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#1 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
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#3 - 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.
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#4 - 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.
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#5 - 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.
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#6 - 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.
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#7 - 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.
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#8 - 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.
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#9 - General Practitioner
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 6/13/1955
Dr. Canfield is a family physician with a troubled marriage trying to balance the needs and demands of his patients with those of his family .
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: N/A
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#10 - 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.
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#11 - 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
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#12 - 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
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#13 - 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.
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#14 - When I Was Young
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1955
When Gwen Kellogg becomes depressed, modern treatment helps restore her to health
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#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.
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#16 - 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
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#17 - 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
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#18 - 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 .
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#19 - 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.
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#20 - 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.
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#21 - 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.
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#22 - Never Comes Sunday
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 5/23/1955
The blow to a child's head causes not only brain damage, but a dysfunctional family, as the members try to cope with the girl's problems.
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#23 - 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.
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#24 - This Strange Ending
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 8/27/1956
Promising 19-year-old ballerina Laurie Allen's 1947 death from cancer becomes a personal obsession for newspaper reporter Joe Bailey, who conducts a series of interviews that he hopes will reveal the true story behind her untimely demise.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
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#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Medic
Every episode of Medic ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Death Rides a Wagon" is the worst rated episode of "Medic". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/4/1954. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Day 10".