O. J. Simpson plays a character he is familiar with, an All-American football player and No. 1 draft choice of the pros with a potential million dollar bonus. But he's sick. Nose bleeds and dizziness Indicate something serious, but he refuses to admit it. It's a dramatic and meaty role and with the help of Cicely Tyson, as his wife, O. J. does well.

Young doctor Joe Gannon (Chad Everett) believes a child patient is the victim of a beating and has a run-in with the kid's father, Robert Lansing. In this series Gannon plays the fighter teeing off at those who interfere before the climactic scenes in surgery.

A wounded college senior who has been under the influence of drugs staggers through the hospital's emergency entrance. There is lots going on in this case history about a college student with a bullet in his neck. Not only is there a drug angle and possible facial paralysis, but father rejection and a job offer from a friendly patient too.