Marcus Welby, M.D. was an American
medical drama television program that aired on
ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred
Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and
James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot,
A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an
ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.