The story of Dr. Kildare.
Once where the house I enter, there will I go for the benefit of the sick.
And whatsoever things I see or hear concerning the life of men, I will keep silence thereon,
counting such things to be held as sacred trust.
I will exercise my art solely for the cure of my...
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Now the story of Dr. Kildare, starring Lou Ayres as Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie.
Well, Dr. Gillespie, as you can see from these X-rays, Yukon Joe Moran is ready to be discharged.
Yukon Joe Moran.
Now don't tell me you're letting just one patient get you down.
Jimmy, that man's as phony as the fruit on a woman's ass, Yukon Joe.
I don't think he's ever been further north than the Bronx.
Well, he'll be off our hands and out of our hair in another hour, so cheer up.
Well, I wasn't even thinking of him until you mentioned him.
No? Well, then what is on your mind?
It's Parker.
Oh, that's why you've been so grumpy. Pining away with the love of the Fair Park.
Oh, no, nothing of the sort. That's ridiculous. You know it.
It's just the way she's been acting lately. Mark my words, Jimmy, she's up to something.
I haven't noticed anything?
Oh, I have. She's been leaving the hospital at odd hours and making mysterious phone calls.
Which wouldn't by any chance be making you jealous.
By the great orange spoon, Jimmy. My interest in Parker is purely professional.
I'd be just as concerned about any nurse on the staff.
Of course, Dr. G, of course. I understand perfectly.
You know, I could ask Diana to look into it, living in the nurse's quarters with Parker.
She might know what's going on.
But since your interest is purely professional, I'm sure you wouldn't stoop to such tactics.
I couldn't think of such a thing.
Certainly not.
I could ask Diana myself if I wanted to go snooping.
I don't know.
Of course, if you can't restrain your curiosity, I can't control what you do.
Thank you, Dr. G. And if I get any information, you won't mind if I discuss it with you, will you?
If you feel there's anything I should know for the go to the hospital, of course.
Of course. Oh, what do you say? Shall we go to lunch?
Never mind lunch. Let's go up and toss Yukon Joe out on his igloo.
Yes, sir, I found nuggets as big as hen's eggs every time I sunk my...
Well, hello, Doc. Come on in.
I was just telling Dr. Carew and Miss Parker about my diggings up at Moosehead Rock.
Oh, yes, yes, it was most interesting. I'd better be making my rounds, though. You will excuse me.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I, um... I just happened to stop in, Dr. Gillespie.
Mr. Moran was showing us his scrapbook and, uh...
And so you forgot to get him his clothes so he can get out of here.
Now go on and get him.
Well...
Well, Doc, how am I doing?
Oh, ankle's practically healed, Joe. Use a cane, favorite for a few days, you'll be all right.
Well, I'm grateful to you. And when I get back to Moosehead Rock,
I'm going to send you a poke so full of gold you won't hardly be able to lift it.
No, we'll skip the gold, Joe. Just make sure to see the gas here on your way out, won't you?
Well, I don't think you fellas trust me.
Do I look like the type who'd try to beat a hospital bill?
Why, I'm loaded.
Then see the cashier. He'll help you unload.
Come on, Jimmy.
Good-bye, Yukon, Joe.
Good-bye. And don't forget, if you're ever in the Yukon, lock me up.
We will. And if you ever break your ankle again,
break it in Philadelphia, will you?
Jimmy, did you notice how interested Parker was in that phony in his scrapbook?
Yeah? Yukon, Joe, and his team of huskies.
Probably had the pictures taken at Coney Island.
Just the same. Parker was interested, as you say.
Maybe she's thinking of doing a little gold digging of her own.
On him? Well, then she'd better borrow a dentist drill.
All his gold's in his teeth.
Ah, who cares what Parker does?
Well, are you going to see Diana or aren't you?
Oh, I'm going, Dr. G. I'm going.
It's funny that you should ask about Parker just now, Jimmy.
Why funny, Diana?
Because there are a few things I've been wanting to tell you or Dr. Gillespie.
Oh?
You know that little house on Long Island, the one Parker inherited when her aunt died?
Oh, sure. Parker's pride and joy. That's why she plans to live when she retires.
Not anymore, Jimmy. She's selling it.
Selling it? Why, she'd never do that.
Diana, are you sure?
Yes, Jimmy.
Dr. Gillespie's right. There is something wrong.
Well, as long as I've told you this much, I might as well tell you the rest.
Parker withdrew her entire savings from the bank this morning.
No.
Jimmy, she must be in some kind of trouble.
Oh, yes. Sounds like serious trouble, selling a home, using up her life savings.
But why, dear?
I don't know. But she hasn't seemed unhappy.
As a matter of fact, she's been singing.
Singing? Parker?
The same song over and over again.
Something about a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
A pot of gold? Uh-huh.
You look as though that might mean something, Jimmy.
I diagnose that as the number one symptom of Parker's ailment.
You mean she's ill?
One of the oldest diseases known to man, or woman, gold fever.
Aha! So that's it.
I'm afraid so, Dr. Gillespie.
Well, we'll soon find out.
Parker! Parker!
A pot of gold, rainbow.
Did you call me, Dr. Gillespie?
Sit down, Parker. Go ahead, sit down.
Well, why are you staring at me?
Because I like you, Parker.
And because I like you, I'm going to do you a big favor.
What kind of a favor?
Parker, how would you like to be the Diamond Queen of America?
Diamond Queen of America?
Yes, Parker. Yep. Why not?
You see, I have a diamond mine.
It's over in Brooklyn, right under the BMT subway.
I thought you might like to invest some money in it.
What are you talking about, Dr. Gillespie?
What's wrong with buying a diamond mine, Parker?
You've already bought a gold mine, haven't you?
Or did he sell you the Brooklyn Bridge instead?
I don't know what you mean.
What do you mean, Joe Moran? How much did he hook you for?
He did not hook me. I got a bit of a sale.
Parker, you mean you actually gave him money?
I did not give it to him.
I bought one third interest in his mine at Moosehead Rock.
Parker, why didn't you ask somebody about this before you did it?
I did ask.
Who did you ask? Some genius like Caru?
Yes, Dr. Caru.
Oh, no.
Well, I did.
Mr. Moran sold Dr. Caru a piece of the mine, too.
You mean Caru went into this deal?
Yes, and you could have gotten in on it, too,
if Dr. Gillespie wasn't always growling at poor Mr. Moran.
Poor Mr. Moran.
Poor Mr. Moran left here richer than he arrived
thanks to you and Caru and your combined nimble brain power.
Parker, do you realize what you've done?
Well, I've just ensured my future, that's all.
Ensured it.
You've beaten it to death with that Moosehead Rock.
But he said there's gold there.
Only gold? No uranium? No platinum?
We got a bill of sale, Parker.
I have it right here.
Don't you think there is any gold at Moosehead Rock?
Gold? I don't even think there's a moose there.
There mightn't even be a rock.
And he took all my money.
What do you need money for, after all, Parker?
You're a one-third owner of a gold mine.
Is that legal, Jimmy?
I'm afraid so, Dr. Gillespie, unless we can prove
there's no gold there or doesn't have a claim on the land or something.
Well, we'd better move fast and check on it.
You find out about the claim, I'll look into the rest.
What about me? What am I going to do?
Just wait until we get back and stay away from the patients.
One of them is liable to steal your uniform.
Oh, Dr. Gillespie, this is terrible.
Just terrible. And he had such an honest face.
An honest face.
Everybody who sells a gold mine has an honest face.
Miss Parker, you talked me into this.
I talked you into it. Yes.
I asked you if it sounded all right. That's all I did.
Ask an idiotic question of an idiot,
and you'll get an idiotic answer.
Dr. Gillespie, how dare you speak to me like that?
I've lost a thousand dollars. I'm not a well man.
Dr. Gillespie. Oh, I'm glad you're back, Jimmy.
Dr. Gillespie. Quiet, quiet, you pigeons.
What did you find out, Jimmy?
Well, Yukon Joe really owns the land all right.
He staked the claim years ago.
Well. Oh.
So, Dr. Gillespie, perhaps you'll have a little more respect
for my judgment in the future.
We still don't know if there's any gold there, Dr. Carulla.
We'll soon as we get an answer to my wire
from the Alaskan territorial.
Dr. Gillespie, this telegram just came in for you.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give it to me.
It's just what I've been waiting for.
Well, what does it say?
Is there any gold at Moosehead Rock?
Enough to make that bill of sale legal.
Oh, you see? We're rich. We're rich. Oh.
I said enough to make the bill of sale legal.
Your gold mine or assays about 60 cents a ton.
Only 60 cents a ton?
Yeah, and the only reason it isn't profitable
is because it costs $14 a ton to dig it out.
Oh.
Steady, Parker. Oh.
I'll help you, Jimmy.
We'll just put her on the couch. She's fainted.
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Well, Yukon Joe certainly picked one of the better hotels, Dr. Gillespie.
What's the number?
The clerk said it was 1407.
Now, right here.
Come in, Gossown.
Just put the champagne in the...
Oh, Dr. Kildare and old Dr. Gillespie.
Old Dr. Gillespie?
I was expecting a waiter with room, sir.
We heard you. You always drink champagne for breakfast?
Why, sure, Doc. Don't everybody?
Ain't that a good word? Don't everybody?
Hey, I thought you guys were doctors.
You both look like a couple of embalmers.
We've come to sell you a gold mine, Yukon Joe.
Oh, I'm sorry, Doc. I ain't in the market.
You better be in the market.
Don't you realize you've swindled a poor woman out of the money she'll need to live on for the late years of her life?
Now, just a minute, Doc.
That swindle, that's a pretty hard word.
Now, we know you're within the law, Joe, owned by a very slim margin, but we're appealing to your sense of decency.
Well, then let me appeal to yours, too, Doc.
I spent ten years up in the North, freezing to death, eating dried fish,
talking to nobody but myself, and an occasional wandering eskimo.
What are you driving at?
Doc, did you ever hear the old saying, gold is where you find it?
Yeah.
So I finally found it at your hospital when Doc Carew and that nurse bought my mine.
Besides, they can get even. Let them sell it now.
Everybody wants to buy a gold mine.
I take it, then, that you don't intend to return that money.
Doc, me and that money is going to Florida.
I figure it'll take me about ten years before I feel warm again.
Well, there's nothing more we can do, Jimmy.
Yet you better stop at the bank before we go back to the hospital.
Wait a minute. You going to make up for Parker's losses?
Well, she's got to have something set aside, Jimmy.
She can't go on nursing until she's 90.
So you're going to take your own savings and tell her that you got her money back, huh?
Well, I can't tell her it's my money, can I?
She'd only get the wrong idea.
Would it be the wrong idea, Dr. G?
No, no, no. You just watch...
Wait! You're driving, Jimmy! Hey!
You're going the wrong way. You're ahead of downtown.
That's right. I've got a little idea.
Something that may make Yukon Joe change his mind.
He'll never sell him that mine again.
I wasn't thinking of selling it to him.
If my plan works, we won't have to sell.
He'll be chasing us wanting to buy.
Here we are.
Jimmy, this is the office of the Star Herald.
I wasn't the editor of the Star Herald, a patient of ours a few months back,
and didn't Parker take care of him, and didn't he write an editorial
calling her another Florence Nightingale?
Jimmy, do you think... We can ask, Dr. G. We can ask.
You just want one single copy of it, Dr. Hilder?
Yeah, that's right.
Well, it's not quite ethical.
What he did to Nurse Parker wasn't quite ethical either.
All right. I'll print one special edition.
Oh, thanks. That's wonderful.
Make it a red headline, will you?
Big gold strike at Moosehead Rock.
And then under that, say that the man who found the gold was too late.
The claim is already registered to Yukon Joe Moran.
Yukon Joe Moran.
I got it.
Now, what'll I do with the copy when I get it printed?
Oh, just have a small voice,
leave it under the door of room 1407 at the Royal Plaza Hotel.
After that, it's up to Yukon Joe.
All right. Just leave a message that he's wanted at the hospital immediately.
Goodbye.
Is that Carew's home you were calling?
Yeah. He's not there either.
Have you found any sign of him?
No.
Well, we better find him and get that bill of sale before Joe gets here.
Parker? Parker?
Yes, Dr. Gillespie.
I told you to find Dr. Carew. Now, where is he?
I murdered him and put his body in the laundry hamper.
Well, get him and bring him up here before...
Parker, are you trying to be funny?
I've been looking all over for him. What else can I do?
I won't answer that, Parker. I'm tempted to, but I won't answer.
Parker, you better check around some more.
We'll get your money back, but we'd like to get Dr. Carew's back, too.
All right, Dr. Bill there.
Diana's checking through the wards in the extension. He may be over there someplace.
I'm gonna get that.
Dr. Gillespie speaking.
Oh, good. Good, good. Thank you.
Are you located Carew?
No, no. It's Yukon Joe. He's on his way up.
Uh-oh. Well, we'll have to stall him.
If he ever gets away from here and sees a regular edition of the Star Herald,
Carew can kiss his money goodbye.
Well, it's a seller's market, Jimmy. We can hold out until...
It must be him.
Come in.
Well, well, my true favorite Docs.
If this ain't a nice surprise finding you here.
Yes, isn't it? We usually spend most of our time at the zoo.
Hehehehe. I guess you're kind of surprised to see me, though, huh? Ain't you?
Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. Very surprised.
You don't happen to have a late edition of the Star Herald around, do you?
No, but the newsboy should be around with one in a few minutes. Why?
Oh, nothing. Nothing, Doc. I...
Your ankle bothering you again, Joe?
No. No, Doc. It's my conscience.
Oh, no. That's too bad, Jimmy. Really too bad. His conscience.
Yeah. You see, I got to thinking about what I did. Selling that mine.
Doc, I come to do the right thing. I want to buy it back.
Uh-huh. Well, it might not be so easy, Joe. You see, Nurse Parker's already sold her and...
Shit! To who? What crook is trying to pull a fast one?
I bought Parker's share.
You bought... Well, Doc, you can't do that.
Remember what you said, Joe. Gold is where you find it.
That gave me a hunch, Joe. I figured that a man with a face as honest as yours...
...wouldn't sell anything that wasn't worthwhile.
Oh, but Doc, you got me all wrong.
Unless I can't be trusted.
You mean that mine isn't worth anything?
Doc, it ain't worth a dime. Now please let me buy it back.
I don't know. You're acting as though it might be very valuable.
What do you think, Dr. Lesby?
I think we should wait until we can confer with Dr. Groove.
After all, he owns some of the stock, too.
Now look, now look, Doc. I'm warning you. You better sell now before I change my mind.
Have you got the money with you, you con Joe?
Hey, Doc, my poke is loaded and I'm ready to buy.
I'll give you, well, 50 cents on the dollar.
50 cents on the dollar?
Now don't get excited, Dr. Lesby. We should consider Joe's offer.
Oh, newsboys coming across the grounds now.
Perhaps after we've read the headlines, had some coffee...
All right, all right, all right. You talk me into it. Full price, right now.
I was figuring on a little profit.
Oh, now, Doc, will you talk to him? He's murdering the deal.
I think we'd better do business right now, Dr. Lesby.
Yeah, yeah. Here's your door.
And here's your bill of sale.
And there's the door, you con Joe.
Yes, yes. I'll be mushing on.
If you'd given me a little time, Jimmy, I'd have had his I.T.
You old Missouri horse trainer.
Parker! Parker!
Did you call me? Where's my money? Did you get it back?
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, will you keep quiet for a minute?
Will I keep quiet? Now, let me tell you something.
If it wasn't for you letting all kinds of patients get admitted to this hospital...
Are you playing? No, no, no. Both of you, there's no harm, Doc.
Except a nitwit Karoo, where the devil can be...
Wherever he is, it's too late now.
There's you con Joe down on the lawn with the newsboy buying up every copy of the Star Herald.
Heh, heh, heh.
Whaley compares him with a copy he's got.
Heh, heh, heh, yeah, just wait.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Good afternoon.
Good afternoon, Karoo. Where have you been?
Dr. Karoo, we've been searching for you high and low since early this morning.
Well, I'm afraid I had some very important business.
And I'm afraid you've missed some very important business.
Well, we had you con Joe Moran here this morning. We could have gotten your money back.
Oh, could you indeed? Yes.
Well, it so happens that I saw Mr. Moran myself at his hotel.
And I think I handled the entire affair rather nicely.
Oh, you mean you got your money back, too?
I did not. I made an additional investment with Mr. Moran.
You what?
Miss Parker, the interference of these men has cost you a small fortune.
Hmm? Karoo, what have you done?
I bought Miss Parker's share of the gold mine you so foolishly resold to Mr. Moran.
Oh, no. Oh, yes.
You mean that gold mine is really worth something?
Worth something. It's the biggest gold strike in the history of the Yukon.
Wow! And you! You made me sell it.
Just a minute, Parker. And Dr. Karoo, what makes you think there's any gold up there?
This, Dr. Kildare. The Star Herald.
Look at that headline. Big gold strike at Moosehead Rock.
Oh, for the love of Pete.
Now, Dr. Glassbeach, you see what you've done?
Oh, shut up!
Dr. Karoo, where'd you get that paper?
Where did I... Well, what earthly difference would that make?
Now, Dr. Karoo, I want to know.
Well, now let me see. I went to Mr. Moran's hotel this morning.
He left the door to his room wide open, and this was in there.
And so, when he came back, you let him sell you Parker's share of the mine, too?
I had quite a time persuading him, but I did.
Now, what do you think of that?
Parker, I think you'd better prepare a room for Dr. Karoo.
Prepare a room? But I'm not ill.
You're going to be, Karoo. You're going to be...
Sit down, Dr. Karoo. We've got something to tell you about the facts of life.
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And now, once again, the story of Dr. Kildare, starring Lou Ayers as Dr. Kildare and Lionel
Baramore as Dr. Gillespie.
I just finished my work, Dr. Baramore.
Need me for anything else before I go?
Well, if it isn't gold nugget Parker, the queen of the Klondike.
You don't have to be so mean to me, do you?
Oh, I'm sorry, Parker. You can go.
Good night.
Good night, Dr. Kildare.
Good night, Parker.
You know, money isn't everything, Dr. G.
She could do with some cheering up. Maybe a movie or something.
You and Diana going to a movie?
We saw the plan, don't we?
Well, then, why don't you ask me to come along?
And Diana could ask Parker.
In that way, we could all go together and be...
And Parker wouldn't get the wrong idea.
Ah, splash.
All right, Dr. G. As of this moment, you're Parker's blind date.
Shall we make the girls pay for their own admission?
Oh, that's not a very gentlemanly thing to do, Jimmy.
We don't want them getting the wrong idea.
Oh, Jimmy Kildare, you get out of here.
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This program was written by Joel Mercat and directed by Joe Bigelow.
Original music was composed and conducted by Walter Schuman.
Supporting cast included Virginia Gregg, Ted Osborne, Georgia Ellis, and Peter Leeds.
Dick Joy speaking.
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