The series opens its second season with a drama about a doctor who has symptons of multiple sclerosis. Just as surgeon Tom Forley (George Grizzard) is perfecting a new technique, he is stricken with a muscular ailment. The doctor cannot hide his crippling condition from his pretty wife Anne (Elizabeth Ashley), and she bares all to hero Joe Gannon.

Gannon tries to save a 16-year-old girl from heroin addiction. His efforts are continually frustrated by her father, a professor who refuses to acknowledge the problem