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The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama which aired on CBS from September 27, 1962 to May 11, 1965. It was originally called The Nurses when it premiered in 1962; for the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses and it ran until 1965, when it was transformed into a half-hour daytime soap opera. The soap opera, also called The Nurses, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Night ShiftSeptember 27, 1962—
- S01E02The Walls Came Tumbling DownOctober 4, 1962—
- S01E03Fly, ShadowOctober 11, 1962—
- S01E04The Barbara Bowers StoryOctober 18, 1962—
- S01E05Doctor LillianOctober 25, 1962—
- S01E06A Private RoomNovember 1, 1962—
- S01E07The PrisonerNovember 8, 1962—
- S01E08A Strange and Distant PlaceNovember 15, 1962—
- S01E09Two Black CandlesNovember 22, 1962—
- S01E10Lady Made of StoneNovember 29, 1962—
- S01E11FriedaDecember 6, 1962—
- S01E12The Soft TouchDecember 13, 1962—Nurse Thorpe (Shirl Conway) swamped with hospital routine, decides to go into private nursing which, she is led to believe, is a “soft touch
- S01E13Image of AngelaDecember 27, 1962—
- S01E14A Difference of YearsJanuary 3, 1963—
- S01E15Root of ViolenceJanuary 10, 1963—A nurse attending a teen-aged boy brought to the hospital with a fractured skull, presumably after having been attacked by a street gang, le
- S01E16Many A SullivanJanuary 17, 1963—A New England fisherman suffers a heart attack while at sea and is flown to the New York hospital for attention.
- S01E17Night SoundsJanuary 24, 1963—Norman Ruskin is recuperating after a minor operation and strikes up a friendly relationship with Miss Lucas. One night late at her post jus
- S01E18The Third Generation—
- S01E19The Life—
- S01E20Circle of Choice—
- S01E21The Perfect Nurse—
- S01E22The Thunder of Ernie Bass—
- S01E23The Saturday Evening of Time—
- S01E24A Question of Mercy—
- S01E25Party Girl—
- S01E26A Dark World—
- S01E27You Could Die Laughing—
- S01E28Choice Among Wrongs—
- S01E29Express Stop from Lennox Avenue—Express Stop from Lennox Avenue is an episode of the TV program The Nurses.
- S01E30Bitter Pill—
- S01E31Field of Battle—
- S01E32They Are As Lions—
Season02
- S02E01No ScoreSeptember 26, 1963—
- S02E02Show Just Cause Why You Should WeepOctober 3, 1963—
- S02E03Escape RouteOctober 10, 1963—
- S02E04The GiftOctober 17, 1963—
- S02E05StrikeOctober 24, 1963—
- S02E06The Horn of Plenty—
- S02E07The Helping Hand—
- S02E08Ordeal—
- S02E09The Guilt of Molly Kane—
- S02E10The Unwanted—
- S02E11Disaster Call—
- S02E12To Spend, To Give, To Want—
- S02E13The Witch of the East Wing—
- S02E14Rally Round, My Comrades—
- S02E15The Seeing Heart—
- S02E16Credo—
- S02E17The Rainbow Ride—
- S02E18The Intern Syndrome—
- S02E19Is There Room for Edward?—
- S02E20The Roamer—
- S02E21Nurse Is A Feminine Noun—Nurse Is A Feminine Noun is an episode of TV program The Nurses.
- S02E22The Imperfect Prodigy—
- S02E23For the Mice and the Rabbits—
- S02E24Climb A Broken Ladder—
- S02E25The Forever Child—
- S02E26A Kind of Loving—
- S02E27The Leopard Killer—
- S02E28The Gizmo on the EEG—
- S02E29The Human Transaction—
- S02E30To All My Friends on Shore—
- S02E31White On White—
- S02E32A Postcard from Yucatan—
- S02E33The Bystanders—
- S02E34Where Park Runs Into Freeland—
- S02E35The Warrior—
- S02E36The Love of a Smart Operator—
Season03
- S03E01Once Bitten—
- S03E02The Suspect - Part 1—
- S03E03The Suspect - Part 2—
- S03E04Respect for One Another—
- S03E05No Shadow Where There Is No Sun—
- S03E06Hildie—
- S03E07The Outpost—
- S03E08The Family Resemblance—
- S03E09Time for You and Time for Me—
- S03E10So Some Girls Play the Cello—
- S03E11Rites of Spring—
- S03E12Next Stop, Valhalla—
- S03E13The Skill in These Hands—
- S03E14A Messenger to Everyone—
- S03E15Last Rites for a Rag Doll—
- S03E16The Patient Nurse—
- S03E17A Couple of Dozen Tiny Pills—
- S03E18A Question of Murder—
- S03E19Night of the Witch—
- S03E20Sixteen Hours to Chicago—
- S03E21Act of Violence - Part 1—
- S03E22A Dangerous Silence—
- S03E23Where There's Smoke—
- S03E24The Politicians—
- S03E25The April Thaw of Doctor Mai—
- S03E26Threshold—
- S03E27A39846April 20, 1965—Jean Pierre Aumont plays Dr. DiCarlo, a European pathologist now stationed at Alden General Hospital, who shows more than general interest i
- S03E28The Witnesses—
- S03E29The Heroine—
- S03E30An Unweeded GardenMay 11, 1965—
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