

Marcus Welby, M.D.
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.
Cast

Robert Young
Dr. Marcus Welby

James Brolin
Dr. Steven Kiley

Pamela Hensley
Janet Blake

Sharon Gless
Kathleen Faverty

Elena Verdugo
Consuelo Lopez
Seasons

E1Hello, Goodbye, Hello
Sep 23, 1969
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, attempts to bring her back into the current of life.

E2The Foal
Sep 30, 1969
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. his efforts to achieve a breakthrough result in hostile actions by Paulie, and a growing estrangement between the boy's parents, Janice and Bob Stewart.

E3Don't Ignore The Miracles
Oct 7, 1969
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 seeing younger women, and she sets out to lose the baby

E4Silken Threads and Silver Hooks
Oct 14, 1969
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 to show that people do recover full and quickly from strokes. In addition, the documentary lets the public know that she will soon be returning to motion pictures. Lucas does not heed Dr. Welby's warning that the strain of the show may prove extremely dangerous.

E5All Flags Flying
Oct 21, 1969
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 would prove fatal. Ballinger, however, goes ahead with his plan, since it is essential to him to maintain an heroic facade to impress his son and his young wife.

E6Echo Of A Baby's Laugh
Oct 28, 1969
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 explains that her baby will have to be transfused at birth and insists that her husband be told. Mrs. Graham fears that if he learns of her previous indiscretion, he will leave her

E7The White Cane
Nov 4, 1969
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 of the engagement being called off by asking for a transfer to another city

E8The Vrahnas Demon
Nov 11, 1969
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 annual deep diving competition, an event he has won for many years.

E9Madonna With Knapsack and Flute
Nov 18, 1969
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, who is treating Tracy for mononucleosis, warns Myra against deep emotional involvement with the girl. Myra, however, whose own daughter would have been Tracy's age had she lived, makes plans to maintain Tracy has her own child--when it is born--indefinitely.

E10Homecoming
Nov 25, 1969
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 bursts into Dr. Welby's office while suffering a violent ""acid flash."" . After the attack, Dr. Welby wants have him hospitalized. However, Max Behrman, Scott's father, who is willing to be separated from his son again, opposes the plan. He believes that if Scott pursues a responsible life, working in the family business, the attacks will not recur.

E11Let Ernest Come Over
Dec 9, 1969
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 occupation, says he cannot allow the truth to be hidden since his condition may lead to the officer's inability to carry out his duty at a crucial moment.

E12The Chemistry of Hope
Dec 16, 1969
Pacho McGuerney's parents, refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.

E13Neither Punch nor Judy
Dec 23, 1969
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 feelings reach a climax when he is unable to restore the will to live in a young man injured in an accident, but Dr. Welby's able to do so. Father Hugh announces to Dr. Welby that he is going to quit the priesthood.

E14Diagnosis: Fear
Dec 30, 1969
A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.

E15The Soft Phrase of Peace
Jan 6, 1970
Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.

E16Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose
Jan 13, 1970
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 mother suffered before her death, and taunts him by threatening to give up taking her insulin shots. When John Ambrose goes back East for a television appearance, Michael carries out his threat.

E17The Legacy
Jan 27, 1970
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 immediately what course she must take. Her philosophy affects Mrs. Faris, the cynical women whose room she shares and who rejects the present while dreading the future.

E18Dance to No Music
Feb 3, 1970
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 inability to function. Welby and Kiley conduct tests, but are not convinced that Maslow has the disease. However, his condition continues to deteriorate, especially after he learns his wife is pregnant.

E19Go Get 'Em, Tiger
Feb 10, 1970
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 does his best to help Warren Chamber -- his onetime benefactor -- find suitable employment, but his record as a former addict precludes any success. Finally, when a job as a bus driver with a private school becomes available, and Kiley is called on to give his friend a physical examination for the institution, he is forced to choose between his duty as a doctor and his obligation to a friend.

E20Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey
Feb 17, 1970
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 most important race of his life result in physical collapse and he is hospitalized. There he overhears Doctors Welby and Kiley tell his manager that tests indicate he is still growing, at 21, and that it will be impossible for him to continue his career as a jockey.

E21The Other Side of the Chart
Feb 24, 1970
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 prospect of surgery. Radtke's physician plans exploratory surgery to determine if he has cancer of the bladder. Dr. Kiley, who has been checking up on tropical diseases, advocates alternative testing. However, he is unable to reach Radke's physician, and Radtke, the night before the surgery is scheduled, escapes form the hospital.

E22The Merely Syndrome
Mar 3, 1970
A young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.

E23Sea of Security
Mar 10, 1970
An oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.

E24The Daredevil Gesture
Mar 17, 1970
A hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.

E25Enid
Mar 24, 1970
An orphanage counselor, addicted to pills, causes an automobil accident in which one of her charges is injured.

E26The Rebel Doctor
Apr 14, 1970
Dr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.

E1A Very Special Sailfish
Sep 22, 1970
After a successful diet, a teenager gets caught up in the swinging set, leading to VD.

E2The Worth Of A Man
Sep 9, 1970
An attorney refuses to step down from a case after Dr. Welby tells him he has a terminal disease.

E3Warn the World About Mike
Oct 6, 1970
Dr. Kiley's brother believes he is dying and refuses to seek help.

E4Epidemic
Oct 13, 1970
The efforts of Dr. Welby and Kiley to battle a flu epidemic are complicated by a rich hypochondriac.

E5To Get Through the Night
Oct 20, 1970
A psychiatrist discovers he is the victim of a fatal form of sclerosis.

E6Daisy In the Shadows
Oct 27, 1970
The mother of a retarded child is forced to realize that she must allow the child to live with foster parents.

E7The Labyrinth
Nov 10, 1970
Dr. Welby tries to help a scientist, Vic Rivera, who appears to be suffering from drug-induced symptoms so serious he fears he will die or become completely incapacitated.

E8The Girl From Rainbow Beach
Nov 17, 1970
Just before her marriage, a young woman discovers she is a victim of a form of leprosy.

E9Aura To A New Tomorrow
Nov 24, 1970
A young epileptic's effort to hide his affliction endanger his life.

E10Sounding Brass
Dec 1, 1970
A proud young father refuses to bring his supposedly mentally challenged son to a free clinic for treatment.

E11To Carry the Sun In A Golden Cup
Dec 8, 1970
Dr. Welby suspects a young nurse is suffering from a hereditary muscular disease.

E12All the Golden Dandelions Are Gone
Dec 15, 1970

E13Brave On A Mountain Top
Dec 22, 1970

E14Another Buckle For Wesley Hill
Jan 5, 1971

E15False Spring
Jan 19, 1971

E16The Passing Of Torches
Jan 26, 1971

E17A Woman's Place
Feb 2, 1971

E18A Spanish Saying I Made Up
Feb 16, 1971

E19Cynthia
Feb 23, 1971

E20Don't Kid A Kidder
Mar 2, 1971

E21Elegy For A Mad Dog
Mar 9, 1971

E22The Contract
Mar 16, 1971

E23The Windfall
Mar 23, 1971

E24The House of Alquist
Mar 30, 1971

E1The Tender Comrade
Sep 14, 1971

E2A Portrait of Debbie
Sep 21, 1971

E3In My Father's House
Sep 28, 1971

E4I Can Hardly Tell You Apart
Oct 15, 1971
Sally Fields is seens as June and Jan Wilkins, betweeen whom exists a very strong sibling rivalry. Jan's feelings are put to a test when June's burns require a skin graft.

E5This Is Max
Oct 12, 1971

E6Men Who Care (1)
Oct 19, 1971
Welby testifies at the murder trial of Marshall's client.

E7Men Who Care (2)
Oct 21, 1971
Welby testifies at the murder trial of Marshall's client.

E8Ask Me Again Tomorrow
Oct 26, 1971
A brilliant but stressed neurosurgeon seeks help from pills and alcohol.

E9Don't Phase Me Out
Nov 2, 1971

E10Echo From Another World
Nov 9, 1971

E11The Best Is Yet To Be
Nov 16, 1971

E12A Yellow Bird
Nov 23, 1971

E13They Grow Up
Nov 30, 1971

E14Of Magic Shadow Shapes
Dec 7, 1971

E15Cross-Match
Dec 14, 1971

E16The Basic Moment (1)
Jan 4, 1972

E17The Basic Moment (2)
Jan 11, 1972

E18All the Pretty People
Jan 25, 1972
Rick, whose tennis prowess has brought him fame, money and a beautiful wife, is hospitalized by Dr. Kiley following a collapse. Faced with the fact that his tennis playing days are over, Rick thinks his life is over as well until a suggestion for a new career comes from a teammate.

E19I'm Really Trying
Feb 1, 1972

E20Is It So Soon That I Am Done For - I Wonder What I Was Begun For?
Feb 8, 1972

E21Just a Little Courage
Feb 15, 1972

E22Don't Talk About Darkness
Feb 22, 1972

E23Once There Was A Bantu Prince
Feb 29, 1972

E24A Taste of Salt
Mar 7, 1972
A middle-aged Couple must learn to deal with the fact that their new-born son has cystic fibrosis.

E25Solomon's Choice
Mar 14, 1972
Teenaged Carol Lockett, three months pregnant and hospitalized by an infection, chooses to risk going full term rather than having a therapeutic abortion. Another complication is deciding whether to marry the baby's father or to put the child up for adoption.

E1A Fragile Possession
Sep 12, 1972

E2Love Is When They Say They Need You
Sep 19, 1972

E3We'll Walk Out of Here Together
Sep 26, 1972

E4In Sickness and In Health
Oct 3, 1972

E5House of Mirrors
Oct 10, 1972
Ever since a car accident killed his wife and crippled his son, Dr. Val Peterson's life has centered on his work and surgeries to get his son walking again. His engagement to Marilyn Hoffman is not for love and the question becomes why.

E6He Could Sell Iceboxes To Eskimos
Oct 17, 1972

E7The Wednesday Game
Oct 24, 1972

E8Don and Denise
Oct 31, 1972

E9Please Don't Send Flowers
Nov 14, 1972

E10With A Shout, Not A Whimper
Nov 21, 1972

E11Jason Be Nimble, Jason Be Quick
Nov 28, 1972

E12Unto the Next Generation
Dec 5, 1972

E13Heartbeat For Yesterday
Dec 12, 1972
Dr. Welby, called by flying physician Jerome Billings, an orthopedic surgeon, for help finds young Carlos in a diabetic coma. Carlos' grandfather, Charlie, convinced his grandson will die, objects to Welby's treating him but accompanies Carlos when Welby insists on flying the ailing youth to a hospital. Weather forces the plane into an emergency landing in which Charlie is injured, giving Welby two emergencies to handle.

E14Dinner of Herbs
Dec 19, 1972

E15A More Exciting Case
Jan 2, 1973

E16A Necessary End
Jan 9, 1973
When Julie Langley Kirk's illness is diagnosed by Dr. Welby as serious heart damage, she refuses to accept it at first. Convinced finally by Dr. Welby that she must continue her work, she works on, with the help of her assistant, Greta, finishing a moving photographic essay on the end of life.

E17Who Are You Arthur Kolinski?
Jan 16, 1973
Growing up, Arthur Kolinski was ashamed that his father made a living as an auto mechanic. He grew up to become a wealthy industrialist and changed his name to Cole. Now he's upset that his son wants to emulate his grandfather.

E18Gemini Descending
Jan 23, 1973

E19The Problem With Charlie
Jan 30, 1973

E20Catch A Ring That Isn't There
Feb 6, 1973
When 17-year-old gymnastic champion Rickie Manning falls off the rings in gym, he is examined by Dr. Kiley who suspects the boy has been drinking. He and Dr. Welby want the boy to get help from a group at Comeback House. Richie's parents resist at first, but come to face the fact they have helped create their son's problems by pressures on him following the death of their other son.

E21The Working Heart
Feb 13, 1973
Laura Daniels develops a serious heart problem as the result of rheumatic fever. Although she accepts Dr. Welby's order to give up her TV interview show, she is convinced that her husband Paul loves her only as a successful career woman. She returns to work, getting pills from her assistant, Jan, and these, combined with liquor, cause her to collapse, making heart surgery mandatory.

E22The Other Martin Loring
Feb 20, 1973
"The Other Martin Loring" is a 1973 episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., an American medical drama that aired on ABC. It tells the story of a middle-aged man facing several health issues, which seem to stem from his repression of his homosexuality. The episode aired on February 20, 1973, and was met with concern and protests from LGBT rights activists for its equating of homosexuality and illness.

E23The Day After Forever
Feb 27, 1973
Troubled by his wife's relationship with a charming young political candidate, a successful architect-builder turns to tranquilizers and is seriously injured at a construction site.

E24The Tortoise Dance
Mar 6, 1973

E1The Panic Path
Sep 11, 1973

E2A Joyful Song
Sep 18, 1973

E3For Services Rendered
Sep 25, 1973

E4Blood Kin
Oct 2, 1973
Rico and Louisa Renati, aware their frail but lively daughter Maria has the rare Cooley's Anemia, peculiar to Italians, refuse Dr. Welby's suggestion on the operation. Dr. Jed Hartnet, a leading specialist in this type of disease who is ready to quit the profession , becomes intrigued with Maria and decides to fight her parents' decision.

E5The Light At the Threshold
Oct 9, 1973
Tracey Robbins has been plagued with diabetes for years and the disease has caused her to slowly lose her sight due to blood vessel malfunction. When her father fails to take her on a promised trip to Europe and her infatuation with Dr. Kiley undergoes a rude awakeing, the girl becomes withdrawn and refuses the operation.

E6A Question of Fault
Oct 16, 1973

E7Friends In High Places
Oct 23, 1973

E8The Endless Moment
Oct 30, 1973
Fearing that his bride-to-be, Kelly Green, will cancel their marriage plans, Dr. Kiley does not tell her the seriousness of the rheumatic disease she has contracted. Dr. Welby disagrees with his associate and, as her doctor, tells her the eventualities of such an illness when she insists on knowing.

E9The Tall Tree
Nov 6, 1973

E10The Circles of Shame
Nov 20, 1973

E11Nguyen
Nov 27, 1973

E12A Cry In The Night
Dec 11, 1973

E13Death Is Only A Side Effect
Dec 18, 1973
Patricia Lowry, despondent over her chronic kidney ailment and fear that her husband, Duke, is having romantic affairs on his business trips, takes a tranquilizer that puts her in a coma.

E14The comeback
Jan 1, 1974

E15A Full Life
Jan 8, 1974

E16No Charity For the MacAllisters
Jan 15, 1974

E17Each Day A Miracle
Jan 22, 1974

E18The Fear of Silence
Jan 29, 1974

E19Angela's Nightmare
Feb 5, 1974

E20The Mugging
Feb 12, 1974

E21The Latch-Key Child
Feb 19, 1974
When Dr. Kiley gives a ride to waitress Julie he learns her living situation is less then ideal. To earn a living she leaves 9 year old Casey in charge of Josh, who is 6. Josh also has seizures and Kiley tries to help.

E22Out of Control
Feb 26, 1974

E23I've Promised You a Father (1)
Mar 5, 1974
A young nursed suffering from a rare genetic disease that can cause delusions, names Dr. Kiley as the father of her small son in a paternity suit.

E24I've Promised You a Father (2)
Mar 5, 1974
Marshall is persuaded by Dr. Welby to defend Dr. Kiley in a paternity suit filed by Perry, a nurse who believes that the young doctor is the father of her child.

E25Designs
May 12, 1974

E1The Brittle Warrior
Sep 10, 1974

E2The Faith of Childish Things
Sep 17, 1974

E3Last Flight to Babylon
Sep 24, 1974
Len Dalton is unable to secure a position as a pilot, fearful of losing the affections of his girlfriend and suffering from post-operation depression, he contemplates suicide. After visiting Dr. Welby for a checkup, Dalton tries to persuade Consuelo to give him some sleeping pills. When his pleading fails, he obtains the drug from another source and tries to end his mental anguish forever.

E4To Father A Child
Oct 1, 1974

E5The Outrage
Oct 8, 1974
"The Outrage" is a 1974 episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., a long-running American medical drama on ABC. The episode tells the story of a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted by his male teacher. The episode, which originally aired October 8, 1974, sparked controversy and anger for its equation of homosexuality to pedophilia. "The Outrage" was targeted for protests by LGBT rights groups and several network affiliates refused to broadcast it.

E6The Fatal Challenge
Oct 15, 1974

E7A Fevered Angel
Oct 22, 1974
Dr. Welby and Kiley fight to save the life of a three-year-old boy, whose mother will not allow the child to be given proper medical treatment because of her fanatical beliefs.

E8Feedback
Oct 29, 1974
Even though Dr. Welby gives him the best treatment modern medicine can provide plus wise counseling and encouragement, Williams has a difficult time adjusting to an entirely different way of life after having to give up his career because of his affliction.

E9No Gods In Sight
Nov 12, 1974

E10Hell Is Upstairs
Nov 19, 1974

E11The Last Rip-Off
Nov 26, 1974

E12Child of Silence
Dec 3, 1974
Dr. Welby treats a young girl who almost drowned. His biggest challenge is getting through to the girl's mother who adamantly will not let her hearing-impaired daughter be seen by a specialist.

E13The 266 Days
Dec 10, 1974
A career woman, delighted to be pregnant at last, joins Consuelo's medical care group for pregnant women.

E14The Resident
Dec 17, 1974

E15Dark Fury (1)
Jan 7, 1975
Dr. Kiley takes Susan Davis out to dinner to celebrate the first annivesary of her operation. When Kiley takes her home, he leaves, but then he hears her scream. At length he succeeds in battering down her door, and finds that she has been sexually violated by her ex-boyfriend, Wayne Trent. Kiley takes Susan to the hospital. Later, he goes after Trent, who in attempting to flee, is seriously injured when his car crashes into a concrete pillar.

E16Dark Fury (2)
Jan 14, 1975
After Susan Davis has been molested by her ex-boyfriend, who has constantly harassed her, Kiley tries to find him. After an accident occurs in which the attacker almost dies, Kiley is subsequently charged with malpractice.

E17Public Streets
Jan 21, 1975

E18The Time Bomb
Jan 28, 1975
Dr. Welby has serious self-doubts when a young woman develops a cancerous condition, and blames him because of treatments he had recommended when she was a child.

E19Four-Plus Hot
Feb 4, 1975

E20Jake's Okay
Feb 11, 1975

E21Save the Last Dance For Me
Feb 18, 1975

E22The Unindicted Wife
Feb 25, 1975

E23Dark Corridors
Mar 4, 1975

E24Loser in a Dead Heat
Mar 11, 1975
Constant arguments between her parents because of her father's compulsive gambling, cause a girl to suffer from hyperventilation, a condition in which the subject's intake of oxygen is excessive.

E1Tomorrow May Never Come
Sep 9, 1975

E2The Fruitfulness of Mrs Steffie Rhodes
Sep 16, 1975

E3The Lie
Sep 23, 1975

E4The Covenant,
Sep 30, 1975

E5The Double Edged Razor
Oct 7, 1974
A teenage girl suffers a mild stroke during a high school exam and Kiley is concerned that even though initial tests come back normal there is something seriously wrong with the girl.

E6To Live Another Day
Oct 17, 1974

E7An End And A Beginning
Oct 21, 1975

E8The Tidal Wave
Oct 28, 1975

E9The Strange Behaviour of Paul Kelland
Nov 4, 1975

E10Calculated Risk
Nov 11, 1975

E11Killer Of Dreams
Nov 18, 1975

E12The Medea Factor
Dec 2, 1975

E13The One Face In the World
Dec 9, 1975

E14Go Ahead and Cry
Dec 16, 1975

E15Strike II
Jan 6, 1976
A former rookie of the year baseball player who became an alcoholic, finally gets another chance at life when he and his wife, Norma, become the physical education directors at the center. When a hepatitis epidemic breaks out, the cases are traced to Scott. The people at the center reject Scott and he returns to the bottle, feeling that his world has collapsed.

E16How Do You Know What Hurts Me?
Jan 13, 1975

E17Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 1
Jan 20, 1976

E18Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 2
Jan 27, 1976

E19The Highest Mountain
Feb 17, 1976

E20To Trump An Ace
Feb 24, 1976

E21All Passions Spent
Mar 2, 1976

E22Vanity Case (1)
Apr 27, 1976

E23Vanity Case (2)
May 4, 1976
Storyline
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.




















