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Marcus Welby, M.D.: Season 1

26 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 1969 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Hello, Goodbye, Hello

Sep 23, 1969 · 60 min

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, atte

S1·E2

The Foal

Sep 30, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E3

Don't Ignore The Miracles

Oct 7, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E4

Silken Threads and Silver Hooks

Oct 14, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E5

All Flags Flying

Oct 21, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E6

Echo Of A Baby's Laugh

Oct 28, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E7

The White Cane

Nov 4, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E8

The Vrahnas Demon

Nov 11, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E9

Madonna With Knapsack and Flute

Nov 18, 1969 · 60 min

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, wh

S1·E10

Homecoming

Nov 25, 1969 · 60 min

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 burst

S1·E11

Let Ernest Come Over

Dec 9, 1969 · 60 min

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 occup

S1·E12

The Chemistry of Hope

Dec 16, 1969 · 60 min

Pacho McGuerney's parents, refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.

S1·E13

Neither Punch nor Judy

Dec 23, 1969 · 60 min

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

S1·E14

Diagnosis: Fear

Dec 30, 1969 · 60 min

A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.

S1·E15

The Soft Phrase of Peace

Jan 6, 1970 · 60 min

Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.

S1·E16

Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose

Jan 13, 1970 · 60 min

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

S1·E17

The Legacy

Jan 27, 1970 · 60 min

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 imme

S1·E18

Dance to No Music

Feb 3, 1970 · 60 min

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 in

S1·E19

Go Get 'Em, Tiger

Feb 10, 1970 · 60 min

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 do

S1·E20

Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey

Feb 17, 1970 · 60 min

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 mos

S1·E21

The Other Side of the Chart

Feb 24, 1970 · 60 min

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 p

S1·E22

The Merely Syndrome

Mar 3, 1970 · 60 min

A young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.

S1·E23

Sea of Security

Mar 10, 1970 · 60 min

An oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.

S1·E24

The Daredevil Gesture

Mar 17, 1970 · 60 min

A hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.

S1·E25

Enid

Mar 24, 1970 · 60 min

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

S1·E26

The Rebel Doctor

Apr 14, 1970 · 60 min

Dr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.