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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Rafferty' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Rafferty':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)

September 5, 1977: Rafferty
Season 1, episode 1
W: James Lee   D: Barry Crane

With Richard Herd, Michael C. Gwynne (McMurdo), Herb Edelman (Lennon), Sam Wanamaker (Mr. Hollander), Karen Obediear (Joanna Hollander), Joan Pringle (Nurse Keynes).
Series premiere. The wealthy father of a paralyzed teen demands that Dr. Rafferty perform dangerous exploratory surgery. Meanwhile, an emergency operation performed on a derelict wino provies thankless when the man's wife begins a multi-million dollar malpractice suit.

September 12, 1977: Brothers & Sons
Season 1, episode 2
W: Arthur Heinemann, James Lee   D: Barry Crane

With Charles Frank (Clint Peckering), Cindy Fisher (Bonnie Milligan), Lieux Dressler (Fran Milligan), Olivia Cole (Sara Radley), Erin Blunt (Arthur Radley), Milt Kogan, Joan Pringle (Nurse Keynes).
Rafferty tries to persuade an athlete to donate a kidney to a dying girl, and looks for a woman who deserted her children.

September 19, 1977: A Point Of View
Season 1, episode 3
W: James Lee, Arthur Heinemann, Jerry De Bono   D: Barry Crane, Alexander Singer

With Dena Crowder (Myla Greener), Barbara Babcock (Dr. Renata Bristol), Morgan Fairchild (Lisa Farrell), Joan Pringle (Nurse Keynes), Dorothy Meyer (Mrs. Greener).
Dr. Sid's sense of duty and humanitarian impluses draw him into the private lives of a blind girl, a rape victim, and an aged lothario.

September 26, 1977: The Cutting Edge
Season 1, episode 4
W: John Meredyth Lucas   D: Barry Crane

With Lisa Richards (Barbara Ehren), Edwin Owens (Dr. Calvin), Dorrie Kavanaugh (Ellen McKay), Elayne Heilveil (Janis Fowler), Tom Stovall (Lonnie), Peter Donat (Victor Ehren).
The worlds of music and medicine meet under life-or-death conditions when Dr. Rafferty treats a classical virtuoso violinist and a rock star.

October 3, 1977: The Narrow Thread
Season 1, episode 5
W: Robert C. Dennis, Robert Van Scoyk   D: Barry Crane

With Charles Lucia (Carl Morgan), Dick O'Neill (Byron Murray), Janet MacLachlan (Lois Hahn), Michael C. Gwynne (Dr. Prudhomme), Laurie Heineman (Kathy Landon).
An expectant mother fears she may lose her baby after exposure to radiation.

October 17, 1977: The Epidemic
Season 1, episode 6
W: David P. Lewis   D: Barry Crane

With Missy Gold (Judy Cardler), Craig Wasson (Dr. Furey), John Furey, Joanna Miles (Gwen Cardler), Joshua Bryant (Robert Cardler), James Karen, Edward James Olmos, Pepe Serna (Javier Innatta).
Confronted with a critically-ill girl displaying polio symptoms, Dr. Rafferty defies the odds, his colleagues and the young patient's hostile parents by diagnosing her ailment as botulism.

October 31, 1977: The Wild Child
Season 1, episode 7
W: Sue Milburn   D: Patrick McGoohan

With Shane Nickerson (Bobby Dane), Jerry Hardin (Will Dane), Marilyn Chris (Callie), K Callan (Betty Dane), Richard Sanders (Rev. Campbell), Rachel Longaker (Lynette Dane).
Dr. Rafferty clashes with an inhospitable mountain clan over the fate of a half-wild 11-year-old being kept caged by his desperate parents.

November 7, 1977: The Will To Live
Season 1, episode 8
W: Sue Milburn   D: Edward H. Feldman

With Craig Wasson (Dr. Furey), George Wyner (Dr. Tait), Claudette Nevins (Dee Grogan), Sandra Kerns (Carla Magnus).
Is Sid Rafferty's nurse and friend terminally ill? Evidence points to it, and Vera Wales herself has given up hope, but Dr. Rafferty refuses to concede.

November 14, 1977: Walking Wounded
Season 1, episode 9
W: James Lee   D: Arnold Laven

With Terri Nunn (Toni Power), John Chappell (Judge Power), John Lehne (Maizure), Ron Rifkin (Dr. Bakersmith), Michael C. Gwynne (Dr. Prudhomme), Marian Collier (Rosalind Power), Linda Dano (Marian Bakersmith), Earl Boen (Vandler).
Dr. Rafferty treats a teenage gymnast suffering from severe malnutrition, a police officer carrying a life-threatening bullet in his back, and a medical colleague who is displaying symptoms of a psychosis.

November 28, 1977: Death Out Of A Blue Sky
Season 1, episode 10
W: Robert Van Scoyk   D: Barry Crane

With Cathryn Damon (Grace Hampton), Ken Kercheval (Jerry Parks), Cissy Wellman (Bettina Medina), Paul Carr (Meakin), Susan Pratt (Jean Hampton), Peter Brocco (Willard Peters), James Staley (Donald Berkis), Vernon Weddle (Perry Newcomb).
Dr. Rafferty is determined to prove that a businessman who crashed the private plane he was piloting did not commit suicide. (Last show of the series.)


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