Persuaded they could build on the success of the already released motion-picture series, MGM Studios employed Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore to reprise their screen roles as Dr. Wayne Kildare and Dr. Leonard Gillespie in a syndicated radio series. Kildare was the compassionate, caring doctor at Blair General Medical center, NEW YORK; Gillespie a crusty, lovable diagnostician. Kildare reminded listeners each week in the starting signature: “Whatsoever house I enter, there will I go for the benefit about THE STORYPLOT of Dr. Kildare, Vol. 1 of the unwell, and whatever stuff I find or hear regarding the lifestyle of men I will keep silent thereon, keeping track of such things to become held as sacred trusts.”

From 1949, a total of seventy-eight shows were produced and syndicated in the united states. Stations nationwide continued to air The Story of Dr. Kildare on radio until 1954. In 1961, the series produced a successful transition to tv starring Richard Chamberlain as Dr. Kildare, with Raymond Massey as Dr. Gillespie.

This volume features sixteen thirty-minute episodes of The Story of Dr. Kildare:

12/7/49 – Ep. #9 – “Carolyn Shelley, Appendicitis”12/14/49 – Ep. #10 – “Janet Dane, Betatron Malignancy Treatment”12/28/49 – Ep. #12 – “Terry Murphy, Partial Deafness”1/4/50 – Ep. #13 – “Philip Vehicle Courtroom, Traumatic Amnesia”2/1/50 – Ep. #17 – “Angela Carew, 20 pounds Obese”2/8/50 – Ep. #18 – “Dick Brennan Steals $5,000″2/15/50 – Ep. #19 – “Colonel Beauregard, Paralysis”2/22/50 – Ep. #20 – “Gordon Mallory, Lead Poisoning”11/20/50 – Ep. #56 – “Edward Carlton, Hydrophobia or Hysteria”11/27/50 – Ep. #57 – “Novelist Amy Dickens, Shattered Legs”12/4/50 – Ep. #58 – “Teen Mother Really wants to Put Her Baby Up for Adoption”12/11/50 – Ep. #59 – “Dr. Gillespie, Acute Snoopitis”12/18/50 – Ep. #60 – “Dr. Gillespie’s New Suit”12/25/50 – Ep. #61 – “Nurse Parker Invests in Yukon Joe Moran’s Mine”1/22/51 – Ep. #65 – “John Smith, Incognito Carcinoma Patient”1/29/51 – Ep. #66 – “Dr. Gillespie’s Like Letters”