The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The Cast of The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Also known as	The New Doctors
Format	Medical drama
Created by	Larry Brody Jerry de Bono
Directed by	Jeremy Kagan John Badham Richard Benedict Abner Biberman Michael Caffey Marvin J. Chomsky Robert E. Collins Daryl Duke Alf Kjellin Jerry Lewis Don McDougall Frank Pierson Barry Shear Jud Taylor
Starring	E. G. Marshall David Hartman John Saxon (Season 1-3) Robert Walden (Season 4) Julie Adams (Season 2)
Opening theme	Billy Goldenberg
Composer(s)	Stanley Wilson
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	45 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Herbert Hirschman
Producer(s)	Douglas Benton Cy Chermak Joel Rogosin Robert Scheerer
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	45–48 minutes
Production company(s)	Harbour-UTV
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 14, 1969 (1969-09-14) – May 4, 1973 (1973-05-04)

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (also known as The New Doctors) is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC, from 1969 to 1973.

Overview

Marshall as David Craig.

The series focuses on the life of Dr. David Craig (E. G. Marshall), an extremely successful neurosurgeon who is so renowned in his field that he is able to open his own very exclusive clinic called The David Craig Institute of New Medicine.

Craig has enlisted two "bold" young medical executives, chief of surgery Dr. Ted Stuart (John Saxon) and Paul Hunter (David Hartman). The character Dr. Stuart was later replaced by Dr. Cohen (Robert Walden).

The New Doctors was part of The Bold Ones, a rotating series of dramas that also included The Protectors (with Leslie Nielsen), The Lawyers (with Burl Ives) and The Senator (with Hal Holbrook). The New Doctors was the only one of the four series to last for the entire run.

David Hartman was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for portraying Paul Hunter on this show.

Synopsis

Together with his two assistants Dr. Paul Hunter and Dr. Ted Stuart, Dr. David Craig saves lives every day in his own exclusive clinic. His cases include kidney transplants, mothers with post-partum depression, patients that cannot or will not communicate with him or his staff. His wife Lynn also assists at times. Every episode lasted 60 minutes, and like other medical drama series Dr. David Craig gets in touch with rare patients or diseases, like House or ER.

Cast and characters

• E. G. Marshall as Dr. David Craig, a successful neurosurgeon who has opened his own exclusive clinic called The David Craig Institute of New Medicine.

• John Saxon as Dr. Ted Stuart the chief of surgery at the clinic. (Seasons one through three).

• David Hartman as Dr. Paul Hunter

• Robert Walden as Dr. Martin Cohen (replaced John Saxon from episode four of season four).

• Julie Adams as Mrs. Lynn Craig, Dr. David Craig's Wife (season two only).

Episodes

After the pilot episode, "To Save a Life", the series became a hit, lasting for three more seasons, ending with the 16th episode of fourth season, "And Other Things I May Not See".

The following is a list of titles of the broadcast episodes by broadcast seasons:

This list includes the episode "Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown, Pt. 2", which was a crossover with Ironside; that episode started in Ironside and ended in New Doctors.

Season One (1969-1970)

1. To Save a Life (Pilot)
2. What's the Price of a Pair of Eyes?
3. Rebellion of the Body
4. Man Without a Heart
5. A Small Step for Man
6. Crisis
7. And Those Unborn
8. If I Can't Sing, I'll Listen
9. This Day's Child
10. Dark Is the Rainbow, Loud the Silence

Season Two (1970-1971)

1. This Will Really Kill You
2. Killer on the Loose
3. Giants Never Kneel
4. First: No Harm to the Patient
5. In Dreams They Run
6. A Matter of Priorities
7. An Absence of Loneliness
8. Tender Predator

Season Three (1971-1972)

1. Broken Melody
2. The Angry Man
3. One Lonely Step
4. Close Up
5. The Convicts
6. The Glass Cage
7. Dagger in the Mind
8. Moment of Crisis
9. Short Flight to a Distant Star
10. A Threatened Species
11. Discovery at Fourteen

Season Four (1972-1973)

1. Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown Pt. 2. (Crossover with Ironside)
2. Is This Operation Necessary?
3. A Nation of Human Pincushions
4. Time Bomb in the Chest
5. A Standard for Manhood
6. A Substitute Womb
7. A Very Strange Triangle
8. A Quality of Fear
9. An Inalienable Right to Die
10. A Purge of Madness
11. End Theme
12. The Velvet Prison
13. Terminal Career
14. A Tightrope to Tomorrow
15. The Night Crawler
16. And Other Things I May Not See

Guest appearances

• Tisha Sterling as Casey Woods/Joan in the episodes: This Will Really Kill You and What's the Price of a Pair of Eyes?
• Katherine Crawford as Abbie in the episodes: Tender Predator, A Matter of Priorities and No Harm to the Patient
• Linda Dangcil also made two appearances playing different roles in the episodes: A Matter of Priorities and To Save a Life
• Pat Hingle as Dr. Ben Gold and Walsh in the episodes: Glass Cage and To Save a Life
• Darby Hinton as Hal Parker in "This Will Really Kill You"
• Jane Wyman as Dr. Amanda Fallon in the episodes: And Other Things I May Not See and Discovery at Fourteen
• Clu Gulager as Dan Corwin/ Matt Smith in the episodes: End Theme and A Threatened Species
• John Ragin as Dr. Gomrick in the episodes: An Absence of Loneliness and Crisis
• Sheila Larken as Liz in the episodes: A Substitute Womb and This Day's Child
• Joanne Linville as Anne Sorenson/Joan Stedman in the episodes: Time Bomb in the Chest and In Dreams They Run
• Pete Morrow as Anesthetist/Dr. Green in the episodes: A Tightrope to Tomorrow and Dagger in the Mind
• Peggy Feury made two appearances playing different roles including the episode: Close Up
• Gail Bonney as Mrs. Tate in the episodes: A Terminal Career and A Very Strange Triangle
• Norma Crane made two appearances playing different roles in the episodes: A Threatened Species and Crisis
• Jess Walton as Sharon in the episodes: The Night Crawler and Short Flight to a Distant Star
• Ron Howard as a fourteen year old, who discovers that his father is homosexual in "Discovery at Fourteen"

See also

• The Bold Ones
• The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
• The Bold Ones: The Protectors
• The Bold Ones: The Senator

External links

• The Bold Ones The New Docters at TVIV
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors at TV.com
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors at AllRovi