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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. Created...
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".

  • Death Rides a Wagon
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Day 10
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • After the Darkness
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • With This Ring
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • When Comes the Autumn
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Glorious Red Gallagher
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Someday We'll Laugh
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • General Practitioner
    6.7/1014 votes
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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

  • Don't Count the Stars
    6.7/109 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Candle of Hope
    6.9/109 votes
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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

  • When Mama Says Jump
    7.0/1013 votes
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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

  • Red Christmas
    7.2/1014 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • When I Was Young
    7.2/107 votes
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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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Just Like Your Father
    7.2/108 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Brother Joe
    7.3/1020 votes
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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

  • Break Through the bars
    7.3/1016 votes
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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

  • Wall of Silence
    7.3/108 votes
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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 .

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The World So High
    7.3/1010 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Inconstant Heart
    7.3/109 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cup
    7.4/108 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Never Comes Sunday
    7.4/1011 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Glass of Fear
    7.4/1010 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • This Strange Ending
    7.4/1016 votes
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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

  • Walk with Lions
    7.5/1012 votes
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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