Marcus Welby, M.D.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
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Marcus Welby, M.D.

6.5 / 10
1969
7 seasons
171 episodes
Drama

Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Hello, Goodbye, Hello

    1.Hello, Goodbye, Hello

    23-09-196960m

    A warm, outgoing young school teacher is told by Dr. Welby that she only has a few months to live. She goes into seclusion. Dr. Kiley, who has become strongly attached to her, atte...

  • The Foal

    2.The Foal

    30-09-196960m

    Dr. Welby finds that even a school that does brilliant work with retarded children will not accept 6-year old Paulie Stewart, since there is no basis for communication and response...

  • Don't Ignore The Miracles

    3.Don't Ignore The Miracles

    07-10-196960m

    Claire Burwick, 42 becomes pregnant for the first time and is convinced her husband Paul does not want a child. Claire's anxiety increase when she learns that her husband has been...

  • Silken Threads and Silver Hooks

    4.Silken Threads and Silver Hooks

    14-10-196960m

    While giving speech therapy to Nadine, a motion picture star who suffers a stroke, Dr. Welby learns that her husband, Lucas, has set up a television documentary in which Nadine is...

  • All Flags Flying

    5.All Flags Flying

    21-10-196960m

    Rick Ballinger is an aging war hero determined to sail alone to the South Pacific. Dr. Welby discovers that Ballinger has pernicious anemia, and warn the captain that such a voyage...

  • Echo Of A Baby's Laugh

    6.Echo Of A Baby's Laugh

    28-10-196960m

    Dr. Welby tells a pregnant young wife, Mary Ann Graham, that because of her RH-negative factor, her husband will have to be told about a previous pregnancy and abortion. Dr. Welby...

  • The White Cane

    7.The White Cane

    04-11-196960m

    When an operation restores Paul Hannan's sight, his love cools for his blind fiancee, Laura Jelliffe. Laura, employed at the Center for the Blind, seeks to forestall the ordeal...

  • The Vrahnas Demon

    8.The Vrahnas Demon

    11-11-196960m

    Nick Eugenides is an aging but lusty Greek American fisherman who refuses to change his life style when Dr. Welby informs him he has emphysema. Eugenedes insists on entering an...

  • Madonna With Knapsack and Flute

    9.Madonna With Knapsack and Flute

    18-11-196960m

    In her recurring role as Myra Sherwood, Ann Baxter, with whom Dr. Welby is in love, takes a pregnant, unmarried ""flower child,"" Tracy Clifford, into her home. Dr. Welby, wh...

  • Homecoming

    10.Homecoming

    25-11-196960m

    Dr. Welby, wishes to hospitalize Scott Behrman, who has given up LDS but suffers from recurrences of the effects of the drug. Scott returns home after a long absence, and burst...

  • Let Ernest Come Over

    11.Let Ernest Come Over

    09-12-196960m

    Ernest Jackson--up for promotion to police lieutenant--fells that disclosure of his physical problem would ruin his chance for advancement. Welby, learning of Jackson's occup...

  • The Chemistry of Hope

    12.The Chemistry of Hope

    16-12-196960m

    Pacho McGuerney's parents, refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.

  • Neither Punch nor Judy

    13.Neither Punch nor Judy

    23-12-196960m

    Dr. Welby's friend, Father Hugh Riorden, suffers severe asthmatic attacks because he feels inadequate in dealing with the personal problems of his parishioners. The priest's...

  • Diagnosis: Fear

    14.Diagnosis: Fear

    30-12-196960m

    A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.

  • The Soft Phrase of Peace

    15.The Soft Phrase of Peace

    06-01-197060m

    Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.

  • Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose

    16.Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose

    13-01-197060m

    Michael Ambrose, a diabetic, tries to end his life to get even with his father. Michael resents his father, best-selling novelist John Ambrose, blaming him for the unhappiness his...

  • The Legacy

    17.The Legacy

    27-01-197060m

    When the patrician Senora Carlotta, mother of Dr. Welby's nurse Consuelo Lopez, is told by the doctor that her life-or-death decision will also involve others, she decides imme...

  • Dance to No Music

    18.Dance to No Music

    03-02-197060m

    Joseph Campanella guest-stars as scientist Leo Maslow, who is convinced that he has an hereditary disease, Huntington's Chorea, which begins with complete loss of memory and in...

  • Go Get 'Em, Tiger

    19.Go Get 'Em, Tiger

    10-02-197060m

    Dr. Steven Kiley befriends a former employee, now a reformed drug addict, and in doing so places himself and Dr. Welby in an awkward and almost untenable position. Dr. Kiley do...

  • Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey

    20.Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey

    17-02-197060m

    Dinty Gallagher refuses to give up his regimen of diet pills and steam baths, even after having fainting spells. Gallagher's desperate attempts to make the weight for the mos...

  • The Other Side of the Chart

    21.The Other Side of the Chart

    24-02-197060m

    The Other Side of the Chart Dr. Steven Kiley, embarrassingly hospitalized for Chicken Pox, becomes interested in ""Dutch"" Radtke, a husky oil field worker who panics at the p...

  • The Merely Syndrome

    22.The Merely Syndrome

    03-03-197060m

    A young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.

  • Sea of Security

    23.Sea of Security

    10-03-197060m

    An oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.

  • The Daredevil Gesture

    24.The Daredevil Gesture

    17-03-197060m

    A hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.

  • Enid

    25.Enid

    24-03-197060m

    An orphanage counselor, addicted to pills, causes an automobil accident in which one of her charges is injured.

  • The Rebel Doctor

    26.The Rebel Doctor

    14-04-197060m

    Dr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.

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