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The Best Episodes of Medic Season 2

Every episode of Medic Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Medic Season 2!

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 2 Ratings Summary

"All the Lonely Night" is the best rated episode of "Medic" season 2. It scored 8.2/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/5/1955. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Walk with Lions".

  • All the Lonely Night
    8.2/1012 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Walk with Lions
    7.5/1012 votes

    #2 - Walk with Lions

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1955

    Unaware that he has developed diabetes, a struggling young prizefighter who is also a gifted artist endangers his life by continuing to push himself in order to earn the money needed to further his education.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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

    #3 - 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

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

    #4 - 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

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

    #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

  • When I Was Young
    7.2/107 votes

    #6 - When I Was Young

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1955

    When Gwen Kellogg becomes depressed, modern treatment helps restore her to health

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • When Mama Says Jump
    7.0/1013 votes

    #7 - When Mama Says Jump

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1955

    Dr. Styner offers advice and support when a 17-year-old track star develops severe acne and chronic fatigue due to stresses caused by his demanding mother's determination to see him achieve his father's dream of Olympic stardom.

    Director: Jack Gage

    Writer: N/A

  • Candle of Hope
    6.9/109 votes

    #8 - Candle of Hope

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1955

    A citrus farmer gets married at age 45. He then wants a son but is unable to have one. He visits the doctor to get help.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • Black Friday
    8.7/107 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Glass of Fear
    7.4/1010 votes

    #10 - Glass of Fear

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1955

    Comic strip artist Dick Hooper does a nationally syndicated feature called "Salty", but he can't make his due dates for finished cartoons because he's become obsessed with germs and various muscle and stomach pains that doctors can't locate. He's become a raging hypochondriac that's about to lose his wife and career.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pray Judgement
    8.2/1010 votes

    #11 - 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

  • The World So High
    7.3/1010 votes

    #12 - The World So High

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1955

    During World War Two, pilots are able to take aircraft higher and higher, but they keep fainting out when parachuting out. A young doctor proceeds to do experiments back in the states on the most likely of these pilots to falter. Controlled high altitude simulations prove dangerous, but necessary.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Time for Sleep
    8.0/108 votes

    #13 - 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

    #14 - 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

  • Just Like Your Father
    7.2/108 votes

    #15 - Just Like Your Father

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/23/1956

    An elderly judge who has no close relatives is taken seriously ill. After he collapses, his ailment is diagnosed as a pancreatic tumor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • If Tomorrow Be Sad
    8.0/1011 votes

    #16 - 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

  • The Homecoming
    7.8/1012 votes

    #17 - The Homecoming

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/13/1956

    Leprosy victim Allan Connolly is finally pronounced healthy and fit to resume a productive life in normal society, but he and his wife are unprepared for the rejection and irrational fear evinced by their friends and neighbors.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Search for Truth
    7.9/1018 votes

    #18 - 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

  • The Glorious Red Gallagher
    NaN/100 votes

    #19 - The Glorious Red Gallagher

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/1956

    A troubled woman has given birth to a baby by Caesarian section and has lost the will to live. She is put in the care of nurse Clara Mary Gallagher, who is retiring the next day after 39 years of service.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend
    NaN/100 votes

    #20 - My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/19/1956

    This is the story of years of research to discover the cause of blindness in prematurely born infants.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Awake to Spring
    7.5/1014 votes

    #21 - Awake to Spring

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/26/1956

    An old man is the only family left for his crippled grandson. He's worried about his ability to carry on, and after a painful heart incident, he's convinced he'll soon be dead and his helpless charge will be doomed, so he decides they should go together and leaves the gas pipe open as they sleep.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Don't Count the Stars
    6.7/109 votes

    #22 - Don't Count the Stars

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/9/1956

    An arrogant and self-aggrandizing singer's relentless drive for success is unceremoniously halted when he learns that his hoarseness is not due to vocal overwork, but to a potentially malignant cancer of the larynx.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Inconstant Heart
    7.3/109 votes

    #23 - The Inconstant Heart

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/23/1956

    Although resigned to the fact that he had an incurable heart ailment, a man is badgered by his wife into going to a doctor. Tonight's story concerns radiology, and viewers see the UCLA medical center and its cancer-treating cobalt bomb.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Someday We'll Laugh
    NaN/100 votes

    #24 - Someday We'll Laugh

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1956

    A father, grateful to a doctor for saving his daughter's life, offers to finance the much-needed equipment for his office.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift
    7.7/108 votes

    #25 - To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/24/1956

    Navy surgeon saves life of sailor injured in sea explosion.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A