
The Nurses
The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama which aired on CBS from September 27, 1962 to May 11, 1965. It was originally called The Nurses when it premiered in 1962; for the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses and it ran until 1965, when it was transformed into a half-hour daytime soap opera. The soap opera, also called The Nurses, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967.
Cast

Shirl Conway
Liz Thorpe

Zina Bethune
Gail Lucas

Joseph Campanella
Dr. Ted Steffen

Edward Binns
Dr. Anson Kiley

Stephen Brooks
Dr. Ned Lowry

Michael Tolan
Dr. Alex Tazinski "Ski"

Martin Sheen
Saunders

Martin Sheen
Carl

Alan Alda
Dr. John Griffin

Patrick O'Neal
Tom Farrell

Joey Heatherton
Ellen Denby

Corinne Orr

Mary Fickett

Dustin Hoffman
Larson
Seasons & Episodes
E1Night Shift
Sep 27, 1962
E2The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Oct 4, 1962
E3Fly, Shadow
Oct 11, 1962
E4The Barbara Bowers Story
Oct 18, 1962
E5Doctor Lillian
Oct 25, 1962
E6A Private Room
Nov 1, 1962
E7The Prisoner
Nov 8, 1962
E8A Strange and Distant Place
Nov 15, 1962
E9Two Black Candles
Nov 22, 1962
E10Lady Made of Stone
Nov 29, 1962
E11Frieda
Dec 6, 1962
E12The Soft Touch
Dec 13, 1962
Nurse Thorpe (Shirl Conway) swamped with hospital routine, decides to go into private nursing which, she is led to believe, is a “soft touch".
E13Image of Angela
Dec 27, 1962
E14A Difference of Years
Jan 3, 1963
E15Root of Violence
Jan 10, 1963
A nurse attending a teen-aged boy brought to the hospital with a fractured skull, presumably after having been attacked by a street gang, learns that her patient had been the attacker and that his assailant had acted in self defense.
E16Many A Sullivan
Jan 17, 1963
A New England fisherman suffers a heart attack while at sea and is flown to the New York hospital for attention.
E17Night Sounds
Jan 24, 1963
Norman Ruskin is recuperating after a minor operation and strikes up a friendly relationship with Miss Lucas. One night late at her post just as a patient dies, and her attempts to explain the delay are brushed aside. Edith Ruskin (Miss Benoit) is informed that Gail intends to press charges against her husband, despite opposition by hospital authorities.
E18The Third Generation
E19The Life
E20Circle of Choice
E21The Perfect Nurse
E22The Thunder of Ernie Bass
E23The Saturday Evening of Time
E24A Question of Mercy
E25Party Girl
E26A Dark World
E27You Could Die Laughing
E28Choice Among Wrongs
E29Express Stop from Lennox Avenue
Express Stop from Lennox Avenue is an episode of the TV program The Nurses.
E30Bitter Pill
E31Field of Battle
E32They Are As Lions
E1No Score
Sep 26, 1963
E2Show Just Cause Why You Should Weep
Oct 3, 1963
E3Escape Route
Oct 10, 1963
E4The Gift
Oct 17, 1963
E5Strike
Oct 24, 1963
E6The Horn of Plenty
E7The Helping Hand
E8Ordeal
E9The Guilt of Molly Kane
E10The Unwanted
E11Disaster Call
E12To Spend, To Give, To Want
E13The Witch of the East Wing
E14Rally Round, My Comrades
E15The Seeing Heart
E16Credo
E17The Rainbow Ride
E18The Intern Syndrome
E19Is There Room for Edward?
E20The Roamer
E21Nurse Is A Feminine Noun
Nurse Is A Feminine Noun is an episode of TV program The Nurses.
E22The Imperfect Prodigy
E23For the Mice and the Rabbits
E24Climb A Broken Ladder
E25The Forever Child
E26A Kind of Loving
E27The Leopard Killer
E28The Gizmo on the EEG
E29The Human Transaction
E30To All My Friends on Shore
E31White On White
E32A Postcard from Yucatan
E33The Bystanders
E34Where Park Runs Into Freeland
E35The Warrior
E36The Love of a Smart Operator
E1Once Bitten
E2The Suspect - Part 1
E3The Suspect - Part 2
E4Respect for One Another
E5No Shadow Where There Is No Sun
E6Hildie
E7The Outpost
E8The Family Resemblance
E9Time for You and Time for Me
E10So Some Girls Play the Cello
E11Rites of Spring
E12Next Stop, Valhalla
E13The Skill in These Hands
E14A Messenger to Everyone
E15Last Rites for a Rag Doll
E16The Patient Nurse
E17A Couple of Dozen Tiny Pills
E18A Question of Murder
E19Night of the Witch
E20Sixteen Hours to Chicago
E21Act of Violence - Part 1
E22A Dangerous Silence
E23Where There's Smoke
E24The Politicians
E25The April Thaw of Doctor Mai
E26Threshold
E27A39846
Apr 20, 1965
Jean Pierre Aumont plays Dr. DiCarlo, a European pathologist now stationed at Alden General Hospital, who shows more than general interest in an autopsy he has been asked to perform. His deep concern both annoys and puzzles Dr. Tazinski and other members of the hospital staff.
E28The Witnesses
E29The Heroine
E30An Unweeded Garden
May 11, 1965
Storyline
The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama which aired on CBS from September 27, 1962 to May 11, 1965. It was originally called The Nurses when it premiered in 1962; for the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses and it ran until 1965, when it was transformed into a half-hour daytime soap opera. The soap opera, also called The Nurses, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967.
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