5x1 - The Panic Path

September 11, 1973

5x2 - A Joyful Song

September 18, 1973

5x3 - For Services Rendered

September 25, 1973

5x4 - Blood Kin

October 2, 1973

Rico and Louisa Renati, aware their frail but lively daughter Maria has the rare Cooley's Anemia, peculiar to Italians, refuse Dr. Welby's suggestion on the operation. Dr. Jed Hartnet, a leading specialist in this type of disease who is ready to quit the profession , becomes intrigued with Maria and decides to fight her parents' decision.

5x5 - The Light At the Threshold

October 9, 1973

Tracey Robbins has been plagued with diabetes for years and the disease has caused her to slowly lose her sight due to blood vessel malfunction. When her father fails to take her on a promised trip to Europe and her infatuation with Dr. Kiley undergoes a rude awakeing, the girl becomes withdrawn and refuses the operation.

5x6 - A Question of Fault

October 16, 1973

5x7 - Friends In High Places

October 23, 1973

5x8 - The Endless Moment

October 30, 1973

Fearing that his bride-to-be, Kelly Green, will cancel their marriage plans, Dr. Kiley does not tell her the seriousness of the rheumatic disease she has contracted. Dr. Welby disagrees with his associate and, as her doctor, tells her the eventualities of such an illness when she insists on knowing.

5x9 - The Tall Tree

November 6, 1973

5x10 - The Circles of Shame

November 20, 1973

5x11 - Nguyen

November 27, 1973

5x12 - A Cry In The Night

December 11, 1973

5x13 - Death Is Only A Side Effect

December 18, 1973

Patricia Lowry, despondent over her chronic kidney ailment and fear that her husband, Duke, is having romantic affairs on his business trips, takes a tranquilizer that puts her in a coma.

5x14 - The comeback

January 1, 1974

5x15 - A Full Life

January 8, 1974

5x16 - No Charity For the MacAllisters

January 15, 1974

5x17 - Each Day A Miracle

January 22, 1974

5x18 - The Fear of Silence

January 29, 1974

5x19 - Angela's Nightmare

February 5, 1974

5x20 - The Mugging

February 12, 1974

5x21 - The Latch-Key Child

February 19, 1974

5x22 - Out of Control

February 26, 1974

5x23 - I've Promised You a Father (1)

March 5, 1974

A young nursed suffering from a rare genetic disease that can cause delusions, names Dr. Kiley as the father of her small son in a paternity suit.

5x24 - I've Promised You a Father (2)

March 5, 1974

Marshall is persuaded by Dr. Welby to defend Dr. Kiley in a paternity suit filed by Perry, a nurse who believes that the young doctor is the father of her child.

5x25 - Designs

May 12, 1974