September 13, 1954 • 30m
A young husband must inform his pregnant wife that she's been diagnosed with fatal leukemia. Concern now shifts to the expected ba...Read more
September 20, 1954 • 30m
Eight-year old Jonno's speech is garbled because of a cleft palate he was born with. Now kids mock him and he's retreating into a ...Read more
September 27, 1954 • 30m
After collapsing on stairs, winsome young Annie is discovered to have a heart condition. Now doctors must operate to save her, but...Read more
October 4, 1954 • 30m
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 ...Read more
October 11, 1954 • 30m
An alcoholic wife and mother of two faces the nearly overwhelming prospect of going through withdrawal and overcoming cirrhosis of...Read more
October 25, 1954 • 30m
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 f...Read more
November 1, 1954 • 30m
A dramatization of the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles in 1924. The title refers to the 10-day period with no new case...Read more
November 8, 1954 • 30m
A pianist, blind since childbirth, learns he can regain his sight with a corneal transplant. This delicate operation involves the ...Read more
November 22, 1954 • 30m
One stormy night a soaking wet woman arrives at hospital and announces she is about to have a baby. In addition to the complicatio...Read more
November 29, 1954 • 30m
Swedish immigrant Albert plays viola in a symphony orchestra. But his hearing is getting worse, so he's let go. Also, his social l...Read more
December 6, 1954 • 30m
A young and healthy woman is diagnosed with breast cancer only a week before her wedding. Surgery must be performed as soon as pos...Read more
December 20, 1954 • 30m
A young woman is wheeled in, victim of a holiday road accident. Doctors pour over her, determining extent of injuries. The tipsy d...Read more
December 27, 1954 • 30m
An elderly widow, who lives with her son and his family, feels unwanted. As a result, she instigates arguments in the household. E...Read more
January 3, 1955 • 30m
Following the death of his aunt/guardian, a 17-year-old epileptic is methodically treated with medication and extensive counseling...Read more
January 24, 1955 • 30m
Obsessively self-reliant Dr. Robert Parker faces an uncertain future and an extended period of reliance on an iron lung (and on ot...Read more
January 31, 1955 • 30m
Eleven-year old Danny is a hemophiliac, even a slight injury can cause death. He's cut his arm and the doctors must halt the bleed...Read more
February 14, 1955 • 30m
This "what-if" episode imagines what would happen in the event of a nuclear strike on Los Angeles. Dr. Styner and his colleagues a...Read more
February 21, 1955 • 30m
An aging actor has been a paraplegic for five years. Confined to bed, he turns to the bottle, maundering over his situation. That ...Read more
February 28, 1955 • 30m
In 1884, pioneering surgeon Dr. William Stewart Halstead finds that he and three colleagues are slowly but surely becoming serious...Read more
March 14, 1955 • 30m
A quiet, sedate, middle-aged bank cashier suddenly begins to exhibit strange and disturbing behavior. After a thorough examination...Read more
March 21, 1955 • 30m
A young wife and mother is suddenly stricken with a brain aneurysm. Now the couple must decide between short-term treatment hoping...Read more
March 28, 1955 • 30m
An abandoned baby grows up in a hospital ward when an extensive series of surgical procedures is necessary to repair the damage ca...Read more
April 11, 1955 • 30m
Shortly before completing his residency and beginning his own practice, a resident internist is stunned when a routine chest X-Ray...Read more
April 18, 1955 • 30m
After suffering a severe head injury, a newspaper editor struggles through a lengthy rehabilitative process .
April 25, 1955 • 30m
Two mothers leave their children, a little girl and a baby boy, alone downstairs. The girl discovers a lighter and starts a blaze ...Read more
May 16, 1955 • 30m
An injured sailor is helicoptered onto a naval hospital ship for treatment. There the head doctor suddenly starts treating his sta...Read more
May 23, 1955 • 30m
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.
June 13, 1955 • 30m
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 .