 The story of dr. Kildare Whatsoever house I enter there will I go for the benefit of the sick what's a lot of things? I see or hear concerning the life of the man I will keep silence there on counting such things to be held as safe with the trust I will exercise my art solely for the cure The story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barramore Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought you those famous motion pictures now this exciting heartwarming series is heard on radio In just a moment the story of dr. Kildare But first your answer Take a look at the road map in the glove compartment. We get up to gee I think we turn off at a side road soon side road. Mm-hmm. You mean there's actually a side road off this wagon trail I'll admit these desert roads on exactly super highways, but this country doesn't call for four lane traffic Come on get the map out for you How can I even read the confounder thing with the wind tearing it out of my head all right? I'll stop mine vacation. I'll let you talk me into Jimmy Kildare Turing the Arizona desert and the convertible next thing you know, you'll have me riding the hot rod Not this thing isn't hot enough. Oh, I'm sorry dr. G But we'll be out of the heat in another hour or so we've been 40 miles of place Yeah, if you were a sailor instead of a doctor, you'd be the type that hires a rowboat on leave I thought this was a vacation. It is but I do want to see the new sanitarium and so do you I See Here's the last time we passed through. Huh? We must be about here on the map And here's the turnoff we want about six miles farther. I'd well. Let's go. Let's go I'm cooked half through. I should be well done by the time we get there Jimmy what's the matter with you? No, no, I just feel a little dizzy Nauseated Jimmy you're sick. Oh, no, no, it's just the heat. That's all and it is not Same thing happened yesterday when we were coming through the mountains wasn't hot up there. All right It is passing away now. You better let me drive the rest. Oh, no one slide over I'll come around Better get some rest when we reach the sanitarium. I'm gonna give you a good going over and find out what's wrong with you I'm all right. I tell you I'll feel fine by the time we get there Anybody here Jimmy? No, no, it's Sunday and that explains why the workmen aren't around but Dr. Simmons should be here This is his baby place is almost complete. Yeah, looks like it'll be ready for use in another few weeks Just a matter of general finishing and installing of equipment. Dr. Simmons must be around Hello, hello anybody here This is a surprise Dr. Simmons. Oh Simmons. What brings you here? Well theoretically we're on a vacation But Kildare's been snooping into your letters to me. Oh, so we brought me here for a cook's tour of the place Well, he never had a better idea Are you looking fine Leonard? Just keep going, don't you like the old man of the sea the old man of the sea You know you could use a sea around this desert You wouldn't say that if you'd ever seen one of our flash floods How are you Jimmy? Just fine Dr. Simmons. Famous last words. Just look at him and you can see how fine he is Right Jimmy, you don't look well. No, don't you start to. I've been working hard. That's all the trip has been exhausting Now what we're going to talk about the state of my health or are you going to show us what we drove? 2,000 miles to see. Don't worry. You're going to see every inch of it over and over again This is one dream that I want to share. Come on When will you be ready for patience? About 15th the next month. That's when the staff will come in The equipment is stored in those rooms to the left. It's a matter of setting up shop when the glass work and the windows are finished Mm-hmm. Yeah, let me show you this through here Well, what do you think? Simmons I'd say that this is the best solarium I've ever seen and that goes double for me. It's marvelous, Dr. Yeah, the son is life to a tubercular patient You wait until this is finished a glass We're installing has been designed to admit the greatest possible degree of ultraviolet. You'll save a lot of lives here, John So how long can you stay? Oh two or three days if there's a place for us Well, a couple of the rooms are completed. I wanted to move in as soon as possible I won't guarantee the meals though. I can do some pretty grim things to food cooked over a Bunsen burner Sounds like an interesting diet you got customers good Dr. Simmons. Oh, would you mind showing me to my room now? I I think I'd like to take a little nap until this afternoon confounded Jimmy. You are no no I'm just tired. Yeah, I mean tired doesn't make a man turn white and break into sudden Perspiration after your nap you're getting a check Dr. G when you entered the medical profession the world lost a great pearl either What are you talking about? Hey, if I remember my slang correctly pearl diver means dishwasher And you're not doing very well. I do better if you do it keep quiet and speed up the drying I've got a patient. I'm itching to get it. Oh, no, you haven't I've had a little rest and I feel fine It does look a lot better at that linen Got a little color color half your patience you'll treat will have good color too that doesn't prove anything the way I feel proves enough for me. I'm all right I'm inclined to agree with him any man who can survive my recipe for Chilean beans must be in good condition There you are dr. G overruled But I promise you that if I ever do need help you will get my business That sounds fair not Leonard least killed there Don't see miss come quick. You've got to come quick right away. Please be forced to leave Pedro. What's the matter? My little Rosie. She's dying. Yes, and yours. Excuse me, please. I must take the doctor No, no, no, no come down Pedro these gentlemen adapters to oh, then you come to please and yours. Hey rose is so sick She can't hold up her head. She's just laying there behind the house the poor little thing It's not serious dr. Simmons. Oh, he's very serious doctor Please my wife stays with her while I come for help. You say she's lying outside the house Could you carry her inside? How can we carry a senior my wife and I we can leave little rose you can't lift it And before you get the wrong idea. I'd better explain something The Rosie isn't a child. She's Pedro's burrow burrow. Oh, yeah, yeah Dr. Rosie can't help that she's a burrow just like she can help that she's sick Oh, please and yours you've got to help me. We need her She carry everything on her back for us if anything happened to Rosie then my poor wife She got to carry everything. Well, it sounds like we really must help it for your wife's sake if not for Rosie's I'll go with him and have a look at the animal. Are you serious to me? Why not the animals important to him? Might make medical history at that one stubborn donkey treating another The subtle be of that last remark is not lost dr. G. Where's your place Pedro? You're only six miles and you're if we run we'd be there in an hour. Oh, that sounds like great exercise But you mind if we take my car instead I don't cross cars but for Rosie. I go weak. Yeah, you don't know how brave that is killed air But the time you drive over the road to his shack here if you can call it a road You might wish you'd tried running. Yeah, maybe so anyway, I'll borrow that field kid Dr. Simmons I may need it if the burrow is really sick not only that but it'll protect you from dr. Gillespie He's got a surgical glint in his eye. Well, I'll give you a regards to Rosie I Had her with her doctor why she don't get up. How old is this animal? Well, she's only 20. She's young young 20 year old burrow equals the age of a man of 80 or more. She's just tired tired of working Oh, she was tired of working when she was two years old. She's even more tired than Pedro Well shot of vitamin B might help but this old girl's ready for pasture. I'll give her Oh Doctor what's wrong? Why your face gets so white? No, here doctor, please. Let me help you Thank you, Peter Can you get me in dear is it quick money? You take your cellar on see? Oh You got great pain doctor here, please you sit down my stomach. I guess that Chili or something didn't go very well with the bumpy ride we had coming out here. Do you want some water, please? He'll drive back as soon as pain goes away He'll go in a few minutes. It's not better. No, I afraid not it becoming more localized Can either of you drive an automobile? No, sir. No, we never learn. Doctor. Maybe you tell Pedro how to drive it He can take you back. I'm afraid we're too late for that I couldn't possibly stand the trip over that road. What you want us to do single one of you will have to go on foot Doctor Simmons has a car at the sanitarium doesn't he? This is here, of course Getting ridgy. Don't why you press your stomach when it brings you such pain Making sure of what's wrong with me Pedro Get dr. Gillespie from the sanitarium and bring him here as fast as you can hurry Peter I go the ones of Pedro. You better bring that medical kit in from the car before you go and Tell dr. Gillespie that I'll have to have surgery in two hours at the most. I've got a cute appendicitis To the story of dr. Kildare in just a moment I got to bring you. What's the matter? Why didn't you bring Dr. Kildare the great pain in his stomach? He said for you to come right away to make the operation and decided to Examine them the young fool. He had all the symptoms. He couldn't even drive box and you I come on foot come on I have my car. We can get to him in 20 minutes We'll need equipment the kid he took us complete everything we need will be there What's the matter what are you stopping for we have to stop Leonard can't you hear that? You mean you want to wait for a rainstorm to pass when Kildare's Appendix is labelled a burst any minute this isn't just a rainstorm as a flash flood We can't possibly get through to it. Well, I'm going to get it's no use Leonard open the door and look out there Every hollow and gully will be a raging river in less than two minutes Rain is rain grab him Pedro if no dr. Please no let me go Leonard stop Look out there look like a waterfall out there Absolutely nothing we can do about it How long it'll last John storm. Yeah, probably less than five minutes But after that eight or ten hours before we can even start He might be all right for that long most on your he say two hours at the most and I leave him more than an hour ago If I didn't it too much go to sleep. I'd be finished. There'd be no chance Doctor They storm I don't know how to say I know Marie. It's a flash flood I've heard of them How long before they'll be able to get through it will be night soon not before morning Marie How do you like the house at night? We have a lamb, but there's no fuel fuel. I can make a light for you. I have the holy candles. Good Maria I've heard that Mexican women have great courage. Is that true? It is a pride, senior Why do you ask? You know I may die before help arrives in your doctor There's only one way to prevent that whether or not I do Will depend on you being very calm I will do as you said. I can't live unless my appendix is a remove Maria I'll have to remove it Myself, but I can't do this without your help. How can you do this to be operated on? No, I can use a local anesthetic it'll help some The pain will be very great You must not be frightened Especially you must not faint. I won't faint You can depend on me I've never depended on anyone more Help me with these gloves Maria and be careful don't touch anything that hasn't been sterilized And the hot water I almost forget now spread the instruments and the clean towel every side me Then you have seems to be better Maybe you don't have to go on with no no The local anesthetic beginning to take hold You remember the names the instruments now Yes, and those those when I call for sutures see I won't forget What are you doing now with that needle I give myself an injection of penicillin to prevent infection Now I want to look at this hypo needle the one you saw me prepare before When I start operating after I make the incision Maria, I'll be in great pain much worse than what I've had before You understand that Now my greatest danger will be fainting and there's a better than even chance that I will faint That's what the needle is for Maria It's coramine a heart stimulant if I pass out you must inject me with this needle But don't be afraid of it just jab it into my arms sink it in good push the plunger until it's empty I might hurt you if I pass out and you don't do it. I will never regain consciousness This is the one thing I must leave completely up to you Maria Good I'll lie back tilt the mirror so I can see what I'm doing You can't see yet tilt it further like this no further There How long will it take I don't know may finish in 15 minutes. I don't know I may never finish All right Maria scalpel, please Oh Simon how about it did you get to go through yes the lines weren't damaged luckily I contact at the mercy hospital in Phoenix. What do they think of my idea? Well storms over and a helicopter is taking off from the Phoenix Airport right now They'll pick us up here in about half an hour and fly us out to Pedro Shack They don't go to fly me no place. I wait right here to be like a war Half an hour. I hope Jimmy's all right until we get there after we operate We can get him into the hospital at Phoenix for post-surgical care post-surgical care isn't our problem Once the appendix is out he'll be all right if it's caught before it ruptures If it isn't in paradise that's any lead plenty care. Well, I just hope he's trying to rest out there He must know that we can't get through to him. I only hope he doesn't get panicky panicky You don't know what Jimmy killed there like I do whatever we find there It won't be panic saying doc though Can a helicopter make a night landing? They've got spotlights. They can land any place Wiping my forehead, please Maria. You all right for subspace Never mind another one hurry dip in X Wait my eyes. I can barely see Still can't see Is the mirror missed it or Mary's all right? What's the matter? Slapped me Maria My face Scalpel quick Checked out in your doctor or I mean That's a place pilot you land. All right cinch It's only 200 feet. It's all flat down there. Let us out. Just lift that latch doc y'all cut the motor There's Pedro's wife. Just open the shack door Where is it? Jimmy boy, Dr. G. Are you all right kill there fine fine, but only wordy note Well, just hold tight so we're ready Jimmy. We'll have that appendix out in the middle Too late dr. G. It's already out. What? And that piece of gauze by the table how but you couldn't it's impossible Oh, I'm not the first doctors have done it before Yeah, and an operating room under ideal conditions will help but not alone in a place like this I had no choice dr. Gillespie and I I had Maria's help Well, you should have waited it was an idiotic thing to try. I don't know if it was or not dr. Gillespie come take a look at this appendix The great horns ball It's a good thing you did take it out Jimmy another minute could have been too long But he wouldn't let me check him over this morning. Oh, no, no, no he winds up out here doing it himself By the way dr. Kildare How's the other donkey you came out to see? Oh? He's old ready for pasture. It's just like you dr. G Oh, that's all I'm gonna buy Pedro and Maria and you burrow Maria made a mighty brave and efficient nurse when the chips were down I'm still sore where she gave me a coramine injection Look, are you safe? Steak you hard? So when you find that close my eyes and I think I'd like to close my eyes and stick them too. I'll bet you would Make you happy happy Jimmy didn't make me feel like a kid again The kid playing pin the tail on the donkey in just a moment We will return to the story of dr. Kildare. Hello, dr. G card right out yet Yep, we can leave in the morning. All right, I think you can stand the trip Oh, I'm fine fit as a fiddle ready to get back to work at Blair The only thing bothering me is how much of a bill to send myself By the way Reports of your little operation kicked up quite a sensation Jimmy. Oh, sure. Here's a wire from a news syndicate They want you to write your own story, but that isn't enough to make you as cheerful as you seem to be Yeah, or whenever you chuckle like that dr. G. I know there's something pretty nasty coming up now. Come on. What is it? Yes, there is I was just talking to Simmons on the phone. Mm-hmm. He said that Pedro and Maria Would you like it? Yes, they were just You know what they're gonna name him Jimmy. No Calling him dr. Kildare now isn't that sweet? Oh very sweet But it's likely create a family feud between Maria and Pedro. Oh, what do you mean? Well, I heard you suggesting that named a Pedro so I had a chat with Maria and she's calling the borough Gillespie Yes Just 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 Lillian by F Anthony Barrett and Wilms Herbert dick joy speaking