 The story of dr. Kildare What's the weather house I enter there will I go for the benefit of the sake what's the weather things? I see or hear concerning the life of man I will keep silence there on counting such things to be held as sacred trust. I will exercise my art The story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore Metro goldman mayor brought you those famous motion pictures now this exciting heartwarming series is heard on radio In just a moment the story of dr. Kildare Mrs. Morton I feel waitin mrs. More. Oh the lady with the baby. Yes. I told her your schedule was full, but she insisted Well, I guess I'd better go see her Can't imagine why she wouldn't settle for one of the pediatricians as the baby been a patient here before no I've checked the record. I was just going off-duty Jimmy, but if you need me Oh, no, no, thanks dear, but was anything serious you wouldn't have waited this long Bye fine and mrs. Morton dr. Kildare the nurse said that you were terribly busy, but I just had You don't remember me do you remember you You look vaguely familiar, but I Wasn't mrs. Morton the last time you saw me. Do you remember Kathy Winslow? Kathy Winslow Of course, I remember but What you were only a little girl and now you've got a baby of your own I'm 19 now doctor Oh, that's pretty old isn't it you say it like it was 90 Well, how are your folks? They're gone doctor an automobile accident three years ago. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know Kathy. Well Did you come to see me about about the little fella sleeping in the blanket there? It is a boy, isn't it? Yes He's only a month old He looks healthy enough. What seems to be wrong with him? Dr. Kildare I I Want you to Kathy what's the matter? Get hold of yourself Sorry dr. Kildare could you Could you find a home for him? You mean you want to give your child after adoption Yes, I see How does your husband feel about this? Dr. Kildare Kathy now I've known you since you were a baby Well, your mother used to pay me a nickel to push your carriage when I got home from school. There isn't anything you can't tell me My husband My husband doesn't even know about the baby. Oh, I see Kathy, do you know what adoption means? Yes, you know once you give him up I'll be bound never to tell who has him and you'll never see him again Is that what you want Kathy? That's what I was trying to raise his head Can his mother be do want to walk out on it? Well dr. Gillespie She's only 19 a little more than the child herself died if she's old enough to have a baby She's old enough to keep it and take care of it. She married she says her name is Mrs. Morton Do you believe it? I don't know It was a sweet child though came from a wonderful family. Well, that isn't always a guarantee against trouble Jimmy I know what time be expected to get here. She's due any minute told it come back this morning at about 11 Diana will let us know when she arrives When you see her, please try to be kind when you mean You can't be kind to everybody This baby could use a little kindness, too. I know I only meant I know what you meant Jimmy I know we're doctors Other people in the world may throw stones, but we're supposed to stand by and heal the bruises if we can Something tells me Kathy's bruises go very deep You haven't changed your mind Kathy No, is it because you're afraid you can't support the baby If that's it Kathy we can help you get a job find a day nursery to take care of the child while you're working And then after work he'd be yours You wouldn't have to face years of lying awake at night wondering where he is Always growing up. I can't do it. I'd be no good to him He'd grow up hating me. Kathy. There's nothing more valuable to a child than his mother. You must know that But I don't know anything about babies. I Do things all wrong and lots of times he cries he cries What do you expect him to do laugh? He's a stranger facing a strange world and he has to learn how things are just as you have to learn how to take care of him You know Kathy being a mother isn't accomplished by giving birth That's only the beginning the baby will give you a chance Kathy. Why not do the same for him? Oh, but I am giving him a chance. I Want him to be somebody Somebody strong and worthwhile you seem to be under the impression that young babies crawl out into the world and succeed by themselves But I'm not leaving him by himself. I'm asking you to find somebody to take care of him somebody Somebody who's better than I am who you're trying to make things better for him for yourself Please don't say anything else to me if you won't help me I'll take him to some other place where they will I Only came here because dr. Kilder Because because we've known each other a long time Well, I was hoping you'd give that more thought Kathy Remember the little girl you were the tiny thing I pushed around in the baby carriage You know your mother wouldn't have given you up for the world or the son or the star If she were living I wonder how she'd feel knowing that you were giving your child her Grandchild into the hands of strangers The adoption will be arranged Potential fire you were just shouting so loud. You didn't hear me I do not show you do too. I should know better than try to argue with an old Were you sticking your tongue out for Oh, yeah, but I was just going to seal it up. Oh slipped out of my hands. I'll get it later Have you looked through that file? Oh, yes. Yes, and pretty wonderful couples who haven't been blessed with children of their own You may I know a hundred who'd be happy to take that more than baby and love it and cherish it with the rest of their life I don't know dr. Gillespie. I hate to be responsible for a decision of this kind. You don't think I enjoy it. Do you? You know Kathy wants that baby herself no matter how she acts or what she says She still wants I think so too Jimmy But what can we do if she won't keep them there must be a reason for it girl has a guilt complex feeling of inferiority But why Jimmy she calls herself Mrs. Morton But we've no proof that there is a mr. Morton. No, that's right Well, I'm going to try to find him I'm going to check the other hospitals locate the baby's birth certificate and see if I can't establish the father's full name Well, suppose you don't find anything. Well, then I thought perhaps we might let Kathy meet the couple who come to adopt the child Once she knew he was going her instinct might make her grab on to him. Oh, that's not very fair Jimmy Not fair to the couple who want the child. No, no it isn't Now we can't do that, but it might work if we got a couple to pretend they were thinking of adoption That's an idea especially if we get a couple she wouldn't want the child to be with Jimmy I know just that who you leave it to me. Yeah, you just get going and check on that birth certificate. I'm on my way Have wonderful news for you Parker you are about to become a mother a doctor killed air in just a moment We're seeing you or do you want to see that child separated from its natural mother? Adopting this baby all by myself. Oh, but I got a make-believe husband all picked out for you. Oh I sent Diana for he'll be here in a minute Matter of fact, I think I hear him coming right. Did you want to see me dr. Bless them? Dr. Crew him is you Sit down daddy remember the name of Morton dr. Kildare. I'm sure the baby was born here Must have been last month and it'll be in this record book Here we are Morton a boy born to Mrs. Kathy Morton on the 14th. That's the one may I see that of course doctor help yourself Father sergeant Walter Morton Don't you have an address on him? No apparently Mrs. Morton didn't give an address Sergeant might be a policeman dr. Kildare me or a member of the armed forces Well, I'll find out. Thanks very much Absolutely preposterous. It's also absolutely necessary. Now. Let's go over it again. Where are you from? Australia and what do you do in Australia dr. Or rather mr. Karoo We raise kangaroos Sheep you raise sheep all right dr. Gillespie sheep now. Why do you want to adopt a little boy? So we'll have somebody to take care of the sheep without having to pay wages That young woman will think I am a monster. That's exactly what we want What you find out Cathy has a husband all right his name is sergeant And you've been able to okay them. Yes. Yes, but what fix me well get out there and bring him back with you I just stopped a call on the way. How's your plan working? You mean I have the greatest pair of prospective foster parents you ever looked eyes on Parker and crew oh The time you get Kathy's husband back here. She'll be softened up completely I don't think a female ape would hand a child over to Parker and crew Oh Dr. Kildare I'm giving you a three-day pass so you can leave the post for the doctor. Yes, sir Doc what's this all about? Where am I supposed to go with you to see your wife Kathy if you'd like Kathy? Where is she? Is she all right doc? I've been looking all over for her for months. She's all right sergeant Yeah, by the way, when did you see her last? Not since you walked out on me months ago. Look you got to take me to her. I've been half crazy worrying about her I'll take you to her but she's changed. What do you mean change? You said she was all right He is but there's another man in her life now and pretty handsome young fellow another man Who is he where is he leave me to him a punch him right in the nose? Oh, I don't think you will he's pretty strong strong I'll show him who's strong. Just wait till I get my hands on him. Just wait until he gets his hands on you Still gonna punch him in the nose Here's strong isn't it? Look at the grip he's got on my finger got a pretty good grip on your heart, too, isn't he? But why didn't Kathy tell me why did she run away? I'm afraid only you can answer that Did you have any sort of an argument or anything before she left? Well, there wasn't an argument exactly I Was home from the post she cooked a big dinner But it was kind of burnt. I see well then what happened well Trashy's dinners were always kind of burnt. I guess I said something about it. Hmm. Oh, what did you say water? I said you ought to get on the ball with her cooking and housekeeping And then I said it was a good thing We didn't have a kid because she never learned how to take care of it. Mm-hmm. Well, that was real bright water Tell me was there something special about that dinner? He said it was big. Well, yeah She'd baked a cake even but doc it was an awful cake. I'm just I don't care how awful it was That dinner must have meant something to him because I've got a hunch that was the day She found out she was going to have the baby and she was making that dinner so she could tell you and celebrate You can say that again you married an 18 year old girl who adored you and looked up to you And then you treated her like a boot camp recruiter, but doc I love Kathy. I was just trying to tell her yes Only you were telling her like a top sergeant not a husband. You had her so frightened. She couldn't do anything like Pick up your son and come with me. You're gonna fix it so I can talk to her. Yes You'd better do some thinking about how you should talk to a young bride You know she can learn to do anything any other young wife and mother can do if you give her a chance Don't want those people to have your baby then why no no they were terrible people You've got to give them to somebody if you won't take care of them yourself. I've told you a hundred times I can't take care of it. I don't know how to do anything. I can't cook. I can't keep house I can't even make up make a bed right who said so you were 16 years old when you lost your parents What'd you do up to down I? Went to school and after that you went to work, didn't you yes So you never kept her home until you were married, did you? No, did you expect to learn all the things a woman does in a lifetime in the course of a few short months? I don't know Kathy dr. Glassman. Yeah, Mrs. Morton didn't like the Foster parents I found her baby. Oh, oh, that's too bad Well, they they wouldn't love him and take care of him the way they should give me give me a commandment, please Yes, he's waiting in the next room with the baby, but we can't let her know that yeah She's got to be willing to take the boy on her own with it without I think she will Kathy Kathy I found somebody else to take your baby someone who's certain to love him and be kind to him Can I see them and talk to them? No, I'm afraid that won't be possible But but dr. Gillespie let me talk to those other people. I told you boy I was able to do that Kathy because they were from Australia That's right if they'd taken the baby they'd have taken it far away to a different country where you couldn't have followed them trying to See the child, but it isn't fair you're asking me to give my child of people I've never seen that won't make any difference. You won't be seeing the child again He's we won't need you Kathy. He'll be somebody else's baby when they take him out of here Foster parents take a child because they want them cap once he grabs a finger with that little fist He'll make a home for himself. You'll not only belong to them. They will belong to him Or you have to do wish to sign the adoption papers Kathy. He'll all be over then and you can go Yeah, right. Just write your name on the dotted line. Have you got a pen to meet? Yes. Yes here Kathy Child should have two parents anyhow and this fate decides otherwise a father to teach him to play ball And how to sock a bully in the nose if he gets in a scrap after school and his mother to feed him and wash him Take care of him when he has the measles and chicken parts and the mumps a mother's hands are wonderful They know a doctor can give medicine to a child with a fever But it seems to work best when his mother's there to put a hand on his forehead What is lips? Well, just sign the papers Kathy. It's a worry when a child gets ill Kathy Look at all the heartache. You'll say you'll never even know about it. Where's my baby. Where is he Kathy? You can't see him again. You tell me where he is. I want him nobody's gonna take him away from me Nobody just behind that door Kathy with a man who also wants him very much Yeah, I know just the place dr. G down in the basement where we can burn these adoption papers In just a moment we will return to the story of dr. Kildare Walter in the baby. I think it's gonna work out fine Jimmy daddy Karoo and Mama Parker are going to get married and move to Australia where they can raise little kangaroos Good night Parker. Good night. Oh, I have a sort of a date with Diana You might walk over at the nurses quarters with me Parker may have cooled off by the time we get there And I know how you hate to you alone Yeah, I do hating alone Parker recovers quickly. I don't know Jimmy. We better walk real slow I've heard the story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore This program was written by Joel Murcott and directed by Joe Bigelow Original music was composed and conducted by Walter Schumann Supporting cast included Virginia Greg Ted Osborne Georgia Ellis Jack Krushen Isabel Joel and Vic Perrin Dick joy speaking