Marcus Welby, M.D._
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
Created By
David Victor
Network
ABC
Episodes
171
Updated Feb 16, 2026
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Overview
Marcus Welby, M.D. has 7 seasons with 171 episodes spanning 1969-1976.
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Year context
Marcus Welby, M.D. first aired 57 years ago in 1969.
CAST (5)
SEASONS (7 seasons, 171 episodes)
SEASON 1
01
Hello, Goodbye, Hello
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.…
02
The Foal
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…
03
Don't Ignore The Miracles
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…
04
Silken Threads and Silver Hooks
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…
05
All Flags Flying
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…
06
Echo Of A Baby's Laugh
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…
07
The White Cane
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…
08
The Vrahnas Demon
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.…
09
Madonna With Knapsack and Flute
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…
10
Homecoming
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…
11
Let Ernest Come Over
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 occupation, says…
12
The Chemistry of Hope
Pacho McGuerney's parents, refuse to allow Dr. Welby to tell their teen-aged son that he has leukemia.
13
Neither Punch nor Judy
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…
14
Diagnosis: Fear
A basketball player, told by Dr. Welby that he must have knee surgery, goes to a faith healer instead.
15
The Soft Phrase of Peace
Welby treats a black leader's college-student son, injured by police during a demonstration.
16
Fun and Games and Michael Ambrose
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…
17
The Legacy
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,…
18
Dance to No Music
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…
19
Go Get 'Em, Tiger
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…
20
Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey
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…
21
The Other Side of the Chart
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…
22
The Merely Syndrome
A young girl who has undergone successful heart surgery continues to have severe heart seizures.
23
Sea of Security
An oceonograohy student with the bends disregards Dr. Welby's advice and insists on one more dive.
24
The Daredevil Gesture
A hemophiliac teenager risks his life to rescue a companion who has fallen down a ravine.
25
Enid
An orphanage counselor, addicted to pills, causes an automobil accident in which one of her charges is injured.
26
The Rebel Doctor
Dr. Welby tries to help a very young doctor fighting to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.
SEASON 2
01
A Very Special Sailfish
After a successful diet, a teenager gets caught up in the swinging set, leading to VD.
02
The Worth Of A Man
An attorney refuses to step down from a case after Dr. Welby tells him he has a terminal disease.
03
Warn the World About Mike
Dr. Kiley's brother believes he is dying and refuses to seek help.
04
Epidemic
The efforts of Dr. Welby and Kiley to battle a flu epidemic are complicated by a rich hypochondriac.
05
To Get Through the Night
A psychiatrist discovers he is the victim of a fatal form of sclerosis.
06
Daisy In the Shadows
The mother of a retarded child is forced to realize that she must allow the child to live with foster parents.
07
The Labyrinth
Dr. Welby tries to help a scientist, Vic Rivera, who appears to be suffering from drug-induced symptoms so serious he fears he will die or…
08
The Girl From Rainbow Beach
Just before her marriage, a young woman discovers she is a victim of a form of leprosy.
09
Aura To A New Tomorrow
A young epileptic's effort to hide his affliction endanger his life.
10
Sounding Brass
A proud young father refuses to bring his supposedly mentally challenged son to a free clinic for treatment.
11
To Carry the Sun In A Golden Cup
Dr. Welby suspects a young nurse is suffering from a hereditary muscular disease.
12
All the Golden Dandelions Are Gone
13
Brave On A Mountain Top
14
Another Buckle For Wesley Hill
15
False Spring
16
The Passing Of Torches
17
A Woman's Place
18
A Spanish Saying I Made Up
19
Cynthia
20
Don't Kid A Kidder
21
Elegy For A Mad Dog
22
The Contract
23
The Windfall
24
The House of Alquist
SEASON 3
01
The Tender Comrade
02
A Portrait of Debbie
03
In My Father's House
04
I Can Hardly Tell You Apart
Sally Fields is seens as June and Jan Wilkins, betweeen whom exists a very strong sibling rivalry. Jan's feelings are put to a test when…
05
This Is Max
06
Men Who Care (1)
Welby testifies at the murder trial of Marshall's client.
07
Men Who Care (2)
Welby testifies at the murder trial of Marshall's client.
08
Ask Me Again Tomorrow
A brilliant but stressed neurosurgeon seeks help from pills and alcohol.
09
Don't Phase Me Out
10
Echo From Another World
11
The Best Is Yet To Be
12
A Yellow Bird
13
They Grow Up
14
Of Magic Shadow Shapes
15
Cross-Match
16
The Basic Moment (1)
17
The Basic Moment (2)
18
All the Pretty People
Rick, whose tennis prowess has brought him fame, money and a beautiful wife, is hospitalized by Dr. Kiley following a collapse. Faced with the fact…
19
I'm Really Trying
20
Is It So Soon That I Am Done For - I Wonder What I Was Begun For?
21
Just a Little Courage
22
Don't Talk About Darkness
23
Once There Was A Bantu Prince
24
A Taste of Salt
A middle-aged Couple must learn to deal with the fact that their new-born son has cystic fibrosis.
25
Solomon's Choice
Teenaged Carol Lockett, three months pregnant and hospitalized by an infection, chooses to risk going full term rather than having a therapeutic abortion. Another complication…
SEASON 4
01
A Fragile Possession
02
Love Is When They Say They Need You
03
We'll Walk Out of Here Together
04
In Sickness and In Health
05
House of Mirrors
Ever since a car accident killed his wife and crippled his son, Dr. Val Peterson's life has centered on his work and surgeries to get…
06
He Could Sell Iceboxes To Eskimos
07
The Wednesday Game
08
Don and Denise
09
Please Don't Send Flowers
10
With A Shout, Not A Whimper
11
Jason Be Nimble, Jason Be Quick
12
Unto the Next Generation
13
Heartbeat For Yesterday
Dr. Welby, called by flying physician Jerome Billings, an orthopedic surgeon, for help finds young Carlos in a diabetic coma. Carlos' grandfather, Charlie, convinced his…
14
Dinner of Herbs
15
A More Exciting Case
16
A Necessary End
When Julie Langley Kirk's illness is diagnosed by Dr. Welby as serious heart damage, she refuses to accept it at first. Convinced finally by Dr.…
17
Who Are You Arthur Kolinski?
18
Gemini Descending
19
The Problem With Charlie
20
Catch A Ring That Isn't There
When 17-year-old gymnastic champion Rickie Manning falls off the rings in gym, he is examined by Dr. Kiley who suspects the boy has been drinking.…
21
The Working Heart
Laura Daniels develops a serious heart problem as the result of rheumatic fever. Although she accepts Dr. Welby's order to give up her TV interview…
22
The Other Martin Loring
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23
The Day After Forever
Troubled by his wife's relationship with a charming young political candidate, a successful architect-builder turns to tranquilizers and is seriously injured at a construction site.
24
The Tortoise Dance
SEASON 5
01
The Panic Path
02
A Joyful Song
03
For Services Rendered
04
Blood Kin
Rico and Louisa Renati, aware their frail but lively daughter Maria has the rare Cooley's Anemia, peculiar to Italians, refuse Dr. Welby's suggestion on the…
05
The Light At the Threshold
Tracey Robbins has been plagued with diabetes for years and the disease has caused her to slowly lose her sight due to blood vessel malfunction.…
06
A Question of Fault
07
Friends In High Places
08
The Endless Moment
Fearing that his bride-to-be, Kelly Green, will cancel their marriage plans, Dr. Kiley does not tell her the seriousness of the rheumatic disease she has…
09
The Tall Tree
10
The Circles of Shame
11
Nguyen
12
A Cry In The Night
13
Death Is Only A Side Effect
Patricia Lowry, despondent over her chronic kidney ailment and fear that her husband, Duke, is having romantic affairs on his business trips, takes a tranquilizer…
14
The comeback
15
A Full Life
16
No Charity For the MacAllisters
17
Each Day A Miracle
18
The Fear of Silence
19
Angela's Nightmare
20
The Mugging
21
The Latch-Key Child
22
Out of Control
23
I've Promised You a Father (1)
A young nursed suffering from a rare genetic disease that can cause delusions, names Dr. Kiley as the father of her small son in a…
24
I've Promised You a Father (2)
Marshall is persuaded by Dr. Welby to defend Dr. Kiley in a paternity suit filed by Perry, a nurse who believes that the young doctor…
25
Designs
SEASON 6
01
The Brittle Warrior
02
The Faith of Childish Things
03
Last Flight to Babylon
Len Dalton is unable to secure a position as a pilot, fearful of losing the affections of his girlfriend and suffering from post-operation depression, he…
04
To Father A Child
05
The Outrage
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06
The Fatal Challenge
07
A Fevered Angel
Dr. Welby and Kiley fight to save the life of a three-year-old boy, whose mother will not allow the child to be given proper medical…
08
Feedback
Even though Dr. Welby gives him the best treatment modern medicine can provide plus wise counseling and encouragement, Williams has a difficult time adjusting to…
09
No Gods In Sight
10
Hell Is Upstairs
11
The Last Rip-Off
12
Child of Silence
Dr. Welby treats a young girl who almost drowned. His biggest challenge is getting through to the girl's mother who adamantly will not let her…
13
The 266 Days
A career woman, delighted to be pregnant at last, joins Consuelo's medical care group for pregnant women.
14
The Resident
15
Dark Fury (1)
Dr. Kiley takes Susan Davis out to dinner to celebrate the first annivesary of her operation. When Kiley takes her home, he leaves, but then…
16
Dark Fury (2)
After Susan Davis has been molested by her ex-boyfriend, who has constantly harassed her, Kiley tries to find him. After an accident occurs in which…
17
Public Streets
18
The Time Bomb
Dr. Welby has serious self-doubts when a young woman develops a cancerous condition, and blames him because of treatments he had recommended when she was…
19
Four-Plus Hot
20
Jake's Okay
21
Save the Last Dance For Me
22
The Unindicted Wife
23
Dark Corridors
24
Loser in a Dead Heat
Constant arguments between her parents because of her father's compulsive gambling, cause a girl to suffer from hyperventilation, a condition in which the subject's intake…
SEASON 7
01
Tomorrow May Never Come
02
The Fruitfulness of Mrs Steffie Rhodes
03
The Lie
04
The Covenant,
05
The Double Edged Razor
06
To Live Another Day
07
An End And A Beginning
08
The Tidal Wave
09
The Strange Behaviour of Paul Kelland
10
Calculated Risk
11
Killer Of Dreams
12
The Medea Factor
13
The One Face In the World
14
Go Ahead and Cry
15
Strike II
A former rookie of the year baseball player who became an alcoholic, finally gets another chance at life when he and his wife, Norma, become…
16
How Do You Know What Hurts Me?
17
Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 1
18
Prisoner of the Island Cell: Part 2
19
The Highest Mountain
20
To Trump An Ace
21
All Passions Spent
22
Vanity Case (1)
23
Vanity Case (2)
SERIES INFO
7
Seasons
171
Episodes
60 min/ep
Per Episode
Ended
Status
CREW
Creator
David Victor
NETWORKS (1)
ABC
DETAILS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Marcus Welby, M.D. about?
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
How many seasons does Marcus Welby, M.D. have?
Marcus Welby, M.D. has 7 seasons with 171 episodes total.
Who created Marcus Welby, M.D.?
Marcus Welby, M.D. was created by David Victor.
Who stars in Marcus Welby, M.D.?
The cast of Marcus Welby, M.D. includes Robert Young, James Brolin, Pamela Hensley, Sharon Gless, Elena Verdugo.
What is the rating of Marcus Welby, M.D.?
Marcus Welby, M.D. has a rating of 6.5 out of 10 based on 19 votes on TMDB.
Is Marcus Welby, M.D. still running?
Marcus Welby, M.D. has ended. The final episode aired on .
GENRES (1)
Drama
