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Season 2
September 5, 1955

Season 2

01. All the Lonely Night

Pretty, young Helen has a collapsing colon. Unless she consents to surgery to open up a new elimination canal and container bag, she will die. But what will that mean to a young woman's self-image and life style. Daring topic for its time.

30min
September 5, 1955

02. Walk with Lions

Unaware that he has developed diabetes, a struggling young prizefighter who is also a gifted artist endangers his life by continuing to push himself in order to earn the money needed to further his education.

30min
September 12, 1955

03. And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (1)

Immediately after giving birth to her fourth child, Frances Dunbar develops a severe case of postpartum depression and becomes convinced that she can (and will) violently murder the baby.

30min
September 26, 1955

04. And Then There Was Darkness and Then There Was Light (2)

After unsuccessfully attempting to kill her baby, Frances Dunbar voluntarily admits herself to a state psychiatric institution where she receives treatment that slowly helps her to realize the reasons for her troubled mental state.

30min
October 3, 1955

05. A Room, a Boy and Mr. Bodine

A young boy, neglected by his wealthy parents, builds a dream world of his own with the help of his tattered teddy bear, Mr. Bodine. This aggravates his asthmatic condition, as he is allergic to the teddy bear.

30min
October 10, 1955

06. When I Was Young

When Gwen Kellogg becomes depressed, modern treatment helps restore her to health

30min
October 24, 1955

07. When Mama Says Jump

Dr. Styner offers advice and support when a 17-year-old track star develops severe acne and chronic fatigue due to stresses caused by his demanding mother's determination to see him achieve his father's dream of Olympic stardom.

30min
October 31, 1955

08. Candle of Hope

A citrus farmer gets married at age 45. He then wants a son but is unable to have one. He visits the doctor to get help.

30min
November 7, 1955

09. Black Friday

Little known but true story about an Army doctor who tried to save Abraham Lincoln's life. Dr. Charles A. Leale was in the audience at Ford's Theater when John Wilkes Booth fired the fatal shot at President Lincoln. For 12 hours Leale and two other doctors worked desperately against death.

30min
November 21, 1955

10. Glass of Fear

Comic strip artist Dick Hooper does a nationally syndicated feature called "Salty", but he can't make his due dates for finished cartoons because he's become obsessed with germs and various muscle and stomach pains that doctors can't locate. He's become a raging hypochondriac that's about to lose his wife and career.

30min
November 28, 1955

11. Pray Judgement

A county coroner's investigation will exonerate or incriminate a distraught spinsterish woman who was alone with her younger sister's baby boy when the infant died suddenly and unexpectedly.

30min
December 5, 1955

12. The World So High

During World War Two, pilots are able to take aircraft higher and higher, but they keep fainting out when parachuting out. A young doctor proceeds to do experiments back in the states on the most likely of these pilots to falter. Controlled high altitude simulations prove dangerous, but necessary.

30min
December 26, 1955

13. A Time for Sleep

The story of the contribution of the anesthesiologist to medicine. An elderly woman must undergo a thyroid operation. A large part of the success of such an operation is in the deft hands and decisions of the anesthesiologist.

30min
January 2, 1956

14. The Laughter and the Weeping

Due to circumstances at home, a young man needs to help take care of his mom and ailing father. He can't finish college and resorts to Professional Wrestling to make money. Can he restore his appearance and his dignity?

30min
January 15, 1956

15. Just Like Your Father

An elderly judge who has no close relatives is taken seriously ill. After he collapses, his ailment is diagnosed as a pancreatic tumor.

30min
January 23, 1956

16. If Tomorrow Be Sad

A successful photographer's model is told she is a victim of multiple sclerosis. Her unsympathetic husband decides he now wants a divorce.

30min
February 6, 1956

17. The Homecoming

Leprosy victim Allan Connolly is finally pronounced healthy and fit to resume a productive life in normal society, but he and his wife are unprepared for the rejection and irrational fear evinced by their friends and neighbors.

30min
February 13, 1956

18. Who Search for Truth

This is the story of Alexis St. Martin, a young fur trapper who was shot in the side and was used by Dr. William Beaumont for research into the function of the human digestive system.

30min
February 27, 1956

19. The Glorious Red Gallagher

A troubled woman has given birth to a baby by Caesarian section and has lost the will to live. She is put in the care of nurse Clara Mary Gallagher, who is retiring the next day after 39 years of service.

30min
March 12, 1956

20. My Best Friend, My Guilty Friend

This is the story of years of research to discover the cause of blindness in prematurely born infants.

30min
March 19, 1956

21. Awake to Spring

An old man is the only family left for his crippled grandson. He's worried about his ability to carry on, and after a painful heart incident, he's convinced he'll soon be dead and his helpless charge will be doomed, so he decides they should go together and leaves the gas pipe open as they sleep.

30min
March 26, 1956

22. Don't Count the Stars

An arrogant and self-aggrandizing singer's relentless drive for success is unceremoniously halted when he learns that his hoarseness is not due to vocal overwork, but to a potentially malignant cancer of the larynx.

30min
April 9, 1956

23. The Inconstant Heart

Although resigned to the fact that he had an incurable heart ailment, a man is badgered by his wife into going to a doctor. Tonight's story concerns radiology, and viewers see the UCLA medical center and its cancer-treating cobalt bomb.

30min
April 23, 1956

24. Someday We'll Laugh

A father, grateful to a doctor for saving his daughter's life, offers to finance the much-needed equipment for his office.

30min
May 7, 1956

25. To the Great, a Most Seldom Gift

Navy surgeon saves life of sailor injured in sea explosion.

30min
May 24, 1956

26. The Good Samaritan

Dr. Styner stops to help a married couple involved in an automobile accident, but finds himself on trial for medical malpractice when the wife subsequently and surprisingly becomes addled and partially paralyzed on her left side.

30min
May 31, 1956

27. Reach of the Giant (1)

A man develops a crippling arthritic spinal condition.

30min
June 11, 1956

28. Reach of the Giant (2)

After sending his wife away, Jim falls again and his condition worsens to the point where he decides to undergo experimental surgery on his spine.

30min
June 18, 1956

29. Till the Song Is Done, till the Dance Is Gone

This is the story of a young girl named Mary. She has a weak heart due to a defective heart valve. Doctors race to operate on her after she collapses at a dance she attended with her classmates.

30min
July 9, 1956

30. She Walks in Beauty

It's summer vacation and Jenny is a 12 year old girl with a club foot. Her parents are worried about her "ugly deformity" as they refer to it, and whether anybody will marry her when she's older. They take her to see a specialist to see if he can surgically repair her club foot.

30min
August 6, 1956

31. This Strange Ending

Promising 19-year-old ballerina Laurie Allen's 1947 death from cancer becomes a personal obsession for newspaper reporter Joe Bailey, who conducts a series of interviews that he hopes will reveal the true story behind her untimely demise.

30min
August 27, 1956