Marcus Welby, M.D. - Dark Fury, part one
Original Air Date: January 7, 1975 Production Number: Writer: David Victor Director: Bruce Kessler Starring: Robert Young as Dr. Marcus Welby James Brolin as Dr. Steven Kiley Elena Verdugo as Consuelo Lopez Guest stars: Lindsay Wagner as Susan Davis William Campbell as Justin Hubbard Sharon Gless as Kathleen Faverty Diana Hyland as Janet Trent Dack Rambo as Wayne Trent Tom Selleck as Sgt. Ed Brock Stack Pierce as Albert Johnson Lenore Stevens as Waitress Bob Delagall as Dr. Tom Haddon
Marcus Welby MD (Robert Young) was the top rated series in the 1970/71 American television season. The story followed Welby, an old - school general practitioner, who worked from his home in Santa Monica, California. He made house calls as a matter of course, which endeared him even further to his patients. After suffering a heart attack, he is forced to hire a young associate. Welby appreciates that the days of the GP are numbered, as his new young intern, Dr. James Kiley (James Brolin) wastes no opportunity in telling him that specialization is the way forward. Kiley is training to be a neuroscientist yet needs money to put his younger brother through medical school. Welby is in conflict with the theory of specialization, yet he appreciates that the money available is much better for newcomers to the medical profession. As a result Welby works twice as hard for half the money. The hot-headed young doctor and the seasoned old hand iron out any differences and work together as a tight unit. Together they are involved in great drama through a variety of situations. Dr. Welby and Dr. Kiley are both involved with Susan Davis, a young kidney transplant patient who is attacked by a manic former suitor on the night she and Dr. Kiley have been celebrating the first birthday of "Charlie," her kidney.
Notes:
Lindsay guest-starred on four more episodes of Marcus Welby, M.D.: The Best Is Yet To Be, All The Pretty People, Don And Denise and Dark Fury part two.
Lindsay and James Brolin would get to work together again in the feature film High Risk and the mini-series Voice Of The Heart.
Dack Rambo and Lindsay also appeared together in The Man And The City episode entitled Disaster On Turner Street.
Tom Selleck also appeared in the Sarge episode entitled The Combattants.
William Campbell also appeared in the television movie The Return Of The Six Million Dollar Man And The Bionic Woman.