The Doctors

📊 Series Specifications

Network NBC
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 20
Total Episodes 111
Original Language EN

The Doctors (1963)

Created by Orvin Tovrov
⭐ 3.2 / 5 (6 votes) 🎬 20 Seasons 📼 111 Episodes 🏷️ Soap 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The Doctors is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC Daytime from April 1, 1963, to December 31, 1982. There were 5280 episodes produced, with the 5000th episode airing in November 1981. The series was set in Hope Memorial Hospital in the fictional "Madison," located somewhere in New England.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Whatsoever House I Enter

In the opening story, Dr. Scott performs a critical operation on a 7-year old girl. The child dies, and moments later, "Scotty," is called to the emergency room, where a newborn infant is close to death. Another operation, and the baby lives. The dead girl's father arrives at the hospital and hears the news. He confronts the mother of the surviving infant and presents her with the flowers he had bought someone else.

E2 We Know Not What

A father is furious with the suggestion that his son has psychological problems.

E3 One and One Make Four

A father is furious with the suggestion that his son has psychological problems.

E4 One Too Many

A cynical divorcee who is a diabetic attempts to commit suicide.

E5 Button, Button

A child is rushed to the emergency room after she swallows a jagged fragment of a button.

E6 Run With the Wind

A cynical divorcee who is a diabetic attempts to commit suicide.

E7 Episode 7

A patient's complaints and disobedience of hospital rules cause a staff crisis.

E8 Episode 8

Dr. Scott has to deal with a cynical divorcee, who is a diabetic, when she attempts to commit suicide.

E10 Little Mr. Nobody

An abandoned newborn is brought to the hospital and "adopted" by the staff in "Little Mr. Nobody."

E12 Episode 12

Rev. Shafer must tell man he has failed police examination

E14 The Useless Ones

An old-time musical star attempts to make a comeback.

E15 The Helping Hand

Circumstances force a reluctant doctor to take on a surgical procedure that he does not feel ready to perform.

E23 The Last Rites

A man staggers into the hospital begging for help for his daughter, whom he struck with his car.

E24 At Midnight There's No Tomorrow

Dr. Hayes tries to comfort Dr. Scott after he loses a patient, and she reveals a deep attraction for him.

E25 To Love or to Dive
E27 A Beau for Mrs. Deville
E29 The Doll Who Limped
E30 Doc, What Are the Odds?
E32 Breakthrough

A man decides to allow his seriously ill wife to obtain enough medication to kill herself.

E35 The Halloween Mask
E36 A Heart Is a Boy's Need
E37 The Blues Is a Riddle Song
E38 The Young Spinning Wheels
E39 Greater Love Hath No Man
E40 The Forbidden Candystriper
E41 Sick Little Rich Girl

A wealthy patient, young and pretty, disrupts the hospital.

E42 A Single Tear

Tommy Regan is rejected by his mother when he accidentally hurts his baby sister with a toy airplane, but doesn't shed a tear.

E43 Hold the Lamp High for Willy

A girl fears her blind fiance will find her ugly if his sight is restored.

E45 A Penny for Your Doubts

Nurse Jane Gibbs believes her malaria patient ex-serviceman Jim Burton is the killer police are looking for from a liquor store hold-up. Despite her feelings for him, she tells Chaplain Sam Shafer about her fears.

E46 The Disembodied Voice

Disturbing telephone calls plague a lovely psychiatrist.

E47 Death Is a Constant Bell Ringer

A Vindictive mother-in-law refuses to authorize surgery on her son-in-law.

E48 A Doctor in Spite of Herself

An innocent dinner date turns into a major crisis.

E49 The Faint Heart Never Wins

Should a heart patient resume his career as a social worker?

E50 Rewards Are Only for the Living

A surgeon encounters a problem in ethics.

E52 With Strings Attached

Mrs. Frank Collins decides to honor her late husband by donating a million dollars to Hope Memorial for a new wing.

E56 Today I Am a Man

A teenager learns what it means to become a man when faced with a challenge.

E57 Property Unclaimed
E58 So Far from Home

Chaplain suspects head nurse is prejudiced against young Formosan nurse.

E59 The Fallen Giant

A refugee surgeon will not face his own illness.

E60 A Short, Happy Life
E61 The Bride Wore White

A dedicated nurse tries to quit her profession and marry a wealthy patient.

E62 Give and Live

While Agnes Tilford dreads leaving the busy atmosphere of Hope Memorial, Myra Wood can't wait to leave. She's afraid she'll be diagnosed with cancer after her surgery.

E63 A Darn Good Sport

A circus acrobat trips over Dr. Jerry Chandler's bag and injures her knee. She sues him for negligence.

E64 The Heart-Broken Husband
E65 King of the Rock and Rollers

An insolent rock-and-roll singer learns an ironic lesson in dramas.

E66 The Runaway President
E67 Woman Against Fear

A woman tells Chaplain Sam Shaffer she fears she is losing her mind. Investigation shows that her husband is purposely irritating her because she neglects her family.

E68 Beware the Bee

A young man refuses to admit he is allergic to bees since it would force his widowed mother to give up her bee-keeping business.

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