Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954)
Synopsis
Janet Dean is a nurse who has been recently discharged from the U. S. Air Force. She becomes a private nurse and travels around the country treating not only patients physical ailments but also their mental ailments.
Episodes
The Kennedy Case
Janet is assigned to nurse a Korean War veteran and discovers that his wealthy and domineering mother is trying to keep her son and his fiancee apart.
The Goodale Case
No description available.
The Banks Case
A laborer falls from a steel girder but the insurance company is told he actually jump and refuses to five him the insurance money.
The Barton Case
Janet helps a famous violinist recover after an auto accident in which his hand is permanently injured. Pride and self-pity threaten to ruin his marriage until Janet steps in.
The Bellamy Case
No description available.
The Bennett Case
A crippled young woman returns to her family after a polio attack. Driven by inner conflict, she makes a valiant effort to meet her self-conceived obligations to her husband.
The Benton Case
Janet is assigned to the case of a popular ballet dancer who is under psychiatric treatment.
The Blake Case
Janet is assigned to Irish Blake, manager of a pennant-winning team.
The Bradshaw Case
An alcoholic, a floundering marriage and the strongly possessive nature of a sister, are the three dominates in the case for Janet.
The Burlingame Case
Janet is assigned to care for a sharp-tongued old judge.
The Coleman Case
Janet is assigned to nurse the wife of a college professor.
The Edwards Case
Ignoring the advice of doctors, a visiting British statesman becomes ill.
The Erskine Case
Janet nurses a man who was wounded during a bank robbery by a vicious assailant who's bent on finishing his victim.
The Gage Case
Janet learns of an attempt to fix future horse races while attending to a jockey who is recovering from shock after being thrown from his horse.
The Garcia Case
Janet meets the Garcia family where young Jose needs an operation. But his mother is afraid to give permission because of possible consequences. Janet must convince Mrs. Garcia to allow the medical team to help her son.
The Gomez Case
Janet is shopping at a department store when an elevator mishap occurs. Because of injured passenger Janet enters the precarious lift to administer aid putting herself at risk
The Hutchins Case
Janet gets involved with exposing a baby-selling racket
The Jennings Case
Janet learns that her young patient is unhappy about returning to school because he cannot study music.
The Applegate Case
When Janet undertakes a patient who is a racist old woman, she and the doctor both want to resign.
The Baker Case
When Janet helps a child care for a sick pet she learns that there is a real human sickness in the home too.
The Kittering Case
Nurse Dean tries to cure a frustrated and lonely old woman of her psychosomatic ills, and to restore her to the role of normal, happy, mother, mother-in-law and grandmother
The Leslie Case
When a blind woman, in Janet's care has a near-accident on the stairs of her home and it is then followed by a few more "accidents" the nurse's suspicions are aroused.
The Lewis Case
Janet is assignment is to attend to an injured prizefighter who was disqualified in a match for dirty fighting,
The Martinez Case
Janet witnesses an attempted robbery by a gang of teenagers in a slum area.
The Norton Case
Janet is surprised to discover that the parents of a young patient are ignorant of the care of infants.
The Putnam Case
Sylvia Peters subs for Janet and gets interested in a young doctor’s fight.
The Randall Case
Janet is assigned to care for Nona Randall, a young expecting mother, and is surprised at the parents lack of interest in the birth of their first child.
The Sloane Case
Janet helps clear a friend’s name in a case about an overdose of sleeping pills.
The Talbot Case
After an attempted suicide, a Broadway actress receives medicine, kindness and common sense from Janet.
The Van Horn Case
No description available.
The Waldo Case
Janet tries to help an impoverished father who is worried about his daughter. The girl has been keeping secret late evening dates with a mystery man.
The Walsh Case
Janet treats a child for measles and becomes involved in a romantic triangle.
The Winters Case
When a Broadway child actor is injured by falling scenery, Janet learns his illness is partly mental.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
1
Episodes
33