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The Fourth Sex (1)
Episode number: 1
Overview: A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.
The Fourth Sex (2)
Episode number: 2
Overview: A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.
Torment
Episode number: 3
Overview: On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.
No Hiding Place
Episode number: 4
Overview: A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.
The Velvet Knife
Episode number: 5
Overview: Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.
The Price of a Child
Episode number: 6
Overview: The son of a wealthy Arab shows unusual concern over the plight of an ailing Jewish boy.
Street Girl
Episode number: 7
Overview: The teenage daughter of a busy surgeon turns to prostitution in a bid for attention.
Too Late for Tomorrow
Episode number: 8
Overview: Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.
The Last Performance
Episode number: 9
Overview: Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.
Two Against Death
Episode number: 10
Overview: An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.
One Last Rebellion
Episode number: 11
Overview: A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.
The Eighth Deadly Sin
Episode number: 12
Overview: An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.
Gift from a Killer
Episode number: 13
Overview: One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.
The High Cost of Winning
Episode number: 14
Overview: A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.
The Silent Witness
Episode number: 15
Overview: A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.
A Very Private War
Episode number: 16
Overview: Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.
You Can't Annul My Baby
Episode number: 17
Overview: Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.
Child of Conflict
Episode number: 18
Overview: The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.
The Stranger
Episode number: 19
Overview: The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.
A Touch of Sight
Episode number: 20
Overview: Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.
Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster
Episode number: 21
Overview: The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.
Major Annie, M.D.
Episode number: 22
Overview: An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.
The Happy State of Depression
Episode number: 23
Overview: A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.
If Wishes Were Horses
Episode number: 24
Overview: A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.