Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'House Calls' from 1970-1982:
- David Wayne as Dr. Amos Weatherby (1979-1982)
- Ray Buktenica as Dr. Norman Solomon (1979-1982)
- Wayne Rogers as Dr. Charley Michaels (1979-1982)
- Lynn Redgrave as Ann Anderson (1979-1981)
- Sharon Gless as Jane Jeffries (1982)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'House Calls':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Julius Epstein, Max Shulman D: Alex March
With Candy Azzara, Vivi Janiss, Margaret Nesbitt.
Series debut. A philandering doctor meets his match when he falls for a British divorcee who demands fidelity.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Nick Havinga
With Irene Tedrow.
Charley finds that his old high school teacher can still influence his life when she is admitted to Kensington General Hospital.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Mel Ferber
With John van Dreelen, Roger Bowen.
Charley finds himself in a tight predicament when he realizes that he has another date on the same night he's arranged to see Ann.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Sheldon Keller, Bryan Blackburn D: Mel Ferber
With Teri Wagner-Otis (Polly), Sylvia Walden (Minna), Mickey Deems (Bickle), Hank Brandt (Wade), Sid Gould, Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley).
Norman can't operate on a patient due to the family's religious beliefs; an operation goes wrong for Charlie which triggers a series of events which further shakes his confidence.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Bob Claver
With Fernando Lamas (Dr. Langston), Charles Lampkin, Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps).
Charley becomes jealous when Ann is attracted to a famous doctor visiting the hospital.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Bill Greer, Kathy Greer D: Bob Claver
With David Hollander (Kevin), Markie Post (Linda), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps).
Charlie, Ann, Norman, Amos and Mrs. Phipps are trapped in the cafeteria after a seven-year-old accidentally exposes them to smallpox.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Mel Ferber
With Stuart Lancaster, Raymond St. Jacques (Arlan Lewis), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley).
Charley must perform surgery on a convicted mobster.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Sheldon Keller, Bryan Blackburn D: Mel Ferber
With John O'Leary (Mr. Brattle), Sandy Balson (Mrs. Brattle), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley).
The staff of Kensington Hospital is shocked when the new hospital administrator forces Amos to retire.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Bill Greer, Kathy Greer D: Bob Claver
With Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Richard Lewis (Dr. Prometheus), Margo Smith (Mrs. Freeman), Sarah Rush (Beverly Fisher), Gwen Van Dam (Mrs. Maxwell).
The hospital is plagued by a series of petty thefts, as well as the frequent appearances of an unidentifiable doctor.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Sheldon Keller, Bryan Blackburn, Jeffrey Davis D: Bob Claver
With Kay Medford (Mrs. Mickelwhite), Conrad Janis (Fickerson), Richard Stahl, Allen Joseph, Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps).
Charley develops a new compassion for the patients and causes unrest among the nurses when he is hospitalized with a bad back.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Mark Egan, Mark Solomon D: Mel Ferber
With June Allyson (Florence Alexander), George Dickerson (John Riley), Billy Beck (Phillipe), Frank Corsentino (Gustave), Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps).
A con woman, one of Dr. Michaels' favorite patients, tries to extort money from him and the hospital by faking an accident.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Nick Havinga
With Antoinette Stella (Susan), Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps).
Amos's clumsy granddaughter tries to prove herself capable of carrying on the Wetherby medical tradition, but finds that her interests lie elsewhere.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Mark Egan, Mark Solomon D: Nick Havinga
With Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Leif Garrett.
Ann Anderson gets a job offer from a famous music star.
November 17, 1980: Jailhouse Doc
Season 2, episode 1
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Mel Ferber
With Greg Mullavey (Dave Simmons), Freeman King, Dean Santoro (Senator Thurlow), John Clavin.
Charley goes to jail for refusing to divulge a patient's medical history to a Senate investigating committee.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Dianne Messina, Lou Messina D: Ray Austin
With John Edwards (Harvey), Rachel Thorne, Juanin Clay, Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler).
The staff react in a variety of ways when the best applicant for a surgeon's position turns out to be a woman.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Laurie Gelman D: Ray Austin
With Edd Byrnes, Diane Lander (Nurse Bowman).
Ann has her hands full with an amorous auditor -- and a mugger who lurks in the dark corners of Kensington Hospital and has made victims out of several women on the staff.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Bruce Bilson
With Jeannie Wilson (Edie), Shauna Sullivan, Adrienne Moore (Nurse Francis), Ed Call (Harris).
Ann defends one of the best nurses on the staff, who is being fired by the hospital adminstrator for posing nude in a men's magazine.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Ray Austin
With Shavar Ross, Jonathan Ian (Otis), Diane Lander (Nurse Bowman).
After learning that an invited U.S.O. troupe will not be able to perform for the patients, the staff decides to put on a Christmas show of its own.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Bill Greer, Kathy Greer D: Allen Baron
With Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Jerry Van Dyke (Dr. Kellogg), Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan).
An old friend of Charley's comes to visit -- a doctor who loves to play practical jokes -- and almost out-does himself.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Dianne Messina, Lou Messina, Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Jeremiah Morris
With James A. Watson Jr. (Nat Clark), Rebecca Holden (Jan Howard), Jessamine Milner (Iva), Elizabeth Kerr (Ida), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan).
Ann is rudely introduced to the fact that Charley is her landlord when he informs his tenants that he is converting their apartments into condominiums.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer, Julie Friedgen D: Allen Baron
With Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler).
Charley discovers that he is supposed to be on duty in the emergency room on the night of his planned date with Ann.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer, Tom Chehak D: Bruce Bilson
With David Paymer (Johnny Vance), Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan).
A strike finds the doctors doing all the work that would normally be done by the nurses and orderlies, such as scrubbing floors and carrying bedpans.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Ken Rothrock D: Allen Baron
With Richard Stahl, Mark Tapscott, Stuart Pankin (Huggins), Marlyn Mason, Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan).
A madman plants a bomb somewhere in Kensington General.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer, Laurie Newbound, Suzy Simon D: Mel Ferber
With Marlyn Mason, Nick Klar (Jeff), Will Gill Jr. (Dr. Thornton).
Only Anne is suspicious when a TV film crew arrives to record a "typical" day of activities at Kensington Hospital.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Wayne Rogers
With Howard Witt (Lt. Doyle), George Petrie, Joe Terry (Ted), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler).
Charley fakes an operation to prevent hospital administrator Mr. Peckler from tampering with operating room policy.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Laurie Gelman D: Ray Austin
With Jerry Douglas (Sgt. Fox), Martin Garner (Sam Gerber), Stanley Kamel (Lenny), Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan).
Ann and Charley help a wanted man sneak into the hospital to visit his dying father.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Dianne Messina, Lou Messina D: Allen Baron
With Martin Speer (Matt Sherman), Dack Rambo, Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan).
Charley, having stood up Ann twice, finds himself becoming jealous when Ann is attracted to a handsome new doctor.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Wayne Rogers D: Fernando Lamas
With William Bogert (Harold Jordy), Kenneth Kimmins (John Doe), Melanie Vincz (Linda Fuller).
A man claiming to be from various government agencies descends on Kensington Hospital and insists on seeing one of Dr. Michaels' seriously ill patients.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Bruce Bilson
With Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler).
When Dr. Weatherby appears to be dying, three of his greedy relatives arrive (all played by David Wayne) to battle over his estate.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Alan Bergmann
With Tony Plana (Danny Gomez), Robin Haynes (Kerry Selzer), Margaret Muse (Mrs. Selzer), Pamela Draper (Ruth Randall), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler), Jed Mills (Ludlou Berber), Roger Bowen (Dr. Beiderbeck).
Petty thefts around the hospital point to a strange group of suspects: an odd outpatient who harrasses the staff, a recovered kleptomatic whose mother is a hospital benefactor, and an orderly with a history of police trouble.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Donald Ross D: John Clark
With Robert Hogan, Holly Gagnier (Maria).
Charley has broken so many dates with Ann that she decides to see if she can get some action by making him jealous.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Donald Ross D: Dick Martin
With Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler), Roger Bowen (Dr. Beiderbeck), Jeff Maxwell (Lyman Vunk).
A patient from the psychiatric ward pulls a gun and holds Ann and Conrad hostage.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Richard Dimitri, Richard Lewis D: Fernando Lamas
With Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler), Jim Weston (Ted), Karen Salkin (Julie Hockhouser), Judi M. Durand (Louise Coates).
Vacationing together at a mountain cabin -- sent there separately by Conrad Peckler so he could snoop through the hospital files undetected -- Charley, Ann, Amos and Norman become trapped in the middle of a forest fire.
November 2, 1981: Lust Weekend
Season 3, episode 1
W: Erik Tarloff D: Alan Bergmann
Charley proposes to Ann and she accepts, but then starts having second thoughts; an ex-patient thretens to sue Norman after his romantic involvement with her.
Season 3, episode 2
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Wayne Rogers
With Philip Sterling.
Fed up with trying to obtain it legally, Amos starts to grow his own marijuana for his patients.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Fernando Lamas
With Patrick Macnee (Uncle Digby), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Mary Ann Gibson (Mrs. Colfax), Terrence Beasor (Man).
The entire hospital is fascinated by the stories from Ann's Uncle Digby.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Bob Baublitz D: Fernando Lamas
With Donna Wilkes, Dean Santoro (Senator Thurlow).
Keeping secret the information about a pregnant teenager causes problems for Charley.
Season 3, episode 5
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Dick Martin
With Aneta Corsaut (Nurse Bradley), Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Stephen Sachs.
Miss Phipps, Ann and Nurse Bradley innocently go to a bar which turns out to be a prostitutes' hangout.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Bob Baublitz D: Bruce Bilson
With Frank Biro (Mr. Jenkins).
While his house is being painted, Amos tricks Ann into letting him stay at her place.
Season 3, episode 7
W: Laurie Gelman D: Allen Baron
Norman, disgusted with his sagging love life, goes for a walk on the wild side.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Richard Dimitri, Richard Lewis D: Bruce Bilson
With Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler).
The overworked doctors have to deal with the weirdos they meet on the night shift in the emergency room.
Season 3, episode 9
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Fernando Lamas
With Scott McGinnis (Daryll Turner).
A young football player runs away from a life-saving operation -- the amputation of his leg -- and threatens to commit suicide; Ann may be running back to England.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Allen Baron
With Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler).
The woman replacing Ann as Conrad Peckler's assistant turns out to be one of Charley's old girlfriends.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer, Sam Greenbaum D: Alan Bergmann
With Dennis Howard, Lew Brown (Al Carver), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler).
Peckler tries to fire the head of the drug rehabilitation program when he learns the man is a homosexual.
Season 3, episode 12
W: Bruce Ferber, David Lerner D: Fernando Lamas
With Jon Cypher, George Petrie (Mannion), Claude Earl Jones, K Callan.
Charley loses confidence when a patient with a heart condition fires him and brings in a team of specialists who agree with his own diagnosis.
Season 3, episode 13
W: Laurie Gelman D: Alan Cooke
With Carl Strano (Fletcher), Barbara Horan, Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps).
Norman tries to help Mrs. Phipps after she is tricked out of $6,000 by a con artist patient on behalf of a phony charity.
Season 3, episode 14
W: Wayne Rogers D: Robert Douglas
With Bill Schilling, Bert Rosario, Ralph Strait.
Norman's facing a malpractice suit when he puts the hospital chef on a strict diet -- and the man promptly suffers a heart attack.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Jewel Jaffe, Martin Ross D: Alan Bergmann
With Stephen Brooks, Jim Weston, Frank Salcedo.
Charley tries to prove that a handsome gynecologist whom Jane admires is performing unnecessary operations.
Season 3, episode 16
D: Wayne Rogers
With Dino Natali (Lenny), Faith Minton (Geraldine).
In Las Vegas Charley and Jane get connecting rooms, but don't want Norman to know.
Season 3, episode 17
W: Bruce Ferber, David Lerner D: Alan Cooke
With Ruth Cox.
Charley decides that Amos's young girlfriend is a golddigger.
Season 3, episode 18
W: Erik Tarloff D: Philip Minor
With Michael Durrell, George Petrarca.
Charley tries to convince a campaigning Senator that he needs immediate surgery.
Season 3, episode 19
D: Robert Douglas
With Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan).
Charley tries to help a poor family whose 8-year-old son needs an operation, but they don't qualify for aid.
Season 3, episode 20
W: Joel Tappis, Jackie McKane, Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Bruce Bilson
With Ray Baumann, Billie Bird, Sandy Helberg, Kristin Griffith.
A patient believes he is a werewolf.
Season 3, episode 21
D: Allen Baron
With Herbert Rudley (Mr. Chadwick), Elvia Allman (Mrs. Chadwick).
The Weatherby family shows up to honor Amos' 40th anniversary in medicine with a surprise party, which turns into a madcap bash despite the absence of the guest of honor.
Season 3, episode 22
W: Bob Baublitz, Bruce Ferber, David Lerner D: Fernando Lamas
With James Hong, Pat Corley, Kate Williamson, Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps).
Jane and Charley go on a wild government goose chase to stop the toxic poisoning of ducks.
Season 3, episode 23
W: Bruce Ferber, David Lerner D: Alan Cooke
With Melanie Vincz, Bob Delegall (Flowers).
While Charley suffers from insomnia, Norman gets a bad case of overconfidence.
Season 3, episode 24
W: Howard Ostroff D: Fernando Lamas
With Roy London (Kleinblatt), Fritzi Burr.
Norman tries to prove to his mother that he is an adult; a neurotic patient adopts Charley as a substitute father. (Last show of the series.)