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.

Guest star Barbara Rush portrays Nora Caldwell, a famed author's wife, who learns that her first pregnancy may be endangered by her heart condition.