Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Matt Lincoln' from 1970-1982:
- Vince Edwards as Dr. Matt Lincoln (1970-1971)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Matt Lincoln':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Charles Israel D: Allen Reisner
With Patty Duke (Sheila), Jed Allan, Christina Crawford, Sam Chew Jr.. Vince Edwards returns to weekly TV to star in a series about a new breed psychiatrist who is also director of a "hot line" facility for troubled teenagers. In this episode, an unwed mother resists Dr. Lincoln's suggestion that she return to therapy when she asks help in placing her baby for adoption.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Edward J. Lakso D: Ralph Senensky
With Herb Edelman (Lt. Samish), Martin Sheen (Charles Devon), John Lormer (Pete), Simon Scott. Dr. Lincoln is called in to aid the police in capturing a sniper. A phone trace is set up and a meeting is arranged.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Hal Sitowitz D: Robert Day
With Belinda Montgomery (Nina Conway), Jack Cassidy (Doug Conway), Jeanne Bal (Monica Conway). A supposedly ideal girl addicted to heroin is given a chance to join Dr. Lincoln's encounter sessions for addicts. The girl pretends the sessions are helpful but continues to use drugs.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Andy White, Robert Collins D: Gerald Mayer
With John Vernon (Phillip Henshaw), Barry Brown (Steve Henshaw), Brenda Scott (Sandy Baker), Sandra de Bruin (Script Girl). Before moderating a TV panel discussion on pollution, Dr. Lincoln shows an industrialist a newsfilm of a demonstration at his plant while he was out of town.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Jean Holloway D: Abner Biberman
With Barbara Feldon (Jilly Harris), Jeffrey Lynn, Tom Simcox (David Cunningham), Clarke Gordon. Matt Lincoln's commitment to helping the troubled reaches into his personal life when an old love, the governor's daughter, refuses to accept blindness caused by a plane crash.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Preston Wood, Don Ingalls D: Allen Reisner
With Joan Van Ark (Katherine Theiss), Pete Deuel (Father Nicholas Burrell), Marc Hannibal (Garvin Lewis), Jackie Coogan (Tate), Felton Perry (Jimmy), June Harding (Ann). A priest is forced to decide between marriage and the church when he falls for a parishioner.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Preston Wood, Sy Salkowitz D: Seymour Robbie
With Andrew Prine (Billy), Mary Layne (Lori), Arthur Franz (Mr. Summers), Katherine Cannon (Mary), Holly Near (Brightness). Matt tries to save an accidentally drug-overdosed mentally retarded girl. His life is threatened when he finds her in a hippie commune where the leader of the "family" has taken her.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Henry Misrock D: Gerald Mayer
With David Wayne (Doc), Beatrice Straight (Barbara Miller), Pamela McMyler (Vickie Stevens), Penny Santon. Dr. Lincoln returns to Lakeview when a former colleague, the only doctor in town, develops a drinking problem following his wife's death.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Jean Holloway D: Jeffrey Hayden
With Dean Jagger (Dr. Matt Lincoln Sr.), Reta Shaw (Mrs. Tweed), Randolph Mantooth (Paul), Don Keefer (Dr. Hughes), Dan Tobin (Kelley), Lilyan Chauvin (Michele Barton), Philippe Forquet (Jacques Vielliers), Linda Morand (Angie). Together, Lincoln and his retired medical specialist father try to save an unidentified diabetic pregnant woman.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Sy Salkowitz, Marcus Demian D: Allen Reisner
With Miko Mayama (Yumiko), Jeff Pomerantz (Steve Ross), Milton Selzer, John Zaremba. When a Japanese girl is hospitalized for malnutrition, Dr. Lincoln gains her trust and learns that she made the trip to see a GI who had promised to marry her.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Pat Fielder D: Corey Allen
With Darren McGavin, Jean Allison, Charles McGraw, George Spell. Dr. Lincoln is called in when the 13-year-old son of a building contractor threatens to jump from an unfinished structure.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Jean Holloway D: Marc Daniels
With Dean Jagger (Dr. Matt Lincoln Sr.), Katherine Crawford (Lia McKenna), Frank Maxwell, Reta Shaw, Dan Tobin. Lincoln saves a child from drowning and falls in love with his widowed mother. Matt proposes and is accepted, but afterwards she receives a medical report that turns their wedding ceremony into a bittersweet occasion.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Jean Holloway D: Marc Daniels
With Johnny Scott Lee (Adam), Natalie Schafer. Widower Lincoln uses his skills as a psychiatrist to try to communicate with his new stepson, who can't accept his mother's death.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Sy Salkowitz D: Seymour Robbie
With Guy Stockwell (Jimmy), Julie Gregg (Arlene Thatcher), Larry D. Mann (Morris), Patricia Smith, Wesley Addy, Arch Johnson. Lincoln conducts an investigation to learn why five high school students, all on probation, are being dismissed.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Sy Salkowitz D: Jeannot Szwarc
With Hilary Thompson (Karen Lowell), Tim Matheson (Stan Lowell), Logan Ramsey (Arthur Wallis), Sid McCoy. A disturbed mother confesses to psychiatrist Lincoln that her baby daughter is hospitalized because she beat her. As part of her therapy she is asked to work at a halfway house child care center.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Jean Holloway D: Vince Edwards
With John Rubinstein (Christopher), Christine Belford. Lincoln tries to help a concert pianist-composer cope with his loss of hearing. The musician breaks his engagement to a girl before he learns he's facing total deafness. (Last show of the series.)