Medic Season 2, Episode 25: To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

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All the Lonely Night

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.

30 min

2

Walk with Lions

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.

30 min

3

And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)

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.

30 min

4

And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)

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.

30 min

5

A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine

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.

30 min

6

When I Was Young

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

30 min

7

When Mama Says Jump

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.

30 min

8

Candle of Hope

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.

30 min

9

Black Friday

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.

30 min

10

Glass of Fear

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.

30 min

11

Pray Judgement

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.

30 min

12

The World So High

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.

30 min

13

A Time for Sleep

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.

30 min

14

The Laughter and the Weeping

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?

30 min

15

Just Like Your Father

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

30 min

16

If Tomorrow Be Sad

A successful photographer's model is told she is a victim of multiple sclerosis. Her unsympathetic husband decides he now wants a divorce.

30 min

17

The Homecoming

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.

30 min

18

Who Search for Truth

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.

30 min

19

The Glorious Red Gallagher

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.

30 min

20

My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend

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

30 min

21

Awake to Spring

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.

30 min

22

Don't Count the Stars

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.

30 min

23

The Inconstant Heart

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.

30 min

24

Someday We'll Laugh

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

30 min

25

To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

Navy surgeon saves life of sailor injured in sea explosion.

30 min

26

The Good Samaritan

Dr. Styner stops to help a married couple involved in an automobile accident, but finds himself on trial for medical malpractice when the wife subsequently and surprisingly becomes addled and partially paralyzed on her left side.

30 min

27

Reach of the Giant (1)

A man develops a crippling arthritic spinal condition.

30 min

28

Reach of the Giant (2)

After sending his wife away, Jim falls again and his condition worsens to the point where he decides to undergo experimental surgery on his spine.

30 min

29

Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone

This is the story of a young girl named Mary. She has a weak heart due to a defective heart valve. Doctors race to operate on her after she collapses at a dance she attended with her classmates.

30 min

30

She Walks in Beauty

It's summer vacation and Jenny is a 12 year old girl with a club foot. Her parents are worried about her "ugly deformity" as they refer to it, and whether anybody will marry her when she's older. They take her to see a specialist to see if he can surgically repair her club foot.

30 min

31

This Strange Ending

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.

30 min