INTERNS, THE

USA / CBS – Columbia / 24×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 18 September 1970 – 10 September 1971 / Shown Fridays @ 7.30pm

Creator: William Blinn / Music: Shorty Rogers / Executive Producer: Bob Claver

Short lived one season medical drama The Interns was set in the enverions of the New North Hospital and followed Dr Peter Goldstone as he attempted to teach a group of five young newly qualified doctors all he knew.

The show had plenty of soap opera style elements and followed the personal lives of the doctors as much as their professional ones.

Their had been a couple of feature length TV movies aired prior to the series starting, these were The Interns and The New Interns.

cast
BRODERICK CRAWFORD as Dr Peter Goldstone
STEPHEN BROOKS as Dr Greg Pettit
CHRISTOPHER STONE as Dr Pooch Hardin
HAL FREDERICK as Dr Cal Barrin
SANDRA SMITH as Dr Lydia Thorpe
MIKE FARRELL as Dr Sam Marsh
SKIP HOMEIER as Dr Hugh Jacoby
ELAINE GIFTOS as Bobbe Marsh