7.6/1013 votes

    #16 - A Time to Be Alive

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1955

    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: N/A

  • Flash of Darkness
    9.0/1023 votes

    #17 - 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

  • Mercy Wears an Apron
    7.9/1012 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Dr. Impossible
    7.8/1014 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Break Through the bars
    7.3/1016 votes

    #20 - Break Through the bars

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1955

    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

  • Death Is a Red Balloon
    7.9/1012 votes

    #21 - 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

  • All My Mothers, All My Fathers
    8.2/1011 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Physician, Heal Thyself
    7.9/1011 votes

    #23 - 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

  • Wall of Silence
    7.3/108 votes

    #24 - Wall of Silence

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/18/1955

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Child’s Keeper
    8.2/107 votes

    #25 - 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