Police Surgeon

- Season 1

(1971)

Dr. Locke gives up a successful practice in the city to join Dr. Sellers in rural Canada. They clash over different styles particularly over one of their first cases involving alcohol poisoning.

Dr. Sellers and Dr. Locke decide to prepare a patient for delicate heart surgery after some debate. But their task is interrupted when two bank robbers take them hostage.

Dr. Sellers suffers from a brain malady and Dr. Locke calls in his friend Max, a brilliant neurosurgeon, for assistance. But Max is undergoing a crisis of confidence and refuses to operate.

Dr. Simon Locke is sent too look in on a young couple living away from civilization and the woman is close to giving birth. Complications occur and Simon must convince the father that modern science can save his baby.

Bill, a former resident of Dixion Mills, comes back to town after receiving a terminal diagnosis. Dr. Locke is concerned about his actions and is adamant he deal with reality. The sheriff must locate an older man with a rifle who has been angered by his abusive business partner.

In a remote farmhouse, a woman tends for her chronically ill, bedridden husband. Though Sellers sees the man living many more years with proper care, he dies very soon afterward. Locke performs an autopsy, and it's revealed his oxygen tank was replaced by inert gas.

An ex-con returns to Dixon Mills from his prison sentence which he served for the murder of his fiancée's father. She sees that as a tragic accident and still wants him enough to have a home with him at her family farm. He doesn't want her to know he has an inoperable degenerative eye condition, so he tries to convince her he's tired of her.

Josie, daughter of prominent banker Sam Macklin, is found beaten and accusations flow as to who is responsible. Town tough Ned is jailed but further investigation by Dr. Locke reveal a young man Henny is suffering from severe headaches and blackouts. After Henny disappears, Ned's help is needed.

Locke is slightly hurt after a dynamite bomb goes off in the front yard of Dr. Sellers. Soon after, Sellers is occupied by a long time girl patient that seemingly goes crazy during an examination, and her father has a raging mistrust of him because of his age, blaming him for her condition.

After a school bus overturns Charlie risks his life to rescue children. Dr. Locke notices a heart defect when treating his injuries but the patient refuses to reveal his past. A blackmailer arrives after seeing his photo in the paper.

An unconscious man is found in one of the rides at an itinerant fun fair, and Locke diagnoses him as suffering from Typhus. Swiftly, the town of Dixon Mills is quarantined, leading to hardships for the angry and frightened residents. The disease's carrier has fled, and a desperate search ensues.

The town is in an uproar over the Quarantine, and police are still on the trail of a fugitive believed to be the Typhus carrier, but it's revealed he's running from a petty crime warrant. After Palmer becomes ill, he is shocked to find that the real carrier is the girl he's fallen in love with.

A young Indian girl is pregnant, and soon to have her baby, however her husband wants to have it in hospital, but she would prefer the care of her tribe's medicine man, with his magic spells. Locke is bitten by a snake, with only the old shaman to help.

At a surprise fortieth birthday party for a local farmer, he starts punching out his friends, and later tells his wife he detests her because she's aging. It looks like a serious case of midlife crisis, but Locke determines he's affected by agricultural chemicals.

After a bitter custody dispute, Jeff, a mute boy, is placed in his father Burt's care instead of his mother Stella. He climbs the town water tower in the middle of winter in protest, drawing Dr. Sellers and Dr. Locke into the situation.

Dr. Locke and Dr. Sellers involve themselves in the difficulties of the Kinmonds. Ralphey has a mental condition but still notices his dad Henry treats him different than his siblings. His mother Marge has had enough of her husband's behavior.

During hunting season,some of the deer hunters are being hunted down themselves, by a demented man with a tranquilizer dart gun. He ties the unconscious men to car hoods like deer carcasses. when Officer Palmer tries to set a trap, but it backfires and Locke takes action.

A girl with a degenerative disease walks with great pain trying to conceal her problem from an itinerant French ski bum she's fallen for. Sellers insists she must let him go or risk irreparable damage to her legs, and delay will prevent her admission to college as well.

Doreen, a troubled young woman, heads into the wilderness intending on ending her life. Locke and Palmer follow her but an avalanche changes everything, trapping Doreen and her rescuer.

Dale is taken to Dr. Locke after fleeing an attempted murder but the killer follows him. Dale believes his father was unjustly convicted of homicide and thinks Ossman knows the truth. Simon and Dan try to help.

One of Doctor Locke's old patients back in the big city insists-even at the cost of his own health, that Locke and only Locke can do his diagnosis. So he leaves Dixon Mills to do it. Everyone worries he may decide to stay, while Sellers alone treats a mysteriously ill family at his surgery.

On a dangerous mountain road deep in the woods, a distracted minister in a passenger car and a volatile chemical truck driven by a man arguing with his daughter, collide. Locke, Sellers and Palmer are soon on the wreck scene and find the trucker pinned inside as the truck may explode. The land's owner complicates things as he tries to stop their help.

Lt. Dan helicopters Dr. Locke to the home of Helen and Dave because the husband starts having a heart attack during a quarrel. In the air Dan learns a dangerous criminal has escaped and is later wounded by the convict. Dr. Locke is determined to save the husband and his friend while Dan is resolute that a killer must be recaptured.

A girl suffering from serious internal disease is reluctant to be treated, and the reason is soon apparent to the doctors- her husband has a bizarre obsession with physical perfection, and he lashes out, threatening them and rumormongering among the townsfolk.

Dr. Sellers runs into Ellen Hewitt, an old flame, in the city and she accompanies him back to Dixion Mills. But after she had a medical examine with Dr. Locke, he has unfortunate news to deliver.

After only a few hours sleep, Locke must help Sellers with a houseful of patients, which include a lot of kids and a sad, lonely, dying old man. The most dramatic moment is when an injured girl, a murder suspect is brought in by Palmer, who threatens the life of Nurse Wynn with a stolen scalpel.