Nurse (American TV series)#Pilot (1980)

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| RTitle = Nurse

| DirectedBy = David Lowell Rich

| WrittenBy = Sue Grafton

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1980|4|9}}

| ShortSummary = Mary Benjamin is a widowed nurse who, after her son leaves home for college, decides to resume her career as head nurse at Grant Memorial Hospital in New York City.
A two-hour television film pilot.

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| EpisodeNumber = 1

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = A Little Rain

| DirectedBy = James Sheldon

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Chris Abbott & Max McClellan|s=Chris Abbott}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|4|2}}

| ShortSummary = A friend of Mary's son may be supplying him with diet pills; hospital routines are interrupted by two disagreeable persons.

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = The Gifts

| DirectedBy = Virgil W. Vogel

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Tom Egan & Max McClellan|s=Tom Egan}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|4|9}}

| ShortSummary = An anonymous person upsets Mary with sexually suggestive gifts that are delivered to her apartment; an anorexic patient (Theresa Saldana) continues to starve herself.

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| EpisodeNumber = 3

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = Listen to Me

| DirectedBy = James Sheldon

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Michael McGreevey & Max McClellan|s=Michael McGreevey}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|4|16}}

| ShortSummary = A deaf hospital employee (David Purdham) reacts in an unexpected manner to Mary's news that his hearing can be restored.

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| EpisodeNumber = 4

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Life Begins at Dinner

| DirectedBy = Virgil W. Vogel

| WrittenBy = Virginia Aldridge

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|4|23}}

| ShortSummary = Mary faces the trauma of turning 40 and complications by the romantic attentions of a younger man, Dr. Benson (Peter Coffield).

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Long Day's Journey Into Morning

| DirectedBy = Virgil W. Vogel

| WrittenBy = Tom Egan

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|4|30}}

| ShortSummary = A reporter doing a story on Grant Memorial Hospital shows up on the day Mary's department is in chaos.

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| EpisodeNumber = 6

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = Best Friends

| DirectedBy = James Sheldon

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=William Parker & John Welden|s=Noreen Stone}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|5|7}}

| ShortSummary = Mary's close friend (Joan Copeland) is admitted to the hospital after a suicide attempt and then insinuates she once had an affair with Mary's late husband.

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = Margin for Error

| DirectedBy = Gwen Arner

| WrittenBy = Rena Down

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|11|11}}

| ShortSummary = Mary battles a conspiracy of silence when one of her nurses is accused of giving a patient the wrong medication.

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| EpisodeNumber = 8

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = My Life as a Woman

| DirectedBy = Gwen Arner

| WrittenBy = Hindi Brooks

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|11|18}}

| ShortSummary = Mary is having symptoms and her long-time physician wants to schedule a hysterectomy which her colleagues feel may be unnecessary.

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| EpisodeNumber = 9

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = Rivals

| DirectedBy = Harry Harris

| WrittenBy = Fred Freiberger

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|12|2}}

| ShortSummary = A new nurse (Diane Venora) joins Mary's staff and Mary, for reasons unknown to herself, takes an instant dislike to the girl.

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Equal Opportunity

| DirectedBy = Seymour Robbie

| WrittenBy = Ray Brenner

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|12|17}}

| ShortSummary = A male nurse (David Morse) is assigned to Mary's department and Dr. Rose tries to persuade an aging doctor to retire from surgery.

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Going Home

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| WrittenBy = Camille Marchetta

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|12|24}}

| ShortSummary = Mary quits both her job and New York City after an argument with Dr. Rose, and tries to return to her life as a suburban housewife.

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = A Question of Dignity

| DirectedBy = Philip Leacock

| WrittenBy = Lionel E. Siegel

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1981|12|31}}

| ShortSummary = A woman, pregnant with her seventh child, accuses Mary of encouraging her to sign a sterilization consent form.

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title = To Life

| DirectedBy = Philip Leacock

| WrittenBy = Rena Down

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|1|7}}

| ShortSummary = Mary falls deeply in love with an art history instructor, then learns that he is terminally ill.

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| EpisodeNumber = 14

| EpisodeNumber2 = 8

| Title = The Store

| DirectedBy = Seymour Robbie

| WrittenBy = George Bellak

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|1|14}}

| ShortSummary = A prostitute with a heart-valve infection checks into the hospital, and she later disappears with her pimp.

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| EpisodeNumber = 15

| EpisodeNumber2 = 9

| Title = A Place to Die

| DirectedBy = Philip Leacock

| WrittenBy = Joel Steiger

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|1|21}}

| ShortSummary = An aging and terminally ill social activist (James Cromwell) insists on dying at home instead of in a hospital.

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| EpisodeNumber = 16

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10

| Title = A Matter of Privacy

| DirectedBy =

| WrittenBy = Brad Radnitz

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|1|28}}

| ShortSummary = Mary reconsiders her role in the cover-up shooting of a congressman involved in a love triangle.

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| EpisodeNumber = 17

| EpisodeNumber2 = 11

| Title = Hands of Gold

| DirectedBy =

| WrittenBy = Joyce Perry

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|2|11}}

| ShortSummary = Drugs are found to be missing from the medical room in Mary's department.

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| EpisodeNumber = 18

| EpisodeNumber2 = 12

| Title = Blackout

| DirectedBy =

| WrittenBy = Norman Katkov

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|2|18}}

| ShortSummary = During a city-wide blackout, Mary tries to calm patients, Calvo organizes a neighborhood patrol and Toni delivers a baby.

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| EpisodeNumber = 19

| EpisodeNumber2 = 13

| Title = Where's Mary?

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| WrittenBy = Philip Rosenberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|3|4}}

| ShortSummary = Mary is taken hostage during a bank robbery and tries to persuade her captors to let a wounded guard be treated.

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| EpisodeNumber = 20

| EpisodeNumber2 = 14

| Title = On the Line

| DirectedBy =

| WrittenBy = Philip Rosenberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|3|11}}

| ShortSummary = Mary is torn between the needs of her patients and the cause of her nurses when the nurses go on strike.

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| EpisodeNumber = 21

| EpisodeNumber2 = 15

| Title = Father

| DirectedBy = Alex March

| WrittenBy = Allan Leicht

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|4|23}}

| ShortSummary = Mary is worried when her perfectionist physician father (E.G. Marshall) comes for a visit and tries to repair their strained relationship.

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| EpisodeNumber = 22

| EpisodeNumber2 = 16

| Title = The Clown Prince is Indisposed

| DirectedBy = Tony Mordente

| WrittenBy =

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|4|30}}

| ShortSummary = A boisterous, self-centered talk show host (Steve Allen) and his entourage turn his hospital room into a private office – complete with piano.

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| EpisodeNumber = 23

| EpisodeNumber2 = 17

| Title = Fevers

| DirectedBy =

| WrittenBy = Stuart Rosenberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|5|7}}

| ShortSummary = A new inexperienced nurse suffering from job burnout takes the law and the life of a patient into her own hands.

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| EpisodeNumber = 24

| EpisodeNumber2 = 18

| Title = A Necessary End

| DirectedBy = Bernard L. Kowalski

| WrittenBy =

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|5|14}}

| ShortSummary = The question of euthanasia is raised in the story of a dying woman suffering great pain.

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| EpisodeNumber = 25

| EpisodeNumber2 = 19

| Title = Impressions

| DirectedBy =

| WrittenBy = Jerome Coopersmith

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1982|5|21}}

| ShortSummary = A surgeon (John Rothman), who has allowed his gambling debts and reckless investments get out of hand, finds his competence questioned following a post-operative death. This episode was delayed for a few hours in Boston, Massachusetts on the last day of broadcasting for WNAC-TV

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