Dr. Marcus Welby is a middle-aged general practitioner who struggles to provide good old-fashioned medicine and caring in an age when hospitals and specialists are all the rage. Assisting him are Dr. Steven Kiley and Consuelo Lopez. Kiley is a young hotshot physician, and Consuelo is Welby's caring nurse and receptionist.
Policeman Andy Stewart puts his life on the line by refusing treatment from Dr. Welby and the Family Practice Center for Rheumatoid Arthritis in order to keep his job.
Welby is puzzled by the attitude of a patient and his wife, who harbor bitter resentment against the entire medical profession.
A physical required of a job seeker reveals that the applicant has syphilis, a condition that, if known, could make him unemployable.
Impotent with his wife, but not with other women: a touchy sixth season start as a neighbor's problem puts kindly Dr. Welby on the spot. The guy next door wants a medical alibi to explain his lack of desire to his worried spouse.
Rico Renati is the father of a girl who has contracted a rare disease peculiar to Italians and is afraid she is not strong enough for an operation.
Th emergency amputation of a boys's arm causes unexpected repercussions within the lad's family and involves Dr. Welby in a malpractice suit against another doctor.
Story centers on two people in trouble: a woman who's overprotecting her younger brother, and a baseball player whose trip to the big leagues may be sidetracked by disease.
The harrowing drama of a young mother's battle with uterine cancer and fear.
The good doctor Welby deals with arthritis to a boy and the lad's estranged parents. Welby's main job is to prevent the boy's father from running off again, avoiding responsibility, and star Robert Young, does the persuading with his customary charm and logic. The show is well cast, with James Stacy in the role of Dad, on the run.
Dr. Welby faces a puzzling diagnostic problem in a young girl who is newly adopted.
Jason Greer is a Vietnam veteran whose yen for an easygoing life is complicated by an unwanted responsibility: his rare-type blood can keep alive a critically ill boy.
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.
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.
The parents of a teenage boy with leukemia prevent Dr. Welby from informing him of his diagnosis.
Diagnostic detective work is called for in the puzzling case of a young woman who underwent apparently successful heart surgery. After steady progress, she suffers an onset of unaccountable, increasingly severe seizures.
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