The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC, from 1969 to 1973.
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Episode 1 - Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (II)
Release Date: 1972-09-19While in Los Angeles to testify for a trial against gangster Frank Harmon, Ed is shot and falls off the balcony of his hotel room. He is then taken to the Craig Institute where he undergoes emergency surgery. Although the bullet wounds were non-life threatening, Ed suffers a broken back in the fall and some damage to his spine. The scarring leaves him paralyzed and only an experimental surgical procedure is the only option to regaining his mobility. Also, even though all the evidence points to Harmon, Ironside has doubts that he was the person responsible for the attempted hit. Also, the chief begins having flashbacks to the night he was shot and paralyzed. The crossover starts on Ironside S04E01 Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown (I).
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Episode 2 - Is This Operation Necessary?
Release Date: 1972-09-26Gritty story of an aging gynecologist, portrayed credibly by Richard Basehart, who is accused by Dr. Hunter(David Hartman)of performing unnecessary operations. Dr. McLain, the besieged doctor, is promoting lake side property investments which requires substantial capital. Dr. Craig (E.G. Marshall) is a long time friend of Dr. McLain and defends the renown surgeon until it becomes evident that his practice must end. Dorothy Malone plays Basehart's wife and Vic Tayback is featured as a man who loses his wife when she is subjected to an unnecessary operation.
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Episode 3 - A Nation of Human Pincushions
Release Date: 1972-10-03 -
Episode 4 - Time Bomb in the Chest
Release Date: 1972-10-10 -
Episode 5 - A Standard For Manhood
Release Date: 1972-10-17 -
Episode 6 - A Substitute Womb
Release Date: 1972-10-24 -
Episode 7 - A Very Strange Triangle
Release Date: 1972-10-31 -
Episode 8 - A Quality of Fear
Release Date: 1972-11-14Dr. Hunter interacts with cancer patients with different attitudes toward their disease which are not always commensurate with the patients' prognoses while dealing with medical professionals not always in alignment with the doctor.
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Episode 9 - An Inalienable Right to Die
Release Date: 1972-11-28 -
Episode 10 - A Purge of Madness
Release Date: 1972-12-05 -
Episode 11 - End Theme
Release Date: 1972-12-12 -
Episode 12 - The Velvet Prison
Release Date: 1972-12-19A story about a child hemophiliac.
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Episode 13 - Terminal Career
Release Date: 1973-01-02 -
Episode 14 - A Tightrope to Tomorrow
Release Date: 1973-01-09 -
Episode 15 - The Night Crawler
Release Date: 1973-01-16 -
Episode 16 - And Other Things I May Not See
Release Date: 1973-05-04