Medical Center: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Medical Center Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
The Fourth Sex (1)
Sep 8, 1975 · 60 min
A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.
The Fourth Sex (2)
Sep 15, 1975 · 60 min
A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.
Torment
Sep 22, 1975 · 60 min
On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.
No Hiding Place
Sep 29, 1975 · 60 min
A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.
The Velvet Knife
Oct 6, 1975 · 60 min
Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.
Street Girl
Oct 20, 1975 · 60 min
A study of teen-age prostitution: the daughter of a successful surgeon takes to the streets in a desperate bid for attention.
The Price of a Child
Oct 29, 1975 · 60 min
The son of a wealthy Middle Eastern oil magnate upsets Medical Center operations with his "money buys everything" attitude.
Too Late for Tomorrow
Nov 3, 1975 · 60 min
Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.
The Last Performance
Nov 10, 1975 · 60 min
Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.
Two Against Death
Nov 17, 1975 · 60 min
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
Nov 24, 1975 · 60 min
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
Dec 1, 1975 · 60 min
An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.
Gift from a Killer
Dec 8, 1975 · 60 min
One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.
The High Cost of Winning
Dec 15, 1975 · 60 min
A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.
The Silent Witness
Dec 29, 1975 · 60 min
A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.
A Very Private War
Jan 12, 1976 · 60 min
Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.
You Can't Annul My Baby
Jan 19, 1976 · 60 min
Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.
Child of Conflict
Feb 2, 1976 · 60 min
The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.
The Stranger
Feb 9, 1976 · 60 min
The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.
A Touch of Sight
Feb 16, 1976 · 60 min
Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.
Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster
Feb 23, 1976 · 60 min
The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.
Major Annie, M.D.
Mar 1, 1976 · 60 min
An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.
The Happy State of Depression
Mar 8, 1976 · 60 min
A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.
If Wishes Were Horses
Mar 15, 1976 · 60 min
A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.